Weekly Shōnen Jump
It has been suggested that this article be renamed to Weekly Shonen Jump. (discuss) The reason given was: Macrons are usually omitted in English translations. Macron-less version has also been used officially. e.g. https://www.yugioh.com/news/konami-announces-release-of-new-yu-gi-oh-content-across-multiple-formats-for-2016 |
English name | Weekly Shōnen Jump | ||||||||||
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Company | Shueisha | ||||||||||
Language | Japanese | ||||||||||
Country | Japan | ||||||||||
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Series printed | Yu-Gi-Oh! | ||||||||||
Weekly Shōnen Jump is a magazine containing news concerning anime, manga and their eponymous video games. The first publications of Yu-Gi-Oh! appeared here, when the manga was originally released.
The first issue's cover date is July 2, 1968. The magazine was originally printed semimontly, until October 1969, when it switched to weekly.
Features[edit]
Among other series, Weekly Shōnen Jump serialized the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga from September 16, 1996 to March 8, 2004 and printed the "TRANSCEND GAME" special chapters in April 2016.
Issues have contained news about Yu-Gi-Oh! products and series. A number of issues have featured Yu-Gi-Oh! characters on their covers.
International adaptations[edit]
Weekly Shōnen Jump has been adapted into many foreign languages, including, but not limited to, the American Shonen Jump, the Swedish Shonen Jump and the German Banzai!.
Promotional cards[edit]
Promotional Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are sometimes included in issues of Weekly Shōnen Jump. These cards use the set prefix WJ, WJC and WJMP.
Color pages[edit]
Some chapters have pages printed in full color. When reprinted in tankoban, they were changed to black-and-white. The color versions were not used again until digital copies of the bunkoban were made available in full color, which included touched up versions of these pages.
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20: "Game Over"
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65: "Let the Duel Begin!"
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71: "The Scourge of the Sea"
76: "The Legendary Dragon"
80: "The Night Intruder"
82: "Defeat the Darkness!"
84: "A Storm in the Kingdom"
92: "Enter the Labyrinth!"
100: "Duel Disk Battle!"
104: "Crisis!"
134: "The New Game"
138: "Dungeon Crisis!!"
144: "The Room of Revenge"
148: "The God of the Obelisk"
153: "Duel of Vengeance!"
170: "Nearer to God"
174: "The Combo of God!!"
189: "Ultimate Summon!!"
196: "The Last Piece of the Puzzle"
279: "The Millennium Treasure"
303: "To Pierce the Darkness!"
343: "The Journey of the King"
External links[edit]
- Shonenjump.com Official website (english)
- Shonenjump.com/j Official website (japanese)
- Wikipedia:Weekly Shōnen Jump Wikipedia article