Jump Festa, the big year-end event of Weekly Shonen Jump‘s publisher, Shueisha, will be streamed internationally for the second time in its long history, and now with simultaneous English interpretation. The event is usually highly anticipated by manga and anime fans because it’s used by Shueisha to announce the biggest news of the upcoming year.
The publisher has unveiled the full program of the event, which will take place on December 16-17 from the Makuhari Messe venue in Chiba. All the hot series published on Shueisha’s digital and paper platforms will be present, and fans are particularly excited about the news concerning Dandadan and its newly announced anime, My Hero Academia, and of course One Piece, which will close the event as usual.
More importantly, while this is the second year in a row that Jump Festa will be streamed internationally, this time there will be a a simultaneous English interpretation for the panels taking place on the main stage, “Jump Super Stage RED”.
Jump Festa 2024 Confirms That Shueisha Keeps Getting More International
Jump Festa 2024 will have three stages: Jump Super Stage RED and Jump Super Stage BLUE will host panels for the most popular series of the publisher, including the heavy hitters Jujutsu Kaisen, One Piece, and My Hero Academia, while Jump Studio will instead focus on up-and-coming titles such as Akane-Banashi, Oshi no Ko, and Sakamoto Days. While all stages will be live-streamed on YouTube, only Jump Super Stage RED will have simultaneous English translation. The current schedule of the event for all stages is as follows:
Saturday
Jump Super Stage Red:
10:30 ~ 11:10 – Haikyu!!
12:10 ~ 12:50 – JUJUTSU KAISEN
13:50 ~ 14:30 – Blue Exorcist
15:30 ~ 16:10 – The Prince of Tennis II
17:10 ~ 17:50 – My Hero Academia
Jump Super Stage Blue:
9:30 ~ 10:00 – Blue Box
10:45 ~ 11:15 – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
12:00 ~ 12:30 – Dandadan
13:15 ~ 13:45 – MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES
14:30 ~ 15:00 – UNDEAD UNLUCK
15:45 ~ 16:15 – The Elusive Samurai
17:00 ~ 17:30 – Mission: Yozakura Family
Jump Studio:
10:30 ~ 11:00 – Weekly Shonen Jump Stage
11:30 ~ 12:00 – Witch Watch
12:30 ~ 13:00 – Red Cat Ramen
13:30 ~ 14:00 – SAKAMOTO DAYS
14:30 ~ 15:00 – 2.5 Dimensional Seduction
15:30 ~ 16:00 – Jump SQ. Stage
16:30 ~ 17:00 – Me & Roboco
Sunday
Jump Super Stage Red:
10:30 ~ 11:10 – Kaiju No.8
12:10 ~ 12:50 – Rurouni Kenshin
13:50 ~ 14:30 – SPY x FAMILY
15:30 ~ 16:10 – Chainsaw Man
17:10 ~ 18:00 – One Piece
Jump Super Stage Blue:
9:30-10:00 – Gintama
10:45-11:15 – Bleach
12:00-12:30 – World Trigger
13:15-13:45 – Dr. STONE
14:30-15:00 – Hell’s Paradise
15:40-16:20 – Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions and ‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess
17:00-17:50 – Chained Soldier and Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!
Jump Studio:
10:30 ~ 11:00 – Shonen Jump+ Stage
11:30 ~ 12:00 – Akane-banashi
12:30 ~13:00 – Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.
13:30 ~ 14:00 – Boukyaku Battery
14:30 ~ 15:00 – Oshi no Ko
15:30 ~ 16:00 – Dark Gathering
16:30 ~ 17:00 – Moriarty the Patriot Musical
The attention for the non-Japanese-speaking audience proves once again that Shueisha has become an international venture. The global success of series such as One Piece has clearly opened the doors of the international market, and it’s safe to say that nowadays anime is truly a global phenomenon. However, fans’ eyes will be also on the least famous series that still don’t have an anime adaptation, such as Sakamoto Days, and on those anime for whom a new season has still not been announced.
Manga and anime fans worldwide now have a chance to catch the latest news and most exciting announcements about their favorite series in real-time when Jump Festa 2024 will head directly into their streaming devices – with English translation – on December 16 and 17, 2023.
Sources: Jump Festa on X; Jump Festa official website.
