Most popular anime series’ like One Piece, Naruto, and Dragon Ball started as manga. Fans will know that these were released as weekly of bi-weekly chapters in Japan’s iconic Shonen Jump magazine. Aimed at adolescent boys and young men, this magazine helped make the manga and eventually anime industries as popular as they are today, and still acts as a launch pad for new manga series. The first issue of the magazine launched in 1968, so very fe…
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