is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine, focusing on new

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as well as video games based on popular manga. The magazine's debut was in 1993 by Shueisha under the '' Jump'' line of magazines.

History

A prototype magazine called '' Hobby's Jump'' was launched in the 80s as a spin-off issue of '' Monthly Shōnen Jump''. ''Hobby's Jump'' was announced discontinued, and a new magazine called ''V Jump'' arrived. ''V Jump'' is a

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magazine, namely for the '' Dragon Quest'' and '' Final Fantasy'' series, as well as many

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designed the magazine's mascot character , who was named via a reader poll. ''V Jump'' has also taken many series from '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'', such as '' Shadow Lady'' created by Masakazu Katsura, which has had more success than ever in ''V Jump''. Later on, the magazine published a sequel to the classic ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' series '' Dr. Slump'', characters from which appeared on the cover of the first issue of ''V Jump'', titled ''The Brief Return of Dr. Slump'' (written by Takao Koyama and illustrated by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru). After the ''Dr. Slump'' series, an adaptation of the spin-off

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'' Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters GX'' called '' Yu-Gi-Oh! GX'' began serialization. The serialization of the series '' Yu-Gi-Oh! R'' ended on December 21, 2007.

V Jump Books

''V Jump Books'' is a line of V Jump manga and video game guides and some of the premiere editions. It mostly does guides for the series of Square Enix. It is the other publisher of Disney Books in Japan along with Kodansha since it published books and guides for the Kingdom Hearts games.

Features

V Jump's primary content is the information regards the video/arcade games and the card games. Therefore, there are limited numbers of manga titles have been serialized in V Jump. Most of the manga titles in V Jump are the comicalization of the animation and the video/card games.

Series

There are currently seven manga titles being regularly serialized in ''V Jump''.

Former series

*'' The Brief Return of Dr. Slump'' *'' Bakuen CAMPUS Guardress'' *'' Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01'' *''

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'' *'' Digimon Xros Wars'' *'' Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock'' *'' Dragon Quest: Souten no Soura'' *'' Dub & Peter 1'' *''

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'' *'' Haō Taikei Ryū Knight'' *'' Kinnikuman II-Sei: All Chōjin Dai Shingeki'' *'' Onmyō Taisenki'' *'' Saint Seiya'' (last chapter only) *'' Shadow Lady'' *'' Slime MoriMori'' *''

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'' *'' Viewtiful Joe'' *'' Yu-Gi-Oh! GX'' *'' Yu-Gi-Oh! R'' *'' Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's'' *''

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'' *'' Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V'' *'' Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS Rook! Bakuretsu Hadou Den!!'' *'' Z/X: Code Reunion''

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