Weekly Young Jump Explained

Weekly Young Jump
Frequency:	Weekly
Circulation:	349,000 (January–December 2021)^[1]
Category:	Seinen manga^[2] ^[3]
Company:	Shueisha
Founded:	May 1979
Country:	Japan
Based:	Tokyo
Language:	Japanese

is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Shueisha. Launched in 1979, it is published under Shueisha's Jump line of magazines. The chapters of series that run in Weekly Young Jump are collected and published in tankōbon volumes under the "Young Jump Comics" imprint every four months. Many of the featured series are known to contain heavy violence and a fair amount of sexual content. The magazine is headquartered in Tokyo.

History

Young Jump was launched in May 1979 as a biweekly magazine, and switched to a weekly release schedule in 1981.^[4] The "young" in its name denotes its target demographic as a seinen manga magazine, aimed at young adult men.^[5] In 2008, an offshoot issue similar to Monthly Shōnen Jump was released called Monthly Young Jump;^[6] the magazine was rebranded as Miracle Jump in 2011,^[7] and was suspended in 2017.^[8]

A spin-off website, titled, debuted on June 14, 2012, starting with Yusuke Murata's remake of One's series One-Punch Man.^[9] ^[10]

Features

Series

There are 22 manga titles being regularly serialized in Weekly Young Jump.

Series title	Author	Premiered
	Yuuji Moritaka, Hikari Suehiro
	Minori Inaba
Bungo
	Daisuke Morimoto
	Satoru Noda
Gas-tō Norainu Tanteidan	Yugo Aosaki, Toshimitsu Matsubara
	Masaki Enjoji
	Yotsuba Fujikawa, Nono Ueno
	Ikko Tanaka
	Yasuhisa Hara


	, Mengo Yokoyari
	Yusura Kankitsu, Fumi Nagatsuki

	Somato
	, Akeji Fujimura

	, Kenichi Tachibana
	, Yukiko Nozawa
	Ōhashi Hirai
	Cygames, Junnosuke Itou, Masafumi Sugiura, Taiyou Kusumi

Former series

1970s–1980s

by Kazuo Koike (story) and Go Nagai (art) (1979–1982)
by Kentarō Yano (1982–1985)
by Hikaru Yuzuki (1982–1987)
by (1985–1996)
by Kazuo Koike (story) and Noriyoshi Inoue (art) (1985–1991)
by Makoto Ogino (1985–1989)
by Toshio Nobe (1986–1996)
Nineteen 19 by Shō Kitagawa (1988–1990)
by Hiromi Morishita (1988–1994)
by Hiroya Oku (1989–1994)

1990s

by Makoto Ogino (1990–1992)
by Go Nagai (1991–1992)
Kirara by Toshiki Yui (1993–1997)
by Tetsuya Saruwatari (1993–2003)
by Sakura Takeuchi (1994–1997)
by Hiroshi Motomiya (1994–2002)
Hen by Hiroya Oku (1995–1997)
(1995–1997)
Colorful by Torajirō Kishi (1997–2000)
by Sho Kitagawa (1997–2000)
by Kazuhiro Kumagai (1997–2002)

2000s

Gantz by Hiroya Oku (2000–2013)
Arcana by Yua Kotegawa (2000–2001)
ComaGoma by Hiromi Morishita (2000–2004)
by Yōichi Takahashi (2000–2004)
by Kazuki Funatsu (2001–2012)
by Tsutomu Takahashi (2001–2002)
by Hiyoko Kobayashi (2001–2007)
by Lynn Okamoto (2002–2005)
Blue Heaven by Tsutomu Takahashi (2002)
Zetman by Masakazu Katsura (2002–2014)
by Tsutomu Takahashi (2003)
by Yūgo Ishikawa (2003–2010)
Tough by Tetsuya Saruwatari (2003–2012)
by Masaya Hokazono (story) and Court Betten (art) (2003–2007)
by Tsutomu Takahashi (2003–2004)
by Yōko Sanri (2004–2011)
by Yukiya Sakuragi (2004–2009) — transferred to Monthly Young Jump
Liar Game by Shinobu Kaitani (2005–2015)
Sidooh by Tsutomu Takahashi (2005–2010)
by Yōzaburō Kanari (story) and Kuroko Yabuguchi (art) (2005–2007)
by Yōichi Takahashi (2005–2008)
by Makoto Ogino (2006–2009) — transferred to Monthly Young Jump
by Toshio Sako (2006–2017)
by Tooru Fujisawa (2006–2007)
by Hiroya Oku (2006–2007)
by Yokusaru Shibata (2006–2014)
by Masanori Morita (2007–2019) — transferred from Weekly Shōnen Jump
by Shion Miura (original story) and Sorata Unno (art) (2007–2009)
by Lynn Okamoto (2007–2010)
by Yoshirō Nabeda (story) and Shin-ichi Sakamoto (story and art) (2007–2011)
by Peach-Pit (2008–2014)
by Hiroshi Motomiya (2009–2011)
by Yōichi Takahashi (2009)
Jiya by Akira Toriyama (story) and Masakazu Katsura (art) (2009–2010)

