Grand Jump
 | |
| Categories | Seinen manga[1][2] |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Semi-monthly |
| Circulation |
181,667[2] (July-September, 2016) |
| 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.[3]
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.[4]
Targeted at "liberated adults,"[5] 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.
Features
Series from Grand Jump
There are currently twenty-two manga titles being regularly serialized in Grand Jump.
| Series Title | Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Captain Tsubasa Rising Sun (キャプテン翼 ライジングサン) | Yōichi Takahashi | February 2014 |
| Champagne (シャンパーニュ) | Araki Jō, Kenji Nagatomo | April 2018 |
| Ex-Arm (エクスアーム) | HiRock, Shinya Komi | February 2015 |
| Funōhan (不能犯) | Shin Miyatsuki, Yūya Kanzaki | May 2013 |
| Furin Shokudō (不倫食堂) | Masakazu Yamaguchi | April 2016 |
| Innocent Rouge (イノサン Rouge) | Shinichi Sakamoto | May 2015 |
| Itaryman Navi〜Dobugawa Shōji Shain Meibo〜 (痛リーマンnavi〜ドブ川商事社員名簿〜) | Hikaru Tanaka | April 2016 |
| Itsuka Moterukana (いつかモテるかな) | Yoshitani | January 2016 |
| Jigoku Sensei Nūūbēē Neo (地獄先生ぬ〜べ〜NEO) | Shō Makura, Takeshi Okano | August 2014 |
| Kōun Ryūsui 〈Jofuku〉 (こううんりゅうすい〈徐福〉) | Hiroshi Motomiya | January 2017 |
| Kurogane-Kai (黒鉄・改 KUROGANE-KAI) | Kei Tōme | February 2017 |
| Matataki no Sonya (瞬きのソーニャ) | Hikaru Yuzuki | August 2012 |
| Noise (ノイズ) | Tsutsui Tetsuya | December 2017 |
| Ōsama no Shitateya〜Fiori di Girasole〜 (王様の仕立て屋〜フィオリ・ディ・ジラソーレ〜) | Ton Ohkawara, Heita Katase | March 2016 |
| Otona no Ensoku (おとなのえんそく) | Kōsuke Fujishima | November 2011 |
| 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 |
| Takeda Yakuin Taigū (竹田役員待遇) | Yasutaka Togashi | November 2011 |
| Sundome!! Milky Way (すんどめ!!ミルキーウェイ) | Kazuki Funatsu | June 2016 |
| 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 Premium
There are currently six manga titles being regularly serialized in Grand Jump Premium.
| Series Title | Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| Bartender 6stp (バーテンダー 6stp) | Araki Jō, Osamu Kajisa | August 2016 |
| Dechau! (でちゃう!) | Haruki | August 2015 |
| Reibaishi Izuna Ascension (霊媒師いずな Ascension) | Shō Makura, Takeshi Okano | August 2014 |
| Soshite Boku wa Gedou-man ni Naru (そしてボクは外道マンになる) | Shinji Hiramatsu | April 2016 |
| The Naniwa Kinyū-dō (ザ・ナニワ金融道) | Aoki Yūji Production | December 2016 |
References
- ↑ "Shueisha to Launch, Relaunch 3 Manga Mags in 2011-2012". Anime News Network. 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
- 1 2 "Men's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- ↑ "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.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)