Super Jump
Encyclopedia
, is a biweekly manga
anthology published by Shueisha
under the Jump
line of magazines. Released in Japan on December 20, 1986, the magazine provides serialized chapters of various seinen
manga series. The manga series are published under the Jump Comics Deluxe imprint.
(WJ) on December 20, 1986. It later got split into its own independent bi-monthly manga anthology. It is primarily drama
manga and is intended for young adult males in their early years of college. Super Jump manga artists
are normally Shōnen
artists from Weekly Jump, or are supported by another shōnen magazine. Some Weekly Jump series have moved with Super Jump's split, due to their higher age level (e.g. Cobra).
Very rarely Weekly Jump hands a series over to Weekly Young Jump
. If it is, the manga has a much more mature audience. Shueisha
(publisher of Super Jump and other Jump anthologies) is worried that if too much of the series are moved, the younger fans would be corrupted by the older, more mature series (also an issue with other major Japanese publishing companies). Business Jump
, Ultra Jump
, etc. are restricted from having Weekly Jump series moved into their anthologies.
On December 11, 1988 Super Jump made the special anthology; . The "Oh" in Oh Super Jump stands for "Otaku
" (the name for an established anime
and manga fan). Some series from the offshoot have also been moved to the main magazine in 2007.
, a name for an established anime
and manga fan.
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
anthology published by Shueisha
Shueisha
is a major publisher in Japan. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The following year, Shueisha became a separate, independent company. Magazines published by Shueisha include Weekly Shōnen Jump, Weekly Young Jump,...
under the Jump
Jump (magazine line)
sometimes stylized JUMP, is a famous line of manga magazines created by Shueisha. The origin of the name is unknown. The Jump magazines are intended for the male audience, although the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine has also been popular to the female demographic.- History :In 1949, Shueisha got into...
line of magazines. Released in Japan on December 20, 1986, the magazine provides serialized chapters of various seinen
Seinen
is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at a 20–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be older with some manga aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men" and is not suggestive of sexual matters...
manga series. The manga series are published under the Jump Comics Deluxe imprint.
History
The magazine started as a special issue of Weekly Shōnen JumpWeekly Shonen Jump
is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...
(WJ) on December 20, 1986. It later got split into its own independent bi-monthly manga anthology. It is primarily drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
manga and is intended for young adult males in their early years of college. Super Jump manga artists
Mangaka
is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...
are normally Shōnen
Shonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...
artists from Weekly Jump, or are supported by another shōnen magazine. Some Weekly Jump series have moved with Super Jump's split, due to their higher age level (e.g. Cobra).
Very rarely Weekly Jump hands a series over to Weekly Young Jump
Weekly Young Jump
, launched in 1979, is a weekly Japanese magazine that publishes various seinen manga in each issue. It is published by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines.- History :...
. If it is, the manga has a much more mature audience. Shueisha
Shueisha
is a major publisher in Japan. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The following year, Shueisha became a separate, independent company. Magazines published by Shueisha include Weekly Shōnen Jump, Weekly Young Jump,...
(publisher of Super Jump and other Jump anthologies) is worried that if too much of the series are moved, the younger fans would be corrupted by the older, more mature series (also an issue with other major Japanese publishing companies). Business Jump
Business Jump
, is a Japanese seinen manga anthology published by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. It publishes various Seinen manga series in Japan. The manga of Business Jump are published under the "Young Jump Comics" line.- History :...
, Ultra Jump
Ultra Jump
is a Japanese monthly seinen manga magazine published by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. Originally, the magazine was a special issue of Weekly Young Jump which first issued in 1995. On October 19 of 1999, the special issue became the new monthly publication Ultra Jump...
, etc. are restricted from having Weekly Jump series moved into their anthologies.
On December 11, 1988 Super Jump made the special anthology; . The "Oh" in Oh Super Jump stands for "Otaku
Otaku
is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga or video games.- Etymology :Otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another's house or family , which is also used as an honorific second-person pronoun...
" (the name for an established anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
and manga fan). Some series from the offshoot have also been moved to the main magazine in 2007.
