Jiya (Manga)

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Jiya
Jiya first chapter title page spread from the 2010 #2/3 issue of Weekly Young Jump
ジヤ Jiya
Author	Akira Toriyama, Masakazu Katsura
Publisher	Shueisha (JP)
Publication	Weekly Young Jump
Demographic	Seinen
Manga Series
Original Run	Weekly Young Jump 2010 #2/3, #4/5, #6 (10 December 2009 - 07 January 2010)
Chapters	3

Jiya is a three-chapter manga series by Akira Toriyama and Masakazu Katsura which originally ran in winter 2009-2010 in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine. Jiya marks the second entry in the authors' "Galactic Patrol" series, and Toriyama's first appearance in Weekly Young Jump.

Synopsis

Cover of the 2010 No. 2/3 issue of Weekly Young Jump featuring Jiya chapter 1

Galactic Patrolman Jiya arrives on Earth in search of his missing colleague Stece, but quickly finds himself fighting against alien interloper Vampa and his army of giant fleas, to say nothing of meddling in the affairs of two ordinary humans, spoiled rich girl Kaede Beniya and her put-upon valet Yukio Kyūmonji.

Characters

Major Characters

• Jiya (ジヤ Jiya): TBD
• Stece (ステス Sutesu): TBD
• Kaede Beniya (紅谷楓 Kaede Beniya): TBD
• Yukio Kyūmonji (九文字幸男 Yukio Kyūmonji): TBD
• Vamp (バンパ Banpa): TBD

Supporting Characters

• TBD

Miscellaneous

• TBD

Production

Jump SQ editor-in-chief Masahiko Ibaraki had expressed interest in having Akira Toriyama develop a work to be drawn with and for Masakazu Katsura, a manga author himself and longtime friend of Toriyama's. Toriyama called Katsura in the middle of the night to share the news that they would be collaborating, which Katsura thought to be a joke considering he was already serialized with ZETMAN in Weekly Young Jump. The resulting work, Sachie-chan GOOD!!, served as the proper debut work in the "Galactic Patrol" series. At the time of its publication in early 2008, Toriyama felt that there was more to be done with the story, and that it perhaps could have been a short-term serial of about 100 pages. Katsura noted that Toriyama took a liking to the Galactic Patrol designs, and that Toriyama could write something in connection with it.

For the duo's follow-up, the reverse situation occurred, with Katsura's editor at Weekly Young Jump requesting a collaboration for said magazine. Toriyama already had an idea for a "dark hero" in mind, and upon request from Katsura, agreed to return the favor. Toriyama fretted over his work from the very first chapter, with Katsura surprised that what was being produced was not actually as dark as Toriyama had indicated, requesting that he make it "dirtier". Toriyama worked on the storyboards, with Katsura providing the final art; while Katsura had wanted to do the more deformed style in Sachie-chan GOOD!, Toriyama requested that Jiya be more like how Katsura drew his Wingman series, which itself was not quite as realistic as his ZETMAN series. Despite the increasing page count as the duo worked, Katsura kept looking to toss out Toriyama's favorite "throwaway scenes", which he found the most fun to draw. In the battle scenes at the end of the series, Toriyama's initial storyboards placed the fight in the mountains (as if often the case in Dragon Ball); since Katsura's team was more used to drawing cityscapes, they adapted this scenario, even though what ultimately made its way to the page had little movement in the actual battle itself. The duo intended the series to be a one-shot, but the increasing page count led to it being split into three chapters, further resulting in Weekly Young Jump advertising it with phrases such as "super-deluxe concentrated serial!" and "new series!"

Chapters

Cover of the 2010 No. 7 issue of Weekly Young Jump featuring an interview with Akira Toriyama and Masakazu Katsura regarding Jiya

Main article: List of Jiya Chapters

All three chapter of Jiya were published sequentially in Weekly Young Jump.

#	Chapter Title	Issue Date	Sale Date
1	Chapter 1: Journey with an Alien	Weekly Young Jump, 2010 No. 2/3	10 December 2009
2	Chapter 2: Attack of an Alien	Weekly Young Jump, 2010 No. 4/5	24 December 2009
3	Chapter 3: Justice of an Alien	Weekly Young Jump, 2010 No. 6	07 January 2010

A "Super-Deluxe Talk" interview with both Toriyama and Katsura was published the following Weekly Young Jump issue (2010 No. 7).

Releases

Cover of the Katsura Akira volume featuring a reprint of Jiya

Jiya was reprinted in full within the Katsura Akira (カツラアキラ katsuraakira) tankōbon-sized volume released 04 April 2014 in Japan, compiling both Sachie-chan GOOD!! and Jiya.

Piracy groups "TBD!" and "TBD" released "scanlations" of Jiya in TBD.

Jiya has not received an official English translation/release.

Legacy

An unused storyboard from the early production of Jiya as shared in the 2010 No. 7 issue of Weekly Young Jump's "Toriyama x Katsura" interview and feature article

Example of a Galactic Patroman design from the Dragon Ball Super manga similar to the original design from Sachie-chan GOOD!! and subsequently used in Jiya.

Jaco the Galactic Patrolman was born out of an unused storyboard and plot used during the production of Jiya; compositions and even exact dialog from this unused storyboard were used as-is in the series' first chapter.

Toriyama and Toyotarō collaborated on the Galactic Patrol Prison arc of the Dragon Ball Super manga beginning in 2018, which continued to expand upon the lore of the Galactic Patrol within the context of the Dragon Ball franchise. Designs similar to Jiya and the original Galactic Patrolmen in Sachie-chan can be seen in this run.

Notes

Each issue of Weekly Young Jump includes comments from that issue's respective authors. Comments to be added

重い腰を上げての漫画だったが原作ってこともあって楽しかった！

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I finally got up off my backside to do a comic, but being just the script and all, it was fun!
— Akira Toriyama

Masakazu Katsura also provided a comment the same issue:

疲れた！でも鳥山さんのお話は楽しく描けて、幸せな気分でした。

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I'm exhausted! But I had fun drawing Toriyama-san's story, and that made me happy.!
— Masakazu Katsura

External Links

• TBD