Weekly Shōnen Jump
Cover of the first issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released in 1968
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| Editor-in-Chief | Yoshihisa Heishi |
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| Former editors | Tadashi Nagano Kazuhiko Torishima Hisashi Sasaki |
| Categories | Shōnen manga |
| Frequency | Biweekly (1968–1969) Weekly (1969 – present) |
| Circulation | 2,151,667 (July–September, 2016) |
| First issue | August 1, 1968 |
| Company | Shueisha |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | shonenjump.com/e/ |
Weekly Shōnen Jump (Japanese: 週刊少年ジャンプ Hepburn: 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; the first issue was released with a cover date of August 1, 1968. The manga series within the magazine target young male readers and tend to consist of a large number of 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). However, since then it has experienced a drastic decline and had a circulation of 2.2 million copies in mid-2016.
Weekly Shōnen Jump has two sister magazines called Jump SQ, created after the fall of Monthly Shōnen Jump, and Saikyō Jump. The magazine has also had several international counterparts, including the current North American Weekly Shonen Jump.
Weekly Shōnen Jump was launched by Shueisha on July 2, 1968 to compete with the already-successful Weekly Shōnen Magazine and Weekly Shōnen Sunday.Weekly Shōnen Jump's sister publication was a manga magazine called Shōnen Book, which was originally a male version of the short-lived shōjo manga anthology Shōjo Book. Prior to issue 20, Weekly Shōnen Jump was originally called simply Shōnen Jump as it was originally a bi-weekly magazine. In 1969, Shōnen Book ceased publication at which time Shōnen Jump became a weekly magazine and a new monthly magazine called Bessatsu Shōnen Jump was made to take Shōnen Book's place. This magazine was later rebranded as Monthly Shōnen Jump before eventually being discontinued and replaced by Jump SQ.
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