Oh Super Jump
is an off-shoot of the leading magazine, Super Jump. Oh Super Jump started as a special issue of the main manga magazine Super Jump on January 2004. After 2004 the magazine became a monthly publication, with many serializations. Although the magazine became a monthly it still has many one-shots in addition to the main series. The "Oh" in Oh Super Jump stands for OtakuOtaku
is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga or video games.- Etymology :Otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another's house or family , which is also used as an honorific second-person pronoun...
, a name for an established anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
and manga fan.
Current series
| Title | Began | Ended | Author/Illustrator |
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| 2001 | Akira Miyashita | ||
| 2009 | Current | Kyō Hatsuki | |
| 2008 | Current | Hikari Hayakawa, Kokura Hashimoto | |
| 2008 | Current | Ton Ōgawara | |
| 2009 | Current | Yua Kotegawa | |
| 2010 | Current | Hiroyuki Shouji | |
| 2000 | Current | Motoka Murakami | |
| 1991 | Current | Ai Eishi, Katsura Satomi | |
| 2010 | Current | Kenichi Kotani | |
| Yasutaka Togashi | |||
| 2010 | Current | Makoto Samejima | |
| Hidebu Takahashi | |||
| 2008 | Current | Yūji Kitamura | |
| 2008 | Current | Hiroshi Hoshino | |
| 2008 | Current | Masaya Tokuhiro Masaya Tokuhiro is a Japanese manga artist working for various magazines within the Shueisha lines, including Weekly Shōnen Jump and Super Jump. Born in Ōtoyo in the prefecture of Kōchi on March 1, 1959, he originally got notice from a placing entry in the 17th Akatsuka Award for his story in 1982... |
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| Shō Kitagawa | |||
| Takeshi Wakasha | |||
| Shō Makura, Takeshi Okano |
Former series
| Title | Began | Ended | Author/Illustrator |
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| 1993 | 1994 | Masami Kurumada Masami Kurumada is a Japanese manga artist and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and/or mahō shōnen. He is famous as the creator/author of popular manga, such as Ring ni Kakero, Fūma no Kojirō, Saint Seiya and B't X. His male protagonists are a reflection of the classical and... |
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| Shinji Hiramatsu | |||
| 2004 | 2009 | Araki Shiro, Takeshi Nagatomo | |
| Masatoshi Usune | |||
| Hikari Hayakawa, Kokura Hashimoto | |||
| Onisoto Fukunai, Washan Yamane | |||
| Sachiji Takahashi | |||
| 2003 | 2006 | Baku Yumemakura Baku Yumemakura is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer. He is best known for writing Jōgen no Tsuki wo Taberu Shishi , which won both the Seiun Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award... , Satoshi Noguchi |
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| Yasuhiro Nakanishi | |||
| Yoshinobu Yamaguchi | |||
| Tsukasa Yamaguchi | |||
| Yasuhiro Nakanishi | |||
| Buichi Terasawa Buichi Terasawa is a Japanese manga artist. His most famous works include Goku Midnight Eye and Cobra.In the early days of his career when he was still unknown, he contributed materials of comics to a magazine that won him a prize, an event that led him into the world of comics.In 1976, he came to Tokyo and began... |
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| Buichi Terasawa Buichi Terasawa is a Japanese manga artist. His most famous works include Goku Midnight Eye and Cobra.In the early days of his career when he was still unknown, he contributed materials of comics to a magazine that won him a prize, an event that led him into the world of comics.In 1976, he came to Tokyo and began... |
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| Jun Tomizawa | |||
| Tei Ogata | |||
| Masaya Tokuhiro | |||
| Yū Terashima, Hiroshi Koizumi | |||
| Makoto Īshoku | |||
| Yoshihiro Takahashi | |||
| Ryō Kuraka, Manabu Narita | |||
| Ryōka Shū, Satoru Mori | |||
| Kengo Kaji, Hijiri Kisaki | |||
