Big Comic, Big Comic Original, Big Comics Spirits
Big Comic and Big Comic Original are meant for men well over thirty, Big Comic Superior for readers between twenty-five and thirty, Big Gold for twenties to forties, and Big Comics Spirits which is intended for “young salarymen between the ages of twenty and twenty-five” (Schodt 95).
Big Comics Spirits focuses on sports, dating, and photographs of busty women in bikinis. The average reader of Big Comics Spirits is a “twenty-eight-year-old company employee or salaryman, a systems engineer who works at a finance company, likes to eat at ramen noodle shops, and is starting to look seriously at ads for matchmaking services” (98-99). TekkonKinkreet was serialized in this magazine from 1993 to 1994.
