V Jump#V Jump Books

In the early 1990s, Shueisha directed Weekly Shōnen Jump editor Kazuhiko Torishima to create V Jump as a children's magazine to compete with Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic. Believing Shueisha was incapable of this because they lacked the experience and personal connections Shogakukan had, Torishima claims to have purposefully chosen a theme he knew would be unpopular for the third issue.{{Cite web|last=Inaba|first=Hotate|url=https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/projectbook/torishima|title=【全文公開】伝説の漫画編集者マシリトはゲーム業界でも偉人だった！ 鳥嶋和彦が語る「DQ」「FF」「クロノ・トリガー」誕生秘話|work=Denfaminico Gamer|language=Japanese|date=2016-04-04|access-date=2024-09-30}}{{Cite web|url=http://vjump.shueisha.co.jp/victory/vt08/wp8-main-cmt.html|title=ビクトリー・ウチダの社長への道!!Super!! 第8回|language=ja|publisher=V Jump|access-date=2016-09-11|archive-date=November 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118135119/http://vjump.shueisha.co.jp/victory/vt08/wp8-main-cmt.html|url-status=dead}} He then received permission to re-launch the magazine with the new goal of containing manga, anime, and video game content all in one medium. Torishima later claimed to have predicted people being able to access all of these in one place like smartphones, and wanted to "get off the sinking ship" that was print manga magazines as soon as possible.{{Cite web|last=Koyama|first=Daisuke|url=https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/kikakuthetower/190517a|title=「編集者になるために特別な才能は必要ない。好奇心と想像力を持ってください」Dr.マシリト鳥嶋和彦氏が学生に語ったマンガ、雑誌、出版と編集者の今後|work=Denfaminico Gamer|language=Japanese|date=2019-05-17|access-date=2024-09-21}} He also wanted to begin promoting games while they were still in development, and personally went around to major game studios and asked them to publicize the names and faces of the individual creators. Torishima left Weekly Shōnen Jump to re-launch V Jump in 1992, and serve as its editor-in-chief.{{Cite web|last=Fushimachi|first=Yuzuru|url=https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/projectbook/181228/2|title=【佐藤辰男×鳥嶋和彦対談】いかにしてKADOKAWAはいまの姿になったか──ライトノベルの定義は「思春期の少年少女がみずから手に取る、彼らの言葉で書かれたいちばん面白いと思えるもの」【「ゲームの企画書」特別編】|work=Denfaminico Gamer|language=Japanese|date=2018-12-28|access-date=2024-09-29}} He also changed the meaning of the "V" in its title from "Victory", derived from the V sign, to "Virtual". Akira Toriyama designed the magazine's mascot character {{nihongo|V Dragon|V龍|}}, who was named via a reader poll.{{Cite web |url=https://dragonball.news/news/20180522_wx.html |script-title=ja:[鳥山明ほぼ全仕事] 平日更新24時間限定公開！ |work=Dragon Ball Official Site|publisher=Shueisha |language=ja |date=May 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522102052/https://dragonball.news/news/20180522_wx.html |archive-date=May 22, 2018 |url-status=dead }}

Most of the manga serialized in V Jump are spin-offs of popular Weekly Shōnen Jump titles or adaptations of video games and anime. These include Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Boruto. Original manga serialized in the magazine include Shadow Lady by Masakazu Katsura and Go! Go! Ackman by Toriyama. In November 2020, comedian Kendo Kobayashi was officially appointed an editor of V Jump.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2176973/full/|title=ケンコバ、『Vジャンプ』編集部員に正式就任 仕事はメーカー取材や新商品企画の提案など |work=Oricon|language=Japanese|date=2020-11-18|access-date=2024-10-27}}

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.

Most of the manga serialized in V Jump are spin-offs of popular Weekly Shōnen Jump titles or adaptations of video games and anime

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

• The Brief Return of Dr. Slump
• Combustible Campus Guardress
• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
• Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01
• Digimon Next
• Digimon Xros Wars
• Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock
• Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission
• Dragon Quest: Souten no Soura
• Dragon Quest Treasures: Another Adventure Fadora no Takarajima
• Dub & Peter 1
• Gaist Crusher First
• Go! Go! Ackman
• Haō Taikei Ryū Knight
• Kinnikuman II-Sei: All Chōjin Dai Shingeki
• Onmyō Taisenki
• Saint Seiya (last chapter only)
• Shadow Lady
• Slime MoriMori
• Soldier of Savings Cashman
• Viewtiful Joe
• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
• Yu-Gi-Oh! R
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens
• Z/X: Code Reunion

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• [http://vjump.shueisha.co.jp/ V Jump Web] {{in lang|ja}}
• [http://www.shueisha.co.jp/CGI/teiki/kodoku_back.cgi/kodoku/v_jump.html?key=detail&zashimei=v_jump Shueisha Web Information official site] {{in lang|ja}}

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