Shonen Jump

Title: Shonen Jump

Type: Manga Magazine

Audience: 10 or up

Summary

Shonen Jump is a monthly magazine published by Viz Media in North America. Shonen in Japanese mean young male, so the magazine aiming at boys. It is a mange anthology that have serialized chapters of four or five mangas. Every issue, it has four or five chapters of each manga. Mangas in serialized have different genres, such as action, adventure, mystery, martial arts, fantasy, romance, etc. The current serialized mangas are Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Bleach, One Piece, Psyren, and Naruto. Besides the manga, the magazine also has features articles, information on up coming news of mangas, anime, and video game, fan art, and a media guide.

Review
Usually a volume of a manga is published every three months. This magazine has considered that may be a pleasure for readers that he or she can read partial of the manga books before the actual manga books being published. It keeps readers attract to it. Different genres of mangas help attract different segment of readers. This is also a drawback. If a reader only interest of one manga or one genre, other mangas will be left unread. A small portion of mangas does have violent content that might have bad influence to teens. Overall, the content is suitable for tweens and teens.