| 1995 | 2002 | Buichi Terasawa Buichi Terasawa is a Japanese manga artist. His most famous works include Goku Midnight Eye and Cobra.In the early days of his career when he was still unknown, he contributed materials of comics to a magazine that won him a prize, an event that led him into the world of comics.In 1976, he came to Tokyo and began... |
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| 1992 | 1997 | Tatsuya Egawa Tatsuya Egawa is a Japanese manga artist and film director who was born in the Aichi Prefecture of Nagoya, Japan. He has a degree in applied mathematics and taught college mathematics for five months before switching to manga as a career in 1984. He studied under the prolific manga artist Hiroshi Motomiya for... |
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| Kanrai Kō-samurai | |||
| Ryōka Shū, Yasuteru Iwata | |||
| Hirohiko Araki Hirohiko Araki is a Japanese manga artist. He left school before graduating from Miyagi University of Education.Araki is best known for his long running series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump starting in 1987. The story is full of references to Western music and Italy, both of which... |
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| Kazuma, Itokatsu | |||
| Masaya Tokuhiro | |||
| Kōichi Masuno | |||
| Ōmaru Takeshi, Shinji Imaizumi | |||
| Bakunin Watanabe | |||
| Kazuo Akasaka | |||
| Akira Miyashita | |||
| Kōnen Shimabukuro | |||
| Kokorozashi Motomiya | |||
| Izumi Matsumoto | |||
| Keīchi Itō | |||
| Ken'ichi Kotani | |||
| Ken'ichi Kotani | |||
| Tsunomaru Tsunomaru is a Japanese manga artist who writes mostly shōnen manga. He debuted in 1991 with , which received the Shōnen Weekly Jump newcomer's award. Tsunomaru is best known for the horse-racing comedy Midori no Makibaō, which was adapted as a 61-episode anime television series and received the 1997... |
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| Shin Yoshikawa | |||
| Baku Yumemakura, Hideaki Koyasu, Satoshi Noguchi | |||
| Masao Yajima, Takeshi Wakasa | |||
| Tanakajun | |||
| Masao Yajima, Funwari | |||
| Takeshi Wakasa | |||
| Gatsu Jōyubi, Aokitetsuo | |||
| Ayumu Nanase | |||
| Tsuyoshi Adachi | |||
| 2006 | 2007 | Yōzōrō Kanari, Yutaka Takahashi | |
| Keishi Edogawa, Yōji Ishiwatari | |||
| Masaya Tokuhiro | |||
| Masayuki Yamamoto | |||
| Hitoshi Kō, Shinji Imaizumi, Kisho | |||
| Shinji Hiramatsu | |||
| 2000 | 2002 | Shinji Hiramatsu | |
| Hisashi Tanaka | |||
| 2004 | 2004 | Takaji Yamasaki | |
| Kanrai Kō-samurai | |||
| Buronson, Tsuyoshi Adachi | |||
| Kōnen Shimabukuro | |||
| Baku Yumemakura, Yūko Umino | |||
| Hikari Hayakawa, Kokura Hashimoto | |||
| 2004 | 2004 | Motoei Shinzawa Motoei Shinzawa is a Japanese manga artist born June 10, 1958 in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.His debut manga was Sannen Kimen-gumi, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump beginning in 1980. After Sannen ended in 1982, he began publishing Highschool! Kimen-gumi, also in Weekly Shōnen Jump, until 1987... |
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| 2002 | 2002 | Buichi Terasawa Buichi Terasawa is a Japanese manga artist. His most famous works include Goku Midnight Eye and Cobra.In the early days of his career when he was still unknown, he contributed materials of comics to a magazine that won him a prize, an event that led him into the world of comics.In 1976, he came to Tokyo and began... |
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| 2002 | 2002 | ||
| 2001 | 2002 | Aieishi, Katsura Satomi | |
| 2000 | 2009 | Masami Kurumada Masami Kurumada is a Japanese manga artist and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and/or mahō shōnen. He is famous as the creator/author of popular manga, such as Ring ni Kakero, Fūma no Kojirō, Saint Seiya and B't X. His male protagonists are a reflection of the classical and... |
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| Ken'ichi Kotani | |||
| Bō Mitaki | |||
| Tsukasa Yamaguchi | |||
| 2007 | Hiroyuki Tamakoshi | ||
| 2006 | Bakunin Watanabe | ||
| Aki Katsu | |||
| 2008 | Takeshi Takahashi | ||
| 2007 | Ryō Kuraka, Kaoru Tsukishima | ||
| 2008 | Kichirō Nabeta, Yasuteru Iwata | ||
| 2008 | Hiroshi Hashimoto, Kensaku Watanabe, Kumichi Yoshiduki |