is a Japanese shōnen

manga magazine are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics an ...

, focusing on

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

as well as video games based on popular manga. The magazine's debut was in 1990 by

Shueisha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Shueisha is the largest publishing company in Japan. It was established in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The ...

under the ''

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'' line of magazines.

History

In the early 1990s,

directed ''

Weekly Shōnen Jump is a weekly Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump (magazine line), Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many Action (fiction), action scenes and a fair ...

'' editor

Kazuhiko Torishima is a Japanese publishing executive and former manga magazine editor, who is currently serving as an outside director at Bushiroad. He formerly worked at Shueisha, where he began as an editor in 1976, before becoming a senior managing director ( ...

to create ''V Jump'' as a children's magazine to compete with

Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of comics, magazines, light novels, dictionaries, literature, non-fiction, home media, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but ...

's ''

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''. 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. 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. 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. 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. Torishima left ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' to re-launch ''V Jump'' in 1992, and serve as its editor-in-chief. He also changed the meaning of the "V" in its title from "Victory", derived from the

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, to "Virtual".

Akira Toriyama was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He came to be regarded as one of the most influential and important authors in the history of manga, authoring highly influential and popular series, particularly Dragon Ball (manga), ''Dra ...

designed the magazine's mascot character , who was named via a reader poll. 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 ''

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'' and ''

Boruto is a Japanese manga series written by Ukyō Kodachi and Masashi Kishimoto, and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto. It is a spin-off and a sequel to the manga series ''Naruto'' by Kishimoto, and follows the exploits of Naruto Uzumaki's son ...

''. Original manga serialized in the magazine include ''

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'' by

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and ''

Go! Go! Ackman is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was published irregularly in ''V Jump'' for 11 chapters from July 1993 to October 1994. ''Go! Go! Ackman'' is a humorous series about a demon child named Ackman w ...

'' by Toriyama. In November 2020, comedian

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was officially appointed an editor of ''V Jump''.

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

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. 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

Most of the manga serialized in ''V Jump'' are spin-offs of popular ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' titles or adaptations of video games and anime

Series

There are currently nine manga titles being regularly serialized in ''V Jump''.

Former series

*'' The Brief Return of Dr. Slump'' *'' Combustible Campus Guardress'' *'' Boruto: Naruto Next Generations'' *''

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'' *'' Digimon Next'' *''

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'' *'' Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock'' *'' Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission'' *'' Dragon Quest: Souten no Soura'' *'' Dragon Quest Treasures: Another Adventure Fadora no Takarajima'' *'' Dub & Peter 1'' *'' Gaist Crusher First'' *''

'' *''

Haō Taikei Ryū Knight is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Itō. It was originally published monthly in the Shueisha magazine '' V-Jump'' starting in 1993. A 52-episode anime television adaptation of the series was produced by Sunris ...

'' *'' Kinnikuman II-Sei: All Chōjin Dai Shingeki'' *''

Onmyō Taisenki is a Japanese mixed-media project developed by and Bandai. A manga series, scripted by Yoshihiko Tomizawa and illustrated by Hiroyuki Kaidō, was serialized in Shueisha's '' V Jump'' magazine from November 2003 to December 2005, with its ...

'' *''

Saint Seiya , also known as ''Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac'' or simply ''Knights of the Zodiac'' (translated from the French title ''Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque''), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. It ...

'' (last chapter only) *''

'' *'' Slime MoriMori'' *''

Soldier of Savings Cashman is a Japanese manga anthology consisting of three ''tankōbon'' volumes released between 1983 and 1997 that collect several one-shots written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. The stories were originally published in various Shueisha magazi ...

'' *''

Viewtiful Joe is a side scrolling beat 'em up video game franchise created by Japanese game designer Hideki Kamiya. It is primarily developed and published by Capcom and its subsidiary Clover Studio. Games ''Viewtiful Joe'' (2003) The first game in the ...

'' *''

Yu-Gi-Oh! R is a Japanese manga series written by Akira Itō, based on Kazuki Takahashi's ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' manga. The series, which is a spin-off to the original manga, was serialized in Shueisha's ''V Jump'' magazine between April 2004 and December 2007 ...

'' *''

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's is the second main spin-off of the ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' franchise, succeeding ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX'', in celebration of the 40th anniversary of ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and the 15th anniversary of '' V Jump''. The series aired from April 2008 to March ...

'' *''

Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal , stylized as Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, is a Japanese manga and anime series and the third spin-off of the ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' franchise, after the preceding ''Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's''. The manga began serialization in Shueisha's ''V Jump'' magazine from Decem ...

'' *''

Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V , stylized as ''Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V'', is a Japanese anime series animated by Gallop. It is the fourth spin-off anime series in the ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' franchise following ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal''. The series aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 6, 2014 ...

'' *''

Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens , stylized as Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENƧ, is a Japanese anime series animated by Bridge that aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 4, 2020, to March 27, 2022. It is the sixth spin-off anime series in the ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' franchise, following ''Yu-Gi-O ...

'' *'' Z/X: Code Reunion''

Circulation

References

External links

''V Jump'' Web

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