Big Comic 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. 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.

## Notable manga artists and series featured

* Buronson and Atsushi Kamijou
	+ *DOG LAW*
* Tetsuya Sekiya
	+ *Bambino!*
* Koji Aihara
	+ *Koji En*
* Inio Asano
	+ *Oyasumi Punpun* (moved from *Young Sunday*)
	+ *Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction*
* Tatsuya Egawa
	+ *Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari*
* Hisashi Eguchi
	+ *Paparinko Monogatari*
* Tooru Fujisawa
	+ *Animal Joe*
* *Ai Kozaki*
	+ *Asahinagu*
* 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*
* Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Nishida Kensuke
	+ *Jagān*
* Junji Ito
	+ *Gyo*
	+ *Remina*
	+ *Uzumaki*
* Takashi Iwashige
	+ *Bokkemon*
* Masasumi Kakizaki and George Abe
	+ *Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin* (moved from *Young Sunday*)
* Atsushi Kamijo
	+ *8 -Eight-*
* Ryo Kurashina and Taro Sekiguchi
	+ *Teiou*
* Tsutomu Kamishiro and Yuu Nakahara
	+ *Last Inning*
* Katsutoshi Kawai
	+ *Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu* (moved from *Young Sunday*)
* Sakyo Komatsu and Tokihiko Ishiki
	+ *Nihon Chinbotsu*
* Eisaku Kubonouchi
	+ *Chocolat*
* Kuromaru
	+ *Kurosagi* (written by Takeshi Natsuhara and moved from *Young Sunday*)
* Motorō Mase
	+ *Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit* (moved from *Young Sunday*)
* Taiyō Matsumoto
	+ *Takemitsu Zamurai* (written by Issei Ifuku)
	+ *Tekkonkinkreet*
	+ *Ping Pong*
* 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* (moved from *Young Sunday*)
* 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* (moved from *Young Sunday*)
	+ *Hakubo no Chronicle*
* Shouhei Manabe
	+ *Ushijima the Loan Shark*
* Uoto
	+ Chi: Chikyū no Undō ni Tsuite
* Yukio Katayama
	+ *Hanamote Katare* (moved from *Monthly Big Comic Spirits*)
	+ *Furo Girl!*