{"id":4952,"date":"2002-06-11T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-11T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/06\/11\/shonen-jump-coming-to-america\/"},"modified":"2002-06-11T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-11T15:03:00","slug":"shonen-jump-coming-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/shonen-jump-coming-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Shonen Jump Coming to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/business\/49899.htm\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a> has reported that this November Viz Communications will begin publishing an American version of Japanese manga magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/jump.shueisha.co.jp\/index2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shonen Jump<\/a>, the best selling &#8220;comic book&#8221; in the world. Shonen Jump currently serializes such popular manga series as One Piece, Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, Hikaru no Go, Yu-Gi-Oh, Shaman King and Prince of Tennis, and sells an average of 3.4 million copies a week. Viz will publish the English language version of Shonen Jump monthly and hopes to debut selling 100,000 copies a month at $4.95 each, with the goal of reaching 1 million copies sold per month in 3 years. Viz has not yet confirmed the title of the American version of Shonen Jump, nor how big each monthly issue will be nor what will be included in each issue.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/article.php?id=2174\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Post has reported that this November Viz Communications will begin publishing an American version of Japanese manga magazine Shonen Jump, the best selling &#8220;comic book&#8221; in the world. Shonen Jump currently serializes such popular manga series as One Piece, Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, Hikaru no Go, Yu-Gi-Oh, Shaman King and Prince of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}