Big comic original
| Big comic original
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| description | Manga magazine |
| Area of Expertise | His |
| language | Japanese |
| publishing company | Shogakukan ( Japan ) |
| First edition | 1972 |
| Frequency of publication | twice a month |
| Sold edition | 500,000 copies |
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| Web link | big-3.jp/bigoriginal/ |
Big Comic Original ( ビ ッ グ コ ミ ッ ク オ リ ジ ナ ル , Biggu Komikku Orijinaru ) is a Japanese manga magazine that has been published twice a month by Shogakukan since 1972 . It appears in alternation with the sister product Big Comic and, like this one, is aimed at adult men, so it belongs to his category. The 300-page editions sold around 500,000 each at the end of 2016. In the mid-1990s, at the height of the manga magazine market in Japan, the sold circulation was 1.7 million. Like Big Comic , the magazine mainly offers stories by older, well-known artists and contains only a few advertisements. The covers always show motifs with animals.
More than 83% of Big Comic Original readers say they are over 30 years old, and around a quarter are female. Most of the readers are employees.
Series (selection)
- Dr. Kotō Shinryōjo by Takatoshi Yamada
- Haguregumo by George Akiyama
- Kaze no Daichi by Nobuhiro Sakata and Eiji Kazama
- Monster by Naoki Urasawa
- Pluto: Urasawa × Tezuka by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki
See also
- Big Comic Superior , sister magazine
- Big Gold , former sister magazine
Web links
- Official Magazine Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Men's Manga. Japanese Magazine Publishers Association, September 2016, accessed March 22, 2017 (Japanese).
- ↑ Frederik L. Schodt : Dreamland Japan - Writings on Modern Manga . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2011, ISBN 978-1-933330-95-2 , pp. 97 f .
- ↑ Jonathan Clements: Manga Snapshot: Big Comic Original . In: NEO , January 2011, pp. 24–25.