Jump Comics magazine & history

HI EVERYBODY~!

                   How are you?, I wish you could be fine, because at where I live, there had been recently a lot of social and political problems.  ¬¬

         Anyway, I'm going to introduce you more about information of the most popular manga magazines and publishing companies.  OwO  The one I’m going to present you today is the most popular Shounen manga magazine and a little about its publishing company:

Cover of the first issue published at 1968

         Jump Comics, is a famous manga magazine created by Shueisha Publishing company, which is a major publisher in Japan.(eNotes.com) It has more than three million readers, and also is one of the Japanese longest-running manga magazines known until this date. This magazine has some sub-magazine, and the most known and famous is Shonen Jump magazines.(VirtualJapan.com)

         Shonen Jump was created at 1968 as a semi-weekly magazine; at 1969 it became a weekly manga anthology and changed its name to Weekly Shonen Jump, which is the name it still maintain at today. Once a month is released the magazine Monthly Shonen Jump, which contains all the manga chapters that were released at the Weekly Shonen Jump in a month.(VirtualJapan.com)

This manga anthology magazine is the one responsible of publishing some mangas that are pretty famous and well known all around the world, that maybe we watched in TV as anime when we were kids, mangas such as Dragon Ball (Toriyama Akira), City Hunter (Houjo Tsukasa), Saint Seiya (Kuruma Masamu), or Slam Dunk (Inoue Takehiko); or that we get to know them at modern time for being also popular animes, mangas as Death Note (Tsugumi Ohba and Asami Yuuko), One Piece (Oda Eiichiro), Naruto (Kishimoto Masashi), or Bleach(Kubo Tite).(MangaHere.com)

North America 100 issue cover

         In North America, SHONEN JUMP is published by Viz Media, a publishing company of Japanese entertainment, headquartered in San Francisco. It was displayed by first time to the public at magazine and bookstores at January 2003. Each Magazine is released in English just once a month as the Monthly Shonen Jump; it contains chapters of seven manga series, articles of Japanese language and culture, anime, videogames, and sometimes figurines or special collection cards.(VirtualJapan.com) The magazine is sold at the US, Canada, Mexico, and other few countries of the American Continent.

40 aniversary Japanese issue

     This Manga Magazine is one of my favorites because some of my favorite mangas are from Jump Comics; most of the manga stories of Shonen Jump are really interesting and have good drawings (there are exceptions). If you want to buy it: in the US and Canada is relatively cheap in comparison to Mexico or other countries. If you live in NL, Mx, you can find it at Sanborns' bookshop. :B

Thanks for reading, GBU, have a nice day~! :D

Cited Works:

eNotes.com. "Jump (magazine line)." eNotes: Study Smarter. eNotes.com, 2011. Web. 31 Aug 2011. <http://www.enotes.com/topic/Jump_(magazine_line)>.

VirtualJapan.com."Weekly Shonen Jump." Virtual Japan Wiki. VirtualJapan.com, 2008-2011. Web. 31 Aug 2011. <http://www.virtualjapan.com/wiki/Weekly_Shonen_Jump>.

MangaHere.com. "Hot and Classic manga published on Weekly Shonen Jump." LET'S JUMP. MangaHere.com, 2011. Web. 31 Aug 2011. <http://www.mangahere.com/topic/jump/>.

eNotes.com, . "Shueisha." eNotes: Study Smarter. eNotes.com, 2011. Web. 31 Aug 2011. <http://www.enotes.com/topic/Shueisha>.