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Big Comic Spirits

June 25, 2007 issue of Big Comic Spirits featuring Aki Hoshino
Categories	Seinen manga
Frequency	Weekly
Circulation	318,834 (2008)
First issue	October 14, 1980
Company	Shogakukan
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Website	http://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 males 20–25 years old. 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.^[1] The magazine is printed every Monday and is available at a price of ¥280. It was originally launched as a monthly magazine, but switched to bi-monthly on the 10th and 25th beginning in April 1968. Circulation in 2008 averaged over 300,000 copies.^[2] In 2009 Shogakukan launched a new companion magazine, Monthly Big Comic Spirits.

Currently running manga-series

• Bambino! by Tetsuji Sekiya
• Birdy the Mighty by Masami Yuki moved from Young Sunday
• Channel wa Sono Mama! by Noriko Sasaki (published monthly)
• Coconuts Period -Chikyuu Ondannka wo Tomeru Usagi- by Reiji Yamada
• Danchi Domoo by Tobira Oda
• Denba no Shiro by Fujihiko Hosono
• DOG LAW by Buronson and Atsushi Kamijou (published infrequently)
• Galaxy Ginza by Kenichirou Nagao
• Hana to Okutan by Shin Takahashi (published infrequently)
• Homunculus by Hideo Yamamoto
• Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit by Motorō Mase moved from Young Sunday
• Jimihen by Tatsuya Nakazaki
• Joukyou Afro Tanaka by Masaharu Noritsuke
• Kimakure Concept by Hoichoi Productions
• Kiryuuin Saeko Tantei Jimusho by Tatsuya Mikami
• Kurosagi by Kuromaru moved from Young Sunday
• Last Inning by Tsutomu Kamishiro and Yuu Nakahara
• Lost Man by Michiteru Kusaba moved from Young Sunday
• Maigetsu Tousan by Minoru Hiramatsu (published monthly)
• Minna Ikiteru by Yoshiharu Hara
• Mogura no Uta by Noburo Takahashi moved from Young Sunday
• Momonchi by Kei Toume
• MOON　－Subaru Solitude Standing by Masahito Soda (published bi-weekly)
• New Say Hello to Blackjack by Shuuhou Satou (published bi-weekly)
• Nihon Chinbotsu by Sakyo Komatsu and Tokihiko Ishiki
• Oishinbo by Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Otoko Tama!! Impossible. by Gyo Shinkai
• Oyasumi Punpun by Inio Asano moved from Young Sunday
• Pagyaru! by Britney Hamada
• Rainbow - Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin- by George Abe moved from Young Sunday
• Sports Pon by Sensha Yoshida
• Self by Yukisou Saki
• Takemitsu Samurai by Taiyo Matsumoto
• Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu by Katsutoshi Kawai moved from Young Sunday
• Teiou by Ryo Kurashina and Taro Sekiguchi
• Undead by Kazurou Inoue
• Virtuous by Gibon and Hideo Shinano
• Yamikin Ushijima-kun by Shouhei Manabe

