Ultra Jump

Ultra Jump
Ultra Jump, issue 11, 1999
Editor Ultra Jump's editorial department
Categories Seinen manga[1][2]
Frequency Quarterly (1995–1999)
Monthly (1999–present)
Circulation 43,000[2]
(July–September, 2016)
First issue

1995 (As a special issue in Weekly Young Jump)

October 19, 1999 (As a monthly magazine)
Company Shueisha
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Website http://ultra.shueisha.co.jp

Ultra Jump (Japanese: ウルトラジャンプ, Hepburn: Urutora Janpu) 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. The manga titles serialized in the magazine are also published in tankōbon volumes under the Young Jump Comics Ultra label.

History

Ultra Jump started as a special issue of the Seinen anthology Weekly Young Jump called "Young Jump: Ultra Special Issue: Ultra Jump", which first issued in 1995. The magazine was split to a monthly publication in 1999, simply called "Ultra Jump". On March 19, 2008, Ultra Jump released an online spin-off of the Ultra Jump magazine: "Young Jump: Ultra Special Issue: Ultra Jump" (ヤングジャンプ超増刊ウルトラジャンプ, Yangu Janpu Chō Zōkan Orutora Janpu ). Ultra Jump Egg is an online manga website that mainly serializes manga not in the original Ultra Jump magazine.[3]

Features

The manga carried are mostly fanservice-laden fantasy and science-fiction stories aimed at young adults. Shueisha's light novel line: "Super dash library", has close ties with the Ultra Jump magazine, as Ultra Jump supports the line by creating manga adaptions of the titles. (e.g. R.O.D) One-shots from manga writers are featured regularly and are called Special One-Shot (特別読切, Tokubetsu yomikiri ). Each issue include a special freebies featuring one or more series currently running in the magazine.

Series

Ongoing series

There are currently twenty-one manga titles being serialized in Ultra Jump. Out of twenty-one series, five series are currently in hiatus, and one series is serializing irregularly.

Title Illustrator/Author Premiered
Assassins Pride (アサシンズプライド) Kei Amagi, Yoshie Katō, Nino Ninomoto May 2017
Bastard‼ Ankoku no Hakaishin (BASTARD!! -暗黒の破壊神-) Kazushi Hagiwara October 1989
Connect (コネクト) Manatsu Suzuki December 2015
Dasei 67 Percent (惰性67パーセント) Shimimaru July 2014
Dogs / Bullets & Carnage (ドッグス / バレッツ・アンド・カーネイジ) Shirow Miwa July 2005
Gingitsune (ぎんぎつね) Sayori Ochiai June 2009
Ii Yu Dane! (いいゆだね!) Osamu Akimoto March 2017
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8 JoJolion (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Part8 ジョジョリオン) Hirohiko Araki May 2011
Jumbor (ユンボル -JUMBOR-) Hiroyuki Takei, Hiromasa Mikami August 2010
Kaijin Yōchien: Monster's Kindergarten (怪人ようちえん -monster's kindergarten-) Tetsuyarō Shinkaida August 2014
Lady & Oldman (レディ＆オールドマン) Natsume Ono October 2015
Levius/est (レビウス エスト) Haruhisa Nakata April 2015
Maōsama Chotto Sore Totte!! (魔王様ちょっとそれとって!!) Tomoya Haruno March 2016
Melancholia (メランコリア) Sayman Dowman January 2017
Moira (ミラ) Sound Horizon, Yukimaru Katsura December 2015
Mononogatari (もののがたり) Onigunsō January 2016
No Guns Life (ノー・ガンズ・ライフ) Tasuku Karasuma September 2014
Ōkoku Monogatari (王国物語) Asumiko Nakamura April 2017
Rozen Maiden 0 Zero (ローゼンメイデン0 -ゼロ-) Peach-Pit February 2016
Usagi-moku Shachiku-ka (ウサギ目社畜科) Kamiya Fujisawa July 2017
World's End Harem Fantasia (終末のハーレム ファンタジア) LINK, Savan April 2018

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jason Thompson (2007). Manga: The Complete Guide. Del Rey Books. p. xxiii-xxiv. ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8.
  2. 1 2 "Boy's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ultra Jump Egg Manga Mag Spinoff Launches Online - Anime News Network
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