Shonen Jump Question (Weekly vs Monthly)

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:02 pm

Is it a weekly magazine in Japan? Cause in the Pioneer movie versions, they mention "Weekly" Shonen Jump in the credits.

Chibi Mystic Gohan · Post by **Chibi Mystic Gohan** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:03 pm

Yeah, but there is a monthly one also.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:04 pm

I'm pretty sure there's a weekly and a monthly version. The main version is Weekly.

Post by **SaiyaJedi** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:22 pm

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:Is it a weekly magazine in Japan? Cause in the Pioneer movie versions, they mention "Weekly" Shonen Jump in the credits.

There's Weekly Jump (aimed at late childhood-adolescent males), Monthly Jump (same audience, but monthly), V-Jump (with videogame info!), Ultra Jump (aimed at young men), Business Jump (aimed at businessmen, I guess), and Young Jump (full of scantily-clad models, so you can figure that out for yourself

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Heritic · Post by **Heritic** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:49 pm

SaiyaJedi wrote:Business Jump (aimed at businessmen, I guess)

Haha, I can see it now, a manga about Donald Trump and his exploits.

Frobman · Post by **Frobman** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:39 pm

The V-Jump has video game stuff, posters, cards, Viewtiful Joe, Yu-Gi-Oh! R, and more. Comes out monthly.

The S · Post by **The S** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:53 am

V-Jump is my fave. But I haven't gotten it in almost a year.

But I hope they don't have a Weekly Jump over here. It would get too costly.

DBW · Post by **DBW** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:03 am

The S wrote:But I hope they don't have a Weekly Jump over here. It would get too costly.

I doubt it. The monthly version can barely survive as it is, let alone a weekly version.

Chibi Mystic Gohan · Post by **Chibi Mystic Gohan** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:41 am

DBW wrote:
The S wrote:But I hope they don't have a Weekly Jump over here. It would get too costly.
I doubt it. The monthly version can barely survive as it is, let alone a weekly version.

Are sales bad or something?

'lo Legends · Post by **'lo Legends** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:32 am

The thing is, in Japan, ALL of the kids read Weekly Jump. And when I mean all of them...I mean all of them. I've heard that hundreds of thousands of copies are sold every week.

American Jump simply cannot afford to go weekly.

Oh, and V-Jump is awesome. I would have to say that besides Famitsu, it is the best source for Japanese videogame information.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:58 am

Anyone else notice that the bottom pages of the American SJ are full of propaganda convincing you that graphic novels are better? Honestly, how do they expect to sell the magazine with all that crap on the bottom.

Post by **SaiyaJedi** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:03 pm

Sun_Wukong wrote:Anyone else notice that the bottom pages of the American SJ are full of propaganda convincing you that graphic novels are better? Honestly, how do they expect to sell the magazine with all that crap on the bottom.

It works in the Japanese version. If anything, the US version's ads are less intrusive.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:59 pm

Sun_Wukong wrote:Anyone else notice that the bottom pages of the American SJ are full of propaganda convincing you that graphic novels are better? Honestly, how do they expect to sell the magazine with all that crap on the bottom.

That is merely shameless self-promotion. Pioneer did that with Tenchi also.

DBW · Post by **DBW** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:12 pm

Sun_Wukong wrote:Anyone else notice that the bottom pages of the American SJ are full of propaganda convincing you that graphic novels are better?

I never got the point of advertising the novels, since they refuse to release the novels ahead of Jump magazine. Why would I want to buy the same chapters that I just finished reading in Jump?

Now if they were releasing the novels way ahead of Jump and just using the magazine as a promotional tool, that I could understand...

Heritic · Post by **Heritic** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:50 pm

DBW wrote:I never got the point of advertising the novels, since they refuse to release the novels ahead of Jump magazine. Why would I want to buy the same chapters that I just finished reading in Jump?

Yeah, it's just another marketing ploy. They know no one actually wants the Jump magazine. Most people would prefer the graphic novels but by adding in the long wait for the GNs, they leave you with no other choice but to buy Jump. That is unless you are willing to wait for the GNs, which just throws a monkey wrench in all of it.

Detective X · Post by **Detective X** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:45 am

It's not like it's killing us to pay $2.50 a month for the magazine (subscriber!)...

I draw a lot, and it helps to have the graphic novels ready when I need reference images to work with and all the internet takes me to is old Dragonball coloring pictures.

This sounds really shallow, but I just love seeing a bookshelf full of my graphic novels, too...

*PINHEAD* · Post by ***PINHEAD*** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:00 am

It's not just that Viz can't afford to publish Jump weekly. You have to factor in the time it takes to translate and stuff. Not to mention the number of series published in the magazine. There's about as much pages of manga published in Weekly Jump as in the English Shonen Jump. Viz fills up the space by using around three chapters of a few manga a month, rather than one chapter of a lot of series a week.
I actually like reading the monthly magazine over the graphic novels. Sure, the GN's are longer, but the magazine has more than one series, stupid advertisements (that for some strange reason I enjoy reading), and a larger size.

Pedro The Hutt · Post by **Pedro The Hutt** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:44 am

I find that those japanese are quite lucky with their manga magazines. XD *looks at his two copies of the japanese Weekly Jump on his shelf* Those things are the size of a phone book each!

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:17 pm

*PINHEAD* wrote:It's not just that Viz can't afford to publish Jump weekly. You have to factor in the time it takes to translate and stuff. Not to mention the number of series published in the magazine. There's about as much pages of manga published in Weekly Jump as in the English Shonen Jump. Viz fills up the space by using around three chapters of a few manga a month, rather than one chapter of a lot of series a week.
I actually like reading the monthly magazine over the graphic novels. Sure, the GN's are longer, but the magazine has more than one series, stupid advertisements (that for some strange reason I enjoy reading), and a larger size.

Like you I prefer the bigger size. That, and the fact that I can be a cheap bastard at times.

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