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.
Teito Monogatari is an epic historical dark fantasy/science fiction work;the debut novel of natural history researcher and polymath Hiroshi Aramata. It began circulation in the literary magazine Monthly King Novel owned by Kadokawa Shoten in 1983,and was published in 10 volumes over the course of 1985–1987. The novel is a romanticized retelling of the 20th-century history of Tokyo from an occultist perspective.
Tatsuya Egawa is a Japanese manga artist and film director. He is probably best known for his Golden Boy manga series,which debuted in 1992. Egawa is known for his drawings of over-the-top facial expressions always crediting the staff of his creations,even on the covers. Kōsuke Fujishima,who is known as the creator of Oh My Goddess,was once one of Egawa's assistants.
Kazuhiro Fujita is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Nihon University. He made his professional manga debut in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1989. He is most famous for the manga Ushio &Tora,for which he won Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1992 and the Seiun Award in 1997,and the long-running Karakuri Circus.
Osamu Akimoto is a Japanese manga artist from Katsushika,Tokyo. He is best known for his long-running comedy series KochiKame:Tokyo Beat Cops,which was continuously published in Weekly Shōnen Jump for 40 years from 1976 to 2016. With 1,960 chapters collected into 201 tankōbon volumes,it held the Guinness World Record for "Most volumes published for a single manga series" from September 2016 to July 2021. The series has sold over 155 million copies,making it one of the best-selling manga series in history. Akimoto has been creating the Western series Black Tiger since 2017.
Noboru Rokuda is a Japanese manga artist. He made his professional debut in 1978 with Saigo Test,for which he won the Shogakukan New Artist Award. He won the 1991 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga for F.
Hidamari no Ki is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka about a friendship between a samurai and a doctor in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Hidamari no Ki received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1984 for general manga.
Genji Monogatari (源氏物語) is a Japanese manga version of Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji by Miyako Maki. In 1989,it received the 34th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.
Penguin no Mondai is a comedic manga series by Yūji Nagai about a penguin named Beckham Kinoshita,who attends Kirikabu Elementary School and who likes to eat hamburgers and hot chips. It is published by Shogakukan and has been collated into 15 tankōbon volumes as of January 2013. It has been adapted into a televised anime series which airs on TV Tokyo and has also been adapted into a theatrical film.
Bow,also known as Bow Wow,is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Terry Yamamoto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Superior from 1992 to 2000,with its chapters collected in eleven tankōbon volumes. A forty-episode anime television series adaptation by Nippon Animation was broadcast on TV Asahi from 1993 to 1994;a short film was also released in 1994.
Burning Kabaddi is a Japanese kabaddi manga series by Hajime Musashino. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Ura Sunday website and MangaONE app since July 2015 and has been collected in twenty-two tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment aired from April 3 to June 19,2021.
Aozakura:Bōei DaigakukōMonogatari is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hikaru Nikaidō. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since April 2016,with its chapters collected in twenty-six tankōbon volumes as of October 2022. It was adapted into a five-episode Japanese television drama broadcast on MBS from October to November 2019.
Shōwa TennōMonogatari is a Japanese manga series written by Issei Eifuku and illustrated by Junichi Nōjō,based on the novel Shōwashi by Kazutoshi Handō. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original since April 2017.
Disu ×Komi (でぃす×こみ),also known as Discommunication,is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Yuki. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Comic Spirits from April 2013 to October 2017.
Chiisai Hito:Aoba JidōSōdanjo Monogatari is a Japanese manga series written by Mitsuhiro Mizuno and illustrated by Jin Kyōchikutō. It was first serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from November 2010 to June 2012,and later in Shōnen Sunday S from June 2012 to October 2013,with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes. A sequel,Shin Chiisai Hito:Aoba JidōSōdanjo Monogatari,started in Shōnen Sunday S in July 2016.
Tokyo Aliens is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by NAOE. It has been serialized in Square Enix's shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy since April 2020.
Finder:Kyoto Jogakuin Monogatari is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Akimoto. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from February 2017 to March 2018,with its chapters collected in a single tankōbon volume.
