Japan’s manga anthologies are amazingly thick, with each issue containing hundreds of pages of content, divided up between a dozen or more different series.
Doubling/tripling down on gravure space isn’t an entirely unexpected move for Shonen Magazine.
“We want to be the kind of weekly manga magazine that no one has ever seen before, so from [this] volume, we’re bumping up our number of gravure model pages to 16!
However, as thick as they are, the magazines only have one cover, which makes space on the book’s front highly valuable.