Weekly Big Comic Spirits – 2001 Issue #17 – Author Comments

For all of this year, we’re taking a look at Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits (週刊ビッグコミックスピリッツ) magazine back in 2001. From these issues exactly 25 years ago from their releases helps give a bit of a insight into the creators and the magazine at the time. If you want to see more of these author comments and other articles about the magazine, check out our archive for Weekly Big Comic Spirits on this page.

The cover date on the issues are not the actual release dates for the magazine. As such, we will be posting the articles based on the calendar date when the magazine was actually available for readers to pick up in Japan. In the year 2001, this would typically be published on every Monday.

Every modern issue, the editorial staff would ask a single question to all of the published authors. While the magazine was released weekly, not every series in the magazine was published in each issue. Below is the listing of the manga series as they appear in the issue along with a rough English translation for the question and each response.

Issue Info

Release Date: 3/26/2001
Cover Date: 4/9/2001
Cover Design: Subaru

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• Subaru had the cover design, opening color pages, and was the start of the “Part 2” for the series.
• Sakuramachi Police Box Tales: Yumemizaka was the oneshot published in the issue.

Question

April Fool’s Day is coming up… So tell us your best joke this year.

まもなくエープリルフール･･･今年使える、必殺の嘘を教えてください。