Big Comic Spirits

Big Comic Spirits (ビッグコミックスピリッツ) is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Shogakukan and aimed at males 20–25 years old. It 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. In 1996 Frederik Schodt characterized the typical reader as a twenty-eight-year-old systems engineer who works at a finance company, eats at ramen noodle shops and is seriously considering using a matchmaking service. The magazine is printed every Monday and is available at a price of ¥280. Circulation in 2008 averaged over 300,000 copies. In 2009 Shogakukan launched a new companion 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 bimonthly magazine released on the 15th and 30th day of each month. Beginning in April 1986, the magazine switched to a weekly release, with new issues being released on each Monday.

Currently running manga-series

 * Bambino! (バンビーノ!) by Tetsuji Sekiya
 * Birdy the Mighty Evolution by Masami Yuki
 * Channel wa Sono Mama! by Noriko Sasaki (published monthly)
 * Coconuts Period -Chikyuu Ondannka wo Tomeru Usagi- by Reiji Yamada
 * Danchi Domoo by Tobira Oda
 * Denba no Shiro by Fujihiko Hosono
 * DOG LAW by Buronson and Atsushi Kamijou (published infrequently)
 * Galaxy Ginza by Kenichirou Nagao
 * Hana to Okutan by Shin Takahashi (published infrequently)
 * Jimihen by Tatsuya Nakazaki
 * Joukyou Afro Tanaka by Masaharu Noritsuke
 * Kimakure Concept by Hoichoi Productions
 * Kiryuuin Saeko Tantei Jimusho by Tatsuya Mikami
 * Last Inning by Tsutomu Kamishiro and Yuu Nakahara
 * Lost Man by Michiteru Kusaba moved from Young Sunday
 * Maigetsu Tousan by Minoru Hiramatsu (published monthly)
 * Minna Ikiteru by Yoshiharu Hara
 * Mogura no Uta by Noburo Takahashi moved from Young Sunday
 * Momonchi by Kei Toume
 * MOON - Subaru Solitude Standing by Masahito Soda (published bi-weekly)
 * New Say Hello to Blackjack by Shūhō Satō (published bi-weekly)
 * Nihon Chinbotsu by Sakyo Komatsu and Tokihiko Ishiki
 * Oishinbo by Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
 * Otoko Tama!! Impossible. by Gyo Shinkai
 * Pagyaru! by Britney Hamada
 * Sports Pon by Sensha Yoshida
 * SP by Kazuki Kaneshiro and Yaku Haibara
 * Self by Yukisou Saki
 * Shin Kurosagi by Kuromaru
 * Takemitsu Samurai by Taiyo Matsumoto
 * Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu by Katsutoshi Kawai moved from Young Sunday
 * Teiou by Ryo Kurashina and Taro Sekiguchi
 * Undead by Kazurou Inoue
 * Virtuous by Gibon and Hideo Shinano
 * Yamikin Ushijima-kun by Shouhei Manabe

Manga artists and series featured in Big Comic Spirits

 * Go Nagai
 * Iron Virgin Jun
 * Koji Aihara
 * Koji En
 * Manabu Akishige
 * D-ASH (story by Miya Kitazawa)
 * Inio Asano
 * Oyasumi Punpun moved from Young Sunday
 * Tatsuya Egawa
 * Russo-Japanese War Story
 * Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari
 * Hisashi Eguchi
 * Paparinko Monogatari
 * Tooru Fujisawa
 * Animal Joe
 * Akira Hanasaki
 * Oishinbo (story by Tetsu Kariya)
 * Kengo Hanazawa
 * Boys On The Run
 * Resentment
 * Hidenori Hara
 * Aozora
 * Yattarou Jan!!
 * Shohei Harumoto
 * CB Gan
 * Hideo Hijiri
 * Nazeka Emikai
 * Minoru Hiramatsu
 * Agnes Kamen
 * Mochiru Hoshisato
 * Living Game
 * Fujihiko Hosono
 * Gallery Fake
 * Ryoichi Ikegami
 * Crying Freeman (story by Kazuo Koike)
 * Wounded Man (story by Kazuo Koike)
 * Yūgo Ishikawa
 * Yoiko
 * Junji Ito
 * Gyo
 * Uzumaki
 * Takashi Iwashige
 * Bokkemon
 * Shigeyuki Iwashita
 * Badfly
 * Masasumi Kakizaki
 * Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (story by George Abe) moved from Young Sunday
 * Atsushi Kamijo
 * 8 -Eight-
 * Katsutoshi Kawai
 * Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu moved from Young Sunday
 * Tomohiro Koizumi
 * TENKOUSEI Ore no Asoko ga Aitsu no Are de
 * Meiko Komichi
 * Kaze Shimasu?
 * Eisaku Kubonouchi
 * Cherry
 * Skinless Cowboy
 * Watanabe
 * Chocolat
 * Ikuko Kujirai
 * Blue Jean
 * Yasuyuki Kunitono
 * 100 Oku no Otoko
 * Chocolat
 * Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryou
 * Kuromaru
 * Kurosagi (story by Takeshi Natsuhara) moved from Young Sunday
 * Michiteru Kusaba
 * Lost Man moved from Young Sunday
 * Shohei Manabe
 * Yamikin Ushijima-kun
 * Motorō Mase
 * Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit moved from Young Sunday
 * Taiyō Matsumoto
 * Takemitsu Zamurai (story by Issei Ifuku)
 * Black and White
 * ''Tekkonkinkreet
 * Toshiyuki Mutsu
 * Mucchi ni Goyoujin
 * Yu Nakahara
 * Last Inning (story by Ryu Kamio)
 * Nakatani D.
 * Dawn (story by Ryo Kurashina)
 * Hiromi Namiki
 * Ministry of Finance (story by Yoshiro Nabeda)
 * Masaharu Noritsuke
 * Chuutai Afro Tanaka
 * Koukou 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
 * Kaoru Shintani
 * Area 88
 * Masahito Soda
 * Subaru
 * Yoshihisa Tagami
 * Karuizawa Syndrome
 * Noboru Takahashi
 * Mogura no Uta moved from Young Sunday
 * Rumiko Takahashi
 * Maison Ikkoku
 * Shin Takahashi
 * Ii Hito
 * Saikano
 * Shiro Takehide
 * Tōbō Bengoshi Narita Makoto (story by Yū Takada) moved from Young Sunday
 * Kentaro Takekuma and Koji Aihara
 * Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga
 * Yuji Takemura
 * Master of Sea UMISHI  (story by Yoichi Komori)
 * Yukio Tamai
 * Omega Tribe Kingdom
 * Omega Tribe
 * Jiro Taniguchi
 * Benkei in New York (story by Jinpachi Mori)
 * Sekiya Tetsuji
 * Bambino!
 * Kazuo Umezu
 * My Name is Shingo
 * Naoki Urasawa
 * 20th Century Boys
 * Master Keaton (story by Hokusei Katsushika) (also serialized in Big Comic Original)
 * Happy!
 * Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
 * Katsumi Yamaguchi
 * Takunabi
 * Naoki Yamamoto
 * Dance till Tomorrow
 * ''Arigatō
 * Believers
 * Hideo Yamamoto
 * Homunculus
 * Yasuhito Yamamoto
 * Sekido
 * Boku
 * Kimio Yanagisawa
 * Ruri Iro Generation
 * Sensha Yoshida
 * Utsurun Desu.
 * Masami Yuki
 * Birdy the Mighty moved from Young Sunday