Weekly Shōnen Jump

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Weekly Shōnen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ, Shūkan Shōnen Janpu; stylized in English as WEEKLY JUMP) is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. It is the best-selling manga magazine, as well as one of the longest-running, with the first issue being released with a cover date of August 1, 1968. The manga series within the magazine target young male readers and tend to consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of series that run in Weekly Shōnen Jump are collected and published in tankōbon volumes under the "Jump Comics" imprint every two to three months.

The mid-1980s to the mid-1990s represents the era when the magazine's circulation was at its highest, 6.53 million copies per week, with a total readership of 18 million people in Japan. The magazine has sold over 7.5 billion copies since 1968, making it the best-selling comic/manga magazine, ahead of competitors such as Weekly Shōnen Magazine and Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Throughout 2019, it had an average circulation of over 1.6 million copies per week. Many of the best-selling manga originate from Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Shōnen Jump spawned the Jump magazine line as well as the Jump Comics imprint label for publishing tankōbon. Weekly Shōnen Jump has sister magazines such as Jump SQ (aka Jump Square, created after the fall of Monthly Shōnen Jump), Ultra Jump, Weekly Young Jump, virtual counterpart Shōnen Jump+ which boasts its own exclusive titles, and Saikyō Jump. The magazine has also had several international counterparts, including the current North American Weekly Shonen Jump. It also spawned a crossover media franchise including anime and video games (since Famicom Jump: Heroes History video game from 1989) which bring together various Shōnen Jump characters.

Series

See List of series run in Weekly Shōnen Jump

English version: Weekly Shonen Jump

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See also

• Jump Square
• Manga Plus
• Shōnen Jump+
• Shueisha

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
  • Official website (in English, but redirects to Japanese)
  • Shōnen Jump+ (少年ジャンプ＋; in Japanese)
  • Rookie Jump! (ジャンプルーキー！; in Japanese)
  • MANGA Plus (in multiple languages)

Other info

•  Weekly Shōnen Jump
  •  Weekly Shonen Jump (American magazine)
•  週刊少年ジャンプ

News

• Anime News Network - Hiroyuki Nakano Steps Down as Weekly Shonen Jump Editor-in-Chief by Anita Tai 2024-06-26 11:00 EDT