However, sales of digital manga magazines saw a 55% increase from 2015, and the digital manga market overall (including digital manga volumes) saw a 27.5% increase from 2015.
The manga magazine’s circulation fell by about 91,000 from the October-December 2016 period when it was 2,005,833.
Nakano admitted that he is from the “paper generation,” and still wants to increase the magazine’s print sales.
The Japanese Magazine Publishers Association (JMPA) reported in May that Weekly Shonen Jump had dipped in circulation to below two million.