Big Comic Spirits
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. The first issue was published on October 14, 1980. Food, sports, romance and business are recurring themes in the magazine, and the stories often question conventional values. The magazine is published every Monday. Circulation in 2008 averaged over 300,000 copies, but by 2015 had dropped to 168,250.[3] In 2009 Shogakukan launched a new sister magazine, Monthly Big Comic Spirits.
June 25, 2007 issue of Big Comic Spirits featuring model Aki Hoshino | |
Categories | Seinen manga[1][2] |
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Frequency | Weekly |
Circulation | 150,000[1] (July-September, 2016) |
First issue | October 14, 1980 |
Company | Shogakukan |
Country | Japan |
Based in | Tokyo |
Language | Japanese |
Website | spi-net.jp |
History
Big Comic Spirits launched on October 14, 1980 as a monthly magazine. The following June, it changed to a semimonthly magazine published on the 15th and 30th days of each month. Beginning in April 1986, the magazine became weekly, with new issues published every Monday.
Currently running manga series
- Ao Ashi by Yuugo Kobayashi, Naohiko Ueno
- Asahinagu by Ai Kozaki
- Dead Dead Demon's De De De De Destruction by Inio Asano
- DRAGON JAM by Itsunari Fuji (moved from Monthly Big Comic Spirits)
- Jagaaaaaan by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Kensuke Nishida
- Kimakure Concept Chronicle by Hoichoi Productions
- Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia by Makoto Ojiro
- 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
- Futo Tantei by Masaki Satou[4][5][6]
Notable manga artists and series featured
- Buronson and Atsushi Kamijou
- DOG LAW
- Tetsuya Sekiya
- Koji Aihara
- Koji En
- Inio Asano
- Oyasumi Punpun (moved from Young Sunday)
- Tatsuya Egawa
- Hisashi Eguchi
- Paparinko Monogatari
- Tooru Fujisawa
- Animal Joe
- Akira Hanasaki and Tetsu Kariya
- Kengo Hanazawa
- Hidenori Hara
- Aozora
- Yattarou Jan!!
- Minna Ikiteru
- Shohei Harumoto
- CB Gan
- Mochiru Hoshisato
- Fujihiko Hosono
- Ryoichi Ikegami and Kazuo Koike
- Kazurou Inoue
- Undead
- Yūgo Ishikawa
- Junji Ito
- Takashi Iwashige
- Bokkemon
- Masasumi Kakizaki and George Abe
- Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (moved from Young Sunday)
- Atsushi Kamijo
- 8 -Eight-
- Ryo Kurashina and Taro Sekiguchi
- Teiou
- Tsutomu Kamishiro and Yuu Nakahara
- Katsutoshi Kawai
- Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu (moved from Young Sunday)
- Sakyo Komatsu and Tokihiko Ishiki
- Nihon Chinbotsu
- Eisaku Kubonouchi
- Kuromaru
- Kurosagi (written by Takeshi Natsuhara and moved from Young Sunday)
- Motorō Mase
- Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (moved from Young Sunday)
- Taiyō Matsumoto
- Takemitsu Zamurai (written by Issei Ifuku)
- Tekkonkinkreet
- Norifusa Mita
- Boys of Summer
- Go Nagai
- Yu Nakahara and Ryu Kamio
- Masaharu Noritsuke
- Tobira Oda
- Noboru Rokuda
- Shūhō Satō
- New Say Hello to Blackjack
- Fumi Saimon
- Yukizou Saku
- Hakuba no Ouji-sama
- Masahito Soda
- Subaru
- MOON - Subaru Solitude Standing
- Noboru Takahashi
- Mogura no Uta (moved from Young Sunday)
- Rumiko Takahashi
- Shin Takahashi
- Ii Hito
- Saikano
- Kentaro Takekuma and Koji Aihara
- Yuji Takemura and Yoichi Komori
- Master of Sea UMISHI
- Jiro Taniguchi and Jinpachi Mori
- Sekiya Tetsuji
- Kei Toume
- Momonchi
- Kazuo Umezu
- My Name is Shingo
- Naoki Urasawa
- Reiji Yamada
- Coconuts Period -Chikyuu Ondannka wo Tomeru Usagi-
- Naoki Yamamoto
- Hideo Yamamoto
- Yasuhito Yamamoto
- Kimio Yanagisawa
- Ruri Iro Generation
- Sensha Yoshida
- Masami Yuki
- Birdy the Mighty (moved from Young Sunday)
- Shouhei Manabe
- Yukio Katayama
- Hanamote Katare (moved from Monthly Big Comic Spirits)
- Furo Girl!
References
- "Men's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- Jason Thompson (2007). Manga: The Complete Guide. Del Rey Books. p. xxiii-xxiv. ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8.
- Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data 2008 Archived March 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- "Kamen Rider W Tokusatsu Show Gets Sequel Project". Anime News Network. 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
- "Kamen Rider W Sequel Project is Manga by Riku Sanjo, Masaki Satou". Anime News Network. 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
- "二人で一人の"彼ら"の新しい物語。その名も『風都探偵』 週刊ビッグコミックスピリッツで8月連載スタート!" (in Japanese). Toei Company. 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Weekly Big Comic Spirits at Anime News Network's encyclopedia