#Viz

[dxmedstudent]

You know what, sure.

I'll reblog the Haunted Haemorrhoid manga.

guess who drew a story about hemorrhoids and got it officially published? 😎👌

DeadAss is free to read on VIZ Manga

(US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, and Ireland can access the app/page without any issues. Other countries will need a VPN due to region-locking :'))

spread this around, share this manga to your friends, your family, your grandma, and your grocery store cashier!

[everymangavegeta]

[bobauthorman]

(Ruby and Weiss are out shopping when a gang wearing stocking-masks charge with guns out)

stocking-mask guy: Everyone, get on the floor! You, open that register and fill the bag!

Weiss: Okay, let's get 'em.

Ruby: No.

Weiss: Ruby...!?

Ruby: Back in Vale, I tried to stop Torchwick in the store he was robbing. He not only got away, but I got arrested for wrecking the store. I'm not making that mistake twice.

Weiss: Ruby...just because things didn't work out last time, that doesn't mean you should give up. Wanting to learn from your mistakes is important, it's how we grow. But if the takeaway is to not try at all? Then all you're doing is running away, and that's not growth.

Clerk: Um, who are you talking to?

Weiss: Huh? (Realizes that Ruby is gone)

(We hear the sounds of violence from outside. Weiss leaves the shop to find the beaten robbers lying in a pile in the street, with Ruby sitting on top)

Ruby: I figured it's better to wait until they leave the store before beating them up.

[justharoo]

WELCOME BACK!!! ❤️🤍🖤💛

[matt0044]

Frankly, RWBY is my go-to example of men who write female characters with little to none of the usual pitfalls. Even when they may, there's one element that keeps its head well over water:

The female cast being so extensive as it is.

DireGentleman put it well here but a too common element of certain stories has been that they'll have a few or one female character amongst their sausage fest of a cast. Few of these cases are active intent on the author's part but it does speak to a "male as default" pitfall that is very much rendered invisible by a sphere of normality.

As such, you'll get female commanders in armies where the troops are all shown as male (@swan2swan made a few posts on the "female Stormtrooper" problem) for one and, for a classic example, one female character amongst an ensemble of boys.

Sometimes she's one of them and other times she's an April O'Neil to their Ninja Turtles, a normie to their extraordinary lives. Either way, there won't be much in the way of gender diversity. Especially if it's based on a toy line that subscribes to the "boys or bust" mentality that would rather kill off a profit that pivot.

But that's been dissected better in other posts...

Thankfully, RWBY was created first and foremost as an animated story project before the thought of merchendising was considered since RT wasn't super-duper confident it'd stick. Now it has firmly supplanted Red Vs. Blue as Rooster Teeth's flagship animation (the latter gearing up for its final season even).

This frees it from the shackles of heavily corporatized media that would prefer a toyetic show have a male prescense in the story or one where the female prescense is... palatable.

No character has to be the token girl who's either super bubbly and awkward or super stand-offish before the right guy comes along or rather reserve until the right guy comes along or one of the boys until the right- okay, I've made my point.

And it goes beyond the main cast as there's a smattering of girls and boys among the ensemble so it never feels like they were tacked on when the writers realizes, "Oh sh*t, forgot the estrogen," by Season Four or something.

If anything, Jaune is the token girl but genderflipped. He has healing powers. He has an arc but it all ultimately comes back to the main girls for the bigger plotlines. He's often the normal one that balks at the eccentricities of the girls and their shenanegins.

I mean... HE GREW UP WITH MANY SISTERS AND NO BROTHERS. Does that cliche not ring a bell.

Basically... Jaune is what I feel is the Sakura Haruno of RWBY if I may be so bold.

[midnight-berri]

They will always be THE gals ❤️🤍🖤💛

[graveweaver]

6

[beanclam]

i have no idea if people are still following me, but i worked damn hard on this book so I'm showing it off EVERYWHERE.

I did the lineart for Mirrorverse Belle, a graphic novel backstory of Belle from Disney's Mirrorverse game.

It's out April 23!!! Cover and storyboards were donw by Jan Apple, tones done by Umi Miyao.

[thepeculiarbookshelf]

Manga Monday: RuriDragon

High School is hard enough when you don't randomly breathe fire

(Yes, I know it’s Tuesday. Pretend it’s Monday for me.)

It’s not easy to blend everyday life with supernatural shenanigans—at least not in a way that elevates both—but RuriDragon by Masaoki Shindo does so with aplomb.

Where to read: Viz/Shounen Jump

Demographic: Shounen (I promise more shoujo is coming)

Ruri, like many teens, finds it hard to connect with her classmates, doesn't know what to do with her future, and likes hanging out with her mom a bit more than she would probably admit. She also wakes up one day with horns.

Turns out she’s half dragon.

Things only get more interesting from there. You thought being called on during class was bad, how about getting called on in class and accidentally incinerating your classmate's hair.

What really makes RuriDragon a stand out series isn’t the comedy (though that certainly helps), but how it uses Ruri’s newly discovered dragon-ness to show her the preciousness of her ordinary life.

She builds connections, tries new things, and pushes herself out of her comfort zone. She realizes her life is worth fighting for, even against her own natural apathy, and I can’t wait to see how she evolves from here.

[ardenteclipse]

Ruby Rose (V7) - RWBY

Toronto Comiccon 2025

[thecoolguy24601]

She made the microwave into a macrowave

[everymangavegeta]

[asm5129]

Viz put out a RWBY survey

Be sure to fill it out, and be sure to emphasize at the end that your highest priority is for them to #GreenLightVolume10 and beyond and to let Kerry and however much of the CRWBY they can get back (especially Miles) finish the RWBY story we've been following for over a decade, ideally fully funded and fully supported.

[odioart]

Tatsuki Fujimoto x Odio Chainsaw Man Colorful

[matt0044]

Honestly, I feel like "It's a web series, not some Disney spectacle" is the best mentality for RWBY Volume 1. It's rough, it's rugged, it goes it with a lot of heart.

A lot of the critical side of the FNDM seem to have some complaints be about RWBY's ambition in a, "if you can't do it or do it right right away, don't do it at all." It's such a non-risk taking, non-experimental mentality that clashes with how art often is.

Real art, be it one person or collaborative. It can be messy, mistakes are inevitable. But that's what attracts me to stuff like RWBY: the human element. The "low on budget, high on heart" vibe oozing from it.

So long as they're not being a jerk about it, artists should be allowed to get too big for their britches. We mock them but it takes a lot of nerve to essentially tear out a piece of your soul for all to see.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

VIZ MEDIA MAKES A FORAY INTO THE WESTERN COMIC BOOK MARKET WITH A STUDIO GHIBLI CLASSIC.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a 1988 Viz Select Comics house ad for Hayao Miyazaki's "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" comic book adaptation, from the 1984 post-apocalyptic fantasy animated feature film of the same name by Studio Ghibli.

PIC #2: Promotional "Nausicaä..." artwork for the North American/Viz Select Comics Monthly market, c. late 1980s. Story & art by Hayao Miyazaki.

Sources: https://readallcomics.com/amazing-heroes-151 & The Arts Mechanical (Wordpress).