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is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump'' line of magazines. It is the best-selling manga magazine, as well as one of the longest-running; the first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968. The manga series within the magazine target young male readers and tend to consist of a large number of action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of series that run in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' are collected and published in ''tankōbon'' volumes under the "Jump Comics" imprint every two to three months. The mid-1980s to the mid-1990s represents the era when the magazine's circulation was at its highest (6.53 million), and is referred to as the "Golden Age of ''Jump''. However, since then it has experienced a drastic decline and had a circulation of 2.4 million copies in early 2015. ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' has two sister magazines called ''Jump SQ'', created after the fall of ''Monthly Shōnen Jump'', and ''Saikyō Jump''. The magazine has also had several international counterparts, including the current North American ''Weekly Shonen Jump''. == History == ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' was launched by Shueisha on July 2, 1968 to compete with the already-successful ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' and ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday''. ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''s sister publication was a manga magazine called ''Shōnen Book'', which was originally a male version of the short-lived ''shōjo'' manga anthology ''Shōjo Book''. Prior to issue 20, ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' was originally called simply ''Shōnen Jump'' as it was originally a semi-weekly magazine. In 1969, ''Shōnen Book'' ceased publication at which time ''Shōnen Jump'' became a weekly magazine〔 and a new monthly magazine called ''Bessatsu Shōnen Jump'' was made to take ''Shōnen Book''s place. This magazine was later rebranded as ''Monthly Shōnen Jump'' before eventually being discontinued and replaced by ''Jump SQ''. ''Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden'', released in 1988 for the Family Computer was produced to commemorate the magazine's 20th anniversary. It was followed by a sequel: ''Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin'' in 1991, also for the Family Computer. In 2000, two more games were created for the purpose of commemorating the magazine's anniversaries. A crossover fighting game titled ''Jump Super Stars'' was released for the Nintendo DS in 2005. It was followed by ''Jump Ultimate Stars'' in 2006. A new crossover game, ''J-Stars Victory Vs.'', was released in 2014 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita to commemorate Jump's 45 anniversary. At its highest point in the mid-1990s, ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' had a regular circulation of over 6 million. In recent years, its circulation has been less than three million. Due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the shipment of the 15th issue of 2011 was delayed in some areas of Japan. In response, Shueisha published the series included in that issue for free on its website from March 23 to April 27. On July 11, 2013, the Namco Bandai Group opened an amusement park themed around ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' series. Titled J-World Tokyo, it is located on the third floor of the Sunshine City World Import Mart Building in Ikebukuro and is 1.52 acres. In celebration of the magazine's 45th anniversary in 2013, Shueisha began a contest where anyone can submit manga in three different languages, Japanese, English and Chinese. Judged by the magazine's editorial department, four awards will be given, a grand prize and one for each language, each including 500,000 yen (about US$4,900) and guaranteed publication in either ''Jump'', its special editions, North American edition, China's ''OK! Comic'', or Taiwan's ''Formosa Youth''. A mobile phone app titled "Jump Live" was launched in August 2013, it features exclusive content from the artists whose series run in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weekly Shōnen Jump」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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