Ultra Jump
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Ultra Jump, issue 11, 1999 | |
| Editor | Ultra Jump's editorial department |
|---|---|
| Categories | Seinen manga |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 51,000 (2015)[1] |
| First issue | October 19, 1999 |
| Company | Shueisha |
| Country |
 Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | http://ultra.shueisha.co.jp |
Ultra Jump (Japanese: ウルトラ ジャンプ Hepburn: Urutora Janpu) is a Japanese monthly seinen manga magazine published by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. Originally, the magazine was a special issue of Weekly Young Jump which first issued in 1995. On October 19 of 1999, the special issue became the new monthly publication Ultra Jump. The manga titles serialized in the magazine are also published in tankōbon volumes under the Young Jump Comics Ultra label.
History
Ultra Jump started as a special issue of the Seinen anthology Weekly Young Jump called "Young Jump: Ultra Special Issue: Ultra Jump", which first issued in 1995. The magazine was split to a monthly publication in 1999, simply called "Ultra Jump". On March 19, 2008, Ultra Jump released an online spin-off of the Ultra Jump magazine: "Young Jump: Ultra Special Issue: Ultra Jump" (ヤングジャンプ超増刊ウルトラジャンプ Yangu Janpu Chō Zōkan Orutora Janpu ). Ultra Jump Egg is an online manga website that mainly serializes manga not in the original Ultra Jump magazine.[2]
Features
The manga carried are mostly fanservice-laden fantasy and science-fiction stories aimed at young adults. Shueisha's light novel line: "Super dash library", has close ties with the Ultra Jump magazine, as Ultra Jump supports the line by creating manga adaptions of the titles. (e.g. R.O.D) One-shots from manga writers are featured regularly and are called Special One-Shot (特別読切 Tokubetsu yomikiri ). Each issue include a special freebies featuring one or more series currently running in the magazine.
Series
Ongoing series
There are currently twenty-eight manga titles being serialized in Ultra Jump. Out of twenty-eight series, four series are currently in hiatus.
| Title | Illustrator/Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| Ad Astra -Scipio to Hannibal- (アド・アストラ -スキピオとハンニバル-) | Mihachi Kagano | April 2011 |
| Agharta (アガルタ) | Takaharu Matsumoto | August 1997 |
| Ariadne no Kanmuri (アリアドネの冠) | Mari Shimazaki | March 2015 |
| Bastard‼ -Ankoku no Hakaishin- (BASTARD!! -暗黒の破壊神-) | Kazushi Hagiwara | January 2001 |
| Biorg Trinity (バイオーグ・トリニティ) | Ōtarō Maijō, Oh! Great | December 2012 |
| Connect (コネクト) | Manatsu Suzuki | December 2015 |
| Dasei 67 Percent (惰性67パーセント) | Shimimaru | July 2014 |
| Dogs / Bullets & Carnage (ドッグス / バレッツ・アンド・カーネイジ) | Shirow Miwa | July 2005 |
| Gingitsune (ぎんぎつね) | Sayori Ochiai | June 2009 |
| Grandeek Reel (グランディーク・リール) | Kohime Ohse | December 2005 |
| Hayate X Blade 2 (はやて×ブレード2) | Shizuru Hayashiya | September 2013 |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8 JoJolion (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Part8 ジョジョリオン) | Hirohiko Araki | June 2011 |
| Jumbor (ユンボル -JUMBOR-) | Hiroyuki Takei, Hiromasa Mikami | August 2010 |
| Kaijin Yōchien -Monster's Kindergarten- (怪人ようちえん -monster's kindergarten-) | Tetsuyarō Shinkaida | August 2014 |
| Koi wa Hikari (恋は光) | Aki★Eda | October 2013 |
| La Vie en Doll (ラヴィアンドール) | Junya Inoue | May 2015 |
| Lady & Oldman (レディ＆オールドマン) | Natsume Ono | October 2015 |
| Levius/est (レビウス エスト) | Haruhisa Nakata | April 2015 |
| Maōsama Chotto Sore Totte!! (魔王様ちょっとそれとって!!) | Tomoya Haruno | March 2016 |
| Moira (ミラ) | Sound Horizon, Yukimaru Katsura | December 2015 |
| Mononogatari (もののがたり) | Onigunsō | January 2016 |
| No Guns Life (ノー・ガンズ・ライフ) | Tasuku Karasuma | September 2014 |
| Peace Maker (ピースメーカー) | Ryōji Minagawa | July 2007 |
| Rapaz Theme Park (ラパス・テーマパーク) | Shinichirō Nariie | December 2015 |
| Rozen Maiden 0 (ローゼンメイデン0 -ゼロ-) | Peach-Pit | February 2016 |
| RWBY (ルビー) | Monty Oum, Rooster Teeth Productions, Shirow Miwa | December 2015 |
| Uchū Patrol Ruruko (宇宙パトロールルル子) | Trigger, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Nanboku | April 2016 |
| Selector Infected WIXOSS〜Mayu no Oheya〜 (selector infected WIXOSS〜まゆのおへや〜) | LRIG, Nini | July 2015 |
See also
References
- ↑ Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data (April-June 2015). "Boys Manga" (in Japanese). Retrieved Oct. 28, 2015.
- ↑ Ultra Jump Egg Manga Mag Spinoff Launches Online - Anime News Network
External links
- Shueisha's Ultra Jump page (Japanese)
- Shueisha's Ultra Jump Egg page (Japanese)
- Ultra Jump at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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