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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese seinen

Seinen

is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at a 20–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be older with some manga aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men" and is not suggestive of sexual matters...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 magazine published by Shogakukan

Shogakukan

is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, manga, non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.Shogakukan founded Shueisha which founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan...

 and aimed at males 20–25 years old. It originally launched on October 14, 1980. The culture of food

Food

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, sports, love

Love

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 relationships, and business

Business

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 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

Monthly Big Comic Spirits

is a monthly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Shogakukan and aimed at males 20–25 years old. It originally launched on August 27, 2009. It is a companion magazine to the weekly Big Comic Spirits.- Current :...

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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!
  Bambino!
  is a Japanese cooking manga written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine Big Comic Spirits. As of February 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 bound volumes of the manga...
  
   by Tetsuji Sekiya
• Birdy the Mighty
  Birdy the Mighty
  is a manga by Masami Yuki, who is best known for producing the long-running series Patlabor. His initial work on the series was quickly abandoned, but it was made into an anime, which was produced and, on the last episode, scripted by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, who is known for anime titles such as Vampire...
  
   by Masami Yuki
  Masami Yuki
  , real name Shūji Satō , is a manga artist.Yuki graduated from Kutchan High School. He is a member of the artist group known as Headgear...
  
   moved from Young Sunday
• Channel wa Sono Mama! by Noriko Sasaki (published monthly)
• Coconuts Period -Chikyuu Ondannka wo Tomeru Usagi- by Reiji Yamada
  Reiji Yamada
  ' is a Japanese manga artist. His first big hit was a romantic comedy , and he is also known for the manga adaptation of Zebraman. He is very concerned with societal problems, and has spent the last several years drawing Zetsubō ni Kiku Kusuri a series of manga interviews with people he believes...
  
  
• Danchi Domoo by Tobira Oda
• Denba no Shiro by Fujihiko Hosono
  Fujihiko Hosono
  is a Japanese manga artist. Hosono was born in Ōta, Tokyo. In 1979, he made his debut with Crusher Joe while he was a student at Keio University. Around the same time, he joined the as an animator...
  
  
• DOG LAW by Buronson and Atsushi Kamijou (published infrequently)
• Galaxy Ginza by Kenichirou Nagao
• Hana to Okutan by Shin Takahashi
  Shin Takahashi
  is a Japanese manga artist best known for writing Saikano and Iihito. He was born in Shibetsu, Hokkaidō on September 8, 1967....
  
   (published infrequently)
• Homunculus
  Homunculus (manga)
  is a Japanese manga by Hideo Yamamoto, intended for the seinen audience. It is serialized in the magazine Big Comic Spirits.-Plot:Manabu Ito, a rich 22 year old medical student, tows 34 year old Susumu Nakoshi's car in order to convince him to undergo trepanation...
  
   by Hideo Yamamoto
  Hideo Yamamoto
  is a Japanese manga artist.He received the "Tetsuya Chiba Award", given to promising young manga creators in 1988. After resigning from the post of assistant of a popular seinen manga artist, Kenshi Hirokane, he made his professional debut by drawing "SHEEP" for Weekly Young Sunday in 1989.Martial...
  
  
• Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
  Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
  is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Motoro Mase. The manga is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday. A national prosperity law has been passed in dystopian Japan resulting in citizens between the ages of 18-24 being randomly selected to die for the good of the nation. These...
  
   by Motorō Mase moved from Young Sunday
• Jimihen by Tatsuya Nakazaki
• Joukyou Afro Tanaka by Masaharu Noritsuke
• Kimakure Concept by Hoichoi Productions
• Kiryuuin Saeko Tantei Jimusho by Tatsuya Mikami
• Kurosagi
  Kurosagi
  is a Japanese manga written by Takeshi Natsuhara and illustrated by Kuromaru. The series is about a boy named Kurosaki who swindles only other professional swindlers known as . It won the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga along with Tetsuji Sekiya's Bambino!.The series was...
  
   by Kuromaru moved from Young Sunday
• Last Inning
  Last Inning
  is a baseball manga written by Ryu Kamio, supervised by Kiyosi Kato and illustrated by Yu Nakahara.-Plot:Saitama High School went to the first round of the Koshien 36 years ago. However after that they did not manage to win any...
  
