Gekkan Shonen Jump, the monthly edition of the token comic book collection that every Japanese boy read religiously at the bookstore since 1970, is going to be discontinued after the July 2007 edition. Shueisha, the publisher, had been circulating close to 400K copies a month, but I guess it wasn't enough to keep it going.
The more popular weekly version, which as a circ of about 3 million copies per week, will continue to deliver kick ass original comics like Dragon Ball Z, Dr. Slump, Kinnikuman, Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, Slam Dunk, and Death Note. Yep, most of the great memorable manga of the 80s and 90s were first seen in the black-and-white newspaper-like comic-reeled pages of awesomeness behind covers like these. Being a girl child, I didn't usually buy Jump at the bookstore, but I definitely used to sneak peaks at my brother's copy, and secretly enjoyed it more than the Shojo Manga series.
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