Monthly Shonen Jump

Cover of September 2006 issue featuring the manga, Kurohime.

Monthly Shonen Jump (月刊少年ジャンプ, Gekkan Shōnen Janpu) is a now defunct monthly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shueisha from 1970 to 2007 under the Jump line of magazines. It was the sister magazine to Weekly Shonen Jump.

History

First issue of Bessatsu Shōnen Jump

The Monthly Shonen Jump magazine started as a spin-off issue of Weekly Jump called Bessatsu Shōnen Jump. The second spin-off issue was called Monthly Shonen Jump, which caught on and became its own separate independent manga magazine.

Shōnen manga magazines in Japan in the 1980s focused on bishōjo characters, and Monthly Shonen Jump stood out due to the many product and toy tie-ins it had during that period and into the 1990s. In 1983 through 1988 a special issue called Hobby's Jump had articles about PC and video games. The games were from early game systems like the Famicom, MSX, and the Sega SG-1000 Mark III. Another spin-off Go!Go! Jump was a collaboration between its sister magazine Weekly Jump and Monthly Jump; it was published in 2005 and was only published once.

On February 22, 2007, Shueisha announced that Monthly Jump would cease publication as of the July issue (on sale June 6, 2007.) Sales had slumped to a third of the magazine's peak, though a new magazine called Jump SQ. took its place on November 2.

In a May 2, 2007, letter, Shueisha announced that Claymore takes a month break but it, Gag Manga Biyori, Rosario + Vampire, and Tegami Bachi continued in Weekly Shonen Jump until the start of the magazine Jump SQ.

List of titles

Titles with ☆ will be serialized in Shueisha's Jump Square.

Last Series

• Rosario + Vampire
• Claymore☆
• Tegami Bachi☆
• Sheisen no Shachi
• Gag Manga Biyori
• Passacaglia Op.7
• Étoile
• Blue Dragon ST
• Buttobi Itto
• Kurohime
• Mr. Perfect
• DohRan
• Surebrec -Nora the 2nd-
• Kuroi Love Letter
• Mizu Cinema

Past Series

• Kia Asamiya
  • Steam Detectives (Moved to Ultra Jump at the magazines start.)

• Kazunari Kakei
  • Nora: The Last Chronicle of Devildom

• Koji Kousaka
  • Sutobasu Yarō Shō

• Yūichi Agarie & Kenichi Sakura
  • Kotokuri ★

• Hiroshi Aro
  • Sherriff
  • Futaba-Kun Change!

• Rin Hirai
  • Legendz

• Akira Toriyama
  • Neko Majin Z

• Hiroyuki Asada
  • I'll

• Takehiko Inoue
  • Buzzer Beater

• Akio Chiba
  • Captain

• Kōichi Endo
  • Shinigami-kun

• Fumihito Higashitani
  • Kuroi Love Letter ★

• Daisuke Higuchi
  • Go Ahead

• Shotaro Ishinomori
  • Cyborg 009
• Yūko Ishizuka
  • Anoa no Mori ★

• Bibiko Kurowa
• Gentō Club

• Gatarō Man
  • Jigoku Kōshien

• Kōsuke Masuda
  • Gag Manga Biyori ★☆

• Takayuki Mizushina
  • Uwa no Sora Chūihō

• Akira Momozato
  • Guts Ranpei

• Motoki Monma
  • Kattobi Itto

• Go Nagai
  • Kekko Kamen
  • Maboroshi Panty (written by Yasutaka Nagai)

• Keiji Nakazawa
  • I Saw It (published in America by EduComics)

• Tarō Nami & Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Eleven

• Riku Sanjo & Koji Inada
  • Beet the Vandel Buster ★ (on hiatus since September 2006)

• Ami Shibata
  • Ayakashi Tenma

• Yoshihiro Takahashi
  • Shiroi Senshi Yamato

• Kikuhide Tani & Yoshihiro Kuroiwa
  • Zenki

• Osamu Tezuka
  • 1985 e no Tabidachi
  • Godfather no Musuko
  • Grotesque e no Shōtai
  • Inai Inai Bā

• Norihiro Yagi
  • Angel Densetsu
  • Claymore ★☆

• Katakura Masanori
  • Kurohime★☆