Shueisha
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is a major publisher in Japan, headquartered in Tokyo. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The following year Shueisha became a separate, independent company. Shueisha's Jump Comics division is a large publisher of manga.Shueisha later founded Hakusensha, which has gone on to become another of Japan's most successful publishers.
is one of the many imprints operated by Shueisha.Shueisha publishes the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and organizes the Tezuka Award in Japan. Shonen Jump, begun in 1968, is the world's most popular and most successful Japanese manga magazine. [[Citing sources citation needed]]
Shueisha, along with Shogakukan, owns Viz Media, which publishes manga from both companies in the United States.
The name "Shueisha" comes from the phrase Eichi ga tsudou (英知が集う, loosely translated as "Assemble knowledge"). The on-yomi of the kanji 集 is shū.
Contents
Manga magazines published by Shueisha
- Akamaru Jump
- Business Jump
- Monthly Shonen Jump
- Super Jump
- Ultra Jump
- V Jump
- Weekly Shonen Jump
- Young Jump
- Chorus
- Comic Gum
- Cookie
- Margaret
- Bessatsu Margaret
- DX Margaret
- The Margaret
- YOU (magazine)
- Young YOU
- Office YOU
- Tokumori
Other magazines published by Shueisha
- Playboy
- Non-No
- Seventeen (Japanese magazine)
Manga titles published by Jump Comics
- Bouken Oh Beet (a.k.a. Beet the Vandel Buster)
- Bleach
- Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
- Buso Renkin
- Captain Tsubasa
- City Hunter
- Cowa!
- Death Note
- Dragon Drive
- Dr. Slump
- Dragon Ball
- ''Dragon Quest : Dai no Daibouken
- DNA²
- Elfen Lied
- GUNNM (a.k.a. Battle Angel Alita)
- Hikaru no Go
- Hokuto no Ken (a.k.a. Fist of the North Star)
- Hunter × Hunter
- Ichigo 100%
- I"s
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Katekyo Hitman Reborn (Reborn!)
- Kinnikuman (the toy line was released in North America as M.U.S.C.L.E.)
- Tatakae!! Ramenman (a spinoff of Kinnikuman)
- Kinnikuman: Nisei (better known as Ultimate Muscle in the U.S. or North America, Northern Europe, Oceania, and some regions)
- Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo (This Is the Police Box at the 'Katsushika-ku Kameari'-Park, nicknamed Kochikame'')
- Kuni ga Moeru
- Legendz
- Meiryo-tei Goto Seijuro
- Nana
- Naruto
- One Piece
- Onmyou Taisenki
- Tennis no Ouji-Sama (a.k.a. Prince of Tennis)
- Read or Die
- Versailles no Bara (a.k.a. The Rose of Versailles)
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Saint Seiya (a.k.a. Knights of the Zodiac)
- Slam Dunk
- Shaman King
- Tenjho Tenge
- Video Girl Ai
- Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
- Yu-Gi-Oh! R
- YuYu Hakusho
- Whistle!
- Zombie Powder
External links
- [Shueisha website] (in Japanese)
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