   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
  Kei Toume
  is a Japanese manga artist.Kei Toume studied at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Her first manga, Rokujō gekijō, was published in Comic Burger magazine in 1992. The manga won her the Shiki prize in a contest held by Kodansha in 1993. A year later, her follow-up manga Mannequin also won a prize.She...
  
  
• MOON - Subaru Solitude Standing by Masahito Soda
  Masahito Soda
  is a Japanese manga artist. Soda studied at Nihon University, but left prior to graduating. He worked as an assistant for Taku Kitazaki, and debuted in 1990 with GET ROCK, published in Magazine Special...
  
   (published bi-weekly)
• New Say Hello to Blackjack by Shūhō Satō
  Shūhō Satō
  is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work Say Hello to Black Jack.His assistants have included his wife, manga artist Tomomi Satō, as well as Masami Kakizaki , Takahisa Shiratori, Itsunari Fujii, Eiji Nomura, Takashi Yoshida, and Kōjirō Umezawa.-Brief...
  
   (published bi-weekly)
• Nihon Chinbotsu by Sakyo Komatsu
  Sakyo Komatsu
  was a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the most well known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan.-Early life:...
  
   and Tokihiko Ishiki
• Oishinbo
  Oishinbo
  is a long-running cooking manga written by Tetsu Kariya and drawn by Akira Hanasaki. The manga's title is a portmanteau of the Japanese word for delicious, oishii, and the word for someone who loves to eat, kuishinbo. The series depicts the adventures of culinary journalist Shirō Yamaoka and his...
  
   by Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Otoko Tama!! Impossible. by Gyo Shinkai
• Oyasumi Punpun by Inio Asano
  Inio Asano
  is a Japanese manga author. Asano created the acclaimed manga Solanin which was released as a feature film in Japan in April 2010, starring Aoi Miyazaki. He is known for his character driven, realist stories that range from slice of life stories to psychological horror...
  
   moved from Young Sunday
• Pagyaru! by Britney Hamada
• Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin
  Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin
  , is a Japanese manga series written by George Abe and illustrated by Masasumi Kakizaki. It began serialization in 2003 in Shogakukan Publishing's Weekly Young Sunday manga magazine but was moved to Big Comic Spirits when the magazine stopped publication. It was later published in twenty two bound...
  
   by George Abe moved from Young Sunday
• Sports Pon by Sensha Yoshida
• Self by Yukisou Saki
• Takemitsu Samurai by Taiyo Matsumoto
  Taiyo Matsumoto
  is an influential manga artist. He made his debut in Afternoon, Kodansha's monthly seinen manga magazine, but is probably best known for his works with Kodansha's rival publisher Shogakukan, including Tekkonkinkreet, Ping Pong and Number Five. He has received critical praise for his unconventional...
  
  
• Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu
  Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu
  is a Japanese seinen manga series by Katsutoshi Kawai. It began serialization in Weekly Young Sunday, later moving to Big Comic Spirits due to the cancellation of the former. It was nominated for best manga at the first two Manga Taisho. A live action television series adaptation is being broadcast...
  
   by Katsutoshi Kawai moved from Young Sunday
• Teiou by Ryo Kurashina and Taro Sekiguchi
  Taro Sekiguchi
  Taro Sekiguchi is a former Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was the 2003 European champion in the 250 class.Sekiguchi began his career competing in the 1999 250cc Japanese Grand Prix...
  
  
• Undead by Kazurou Inoue
  Kazurou Inoue
  is a Japanese manga artist.Born May 1, 1970, he received recognition for his manga at the 40th Rookie Comic Awards. After training under Kazuhiro Fujita, he published Heat Wave in Shōnen Sunday Super for a short while....
  
