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1media/Big TK 1.jpg2016-06-13T15:58:13-07:00Big Comic, Big Comic Original, Big Comics Spirits8plain2016-06-13T16:14:50-07:00This large age disparity can be problematic in that a seventeen year-old student would certainly have a different palate for stories than a thirty-five year-old office employee. To remedy this, Big publishing has several different magazines that cater towards age ranges within the seinen group.
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.
