Dragon Ball, the original manga by celebrated creator Akira Toriyama, turned 35 this year and to celebrate Viz Media has put out a comprehensive art book that takes readers back to the early days of the strip's life when it was serialized in Shōnen Jump through to the release of the theatrical film Battle of […]
Viz Media has released their complete list of October titles, manga fans! This is a whopping 26 paperbacks you can look forward to! Shonen Jump One Piece Color Walk Compendium: Water Seven to Paramount War By Eiichiro Oda This second volume continues to showcase the artful adventures of the One Piece series. From the Water […]
Viz Media has announced the publication of Fullmetal Alchemist: The Complete Four-Panel Comics. The book will feature a complete collection of the four-panel comic strips from Hiromu Arakawa's original Fullmetal Alchemist series (which is published in English by VIZ Media) and never-before-seen bonus strips from Japan. In Japan, four-panel comic strips are called 4-koma. They're […]
Good news, anime fans! The first episode of Dororo is now streaming on Amazon Prime. If you're a Prime subscriber, you can watch it as part of the service without additional cost. Bad news, anime fans! They forgot to add the English subtitles – so it's in Japanese only. Dororo is a new adaptation of […]
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 […]
It's not too early to start hyping San Diego Comic-Con, is it? If you're a fan of the popular manga My Hero Academia, you probably won't think so after hearing this news. And if you do, well, look, we've got a job to do here. Stop being so critical. My Hero Academia creator Kohei Horikoshi is headed […]
It's looking like 2018 will be a good year for Shinsuke Nakamura. The SmackDown Live superstar won the 2018 men's Royal Rumble and will go on to face AJ Styles (probably) for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania. And now, an American manga publisher is bringing the English translation of his two-volume autobiography, King of Strong […]
VIZ Media has a tonne of exclusive items at San Diego Comic Con this year, from Booth #2813 ONE PIECE Premium Full Color Replica Luffy, Ace and Sabo are united in this full color premium manga replica art (from the cover of ONE PIECE Vol. 60). Printed on premium archival paper, replicas come matted and […]
Oh dear…Viz Comic work this morning to discover that their Facebook page had been taken down by Facebook. After posting content that didn't follow their guidelines. Viz doesn't know what content or what guidelines. They don't know what they are meant to take down, and risk losing all the content if they appeal. So they […]
Adi Tantimedh writes, The only new anime series I care about this Fall season has been One Punch Man. I'm tired of all those other anime series about teenagers in high school getting empowered while being coy and nervous around girls. They all do the same things and none those new shows this season have […]
Viz Media announced seven new titles picked up for 2016 at New York Comic Con, to appear in their Shonen Jump series, after just debuting on ComiXology. Here;s a look at the titles coming your way… 7TH GARDEN · Rated 'T+' for Older Teens · Debuting Summer 2016 In this series by Mitsu Izumi, Awyn […]
by Jeremy Konrad Saturday at the VIZ Media Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past panel, they detailed what it took to bring back into print one of the most sought after Zelda stories of all-time: the old manga retelling of A Link to the Past by legendary creator Shotaro Ishinomori. Previously this story […]
Viz Media is putting The Legend Of Zelda: Link To The Past graphic novel back into print, after two decades of… not being. Out in May from Viz's Perfect Square imprint, the comics was originally serialised in Nintendo Power magazine then collected in graphic novel form back in 1993. The creator Shotaro Ishinomori who died in 1998 may be […]
Adi Tantimedh writes, So Viz Media sent me an advance copy of the first volume of Master Keaton, one of Naoki Urusawa's hit manga series from the 1980s before he became a much bigger deal with series like Monster, 20th Century Boys and Billy Bat later. Master Keaton is an adventure series from a less […]
Adi Tantimedh writes, Viz Media, one of the biggest publishers of manga and anime in the US, have had a prose imprint called Haikasoru running at full steam for a few years now, yet there have been very few write-ups about it aside from the odd review of the books here and there. I'd […]
Okay, so the Hallowe'en ComicFest is coming. A kind-of Free Comic Book Day for Hallowe'en with a) less participants b) smaller comics and c) owned by Diamond Comic Distrubutors. One if its innovations is being able to get packs of mini-comics to give out to kids trick or treating. But there's lots of cool stuff […]
It's a cliché that the British satirical monthly comic, Viz Comic, is not as funny as it used to be. Started in the eighties, phenomenally successful in the nineties (when it outsold every US comic with its UK sales alone), it remains Britain's best selling comic. But it's not as ubiquitous as it used to […]
Bleeding Cool has learned that tomorrow Viz Media will be announcing that they will be distributing a number of high profile manga titles through digital distributor ComiXology, including DragonBall Z, Bakuman, Claymore, One Piece, Death Note, Bleach and more… A deal with French publisher VIZ Media Europe and the French editions of certain editions of some of […]
And you thought My Little Pony sold a lot of comic books… Viz is about to start publishing Hello Kitty manga, with a series of original graphic novels featuring the uber-popular Sanrio mascot. A Hello Kitty single issue will also debut at San Diego Comic Con, with a cover by Jacob Chabot, and the […]
Britain's best selling comic book, Viz, a satirical comedy anthology of comics strips and mock magazine/newspaper articles with an adult reading audience, has joined the Readr App, which allows subscribers to read twenty minutes of magazines from their collection for free every month, though you can subscribe for a monthly fee for an all-you-can-eat buffet. […]
