VIZ Media, the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America is teaming up with United Talent Agency – the premier global talent and literary agency – to develop live-action content based on the properties it distributes. This could mean the possibility of live-action adventures of the new Ultraman (my personal greatest […]
Category: Manga
VIZ Media Slates Amano and Miyazaki Art Books For Summer!
VIZ Media announced the titles of two upcoming prestige art books at C2E2: Yoshitaka Amano: Illustrations and Art of Castle in the Sky. Yoshitaka Amano: Illustrations will include work from collaborations like Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D and Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets), to Amano’s own creations like Hero and N.Y. Salad. Art of Castle in the Sky […]
Capcom Game Inspires Monster Hunter Manga!
VIZ Media is launching a ten-volume manga series based on CAPCOM’s hit Monster Hunter video game. Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter takes us back to the time when monster hunter Raiga and his comrades were not the skilled and seasoned hunters that they are now. Volume One of Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter will be in stores […]
Inio Asano’s Goodnight Punpun Debuts In March!
Punpun Punyama is an average kid in an average town. He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world. He wants to go far away with his true love. He wants to find some porn. But Punpun’s life is about to unravel… Inio Asano’s manga series Goodnight Punpun is ‘an edgy coming-of-age story about […]
Schoolgirl Ninja Series Shuriken and Pleats Debuts In March!
Matsuri Hino (Vampire Night) has a new manga series coming – Shuriken and Pleats. When her master is killed, skilled ninja Mikage Kirio travels to Japan to start a new life – but even as she settles into that new life, she finds a new mission. Shuriken and Pleats Vol. 1 will be in stores on […]
VIZ Media Releases a New Naruto Novel: Naruto: Shikamaru’s Story
VIZ Media’s series of novels featuring key characters from the Naruto saga, Naruto: Shikamaru’s Story, tells the story of the current head of Team 10 and the Nara Clan and features original cover art by Masashi Kishimoto. Naruto: Shikamaru’s Story will be released on February 2nd. For more, follow the jump.
Shojo Beat Launches Bisco Hatori’s Behind the Scenes in February!
Ranmaru Kurisu comes from what we might call a very blue collar family – a family of hard-nosed, hard working fisherfolk – but he’s just not that into it. Two months into his first semester at college, Ranmaru stumbles into what looks like a zombie invasion and faints dead away – coming to to find […]
VIZ Celebrates Weekly Shonen Jump’s 4th Anniversary!
Manga lovers will have cause to celebrate the 4th Anniversary of the digital English edition of Weekly Shonen Jump. Publisher VIZ Media is celebrating the event with a limited time special subscription rate and a sweepstakes where readers can win wide a variety of Shonen Jump premiums including t-shirts, jackets and more. For details, follow the […]
School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei – Elementary School Court!
Tenbin Elementary is not your average school. When students have a quarrel, they go to court – bypassing teachers altogether. Instead, both sides of the quarrel are argued by some of the finest lawyers in the country – and they’re all elementary school students! VIZ Media’s unique new manga series School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei was […]
Popular Manga Series Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Omnibus Coming From Dark Horse!
The most popular of the Neon Genesis Evangelion spinoffs, The Shinji Ikari Raining Project is getting the omnibus treatment from Dark Horse Comics. The famous final episode of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime TV show imagined the show’s main characters in an alternate world where friendship and romance could be as important as their […]
Three New Digital Manga Series Launches Lead VIZ Media Into 2016!
Honey So Sweet, Saving Life and Kannazuki No Miko lead VIZ Media’s first month of digital manga releases for 2016. Honey So Sweet is a romantic comedy involving a pair of seemingly mismatched high school students; Saving Life is about a young man’s determination to stand on his own and Kannazuki No Miko is describes […]