Jump Novel
Jump Novel Vol. 4 (ジャンプノベル vol.4, Janpu noberu vol.4) is the fourth issue of a novel magazine that released on April 1, 1993 and was sold by Shueisha, which featured the first iteration of a chapter before it became a full light novel. The story was written by Hiroshi Yamaguchi (山口 宏, Yamaguchi Hiroshi) with colored insert art and red part-color illustrations by Hirohiko Araki.
History
With Weekly Shonen Jump's ever-growing success and having exceeded 6 million units magazine sold, 1991's Issues #3 and #4 of WSJ advertised the new brand of a novel magazine and was discreetly announced as a "ghost magazine".[2] The first issue of Jump Novel fully release in Summer of 1991 with the magazine's demographic being aimed at a teenage audience and tried to sell the appeal of itself like Shueisha's other magazine titled Weekly Young Jump, which is notable for its partially suggestive covers of Gravure models.
Jump Novel had semi-frequent release schedule up until Vol. 16 in 1999 and it isn't known why no further issues were published. The goal of Jump Novel was to create a new book label for novels known as "Jump J Books" which would get a physical release once enough material had been compiled by the manga creators. Jump Novel was to have Weekly Shonen Jump's popular catalog of manga artists, at the time, draw characters from their respective series along with collaborating with novelist author's and physical volume releases were treated like spin-off material.
Other manga artists were also commissioned to draw celebrities or philosophers on the covers much like Weekly Young Jump, the first cover featured famous actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, with following issues having Japanese novelist, Natsume Soseki and Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, eventually the magazine would stray away from this business model and try to mix having manga art as well as Gravure models on the covers.
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Jump Novel Vol. 4, April 1, 1993
Clean Cover Art
Spine
Index
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Hirohiko Araki & Kenji Ohtsuki Interview, Pages 240&241
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