Business Jump Explained
| Editor: | Shueisha |
| Frequency: | Monthly |
| Circulation: | 240,000 (2011)[1] |
| Category: | Seinen manga[2] |
| Company: | Shueisha |
| Publisher: | Shueisha |
| Firstdate: | July, 1985 |
| Finaldate: | October 5, 2011 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Based: | Tokyo |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Website: | Official website (archived) |
, was a Japanese seinen manga anthology published by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The manga of Business Jump were published under the "Young Jump Comics" line. This magazine's mascot was an anthropomorphic, Western-style mouse illustrated by Susumu Matsushita.
History
The magazine debuted in July 1985 as the first "salaryman" magazine to be published by Shueisha, Inc. Business Jump completing with Ultra Jump, Super Jump, etc. was one of its kind in the Jump family of manga magazines. Business Jump readers were typically young, twentysomething business men. BJ was originally a monthly publication, the date of its release was changed to the first Wednesday of every month. For the second time, it was changed in 2008 to the 15th.
The magazine was discontinued in late 2011, with a final double issue, numbered 21/22, released on October 5.[3] Several ongoing series were folded into a new publication, Grand Jump.
Serializations
1980s
- (1985–1996)
- by Masahiko Takajo and Tetsuya Saruwatari (1987–1990)
- by Yoshihiro Suma (1987–1990)
- by Hikari Kasuga (1989–1990)
1990s
- by (1990–2011)
- by Kazuo Koike and (1990–2003)
- by Tetsuya Watari (1990–1996)
- Battle Angel Alita / by Yukito Kishiro (1990–1995)
- by (1991–1997)
- by (1992–1993)
- by Shiosu Nakashima (1992–1997)
- by (1993–1999)
- by (1994–1996)
- by (1994–1999)
- Women by (1995–2000)
- by Tetsuya Saruwatari (1996–2001)
- by Kei Toume (1997–2011)
- by Fumiharu Ikeda (1997–2002)
- One Outs by Shinobu Kaitani (1998–2006)
- by Masayuki Kondō and Teruto Ariga (1999–2006)
- by (1999–2005)
2000s–2011
- by Jiro Taniguchi (2000–2003)
- by Mio Murao (2001–2004)
- by (2001–2007)
- by (2002–2007)
- by (2002–2004)
- by Ryōka Shū and (2003–2007)
- by Keīchi Tanaka (2004–2006)
- by Tetsuo Aoki (2004–2008)
- by Ryō Kurashina and Nao Kurebayashi (2004–2008)
- by (2005–2008)
- by (2005–2007)
- by Atsuji Yamamoto (2005–2007)
- by Takewo Takeyama (2005–2006)
- by Dragon Odawara (2005–2007)
- by and (2005–2010)
- by and Mari Masatoshi (2005–2006)
- by Mio Murao (2005–2006)
- by (2005–2011)
- by (2005–2007)
- by and (2005–2006)
- by Sig Production, Shōji Kanemaru (2006)
- by Hiroshi Motomiya (2006–2008)
- by Tsukasa Yamaguchi (2006–2007)
- by and (2006)
- Swing-style by Toshiki Yui (2006–2007)
- by Aki Ra and (2006–2007)
- by Tetsuya Saruwatari (2006–2011)
- by Araki Joh and (2006–2011)
- by (2007–2009)
- by Gō Nagai and (2007–2008)
- by Yōzaburō Kanari and Rokku Noma (2007–2008)
- by Shigeru Noda (2007–2008)
- by Shinobu Kaitani (2007–2011)
- by (2007–2008)
- by Kazuhiro Kumagaya (2007–2008)
- by Mio Murao (2007)
- by Masanao Kurihara (2007–2009)
- by and (2007–2009)
- by Noriyuki Yamahana (2008–2010)
- by Dai Tennōji and Kiryō Inōe (2008)
- by and (2008–2009)
- by Tsukasa Yamaguchi (2008–2010)
- by and (2008–2009)
- by Osamu Suzuki, Seigō Kashida, Teruto Ariga (2008–2009)
- by Tatsuya Egawa (2010–2011)
Circulation
! Year(s)! Weekly circulation[4] ! Magazine sales ! Sales revenue ! Issue price| 1990 | 700,000 | | | [5] |
| 1991 | 720,000 | | |
| 1992 | 730,000 | | |
| 1993 | 750,000 | | |
| 1994 | 760,000 | | | [6] |
| 1995 | 740,000 | | |
| 1996 | 740,000 | | |
| 19901996 | | 61,680,000 | | | |
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Notes and References
- Web site: Shueisha to Launch, Relaunch 3 Manga Mags in 2011-2012. July 5, 2011 . Anime News Network. November 30, 2014.
- Book: Thompson, Jason . Jason Thompson (writer)
. Manga: The Complete Guide. Jason Thompson (writer). Del Rey Books. 978-0-345-48590-8. 2007. xxiii-xxiv.
- Web site: Shueisha Starts Semi-Monthly Manga Mag for Grown-Ups . Anime News Network . September 18, 2011 . November 30, 2014.
- Web site: コミック誌の部数水準 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070306085534/http://www.geocities.jp/wj_log/rank/hokan/zassi.html . dead . March 6, 2007 . . March 6, 2007.
- Cover . Business Jump . 1 July 1988 . 14 . 21 February 2019.
- News: An Analysis of Weekly Manga Magazines Price for the Past 30 Years . ComiPress . 2007-04-06.
