00:00:00 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to central Tokyo. This is Jimbocho. We're live. This is in front of Shueisha's Shonen Jump headquarters. This is Mami Sugihara. She's with the PR department for Shonen Jump. And this is the building right here. You can see a lot of really cool scenes from Shonen Jump.

00:00:30 John Daub: That's what I'm here to do. I wanted to give you an inside look at Shonen Jump's office building, see some of the stuff that they do here. This is where the manga is edited, where it's all put together. I gave you scenes of this in the Shonen Jump episode I put on the main channel about a month ago. I put a link for you to click over to the other episodes I did. This is Shueisha's headquarters. This is so cool because this is where all the magic happens. These three symbols here mean Shueisha, right?

00:01:00 Mami Sugihara: Yeah.

00:01:00 John Daub: And then the first floor of the office building, they have an exhibit. It's a gallery. They got some cool stuff in here. So I thought I'd take a second. We can't go into the editor's room today, but what we can do is go into the first floor, take a look at some of this really cool stuff. Bring you a little piece of Shonen Jump. This is the Shueisha gallery.

00:01:32 John Daub: Who's this one here? Crime Impossible. It's going to be a film next year. So this one is becoming a real life film. That's the actor.

00:02:11 Mami Sugihara: Yes.

00:02:11 John Daub: Is that normal for a lot of the Shonen Jump series to be turned into anime or into movies?

00:02:11 Mami Sugihara: Yes. And it's not only Shonen Jump. It's Young Jump and Grand Jump.

00:02:11 John Daub: A lot of jumps. There's a lot of jumping going on in this building. So how many jumps are there right now?

00:02:50 Mami Sugihara: Grand Jump. Six jumps.

00:02:50 John Daub: And this is just over the years. Shueisha keeps on inventing new places for different genres, for people to go from very young boys to older men. This is pretty cool. This poster. Liar Game. I like the title. It's really interesting. What makes Liar Game?

00:03:23 Mami Sugihara: No, not really.

00:03:23 John Daub: So it's been going on for many years.

00:03:23 Mami Sugihara: Yes. We are now having a campaign for free over 300 volumes.

00:03:23 John Daub: Oh, I see. So that's pretty cool. This is the fall festival. There's 300 volumes of this online for free. It's at s-manga.net. Very cool. There's lots of really interesting memorabilia.

00:03:53 John Daub: This one here looks pretty cool. Haikyuu. It's a really popular series about volleyball. So these are the actual uniforms. Oh, so these are like replicas of the uniforms. That's cool. And it's sold. You can buy this in Jump Shop. So you can be a member of the team right here. Check it out. Look at this. This could be you.

00:04:24 Mami Sugihara: Right here, there is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

00:04:24 John Daub: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The new web series, JoJo Lions. And is this also online?

00:04:55 Mami Sugihara: Yeah.

00:04:55 John Daub: I love how they bring the pages to life like this. It's not actually anime. This is just cut out images all put together. I really like the colors and the flow and the excitement. Makes me really excited. It makes me want to jump. So you can read the pink color version online.

00:05:27 Mami Sugihara: Awesome.

00:05:27 John Daub: In Shonen Jump, usually the pages are not in color, right? You can see it's all in black and white. But the pages are a different color. You can see this is this week's issue.

00:06:00 Mami Sugihara: Yes.

00:06:00 John Daub: There's no color on it because it's produced so quickly. In this version of the magazine, they don't put color into it. The idea is to get the content out as fast as possible. But the color you can see online right now. These are really cool. Really a lot of detail in these. This looks like artwork for a museum.

00:06:31 Mami Sugihara: Yes. It's very old series. Yokai Hunter.

00:06:31 John Daub: Monster Hunter. Yokai, famous for Yonago, Sakai Minato. And this one looks familiar. Yokohama Sendo Bergenga. Is that a guy or a girl?

00:07:06 Mami Sugihara: Guy.

00:07:06 John Daub: He's got some stubble right there at the bottom. But he's got a noose in front of him in the subway. So it looks like a suicide maybe. And this is a new one.

00:07:06 Mami Sugihara: No. That's a new one. Guns to battle aliens.

00:07:06 John Daub: Battling against aliens. This is very cool. This is all in the exhibit here. Oh, there's a little One Piece action in there. One Piece store. Oh, look at this. This is like a folder. Just souvenir. Can anybody come in here?

00:08:16 Mami Sugihara: Yes. The exhibition is temporary. It's always changing.

00:08:16 John Daub: So last time I was here with Sugihara-san, they had the actual plates that they use to print the manga. I thought it was interesting because the plates that they use to print onto the paper, they're made out of plastic. Nothing is forever in Shueisha. It's moving so quickly, the pace of things. And down here you have tankobon.

00:08:46 Mami Sugihara: Yeah.

00:08:46 John Daub: And if you want to learn more about tankobon (collected manga volumes) and nezashi (single issue), what's the difference between this and this? You can go online and the Shueisha, the Shonen Jump episode. I put a link up here. That's exactly where you need to go to get all the information. There's also an exhibit going on right now at Roppongi Hills on the 52nd floor. You have to check that out and get a manga burger.

00:10:07 John Daub: Itasha (painful car) means it's a car that hurts. They love manga so much it hurts. What are these here? Badges, cam badges.

00:10:24 Mami Sugihara: No, this is called kan badge. If you put that on your bag too many, it's gonna be called ita bag (painful bag).

00:10:27 John Daub: You love manga so much, you put these on your bag, and then if you have a lot of these, it's an itabag. Meaning you love manga so much, it hurts. And a lot of these, they're all from Shonen Jump. These are Haikyuu.

00:10:53 Mami Sugihara: Yeah. This is Haikyuu Taro, so this is also Haikyuu.

00:11:03 John Daub: Oh that's cute. They're in like on a little pyramid there. This is in the Shueisha Gallery. So this here looks like the paper that the editors will put the print on. You can see the lines on the paper. If you look closely, you can see the lines that they use the ruler. This is the actual paper that goes to the printers. And this is also Haikyuu. Gosh, look at the details in it. It gives you an idea of how specific, how hard it is. It's not just drawing it, it's not just writing it and creating the story, but there's also the part where you have to lay it out. And the flow of manga going from right to left. You can see that pretty clearly. Especially on something like this. It's beautiful. This is just not material, but just like artwork.

00:12:44 Mami Sugihara: Yeah, just artwork.

00:12:44 John Daub: And there's more memorabilia down here.

00:12:51 Mami Sugihara: No, this is a charm. But you can put it on bags, so maybe it's gonna be an itabag too. It's all about Haikyuu. You can buy it at the Jump Shop.

00:13:14 John Daub: So if we go to the Shueisha website, they're promoting here. Where can they see these images? Is it on the Shonen Jump Plus?

00:13:25 Mami Sugihara: No, actually HALT is a major online bookstore. A lot of bookstores.

00:13:36 John Daub: So you can see 300 pages in full color right now on the bookstores. And again, there's like QR codes. So if you want to QR code your way there, you can find it with these QR codes. Sugoyomu (read it). You can read it soon by using those QR codes. So this is the first floor gallery. Anybody can go here, which is cool. But I'm a guest. So we're going to go upstairs, take a look at some of the movie posters, some of the memorabilia, some things that we can't go in the editor's room, but we can go almost in there. If you want to go into the editor's room, go check out the Shueisha video that I made last month on the Only in Japan main channel. You're going to take a look at some original images and see how the editing process works for Shonen Jump. It's really interesting. I highly recommend that you check that out if you're interested in manga. So we are going to go upstairs to the second floor. All right, let's go. I'm going to cut this live stream. Look for part two. See you soon.