Shūkan Shōnen Jump

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Shūkan Shōnen Jump
Weekly Shonen Jump logo.svg
description Manga magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Shonen
publishing company Shueisha ( Japan )
First edition 2nd July 1968
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 1.915 million copies
( Anime News Network 5/2015)
Editor-in-chief Hiroyuki Nakano

Shūkan Shōnen Jump ( Japanese 週刊 少年 ジ ャ ン プ Shūkan Shōnen Jampu , better known by its short name Shōnen Jump ) is a Japanese manga magazine that has been published since 1968 and is published by Shueisha on a weekly basis . It is aimed primarily at a young male audience and is therefore to be assigned to the genus Shōnen . Special editions, in which mainly one-shots of well-known but also new, previously unknown mangaka are published, are called Akamaru Jump and appear mainly on Japanese holidays . The magazine is almost 500 pages long and costs 240 yen (about 1.80 euros). With a sold circulation of over 6 million, it was one of the best-selling magazines of all kinds in the world in the mid-1990s.

The more successful manga series appearing in the magazine are later published in paperback by Imprint Jump Comics. Many of the internationally known Shōnen manga appeared in the Shōnen Jump . Other Jump magazines are and were Jump SQ , V Jump , Super Jump , Young Jump , Business Jump , Gekkan Shōnen Jump and Ultra Jump .

content

The basic values ​​of the magazine, as they are usually given by manga magazines, are “friendship, perseverance and victory” ( yūjo, doryoku, shōri ). These are the result of a survey in which readers were asked about three things that warm their hearts, that they find particularly important and what makes them particularly happy. The selection of the series is based on these values ​​and the expectations of stories of the Shōnen genre. In addition, attention is paid to a specific relationship between topics and genres. Science fiction and fantasy currently make up a little more than a third of the magazine, school stories a little less. Sports manga are only about 10% represented. The editorial team also pays attention to a balanced relationship between the moods in the series. This can change through the end of the recording of series and thus affect the development of the manga published in the magazine. At the beginning of its publication in 1999 , Naruto still played the role of a fresh fantasy series with a lot of humor. In 2003 and 2004 started with Gin Tama and Reborn! two comedy series that also have a lot of fantasy elements. At the same time, the rather gloomy Yu-Gi-Oh! and Shaman King . JoJo's Bizarre Adventure switched to another magazine. At the same time, Naruto got more serious and has since contained less humor. Until the end of the series in 2014, it stood in contrast to the still rather cheerful, but also action and fantasy-rich and also very successful One Piece . The variety of content extends to stories with educational value, such as a series about Nobel Prize winners in the early 1990s.

The contents of the magazine changed over time. In the 1970s, action, westerns and thrillers were still in the foreground. Today these have largely merged into other genres or are a marginal phenomenon. The genres of fantasy and science fiction, which are widely represented today, were still poorly represented at the time. Jason Thompson cites as a result of the editorial line that the magazine offers " some of the most individual drawing styles and most formulaic stories ". Often included are " fantastic fights or competitions in which the hero can defeat his opponent with the help of friendship" .

As is usual with this type of publication, an issue of the magazine consists of a strikingly colored cover made of glossy paper. The first few pages contain advertisements, often for games or beauty products related to the series. After the first chapter, a few pages of advertising follow. The actual content in the form of individual chapters of the manga series comprises around 450 pages, which are printed in black and white on very thin paper. Only the first advertising block and the first, colored pages of some of the chapters are also printed on glossy paper. The individual chapters each have differently colored paper.

Readership and Business Policy

The magazine's target group is primarily boys between the ages of 10 and a little under 16 years of age. In fact, however, it is also read by many older males and both younger and older women. In 2012, over 50% of readers were over 18 years old and 20% were women. The number of copies sold is currently around 2.40 million each week. The actual number of readers is likely to be significantly higher, as manga magazines are often borrowed or passed on and free-to-read copies are available in small shops and restaurants.

The popularity of the series included is queried in each issue by means of a questionnaire. Series will be canceled if they have poor popularity ratings for 10 weeks in a row. Particularly popular ones are often extended. The editorial team is also specifically looking for new talent as authors. The magazine's commercial success is estimated to be limited, as the low price barely covers the costs. Instead, the publisher makes profits with paperback editions and the licensing business for the series running in Shōnen Jump .

Release history

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Shōnen Jump has been published by Shueisha- Verlag since July 1968. It initially appeared every two weeks, after a year it appeared weekly. At the same time, the older, monthly magazine Shōnen Book was discontinued and replaced by the monthly Gekkan Shōnen Jump . Although competing magazines such as Shūkan Shōnen Sunday and Shūkan Shōnen Magazine were older, Shōnen Jump became the best-selling manga magazine in Japan in 1973 and has remained so almost consistently to this day. Since the beginning of the magazine, it has been part of the business policy to look specifically for young draftsmen, to build them up and to keep them as successful artists with the magazine. In the first few years this resulted from the fact that the successful mangaka were all already under contract with other magazines. In 1994 it reached its highest circulation of 6.53 million copies sold per week. After the very successful Dragon Ball ended , sales declined by over 800,000 in 1995. From 1997 onwards, as with other magazines, this number continued to decline. In the same year it was replaced as the most successful magazine for a few years by Shōnen Sunday . In 2012 the sold circulation was 2.85 million - still 1 million more than the second best- selling Shōnen Magazine.

