Shonen Jump debuts

Order by the year each began in Weekly Shonen Jump. You place all 50 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

Shonen Jump debuts
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Order by the year each began in Weekly Shonen Jump. Drag or tap it onto the line
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release years and dates
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How to play the Shonen Jump debuts timeline game

Each card names a manga that ran in Weekly Shonen Jump, Japan's best-known comics magazine, with its creator or creative team underneath. Your job is to line them up by the year each series began in the magazine. One title is already placed with its year shown. For each new card, pick the gap where you think it fits. A correct guess reveals the year. A wrong guess still puts the series where it belongs, but you lose one of your three lives.

The deck covers the magazine's rowdy early days, its famous battle epics and hits still fresh in bookstores. Anime adaptations can throw you off, because a show often arrived years after the manga started, and a series you discovered recently may have begun long before you met it. Creators with more than one card give you useful clues, and sports manga can turn up in any era. Long-running titles are the hardest, since they seem to have always been there.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 50 cards you might be dealt, with 22 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Harenchi Gakuen Go Nagai
  • Mazinger Z Go Nagai
  • Kochikame Osamu Akimoto
  • Kinnikuman Yudetamago
  • Captain Tsubasa Yoichi Takahashi
  • Cat's Eye Tsukasa Hojo
  • Dragon Ball Akira Toriyama
  • City Hunter Tsukasa Hojo
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Hirohiko Araki
  • Slam Dunk Takehiko Inoue
  • Yu Yu Hakusho Yoshihiro Togashi
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! Kazuki Takahashi
  • Hunter × Hunter Yoshihiro Togashi
  • Hikaru no Go Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata
  • The Prince of Tennis Takeshi Konomi
  • Black Cat Kentaro Yabuki
  • Eyeshield 21 Riichiro Inagaki and Yusuke Murata
  • Gintama Hideaki Sorachi
  • Reborn! Akira Amano
  • Bakuman Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
  • Kuroko's Basketball Tadatoshi Fujimaki
  • Haikyu!! Haruichi Furudate
  • Food Wars! Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki
  • My Hero Academia Kohei Horikoshi
  • Black Clover Yuki Tabata
  • The Promised Neverland Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu
  • Jujutsu Kaisen Gege Akutami
  • Sakamoto Days Yuto Suzuki

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