Big Gold

**Big Gold** was a youth manga magazine formerly published by Shogakukan Corporation. It was revived after a hiatus but is closed again.

## Publication from inception to temporary closure

It was established on June 8, 1978 as an extension of Big Comics. It is the second magazine derived from Big Comics after Big Comic Originals. It was B5 size and the cover was a simple design with catfish, the mascot character of Shogakukan magazine, printed large. Although it was no different from Big Comic in terms of age group, it had a large number of gorgeous writing teams such as Shotaro Ishinomori, Fujio Akatsuka, and Zero Matsumoto.

The magazine ceased publication on July 18, 1985, with the 12th issue.

### Selected filmography

#### Series

* Infinite Sea Drifting Chronicles (Matsumoto Zeroshi) No.1 - No.12
* Sharyū Tan -Kansho- (Shotaro Ishimori) No.2 - No.10
* The World of Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Isao Kojima) No.4 - No.8
* World War II No.8 - No.12
* Fishing fish hesitation is unleashed!! (Takao Yaguchi) No.9 - No.10
* Ichiba Back Journal (Kazuo Uemura) No.10 - No.12
* Ōman (Hōsei Hasegawa) No.9 - No.11
* Airport(Shotaro Ishimori) No.11 - No.12
* Nonsense Theater (Hiroshi Kurotetsu) No.11 - No.12

#### Reading

No.1
* Voices from the Past (by Osamu Tezuka, art by Saito Takaka)
* Anna on a street corner (Michiko Satonaka)
* Radon (Ryohei Nishigishi)
* Naked Hyakuten (Kei Ichinoseki)
* Animal Chapter Picture Book (Shotaro Ishimori)
* Major Research (Shunji Sonoyama)
* Zaka Purofu Shōnaru (Chiba Tetsuya)
* Wataka (Sanpei Shiratsuchi)

No.2
* Mizume (by Harumi Setouchi, composition and artwork: Miyako Maki)
* Shiokaze and Koinobori (Yusuke Aoyagi)
* Haruura (Ryohei Nishigishi)
* Smile
* Rose Tatsu (Eiko Mizuno)
* Mountain of Fire (Osamu Tezuka)

No.3
* Natsu no Murai (by Kazuo Koike, art by Mamoru Mazaki)
* The Monster of Iridescent Slope (Ryohei Nishigishi)
* Assignment Competition (Post) (Fujio Akatsuka, Takaka Saito, Michiko Satonaka, Eiko Hanamura)
* Dostoevsky's Dog (George Akiyama)
* Adam's Star (Screenplay: James Miki, Art: Hitoshi Hirano)

No.4
* The House of Gingko (poetry: Sachiko Yoshiwara, art by Kazuo Uemura)
* Gastronomic Sanban (Kei Ichinoseki)
* Parallel Alumni Association (Fujio Fujiko)
* Fairy Tales and Family Journals (Ryohei Nishigishi)
* In the Mirror (Mitaro Tomine)
* Uoishi (Tsuge Yoshiharu)
* Seven Tub Rocks (Sanpei Shiratsuchi)

No.5
* Inside the Urn (Tohru Shinohara)
* The Phantom of the Demon Hall (Ryohei Nishigishi)
* Glass shoes are ephemeral (Kenji Hirokane)
* Doyomae (Iwashige Takashi)
* Silence (Kawasaki Noboru)

No.6
* Maitake mushrooms (by Sanpei Shiratsuchi, art by Kei Ichinoseki)
* It's Cleopatra (Fujio Fujiko)
* Autumn of the Fifth Year (Michiko Satonaka)
* Banks of the Raymond River (Shigeru Mizuki)
* Peacock Wind Koto (Kazuhiko Miyatani)

No.7
* Tokugawa Ieyasu (by Kazuo Koike, art by Satomi Kamie)
* Nigai Tracking (Tadashi Matsumori)

No.8
* Modern Controversy (by Shigesato Itoi, art by Mitsutoshi Furuya)
* Utamaru (Kazuo Uemura)
* Laugh Creation Transcript (Shozo Sakaida)

No.9
* Wolf Boy (Ryohei Nishigishi)

No.10
* Cosmo Zone (Ryohei Nishigishi)
* Mochi (Eiji Kimura)

No.11
* Sake Tanomu (Kenichi Kitami)
* Sakura Sakura (Yusuke Aoyagi)
* Shinchu Flamesaka (by Ushijiro, art by Shinji Hikino)
* Dokhatstentsuku (George Akiyama)

No.12
* Rōjin
* Dr. Taisuke (by Ryuji Mizutani, art by Shinji Ono)
* Woman's Claim (Tamiko Akaboshi, Yuko Katane, Haruki Uchida, Erika Sakurazawa)
* The Last Flight of Jailbreak (by Kazuya Kudo, art by Eiji Kimura)
* Shinjuku Lullaby (by Masao Yajima, art by Naoki Urasawa)
* Information Day
* Champion from Japan (Yukichi Yamamatsu)

## Revival and discontinuation

On December 17, 1992, it was newly published as "**Monthly Big Gold**" on the 17th of every month. The size became A4, and the cover illustration was an illustration by Kei Fujii (later Tamurashigeru). Like its predecessor, it was treated as an extension of Big Comics, but was established independently in the January 1995 issue. He is known for serializing sequels to Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Historiography and Matsumoto Zeroshi's Galactic Railway 999.

The magazine ceased publication in March 1999.

### Selected filmography

#### Series

* Heisei Baseball Kusako (Shinji Mizushima)
* Aton's daughter (Michiko Satonaka)
* Case Hard (Matsumoto Zeroshi)
* Wonder Train (Shigeru Mizuki) \*Renamed "Wonder Series" from issue 2
* History (Mitsuteru Yokoyama)
* Dream Pillow (Shizuichi Hayashi)
* - Noboru Kawasaki (Kawasaki Noboru) \*Later renamed to "Mr. Golfer Insanhe Dan Tsuru"
* Gambling Philosophy (Hiroshi Kurotetsu)
* Sandwich Man (Masahiro Nikaido)
* Philanthropy Man (George Akiyama)
* Yokai Change Series (Shigeru Mizuki)
* Ideal Palace (Jun Hatanaka)
* - Yume Uzu (Miyako Maki)
* White Paper on Crime with a Spring Mechanism (Yusuke Aoyagi)
* Makuma - Mijikame Rumor (Kenichiro Takai)
* Ichikoma Stadium (Shin Yamada)
* Meds to go to school (Mochito Hagio)
* Everyday Theater (蛭子能収)
* - Akiai Cinema Drunken (by Fujio Akatsuka, Juzo Yamasaki, art by Makoto Wada)
* Rainbow Collection (Tamurashigeru)
* Sarutobi Sasuke (Shotaro Ishinomori)
* One Hundred Views of Artisans (Morimi Murano)
* Miyamoto Musashi (Shotaro Ishinomori)
* Wild Legend / Claw King (by Yukio Togawa, art by Takao Yaguchi)
* Taracine Street (by Tetsuro Menke, art by Kenichiro Takai)
* GAM-BLUES (Hiroshi Kurotetsu)
* Dotera Neko's Monthly Cho Congressional Report (Hashimoto Iwao)
* Shoden Tsukahara (Shotaro Ishinomori)
* Shin Domain Notation Mori Clan (by Chitaro Kubota, art by Honmariu)
* Ōtama Moon Night (Jun Hatanaka)
* Wild Legend / Ryukaze (by Yukio Togawa, art by Takao Yaguchi)
* Galactic Railway 999 (Matsumoto Zeroshi)
* Asako's Baseball Diary (Shinji Mizushima)
* Tsurugame Waltz (Michiko Satonaka)
* East-West Bizarre Gentleman's Book (Shigeru Mizuki)
* Majideca (by Makoto Nakahara, art by Kenichiro Takai)
* Abandoned People (George Akiyama)
* Wal-Yatsura (Saso Akira)
* Omohide Food and Drink Exhibition (Kenichi Kitami)
* Fresh Manga Market (Natsume Bonosuke, etc.)
* Representative Director: Isamu Kondo (Noboru Kawasaki)
* Wild Legend / Return to the North (by Yukio Togawa, art by Takao Yaguchi)
* Dull Colored Slope (Kimio Yanagisawa)
* We're All Alive (Akira Saso)
* The Invitation of the Mallet (Shigeru Mizuki)
* The Flag of Maboroshi (Keiko Takemiya)
* Mr. Koike (by Ritsuo Hayashi, art by Kenichiro Takai)
* Wild Legend / Candy-colored Horns and Three Fingers (by Yukio Togawa, art by Takao Yaguchi)
* Shinjuku Gyoin Bat (Ikuko Kujirai)
* Biography of History (Mitsuteru Yokoyama)
* Dad is in no hurry (Emi Kurta)

#### Series

* Love Chronicles Series (Nazuna Saito)
* Labyrinth of the Heart series (Yoko Kondo)
* World Drifting Series (Fujio Fujiko (A))

#### Reading

* What if (Kazuo Nagisuma)
* SKY (Noboru Rokuda)
* Fascinated by Ancient Egypt (by Sakuji Yoshimura, art by Michiko Satonaka)
* Tennis Begins (Chiba Tetsuya)
* Mikaeri Sakura (Yusuke Aoyagi)
* Temple of the Seagulls (Kitchen and Beauty)
* Old Man no Kimochi (Keisuke Yamashina)
* Sweet Life (Kiriko Genbo)
* On the occasion of turning 30 in 1993 (Yoshida Tank)
* Begging Expectations (by Yuji Nishi, art by Kenichiro Takai)
* Skin Memory (Ryoichi Ikegami)
* Red Nihofu (Keiko Takemiya)
* J.League strategy to win (Yoshiie Koda)
* Silly! J.League (Kurtz Sato)
* J.League 4 Frames (Isami Nakagawa)
* Topetro's Funeral (Shigeru Mizuki)
* The Collapse of Shae Buddhism (Fujio Akatsuka)
* Tokiwa-so Monogatari (Fujio Akatsuka) \*Shotaro Ishinomori also published the work of the same name
* Matsuri (Koki Akiyama)
* Super Space-Time Battleship Mahoroba (Matsumoto Zero)
* The Fish in the Stone (by Hiroshi Furuyama, art by Honmari)
* Game Without Referee (Kokichi Igarashi)
* Screw (Saso Akira)
* The Sensuality of the Moving Soul by Camille Claudel
* Kamal Natsu's younger sister (Kei Higa)

## About the comic book label

There were two comic book labels for this magazine, Big Gold Comics and **Big Comics Gold**. However, this book is a book of Big Gold's works after the new publication, and the first Big Gold titles are often published by labels other than the aforementioned labels.