  
• Virtuous by Gibon and Hideo Shinano
• Yamikin Ushijima-kun by Shouhei Manabe

Manga artists and series featured in Big Comic Spirits

• Koji Aihara
  Koji Aihara
  is a manga artist. He grew up reading the works of Osamu Tezuka.Aihara made his debut with Hachigatsu no Nureta Pantsu in 1983, which ran in Weekly Manga Action Magazine. He is one of the authors of Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga, a satiric look at the manga industry. Aihara's other best-known works...
  
  
  • Koji En
• Manabu Akishige
  • D-ASH (story by Miya Kitazawa)
• Inio Asano
  Inio Asano
  is a Japanese manga author. Asano created the acclaimed manga Solanin which was released as a feature film in Japan in April 2010, starring Aoi Miyazaki. He is known for his character driven, realist stories that range from slice of life stories to psychological horror...
  
  
  • Oyasumi Punpun moved from Young Sunday
• Tatsuya Egawa
  Tatsuya Egawa
  is a Japanese manga artist and film director who was born in the Aichi Prefecture of Nagoya, Japan. He has a degree in applied mathematics and taught college mathematics for five months before switching to manga as a career in 1984. He studied under the prolific manga artist Hiroshi Motomiya for...
  
  
  • Russo-Japanese War Story
  • Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari
    Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuya Egawa.In the story, high schooler asks to date him. They date while both worry about their upcoming university entrance examinations....
    
    
• Hisashi Eguchi
  Hisashi Eguchi
  is a Japanese manga artist. He made his professional manga debut with Susume!! Pirates in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1977. Other notable works include Stop! Hibari-kun and, more recently, the gag series Charamono. Eguchi married Japanese idol Mizutani Mari in 1990.-External links:...
  
  
  • Paparinko Monogatari
• Tooru Fujisawa
  Tooru Fujisawa
  is a Japanese manga author. His name is romanized as Tohru Fujisawa on the Tokyopop English-language Great Teacher Onizuka books and as Toru Fujisawa on the Kodansha bilingual releases. His first serialized work was Adesugata Junjou Boy, published from 1989 in Weekly Shonen Magazine...
  
  
  • Animal Joe
• Akira Hanasaki
  • Oishinbo
    Oishinbo
    is a long-running cooking manga written by Tetsu Kariya and drawn by Akira Hanasaki. The manga's title is a portmanteau of the Japanese word for delicious, oishii, and the word for someone who loves to eat, kuishinbo. The series depicts the adventures of culinary journalist Shirō Yamaoka and his...
    
    (story by Tetsu Kariya)
• Kengo Hanazawa
  • Boys On The Run
    Boys on the Run
    is a Japanese manga series by Kengo Hanazawa. It was adapted into a live action film in 2010.-External links:*...
    
    
  • Resentment
• Hidenori Hara
  Hidenori Hara
  is a Japanese manga artist. He won the 1988 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen for his Just Meet and Fuyu Monogatari.- References :...
  
  
  • Aozora
  • Yattarou Jan!!
• Shohei Harumoto
  Shohei Harumoto
  is a Japanese manga artist from Nerima, Tokyo.Harumoto made his debut with a regular serialisation in Weekly Manga Action, in 1987, his first breakthrough manga called Kirin, about street racing centered on a motorcycles was serialised in the motorcycle magazine, Mr Bike BG.The majority of his work...
  
  
  • CB Gan
• Hideo Hijiri
  • Nazeka Emikai
• Minoru Hiramatsu
  • Agnes Kamen
• Mochiru Hoshisato
  Mochiru Hoshisato
  is a Japanese manga artist. His simple drawing style reflects the gentle nature of his often romantic tales of modern young Japanese salary-men. While Living Game has been favorably compared to Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku, Hoshisato's Yume-ka mo Shinnai and Honki no Shirushi contain fewer...
  
  
  • Living Game
    Living Game
    is a seinen manga by Mochiru Hoshisato, originally published in Big Comic Spirits between October 1990 and April 1993. It is a romantic comedy that also examines some of the absurd effects of the rampant real estate speculation brought about in Japan in the late 1980s and the subsequent recession...
    
    
• Fujihiko Hosono
  Fujihiko Hosono
  is a Japanese manga artist. Hosono was born in Ōta, Tokyo. In 1979, he made his debut with Crusher Joe while he was a student at Keio University. Around the same time, he joined the as an animator...
  