2010s

by NON (2010–2012)
by Katsumasa Enokiya (2010–2015)
by Yōichi Takahashi (2010–2012)
by Kouji Mori (2010–2016)
by Yasu Tora (2011–2014)
Sidooh: Sunrise by Tsutomu Takahashi (2011)
by Satoru Noda (2011–2012)
by Sui Ishida (2011–2014)
by Minori Inaba (2011–2019)
by Tomohiro Matsu (original story) and Miyano Hirotsugu (2011–2012)
by Tsutomu Takahashi (2011–2013)
by Lynn Okamoto (story) and Mengo Yokoyari (art) (2012–2017)
by Lynn Okamoto (2012–2016)
by Shin-ichi Sakamoto (2013–2015)
by Sankaku Head (2013–2017)
by Tooru Fujisawa (2013–2014)
by Masaki Kasahara (2013–2017)
by Yukino Kitajima (story) and Yūki Kodama (art) (2013–2014)
by Akira Sugito (2013–2016)
All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (original story), Ryōsuke Takeuchi (story) and Takeshi Obata (art) (2014)
by Kazuki Funatsu (2014–2017)
by (2014–2019)
by Satoru Noda (2014–2022)
by Sui Ishida (2014–2018)
87 Clockers by Tomoko Ninomiya (2014–2016) — transferred from Jump X
by Taku Sakamoto (2015–2018) — transferred from Miracle Jump
by Tetsuya Tsutsui (story) and Fumio Obata (art) (2015) — transferred from Jump X
by Kakeru Sato (2015–2016)
by Yoshiki Tanaka (original story) and Ryu Fujisaki (art) (2015–2020) — transferred to Ultra Jump
by Aka Akasaka (2016–2022) — transferred from Miracle Jump
by Yūma Kagami (2016–2017)
by Hikaru Nakamura (2016–2019) — transferred to Ultra Jump
by Osamu Akimoto (2017–2018)
by Sankaku Head (2017–2018)
by Ryu Fujisaki (2018)
by Masaki Kasahara (2018–2020)
by Koyuri Noguchi (2019–2020)
by Nene Yukimori (2019–2023)

2020s

by Hiroya Oku (story) and Jin Kagetsu (art) (2020–2023) — transferred to YanJan!
by Ryō Minenami (2020–2024)
by Shū Fukuda (2020–2023)
by Masaki Kasahara (2021–2022)
by Toshimitsu Matsubara (2021–2022)
by Sui Ishida (2021–2022) — publication continued on Tonari no Young Jump
by Kiyoto Shitara (2022–2023)

Special issues

Miracle Jump

is a spin-off issue of Weekly Young Jump, first published in January 2011. It includes one shots and Weekly Young Jump series' side stories, and a series that only serializes in Miracle Jump. Initially, it was scheduled to release bimonthly until June 25, 2013. From April 15, 2014, it was changed into monthly releases, and the number of serializations has increased ever since.

Young Jump Gold

is a spin-off issue of Weekly Young Jump, first published on July, 2017. It includes one shots and Weekly Young Jump series' side stories.

Young Jump Battle

Shueisha launched a spin-off magazine called Young Jump Battle in October 2019. It focuses on manga from the battle manga genre. The first issue will have five one-shots from Young Jump mangaka.^[11]

Young Jump Love

A spin-off focused on romance manga called Young Jump Love launched on December 23, 2019.

Circulation

! Year / Period! Weekly circulation! Magazine sales ! Sales revenue ! Issue price
1986	1,600,000^[12]		^[13]
1987	1,860,000
1988	2,000,000
1989 to 1991	2,100,000
1992	1,900,000
1993	1,850,000
1994	1,900,000
1995	2,020,000
1996	1,940,000
1997	1,970,000
1998	1,750,000
1999	1,600,000
2000	1,450,000
2001	1,470,000
2002	1,400,000
2003	1,160,000
2004	1,136,666^[14]
2005	1,081,459
2006	1,006,875
2007	967,250^[15]
2008	939,896^[16]
2009	852,938^[17]
2010	768,980^[18]
January 2011 to September 2011	705,405^[19]
October 2011 to September 2012	656,250^[20]
October 2012 to September 2013	609,375^[21]
October 2013 to September 2014	596,667^[22]
October 2014 to September 2015	576,250^[23]
October 2015 to September 2016	557,143^[24]
October 2016 to September 2017	536,979^[25]
October 2017 to September 2018	^[26]
1986 to September 2018		2,262,186,927

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