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Viz Media previewed their new Netflix Latino kung fu anime action series Seis Manos at this year's Comic-Con International: San Diego (SDCC) The series features three orphaned martial arts warriors who join forces with a DEA agent and a Mexican Federale to avenge the murder of their mentor on the streets of their tiny border[...]

Luckily, we don't miss anything… especially when our friends at VIZ Media are kind enough to share awesome manga news! There's a lot to cover, so we'll let the folks at VIZ take it from here! VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES NEW MANGA TITLES SET FOR 2020 RELEASE New Titles Include Inio Asano's DOWNFALL, POKÉMON ADVENTURES COLLECTOR'S EDITION, A KIRBY[...]

Viz Media has updated The World Next Door with a free "Versus Mode" update today on both PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch editions of the game Versus Mode offers players the ability to hone their battle skills in local 2-player PvP to see who is better at using puzzles to cast spells. It's a pretty basic 1v1[...]

Smashed is the latest collection of translated stories Junji Ito from Viz Media and that's always an event especially if you love horror Ito is arguably the best writer and artist of horror comics in the world. [rwp_box_recap id="1"]   // SMASHED ©Junji Ito Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. Ito is not the only Japanese mangaka who specializes in horror[...]

Japanime Games has entered into a distribution partnership with Dyskami Publishing over Dyskami's line of Sailor Moon Crystal talbetop games.

credit// Viz Media [rwp_box_recap id="0"] Viz Media and Rose City Games' The World Next Door is a narrative based action anime game which follows rebellious teen Jun who gets stuck in a world of demons Thr game is a combination of third-person isometric exploration, puzzle solving, and narrative choices. The levels are designed rather simply, but with immense detail[...]

Viz Media has announced that the second season of popular anime One-Punch Man will premiere on April 9th on Hulu in the United States, with new episodes of the returning series debuting on the streaming service less than 24 hours after its original broadcast on Japanese television. Viz wasn't going to disappoint fans with just an[...]

Back at PAX West 2018, we fell in love with VIZ Media's very first video game, The World Next Door, and couldn't wait to play more Now we know when we'll be able to do just that, as the company released a new announcement trailer letting us know the game is coming on March 28th[...]

VIZ Media put together a special book with Wizards of the Coast called Magic: The Gathering – Concepts & Legends, documenting that very work, which we got a chance to review. credit//Wizards of the Coast So let's start off with the basics: This is not what you would call a traditional history book or historical account of everything[...]

Today, VIZ Media announced a brand new book for Magic: The Gathering as part of the game's 25th Anniversary called Magic: The Gathering – Concepts & Legends The book is basically a retrospective guide to the artwork of the series and how it has evolved over the past couple decades from being a fresh TCG only[...]

One of the nice surprises at PAX West was to see a game from VIZ Media and Rose City Games called The World Next Door The game has a simple enough premise that's kinda fun Every so often, specific portals open up and people can visit between worlds One that's very much like earth and[...]

Today, Twitch and VIZ Media have announced a new streaming event as they will host a marathon of the anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure This is the latest in anime-themed marathons to hit the social streaming service as they've previously worked with Crunchyroll and the Anime Awards, as well as marathons of RWBY and Yu-Gi-Oh!. All 113 episodes across[...]

If you're the sort of person who just can't have enough Pokémon, perhaps you'd consider capturing some digital Pokémon manga? If so, you may be interested in Viz Media's plans to make collections of Pokémon Adventures manga, written by Hidenori Kusaka with art by Satoshi Yamamoto, as well as Pokémon movie adaptation manga available digitally on the Viz Manga[...]

Score another big animation win for VIZ Media as the company has secured the distribution rights to Netflix's animated Castlevania series The announcement came over the weekend while the company was at San Diego Comic-Con, along with a Twitter post about the news and a few details that have been coming out from their booth[...]

It's going to be a productive year for VIZ Media, who announced three new acquisitions they'll be working on at Anime Expo 2018 The titles in question are Nier:Automata: Short Story Long, Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection, and Megalo Box The first two, if you've been hanging out around anime localization forums were rumored to be[...]

My Hero Academia creator Kohei Horikoshi is headed to San Diego for his first-ever North American professional appearance at the convention. A press release from publisher Viz Media provides details on the appearance: Kohei Horikoshi is scheduled to participate in a variety of events during the convention including the official MY HERO ACADEMIA panel discussion[...]

