Are there any groups out there that release whole manga magazines (Shonen JUMP Weekly, Shonen JUMP Monthly, Weekly Shonen Magazine... etc) as they come out? Be it RAW or translated...

I think it would be cool for those of us who don't live in Japan, or don't have access to these otherwise

that would be kinda cool.

________________
My Mini-City

Database of FMA doujinshi (No longer being updated. Use The Doujinshi DB Project instead!)

i dun really understand. what do u mean by whole manga magazines?

I mean complete manga magazines from cover to cover, page by page
Regardless of the series

Not a group but try mangahelpers, maybe.
They released quite a few magazine scans of those.
Dunno if asking for this is against the rules,
but it won't hurt for me to give a hint.

________________
...

yeah theres some Yuri scan group that realeases a Yuri magazine cover to cover....doubt thats what you're looking for though

________________

I wrote too much... anyway, this is a reply followed by something of a tutorial. Feel free not to read it.

I've known a few people who did text translations for magazines... but even they'd skip over crap series and ads and so forth. There are parts of magazines that I've subscribed to for years that I've never once bothered to read... like the incoming fan letters and fanart (how can they all be so bad!?). There's a lot of worthless filler.

Anyway, there are lots of magazines floating around the Japanese p2p networks (especially specialty magazines or bi-monthlies and the like... Yuri-Hime seems to be scanned in every month, too (so sue me, I like da yuri))... although not nearly as many as there were back in 2005, when you could find Jump, Sunday, Weekly Magazine, and lots of others completed scanned in at least half the time... people don't really bother with anything but individual chapters lately. Weeklies are about 400 pages, though (monthlies easily run over 700, with some breaking 900 and 1000)... for a group to actually translate all that on a weekly basis would be fairly excessive. Especially once you realize that the vast majority of it is utter crap (especially in smaller magazines that may only have 2 or 3 good projects and a dozen more that wouldn't have gotten into Jump in a million years). I mean, lots of crap manga gets translated already, I'd hate to see people wasting their time on things that don't ever even make it into non-serial publication.

Here's how you, too, can get them: Learn a tiny bit of Japanese (like a few hours figuring out how to find the Japanese name of the magazine you want is more than enough), download an English version of Share (I still prefer Share over Perfect Dark... maybe I'm behind the times), make a filter to grab anything with the name of the magazine you want (set it to only cache the files so that you're not auto-downloading 1000 chapters of Naruto or something), then come back in a day or so and pick what you want out of your cached results. You'll have your magazines. Hell, you could even become one of the much asked for 'raw providers'. Easiest job in any group. Not to be confused with scanners, who have the most unappreciated and time consuming job.

There really are lots of Share tutorials out there, and the English version of Share is perfectly usable for people who don't know Japanese. If you can't type the searches, just copy and paste from places that list things (MU lists most of the Japanese language titles, for example... although I don't think they list magazine titles). You won't be able to understand a lick of it, but for some reason most people don't particularly mind that.

Thanks for the info Snoopy. I'll give Share a try (beem thinking about that for a while )
You're right, I wouldn't want people to waste their time with usless pages.
Sigh, I wish at least I could find out *what* got released on a specific magazine on the day of its release.

What magazine are you looking for? There are pages on every publisher's site with that.

For raws, go here then click !raw manga magazines. There's a few more raw scans of manga mags on NyaaTorrents, if you search around a while.

________________
My Mini-City

Database of FMA doujinshi (No longer being updated. Use The Doujinshi DB Project instead!)

I'm curious to know how does this kind of magazine cost in japan (yen) and how many pages does it have. Take Weekly Shonen Jump for example.

________________
-DkS-

about 400 yen for most weeklies running anywhere from 250 to 400 pages, with generally two sections of magazine print color pages in each volume. Monthlies run anywhere from 450 through to about 800 depending on the circulation (generally the more popular mags like Monthly Shounen will be cheaper than their less popular counterparts), and those can be closer to 700 pages all the way to around 1000 for larger issues. Specialty magazines that release quarterly or so are usually around the 800 mark as well.

Those are all ballpark prices, of course... I don't usually look at the last two numbers when I buy things (who cares about the cents?).