45th anniversary Shonen Jump fighter J-Stars Victory Vs . is almost out in Japan, so Bandai Namco is gearing up with a whopper of a promotional video. The latest deluxe look at the game clocks in at just around 13 minutes, which sounds about right …Read more »
Viz Media and the English digital version of Weekly Shonen Jump posted a new video of Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto doing a live sketch of his ever-popular hero. You may have seen a familiar yet shorter video in 2012, but Kishimoto is back at it …Read more »
Marvel vs. Capcom . Mortal Kombat vs. DC . Super Smash Bros . Fighting games have a long and proud tradition of throwing together a bunch of characters you’d never normally see in the same place. Namco Bandai Games are taking up the mantle this …Read more »
I never planned on reviewing every volume of One Piece , and obviously that hasn't changed, despite the fact that we also covered volume 67. Every now and then I can't help but chew the fat about Eiichiro Oda's seemingly neverending saga, mostly because it …Read more »
Cross-series brawler J-Stars Victory Vs. is gearing up to celebrate Shonen Jump 's 45th anniversary on PlayStation 3 and PS Vita, and we've already gotten the lowdown on some of its all-star lineup. Series like One Piece , Toriko , Naruto , Rurouni Kenshin , …Read more »
45 years of shonen manga are about to come to a bubbling head when J-Stars Victory Vs. arrives. The fighting game celebrates Japanese manga magazine Shonen Jump 's anniversary by pitting some of its biggest stars against one another, mixing series like Dragon Ball Z …Read more »
Ever wanted to throw a kamehameha right next to the real, live, actual Goku (Son Gokuu in international territories)? I bet you’re just dying to ride in a got dang boat with One Piece’s Monkey D. Luffy, future King of Pirates? And if someone were …Read more »
Indomitable drawing machine Eiichiro Oda, the man behind the One Piece manga, is going on temporary drawing hiatus until June 3. That was announced by Shonen Jump publisher Shueisha last Tuesday, citing a complication from Oda’s recent bout of tonsillitis as the reason for his …Read more »
Fans of Shonen Jump titles have a reason to be festive: VIZ Media is now releasing new manga chapters in Weekly Shonen Jump the same day the chapters come out in Japan. To learn more about how this works, we spoke with Weekly Shonen Jump …Read more »
You either love Naruto 's Rock Lee or not, but hopefully you do, because he's about to get his own animated series, as announced in the first monthly issue of Shueisha's Saikyou Jump magazine. The anime is based on Kenji Taira's Naruto spin-off comedy manga, …Read more »
Have you always dreamed of being a mangaka? That's never been an easy hurdle to leap. Heck, it's hard enough for aspiring creators in Japan to get their foot in the door! Shonen Jump is giving the rest of us a head start of sorts, …Read more »
Though it appears Japanese authorities are still in the dark as to how this type of leak occurred, ANN has been updating the story throughout the day. Kyoto's High-Tech Crime Task Force joined other police units in busting a Japanese middle-schooler for distributing manga through …Read more »
The perils of budding mangaka have been illustrated in Weekly Shonen Jump since August 11, 2008 in the pages of Bakuman , the latest series from Death Note writer/artist team Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Now, as was surely destined from the start, the manga …Read more »
Viz Media is throwing a limited-time offer out there through the May issue of Shonen Jump. Readers of the monthly manga anthology can use a special invitational code to check out a 120-page preview of Naruto volume 45, and the offer is only available from …Read more »
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