VIZ Media Has acquired the publishing rights for Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball: A Visual History (original Japanese cover above) – which will be published under VIZ Media’s Shonen Jump imprint and is slated for release in the fall of 2019.
Details follow.
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VIZ Media has announced a new development for the company’s flagship imprint, Shonen Jump, and digital manga magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump.
Beginning today, the current Weekly Shonen Jump magazine lineup of 13 series will be available to readers for free.
Weekly Shonen Jump published its final digital magazine issue on December 10th and has launched the Shonen Jump digital vault membership. Details follow.
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In Kakurio: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits, Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather’s ability to see spirits – and his massive debt to them! Now she’s been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill.
Neither of the payment options thrills her.
Kakurio: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits will available in stores and digitally on January 1st.
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As Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition opens, a vast city lies under the shadow of colossal, ancient tombs, the identity of their builders lost to time. In the streets of the city something is preying on the inhabitants, something that moves faster than the human eye can see and leaves unimaginable horror in its wake. Tsutomu Nihei’s dazzling, harrowing dystopian thriller is presented here in a single-volume hardcover edition featuring full-color pages and foldout illustrations. The volume also includes the early short story, Digimortal.
From Tsutomu Nihei (Biomega, Blame!), Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition will be in stores on December 18th.
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Do you know a fan of anime and/or manga?
VIZ Media has a selection of potential gifts for that fan – like the Tokyo Ghoul Boxed Set – collecting the entire run of the series.
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In Taishi Tsutsui’s We Never Learn, Nariyuki Yuiga comes from an impoverished family, so he’s eager to secure a full scholarship to college before he graduates high school. His principal agrees, with one stipulation—he must tutor the two smartest girls at school and make sure they get into their target colleges.
Released on VIZ Media’s Shonen Jump imprint, We Never Learn will be in stores on December 4th.
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Halloween ComicFest will be celebrated this year on Saturday, October 27th at scores of comic shops and retailers.
This year, VIZ Media will support Halloween ComicFest with two free samplers – the title stories from Frankenstein: Junju Ito Story Collection and an excerpt from the Splatoon manga.
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Shirayuki is an herbalist with bright red hair. Snow White With the Red Hair is story of her journey to becoming the court herbalist for a brave young prince.
VIZ Media has acquired the shojo manga series with an eye to publishing its first issue Summer 2019.
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Kentaro Miura’s Berserk has outraged, horrified, and delighted readers since 1989, and now the champion of adult fantasy manga is presented in a handsome embossed hardcover edition amassing the first three Berserk volumes in Kentaro Miura’s preferred 7” x 10” format, with further volumes to come to present the entire series in deluxe matching bookshelf collections.
Berserk Deluxe Edition Volume 1 HC goes on sale on February 27th.
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Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human, half-Ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers.
Ken Kaneki’s story – Tokyo Ghoul Complete Box Set – will be in stores on October 16th.
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Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the anguished and solitary monster—and the fouler beast who created him—to life.
Also included are six tales of Oshikiri—a high school student who lives in a decaying mansion connected to a haunted parallel world.
Frankenstein: Junito Story Collection will be released on October 16th by VIZ Media.
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