Jump Square

Jump Square

Jump Square December 2007 Issue, cover dated November 2, 2007
Editor Kôsuke Yahagi
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 270,000 (2015)
First issue December 2007
Company Shueisha
Country  Japan
Language Japanese
Website jumpsq.shueisha.co.jp

Jump Square (Japanese: ジャンプスクエア Hepburn: Janpu Sukuea, written as Jump SQ but pronounced "Jump Square") is a Japanese monthly shōnen manga magazine. Published by Shueisha, the magazine premiered on November 2, 2007 as a replacement for Monthly Shōnen Jump, another manga anthology that Shueisha discontinued in June of that year. The magazine is a part of the Jump line of magazines. The manga titles serialized in the magazine are also published in tankōbon volumes under the Jump Comics label. The manga series within the magazine target young male readers and tend to be set in a fantasy setting with a large amount of action scenes. Like all monthly shonen manga magazines, Jump Square is aimed at ages 16 to 21. The current (2015) editor-in-chief is Kôsuke Yahagi.[1]

History

Jump SQ, also called Jump Square, was created as the replacement for Shueisha's canceled Monthly Shōnen Jump manga anthology.[2] The title has three stated meanings: public square ("a plaza where comic lovers and talented artists and writers come together"), algebraic square (Weekly Shōnen Jump²), and "SQ = Supreme Quality" (referring to its "Supreme Quality Manga Magazine" motto).[3] Four manga serials were temporarily moved to Weekly Shōnen Jump, until Jump Square's release. These four series, Tegami Bachi, Rosario + Vampire, Claymore, and Gag Manga Biyori were among the magazine's premiere series, along with debuting series, including Embalming -The Another Tale of Frankenstein-, Kure-nai, and Dragonaut -The Resonance-.[4]

Circulation

When Jump Square was launched, the initial printing of 500,000 copies quickly sold out. Over 70% of the copies released across Japan sold within three days. Shueisha printed an additional 100,000 copies to help meet the demand, something normally not necessary with Japanese magazines.[4] The second issue also sold well, requiring a second printing of 60,000 copies.[5] After the first issue excitement died down, circulation leveled off in the vicinity of 370,000 copies and by 2015 had declined to 270,000, mirroring a general drop-off in circulation throughout the industry.[6]

Features

Jump Square's primary content is manga serials. In addition to the manga series, some issues include serialized light novel chapters from works published by the Jump j-Books label. One-shots from established manga writers are featured in a section of the magazine called the "Supreme Yomikiri Series" (SUPREME読切シリーズ Supurīmu Yomikiri Shirīzu), while pieces from up-and-coming writers occasionally appear in the "Explosive Yomikiri Series" (Explosive読切シリーズ Explosive Yomikiri Shirīzu) section.

Series

There are currently twenty-three manga titles being regularly serialized in Jump Square. Out of twenty-three series, two series are currently in hiatus.

Series Title Author Premiered
7th Garden (セブンスガーデン) Mitsu Izumi August 2014
Ao no Exorcist (青の祓魔師) Kazue Katō April 2009
Chihaya-san wa Sonomama de Ii (千早さんはそのままでいい) Kuzushiro December 2014
Contrast 88 (コントラスト88) Chū Kawasaki December 2015
Densetsu no Yūsha no Konkatsu (伝説の勇者の婚活) Takatoshi Nakamura May 2016
Gate 7 (ゲート セブン) Clamp February 2011
Happy Mily (ハッピィミリィ) Mitsuru Kido August 2015
Hōkago no Ōjisama (放課後の王子様) Takeshi Konomi, Kenichi Sakura November 2008
Iiyone! Yonezawa Sensei (いいよね!米澤先生) Jigoku no Misawa April 2014
Kono Oto Tomare! (この音とまれ!) Amyū August 2012
Masuda Kōsuke Gekijō Gag Manga Biyori GB (増田こうすけ劇場 ギャグマンガ日和GB) Kōsuke Masuda December 2014
Ohmori Satisfaction (大森サティスファクション) Kōsei Shimizu August 2015
Owari no Seraph (終わりのセラフ) Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto, Daisuke Furuya September 2012
Parman no Jōnetsuteki na Hibi (PARマンの情熱的な日々) Fujiko Fujio Ⓐ November 2007
Platinum End (プラチナエンド) Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata November 2015
Salaryman Exorcist Okumura Yukio no Aishū (サラリーマン祓魔師 奥村雪男の哀愁) Kazue Katō, Minoru Sasaki April 2015
Shin Tennis no Ōjisama (新テニスの王子様) Takeshi Konomi March 2009
Shōnen Shōjo (症年症女) Isin Nisio, Akira Akatsuki January 2016
Sōsei no Onmyōji (双星の陰陽師) Yoshiaki Sukeno November 2013
Taishau Wotome Otogibanashi (大正処女御伽話) Sana Kirioka July 2015
To Love-Ru Darkness (To LOVEる -とらぶる- ダークネス) Kentarō Yabuki, Saki Hasemi October 2010
Wonder Rabbit Girl (ワンダーラビットガール) Yui Hirose May 2015
Yami Abaki Kurau Miko (ヤミアバキクラウミコ) Yui Jōyama October 2015

