Ultra Jump

Ultra Jump

Ultra Jump, issue 11, 1999
Editor Ultra Jump's editorial department
Categories Seinen manga
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 55,000 (2013)[1]
First issue October 19, 1999
Company Shueisha
Country Japan 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-three manga titles being serialized in Ultra Jump. Out of twenty-three series, two series are serializing irregularly and two series are currently on 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
Chōkakō (長歌行) Xia Ta July 2011
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
Eiyū Kyōshitsu (英雄教室) Shin Araki, Takashi Minakuchi February 2015
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 no Kimyō na Bōken 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
Koi wa Hikari (恋は光) Aki★Eda October 2013
Kuroda-san to Katagiri-san (黒田さんと片桐さん) Nini June 2013
Levius/est (レビウス エスト) Haruhisa Nakata April 2015
Momoiro Armet (ももいろアーメット) Terio Teri June 2014
Monster's Kindergarten -Kaijin Yōchien- (monster's kindergarten -怪人ようちえん-) Tetsuyarō Shinkaida August 2014
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
Q (Q［クー］) Tatsuya Shihira May 2014
Selector Infected WIXOSS -Peeping Analyze- (セレクター・インフェクテッド・ウィクロス -ピーピング・アナライズ-) LRIG, Mari Okada, Manatsu Suzuki August 2014

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Boy's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2013. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ Ultra Jump Egg Manga Mag Spinoff Launches Online - Anime News Network

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