Grand Jump
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| Categories | Seinen manga[1][2] |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Semi-monthly |
| Circulation | 122,000 (January–December 2021)[3] |
| First issue | November 16, 2011 |
| Company | Shueisha |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | 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]
History
[edit]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 Hiroshi Motomiya'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
[edit]Series from Grand Jump
[edit]There are currently 16 manga titles being regularly serialized in Grand Jump.
| Series Title | Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| Captain 2 (キャプテン2) | Moritaka Yūji | May 2021 |
| Dr.Quench (Dr.クインチ) | Suzukawa Keiko | January 2019 |
| Draft King (ドラフトキング) | Kuromatsu Tetsuro | December 2018 |
| #DRCL midnight children | Shin-ichi Sakamoto | January 2021 |
| Issho ni Kurashite Ii desu ka? (一緒に暮らしていいですか？) | Kei Sasuga | November 2023 |
| Jinbōchō de Kosho Kurashi (百木田家の古書暮らし) | Kei Toume | December 2021 |
| Kamo no Negi ni wa Doku ga Aru -Kamo Kyōju no "Ningen" Keizagaku Kōgi- (カモのネギには毒がある-加茂教授の"人間"経済学講義-) | Shinobu Kaitani, Takeshi Natsuhara | February 2022 |
| Kyoui Toma (侠医冬馬) | Motoka Murakami | September 2018 |
| Matataki no Sonya (瞬きのソーニャ) | Hikaru Yuzuki | August 2012 |
| Radiation House (ラジエーションハウス) | Tomohiro Yokomaku, Taishi Mori | November 2015 |
| Sora wo Matotte (空をまとって) | Komi Shinya | May 2023 |
| Torima Minshuku Yadori-teki na! (とりま民宿やどり的な!) | Andou Yuu | September 2023 |
| Uramiya Honpo Diablo (怨み屋本舗 DIABLO) | Shōshō Kurihara | August 2022 |
Series from Grand Jump Mucha
[edit]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 |
| Koko wa Ima kara Rinri Desu (ここは今から倫理です。) | Shori Amase | October 2016 |
| Seisai Gakuen (制裁学園) | Shōshō Kurihara | February 2020 |
| Watashi no Ecchina Rirekisho Mite Kudasai (私のHな履歴書みてください) | Haruki | November 2018 |
Series from Grand Jump Mecha
[edit]There are currently seven series being regularly serialized in Grand Jump Mecha.
| Series Title | Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Watashi no Ecchina Rirekisho Mite Kudasai (私のHな履歴書みてください) | Haruki | November 2018 |
References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "Shueisha Media Guide 2022" (PDF). Shueisha. May 7, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
- ^ "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
[edit]- Official website (in Japanese)