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 Cover of the December 2024 issue, featuringDragon Ball Daima | |
| Editor-in-Chief | Daisuke Terashi |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Kazuhiko Torishima |
| Categories | Shōnenmanga andvideo games |
| Frequency | Monthly (since 1993) Semiannually (1990–1992) |
| Circulation | 147,000 (January–December 2021)[1] |
| Publisher | Shueisha |
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| Country | Japan |
| Based in | Tokyo |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | vjump.shueisha.co.jp |
V Jump (Japanese:Vジャンプ,Hepburn:Bui Janpu) is a Japaneseshōnenmanga magazine, focusing onmanga as well asvideo games based on popular manga. The magazine's debut was in 1990[2] byShueisha under theJump line of magazines.
In the early 1990s,Shueisha directedWeekly Shōnen Jump editorKazuhiko Torishima to createV Jump as a children's magazine to compete withShogakukan'sCoroCoro Comic. 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.[3][4] 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.[3] 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.[4][5] 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.[3][4] Torishima leftWeekly Shōnen Jump to re-launchV Jump in 1992, and serve as its editor-in-chief.[4][6] He also changed the meaning of the "V" in its title from "Victory", derived from theV sign, to "Virtual".[4]Akira Toriyama designed the magazine's mascot character V Dragon (V龍), who was named via a reader poll.[7]
Most of the manga serialized inV Jump are spin-offs of popularWeekly Shōnen Jump titles or adaptations of video games and anime. These includeYu-Gi-Oh! GX andBoruto. Original manga serialized in the magazine includeShadow Lady byMasakazu Katsura andGo! Go! Ackman by Toriyama. In November 2020, comedianKendo Kobayashi was officially appointed an editor ofV Jump.[8]
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 ofSquare 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.
Most of the manga serialized inV Jump are spin-offs of popularWeekly Shōnen Jump titles or adaptations of video games and anime
There are currently nine manga titles being regularly serialized inV Jump.
| Series title | Author(s) | Premiered | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boruto: Two Blue Vortex (BORUTO -ボルト- -TWO BLUE VORTEX-) | Mikio Ikemoto,Masashi Kishimoto | August 2023 | |
| Dragon Ball Super (ドラゴンボール超) | Akira Toriyama,Toyotarou | June 2015 | On hiatus |
| 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 | |
| Inu Mayuge de Ikō (犬マユゲでいこう) | Ishizuka 2 Yūko | July 1994 | |
| Metaphor: ReFantazio (メタファー：リファンタジオ) | Yoichi Amano,Atlus | January 2025 | |
| N E O Shindō no “Puro” Rōōogu!! (N・E・Oシンドーの“プロ”ローーーーグ!!) | Kasaiyūji, N E O Shindō | March 2024 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories (遊☆戯☆王OCGストーリーズ) | Naohito Miyoshi, Shin Yoshida | April 2022 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Structures (遊☆戯☆王OCGストラクチャーズ) | Masashi Sato | June 2019 |
| Year / Period | Monthly circulation | Magazine sales | Sales revenue (est.) | Issue price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1998 to August 2003 | 149,833[9] | 8,989,980 | ¥4,944,489,000 | ¥550 |
| September 2003 to August 2004 | 149,833[9] | 1,797,996 | ¥988,897,800 | |
| September 2004 to August 2005 | 178,334[9] | 2,140,008 | ¥1,177,004,400 | |
| September 2005 to September 2007 | 178,334[9] | 4,458,350 | ¥2,452,092,500 | |
| October 2007 to September 2008 | 366,667[10] | 4,400,004 | ¥2,420,002,200 | |
| October 2008 to September 2009 | 379,167[11] | 4,550,004 | ¥2,502,502,200 | |
| October 2009 to September 2010 | 391,667[12] | 4,700,004 | ¥2,585,002,200 | |
| October 2010 to September 2011 | 320,834[13] | 3,850,002 | ¥2,117,501,100 | |
| October 2011 to September 2012 | 302,500[14] | 3,630,000 | ¥1,996,500,000 | |
| October 2012 to September 2013 | 292,500[15] | 3,510,000 | ¥1,930,500,000 | |
| October 2013 to September 2014 | 252,500[16] | 3,030,000 | ¥1,666,500,000 | |
| October 2014 to September 2015 | 233,334[17] | 2,800,008 | ¥1,540,004,400 | |
| October 2015 to September 2016 | 258,333[18] | 3,099,996 | ¥1,704,997,800 | |
| October 2016 to September 2017 | 212,500[19] | 2,550,000 | ¥1,402,500,000 | |
| October 2017 to September 2018 | 187,500[20] | 2,250,000 | ¥1,237,500,000 | |
| October 2018 to March 2019 | 176,667[21] | 1,059,999 | ¥582,999,450 | |
| September 1998 to March 2019 | 230,026 (est.) | 56,816,351 | ¥31,248,993,050 ($360.2 million) | ¥550 |