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Interesting changes come for the 2011-2012 period as the leading Japanese publisher decided to merge Business Jump and Super Jump to create a new biweekly magazine aimed at seinen audiences, consisting of male workers in their 30's and 40's, those that were raised on the 80's generation of Weekly Shonen Jump.

The new title will continue serializing Ring ni Kakero 2, Jin and Gotakeshi.

As for the spinoff magazine Jump Kai, it will be relaunched as a periodical magazine.

Shueisha explained that it is making these changes in response to the changing environment for seinen manga and the changing tastes of readers.

Source: ANN

The new magazine will replace Young Jump and it will be the first manga publication with the concept of "pure manga magazine", that meaning one that is not pigeonholed to any age range or gender. More information will be available on May 26 through the web and other means.

The new publication will be named Miracle Jump and it will feature the following authors and titles:

Sakurako Gokurakuin (Sekirei),
Atsushi Nakayama (Traumeister),
Tohru Fujisawa (GTO),
Hiroya Oku (Gantz),
Kazuki Funatsu (Addicted to Curry),
Peach-Pit (Rozen Maiden),
Nakaba Suzuki (Kongoh Bancho),
Manta Aisora (Haiyoru! Nyaruko-san),

Most of them are on the genre of science-fiction and fantasy.

Source: ANN, Mainchi Shimbun's Mantan Web

US Shonen Jump, January 2011, in shelves now!

The Japanese Magazine Publishers Association showed today the latest chart pertaining to the top circulating manga magazines, taking the period between October 1, 2009 and September 30, 2010.

Weekly Shonen Jump by Shueisha definitely came on top with 2,876,459 million of readers, followed closely by Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine with 1,571,063, losing quite a bit from last year.

Coro Coro Comic Shogakukan 950,834

Monthly Shonen Magazine Kodansha 847,250

Weekly Shonen Sunday Shogakukan 678,917

Weekly Shonen Champion Akita Shoten 500,000

Jump Square magazine by Shueisha remains with a respectable 360,000, despite having great cult mangas such as Ultimo and Ao no exorcist.

In seinen mangas, Young Magazine by Kodansha is the absolute leader with 807,871

And Ciao mangazine by Shogakukan is the leader in shojo manga with 745,455 of estimated readers.

The author of Love Hina announced at a press conference this Monday  that the Japanese publishers Shueisha and Kodansha are collaborating with his manga distribution site, J-Comi.

J-Comi just launched as a beta version at the end of November with the release of Love Hina series on the 26th and so far it has registered more than 1.7 million downloads as of last Friday.

Akamatsu said at a press conference last Monday that "manga is an exportable resource. I think the ad-supported distribution of manga is the only way to counter illegal distribution."

This series by Kazue Kato, also known as Ao no Exorcist for manga readers, will have an anime adaptation for next year, while the manga will be licensed by Viz Media to come out in April for North America.

This was announced by the official site of Shueisha's Jump Square Magazine, which just uploaded the January cover of the magazine with this great news.

As we know, this is the story of Rin Okumura, a boy raised by a famous exorcist named Father Fujimoto. After an argument between the two, Rin discovers he is the son of Satan.

OMG!!!!! I'm excited!!!! I knew that this would happen sooner or later with the success that this series is having!!!!!


*hyperventilates then passes away*

awwwwww ^_^

This story by Naho Oishi will be based entirely in Son Goku, Krillin and his friends from Akira Toriyama's original story.

This spinoff, called Dragon Ball SD, will start to be serialized next month in the new Super Strong Jump Magazine by Shueisha, along with a Rock Lee spinoff from Naruto, a Chopperman spinoff from One Piece, and more stories based on popular characters from Katekyo Hitman Reborn! and Toriko.

Tha magazine will be launched on December 3rd!

What a great idea! Oh the nostalgia that this brings!!

The Managing Director of Shueisha publisher, Kazuhiko Torishima, announced yesterday in the Denshi Shoseki Comic Summit that there's a project in development called tentatively 'J Manga', which will be a site that will give access to its users to mangas from 37 Japanese Publishers.

It is estimated that the fully operational site will be launched on March 2011. The beta version of the site is already available.

The list of publishers that will participate in the project are:

Akaneshinsha
Akita Shoten
ASCII Media Works
Bunkasha Publishing
Enterbrain
East Press
France Shoin
Fujimi Shobo
Fusosha
Futabasha
Gakken
Gentosha
Hakusensha
Houbunsha
Ichijinsha
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha
June-Net
Kadokawa Shoten
Kasakura Shuppansha
Kodansha
LEED Publishing
Libre Publishing
Magazine House
Media Factory
Nihonbungeisha
Oakla Publishing
Ohzora Publishing
Shinchosha
Shinshokan Publishing
Shodensha
Shogakukan-Shueisha
Shonen Gahosha
Tatsumi Publishing
Takeshobo
Tokuma Shoten

According to U.S publisher Simon & Schuster, the first volume of author Kazue Kato's Ao no Exorcist (also known as Blue Exorcist) will be released by Viz Media on April of next year. This is great news since it will mean that this manga will have more diffusion across international audiences, and it clearly deserves it!


Ao no Exorcist started being serialized by Shueisha's Jump Square magazine in April of 2009. It is the story of Rin Okumura, a boy who discovers he is the son of Satan.

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