Mangaka and series featured in Big Comic Spirits

• Koji Aihara
  • Koji En
• Manabu Akishige
  • D-ASH (story by Miya Kitazawa)
• Inio Asano
  • Oyasumi Punpun moved from Young Sunday
• Tatsuya Egawa
  • Russo-Japanese War Story
  • Tokyo University Story
• Hisashi Eguchi
  • Paparinko Monogatari
• Tooru Fujisawa
  • Animal Joe
• Akira Hanasaki
  • Oishinbo (story by Tetsu Kariya)
• Kengo Hanazawa
  • Boys On The Run
  • Resentment
• Hidenori Hara
  • Aozora
  • Yattarou Jan!!
• Shohei Harumoto
  • CB Gan
• Hideo Hijiri
  • Nazeka Emikai
• Minoru Hiramatsu
  • Agnes Kamen
• Mochiru Hoshisato
  • Living Game
• Fujihiko Hosono
  • Gallery Fake
• Ryoichi Ikegami
  • Crying Freeman (story by Kazuo Koike)
  • Wounded Man (story by Kazuo Koike)
• Yūgo Ishikawa
  • Yoiko
• Junji Ito
  • Gyo
  • Uzumaki
• Takashi Iwashige
  • Bokkemon
• Shigeyuki Iwashita
  • Badfly
• Masasumi Kakizaki
  • Rainbow - Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin- (story by George Abe) moved from Young Sunday
• Atsushi Kamijo
  • 8 -Eight-
• Katsutoshi Kawai
  • Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu moved from Young Sunday
• Tomohiro Koizumi
  • TENKOUSEI Ore no Asoko ga Aitsu no Are de
• Meiko Komichi
  • Kaze Shimasu?
• Eisaku Kubonouchi
  • Cherry
  • Skinless Cowboy
  • Watanabe
• Ikuko Kujirai
  • Blue Jean
• Yasuyuki Kunitono
  • 100 Oku no Otoko
  • Chocolat
  • Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryou
• Kuromaru
  • Kurosagi (story by Takeshi Natsuhara) moved from Young Sunday
• Michiteru Kusaba
  • Lost Man moved from Young Sunday
• Shohei Manabe
  • Yamikin Ushijima-kun
• Motorō Mase
  • Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit moved from Young Sunday
• Taiyō Matsumoto
  • Takemitsu Zamurai (story by Issei Ifuku)
  • Black and White/Tekkon Kinkreet
• Toshiyuki Mutsu
  • Mucchi ni Goyoujin
• Yu Nakahara
  • Last Inning (story by Ryu Kamio)
• Nakatani D.
  • Dawn (story by Ryo Kurashina)
• Hiromi Namiki
  • Ministry of Finance (story by Yoshiro Nabeda)
• Masaharu Noritsuke
  • Chuutai Afro Tanaka
  • Koukou Afro Tanaka
• Tobira Oda
  • Danchi Tomoo
• Noboru Rokuda
  • F
• Shuhou Satou
  • New Say Hello to Blackjack
• Fumi Saimon
  • Tokyo Love Story
• Yukizou Saku
  • Hakuba no Ouji-sama
• Kaoru Shintani
  • Area 88
• Masahito Soda
  • Subaru
• Yoshihisa Tagami
  • Karuizawa Syndrome
• Noboru Takahashi
  • Mogura no Uta moved from Young Sunday
• Rumiko Takahashi
  • Maison Ikkoku
• Shin Takahashi
  • Iihito
  • Saikano
• Shiro Takehide
  • Tōbō Bengoshi Narita Makoto (story by Yū Takada) moved from Young Sunday
• Kentaro Takekuma and Koji Aihara
  • Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga
• Yuji Takemura
  • Master of Sea UMISHI (story by Yoichi Komori)
• Yukio Tamai
  • Omega Tribe Kingdom
  • Omega Tribe
• Jiro Taniguchi
  • Benkei in New York (story by Jinpachi Mori)
• Sekiya Tetsuji
  • Bambino!
• Kazuo Umezu
  • My Name is Shingo
• Naoki Urasawa
  • 20th Century Boys
  • Master Keaton (story by Hokusei Katsushika) (also serialized in Big Comic Original)
  • Happy!
  • Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
• Katsumi Yamaguchi
  • Takunabi
• Naoki Yamamoto
  • Dance Till Tomorrow
  • Arigatō
  • Believers
• Hideo Yamamoto
  • Homunculus
• Yasuhito Yamamoto
  • Sekido
  • Boku
• Kimio Yanagisawa
  • Ruri Iro Generation
• Sensha Yoshida
  • Utsurun desu.
• Masami Yuki
  • Birdy the Mighty moved from Young Sunday

References

1. ^ Schodt, Frederik L. (1996). Dreamland Japan: writings on modern manga. Stone Bridge Press. pp. 98–99. ISBN 188065623X. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Loug6sbKTvEC.  
2. ^ Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data 2008.

External links

• Big Comic Spirits Official Website (in Japanese)
• Weekly Big Comic Spirits at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia