Last weekend, I made it over to the Shonen Jump pop-up store in the American Dream mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The pop-up store labeled itself as being in “New York” and the clothing they sold said as much, too. It always makes me laugh when things in New Jersey call themselves “New York,”…
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump, and as such, was forced to run ads on some its pages. This sometimes meant that the ads were essentially their own panels on the pages. This wasn’t exclusive to JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure; nearly every series printed in Weekly Shōnen Jump back then had these…