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Business Jump

Japanese manga magazine

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Business Jump (Japanese: ビジネスジャンプ, Hepburn: Bijinesu Janpu), was a Japanese seinen manga anthology published by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The manga of Business Jump were published under the "Young Jump Comics" line. This magazine's mascot was an anthropomorphic, Western-style mouse illustrated by Susumu Matsushita.

01History

The magazine debuted in July 1985 as the first "salaryman" magazine to be published by Shueisha. Business Jump was one of its kind in the Jump family of manga magazines. Readers were typically young, twenty-something business men. Business Jump was originally a monthly publication before going biweekly.

The magazine was discontinued in late 2011, with a final double issue, numbered 21/22, released on October 5. Several ongoing series were folded into a new publication, Grand Jump.

02Serializations

1980s

  • Ippon Bōchō Mantarō (一本包丁満太郎) (1985-1996)
  • Riki-Oh (力王, Riki-Ō) by Masahiko Takajo and Tetsuya Saruwatari (1987-1990)
  • Ikenai Boy (イケナイBOY) by Yoshihiro Suma (1987-1990)
  • Hakatafū Kumo Roku (博多風雲録) by Hikari Kasuga (1989-1990)

1990s

2000s-2011

03Circulation

Year(s) Weekly circulation Magazine sales (est.) Sales revenue (est.) Issue price
1990 700,000 8,400,000 ¥1,680,000,000 ¥200
1991 720,000 8,640,000 ¥1,728,000,000
1992 730,000 8,760,000 ¥1,752,000,000
1993 750,000 9,000,000 ¥1,800,000,000
1994 760,000 9,120,000 ¥1,915,200,000 ¥210
1995 740,000 8,880,000 ¥1,864,800,000
1996 740,000 8,880,000 ¥1,864,800,000
1990, 1996 637,381 61,680,000 ¥12,604,800,000 ($158 million) ¥235
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