Many of the best-selling manga series—including One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Slam Dunk, KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—originate from Weekly Shōnen Jump.
Idol and tabloid magazines dominated in the Media & Entertainment industry at that time and we aimed to stand out from the crowd by using only manga as our weapon.
"[11] Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden, released in 1988 for the Family Computer was produced to commemorate the magazine's 20th anniversary.
By 1998, circulation had dropped to 4.15 million copies, a decline in part ascribed to the conclusion of popular manga series Dragon Ball and Slam Dunk.
In response, Shueisha published the series included in that issue for free on its website from March 23 to April 27.
[15] On July 11, 2013, the Namco Bandai Group opened an amusement park themed around Weekly Shōnen Jump series.
Titled J-World Tokyo, it is located on the third floor of the Sunshine City World Import Mart Building in Ikebukuro and is 1.52 acres.
[16][17] In celebration of the magazine's 45th anniversary in 2013, Shueisha began a contest where anyone can submit manga in three different languages, Japanese, English and Chinese.
However, unlike the Japanese version, the latest chapters of current Weekly Shōnen Jump manga are made available free for a limited-time and it does not sell content.
Weekly Shōnen Jump, in association with parent company Shueisha, holds annual competitions for new or up and coming manga artists to create one-shot stories.
The best are put to a panel of judges (including manga artists past and present) where the best are given a special award for the best of these new series.
WSJ is also the center of the Shueisha's branding of its main manga products due to the popularity and recognition of the series and characters published in it.
However, Index Digital reported in 2005 that the favorite non-shōjo magazine of elementary and middle school-aged female readers is Weekly Shōnen Jump at 61.9%.
Weekly Shōnen Jump was the number one answer, with One Piece, Death Note, and The Prince of Tennis cited as the reasons.
[59] In the mid-1980s, the magazine took on the Weekly Shōnen Jump name with each issue subtitled the Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter Special.
[61][62] After relaunching as Jump Giga, the magazine published four issues or "volumes" in 2016 and 2017,[63] six in 2018 and 2019 (three in summer and three in winter), and seems to have returned to a seasonal quarterly release since 2020.
It also puts additional one-shot titles by professional manga artists, which promote upcoming series to be published in the main magazine.
Shonen Jump, published in North America by Viz Media, debuted in November 2002, with a January 2003 cover date.
[75] Shueisha purchased an equity interest in Viz to help fund the venture,[76] and Cartoon Network, Suncoast, and Diamond Distributors became promotional partners in the magazine.
With it ending in an incomplete, but yet almost complete picture spine of the Naruto splash page of "Declaration of War" on the side of each said magazine.
It began serialization on January 30, 2012, as Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha with a lineup of six titles and new issues published online two weeks after Japanese release, but within a year had expanded to twelve ongoing series, and on January 21, 2013, it underwent a rebranding and transitioned to simultaneous publication with Japan.
[82] In addition to the Weekly Shōnen Jump manga series, the magazine also included original German language manga-influenced comics.
[86] C-Kids (ซีคิดส์ See Kít) is the Thai language Weekly Shōnen Jump published by Siam Inter Comics.
[87] C-Kids publishes many Weekly Shōnen Jump series such as One Piece, Gintama[88] along with many original manga-influenced comics from the division Cartoon Thai Studio like EXEcutional.
Boom publishes many Weekly Shōnen Jump series such as Naruto, Death Note along with many original manga-influenced comics from Factory Studio like Meed Thii Sib-Sam and Apaimanee Saga.
Published by Schibsted, the Norwegian edition was a direct translation of Bonnier's Swedish version of the magazine, containing the same series and titles.
When Bonnier lost the license for Weekly Shōnen Jump, the Norwegian version also ceased publication, with the last issue released on February 26, 2007.
Shōnen Jump Advanced was created for the distribution of manga series considered more mature due to content or themes.
Weekly Shōnen Jump has also run a line bunkobon editions called Shueisha Comic Bunko.
Of the series listed below, only Bleach, Gintama and Black Clover began their serialization after the conclusion of the golden age in the late 1990s.