Big Comic Spirits

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Big Comic Spirits (ビッグコミックスピリッツ, Biggu Comikku Supirittsu^?) is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Shogakukan, aimed at males 20-25 years old, and 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. The magazine is printed every Monday and is available at a price of ¥260.

[edit] Mangaka and series featured on Big Comic Spirits

• Tatsuya Egawa
  • Tokyo University Story
• Akira Hanasaki
  • Oishinbo (story by Tetsu Kariya)
• Ryoichi Ikegami
  • Crying Freeman (story by Kazuo Koike)
  • Wounded Man (story by Kazuo Koike)
• Junji Ito
  • Uzumaki
• Taiyō Matsumoto
  • Black and White
• Fumi Saimon
  • Tokyo Love Story
• Kaoru Shintani
  • Area 88
• Rumiko Takahashi
  • Maison Ikkoku
• Shin Takahashi
  • Iihito
  • Saikano
• Kentaro Takekuma and Koji Aihara
  • Even a Monkey Can Draw
• Jiro Taniguchi
  • Benkei in New York (story by Jinpachi Mori)
• Naoki Urasawa
  • 20th Century Boys
  • Master Keaton (story by Hokusei Katsushika) (also serialized in Big Comic Original)
  • Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
• Naoki Yamamoto
  • Dance Till Tomorrow
  • Believers

[edit] Related magazines

• Big Comic Original

[edit] External links

• Big Comic Spirits 1 2 profiles at Anime News Network