  
  • Gallery Fake
    Gallery Fake
    is a Japanese manga by Fujihiko Hosono. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award.-Story:On a wharf on Tokyo Bay is a small gallery named Gallery Fake. The owner of the gallery, , was once a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...
    
    
• Ryoichi Ikegami
  Ryoichi Ikegami
  is a manga artist. He was assistant to manga artist Shigeru Mizuki in 1966. In 2001, he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga as the artist of Heat. He became a professor at Osaka University of Arts in 2005...
  
  
  • Crying Freeman
    Crying Freeman
    is a manga by Kazuo Koike & Ryoichi Ikegami about an assassin who sheds tears after he kills his targets. Crying Freeman follows the title assassin, a Japanese man hypnotized and trained by the Chinese mafia to serve as its agent, and covered in a vast and complex dragon tattoo...
    
    (story by Kazuo Koike
    Kazuo Koike
    is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur.-Biography:Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series....
    
    )
  • Wounded Man
    Wounded man
    is a Japanese seinen manga written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami. It was serialized in Big Comic Spirits from 1982 to 1986....
    
    (story by Kazuo Koike)
• Yūgo Ishikawa
  Yugo Ishikawa
  is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut in Young Jump with Kakumei Route 163 in 1982.He is best known for his series Yoiko and Fighting Beauty Wulong.-External links:*...
  
  
  • Yoiko
    Yoiko (manga)
    is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Yūgo Ishikawa and serialized in Big Comic Spirits.-Plot:Esumi Fuuka is a gorgeous girl and loves to put on cosmetics. At 163 centimeters tall and 53 kilograms she's got a body that catches all the college guys' attention. But Esumi isn't a...
    
    
• Junji Ito
  Junji Ito
  is a Japanese horror manga artist best known for his series of short stories about Tomie, an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness, and Uzumaki, a three-volume series about a town obsessed with spirals.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Gyo
    Gyo
    is a horror manga by Junji Ito. It also includes a pair of bonus stories, titled The Enigma of Amigara Fault and The Sad Tale of the Principal Post...
    
    
  • Uzumaki
    Uzumaki
    is a horror manga written and Illustrated by Junji Ito, and serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits.The story concerns the inhabitants of the small Japanese town of Kurôzu-cho as they become obsessed by the occurrences of natural and artificial spirals around them...
    
    
• Takashi Iwashige
  Takashi Iwashige
  is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily martial-arts manga celebrating individuality. He is best known for the judo series Hanamaru Legend and its sequel New Hanamaru Legend. He received the 1986 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga for Bokkemon.-External links:* at The Ultimate...
  
  
  • Bokkemon
• Shigeyuki Iwashita
  • Badfly
• Masasumi Kakizaki
  • Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin
    Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin
    , is a Japanese manga series written by George Abe and illustrated by Masasumi Kakizaki. It began serialization in 2003 in Shogakukan Publishing's Weekly Young Sunday manga magazine but was moved to Big Comic Spirits when the magazine stopped publication. It was later published in twenty two bound...
    
    (story by George Abe) moved from Young Sunday
• Atsushi Kamijo
  Atsushi Kamijo
  is a Japanese manga artist. At times he is billed as "Atsushi Kamijo and Yoko", which refers to Yoko Murase, his assistant. Kamijo is known for his stylish designs, which often use pure white backgrounds with very little middle ground between black and white...
  
  
  • 8 -Eight-
• Katsutoshi Kawai
  • Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu
    Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu
    is a Japanese seinen manga series by Katsutoshi Kawai. It began serialization in Weekly Young Sunday, later moving to Big Comic Spirits due to the cancellation of the former. It was nominated for best manga at the first two Manga Taisho. A live action television series adaptation is being broadcast...
    
    moved from Young Sunday
• Tomohiro Koizumi
  • TENKOUSEI Ore no Asoko ga Aitsu no Are de
• Meiko Komichi
  • Kaze Shimasu?
• Eisaku Kubonouchi
  Eisaku Kubonouchi
  is a Japanese manga artist.- Biography :Kubonouchi made his professional career debut in 1986 with the short story Okappiki Eiji published in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday....
  
