Weekly Jump

2000 Issue 12
Published by Shueisha
Update by Rika Takahashi

What is JUMP?
WEEKLY JUMP, rival publication of WEEKLY SHONEN SUNDAY, is a "phone book" anthology published every week, with a circulation over 4 million. It is filled with some of today's hottest titles targeted for school age boys, many of them familiar to anime fans. JUMP has among its esteemed alumni: DRAGON BALL, VIDEO GIRL AI, CITY HUNTER, FIST OF THE NORTH STAR, KIMAGURE ORANGE ROAD, SAINT SEIYA, SLAM DUNK, and YUU YUU HAKUSHO / POLTERGEIST REPORT.

Selected News:
A new season is about to arrive. Naturally, this means it's time for the contents to undergo the small makeover that it normally does. The titles that went out in the spring cleaning were ZOMBIE POWDER. and ROMANCERS, and they made room for TSURIKKIES PINTAROU and SANJUUSHI.
TSURIKKIES is a new fish-of-the-week (as opposed to fight-of-the-week) series by the Okano-Makura pair that is best known for their last series, JIGOKU SENSEI NU-BE-. The story revolves around Pintarou, a feisty little boy who happens to be the descendant of Urashima-tarou. Those of you who know Japanese fairy tales would recognize that name as the man who saved a turtle and went to an underwater palace as a reward. It turns out that Urashima-tarou had left a little box for his descendant that could be opened only by someone who truly loved the sport of fishing—and Pintarou is the lucky descendant that could open the box. Inside was a strange creature named Otto the 45th who has the powers to talk and to change its shape into the lure of the owner (Pintarou)'s choice!
SANJUUSHI is the second series in the weekly phonebook for Tanaka Kanako. This is an adventure (with some parts fight-of-the-week) manga with a strange twist on the old Chinese tale known to the Japanese as SAIYUKI (most commonly referred to as the Legend of the Monkey King): Gokuu, Hakkai, and Gojo are three non-human bounty-hunters who are asked by a human girl, Genjou, to defeat Shalamar who killed off her entire village to make a medicine that gives eternal life. The three "monsters" were reluctant, as they had retired quite a few years back, but Genjou manages to convince them to head to Gandala to defeat Shalamar.

STONE OCEAN (JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE PART 6)
by Araki Hirohiko
Started in #1, 2000

Overview: Joline, the daughter of Johtarou (the hero from JOJO part 3), was the passenger in a car that hit and killed a man. She thought everything would be all right, but the lawyer she had hired was paid by her then boyfriend to make sure she was guilty and put behind bars! Just when her prison sentence was about to begin, she receives an emergency keepsake from her father—a locket. Joline accidentally pricks herself with something in the locket; faithful JOJO fans will realize that it was the piece of the Arrow. Joline realizes the existence of Stands after hers materialized in front of her (after being attacked by her cellmate Gueth and her Stand, Goo Goo Dolls). Joline decides to name her Stand Stone Free.
This Issue—Act 10. Baseball Boy - Joline experiments with the powers of Stone Free in her cell: it can stretch far away as a string that has little power, or solidify and concentrate power within a 2m radius (but still only strong enough to crush a quarter). Later, when she goes to make a phone call, she learns of a "one-month wait" for a phone call but she is also told, while lending another girl one dollar, you can pay to cut in. Gueth soon approaches Joline, and tells our heroine to get the money back now, or she will be targeted for extortion by other inmates. In the reading room, Joline confronts the woman she lent money to, but that inmate keeps saying she will pay the money back later, but she needs ten more dollars. Joline walks away and enters the bathroom, and right before closing the door, she uses her Stand to turn a quarter into dust and feed the dust into the girl's digestive tract. She feels sudden diarrhea and begs to be let in the bathroom occupied by Joline, saying she will return the money. Joline coolly replies that the girl just said "later." The girl replies that she will buy the bathroom usage from Joline for $10. Joline decides to head back to her cell (after telling another girl to wait in line for the bathroom, then inducing diarrhea from another inmate who was extorting money from her) when she is met by a little boy chasing after a baseball. The boy sneaks behind Joline and tells her that someone will come visit her tomorrow afternoon, but she should not meet the visitor.