While many of the best-selling manga of all time come from this magazine, the biggest series' tend to get huge boosts in popularity and growth from their frequent anime adaptations with some titles that weren't doing too well in the magazine (like Kuroko no Basuke or Kimetsu no Yaiba), ending up among the best-selling manga of the decade after the anime boost. Examples of the reverse are quite uncommon outside of Jump's earliest years. But Jump set itself apart with a network of creators that got their start in the magazine and upon leaving either went to the many other Jump spin-off magazines or even the other weekly shonen magazines. Jump was predated by plenty of other already-established shonen manga magazines (including Magazine and Sunday) and from Shueisha itself, it became a replacement for the decade old Shonen Book. Jump's circulation is larger than the combined circulation of the other three currently active weekly shonen magazines ( Magazine, Sunday and Champion). Jump still retains a physical circulation of more than a million copies, something Magazine no longer had as of 2016 (with it currently having half that).
Whether the magazine is growing or keeping readers through its digital version (launched in 2014) is not fully known. And with the rise of digital in the mid-10's, the physical circulation has begun to drop steadily again. Perhaps as an indication of the general trend away from mainstream manga magazines, even when Jump regained its top spot in the early 00's with the popularity of new megahits like One Piece and Naruto, it was only able to sustain its readership rather than grow. This fall in circulation was great enough that Jump briefly fell from its position of the number one magazine to number two (after Weekly Shonen Magazine), only regaining its position when Weekly Shonen Magazine suffered its own dramatic collapse a few years later. Jump peaked at a circulation of 6.5 million copies in 1995 before Dragon Ball ended, with Slam Dunk following a year later, and the magazine's circulation dropped by two million with a gradual decrease continuing through the end of the 90's. It was many of these titles from the 80's and on that became not just classic manga but classic anime as well. Though it became the highest-circulating weekly shonen magazine in the early 70's, it became the best-known manga magazine in Japan's history due mostly to its explosive growth from 1983-1995. Jujutsu Kaisen is a direct sequel to the short series, featuring all-new main characters.Weekly Shonen Jump launched in 1968 as Shonen Jump (少年ジャンプ), only becoming weekly and extending its name in 1969, and quickly established itself as one of the dominant magazines in the industry. On March 5th of 2018, the fourteenth issue of the main Weekly Shonen Jump revealed Gege's Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen. As a result, Gege and Shonen Jump agreed to begin their first serialization in 2018.
The reception to the series was very positive, more so than Gege expected.
It concluded in the fourth issue of JUMP GIGA in 2017.
Gege Akutami initially intended the series to be a short series consisting of only four chapters. Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Jujutsu High began on April 28th, 2017 in the first issue of the Jump GIGA magazine for that year. The magazine has also had several international counterparts, including the current North American Weekly Shonen Jump. Shōnen Jump spawned the Jump magazine line as well as the Jump Comics imprint label for publishing tankōbon. Many of the best selling manga of all time originate from Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.