Special Issues

Jump SQ. II (Second)

Jump SQ II (Second) (ジャンプSQ.II Janpu Sukuea Sekando) short for Jump Square Second (ジャンプスクエアセカンド), is a spin-off issue of Jump SQ of which three volumes have currently been published, beginning on April 18, 2008.[7]

The first issue featured a then-one-shot collaboration between the world-famous American comic writer Stan Lee and Shaman King's Hiroyuki Takei, called Karakuridôji Ultimo (using the Marvel Method). [8][9][10]

A contest organized by Shonen Jump (a monthly English version of Weekly Shōnen Jump) and Jump SQ., offered a Jump SQ II (Second) issue autographed by Lee and Takei to the random winner at the 2008 New York Comic Con.[11] Three regulars: Sekai no Chūshin de Taiyō ni Hoeru, Tsumikabatsu, and Mahō no Ryōri Chaos Kitchen; were put in the SQ II magazine as their own SQ II exclusive one-shot, along with other one-shots like Missing Battery, Cross, or Alone Again.[12]

The success of Ultimo led to the extra mini book named The Man Who Created "Spider-Man" and the "X-Men" - Stan Lee the book! (「スパイダーマン」「X-MEN」を作った男 スタン·リー the Book! "Supaidāman", "Ekkusumen" o Tsukutta Otoko - Stan Lee the Book!) which is completely based on Lee's American comics, mostly Amazing Fantasy (first Spider-Man, Iron Man, and The Hulk.

Jump SQ.19

Jump SQ.19 (ジャンプSQ.19 Janpu Esu Kyū Ichi Kyū) is a spin-off issue of Jump SQ, first published on May 19, 2010. It includes one shots and Jump SQ series' side stories, and a series that only serializes in Jump SQ.19. Initially, it was scheduled to release quarterly on the 19th of every February, May, August, and November.

On February 18, 2012, Jump SQ.19 announced a magazine changed to a bimonthly release. It was then published on the 19th of every even-numbered month[13] until its publication ceased on February 19, 2015.[14]

Jump SQ.Crown

Jump SQ.Crown (ジャンプSQ.CROWN Janpu Esu Kyū Kulaun) is an spin-off issue of Jump SQ which started publishing on July 17, 2015. It follows a structure similar to Jump SQ.19, like: the series which only serialize in Jump SQ.Crown; the one-shots by newbies and experienced authors; and the side stories from Jump SQ. series. It is released quarterly.

Series

There are currently four manga titles being regularly serialized in Jump SQ.Crown.

Series Title Author Premiered
Bōken Ō Beet (冒険王ビィト) Riku Sanjō, Kōji Inada, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru April 2016
D.Gray-man (ディー・グレイマン) Katsura Hoshino July 2015
Kekkai Sensen Back 2 Back (血界戦線 Back 2 Back) Yasuhiro Nightow July 2015
Salaryman Exorcist Okumura Yukio no Aishū (サラリーマン祓魔師 奥村雪男の哀愁) Kazue Katō, Minoru Sasaki July 2015

Jump SQ.Lab

Jump SQ.Lab (ジャンプSQ.LaB Janpu Sukuea Labo) is a spin-off issue of Jump SQ, first published on July 15, 2011. Jump SQ.Lab follows same format as Jump Next; it includes the one shots by both the experienced and the newcomer manga creators, and the side stories for both Jump SQ and Jump SQ.19 series.

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