{"schemaVersion":1,"datasetVersion":"2026-09-17.r1","name":"Selected late anime adaptations of completed Weekly Shonen Jump manga","description":"A source-linked comparison of five completed Weekly Shonen Jump manga whose first documented screen anime in the reviewed official source set began at least ten calendar years after the manga ended.","url":"https://primetimeanime.com/datasets/late-shonen-jump-anime-adaptations","jsonUrl":"https://primetimeanime.com/datasets/late-shonen-jump-anime-adaptations.json","csvUrl":"https://primetimeanime.com/datasets/late-shonen-jump-anime-adaptations.csv","dateCreated":"2026-09-17","dateModified":"2026-09-17","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","identifier":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"PrimeTimeAnime late Shonen Jump adaptation comparison — https://primetimeanime.com/datasets/late-shonen-jump-anime-adaptations","scope":"PrimeTimeAnime's selection, normalization, comparison fields, and schema. Titles, source facts, and linked materials remain attributable to their publishers and owners."},"scope":{"inclusionRule":"A completed manga published in Weekly Shonen Jump; an official publisher, creator, broadcaster, distributor, or production source documents both the completion period and a later screen-anime start; the calendar-year gap is at least ten years.","animeBoundary":"The first screen anime identified in the reviewed official source set. Television and theatrical animation are labeled separately.","exclusions":"Remakes of manga already animated, manga first animated while still running, continuations, games, audio dramas, and cases without enough official evidence for both endpoints.","coverage":"Selected documented examples, not a complete census of Weekly Shonen Jump history."},"methodology":["Use the Japanese manga completion year documented by a publisher or creator record.","Use the first screen-anime year and format documented by a broadcaster, distributor, or production record in the reviewed source set.","Calculate calendar_year_gap as anime_start_year minus manga_end_year; do not present it as an exact elapsed duration.","Keep television and theatrical adaptations distinct and retain a claim-level note for every row.","Recheck source availability and the Psyren premiere record before quoting this dataset after October 2026."],"counts":{"records":5,"television":4,"theatricalFilm":1,"minimumCalendarYearGap":10,"medianCalendarYearGap":16,"maximumCalendarYearGap":23},"recordsSha256":"7950746e3719b7445031f8ddbc058aa47f8430678e18c5a1e27f34a5e308f9db","entries":[{"id":"ring-ni-kakero","title":"Ring ni Kakero","creator":"Masami Kurumada","magazine":"Weekly Shonen Jump","mangaEndYear":1981,"mangaCompletionEvidence":"Kurumada's official chronology records the Weekly Shonen Jump serialization ending in 1981.","animeStartYear":2004,"animeStartDate":"2004-10-06","animeDatePrecision":"day","calendarYearGap":23,"screenFormat":"television","animeEvidence":"Toei Animation records the television series beginning October 6, 2004.","guidePath":null,"sourceIds":["kurumada-ring-chronology","toei-ring-anime"]},{"id":"level-e","title":"Level E","creator":"Yoshihiro Togashi","magazine":"Weekly Shonen Jump","mangaEndYear":1997,"mangaCompletionEvidence":"Shueisha dates the third and final collected volume to May 1, 1997; 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