Viz Raising Prices On Digital Manga Volumes
Fans may want to buy up all the digital Viz Media manga they can while it can still be purchased for around $4.99 a volume, because the price is going up to $6.99 starting October 1, the publisher...
View ArticleViz Releases Free Digital 'One Piece Retrospective' To Celebrate Manga's...
In celebration of Eiichiro Oda's pirate manga achieving more than 345 million combined volumes of manga in print worldwide, America's link to the material, publisher Viz Media, has released a digital...
View ArticleViz In 2014: Eberhardt and Hamric On Digital, Print And Multimedia
The manga business has seemed like a rocky sea over the several years, but if there's one publisher that's gotten in front of the waves to surf with the changes it's been Viz Media. The first major...
View ArticleLink Ink: Faust On 'Super Best Friends Forever,' Viz's Digital Manga Sale And...
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View Article'Dragon Ball Color' Grants A Wish I Didn't Know I Had [Review]
As horrifying as it is has become to utter the words "Dragon Ball" and "Evolution" in the same sentence since the 2009 live action film, I've got to say, Viz's new Dragon Ball Color (which begins at...
View ArticleLink Ink: 'Gotham' Villains, A 'Days Of Future Past' Video Game And Another...
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View ArticleLink Ink: Alex Ross' Batman 75th Lithograph, Adding Superman To 'Godzilla'...
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View ArticleScreen & Page: Brave The Toxic Jungle In 'Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind'
Most anime is adapted from manga, often produced by the manga publisher to raise awareness and sell it overseas. But what about the anime shows or films that go the other way, adapted from the screen...
View Article‘Death Note’ Eyes ‘The Leftovers’ Star Margaret Qualley
After delivering two great genre features back to back with the subversive horror flick You’re Next and throwback thriller The Guest, director Adam Wingard definitely has our full attention, regardless...
View ArticleCoffee And Monsters: Should You Be Reading 'Tokyo Ghoul'?
While on the surface, popular manga often seems to be action-oriented, there are a lot of big horror titles out there that are all immensely scary and well-liked. The latest in a legacy that includes...
View ArticleNaruto Dominates Hulu As The Site’s Fifth Most Popular Show
For a kid who grew up shunned by his entire village, Naruto sure is popular. Anime News Network reports "Naruto Shippuden" is the fifth most popular show on Hulu despite its...
View ArticleThe Hauntingly Beautiful ‘Children of the Sea’ [Review]
The manga "Children of the Sea" by Daisuke Igarashi (published by Viz Media in America) is best described as "haunting." The titular children of the sea are Sora and...
View ArticleViz Media Launches Digital Manga App on the iPad
At a time when manga sales are down, piracy is high and fans are fickle, Viz Media has taken a step in the digital direction with a new iPad app designed to at least partially address all of the above....
View ArticleViz Media Offers Digital Volume 1’s for $0.99 in March
Viz Media launched last year what we thought was a very decent digital comics solution for the iPad, and they've continued to develop the application in the months since. Now ready to bring even more...
View ArticleLink Ink: The Dark Knight’s Rides Rise, Cap Slings his Shield and ‘Gantz’...
Movies: Batman's The Dark Knight Rises rides were caught chillin' on a truck at TDKR's Pittsburgh set. Manga: Viz is taking submissions for its storyboard contest through today. Winners will have their...
View ArticleViz Media May Have the Best Digital Distribution Yet in Comics [Review]
The manga industry sorely needs a workable digital distribution model. Manga piracy has become deeply ingrained in the culture of its readers, and publishers need to attempt to offer solutions for the...
View ArticleLink Ink: The Joker Menaces ‘Batman: Arkham City,’ New ‘Tales Designed To...
Gaming: New key art of the Joker from Batman: Arkham City has surfaced. He looks somewhat sicklier than normal. Movies: After numerous delays, the Vancouver Sun reports that The Wolverine will finally...
View ArticleLink Ink: Viz Announces ‘Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha,’ ‘Irredeemable’ Vs....
Manga: Viz Media has announced the new Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha, a digital periodical available on the publisher's iOS apps that will translate installments of Bakuman, Bleach, Naruto and other series...
View ArticleViz Launching SuBLime Yaoi Manga Line
North American manga publisher Viz Media, in partnership with prominent retailer Animate and Japan's leading boys love manga publisher Libre, will launch the new SuBLime line of Yaoi titles in both...
