Shounen Jump Gets Replaced

Looks like Bleach is not the only one in the Manga world that is coming to an end. It looks like Shonen Jump magazine has as well.

Viz's Shonen Jump has recently been replaced by the newly released Shonen Jump Alpha, a newer weekly digital magazine. Some of the differences include:

1. New One Piece or Naruto chapters will be released in just two weeks (North America) after the Japanese release which means we won't be far behind the Japanese releases as we'll only TWO chapters apart.

2. Manga content will be more widely available to our iPads, iPods, androids etc

Whilst talking with Crunchyroll, Viz Senior Vice-President Alvin Lu shared his thoughts on this change.

Crunchyroll: "The news stand is a great tool for reaching certain kinds of readers, particularly those kids who are in Wal-Mart or in the supermarket, and we’re not gonna reach them on newsstand"

Lu: "That was something we definitely had to take into account when we made this move. We are jumping into something that’s a lot less clear-cut and at the same time, it’s rapidly evolving At this point, it’s probably too early to say how kids are gonna interact with handheld devices, where we think a lot of this business will take place."