To celebrate Weekly Shonen Jump‘s 25th anniversary, Shueisha decided to create a new style event to promote it’s history for the fans. The name of the event was called “Weekly Jump Multi World” and was a exhibition that was held in the Tokyo Dome Prism Hall between July 28th through August 15th, 1993. The event cost 700 yen for admission and guests were able to receive as special booklet which highlighted some of the items on display. The booklet was never available for sale directly. Over 48 authors provided new illustrations and congratulatory messages for this anniversary and are documented in this booklet and this is one of them. To help provide context to this profile that was captured in 1993, we have included some additional information to supplement the transcription and rough English translation.
| Name | Hiroyuki Kawashima (川島博幸) |
| Date of Birth | April 13, 1965 |
| Birthplace | Kyoto Prefecture |
| Blood Type | A |
| Debut Work | “Mikki” in 1985 (Jump Winter Special) ’85『ミッキ』(ジャンプ・ウィンタースペシャル) |
| 1st Jump Serialization | “Kuon…” 『くおん…』 |
| Additional Info | Hiroyuki Kawashima was his pen name at the time of serialization. He’s now serialized in V-Jump magazine with “Dragon League.” デビュー時のPNは川島博幸。現在は「ドラゴンリーグ』をVジャンプ連載中。 |
To celebrate Weekly Shonen Jump‘s 25th anniversary, Hiroyuki Kawashima provided this shikishi and comment, which have been roughly translated below:
「心の杯」という言葉がある。
人はそれぞれ心の杯を持ち、中に何を貯えるかで、心も変わるのだそうだ。
私の心の杯にはたくさんの宝物がある。
“感動”だ。
人、映画、音楽…。
それを与えてくれたものの中にジャンプがあった。
一読者だった頃の私には、ジャンプはまさに宝箱だった。それはきっと、今の読者達にとっても同じだと思う。
私はこれからもジャンプがみんなの宝箱であり続けることを願う…。
創刊25周年おめでとうございます。
There’s a saying “the cup of the heart.”
It goes that every person’s heart is like a cup, and what they hold can be special.
My cup of the heart hold many treasures.
Like “inspiration”.
And people, movies, music…
All of these things gave me the inspiration for Jump.
When I was a reader, Jump was a treasure chest for me. I’m sure it’s the same for you too.
I hope Jump will continue to be everyone’s treasure chest…
Congratulations on your 25th anniversary.
The remainder of the article then gives a brief overview into 2 of his series. Kuon… was published in Weekly Shonen Jump between issues 42 and 52 in 1986 under the pen name Hiroyuki Kawashima. Dragon League was still an on-going serialization at the time in V-Jump magazine starting with the July issue in 1993.
The following is some additional context and information not included in the article:
Prior to his first published oneshot, he won the 27th Tezuka Award’s Honorable Mention with School Trouble!! (スクール・トラブル!!) in 1984. This was followed up with Trouble Star (トラブル・スター) which also won a honorable mention in the Fresh Jump Award.
The oneshot Mikki was published in the 1986 Weekly Shonen Jump Winter Special, which was released in December 1985. Below is his author’s comment from that issue (roughly translated into English)
ばくに学園漫画はにあわない。SFがふさわしい!と思っているのはほくだけでした
I was the only one you thought Baku didn’t fit in a school-themed manga. Science Fiction would be better! Or at least I think so.
Following directly behind this, he would then have Chibi Kuro SO LONG! (チビ黒SO LONG!) oneshot published in the 1986 Weekly Shonen Jump Spring Special. When this was republished in the Kuon… volumes, it was retitled to Soshite SO LONG! (そしてSO LONG!).
For the final author comment in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine issue 52 for Kuon… he left this comment:
短い間でしたが応援ありがとう。また近いうちに本誌でお会いしましょう!
Thank you for your support during this short time. I hope to see you in this magazine again soon!
Following this, he changed his pen name to Saeki Takashiro (鷹城 冴貴) and had numerous oneshots published in Weekly Shonen Jump issues and the seasonal issues through 1992.
Starting with V-Jump magazine in July 1993, he began his second serialization, Dragon League. This was a tie-in with anime soccer series that had started in May 1993 and ran through February 1994. The Dragon League manga took a different character design approach from the anime, and ran in the magazine until the December 1993 issue and was later published in a single volume.
He would later stop using his pen name and return to his real name with the serialization of Stocks ~ Market (株～マーケット～) in Manga Allman magazine in issue #23 in 2000.
