Shūeisha

Shūeisha
legal form	Kabushiki-gaisha ( joint stock company )
founding	August 8, 1926 ( publishing company ) 1947 ( limited partnership ) March 3, 1949 (stock corporation)
Seat	2-5-10, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8050, Japan
management	Marue Horiuchi 堀 内 丸 恵( President , CEO )
Number of employees	743 (as of October 1, 2018) (416 male, 327 female)
Branch	publishing company
Website	www.shueisha.co.jp

Shueisha Jimbocho building in Chiyoda , Tokyo 2006

Shūeisha ( Japanese 株式会社 集 英 社 Kabushiki-gaisha Shūeisha , English Shueisha Inc. ) is one of the major Japanese publishers. He is also one of the largest manga publishers in Japan. In addition to Shogakukan and Hakusensha , the publishing house belongs to the Keiretsu of the Hitotsubashi Group .

The main office of the publisher is in Tokyo . Shūeisha was founded in 1925 as "entertainment division" ( English entertainment division ) by Shōgakukan publishing house. In 1926, the department became an independent publishing company Shūeisha from the parent company Shōgakukan. In 1949 the company was finally converted into a stock corporation. In July 1968, the first issue of the manga magazine Shōnen Jump appeared , which later became the best-selling manga magazine in Japan. Shūeisha also publishes the Japanese edition of Playboy magazine.

The American publisher Viz Media , one of the largest manga publishers in America, is a subcontractor of Shūeisha and Shogakukan. In 2005, Tokyopop- Verlag was able to conclude a contract with Shūeisha, which enables Tokyopop to exclusively publish German editions of manga titles such as Death Note , Bleach , The Prince of Tennis and others.

Manga magazines

• Allman (discontinued) - published, among other things, Family Compo
• Bessatsu Margaret - Akuma de Sōrō , Lovely Complex and Renai Catalouge
• Bouquet (discontinued)
• Business Jump - Battle Angel Alita and Sing Yesterday for Me
• Chorus - Pride and Aruyoudenai Otoko
• Cookie - NANA and Honey Bitter
• Crimson (magazine) Crimson - Diabolo and Planet Ladder
• Eyes (discontinued) - Alichino
• Jump SQ - Blue Exorcist
• Jump X
• Margaret - The Roses of Versailles , Swan , Attack No. 1 and Hana Yori Dango
• Monthly Shōnen Jump (discontinued) - Neko Majin Z and Steam Detectives
• Ribon - Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne , Gokinjo Monogatari , Kodomo no Omocha and Marmalade Boy
• Seventeen (discontinued)
• Shōnen Jump - Dragonball , JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , Naruto , One Piece , Slam Dunk , City Hunter , Dr. Slump , Kenshin and Bleach
• Super Jump - Golden Boy
• The Margaret
• Ultra Jump - Agharta , Battle Angel Alita: Last Order , JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Tenjo Tenge
• You - Gokusen and Pokka Poka
• V Jump - Digimon Next , Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Yu-Gi-Oh! R.
• Young Jump - Gantz , Kirara and Elfen Lied
• Young You - Honey and Clover and Papa told Me

Other magazines

• Pinky
• Seventeen (Japanese magazine)
• Weekly Playboy ( 週刊 プ レ イ ボ ー イ Shūkan Pureiboi )

Jump Festa

For the first time in 1999 and annually from 2003 onwards, the publisher is the host of the in-house exhibition Jump Festa, at which anime studios and video game developers who implement the publisher's series in these media also present themselves.

Web links

• Official website (English, Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Shūeisha Company Info - 集 英 社会 社 案 内. In: www.shueisha.co.jp. Retrieved June 20, 2019 (Japanese).  
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Shūeisha Company Profile. In: www.shueisha.co.jp. Retrieved June 20, 2019 (Japanese).  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Shūeisha Company Info - 集 英 社 ２０２０ 年度 定期 採用 情報. In: www.shueisha.co.jp. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .  
4. ↑ Shūeisha's Short History - 集 英 社 小 史. In: www.shueisha.co.jp. Retrieved June 20, 2019 (Japanese).