Today, a special issue of Shonen Weekly was released with the premiere of the manga, All You Need Is Kill, to celebrate the digital magazine’s second anniversary. All You Need Is Kill is of course, the acclaimed Takeshi Obata manga that has been adapted for film as Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise. For details, […]
Category: Manga
Buy A Digital Graphic Novel and You Could Win a VIZ Media Prize Pack Valued at Over $400!
If you love manga and cool prizes, you should be checking out VIZ Media. From now until December 19th, if you buy a digital graphic novel from VIZManga.com, you will automatically be entered in a sweepstakes to win a Manga Stocking Stuffer prize package that includes: an Amazon Kindle Fire HD (8GB) pre-loaded with 30 […]
VIZ Manga Library Now on Google Play!
VIZ Media continues to grow its potential online audience. The company announced today that its more than 1700 volumes of manga, across 170 titles have now been made available on Google Play. For more details, including links to view VIZ Media title on Google Play, follow the jump.
VIZ Media Launches Digital Manga Catalog on Apple’s iBooks Store!
VIZ Media has just launched its extensive digital manga catalog on Apple’s iBooks store. That means over 1600 volumes of hit series like Naruto, Bleach, Bakuman and One Piece – not to mention recent bestsellers like Demon Love spell and Nisekoi – are now available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac. The official press […]
VIZ Releases Cursed Town Manga Uzumaki in Deluxe Hardcover Edition!
The Japanese coastal town of Kurouzu-cho is cursed, not by by demons or evil people, but by a pattern – the spiral, one of nature’s most common and beautiful patterns. Uzumaki, the three-volume horror manga by Junji Ito, about a town’s gradual descent into madness, has been collected in a deluxe hardcover edition that is […]
Tiger & Bunny Origin Coming From VIZ Media!
If you’ve ever wondered how corporate superheroes Tiger & Bunny came to be, VIZ Media has the answer – and, on October 1st, you will, too. That’s when Tiger & Bunny The Movie: The Beginning will be released on DVD and Blu-ray – followed on October 8th by Tiger & Bunny The Movie: The […]
Ranma ½ Anime Premiere Today; 2-in-1 Manga Editions in Spring 2014!
VIZ Media has announced the return of one of the most celebrated manga and anime properties – RANMA ½. Today VIZ Media launches the Ranma ½ (subtitled, rated TV-14) anime series on its VIZAnime.com streaming service as well as on Hulu. The series will debut on its Neon Alley anime channel this fall (dubbed), and […]
Haikasoru Releases Japan-Inspired Melancholy of Mechagirl By Award-Winning, Bestselling Author Catherynne M. Valente!
Haikasoru’s Melancholy of Mechagirl, by Catherynne M. Valente, is the imprint’s first from a non-Japanese author – but between the book’s Japan-inspired stories and poems, and the author’s award-winning pedigree, it seems a natural choice. With subjects like a woman who dreams of machines; a paper lantern that falls in love and the most compelling […]
VIZ Media Launches Dark Romance Manga Series Midnight Secretary!
Kaya Satozuka is one terrific secretary; a consummate professional. So, how will she react when she’s reassigned to the office of the company’s prickly – and hot – director when she discovers he’s a vampire? That’s the premise of VIZ Media’s Midnight Secretary, a new manga series by Tomu Ohmi that will debut under the […]
VIZ Media Announces Tiger & Bunny Comic Anthology, Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic!
The odd couple of superheroes of Bild City, Tiger & Bunny have their offscreen lives revealed in VIZ Media’s new manga series Tiger & Bunny Comic Anthology 2-in-1. Eighteen of Japan’s top self-published manga artists take a look at what the superheroes do in their private lives – how they stay in shape; what Saito […]
The 2013 J-Pop Summit Festival Features Music, Movie and Pop Fashion In A Colorful Array Of Events!
The 5th Annual J-Pop Summit Festival will celebrate Japanese, pop culture with Sake tasting, a J-Pop Idol contest, and performances by such artists as: fashion icon/singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (pictured); four-piece girl rock band LoVendoR; and legendary artist Katsuya Terada, who will create a freehand drawing on a blank wall at San Francisco’s Kinokuniya Bookstore. […]