Weekly Shōnen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ, Shūkan Shōnen Janpu) is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha
under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a
cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the
longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8
million copies (2009). The chapters of series that run in Weekly Shōnen
Jump are collected and published in tankōbon volumes under the "Jump
Comics" imprint every two to three months. The manga series within the
magazine target young male readers and tend to comprise of a large
amount of action scenes and a fair amount of comedy.