Big Comic Spirits
Big Comic Spirits 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. 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
- 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
- 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
- Oishinbo by Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
- Otoko Tama!! Impossible. by Gyo Shinkai
- Pagyaru! by Britney Hamada
- Futo Tantei by Masaki Satou
Notable manga artists and series featured
- Buronson and Atsushi Kamijou
- *DOG LAW
- Tetsuya Sekiya
- *Bambino!
- Koji Aihara
- *Koji En
- Inio Asano
- *Oyasumi Punpun
- Tatsuya Egawa
- *Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari
- Hisashi Eguchi
- *Paparinko Monogatari
- Tooru Fujisawa
- *Animal Joe
- Akira Hanasaki and Tetsu Kariya
- *Oishinbo
- Kengo Hanazawa
- *I Am a Hero
- Hidenori Hara
- *Aozora
- *Yattarou Jan!!
- *Minna Ikiteru
- Shohei Harumoto
- *CB Gan
- Mochiru Hoshisato
- * Living Game
- Fujihiko Hosono
- *Gallery Fake
- Ryoichi Ikegami and Kazuo Koike
- *Crying Freeman
- *Wounded Man
- Kazurou Inoue
- *Undead
- Yūgo Ishikawa
- * Yoiko
- Junji Ito
- * Gyo
- * Uzumaki
- Takashi Iwashige
- *Bokkemon
- Masasumi Kakizaki and George Abe
- *'
- Atsushi Kamijo
- *8 -Eight-
- Ryo Kurashina and Taro Sekiguchi
- *Teiou
- Tsutomu Kamishiro and Yuu Nakahara
- *Last Inning
- Katsutoshi Kawai
- *Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu
- Sakyo Komatsu and Tokihiko Ishiki
- *Nihon Chinbotsu
- Eisaku Kubonouchi
- *Chocolat
- Kuromaru
- *Kurosagi
- Motorō Mase
- *'
- Taiyō Matsumoto
- *Takemitsu Zamurai
- * Tekkonkinkreet
- Norifusa Mita
- * Boys of Summer
- Go Nagai
- * Iron Virgin Jun
- Yu Nakahara and Ryu Kamio
- *Last Inning
- Masaharu Noritsuke
- *Afro Tanaka
- Tobira Oda
- *Danchi Tomoo
- Noboru Rokuda
- * F
- Shūhō Satō
- *New Say Hello to Blackjack
- Fumi Saimon
- * Tokyo Love Story
- * Asunaro Hakusho
- Yukizou Saku
- *Hakuba no Ouji-sama
- Masahito Soda
- *Subaru
- * MOON - Subaru Solitude Standing
- Noboru Takahashi
- *Mogura no Uta
- Rumiko Takahashi
- * Maison Ikkoku
- Shin Takahashi
- * Ii Hito
- * Saikano
- Kentaro Takekuma and Koji Aihara
- * Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga
- Yuji Takemura and Yoichi Komori
- *Master of Sea UMISHI
- Jiro Taniguchi and Jinpachi Mori
- *Benkei in New York
- Sekiya Tetsuji
- *Bambino!
- Kei Toume
- *Momonchi
- Kazuo Umezu
- *My Name is Shingo
- Naoki Urasawa
- * 20th Century Boys
- * Happy!
- * Yawara!
- Reiji Yamada
- *Coconuts Period -Chikyuu Ondannka wo Tomeru Usagi-
- Naoki Yamamoto
- * Dance till Tomorrow
- *Arigatō
- * Believers
- Hideo Yamamoto
- * Homunculus
- Yasuhito Yamamoto
- *Sekido
- Kimio Yanagisawa
- *Ruri Iro Generation
- Sensha Yoshida
- *Utsurun Desu.
- Masami Yuki
- *Birdy the Mighty
- Shouhei Manabe
- *Ushijima the Loan Shark
- Yukio Katayama
- *Hanamote Katare
- *Furo Girl!