V Jump
![]() First issue of V Jump; cover features characters from Dr. Slump dressed as characters from Dragon Quest II. | |
Editor-in-Chief | Akio Iyoku[1] |
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Former editors | Kazuhiko Torishima |
Categories | Video Games and Shōnen manga |
Frequency | Monthly |
Circulation | 187,500 (January–December 2018)[2] |
Publisher | Shueisha |
First issue | 1993 |
Country | Japan |
Based in | Tokyo |
Language | Japanese |
Website | vjump.shueisha.co.jp |
V Jump (Vジャンプ, Bui Janpu) is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine, focusing on new manga as well as video games based on popular manga. The magazine's debut was in 1993 by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines.
History[]
A prototype magazine called Hobby's Jump was launched in the 80s as a spin-off issue of Monthly Shōnen Jump. Hobby's Jump was announced discontinued, and a new magazine called V Jump arrived. V Jump is a video game magazine, namely for the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series, as well as many shōnen manga. Akira Toriyama designed the magazine's mascot character V Dragon (V龍), who was named via a reader poll.[3]
V Jump has also taken many series from Weekly Shōnen Jump, such as Shadow Lady created by Masakazu Katsura, which has had more success than ever in V Jump. Later on, the magazine published a sequel to the classic Weekly Shōnen Jump series Dr. Slump, characters from which appeared on the cover of the first issue of V Jump, titled The Brief Return of Dr. Slump (written by Takao Koyama and illustrated by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru). After the Dr. Slump series, an adaptation of the spin-off anime Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters GX called Yu-Gi-Oh! GX began serialization. The serialization of the series Yu-Gi-Oh! R ended on December 21, 2007.
V Jump Books[]
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.
Features[]
V Jump's primary content is the information regards the video/arcade games and the card games. Therefore, there are limited numbers of manga titles have been serialized in V Jump. Most of the manga titles in V Jump are the comicalization of the animation and the video/card games.
Series[]
There are currently eight manga titles being regularly serialized in V Jump.
Series title | Author(s) | Premiered | Notes |
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Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (BORUTO -ボルト- -NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS-) | Mikio Ikemoto, Ukyō Kodachi, Masashi Kishimoto | July 2019 | Transferred from Weekly Shōnen Jump[4] |
Dragon Ball Heroes Victory Mission (ドラゴンボールヒーローズ Victory Mission) | Toyotarou | September 2012 | On hiatus |
Dragon Ball Super (ドラゴンボール超) | Akira Toriyama, Toyotarou | June 2015 | |
Digimon World Re:Digitize Encode (デジモンワールド リ:デジタイズ エンコード) | Kōhei Fujino, Akiyoshi Hongō | April 2013 | On hiatus |
Dragon Quest - Dai no Daibouken: Yuusha Avan to Gokuen no Maoh (ドラゴンクエスト ダイの大冒険 勇者アバンと獄炎の魔王) | Yusaku Shibata, Riku Sanjo | September 2020 | |
Dragon Quest: Souten no Soura (ドラゴンクエスト 蒼天のソウラ) | Yūki Nakashima, Yūji Horii | December 2012 | |
Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Structures (遊☆戯☆王OCGストラクチャーズ) | Masashi Sato | June 2019 | |
Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS Rook! Bakuretsu Hadou Den!! (遊☆戯☆王SEVENS) | Hikokubo Masahiro, Sugie Tasuku | September 2020 |
Former series[]
- The Brief Return of Dr. Slump
- Bakuen CAMPUS Guardress
- Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01
- Digimon Next
- Digimon Xros Wars
- Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock
- Gaist Crusher First
- Go! Go! Ackman
- Haō Taikei Ryū Knight
- Kinnikuman II-Sei: All Chōjin Dai Shingeki
- Onmyō Taisenki
- Shadow Lady
- Slime MoriMori
- Viewtiful Joe
- Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
- Yu-Gi-Oh! R
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
- Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V
- Z/X: Code Reunion
Circulation[]
Year / Period | Monthly circulation | Magazine sales | Sales revenue (est.) | Issue price |
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September 1998 to August 2003 | 149,833[5] | 8,989,980 | ¥4,944,489,000 | ¥550 |
September 2003 to August 2004 | 149,833[5] | 1,797,996 | ¥988,897,800 | |
September 2004 to August 2005 | 178,334[5] | 2,140,008 | ¥1,177,004,400 | |
September 2005 to September 2007 | 178,334[5] | 4,458,350 | ¥2,452,092,500 | |
October 2007 to September 2008 | 366,667[6] | 4,400,004 | ¥2,420,002,200 | |
October 2008 to September 2009 | 379,167[7] | 4,550,004 | ¥2,502,502,200 | |
October 2009 to September 2010 | 391,667[8] | 4,700,004 | ¥2,585,002,200 | |
October 2010 to September 2011 | 320,834[9] | 3,850,002 | ¥2,117,501,100 | |
October 2011 to September 2012 | 302,500[10] | 3,630,000 | ¥1,996,500,000 | |
October 2012 to September 2013 | 292,500[11] | 3,510,000 | ¥1,930,500,000 | |
October 2013 to September 2014 | 252,500[12] | 3,030,000 | ¥1,666,500,000 | |
October 2014 to September 2015 | 233,334[13] | 2,800,008 | ¥1,540,004,400 | |
October 2015 to September 2016 | 258,333[14] | 3,099,996 | ¥1,704,997,800 | |
October 2016 to September 2017 | 212,500[15] | 2,550,000 | ¥1,402,500,000 | |
October 2017 to September 2018 | 187,500[16] | 2,250,000 | ¥1,237,500,000 | |
October 2018 to March 2019 | 176,667[17] | 1,059,999 | ¥582,999,450 | |
September 1998 to March 2019 | 230,026 (est.) | 56,816,351 | ¥31,248,993,050 ($360.4 million) | ¥550 |
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- ^ "印刷部数公表 (October 2018–December 2018)" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
External links[]
- V-Jump WEB (in Japanese)
- V-Jump Books website (in Japanese)
- Shueisha Web Information official site (in Japanese)
- s-manga.net : V Jump (in Japanese)
- 1993 establishments in Japan
- Anime magazines published in Japan
- Magazines established in 1993
- Magazines published in Tokyo
- Monthly manga magazines published in Japan
- Shueisha magazines
- Video game magazines published in Japan
- Shōnen manga magazines