Whether you love food, romance or the supernatural, you’ll find some combination of the three in two new titles from VIZ Media: Food Wars: Shokugeki No Soma and Spell of Desire! Food Wars: Shokugeki No Soma is an action-comedy about one boy’s quest to become a chef – but chooses to attend the culinary school […]
Category: Manga
2014 J-Pop Summit Announces First Guest of Honor!
San Francisco’s annual celebration of Japanese pop culture, music, fashion and film, the 2014 J-Pop Summit Festival, returns over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, July 19th and 20th. Rock singer May’n is this year’s first official Guest of Honor. An expanded program of events is also being planned with updates being posted at www.JPOP.com. […]
HunterX Hunter Returns to Weekly Shonen Jump!
Hunter X Hunter is back! The ongoing manga action series about the licensed Hunters who track down treasures, magical beasts, and even other people returns to VIZ Media’s Weekly Shonen Jump on Monday, June 2nd. Plans are to publish dedicated volumes collecting the series on a twice annual basis. For more, follow the jump to […]
World Trigger’s First Two Volumes Premiere in October!
A portal between dimensions has led to invincible monsters called Neighbors invading Earth. Four years after the appearance of the portal’s appearance, Osamu Mikumo finds himself at a loss when a humanoid Neighbor joins him in defending the Earth. Now his world is turned upside down. Can the two natural enemies become friends? VIZ Media’s […]
VIZ Media Releases Edge of Tomorrow Novelization; All You Need Is Kill Graphic Novel!
Edge of Tomorrow has spawned a couple of new releases from VIZ Media: Edge of Tomorrow, a movie tie-in mass market reissue of the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel on which the movie is based (originally called All You Need Is Kill), and a graphic novel adaptation of the novel, with the original title. In the […]
VIZ Media Releasing English Edition of Naoki Urasawa’s Master Keaton!
Master Keaton, by Naoki Urasawwa (Monsters, 20th Century boys), is finally getting an English edition. The first of the 12-volume manga series is scheduled for a December release by VIZ Media. Each volume will feature 18 pages of full color and will retail for $19.99 US/$22.99 Canadian as part of the VIZ Signature imprint. Originally […]
Ranma 1/2 Gets Remastered 2-in-1 Omnibus Release!
You know how manga read from right to left – exactly the opposite of how we normally read a book or comic? The classic gender-bending martial arts comedy Ranma 1/2 is getting a ‘re-mastered’ 2-in-1 omnibus release which will read from left to right – just like a regular comic – while remaining faithful to […]
Gangsta: Handymen Who Take On The Dirtiest Jobs!
In the city of Ergastulum, where crime, corruption and general nastiness are the order of the day, the Handymen, Nic and Worick, take on the jobs that one else will touch. Then a cop they know asks them to step in to help take down a new gang that’s muscling into the territory of a […]
Deadman Wonderland: Framed For Murder and Stuck in a Bizarre Prison!
Sometimes, you just can’t beat the press release. The tagline for VIZ Media’s Deadman Wonderland reads, ‘a student must fight to clear his name and catch a mass killer after being wrongfully sentenced to a carnival-like penitentiary where nothing is as it seems.’ If that doesn’t intrigue the heck outta you, you have no imagination […]
Dragon Ball Z Goes Full Color!
On February 4th, Goku, the greatest hero on Earth, returns in a new, over-sized, full color edition – Dragon Ball Full Color. The series will reprint the Dragon Ball saga in a larger 6 5/8” x 10 1/4” format to be published three times a year. Dragon Ball Full Color will also be available digitally. […]
VIZ Media Debuts Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix in Digital Manga!
In the last half of January, VIZ Media is premiering Phoenix, a series of twelve complex stories linked by the fabled bird. Considered by many to be his masterpiece – and this is the man who created Astro Boy, Kimba The White Lion and Black Jack – Phoenix skips across time and place, with characters […]