  
  • Cherry
  • Skinless Cowboy
  • Watanabe
  • Chocolat
• Ikuko Kujirai
  • Blue Jean
• Yasuyuki Kunitono
  • 100 Oku no Otoko
  • Chocolat
  • Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryou
• Kuromaru
  • Kurosagi
    Kurosagi
    is a Japanese manga written by Takeshi Natsuhara and illustrated by Kuromaru. The series is about a boy named Kurosaki who swindles only other professional swindlers known as . It won the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga along with Tetsuji Sekiya's Bambino!.The series was...
    
    (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
    Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
    is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Motoro Mase. The manga is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday. A national prosperity law has been passed in dystopian Japan resulting in citizens between the ages of 18-24 being randomly selected to die for the good of the nation. These...
    
    moved from Young Sunday
• Taiyō Matsumoto
  Taiyo Matsumoto
  is an influential manga artist. He made his debut in Afternoon, Kodansha's monthly seinen manga magazine, but is probably best known for his works with Kodansha's rival publisher Shogakukan, including Tekkonkinkreet, Ping Pong and Number Five. He has received critical praise for his unconventional...
  
  
  • Takemitsu Zamurai (story by Issei Ifuku)
  • Black and White
  • Tekkonkinkreet
• Toshiyuki Mutsu
  • Mucchi ni Goyoujin
• Yu Nakahara
  • Last Inning
    Last Inning
    is a baseball manga written by Ryu Kamio, supervised by Kiyosi Kato and illustrated by Yu Nakahara.-Plot:Saitama High School went to the first round of the Koshien 36 years ago. However after that they did not manage to win any...
    
    (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
  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.- Works :...
  
  
  • F
    F (manga)
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Noboru Rokuda about a country boy who fulfills his dream by racing in a Formula One car. It has been serialized in Big Comic Spirits between June 15, 1985 and 1992 in the fourteenth to thirty-fifth issue of the magazine...
    
    
• Shūhō Satō
  Shūhō Satō
  is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work Say Hello to Black Jack.His assistants have included his wife, manga artist Tomomi Satō, as well as Masami Kakizaki , Takahisa Shiratori, Itsunari Fujii, Eiji Nomura, Takashi Yoshida, and Kōjirō Umezawa.-Brief...
  
  
  • New Say Hello to Blackjack
• Fumi Saimon
  Fumi Saimon
  is a female Japanese manga artist and novelist. She is best known for the series Tokyo Love Story, which was adapted as a live-action television series. She won the 1983 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for P.S. Genki Desu, Shunpei and the 1992 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga for...
  
  
  • Tokyo Love Story
    Tokyo Love Story
    is a manga by Fumi Saimon. Tokyo Love Story was adapted as a Japanese television drama in 1991. It aired on Fuji Television in 11 episodes between January and March 1991. Actors include Yuji Oda, Honami Suzuki, and Narimi Arimori...
    
    
  • Asunaro Hakusho
    Asunaro hakusho
    is a manga series by Fumi Saimon that was serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1992.-Cast:*Hikari Ishida as Narumi Sonoda*Michitaka Tsutsui as Tamotsu Kakei*Takuya Kimura as Osamu Toride...
    
    

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• Yukizou Saku
  • Hakuba no Ouji-sama
• Kaoru Shintani
  Kaoru Shintani
  is a Japanese manga artist. Shintani is best known for his series Area 88, which is widely recognized as one of the finest aviator comic titles in the history of manga. In addition to his very popular pilot comics, Shintani has successfully ventured into science fiction, fantasy, comedy, and hentai...
  
  
  • Area 88
    Area 88
    is a Japanese manga series by Kaoru Shintani serialized between 1979 and 1986. The story is about a young pilot named Shin Kazama and his experiences at Area 88, a mercenary air force base secluded in the desert of a war torn country...
    
