Ultra Jump (ウルトラ ジャンプ, 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 Yangu Janpu ). Ultra Jump Egg is an online manga website that mainly serializes manga not in the original Ultra Jump magazine.[1]
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 seventeen manga titles being serialized in Ultra Jump.
Title | Illustrator/Author | Premiered |
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JoJolion (ジョジョリオン) (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8) | Hirohiko Araki | June 2011 |
Dasei 67 Percent (惰性67パーセント) | Shimimaru | July 2014 |
No Guns Life (ノー・ガンズ・ライフ) | Tasuku Karasuma | September 2014 |
Levius/est (レビウス エスト) | Haruhisa Nakata | April 2015 |
Mononogatari (もののがたり) | Onigunsou | January 2016 |
Tales of the Kingdom (王国物語) | Asumiko Nakamura | April 2017 |
Assassin's Pride (アサシンズプライド) | Kei Amagi, Yoshie Katou | May 2017 |
Usagi-moku Shachiku-ka (ウサギ目社畜科) | Kamiya Fujisawa | July 2017 |
World's End Harem: Fantasia (終末のハーレム ファンタジア) | LINK, SAVAN | May 2018 |
Ryuu to Yuusha to Haitatsunin (竜と勇者と配達人) | Yamada Gregorius | June 2018 |
Ookami Rise (オオカミライズ) | Yu Itoh | September 2018 |
Tsukiiro no Invader (月色のインベーダー) | Ran Yamano | December 2018 |
Katabami to Ougon (片喰と黄金) | Eiichi Kitano | March 2019 |
Stepmom Switch (お義母さんスイッチ) | Tasuke Sakura | May 2019 |
Kagami no Kojo (かがみの孤城) | Tomo Taketomi, Mizuki Tsujimura | June 2019 |
Tadano Kougyou Koukou no Nichijou (只野工業高校の日常) | Chisato Oga | July 2019 |
Hello World (HELLO WORLD) | Mado Nozaki, Yoshihiro Sono, Manatsu, Suzuki | July 2019 |
Mizushima-san to fureaitai (水島さんと触れ合いたい) | Otaki | August 2019 |
Black Night Parade (ブラックナイトパレード) | Hikaru Nakamura | September 2019 |
Bokura wa Mahou Shounen (ボクらは魔法少年) | Teppei Fukushima | September 2019 |
On Hiatus Series[]
Bastard!! has been serialized irregularly since 2001 and Agharta is on hiatus since 2009.
Title | Illustrator/Author | Premiered |
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Agharta (アガルタ) | Takaharu Matsumoto | August 1997 |
Bastard!! (バスタード!! -暗黒の破壊神-) | Kazushi Hagiwara | January 2001 |
Dogs: Bullets and Carnage (DOGS/BULLETS&CARNAGE) | Shirow Miwa | July 2005 |
Grandeek ReeL (GRANDEEK ReeL) | Kohime Ohse | December 2005 |
Gingitsune (ぎんぎつね) | Sayori Ochiai | June 2009 |
Jumbor (ユンボル -JUMBOR-) | Hiroyuki Takei, Hiromasa Mikami (writer) | August 2010 |
Moira | Sound Horizon, KATSURA Yukimaru | December 2015 |
Ultra Jump Egg series[]
Title | Illustrator/Author |
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Hana-Yome Han (花ヨメはん) | Yukimaru Katsura |
Kinnikuman Lady (キン肉マンレディー) | Masashi Ogawa, Yudetamago (writer) |
See also[]
References[]
External links[]
- Shueisha's Ultra Jump page
- Shueisha's Ultra Jump Egg page
- Ultra Jump at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia.