VISIT
VIZ MEDIA AT COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL, BOOTH #2813
VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES EXCITING PERSONAL APPEARANCES,
BOOTH ACTIVITIES AND SHOW EXCLUSIVES FOR 2012 COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL
Company
Welcomes Studio 4ºC
Founder For Discussion On BERSERK: THE GOLDEN AGE ARC Anime Film
Trilogy And Offers A Variety Of Collectable Giveaways, Fun Booth
Activities, Panel Discussions And Much More!
San
Francisco, CA, July 9, 2012 – VIZ
Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest
publisher, distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North
America, returns to Comic-Con International, the nation’s biggest
comic book, science fiction and pop
culture event, with an exciting and expansive roster of special
personal appearances, exciting panels, anime feature film premieres,
and fun giveaways and convention exclusives. The show takes place
July 11-15 at the San Diego Convention Center, CA, and VIZ Media will
be located in Booth 2813.
Fans
won’t want to miss a special opportunity on Friday July 13th to
catch a rare personal appearance by Eiko
Tanaka, Founder and CEO of
Studio
4ºC, which produced the new dark fantasy epic BERSERK:
THE Golden
Age Arc
film
trilogy. VIZ
Media will release the first movie on Neon Alley this fall. Ms.
Tanaka will make an in-person appearance at the VIZ Media booth for a
signing session at 3PM. She will also be a special guest at the
BERSERK Panel, 5:30PM in Room 32AB, where fans can
find out what it really takes to transform the stark manga into an
animated feature. Finally, Ms. Tanaka
will make introductory remarks at the exclusive Comic-Con screening
of BERSERK: THE GOLDEN AGE ARC I – THE EGG OF THE KING, 8:30PM in
Room 32AB.
The
recently announced Neon Alley will be featured at Comic-Con. A brand
new 24-hour digital anime channel launching on a major game platform
this fall, Neon Alley will feature the
world's best anime titles, including blockbusters BLUE
EXORCIST, NARUTO SHIPPUDEN, TIGER
& BUNNY and more. Get the scoop
straight from Brian Ige,
VIZ Media's VP of Animation, at the Neon Alley Panel on Friday July
13th,
1PM, Room 32AB. At the VIZ Media booth,
fans can sign up for the mailing list and get the first-ever Neon
Alley collectible tote bag. Fans will have a chance to be featured on
Neon Alley, as VIZ Media will be filming clips at the company’s
booth throughout the show. Check the daily schedule for filming
times.
Digital
manga will also be a highlight of the VIZ Media booth this year. The
fun starts on Comic-Con Preview Night – Wednesday, July 11th
– with commemorative tote bags given to the first 500 attendees
that stop by the booth featuring WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP ALPHA, North
America’s only near-simultaneous digital manga magazine. The totes
will be available at other times throughout the weekend to visitors
that complete a round of “passport” activities stationed around
the VIZ Media booth.
Sample
the VIZ Manga digital platform on a variety of devices – on
laptops, the iPad®,
iPod®
touch, and the upcoming VIZ Manga for Android phones! Fans will also
get an opportunity to experience the digital manga experience on the
NOOK©
Tablet. More than 60 series and over 600 volumes are available now
for both the VIZ Manga platform and the NOOK, including blockbusters
BLEACH, NARUTO, BLACK BIRD, and more!
During
Comic-Con, fans that purchase an annual membership to WEEKLY SHONEN
JUMP ALPHA (available on the VIZ Manga platform) will receive a
limited edition YU-GI-OH! Slifer The Sky Dragon trading card (limited
quantities available – please visit the booth at show opening for a
ticket). Fans can sample the latest issues of WEEKLY
SHONEN JUMP ALPHA. Each
new digital edition of WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP ALPHA
treats manga fans in North America to the
latest chapters of some of the world’s most popular manga series
only two weeks
after they debut in Japan’s massively popular WEEKLY
SHONEN JUMP magazine.
Also
be on the lookout for a special photo activity with a life-size 3D
Luffy from the hit pirate manga adventure, ONE PIECE. Collectable
digital photos will be emailed to participants after the event. Fans
can take part in this activity at the VIZ Media booth, or at the
SHONEN JUMP ALPHA JUMP TRUCK fan meet-up on Saturday, July 14th
at 3PM at the 5th
Avenue Landing, behind Hall H of the San Diego Convention Center.
Meet up visitors will also receive free ice-cream (while supplies
last) and have the opportunity to take part in cosplay & fan art
contests to win other cool SJ ALPHA prizes!
Attend
the WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP ALPHA Panel on Saturday July 14th,
12PM in Room 7AB, and get the latest
news, expert opinions and a behind-the-scenes look into the manga
world from special guests from Japan Yoshihisa
Heishi (Editor-in-Chief of Weekly
Shonen Jump, founding editor of
YU-GI-OH!),
Kouji Yoshida
(editor of DEATH NOTE),
and Kengo Monji
(editor of BAKUMAN。).
The guests will also have a heated Q&A showdown with the SJ Alpha
editors!
The
VIZ Media booth will buzz with a variety of fun activities and
giveaways. Don’t miss other fun free
VIZ Media product giveaways including VIZ
Kids manga and graphic novel samplers, the Haikasoru science fiction
imprint samplers, special show lanyards, and an array of assorted
anime and manga patches, posters and more (while supplies last)!
Gamers
will want to be sure to check out playable demos for Namco Bandai’s
latest NARUTO SHIPPUDEN video game. Stop by and play the demo and
also get free NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: ULTIMATE NINJA STORM GENERATIONS
tchotchkes.
Streaming
content provider Hulu also joins in the fun at the VIZ Media booth.
Get your show badge scanned to enter to win one of 4 Xbox 360 systems
and a 3-month gift card for Hulu Plus. The first 1,000 attendees
scanned will receive a limited edition promotional card, featuring
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN, with a free 30-day trial to check out the Hulu Plus
subscription service.
Don’t
miss the annual VIZ Media Panel, Thursday July 12th,
3PM in Room 7AB, for all the latest
updates and exciting news from VIZ Media staff on your favorite manga
and anime! Also get the scoop on new acquisitions, upcoming releases,
and upcoming projects. Be in line early and get a raffle ticket for a
chance to win prizes!
Finally,
VIZ Media is proud to have two manga titles nominated
for the 2012 Will Eisner Comics
Industry Awards, which
are considered the Oscars of the comic book industry. NAOKI URASAWA’s
20th
CENTURY BOYS (rated ‘T+’ for Older Teens), by Naoki Urasawa, is
nominated for Best Continuing Series, while SATURN APARTMENTS (rated
‘T’ for Teens), by Hisae Iwaoka, is nominated for Best U.S.
Edition of International Material. The Eisner Awards Ceremony will be
held on the evening of Friday, July 13th
at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel.
For
more information on Neon Alley, please visit www.NeonAlley.com.
For
more information on WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP ALPHA, please visit
SJAlpha.com.
For
more information on the VIZ Manga digital platform, please visit
VIZManga.com
or www.VIZ.com/apps.
For
more information on VIZ Media, please visit www.VIZ.com.
About VIZ
Media, LLC
Headquartered
in San Francisco, California, VIZ Media distributes, markets and
licenses the best anime and manga titles direct from Japan. Owned by
three of Japan's largest manga and animation companies, Shueisha
Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co.,
Ltd., VIZ Media has the most extensive library of anime and manga for
English speaking audiences in North America, the United Kingdom,
Ireland and South Africa. With its popular manga anthology WEEKLY
SHONEN JUMP ALPHA and blockbuster properties like NARUTO, BLEACH and
INUYASHA, VIZ Media offers cutting-edge action, romance and family
friendly properties for anime, manga, science fiction and fantasy
fans of all ages. VIZ Media properties are available as graphic
novels, DVDs, animated television series, feature films, downloadable
and streaming video and a variety of consumer products. Learn more
about VIZ Media, anime and manga at www.VIZ.com.
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