PR: Viz Media Opens New Year With New Releases, Digital Titles

Otome to Meteo © Meca Tanaka
2013/HAKUSENSHA, Inc.

Commence 2015 With Digital Launch Of 5 Exciting New Manga Titles And Updates To 17 Other Ongoing Series; Take Advantage Of Special Holiday Digital Promotion Until January 15^th

VIZ Media opens 2015 and offers fans a fun way to begin the New Year with fresh digital manga for January.

The company also has extended its holiday digital manga promotion thru January 15^th. Take advantage of this special opportunity to save up to 70% off on digital manga volumes across scores of favorite series featured on VIZManga.com and the VIZ Manga App. Many volumes are available for only $1.99 each. Also check other digital manga partner sites for similar special pricing.

Readers can look forward to the launch of five brand new manga titles throughout the month, including the shojo series, METEOR PRINCE, DRAGON BALL Z creator Akira Toriyama’s quirky comedy JACO THE GALACTIC PATROLMAN, and the release of SHIRAHIME-SYO and DUKLYON: CLAMP SCHOOL DEFENDERS, by the legendary manga creative team of CLAMP. Also scheduled to make its digital debut in January is the post-apocalyptic cyber thriller, THE THIRD.

Additional digital manga updates for the month include 17 new volumes for other acclaimed titles including the exciting not-to-be-missed series finales for JOJO’s BIZARRE ADVENTURE: PART 1 – PHANTOM BLOOD (Digital MSRP: $10.99), Mouryou Kiden: Legend of the Nymph (Vol. 3), and Mikansei No. 1 (Vol. 2), Other continuing series receiving January updates include CASE CLOSED (Vol. 53), KISS OF THE ROSE PRINCESS (Vol. 2), LUCKY STAR (Vol. 7), MY LOVE STORY!! (Vol. 3), NISEKOI (Vol. 10), ONE PIECE (Vol. 73), SGT. FROG (Vol. 2), two volumes of VIDEO GIRL AI (Vols. 10-11), ZONE-00 (Vol. 4) and many more!

PR: Viz Announces The Digital & Print Return Of Jojo's Bizarre Adventures Manga

JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE © 1986
by Hirohiko Araki
& LUCKY LAND COMMUNICATIONS/SHUEISHA Inc. 

San Francisco, CA, July 7, 2014 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, thrilled a packed audience of fans at the 2014 Anime Expo in Los Angeles this past weekend as it announced the much heralded return of creator Hirohiko Araki’s epic supernatural/action/adventure manga (graphic novel) series, JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE.

Volumes 1 and 2 of JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: PART 3 - STARDUST CRUSADERS are now available digitally on VIZManga.com and the VIZ MANGA App for the iPad^®, iPhone^® and iPod^® touch as well as for Android-powered smart phones and 7” tablets. The digital volumes also may be purchased through the Nook, Kindle, Kobo, iBooks and GooglePlay stores. Subsequent editions will be released every week for a total of 16 volumes. JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE is rated ‘T+’ for Older Teens and carries a digital MSRP of $6.99 US/CAN.

VIZ Media originally published the JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE STARDUST CRUSADERS manga story arc in print in 2005. Fans at the Anime Expo panel were further delighted with the news that the company’s SHONEN JUMP imprint also has acquired JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE PART 1 - PHANTOM BLOOD and JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE PART 2 - BATTLE TENDENCY and plans to release them digital as firsts across its proprietary and partner platforms in September 2014 and March 2015 respectively.

Link Spam: A Post For All Seasons

Time to unload more great posts from fellow bloggers as well as just straight-up interesting finds from the Internet. Tell me what you're reading this weekend!

• ANN's House of 100 Manga recently looked at the classic sports manga Cross Game, which has been reviewed on this blog extensively. We need more Mitsuru Adachi manga in English, please!
• An interesting conversation at Manga Comics Manga on translating manga from Japanese to Spanish. Whoever lettered that Sailor Moon manga should feel bad, man.
• Great news for World Trigger and JoJo manga fans: Viz is putting the former to print for the first time and reprinting the latter. Considering that the World Trigger manga is soon to become an anime and the Jojo anime is currently streaming on Crunchyroll, that's a smart move on Viz's part.
• LOST fandom produced a fair amount of Oceanic-flavored blogs between 2004 and 2010. But how about a blog about watching the final season - by someone who never saw the previous five seasons of LOST? Oh, this shall be fun.
• I'll let this post headline from DVD's Worth Watching tell the story: Loki sells cars. Also, something something glorious burden.