Big Comic Spirits

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Big Comic Spirits
Big comic spirits 2007 cover.jpg
June 25, 2007 issue of Big Comic Spirits featuring model Aki Hoshino
CategoriesSeinen manga[1][2]
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation150,000[1]
(July-September, 2016)
First issueOctober 14, 1980
CompanyShogakukan
CountryJapan
Based inTokyo
LanguageJapanese
Websitebigcomicbros.net/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.

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[]

Title Author/Artist Premiered
Aoashi Yugo Kobayashi January 5, 2015
Ano Tsuki ni Mukatte Ute! Kazuyuki Samukawa January 5, 2020
Asadora! Naoki Urasawa October 6, 2018
Battleground Workers (バトルグラウンドワーカーズ Batoruguraundowākāzu) Minoru Takeyoshi April 22, 2019
Bushi Sutanto Ōsaka-kun! Yokoyama Nobuo November 11, 2019
Chi: Chikyū no Undō ni Tsuite Uoto September 14, 2020
Dance Dance Danseur (ダンス・ダンス・ダンスール Dansu dansu dansūru) George Asakura September 14, 2015
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Inio Asano April 28, 2014
Dragon Jam Itsunari Fuji May 27, 2010 (moved from Monthly Big Comic Spirits)
Fuuto PI Riku Sanjo (story) & Masaki Satou (art) August 7, 2017[4][5][6]
Hirayasumi Shinzō Keigo April 26, 2021
Jagān Muneyuki Kaneshiro (story) & Nishida Kensuke (art) February 6, 2017
Jinsei ga Yori Chirakaru! Shinkoku o Nayami Sōdan-Shitsu Karēsawa Kaoru January 6, 2020
Kaikan-Cagan- Hayasaka Gab July 1, 2019
Kekkon suru tte, Hontou desu ka? Tamiki Wakaki March 16, 2020
Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia Makoto Ojiro May 20, 2019
Kuneru Maruta Nubo Jingu Takao February 26, 2018
Kujō no Taizai Shohei Manabe October 12, 2020
Mobile Suit Gundam Bandiera Rie Kano January 20, 2020
Mogura no Uta Noboru Takahashi August 25, 2005
Oishinbo Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki October 1983
(on hiatus)
Ponkotsu Ponko Keita Yadera March 25, 2019
Puratanasu no Mi Toshiya Higashimoto October 5, 2020
Saturn Return (サターンリターン Satānritān) Akane Torikai January 21, 2019
Shinkurou, Run! (新九郎、奔る！Shinkurō, Hashiru! Masami Yuki January 27, 2018

Notable manga artists and series featured[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Men's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Jason Thompson (2007). Manga: The Complete Guide. Del Rey Books. p. xxiii-xxiv. ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8.
  3. ^ Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data 2008 Archived March 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ "Kamen Rider W Tokusatsu Show Gets Sequel Project". Anime News Network. 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  5. ^ "Kamen Rider W Sequel Project is Manga by Riku Sanjo, Masaki Satou". Anime News Network. 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  6. ^ "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.

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