is a Japanese shōnen

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, focusing on new

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as well as video games based on popular manga. The magazine's debut was in 1993 by

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under the ''

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'' line of magazines.

History

A prototype magazine called '' Hobby's Jump'' was launched in the 80s as a spin-off issue of ''

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''. ''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 ''

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'' and ''

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'' 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 is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of the series that run ...

'', such as '' Shadow Lady'' created by

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, which has had more success than ever in ''V Jump''. Later on, the magazine published a sequel to the classic ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' series ''

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'', characters from which appeared on the cover of the first issue of ''V Jump'', titled ''The Brief Return of Dr. Slump'' (written by

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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 ''

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'' began serialization. The serialization of the series ''

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'' ended on December 21, 2007.

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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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'' *''

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'' *'' Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock'' *'' Dragon Quest: Souten no Soura'' *'' Dub & Peter 1'' *'' Gaist Crusher First'' *'' Go! Go! Ackman'' *''

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'' *'' Kinnikuman II-Sei: All Chōjin Dai Shingeki'' *''

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'' *''

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'' (last chapter only) *'' Shadow Lady'' *'' Slime MoriMori'' *'' Soldier of Savings Cashman'' *''

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'' *''

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'' *'' Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal'' *''

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References

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