is a Japanese ''seinen''

manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is ...

magazine published by

Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, comics ( manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the ...

, aimed at an older adult and mostly male audience. It is a sister magazine to ''

Big Comic is a semimonthly Seinen manga, ''seinen'' manga List of manga magazines, magazine published since 18 February 1968 by Shogakukan in Japan. It was originally launched as a monthly magazine, but switched to twice monthly on the 10th and 25th begin ...

'', the biggest difference being that it goes on sale twice a month in the weeks ''Big Comic'' does not. 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. 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. Circulation in 2015 was reported at 539,500.Japan Magazine Publishers Association ''Magazine Data June 2015''
Retrieved Oct. 28, 2015.

Currently running manga series

Manga artists and series published

* Mitsuru Adachi ** ''

Jinbē is a romance manga by Mitsuru Adachi. It appeared irregularly in the manga magazine '' Big Comic Original'' from 1992 through 1997, and was collected in one tankōbon volume in May 1997. In 1998, it was adapted as an 11-episode television d ...

'' (1992–1997) and ''Bōken Shōnen'' (1998–2005) *

George Akiyama was a Japanese manga artist known for dealing with controversial and incendiary topics in many of his works. He was born the second boy of five siblings. He had an older brother and older sister, as well as a younger brother and younger sister. ...

** ''

Haguregumo is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by George Akiyama. It has been serialized by Shogakukan in '' Big Comic Original'' from 1973 to 2017 and collected in 112 tankōbon volumes. ''Haguregumo'' received the 1979 Shogakukan Mang ...

'' (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) * Shin'ichi Ishizuka ** '' Gaku: Minna no Yama'' (2003–2012) * Hideo Iura ** '' Bengoshi no Kuzu'' (2003–2009) * Ichimaru ** ''

Okami-san is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ichimaru. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Big Comic Original'' from 1990 to 1999, with its chapters collected in 17 ''tankōbon'' volumes. It was followed b ...

'' (1990–1999) ** ''Okami-san Heisei Basho'' (2011–2013) *

Junji Ito is a Japanese horror manga artist. Some of his most notable works include ''Tomie'', a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness; '' Uzumaki'', a three-volume series about a town obsessed with spirals; and ...

** ''

No Longer Human is a 1948 Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai. It is considered Dazai's masterpiece and ranks as the second-best selling novel ever in Japan, behind Natsume Sōseki's ''Kokoro''. The literal translation of the title, discussed by Donald Keene in hi ...

'' (2017–2018) * Kō Kojima ** ''Hige to Boin'' (1974–2004) *

Shinji Mizushima was a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for several baseball manga, such as ''Yakyū-kyō no Uta'', ''Dokaben'', and '' Abu-san''. He is a two-time recipient of the Shogakukan Manga Award. His works have been collected into more than 54 ...

** '' Abu-san'' (1973–2014) *

Motoka Murakami is a Japanese manga artist who primarily writes for the Seinen demographic despite beginning his career with Shounen works. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for '' Gakuto Retsuden'' ( ja) in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, ...

** ''Ryuu Ron'' (1991–2006) * Jiro Taniguchi ** '' Guardians of the Louvre'' (2014) *

Naoki Urasawa is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his ...

** ''

Pineapple Army is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuya Kudo and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's magazine ''Big Comic Original'' from 1985 to 1988, with the individual chapters collected into eight ''tankōbon'' volumes. ...

'' (1985–1988; with Kazuya Kudo) ** ''

Master Keaton is a Japanese manga series created by Hokusei Katsushika, Naoki Urasawa, and Takashi Nagasaki. It was serialized in '' Big Comic Original'' from 1988 to 1994, with the 144 chapters collected into 18 ''tankōbon'' volumes by Shogakukan. An ...

'' (1988–1994; with Hokusei Katsushika and

Takashi Nagasaki is a Japanese author, manga writer and former editor of manga. He started his professional career at Shogakukan in 1980 and worked as an editor on the publisher's various manga magazines, including as editor-in-chief of ''Big Comic Spirits'' fr ...

) ** ''

Monster A monster is a type of fictional creature found in horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore, mythology and religion. Monsters are very often depicted as dangerous and aggressive with a strange, grotesque appearance that causes terror and fe ...

'' (1994–2001) ** ''

Pluto Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of trans-Neptunian object, bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the S ...

'' (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 was a weekly manga magazine published by Shogakukan in Japan since the first issue on March 27, 1987. It replaced '' Shōnen Big Comic'' in Shogakukan's lineup of shōnen titles, and many of the titles in ''Shōnen Big Comic'' were continued in ...

''; 2008–2010) n hiatus* Osamu Yamamoto ** '' Akagari: The Red Rat in Hollywood'' (2017–2021)

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