Given the rising popularity of Shonen manga in Japan new publications such as Weekly Shonen Jump began production in 1968, later giving way to other regular texts including Monthly Shonen Jump, Saikyo Jump, and Jump SQ. In 1959 Kodansha Ltd., one of the largest publishers in Japan issued Shonen Magazine, which soon attracted new writers and artists and ultimately led to series becoming increasingly developed and complex. While manga publications have existed throughout the early twentieth century in the form of titles like Shonen Club, Weekly Shonen Magazine, and Weekly Shonen Sunday, it was the serialization of manga stories in the 1950s and 1960s, published in tankobon volumes which led to their increasing popularity throughout Japan. Shonen artists frequently portray characters as thin, with large eyes, small mouths, and as either heroic males or unrealistically proportioned young women.
Common themes in Shonen manga are robots, superheroes and sports and typically follow the growth of a character, the discovery of their identity and critique society. Shonen stories tend to be adventure or action based, include satirical humour, and focus on teenaged male protagonists.
Manga stories, like those in Shonen Jump are often initially presented in magazines and later re-released as books or collections.
Shonen manga, the content of Shonen Jump is distinctive in terms of its style, content, and approach to the material. Shonen Jump, the most popular manga publication in Japan and North America, is a regularly released magazine collection of serialized boy’s comics typically including stories from Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, Naruto, Psyren, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Slam Dunk.
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