| Editor: | Daisuke Terashi |
| Editor Title: | Editor-in-Chief |
| Previous Editor: | Kazuhiko Torishima |
| Frequency: | Monthly (since 1993) Semiannually (1990–1992) |
| Circulation: | 147,000 (January–December 2021)[1] |
| Category: | Video games and shōnen manga |
| Publisher: | Shueisha |
| Country: | Japan |
| Based: | Tokyo |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Website: | vjump.shueisha.co.jp |
is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine, focusing on manga as well as video games based on popular manga. The magazine's debut was in 1990[2] by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines.
In the early 1990s, Shueisha directed Weekly Shōnen Jump editor Kazuhiko Torishima to create V Jump as a children's magazine to compete with Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic. Believing Shueisha was incapable of this because they lacked the experience and personal connections Shogakukan had, Torishima claims to have purposefully chosen a theme he knew would be unpopular for the third issue.[3] [4] He then received permission to re-launch the magazine with the new goal of containing manga, anime, and video game content all in one medium.[3] Torishima later claimed to have predicted people being able to access all of these in one place like smartphones, and wanted to "get off the sinking ship" that was print manga magazines as soon as possible.[4] [5] He also wanted to begin promoting games while they were still in development, and personally went around to major game studios and asked them to publicize the names and faces of the individual creators.[3] [4] Torishima left Weekly Shōnen Jump to re-launch V Jump in 1992, and serve as its editor-in-chief.[4] [6] He also changed the meaning of the "V" in its title from "Victory", derived from the V sign, to "Virtual".[4] Akira Toriyama designed the magazine's mascot character, who was named via a reader poll.[7]
Most of the manga serialized in V Jump are spin-offs of popular Weekly Shōnen Jump titles or adaptations of video games and anime. These include Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Boruto. Original manga serialized in the magazine include Shadow Lady by Masakazu Katsura and Go! Go! Ackman by Toriyama. In November 2020, comedian Kendo Kobayashi was officially appointed an editor of V Jump.[8]
V Jump Books is a line of V Jump manga and video game guides and some of the premiere editions. It mostly does guides for the series of Square Enix. It is the other publisher of Disney Books in Japan along with Kodansha since it published books and guides for the Kingdom Hearts games.
Most of the manga serialized in V Jump are spin-offs of popular Weekly Shōnen Jump titles or adaptations of video games and anime
There are currently six manga titles being regularly serialized in V Jump.
| Series title | Author(s) | Premiered | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| , Masashi Kishimoto | ||||
| , Toyotarou | On hiatus | |||
| , Akiyoshi Hongō | On hiatus | |||
| , Riku Sanjo | ||||
| Naohito Miyoshi, Shin Yoshida | ||||
| Year / Period | Monthly circulation | Magazine sales | Sales revenue | Issue price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1998 to August 2003 | 149,833[9] | ||||
| September 2003 to August 2004 | 149,833 | ||||
| September 2004 to August 2005 | 178,334 | ||||
| September 2005 to September 2007 | 178,334 | ||||
| October 2007 to September 2008 | [10] | ||||
| October 2008 to September 2009 | [11] | ||||
| October 2009 to September 2010 | 391,667[12] | ||||
| October 2010 to September 2011 | [13] | ||||
| October 2011 to September 2012 | 302,500[14] | ||||
| October 2012 to September 2013 | 292,500[15] | ||||
| October 2013 to September 2014 | 252,500[16] | ||||
| October 2014 to September 2015 | 233,334[17] | ||||
| October 2015 to September 2016 | 258,333[18] | ||||
| October 2016 to September 2017 | 212,500[19] | ||||
| October 2017 to September 2018 | [20] | ||||
| October 2018 to March 2019 | [21] | ||||
| September 1998 to March 2019 | 56,816,351 |