Big Comic Superior

Big Comic Superior (ビッグコミックスペリオール, Biggu Komikku Superiōru) is a semimonthly seinen manga magazine published since July 1, 1987, by Shogakukan in Japan. Its target audience is somewhere between the audience for Big Comic Original and Big Comic Spirits.^[4] The magazine has published works by a number of well-known manga artists, including Ryoichi Ikegami, Mochiru Hoshisato, Yū Koyama, Yūji Aoki, Fumi Saimon, Norifusa Mita, George Akiyama, and Buronson.

Big Comic Superior

Cover of February 22, 2008, issue
Categories	Seinen manga[1][2]
Frequency	Semimonthly on 2nd and 4th Fridays
Circulation	108,667[2] (July–September, 2016)
First issue	July 1, 1987[3]
Company	Shogakukan
Country	Japan
Based in	Tokyo
Language	Japanese
Website	bigcomicbros.net/bigsuperior/

Superior was originally a special issue of Big Comic Original, published twice monthly on the 1st and 15th. However, since it was selling just as well as the main three magazines (Big Comic, Big Comic Original, and Big Comic Spirits), it began to be released every other week. It is currently released twice monthly on the second and fourth Fridays. As of 2015, Superior has a reported circulation of 115,334 for each issue.^[5]

Series

Currently running series

Title	Author/Artist	Premiered
Ajiichimonme Tsugi Aji	Zenta Abe (story) & Yoshimi Kurata (art)	December 2018
Eisei Otome no Tatakai-kata	Kuzushiro	April 2019
Fool Night (フールナイト, Fūru Naito)	Kasumi Yasuda	November 2020
Football Nation (フットボールネーション, Futtobōru Nēshon)	Yuki Otake	December 2009
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt	Yasuo Ohtagaki	March 2012
Mukashi no Hanashi (むかしのはなし)	Taiyō Matsumoto	May 2020[6]
Mujina Into the Deep	Inio Asano	March 2023
Ramen Saiyūki	Midori Kube (story) & Tan Kawai (art)	February 2020
Steel of the Celestial Shadows (太陽と月の鋼, Taiyō to Tsuki no Hagane)	Daruma Matsuura	June 2020
Super Ball Girls (スーパーボールガールズ, Sūpā Bōru Gāruzu)	Muneyuki Kaneshiro (story) & Akira Hiramoto (art)	October 2022
Trillion Game (トリリオンゲーム, Toririongēmu)	Riichiro Inagaki (story) & Ryoichi Ikegami (art)	December 2020

Past series

• Aibō by Tamayo Koyasu
• Aji Ichi Monme by Yoshimi Kurata, Yoshita Abe, and Yukie Fukuda
• Ankō: Kaizuri Kaijō Sōsasen, written by Masaki Kitahara and illustrated by Hideki Akiyama with assistance from Fishing Graph
• Azumi by Yū Koyama
• Bow by Terry Yamamoto
• Blood on the Tracks by Shuzo Oshimi
• Chūshun Komawari-kun by Tatsuhiko Yamagami
• Hannari! by Fumi Saimon
• Gigant by Hiroya Oku
• Higake Kin'yūden Komanezumi Shussemichi, written by Toichi Akizuki and illustrated by Kōji Yoshimoto with supervision from Yūji Aoki
• Kiichi!! by Hideki Arai
• Zankyō by Tsutomu Takahashi
• Kotarō wa Hitori Gurashi by Mami Tsumura
• Lord, written by Buronson and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami
• Maihime: Diva, written by Ryō Kurashina and illustrated by Tomoya Ōishi
• Money no Ken by Norifusa Mita
• Moonlight Mile by Yasuo Ōtagaki
• Natsume Arata no Kekkon by Tarō Nogizaka
• Ojuken no Hoshi, story by Mayu Sugiura, illustrated by Kenjū Imatani and created by Nozomi Hashira
• Onna Michi by Bambi Kitazawa [ja]
• Okuribito by Akira Sasō
• Phobia by Katsunori Hara
• Radio Jikan by Radio Wada
• Rāmen Hakkenden, written by Rokurō Kube and illustrated by Tan Kawai
• Reiraku by Inio Asano
• Sekai no Chūshin de Kuda o Maku by Inosuke Rodriguez
• Shakaijin Misaki Satoru by Yasuyuki Kunitomo
• Sprite by Yūgo Ishikawa
• Team Medical Dragon, written by Akira Nagai and illustrated by Tarō Nogizaka
• Wonderland by Yugo Ishikawa