    
• Masahito Soda
  Masahito Soda
  is a Japanese manga artist. Soda studied at Nihon University, but left prior to graduating. He worked as an assistant for Taku Kitazaki, and debuted in 1990 with GET ROCK, published in Magazine Special...
  
  
  • Subaru
• Yoshihisa Tagami
  • Karuizawa Syndrome
• Noboru Takahashi
  • Mogura no Uta moved from Young Sunday
• Rumiko Takahashi
  Rumiko Takahashi
  is a Japanese manga artist.Takahashi is one of the wealthiest individuals, and the most affluent manga artists in Japan. The manga she creates are popular worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages...
  
  
  • Maison Ikkoku
    Maison Ikkoku
    is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1980 through 1987. Maison Ikkoku is a bitter-sweet comedic romance involving a group of madcap people who live in a boarding house in 1980s Tokyo...
    
    
• Shin Takahashi
  Shin Takahashi
  is a Japanese manga artist best known for writing Saikano and Iihito. He was born in Shibetsu, Hokkaidō on September 8, 1967....
  
  
  • Ii Hito
    Ii Hito
    is a Japanese manga by Shin Takahashi published by Shogakukan in the magazine Big Comic Spirits. The series was collected in 26 volumes. It was also adapted as an 11-episode television drama.- Outline :...
    
    
  • Saikano
    Saikano
    is a manga, anime, and OVA series by Shin Takahashi, creator of Iihito and Kimi no Kakera. Saikano was originally serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine....
    
    
• Shiro Takehide
  • Tōbō Bengoshi Narita Makoto (story by Yū Takada) moved from Young Sunday
• Kentaro Takekuma
  Kentaro Takekuma
  is a manga artist.He is one of the authors of Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga. He is also the story writer of Super Mario Adventures.-External links:*...
  
   and Koji Aihara
  Koji Aihara
  is a manga artist. He grew up reading the works of Osamu Tezuka.Aihara made his debut with Hachigatsu no Nureta Pantsu in 1983, which ran in Weekly Manga Action Magazine. He is one of the authors of Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga, a satiric look at the manga industry. Aihara's other best-known works...
  
  
  • Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga
    Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga
    is a parody instructional book by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma. The series was serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits and in Viz Media's Pulp from May 2001 to August 2002. Shogakukan published the manga's three tankōbon volumes between October 1990 and May 1992...
    
    
• Yuji Takemura
  • Master of Sea UMISHI (story by Yoichi Komori)
• Yukio Tamai
  • Omega Tribe Kingdom
  • Omega Tribe
• Jiro Taniguchi
  Jiro Taniguchi
  is a Japanese manga artist.- Biography:He began to work as assistant of the late manga artist Kyota Ishikawa. He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya , published in the magazine Young Comic....
  
  
  • Benkei in New York
    Benkei in New York
    is a one-volume manga written by Jinpachi Mori and illustrated by Jiro Taniguchi. It is a collection of short stories revolving around a Japanese artist who moves to New York, but secretly works as a hitman in his spare time. It has been published in English by Viz Media....
    
    (story by Jinpachi Mori)
• Sekiya Tetsuji
  • Bambino!
    Bambino!
    is a Japanese cooking manga written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine Big Comic Spirits. As of February 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 bound volumes of the manga...
    
    
• Kazuo Umezu
  Kazuo Umezu
  , is an author of Japanese horror and other manga, as well as a musician and actor.He had his first book of manga published while still in high school and made manga his career immediately upon graduation...
  
  
  • My Name is Shingo
• Naoki Urasawa
  Naoki Urasawa
  is a Japanese manga artist.-Early life:He graduated from Meisei University with a degree in economics. In 2008, Urasawa had a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he taught classes on manga.-Manga career:...
  
  
  • 20th Century Boys
    20th Century Boys
    is a science fiction-mystery manga created by Naoki Urasawa. It won the 2001 Kodansha Manga Award in the General category, an Excellence Prize at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival, and the 2003 Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category. The last two volumes of the story were serialized under...
    
