Big Comic Spirits
June 25, 2007 issue of Big Comic Spirits featuring Aki Hoshino
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| Categories | Seinen manga |
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| Frequency | Weekly |
| Circulation | 168,250 (2015) [1] |
| First issue | October 14, 1980 |
| Company | Shogakukan |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | spi-net.jp |
Big Comic Spirits (ビッグコミックスピリッツ Biggu Komikku Supirittsu?) is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Shogakukan and aimed at adult males. It originally launched on October 14, 1980. The culture of food, sports, love relationships, and business provide the themes for its featured series, which often question conventional values. In 1996 Frederik Schodt characterized the typical reader as a twenty-eight-year-old systems engineer who works at a finance company, eats at ramen noodle shops and is seriously considering using a matchmaking service.[2] The magazine is printed every Monday and is available at a price of ¥280. Circulation in 2008 averaged over 300,000 copies,[3] but by 2015 had dropped to 168,250.[4] In 2009 Shogakukan launched a new companion magazine, Monthly Big Comic Spirits.
Contents
History
Big Comic Spirits launched on October 14, 1980 as a monthly magazine. The following June, it changed to a semimonthly magazine released on the 15th and 30th day of each month. Beginning in April 1986, the magazine switched to a weekly release, with new issues being released on each Monday.
Currently running manga series
- Asahinagu by Ai Kozaki
- Channel wa Sono Mama! by Noriko Sasaki (published monthly)
- Danchi Tomoo by Tobira Oda
- Hana to Okutan by Shin Takahashi (published infrequently)
- I Am a Hero by Kengo Hanazawa (published bi-weekly)
- Kimakure Concept Chronicle by Hoichoi Productions
- Kiryuuin Saeko Tantei Jimusho by Tatsuya Mikami
- Mogura no Uta by Noburo Takahashi moved from Young Sunday
- Oishinbo by Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki (on hiatus)
- Otoko Tama!! Impossible. by Gyo Shinkai
- Pagyaru! by Britney Hamada
- SP by Kazuki Kaneshiro and Yaku Haibara
- Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu by Katsutoshi Kawai moved from Young Sunday
- Yamikin Ushijima-kun by Shouhei Manabe
Manga artists and series featured
- Buronson and Atsushi Kamijou
- Gibon and Hideo Shinano
- Tetsuya Sekiya
- Koji Aihara
- Manabu Akishige
- D-ASH (story by Miya Kitazawa)
- Inio Asano
- Oyasumi Punpun moved from Young Sunday
- Tatsuya Egawa
- Hisashi Eguchi
- Tooru Fujisawa
- Akira Hanasaki
- Oishinbo (story by Tetsu Kariya)
- Kengo Hanazawa
- Hidenori Hara
- Aozora
- Yattarou Jan!!
- Minna Ikiteru
- Shohei Harumoto
- Hideo Hijiri
- Minoru Hiramatsu
- Mochiru Hoshisato
- Fujihiko Hosono
- Ryoichi Ikegami
- Crying Freeman (story by Kazuo Koike)
- Wounded Man (story by Kazuo Koike)
- Kazurou Inoue
- Yūgo Ishikawa
- Junji Ito
- Takashi Iwashige
- Shigeyuki Iwashita
- Masasumi Kakizaki
- Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (story by George Abe) moved from Young Sunday
- Atsushi Kamijo
- Ryo Kurashina and Taro Sekiguchi
- Tsutomu Kamishiro and Yuu Nakahara
- Katsutoshi Kawai
- Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu moved from Young Sunday
- Tomohiro Koizumi
- Sakyo Komatsu and Tokihiko Ishiki
- Meiko Komichi
- Eisaku Kubonouchi
- Ikuko Kujirai
- Yasuyuki Kunitono
- Kuromaru
- Kurosagi (story by Takeshi Natsuhara) moved from Young Sunday
- Shin Kurosagi
- Shin Kurosagi - Kanketsu Hen
- Michiteru Kusaba
- Lost Man moved from Young Sunday
- Shohei Manabe
- Motorō Mase
- Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit moved from Young Sunday
- Taiyō Matsumoto
- Norifusa Mita
- Boys of Summer
- Toshiyuki Mutsu
- Go Nagai
- Kenichirou Nagao
- Yu Nakahara
- Last Inning (story by Ryu Kamio)
- Tatsuya Nakazaki
- Nakatani D.
- Dawn (story by Ryo Kurashina)
- Hiromi Namiki
- Ministry of Finance (story by Yoshiro Nabeda)
- Masaharu Noritsuke
- Chuutai Afro Tanaka
- Koukou Afro Tanaka
- Joukyou Afro Tanaka
- Sasurai Afro Tanaka
- Tobira Oda
- Noboru Rokuda
- Shūhō Satō
- Fumi Saimon
- Yukisou Saki
- Yukizou Saku
- Kaoru Shintani
- Masahito Soda
- Yoshihisa Tagami
- Noboru Takahashi
- Mogura no Uta moved from Young Sunday
- Rumiko Takahashi
- Shin Takahashi
- Shiro Takehide
- Tōbō Bengoshi Narita Makoto (story by Yū Takada) moved from Young Sunday
- Kentaro Takekuma and Koji Aihara
- Yuji Takemura
- Master of Sea UMISHI (story by Yoichi Komori)
- Yukio Tamai
- Jiro Taniguchi
- Benkei in New York (story by Jinpachi Mori)
- Sekiya Tetsuji
- Kei Toume
- Kazuo Umezu
- Naoki Urasawa
- 20th Century Boys
- Master Keaton (story by Hokusei Katsushika) (also serialized in Big Comic Original)
- Happy!
- Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
- Reiji Yamada
- Katsumi Yamaguchi
- Naoki Yamamoto
- Hideo Yamamoto
- Yasuhito Yamamoto
- Kimio Yanagisawa
- Sensha Yoshida
- Masami Yuki
References
- ↑ Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data June 2015. Retrieved Oct. 28, 2015.
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- ↑ Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data 2008
- ↑ Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data 2008.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Weekly Big Comic Spirits at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
