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Also known as WSJ, Weekly Shonen Jump, Shonen Jump, Shounen Jump, Shōnen Jump, Weekly Shounen Jump

Japanese manga magazine

Key facts

Editor in chief
Yū Saitō
Former editors
Tadashi Nagano, Kazuhiko Torishima , Hisashi Sasaki
Categories
Shōnen manga
Frequency
Biweekly (1968–1969) Weekly (1969–present)
Circulation
1,004,167 (January – March 2026)
First issue
July 11, 1968 ; 57 years ago ( 1968-07-11 )
Company
Shueisha
Country
Japan
Based in
Tokyo
Language
Japanese
Website
Official website

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Encyclopedic overview

Weekly Shōnen Jump (Japanese: 週刊少年ジャンプ, Hepburn: Shūkan Shōnen Janpu; stylized in English as WEEKLY JUMP) is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. Chapters of the series that run in Weekly Shōnen Jump are collected and published in tankōbon volumes under the Jump Comics imprint every two to three months. It is one of the longest-running manga magazines, with the first issue being released on July 11, 1968.

The magazine has sold over 7.5 billion copies since 1968, making it the best-selling comic/manga magazine, ahead of competitors such as Weekly Shōnen Magazine and Weekly Shōnen Sunday. The mid-1980s to the mid-1990s represents the era when the magazine's circulation was at its highest, 6.53 million copies per week, with a total readership of 18 million people in Japan. Throughout 2021, it had an average circulation of over 1.3 million copies per week. Many of the best-selling manga series—including One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Slam Dunk, and KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops, all of which are among the top ten best-selling manga of all time—originate from Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Weekly Shōnen Jump” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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