Big Comic Original
{{Short description|Japanese manga magazine}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Big Comic Original
| logo = Big Comic Original.gif
| image_file = Bigcomicoriginal.jpg
| image_size =
| image_caption = Big Comic Original February 5, 2007 issue
| editor = Nakaguma Ichirō
| editor_title = Editor-in-chief
| staff_writer =
| frequency = Bi-monthly
| circulation = 504,333
(July–September, 2016)
| category = Seinen manga{{cite book|title=Manga: The Complete Guide|author=Jason Thompson|publisher=Del Rey Books|isbn=978-0-345-48590-8 |year=2007|page=327-239}}{{cite web|url=http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/magadata/index.php?module=list&action=list&cat1cd=1&cat3cd=15&period_cd=34|title=Men's Manga|publisher=Japanese Magazine Publishers Association|date=September 2016|language=ja|access-date=November 6, 2016}}
| founded = 1972
| company = Shogakukan
| country = Japan
| based = Tokyo
| language = Japanese
| website = {{Official website}}
| issn =
}}
{{nihongo|Big Comic Original|ビッグコミックオリジナル|Biggu Komikku Orijinaru}} is a Japanese {{Transliteration|ja|seinen}} manga magazine published by Shogakukan, aimed at an older adult and mostly male audience. It is a sister magazine to the manga magazine Big Comic, the biggest difference being that it goes on sale twice a month in the weeks Big Comic does not.{{cite book|author= Frederik L. Schodt|title=Dreamland Japan: writings on modern manga|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|year=1996|page=97|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Loug6sbKTvEC|isbn=1-880656-23-X}} Cover artwork usually features a dog or cat, and a haiku. The dozen or so manga serials running at any given time feature a wide variety of material, from historical dramas and suspense to sports and romance, with relatively little science fiction or fantasy.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}
Launched in 1972, it has published over 1000 issues, typically running to about 350 pages in a black-and-white, saddle-stapled format, selling for 340 yen (2015). More than 83% of readers are reported to be over 30 years old, with female readers comprising about a quarter of the total. Most readers are company employees.Clements, Jonathan. "Manga Snapshot: Big Comic Original." NEO, Jan. 2011, p. 24-25. Circulation in 2015 was reported at 539,500.[http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/magadata/index.php?module=list&action=list&cat1cd=1&cat3cd=15&period_cd=29 Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data June 2015]. Retrieved Oct. 28, 2015.
Currently running manga series
Manga artists and series published
- Mitsuru Adachi
- Jinbē (1992–1997) and Bōken Shōnen (1998–2005)
- George Akiyama
- Haguregumo (1973–2017)
- Nobuyuki Fukumoto
- The Legend of the Strongest, Kurosawa! (2002–2006)
- Shin Kurosawa:Saikyō Densetsu (2013–2020)
- Mitsuo Hashimoto
- Station (1992–1996)
- Kenshi Hirokane and Masao Yajima
- Human Crossing (1980–1990)
- Shinichi Ishizuka
- Gaku: Minna no Yama (2003–2012)
- Hideo Iura
- Bengoshi no Kuzu (2003–2009)
- Ichimaru
- Okami-san (1990–1999)
- Okami-san Heisei Basho (2011–2013)
- Junji Ito
- No Longer Human (2017–2018)
- Eiji Kazama
- {{Nihongo||風の大地|Kaze no Daichi}} (1990–2022; with Nobuhiro Sakata)
- Kō Kojima
- Hige to Boin (1974–2004)
- Shinji Mizushima
- Abu-san (1973–2014)
- Motoka Murakami
- Ryuu Ron (1991–2006)
- Jiro Taniguchi
- Guardians of the Louvre (2014)
- Naoki Urasawa
- Pineapple Army (1985–1988; with Kazuya Kudo)
- Master Keaton (1988–1994; with Hokusei Katsushika and Takashi Nagasaki)
- Monster (1994–2001)
- Pluto (2003–2009)
- Master Keaton Remaster (2012–2014; with Takashi Nagasaki)
- Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams (2017–2018)
- Takatoshi Yamada
- Dr. Kotō Shinryōjo (moved from Weekly Young Sunday; 2008–2010) [on hiatus]
- Osamu Yamamoto
- Akagari: The Red Rat in Hollywood (2017–2021)
Notes
{{Notelist}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Official website|https://bigcomicbros.net/magazine/bigoriginal/|Big Comic Original official website}} {{in lang|ja}}
- {{Anime News Network|company|1615}}
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{{Shogakukan manga magazines}}
Category:1972 establishments in Japan
Category:Magazines established in 1972
Category:Magazines published in Tokyo
Category:Semimonthly manga magazines published in Japan
Category:Seinen manga magazines
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