VIZ Media Announces Digital Manga Update for May 2015
VIZ Media offers manga fans plenty of reading options for May 2015 as it announces its latest monthly digital update. New content includes the debut of five new titles as well as scores of new volumes for a variety of other acclaimed continuing series. Leading the publisher’s roster of new titles this month are launches […]
VIZ Media Announces Participation at Anime Central 2015 Convention
VIZ Media has announced its participation at the Anime Central 2015 convention with a weekend full of unique booth giveaways and exclusive items for sale, informative panel discussions and special guest appearances, anime screenings, and other fun activities. Anime Central 2015 (ACen) will be taking place May 15-17, 2015 in Rosemont, Illinois, at the Hyatt […]
New Anime Releases for the Week of May 5, 2015
This week sees new anime releases from Eastern Star, FUNimation Entertainment, Lucky Penny, Mill Creek Entertainment, New Video, PONYCAN USA, Sentai Filmworks, and VIZ Media. Astro Boy – Complete Series DVD Mill Creek Entertainment – Dub – MSRP: $14.98 Get it for $8.99 This is a release of the 2003 reboot of the Astro Boy […]
New Manga Releases for the Week of May 5, 2015
This week sees new manga releases from Kodansha Comics, Seven Seas Entertainment, Vertical Comics, and VIZ Media. Black Rose Alice Volume 4 by Setona Mizushiro VIZ Media – MSRP: Get it for $9.99 In Tokyo, Azusa Kikukawa has become Alice, resurrected in a century-old body to become the breeding ground for a group of vampires. […]
Manga Review: Nisekoi: False Love Volume 9
Nisekoi: False Love Volume 9 focuses on Raku Ichijo and the complications he has from pretending to date Chitoge Kirisaki. Their fathers are the heads of rival yakuza gangs, and they hope by having their children pretend to date that it will keep the peace between their groups. Nisekoi: False Love Volume 9 Written by: […]
VIZ Media Celebrates the Dub Debut of Sailor Moon R
VIZ Media invites Sailor Moon fans across North America to join the company’s anime team as it hosts a special Sailor Moon R Mini-Moonlight Party to mark the series’ English dub episode debut of the final episodes of Sailor Moon R Part 1 on its streaming platform, Neon Alley. The Sailor Moon R Mini-Moonlight Party […]
VIZ Media’s May 2015 Update for Its Neon Alley Streaming Service
VIZ Media begins May 2015 with a brand new content update for its free Neon Alley anime streaming platform. The action of Sailor Moon S and Sailor Moon Crystal continues with new episodes from both series throughout May 2015. Catch two newly subtitled Sailor Moon episodes from Season 3 added every Monday throughout May, beginning […]
VIZ Media Announces Masashi Kishimoto Appearance and Forthcoming Naruto Releases
VIZ Media and ReedPOP have announced that Naruto manga creator Masashi Kishimoto will make his first international appearance outside of Japan at the 2015 New York Comic-Con. The convention will be taking place at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan from October 8-11, 2015. Kishimoto will be participating in two panels, which will take place […]
VIZ Media’s Yaoi Imprint Launches the Love Stage!! Romantic Comedy Manga Series
SuBLime, VIZ Media’s yaoi imprint, announces the launch of the romantic comedy Love Stage!! on May 12, 2015. The yaoi manga series by creators Eiki Eiki and Taishi Zaou will be released in print and digital and is rated “M” for Mature Readers. Individual print volumes will carry an MSRP of $12.99 U.S. / $14.99 […]
VIZ Media Announces Support for 2015 Free Comic Book Day
VIZ Media announces its participation in the 2015 Free Comic Book Day with a special free Shonen Jump manga sampler featuring previews of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 1 – Phantom Blood and Yu-Gi-Oh! The company’s all-ages Perfect Square imprint also participates with a free Pokemon Adventures X•Y manga sampler highlighting the latest series from the […]
Manga Review: Black Lagoon Volume 10
Black Lagoon Volume 10 is set in the early to mid-1990s and focuses on a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company. They smuggle goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia. The crew is made up of the African-American leader who goes by Dutch, a Chinese-American female fighter who is known […]
Top 5 Case Closed Mysteries
Case Closed started out as a manga series by Gosho Aoyama, and it has been adapted into a long-running anime series. FUNimation Entertainment released the first 130 episodes on home video, and subtitled episodes from 754 and beyond are available for streaming on Crunchyroll. In Case Closed, high school junior mystery buff Shinichi Kudo has […]
New Anime Releases for the Week of April 28, 2015
This week sees new anime releases from AEsir Holdings, Aniplex of America, Eastern Star, FUNimation Entertainment, and Sentai Filmworks. D-Frag! The Complete Series Blu-ray/DVD Combo | Blu-ray/DVD Combo Limited Edition FUNimation Entertainment – Sub and Dub – MSRP: $64.98 | $69.98 Get it for $40.20 Kazama is a wannabe delinquent on a mission to rule […]
New Manga Releases for the Week of April 28, 2015
This week sees new manga releases from Kodansha Comics, One Peace Books, and Seven Seas Entertainment. Alice in the Country of Clover: The March Hare’s Revolution by QuinRose Seven Seas Entertainment – MSRP: $13.99 Get it for $11.70 In the country of Clover, romance blossoms between Elliot March and Alice. Elliot may have rabbit ears […]
VIZ Media Announces the Digital Premiere of the Naruto Manga Mini-Series
VIZ Media has announced the digital debut of Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring in the April 27, 2015 issue of Weekly Shonen Jump. The brand new, limited-run series by Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto depicts a new generation of shinobi and will appear in the English incarnation of Weekly Shonen Jump on the […]