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 […]
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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 […]
Ranma ½: Set 1 Crossing All Kinds of Lines!
Ranma ½ is a genre-busting, subversive manga/anime that features a boy who changes into a girl when splashed with cold water; his father, who becomes a panda under the same circumstances; an arranged engagement between the gender-fluid youth and the daughter of the owner of a martial arts dojo and more spoofs of martial arts […]
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 […]
Two New Books Celebrate Hayao Miyazaki’s Life & Final Movie!
VIZ Media is releasing Turning Point: 1997-2008, a new memoir by Hayao Miyazaki and The Art of The Wind Rises. A paperback edition of Starting Point: 1979-1996, the first volume of Miyazaki’s memoirs will complement the release of Turning Point. Turning Point: 1997-2008 covers the period when Miyazaki’s films – Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving […]
Design a Bleach T-Shirt; Win a Trip To Anime Expo 2014!
VIZ Media and Bleach licensee WeLoveFine.com are partnering to hold a special, first-ever Bleach design contest. Create original designs for Bleach t-shirts and merchandise – and submit them by April 8th – and you could win one of a number of prizes that include cash and other valuable premium. One creative fan will win a […]
Classic Ranma ½ Anime Gets Limited Edition Blu-Ray Set!
VIZ Media is releasing a series of seven Ranma ½ Special Edition Blu-ray sets beginning March 25th. The series’ episodes will, for the first time, be released in the original Japanese broadcast order and will be taken from the original Japanese Blu-Ray masters – yielding a the original 4:3 aspect ration. Bonus material includes: trailers […]
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 […]
K–Sci Fi Action Thriller is VIZ Media’s First Ever Combo-Pack Release!
K, the anime thriller that finds a case of mistaken identity ruining (and threatening) the life of teenaged student Shiro, is the first VIZ Media title to get a Blu-Ray+DVD Combo Pack release. While it will also be released as a 2-Disc DVD set, the extras (check out a complete list after the jump) will […]
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 […]