Shueisha's magazine's release date changes

thejoo817

In a recently released announcement, Shueisha informs about the following:

Due to difficulties in securing electricity and transport materials, as well as other various measures we've taken into account, we've decided to take the following actions:

Issue no. 17 of Weekly Shonen Jump, which was scheduled to release on March 28th, will be postponed until April 4th.
Issue no. 18 of Weekly Shonen Jump (03/31) will be released along with issue no. 19 (04/07) as a double issue. Therefore, issue no. 18-19 will not be released on 03/31, but on 04/07 instead.
The may issue of Jump Square (04/04) will be combined with the june issue (05/02) and will be released as a double issue on 04/21.

We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
Shueisha

The original announcement can be found here: http://www.shueisha.co.jp/info/110317_2.html

So most probably NO Naruto/Bleach/One Piece and other WSJ series for the coming week.

andre

Well that sucks balls.

IgorGB

That's some bad news.

So we're having one chapter in 04/04 and two chapters in 04/07, or is that the usual "double issue" shit that actually means we get one issue when we should be getting two?

Aaronrules380

Shonen Jump manga is always scanlated about 5 days earlier than it actually comes out. So in other words, we should be getting a chapter tomorrow

eternalsteel

fairy tail (a shonen manga) came out as scheduled this week

Aaronrules380

Fairy tail isn't in Shonen Jump. Not all shonen series are you know

Vast

That is why we don't get Jump mangas the last week.

But this week we will get chapters normally.

(Sorry for my bad english)

maxterdexter

Wait, The issue of april 4th is This week chapter. The 2th paragraph doesn't make any sense. The magazine is relased mondays.

The second paragraph is about Weekly young jump. whatever that one is.

eternalsteel

@Aaronrules380:

Fairy tail isn't in Shonen Jump. Not all shonen series are you know

you are correct sir, ive been up too long

IgorGB

I don't get why magazines in Japan are released before their release dates. Monthly magazines are even worse, we get the April issue in mid-March. WTF?

goty

That's no news.

http://apforums.net/showpost.php?p=2173930&postcount=31

And yes, we will get new chapters this week.

@maxterdexter:

The second paragraph is about Weekly young jump. whatever that one is.

This mistake too.

Vast

@IgorGB:

I don't get why magazines in Japan are released before their release dates. Monthly magazines are even worse, we get the April issue in mid-March. WTF?

That's because they distribute the magazines with anticipation to be able to sell them in the release date in the whole country.

The stores should not sell them before the release date, but they do it, and this way we obtain the raws.

Sorry for my awfull english xD

amai-mikan

There was no issue last week because the issue that we were supposed to get last week (#17) is postponed due to power shortages caused by the earthquake. We're still getting a regular release

maxterdexter

@amai-mikan:

There was no issue last week because there was a break, but what they're saying is the issue that we were supposed to get this week (#17) is postponed due to power shortages caused by the earthquake.

No, we are in fact always getting the magazine 5 days before the relase date of japan, then we should by all means get #17 today.

The montly ones are a little different, they are called weirdly the month after the one that they are published, we do get them a little before the street date, but the "issue" is called like the next month.

goty

@amai-mikan:

There was no issue last week because there was a break, but what they're saying is the issue that we were supposed to get this week (#17) is postponed due to power shortages caused by the earthquake.

Nope, the break from last week was due to the issues you've mentioned. The break wasn't planned.
Now it'll be released next Monday as announced 12 days ago, there was no further change, thus nothing new in this thread..

Vast

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so mother nature is to blame? curse you, you earthly heathen, you foul tempered temptress, you things of things

'ko

we all knew that already, plus there are various errors. this is just confusing, somebody close this thread

amai-mikan

@goty:

Nope, the break from last week was due to the issues you've mentioned. The break wasn't planned.
Now it'll be released next Monday as announced 12 days ago, there was no further change, thus nothing new in this thread..

@maxterdexter:

No, we are in fact always getting the magazine 5 days before the relase date of japan, then we should by all means get #17 today.

The montly ones are a little different, they are called weirdly the month after the one that they are published, we do get them a little before the street date, but the "issue" is called like the next month.

Argh posted my post before I read what I wrote (don't know why I wrote last week) but I did mean to say it was an unexpected break.

Chikmagnet7

Can someone confirm #2 on OP's post, please? People have basically only been talking about #1, which is important, but which only deals with what is going to happen in shounen jump THIS week. What about next week? #2 seems to be saying that next week's issue is a double issue and will be released early. Is this the case? If so, this is awesome news.

Aaronrules380

You realize a double issue doesn't mean 2 chapters, correct?

WarshipArc

@Aaronrules380:

You realize a double issue doesn't mean 2 chapters, correct?

Can somebody explain what exactly a double issue is?
Please and Thank you.

Markku

We WILL get a new scanlation (issue 17) tomorrow.
And issue 18 next week.

