17 results for "Weekly Shonen Jump"
Weekly Shonen Jump's print circulation has fallen from 6.5 million in 1995 to under one million today. In the same period, manga has become a global multi-billion-dollar industry. Understanding both things at once requires rethinking what manga actually is.
2 days ago
For over five decades, a small reader postcard enclosed in each issue of Weekly Shonen Jump has decided which manga series live and which die. Here's how it works — and what it has cost.
about 1 month ago
Before Goku, before Dr. Slump, Akira Toriyama submitted work to Weekly Shonen Jump twice and was rejected both times. The story of how he almost gave up on manga.
19 days ago
One Piece has been running in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1997. It has sold more copies than any other manga in history. Its creator sleeps four hours a night and has missed perhaps a dozen publication weeks in three decades. Here's how he does it.
about 1 month ago
Between roughly 2001 and 2015, three manga series dominated Weekly Shonen Jump with a consistency that has not been replicated before or since. What made the Big Three era so singular — and why it ended.
9 days ago
Demon Slayer sold 150 million copies in a single year. Its theatrical film made more money in Japan than any film in history. Here's how Koyoharu Gotouge's story of a boy who kills demons became a cultural supernova.
2 months ago
Hirohiko Araki has been publishing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure since 1987. Each arc features a different protagonist, a different setting, a different art style, and a different genre. That it works at all is remarkable. That it works this well is extraordinary.
2 months ago
Tatsuki Fujimoto draws like no one else working in manga today. His series Chainsaw Man broke shonen conventions without explaining why. His one-shot Look Back may be the best manga published in the 2020s. He's 28 years old.
3 months ago
Three manga series — each decades in the making — have set a ceiling for what the seinen demographic can achieve. Here's what distinguishes them and why their influence remains so pervasive.
7 days ago
When a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it lands in the hands of a bored genius, the result is a cat-and-mouse thriller that reached audiences far beyond the usual manga readership. Here's how Death Note crossed over.
24 days ago
Takehiko Inoue's Slam Dunk ran for only four years, but its impact on Japanese basketball — and on the sports manga genre — has lasted thirty. Here's how a comic changed a sport.
8 days ago
Hirohiko Araki has been drawing manga since 1980. In photographs taken across four decades, he appears to age approximately ten years. His series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has reinvented its protagonist, setting, and visual style eight times. Both facts are equally inexplicable.
about 1 month ago
Every major manga series has an editor whose name appears nowhere in the credits. They reject ideas, push artists to find their best work, and sometimes save series that would otherwise be cancelled. The manga editor is the medium's most important unacknowledged collaborator.
about 1 month ago
Tite Kubo is one of the most visually distinctive artists in manga history. His character designs for Bleach influenced a generation of artists. The Thousand-Year Blood War arc nearly destroyed the series before it could end. Here's his career honestly assessed.
3 months ago
Comiket began in 1975 with 700 attendees and 32 creator groups. Today it draws over 700,000 visitors twice a year. Its story is one of fan creativity, legal grey zones, and the careers it has launched.
29 days ago
Masashi Kishimoto spent 15 years drawing Naruto and missed most of his son's childhood doing it. The series has sold 250 million copies. Here's a clear-eyed assessment of what Kishimoto achieved and where his ambition outran his execution.
3 months ago
Manga's roots stretch back to 12th-century picture scrolls, but it took Osamu Tezuka, weekly anthology magazines, and the tankōbon format to turn it into a global industry.
about 1 month ago