Trivia / Shonen Jump

• Ascended Fanon: Jamie's design was based on an old joke where a user on 2ch pointed out the pirate logo if you turn him on his side, with users adopting her as a "moe mascot" for the magazine. Jamie and the Pirate are not only siblings because of this, but both sentient parts of the logo: Jamie talks through the pirate's temple, while the Pirate talks through his beard.
• Dueling Shows: Naruto vs. One Piece, Fairy Tail vs. One Piece, Toriko vs. One Piece... pretty much a lot with One Piece!
• Follow the Leader: The 'Potekoro' line of merch is just Disney Tsum Tsum with Shonen Jump heroes and villains instead of Disney/Pixar/Star Wars/Marvel ones.
• God Never Said That: The Jump Rankings, or more specifically the Table of Content Rankings, are often described as being the official popularity rankings for series based on readers' surveys. It's only half right; the placement is not strictly based on popularity but responses from the surveys can influence the placement.
• Golden Age: By Japan’s domestic statistics and Table of Content Rankings, the decade of 1984-1994 was Jump's Golden Age.
  • The full stretch of The Golden Age count starts with the beginning of Fist of the North Star (September 1983), till the end run of Slam Dunk (June 1996). The end of Slam Dunk led to immediate, and dramatic plunge in magazine readership, which was the start of “The Dark Age” for Jump.
  • The pillar author for The Golden Age is Akira Toriyama, holding the magazine with works: Doctor Slump, and Dragon Ball.
  • The early Golden Age Power Trio goes to Captain Tsubasa, Fist of the North Star, and Kinnikuman.
  • During the middle of The Golden Age decade, Saint Seiya stood firm as Fist of the North Star is ending, while Dragon Ball is accelerating - The 80’s titles running during the Golden Age are regarded as the pillars of 80's Jump manliness.
  • The 90’s Golden Age, the pinnacle of the magazine and the years the magazine reached its domestic prime sales record goes solidly to Dragon Ball and Slam Dunk; who at the time were the main pillars of the magazine. Their end is one of the main causes of the sales decline.
• Milestone Celebration: The magazine loves throwing these when it hits one:
  • Famicom Jump: Heroes Retsuden was created for the 20th anniversary.
  • Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! was released just in time for the magazine's 40th anniversary, and also aired a decade after the Dragon Ball anime concluded.
  • J-Stars Victory VS was made for the 45th.
  • For the 50th:
    • A retrospective exhibition in three parts toured around Japan, focusing on three big blocks of the magazine's history.
    • Several smartphone games were developed, including Ore Collection and Jump Puchi Heroes.
    • Nintendo released a Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition version of the Famicom Mini, complete with 20 games based on the series' properties (And Dragon Quest, since Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai was adapted from it).
    • Jump Force was also developed as a 50th anniversary game.
  • Whenever a manga hits a big milestone (i.e. Naruto's 10th, the 25th anniversary of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, or the conclusion of Kochikame), other artists (current Jump artists, some past Jump artists, and some even from outside the magazine) will be invited to draw guest art for the series, usually in a special booklet, but it's also been on the cover of the Japanese edition itself. This can also lead to an amusing Art Shift, especially if the artist invited to do the special illustrations has a very different art style than the one the original artist uses.
• No Export for You: Since older, longer series are not considered profitable in the States, it's not expected for America to ever get not-currently-running Jump series that haven't already been translated, although that hasn't stopped some American fans from requesting stuff like Kochikame and Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin to Viz Media to be licensed. Likewise, it's unlikely that the U.S. will ever get the special Shonen Jump 50th anniversary NES Classic, considering a lot of the games featured are focused on those older titles and that some of them were dolled up for export.
• Power Trio: Bleach, Naruto, One Piece were the most popular series from the magazine for the entirety of the 2000's and the early 2010's, until Naruto and Bleach ended, and are known in the west as The Big Three.

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