Period.

stephen

@WarshipArc:

Can somebody explain what exactly a double issue is?
Please and Thank you.

a "double issue" is one standard issue of Jump that covers two weeks' time.

Strawhat Chan

@Chikmagnet7:

Can someone confirm #2 on OP's post, please? People have basically only been talking about #1, which is important, but which only deals with what is going to happen in shounen jump THIS week. What about next week? #2 seems to be saying that next week's issue is a double issue and will be released early. Is this the case? If so, this is awesome news.

It's referring to another magazine, not Jump. Nothing the OP posted is new, we knew it since 12 days ago.

Kaze's post:

刊少年ジャンプ16号：3/19
週刊少年ジャンプ17号：3/28 → 4/4
週刊少年ジャンプ18号：4/4　→ 4/11
週刊少年ジャンプ19号：4/11 → 4/18

As you can see, no double issue after this week's chapter.

Chikmagnet7

@Aaronrules380:

You realize a double issue doesn't mean 2 chapters, correct?

Well that's the thing. I don't know. Usually when WSJ has a double issue, it's because of one of the major holidays in Japan. It means the magazine is meant to last for 2 weeks, where it is released the first week, and nothing new is released the second week. Here we have something different. We have nothing released one week, and a double issue being released the week after.

Usually double issues simply have one chapter's worth of material, but this time it's conceivable that in an effort to remain on schedule (since last week's break was unscheduled and unexpected), shounen jump will provide more material in the coming double issue. I don't think shounen jump is planning a break this next week, so I don't know why they would call it a double issue. That and the early release date make me think something's up.

Strawhat Chan

@Chikmagnet7:

Well that's the thing. I don't know. Usually when WSJ has a double issue, it's because of one of the major holidays in Japan. It means the magazine is meant to last for 2 weeks, where it is released the first week, and nothing new is released the second week. Here we have something different. We have nothing released one week, and a double issue being released the week after.

Usually double issues simply have one chapter's worth of material, but this time it's conceivable that in an effort to remain on schedule (since last week's break was unscheduled and unexpected), shounen jump will provide more material in the coming double issue. I don't think shounen jump is planning a break this next week, so I don't know why they would call it a double issue. That and the early release date make me think something's up.

Again, this part:

２）「週刊ヤングジャンプ18号」(3月31日発売)を、19号(4月7日発売)との合併号に変更し、「週刊ヤングジャンプ18・19合併号」として3月31日(木)発売にいたします。
　　4月7日（木）の発売はございません。
　　以降は毎週木曜日の発売予定です。

Is talking about Young Jump. Not Weekly Shounen Jump.
週刊ヤングジャンプ = Young Jump.

According to the dates they've posted on the 17th of March, which are the same dates as the OP posted (look at the date of that announcement, the 17th of March - no new updates), there won't be any further delays.

isrnick

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isrnick

Then someone should edit the first topic and fix this part of the translation to avoid more confusion about it…

WarshipArc

@stephen:

a "double issue" is one standard issue of Jump that covers two weeks' time.

Yeah but what exactly is the difference between the double issue and a regular issue?

SalehMo

@WarshipArc:

Yeah but what exactly is the difference between the double issue and a regular issue?

nothing except for waiting another week for a chapter

WarshipArc

Oh…well that's rather silly if you ask me.

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yea confused the shit out of me the first time I heard of it, thought there'd be two chapters in one week to find out it was one chapter for two weeks

stephen

they do it that way because they can't put together a weekly magazine with that level of input required (over 95% of the content drawn from scratch, as opposed to say, Time Magazine, which is half ads and the rest is articles that can be written in a few hours, if that) every single week of the year. the artists and office staff working on the magazine need vacations and so on, so there are a couple weeks a year that don't have issues.

Everyone knows there are 52 weeks in a year, so rather than confusing people by giving them no warning (or just a note inside the magazine) when the next week won't have an issue, they make it obvious by putting the fact right smack on the cover in the form of a double-numbered issue (i.e. 18-19). This also means it's easier to calculate how many weeks have passed in the vicinity of a double issue if you have any confusion about, say, how long ago a certain chapter was. Well, if you remember it was in issue 17 (and 18-19 was a double issue) and this week is issue 21, you know it was four weeks ago, whereas if you just numbered the issues one-at-a-time, you'd be on issue 20, yet it would be four weeks after 17. You see how confusing that can get?

kagehisa

so much for hoping for two chapters this week….

StrawHatJedi

There is one chapter this week though right? I'm a bit confused as to what is going on this week….so 18 / 19 is a double issue, but that accounts for the week that was lost right? No break this week or next week right?

stephen

There is a chapter this upcoming week. 18 is not a double issue with 19. OP is an idiot and mistranslated the Shueisha notice saying that YOUNG JUMP is having an 18/19 double issue.