Monthly Shōnen Jump (月刊少年ジャンプ, Gekkan Shōnen Janpu, commonly anglicized as MONTHLY JUMP) was a shōnen manga magazine which was published monthly in Japan by Shueisha from 1970 to 2007 under the Jump line of magazines. It was the sister magazine to Weekly Shōnen Jump.
 Cover of September 2006 issue featuring the manga Kurohime | |
| Categories | Shōnen manga |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| First issue | 6 February 1970 |
| Final issue | 6 June 2007 |
| Company | Shueisha |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | Official website archived |
History
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The Monthly Shōnen Jump magazine started as a spin-off issue of Weekly Jump called Bessatsu Shōnen Jump.[1]
The second spin-off issue was called Monthly Shōnen Jump, which caught on and became its own separate independent manga magazine.
Shōnen manga magazines in Japan in the 1980s focused on bishōjo characters, and Monthly Shōnen Jump stood out due to the many product and toy tie-ins it had during that period and into the 1990s.[citation needed] An off-shoot, Hobby's Jump, was published for 16 issues from 1983 to 1988.[2][3] Another spin-off Go!Go! Jump was a collaboration between its sister magazine Weekly Jump and Monthly Jump; it was published in 2005 and was only published once.
On 22 February 2007, Shueisha announced that Monthly Jump would cease publication as of the July issue (on sale June 6, 2007.) Sales had slumped to a third of the magazine's peak, though a new magazine called Jump SQ. took its place on 2 November.[4][5][6]
In a letter dated 2 May 2007, Shueisha announced that Claymore takes a month break but it, Gag Manga Biyori, Rosario + Vampire, and Tegami Bachi continued in Weekly Shōnen Jump until the start of the magazine Jump SQ.[7]
List of titles
editTitles with ☆ were transferred to Shueisha's Jump Square. The magazine's longest running manga were: Kattobi itto (Motoki Monma), Wataru Ga Pyun! (Tsuyoshi Nakaima) and Eleven (Taro Nami, Hiroshi Takahashi)
Last series
edit- Rosario + Vampire
- Claymore☆
- Tegami Bachi☆
- Sheisen no Shachi
- Gag Manga Biyori
- Passacaglia Op.7
- Étoile
- Blue Dragon ST
- Buttobi Itto
- Kurohime
- Mr. Perfect
- DohRan
- Surebrec -Nora the 2nd-
- Kuroi Love Letter
- Mizu Cinema
Past series
edit- Kia Asamiya
- Steam Detectives (Moved to Ultra Jump at the magazine's start.)
- Kazunari Kakei
- Koji Kousaka
- Sutobasu Yarō Shō
- Yūichi Agarie & Kenichi Sakura
- Kotokuri ★
- Dragon Drive
- Hiroshi Aro
- Rin Hirai
- Akira Toriyama
- Hiroyuki Asada
- Takehiko Inoue
- Akio Chiba
- Kōichi Endo
- Fumihito Higashitani
- Daisuke Higuchi
- Shotaro Ishinomori
- Yūko Ishizuka
- Bibiko Kurowa
- Gentō Club
- Gatarō Man
- Kōsuke Masuda
- Takayuki Mizushina
- Akira Momozato
- Motoki Monma
- Go Nagai
- Kekko Kamen
- Maboroshi Panty (written by Yasutaka Nagai)
- Keiji Nakazawa
- I Saw It (published in America by EduComics)
- Tarō Nami & Hiroshi Takahashi
- Riku Sanjo & Koji Inada
- Beet the Vandel Buster ★ (Moved to Jump Square Crown)
- Ami Shibata
- Yoshihiro Takahashi
- Kikuhide Tani & Yoshihiro Kuroiwa
- Osamu Tezuka
- Norihiro Yagi
- Katakura Masanori
- Kurohime★☆
Circulation
edit| Year(s) | Monthly circulation | Magazine sales (est.) | Sales revenue (est.) | Issue price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 1,350,000[8] | 16,200,000[8] | ¥2,916,000,000 | ¥180[9] |
| 1990 to 1991 | 1,400,000[8] | 33,600,000[8] | ¥6,048,000,000 | |
| 1992 to 1993 | 1,350,000[8] | 32,400,000[8] | ¥6,156,000,000 | ¥190[9] |
| 1994 | 1,300,000[8] | 15,600,000[8] | ¥3,276,000,000 | ¥210[9] |
| 1995 | 1,150,000[8] | 13,800,000[8] | ¥2,898,000,000 | |
| 1996 | 1,500,000[8] | 18,000,000[8] | ¥3,780,000,000 | |
| 1997 | 1,000,000[8] | 12,000,000[8] | ¥2,520,000,000 | |
| 1998 | 800,000[8] | 9,600,000[8] | ¥2,016,000,000 | |
| 1999 | 730,000[8] | 8,760,000[8] | ¥1,839,600,000 | |
| 2000 | 650,000[8] | 7,800,000[8] | ¥1,638,000,000 | |
| 2001 | 620,000[8] | 7,440,000[8] | ¥3,704,400,000 | |
| 2002 | 1,400,000[8] | 16,800,000[8] | ¥3,528,000,000 | |
| 2003 | 530,000[8] | 6,360,000[8] | ¥1,335,600,000 | |
| 2004 | 460,000[8] | 5,520,000[8] | ¥1,159,200,000 | |
| 2005 | 400,000[8] | 4,800,000[8] | ¥1,152,000,000 | ¥240[9] |
| 2006 | 376,667[10] | 4,520,004[10] | ¥1,084,800,960 | |
| 2007 | 376,667[11] | 2,260,002[11] | ¥542,400,480 | |
| 1986 to 2007 | 970,541 | 215,460,006 | ¥45,594,001,440 ($571 million) | ¥212 |
References
edit- ^ "Bessatsu Shōnen Jump". Suikoudou. Archived from the original on 29 July 2003. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ "HOBBY'S JUMP". Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
- ^ "HOBBY'S JUMP 1983 表示号数8". Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
- ^ More Info on Jump Square, Jump SQ Official Site Launched, and More | ComiPress
- ^ "Yahoo!ニュース - 時事通信 - 月刊少年ジャンプが休刊". Archived from the original on 2007-02-23. Retrieved 2007-02-23.
- ^ Mainichi Daily News ends its partnership with MSN, takes on new Web address[permanent dead link]
- ^ News on Suspension by Editorial Department Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine from Shueisha.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad "コミック誌の部数水準". Yahoo! Japan. Archived from the original on March 6, 2007. Retrieved March 6, 2007.
- ^ a b c d "An Analysis of Weekly Manga Magazines Price for the Past 30 Years". ComiPress. 2007-04-06.
- ^ a b "Manga Anthology Circulations 2004-2006". ComiPress. 2007-12-27.
- ^ a b "社団法人 日本雑誌協会". Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. February 12, 2008. Archived from the original on February 12, 2008.
External links
edit- Monthly Jump Web (in Japanese)
- Monthly Shōnen Jump at Anime News Network's encyclopedia