VIZ Media has released a hardcover collection of the first two acts of Homestuck by Andrew Hussie. Is it worth your money?

Now, VIZ Media has the official Blu-ray release for the film So what's different between the Netflix version and the Blu-ray? We explore it to find out. credit//VIZ Media The story, without giving away any spoilers, is set in a future world where machines rule and humans have been deemed invaders that need to be killed and eradicated[...]

Springboarding off the sucess of series like Castlevania, Netflix is broadening its anime horizons internationally with original anime Seis Manos, Deadline Hollywood reports. Set to launch globally in 2019 from Viz Media LLC and Powerhouse Animation, Seis Manos is the streaming service's first original anime set in Mexico. Powerhouse CEO Brad Graeber and writer Alvaro Rodriguez (Machete, From Dusk Till[...]

Plus, volumes of Dragonball Super, One Piece, and other popular manga receive additional volume releases courtesy of VIZ Media this July Full details below. MAY182167 MY HERO ACADEMIA VIGILANTES GN VOL 01 (W) Hideyuki Furuhashi (A/CA) Betten Court Koichi Haimawari couldn't make the cut to become an official hero, so he uses his modest Quirk to do good deeds in his[...]

During a panel at C2E2 this weekend in Chicago, manga and light novel publisher Viz Media announced that they would be releasing two NieR: Automata light novels within the next year According to Anime News Network the two novels in question are NieR: Automata: Long Story Short and NieR: Automata: Long Story Long. From Anime News Network: Viz Media will release NieR: Automata:[...]

This comes courtesy of VIZ Media this June Details below. Title     Astra Lost in Space, Vol 3 By        Kenta Shinohara Synopsis           After their nightmare on Shummoor, the group arrives at the third planet on their journey, Arispade[...]

Last year, Netflix released a film based on the manga, and to help promote it, VIZ Media released the All-In-One Edition of the series in a single book We got ourselves a copy and had a chance to read through the series as a whole. credit//VIZ Media If you're not familiar with Death Note, the premise is[...]

Shonen Gamez has unearthed an ad from this week's issue of Shonen Jump advertising the Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm trilogy on the Nintendo Switch. 

Pokemon Sun and Moon begins. Ultraman returns! Naruto's Uchihas go Chibi! All of this is courtesy of VIZ Media and will be released this May Details below. Shonen Jump Title     Naruto: Chibi Sasuke's Sharingan Legend, Vol 3 By        Kenji Taira Synopsis           Elite ninja Uchiha Sasuke travels the land with his teammates searching for his brother Itachi[...]

VIZ Media announced today that the company has joined forces with Rose City Games for a new development partnership to create and produce narrative-driven titles The first titles on the docket will be a supernatural action/adventure game called The World Next Door, featuring character designs by illustrator Lord Gris Below are a couple quotes from both[...]

Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction and Kenchi Banche Otome: Girl Beats Boys are coming out courtesy of VIZ Media this April Ruroni Kenshin and Naruto are getting more omnibus releases Details below. Shonen Jump Rurouni Kenshin 3-in-1, Vol 6 By Nobuhiro Watsuki Synopsis: After a series of hard-won battles, Kenshin finally confronts Shishio, the twisted mastermind behind the plot to overthrow the[...]

Former Image Comics brand manager David Brothers has joined San Francisco based manga and anime publisher Viz Media as an editor Publishers Weekly reported the new role, as retweeted by Brothers on Twitter. New Year, New V https://t.co/f8h4ZMekdM — d a v i d b (@hermanos) January 9, 2018 Brothers announced his departure from Image Comics in December on[...]

VIZ Media is putting out a My Hero Academia and RWBY comic for Free Comic Book Day 2018 In addition, Golden Kamuy is getting a graphic novel release, and Kaguya-Sama: Love is War and Young Master's Revenge are new series being started in March of 2018 This is in addition to their regular releases of Pokémon, One Punch Man, Boruto, and a[...]

Credit// Viz Media Bandai Namco has announced a My Hero Academia game for both PlayStation 4 and Switch, which they'd teased earlier this week with an image of an egg in a microwave It's the kind of tease that only dedicated fans would get while the rest of us were quietly confused. The announcement came from Weekly[...]