The Rise and Fall of Weekly Shonen Jump: A Look at the Circulation of Weekly Jump

According to that shounen magazines circulation graph, weekly shounen champion lost all its readers between the years 2001-2003 O.o

The circulation graph for the magazines is one decimal place too far to the right. The total population of Japan is only 128 million.

Wait, strike that question. I just got confused by the graph. ^o^;

maybe the readers are not very interesed od what a the moment Shonen Jump offers. I guess the magazine will need to make a market investigation of the why, maybe their money is limited and dont think shonen jump as a priority, maybe the attention has gone to other styles of shonen, anything could be.

It's the internet people!!! Believe me, the reason why the magazine sales are drop is becuse of the internet that exists in our time!! Though there are hit mangas such as One Piece, Naruto, Fairy Tail etc... the sales drop because of the internet.

Ever sice technology has become better and better, we used the internet to find and get stuff for free. This is exactly what happens to the magazines at the moment. People have been buying the magazines, scan them and distribute it throughout the internet for no cost at all. So even though we have hit series like One Piece or whatever, it won't matter aor change a thing. People are just going to get scans off the internet for free anwyay rather than buying the magazines itself. Because of this sales have been dropped because more people read the scans for free. This is exactly what is happening to manga readers throughout the world, people get the scans off for free rather than buying the mangas/magazines itself.

You might be asking, then how come from 1987 - 1994 the sales of shonene jump magazine is up. Well duh the internet and technology weren't that devloped back then, people buys them to read mangas, that's how the slaes are up. And not to mention that during those times there are hit series like dragon ball and yu yu hakusho, well of course the sales were good. Even if dragon ball and yu yu hakusho was in the times where internet and scanners exist, same thing is going to happen anyway. People are just going to find the scans off he internet for free.

So it's not the series itself that made the sales drop, it's the technology for beig so hi-tech that people use it to find a way to get it for free.

I second Pat. The thing is, if they released Jump at the same time/speed in america, it would be worth it to get it. I'd rather read manga on paper than computer anyway, and I could get all the other series in it. The only people who actually get jump now are kids who don't realize the series is further along than they realize.

Hey, where's Death Note? I'm sure that it's sold more than 10 mil. It should definitely be on that list.

in the first chart it says that its the LATEST first edition volume sales but katekyo hitman reborn has the sales of volume 2 instead of the sales of volume 14 and on a side note is circulation the amount of money made or the amount of copies sold

what is the newest item in the newest shonen jump magazine?

Houshin Engi has 23 volumes not 15

YOU KNOW, I SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT NARUTO WILL MAKE A GREATEST LEGEND AND INCREASE THE POPULARITY OF SHOINEN JUMP TO AN UNBELIEVABLE EXTENT. NOTHING TO WORRY 'BOUT HA HA
NARUTO IS FAR BETTER THAN DRAGON BALL, IN MY OPINION.

Its clear and obvious that Shonen Jump severe decline was right after dragon ball ended in 1995 and they never came back to those golden days even tho they have one piece,naruto,bleach,eyesheild,death note,dgray man and prince of tennis.

It simply means dragon ball is better than all of them combined, even tho its only 42 volume, dragon ball blow the competition out of the water even if they has more volumes which is AMAZING.

heya all just browsing n came across this site.am a huge fan of the manga and anime of all stuff thats in the books.i watch them all (YUGIOH N GX NARUTO BLEACH DRAGONBALLZ D GRAYMAN )anyway i dont have a clue where i can get my hands on the v-jumps or weekly shonen jumps.ive looked high n low for them on the web.does anyone know or if anyone wanna help me out id be very greatful

My take is that Dragon Ball is the greatest anime/manga ever. But others will disagree. Case in point of how great is: Bleach, One Piece, and Naruto are all series where the creators have had some influence from Dragon Ball. In the Japanese One Piece, Luffy is voiced by the woman that did Krillin in Dragon Ball. The minor character on One Piece, Dr. Kurai (something like that), was voiced by Masako Nozawa (born Oct. 31, 1936), the woman who would go to voice Dragon Ball's star, Goku (and his sons).

well on accordance to what someone said, if it werents 4 scanlations many ppl wouldnt even know about manga, and sometimes ppl prefer the scans over the official releases in whatever their native language is cus the companies that licence the manga do such a craptastic job in translating/editing them. On the other hand, some ppl can read japanese, so i'd be pontless 4 them to buy the magazines, and thats also when scanlations come it. I think that if the licencing companies would release the manga faster and take into consideration that fans want it as authentic as possible, there might be even mo sales and scanlations might decrease.

As a guy that started to watch manga in the 90s, I can tell you that slam dunk was the most popular manga in Japan during that time. If you calculate the circulation per volume, Slam duck beat both Dragon Ball and One Piece.

You should note that most popular shonen manga are either about fighting or sport. So the shonen magazine need both type of series to stay alive. For the current running series, both One piece and Naruto may be able to replace Dragon ball on the fighting genre, but Prince of Tennis and Eyeshield popularity are not even close to slam dunk. So I suggest Shonen Jump to focus on finding a good sport series. Although I don't think they can find another slam dunk, if the new one can come close to Captain Tsubasa in terms of popularity, Shonen Jump may be able to rise again.

The figures in this article don't make any sense to me. They have Bastard!! listed as the 19th most popular of all time, yet it doesn't even appear under the currently serialized titles when it (supposedly) ranks higher than Gintama... Bastard!! isn't even Shounen anyway so it shouldn't be there. O.o

Well, we really do need a manga like DBZ. Well first of all those are only the sales for Japan. If you count worldwide DBZ exceeds like almost 300 million. And people are still buying those volumes. So far I have not seen any manga with such powerful influence. Naruto doesn't have that caliber. Possibly no action/fighting manga is catching up to DBZ because all those manga were somehow influenced by DBZ. We need to have a manga with an innovative idea. Plus we also need a powerful sports manga similar to Captain Tsubasa and Slam Dunk. Thats my 2 cents.