Grand Jump
Grand Jump (グランドジャンプ) is a Japanese semi-monthly seinen manga magazine published by Shueisha under their Jump line of magazines. Launched in November 2011 as a merging of Business Jump and Super Jump, it carried over nine series from the former and three from the latter in addition to beginning new titles.[4]
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| Categories | Seinen manga[1][2] |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Semi-monthly |
| Circulation | 170,000 (January–December 2018)[3] |
| First issue | November 16, 2011 |
| Company | Shueisha |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | Grand Jump |
History
In July 2011, Shueisha announced they would be merging their seinen manga magazines Business Jump and Super Jump into a single biweekly magazine that fall. They cited the "changing environment for seinen manga and the changing tastes of readers" as their reason for the decision.[5]
Targeted at "liberated adults,"[6] Grand Jump is published twice a month in a black and white saddle-stapled format, each issue running about 300 pages. The initial series at launch included 8 serializations carried over from Business Jump as well as 3 from Super Jump, with several new titles beginning. A monthly sister magazine called Grand Jump Premium (グランドジャンプPREMIUM) was also launched, serializing the remaining Business Jump and Super Jump series.
Certain manga, such as Amai Siekatsu and Uramiya Honpo Reboot, were rebranded as Amai Siekatsu: Second Season and Uramiya Honpo Revenge. A few titles, including Mankitsu and Kei Toume's Sing Yesterday for Me, only appear in the magazine monthly.
After appearing only in the first issue, cooking manga Dashi Master was put on indefinite hiatus as Shueisha began investigating claims that the manga had plagiarized images of food found on Google Images.
A recent sequel to Motomiya Hiroshi's Ore no Sora was also carried over from Business Jump, and ended in Grand Jump in early Spring of 2012. In early summer of the same year, the magazine began serializing another title of Hiroshi's, his fourth installment in the Otokogi series.
Starting around issue 13 of 2012, My Night is as Beautiful as your Noon, one of the series launched with the start of the magazine, was moved from the magazine to join a group of several titles serialized exclusively online through Grand Jump's website.
Grand Jump has published several oneshots, including two spinoffs of famed artist Go Nagai's Cutie Honey. It is also home to the latest series by renowned seinen manga artist Toshiki Yui, Saikin kono sekai wa watashi dali no mono ni narimashita.....
In February 2013, the magazine began moving several popular titles from Grand Jump Premium to Grand Jump. One Grand Jump series, Get Big Money, was moved to Premium. In 2018, Grand Jump Premium was rebranded as Grand Jump Mucha.[7]
Features
Series from Grand Jump
There are currently twenty manga titles being regularly serialized in Grand Jump.
| Series Title | Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| Adabana (徒花) | Non | March 2020 |
| Amai Seikatsu 2nd Season (甘い生活 2nd season) | Hikaru Yuzuki | November 2011 |
| Black Tiger (ブラックティガー) | Osamu Akimoto | December 2016 |
| Border66 | Yoichi Komori, Yu Todo | May 2019 |
| Captain Tsubasa Rising Sun (キャプテン翼 ライジングサン) | Yōichi Takahashi | February 2014 |
| Dr.Quench (Dr.クインチ) | Suzukawa Keiko | January 2019 |
| Draft King (ドラフトキング) | Kuromatsu Tetsuro | December 2018 |
| Furin Shokudō (不倫食堂) | Masakazu Yamaguchi | April 2016 |
| Kyoui Toma (侠医冬馬) | Motoka Murakami | September 2018 |
| Matataki no Sonya (瞬きのソーニャ) | Hikaru Yuzuki | August 2012 |
| Olympia Kyklos (オリンピア・キュクロス) | Mari Yamazaki | August 2018 |
| Play Ball 2 (プレイボール2) | Moritaka Yūji | April 2017 |
| Radiation House (ラジエーションハウス) | Tomohiro Yokomaku, Taishi Mori | November 2015 |
| Strike or Gutter (ストライク・オア・ガター) | Yuu Andou | August 2018 |
| Uramiya Honpo Worst (怨み屋本舗 WORST) | Shōshō Kurihara | June 2017 |
Online manga series
There is currently one manga title being regularly serializing through Grand Jump's official website.
| Series Title | Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| Otome no Teikoku (オトメの帝国) | Torajirō Kishi | November 2011 |
Series from Grand Jump Mucha
There are currently nine manga titles being regularly serialized in Grand Jump Mucha.
| Series Title | Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| A wo ni yoshi, sore mo yoshi (あをによし、それもよし) | Ishikawa Rose | November 2018 |
| Captain 2 (キャプテン2) | Moritaka Yūji | April 2019 |
| Dental Quest (デンタルクエスト) | Sekiatomu, Chizu Hashii | February 2020 |
| Ex-Arm Exa (エクスアームエクサ) | HiRock, Shinya Komi | August 2019 |
| Fools (フールズ) | Atsushi Saraike | January 2019 |
| Have a look at my H Resume (私のHな履歴書みてください) | Haruki | November 2018 |
| Koko wa ima kara Rinri desu (ここは今から倫理です。) | Shori Amase | October 2016 |
Series from Grand Jump Mecha
There are currently seven series being regularly serialized in Grand Jump Mecha.
| Series Title | Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| Ask (アスク) | Shindo Fuyuki, Tonzai | November 2018 |
| Have a look at my H Resume (私のHな履歴書みてください) | Haruki | November 2018 |
| Junai keiyaku ~tsuki 100 man de kawareta tsuma~ (純愛契約〜月100万で飼われた妻〜) | Masumi Senda | November 2019 |
| Kingyou Tsuma (金魚妻) | Kurosawa R | November 2018 |
| Reiko (レイコ) | Maya Miyazaki | November 2018 |
| Seeds of Eros (エロスの種子) | Akiko Monden | November 2018 |
References
- "Shueisha to Launch, Relaunch 3 Manga Mags in 2011-2012". Anime News Network. 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
- "Men's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- Hodgkins, Crystalyn (April 22, 2019). "Shueisha Reveals New Circulation Numbers, Demographics for its Manga Magazines". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- "Shueisha to Launch Monthly Grand Jump Premium Magazine". Anime News Network. 2011-10-11. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
- "Shueisha to Launch, Relaunch 3 Manga Mags in 2011-2012". Anime News Network. 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
- "Shueisha Starts Semi-Monthly Manga Mag for Grown-Ups". Anime News Network. 2011-09-18. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
- Pineda, Rafael Antonio (November 1, 2018). "Shueisha Launches 2 New Regular Grand Jump Sister Magazines". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)