Shonen Jump



Weekly Shonen Jump is a weekly magazine. Commonly referred to as "Weekly Jump", it contains many popular manga titles, with a chapter and some color spreads each week. There are many other weekly magazines featuring manga, all published by Shueisha, including Young Jump and Monthly Jump.

The Term Shonen
Shonen is a Japanese word commonly used to refer to teenage and pre-teen boys, which is Shonen Jump's main demographic, although a large minority of readers are actually young girls around the same age.

Manga
Weekly Shonen Jump publishes a chapter of each manga featured each week on Monday (occasionally Saturday when the printing schedule is affected by holidays). Many of these manga are very popular, and commonly become anime, some even going on to be large, popular anime series, such as One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Toriko, Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Rorouni Kenshin. Scanlators usually scan these by about Thursday in the U.S. Paper quality is not too good in Weekly Shonen Jump, usually being a yellowish color. Often manga are released in tankobon volumes with higher quality printing material.

Shonen Jump
Over One Piece's run in Shonen Jump, it has been featured on a number of covers over the years.

Shonen Jump Heroes
Covers that feature One Piece characters with other heroes from the magazine.

Trivia

 * To commemorate the series 20th anniversary being published in Shonen Jump magazine, the 33rd issue of the 2017 (that was released on the anniversary) used the same Luffy from the 34th issue of 1997 (that Chapter 1 was released on).
 * Some manga chapters that were released in the 2017 33rd issue had a Straw Hat featured somewhere in its story.
 * To commemorate the magazine 50th year of publication, the Shonen Jump logo was featured in every manga chapter released on the 34th issue of 2018.

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