    
  • Master Keaton
    Master Keaton
    is a Japanese manga series created by Hokusei Katsushika and Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Big Comic Original between 1988 and 1994 and ran for 18 volumes . An anime adaptation of the series aired between 1998 and 1999 in Japan on Nippon Television...
    
    (story by Hokusei Katsushika) (also serialized in Big Comic Original)
  • Happy!
    Happy!
    is a sports manga written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was published in Big Comic Spirits from 1993 till 1999.The story is about a teenage heroine who embarks on a career as a professional tennis player to repay an enormous debt incurred by her brother to Yakuza loan sharks, with the...
    
    
  • Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
    Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
    YAWARA!, also known as Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl, is a Japanese manga series by Naoki Urasawa which ran in Big Comic Spirits from 1986 to 1993...
    
    
• Katsumi Yamaguchi
  • Takunabi
• Naoki Yamamoto
  Naoki Yamamoto
  is a male Japanese manga artist. In his early years, he also used pen names and for his earlier adult-oriented works. -Bibliography:* Hora Konna ni Ataku Natteru* Makasensasei!* * Kiwamete Kamoshida...
  
  
  • Dance Till Tomorrow
    Dance Till Tomorrow
    is a manga series by Naoki Yamamoto that has also been adapted into two live action movies. A two-episode OAV was also released on VHS in Japan. It is a romantic comedy which details the life of Suekichi, a student who will inherit a fortune when he graduates from college and gets married with...
    
    
  • Arigatō
    Arigato (manga)
    is a manga by Naoki Yamamoto. It was adapted into a live-action film directed by Masaaki Odagiri in 1996.-Summary:Arigatō is the story of a young girl whose family was divided by the raping of her and her sister, which was carried out by a serial rapist who terrorizes women all over Japan...
    
    
  • Believers
    Believers
    is a Japanese seinen manga by Naoki Yamamoto and is his first weekly serial manga created entirely without the help of any assistants.Believers was first serialized in Weekly Big Comic Spirits between May and November 1999 and is published in two tankōbon by Shogakukan. The plot to Believers...
    
    
• Hideo Yamamoto
  Hideo Yamamoto
  is a Japanese manga artist.He received the "Tetsuya Chiba Award", given to promising young manga creators in 1988. After resigning from the post of assistant of a popular seinen manga artist, Kenshi Hirokane, he made his professional debut by drawing "SHEEP" for Weekly Young Sunday in 1989.Martial...
  
  
  • Homunculus
    Homunculus (manga)
    is a Japanese manga by Hideo Yamamoto, intended for the seinen audience. It is serialized in the magazine Big Comic Spirits.-Plot:Manabu Ito, a rich 22 year old medical student, tows 34 year old Susumu Nakoshi's car in order to convince him to undergo trepanation...
    
    
• Yasuhito Yamamoto
  Yasuhito Yamamoto
  is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut in 1980 in Young Jump with a gag-comedy manga, before turning to more serious dramas. He won the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for Tetsujin Ganma.- External links :* at The Ultimate Manga Page...
  
  
  • Sekido
  • Boku
    Boku
    Boku may refer to:*The Cuban name for the Ashiko, a type of drum*Boku , a juice carton drink.*Bōku, a board game.*BOKU, the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, in Austria....
    
    
• Kimio Yanagisawa
  Kimio Yanagisawa
  is a Japanese manga artist born on September 26, 1948 in Gosen-shi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. His real name is pronounced the same way, but is written as . He graduated from Niigata Prefectural Muramatsu High School two years prior to Yoshifumi Kondō...
  
  
  • Ruri Iro Generation
• Sensha Yoshida
  • Utsurun Desu.
• Masami Yuki
  Masami Yuki
  , real name Shūji Satō , is a manga artist.Yuki graduated from Kutchan High School. He is a member of the artist group known as Headgear...
  
  
  • Birdy the Mighty
    Birdy the Mighty
    is a manga by Masami Yuki, who is best known for producing the long-running series Patlabor. His initial work on the series was quickly abandoned, but it was made into an anime, which was produced and, on the last episode, scripted by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, who is known for anime titles such as Vampire...
    
    moved from Young Sunday