View ArticleLink Ink: Julie Taymor Sues ‘Spider-Man’ Musical Producers, ‘Naruto’ Gets...
Legal: Julie Taymor is suing the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark producers over for what she claims are creative rights violations and unpaid royalties. Digital: Amazon's Kindle Fire will officially ship...
View ArticleLink Ink: Baby Venom, ‘The Wolverine’ Release Date and a Huge Optimus Prime...
AHHHH!: Redditor ozLebowski shares a sonogram of he and his wife's unborn child, who may or may not be an alien symbiote. Movies: The Wolverine has an official release date: July 26, 2013. Manga: Nook...
View ArticleWarner Bros. Wants the ‘Get Smart’ Guy to Make a ‘Bleach’ Movie
The neck-breaking speed with which the much maligned AKIRA live-action film goes in and out of active development has me unsure as to its present status, but the movie blog people seem to think it's...
View ArticleLink Ink: ‘The Avengers’ Monorail, the ‘MAD’ App and Viz’s New President
Theme Parks: Walt Disney World is decorating its Monorail S.H.I.E.L.D. style with The Avengers graphics aplenty this spring/summer. Industry: Ken Sasaki, former Senior Vice President and General Manger...
View ArticleLink Ink: Marvel Post-it Note Art, More Hero Initiative Donations and...
Office Supplies: As part of its promotions for The Avengers movie, Marvel has released pixel art templates of each of the film's heroes that fans can assemble using Post-it notes. Donations: The Hero...
View ArticleLink Ink: ‘Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D’ Ride, Ben Franklin’s Voltron...
Theme Parks: A Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D ride is coming to Australia's Warner Bros. Movie World in September. Tech: Wal-Mart has a new Webslinger augmented reality app that shoppers can use to...
View ArticleViz Announces ‘Street Fighter X Sanrio’ Releases
While the amalgamated Street Fighter x Sanrio characters skew more Hello Kitty than Blanka tonally, the fusion of two iconic multimedia empires is nonetheless a cute way to celebrate a quarter of a...
View ArticleLink Ink: A Batfan’s RC Lego Tumbler, Viz’s Digital Sale And Gandalf Vs. Magneto
Video: Pawel "Sariel" Kmiec has some serious Technic when it comes to building a Lego The Dark Knight Tumbler. Manga: Viz is offering 20 percent off "all digital manga...
View ArticleLink Ink: An Iron Man Laser Gauntlet, The 1966 Batmobile Auctioned And...
Lasers: Laser-Gadgets maestro Patrick Priebe builds his own working "Iron Man" laser gauntlet. 	 Toys: PlasticPlayhouse's Rick Dries retools M.U.S.C.L.E. figures into Masters...
View Article‘Weekly Shonen Jump’ Goes Day-And-Date With Japanese Releases
Yesterday saw the launch of Weekly Shonen Jump, the latest incarnation of Viz Media's anthology collecting material from the Japanese title of the same name. The reason for the relaunch is a good one,...
View ArticleViz Announces Two New ‘Hello Kitty’ Comic Projects
Hello Kitty, the pervasive merchandising phenomenon created by Yuko Shimizu in 1974, is easily one of the most recognized characters on the planet. For whatever reason, however, HK hasn't ever starred...
View ArticleLink Ink: ‘Darkness’ Coming Through AdHouse, ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ On Wii...
Upcoming: AdHouse will be printing Boulet's beloved 24-Hour Comic, Darkness, in April. Gaming: Activision has released its full extras info for The Amazing Spider-Man Ultimate Edition for the Wii U,...
View ArticleViz Launches All-Ages Sticky DOT Comics App
Following in the footsteps of its previous digital comics apps, Viz Media has launched sticky DOT comics with the all-ages crowd in mind. Currently available on iOS devices, the free sticky DOT app was...
View ArticleViz To Kick Off ‘Ben 10 Omniverse’ Graphic Novel Series This Fall
Despite the fact that Man of Action's Ben 10 is now in its fourth consecutive animated series, it's been awhile since the hero last appeared in a proper ongoing comic. Viz Media's set to rectify that...
View ArticleLink Ink: Wednesday August 7 2013
Video: Screen Novelties reimagines the Adventure Time opening in stop motion using LEGO bricks. Awesome: There's a 1:1 scale replica of the house from My Neighbor Totoro in Japan... and those who buy...
View ArticleComicsAlliance Link Ink: Wednesday, August 14 2013
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