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magazine which was published monthly in Japan by

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from 1970 to 2007 under the ''

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'' line of magazines. It was the sister magazine to '' Weekly Shōnen Jump''.

History

The ''Monthly Shōnen Jump'' magazine started as a spin-off issue of ''Weekly Jump'' called ''Bessatsu Shōnen Jump''. The second spin-off issue was called ''Monthly Shōnen Jump'', which caught on and became its own separate independent manga magazine.

Shōnen manga is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent boys. It is, along with manga (targeting adolescent girls and young women), manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and manga (targeting adult women), ...

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. An off-shoot, ''Hobby's Jump'', was published for 16 issues from 1983 to 1988. 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 ''

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'', '' Rosario + Vampire'', and ''

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from Shueisha.

List of titles

Titles 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

* Rosario + Vampire * Claymore☆ *

☆ * Sheisen no Shachi *

* Passacaglia Op.7 *Étoile * Blue Dragon ST * Buttobi Itto * Kurohime *Mr. Perfect * DohRan * Surebrec -Nora the 2nd- * Kuroi Love Letter *

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** Go Ahead * Shotaro Ishinomori **

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★☆ * Takayuki Mizushina ** Uwa no Sora Chūihō *

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** Guts Ranpei * Motoki Monma ** Kattobi Itto * Go Nagai ** Kekko Kamen ** Maboroshi Panty (written by

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** I Saw It (published in America by EduComics) * Tarō Nami & Hiroshi Takahashi ** Eleven * Riku Sanjo & Koji Inada **''

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* Kikuhide Tani & Yoshihiro Kuroiwa **

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* Osamu Tezuka ** Astro Boy **

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**'' Claymore'' ★☆ * Katakura Masanori **'' Kurohime''★☆

Circulation

References

External links

Monthly Jump Web
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