International offshoots

  • In Germany , the Banzai was published by Carlsen Comics from November 2001 to December 2005 ! which, in addition to the Shōnen Jump series, also presented German in-house productions. The magazine had a monthly circulation of about 80,000 copies, but was discontinued after the 50th edition because the license agreement was not renewed.
  • In Hong Kong , Culturecom Comics publishes the offshoot EX-am.
  • In Norway , Shonen Jump was published by Schibsted- Verlag from March 2005 to the end of 2007 . The magazine has been translated from Swedish.
  • In Sweden , Full Stop Media published a total of 36 issues of Shonen Jump from October 2004 to November 2007 .
  • In Taiwan , an offshoot appeared under the title Rèmén Shàonián Top (熱門 少年 TOP). When the Da Ran publishing company ceased its business in the 1990s, the publication of the magazine also ended. It was replaced by Báodǎo Shàonián (寶島 少年), which appears at Tong Li Publishing .
  • Two offshoots of the Sh ō nen Jump appear in Thailand . Both in C-Kids (ซี คิด ส์) by Siam Inter Comics and in Boom (บูม) by Nation Edutainment, series from the Japanese original and national in-house productions appear.
  • In the USA , a Sh onen Jump offshoot was released in January 2003 by Viz Media . The circulation was around 350,000 copies per month. At the start, it not only contained current series such as Naruto or One Piece , but also series that had already been completed in Japan, including Dragon Ball . The offshoot was discontinued in April 2012 and replaced by an online edition.

Awards

Together with its publisher Shueisha, the magazine awards two prizes to new artists for their submitted one shots. On the one hand, there is the Tezuka Prize, which is awarded every six months, for all types of stories and the Akatsuka Award for comical manga.

Published manga series

Ongoing

title author Start (output)
Agravity Boys Atsushi Nakamura 2020 / # 2
Ayakashi Triangle Kentaro Yabuki 2020 / # 28
Black Clover Tabata Yūki 2015 / # 12
Boku to Roboco Shuhei Miyazaki 2020 / # 31
Burn the witch Tite Kubo 2020 / # 38
Chainsaw Man Tatsuki Fujimoto 2019 / # 1
Dr. Stone Riichiro Inagaki , Boichi 2017 / # 14
Hakai-shin Magu-chan Kei Kamiki 2020 / # 29
Hunter × Hunter Yoshihiro Togashi 1998 / # 14
Jujutsu Kaisen Gege Akutami 2018 / # 4
MASHLE Hajime Kōmoto 2020 / # 9
My Hero Academia Kohei Horikoshi 2014 / # 32
One piece Eiichirō Oda 1997 / # 34
Shakunetsu no Nirai Kanai Ryuhei Tamura 2020 / # 30
Shinrin Ōja Moriking Tomohiro Hasegawa 2020 / # 20
Time Paradox ghostwriter Kenji Ichima , Tsunehiro Date 2020 / # 24
Undead Unluck Yoshifumi Tozuka 2020 / # 8
We never learn Taishi Tsutsui 2017 / # 10
Yozakura-san Chi no Daisakusen Hitsuji Gondaira 2019 / # 39

Completed / no longer in the magazine (selection)

Web links

Commons : Weekly Shonen Jump  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Weekly Shonen Jump Lists Hiroyuki Nakano as New Editor-in-Chief. Anime News Network, July 13, 2017, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  2. a b c d e f g Frederik L. Schodt : Dreamland Japan. Writings On Modern Manga . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2002, ISBN 1-880656-23-X , pp. 87-91 .
  3. a b c d e Omote Tomoyuki: "Naruto" as a Typical Weekly Magazine Manga . In: Jaqueline Berndt and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.): Manga's Cultural Crossroads . Routledge, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-415-50450-8 , pp. 164-169 .
  4. a b c Jason Thompson : Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , pp. 338 f .
  5. Miriam Brunner: Manga . Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4832-3 , p. 73 f .
  6. Frederik L. Schodt: Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics ; Frederik L. Schodt: Dreamland Japan ; Omote Tomoyuki: "Naruto" as a Typical Weekly Magazine Manga ; Jason Thompson: Manga ; Top Manga Magazines' Circulation Dropped 10% + in 1 Year on Anime News Network , accessed May 17, 2015
  7. 集 英 社 小 史 成長期 . In: Shueisha history 4 . Shueisha . Archived from the original on May 3, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 12, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.shueisha.co.jp
  8. Animerica Vol. 10 No. 10, p. 16.