#viz manga

[yuki-ume]

Velvet Kiss

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2009-2012

[comickergirl]

Me, literally, yesterday morning walking the dog: I’m so mad that DetCo isn’t on any of the simul-pub manga apps.

Viz: So about that…

(Screencap taken on my own phone, where I can now read the latest Case Closed chapters. In English. On the Viz Manga app. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[mendelpalace]

Covers for Pixy Junket #1-6 by PURE

An original manga created by a former assistant to Masamune Shirow. They put out a few short manga in the early-to-mid 90s, but this marks their only English language release. These six issues were later compiled into a trade paperback.

[hisonetrueloveee]

The 4*Town manga is 1 year old in 5 dayssssss🥲🥲🥲

[animenostalgia]

Big News! - Viz announced they’re launching a second subscription manga app alongside their Shonen Jump manga app, the new Viz Manga app in Canada & North America! Similar to the Shonen Jump app, you can read new simulpub chapters of select titles for free without a subscription, or for $1.99 a month you can read everything the subscription model has to offer. They currently have stated they want to eventually make this app available in more countries, and also eventually want to add even more titles and backfill the complete catalog of all titles available through the service, but it will take some time.

While the app has many of the latest manga titles, it also offers a pretty great  amount of classic works! Here’s just a sample of some of the older works I’ve noticed on the app so far:

Ranma 1/2

Fushigi Yuugi

Uzumaki

Basara

Maison Ikkoku

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Phantom Thief Jeanne

Case Closed (Great Detective Conan)

Golgo13

Urusei Yatsura

Cat-Eyed Boy

Tekkonkinkreet

The Drifting Classroom

Flame of Recca

Mermaid Saga

And more than 10,000 chapters of other titles from Shueisha & Shogakukan, with more apparently on the way. As it’s a separate service from the Shonen Jump app, you’d need to download and subscribe to both if you want access to titles on both platforms. They’ve also stated that mature rated manga will only be able to read on the web version of the app. Here’s Viz’s FAQ on the new Viz Manga app here.

[petrichora-art]

[repost] if no one is going to adapt the manga, i'll do it myself.

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etsy shop

[animehouse-moe]

The Animanga Find Of A Lifetime

Yeah, I haven't really been too active this week. I've been busy during the week with life and whatnot, but a good chunk of the end of this week has been about this pile of anime and manga magazines. It's no longer just a "pile" of Animerica Extra, but a bonafide Mt. Everest encroaching on 400 issues, so I have lot to explain with just this haul alone.

So, where to begin? An outline is probably best.

This haul is a total of about 311 issues (a little more because of a few duplicates and magazines that aren't strongly related to animanga). That huge number is split across 16 different magazines, 4 of which (combining for 37 issues) are Japanese language.

The full list, in alphabetical order, is: Animage (JP), Animerica, Animerica Extra, Anime USA, AX (JP), AX DVD (JP), Mangajin, Neo, Newtype (JP), NewtypeUSA, OtakuUSA, Pulp, Protoculture Addicts, Shoujo Beat, Super Manga Blast, and Yen+.

Protoculture Addicts and Animerica stand out in the bunch because they together combine for over 100 of the issues in the haul, which is good because they're by far the longest running in the lot.

Speaking of those, let me give a bit of broad history in regards to the magazines.

While the majority are English language, there's actually a pair of them that were created/published outside of the US.

Starting it off, Protoculture Addicts was created in Montreal, and was actually ran as a Robotech Fanzine for about a year or so before becoming a full fledged magazine.

And then there's Neo, the UK based magazine. It's arguably the most interesting ongoing magazine out of the lot (with Otaku/Anime USA being the only others). It's also the only monthly animanga magazine to be currently published in English as OtakuUSA is bimonthly, and AnimeUSA is quarterly.

But that's enough history, what about the insides? For the most part they're relatively standard, but there's not "as many" manga anthology issues in this mountain.

Super Manga Blast, Shoujo Beat (only 9 issues), Animerica Extra (which I now have extras of), Pulp (only 2 issues), and Yen+.

That last one is the most interesting to me purely because of an editorial/column penned by "The Otaku Pimp". Yeah, that's a real thing that appears in that magazine which is incredibly funny to me.

More on the interesting side though is Mangajin, a magazine focused on teaching Japanese through Japanese culture, which of course includes manga. This one is especially interesting because it oftentimes features the only instance of the manga inside being translated to English.

And this is all just the tip of the iceberg. There's an insane amount of information and history in the magazines, and an exciting amount of unknowns with the frankly incredible amount of promotional DVDs that remain attached to so many of these issues.

I just have to get through it all.... which will take a long time. Will certainly be recruiting friends and whoever to help out, so hopefully I won't be doing this for the rest of my life haha

[she-weeb]

[regnigt]

From chapter 472, volume 31 of Haikyuu! in the Viz translation. Now *that* is how to render sound effects well in translation!! Magnificent touch up/lettering work by Erika Terriquez.

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

[coconutgirl28]

Happy International Best Friends Day

💛 June 8 💛

[yuki-ume]

Ai Hime: Ai to Himegoto (Love & Secret)

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2006-2007

[toeydbootzandcatz]

I just got back from AnimeNYC and had a good pile of pre-order books show up. (Some of these were at the Yen Press booth and I had to check to make sure I didn’t buy anything twice haha.)

Will likely read a volume or 2 tonight, but I’m looking forward to all of these! 😊

[mendelpalace]

Pixy Junket by PURE

One of those oddities of the early 90s manga boom, originally released in six issues and later collected in trade paperback form. The mangaka known as PURE is allegedly a former assistant of Masamune Shirow, which makes sense as there's definitely some early (pre GITS) Shirow vibes in this one. There's not much information on PURE and they seem to have faded into obscurity after releasing a few short manga in the early-to-mid 90s, Pixy Junket being the only one to get an English release.

[darkeraven22]

VIZ Komi Can't Communicate Volume 14 Review Chapter One Hundred & Eighty-Four (Digital)

Mutual Of Inaka Presents Mutual Of Inaka’s Countryside KingdomSo Shoko & Shosuke arrive at Grandma’s. The other family is there yoo. Of course since little niece is there. So. This is the third time we been here in this series. Why is it NOW, suddenly, that there is nothing to do? That wasn’t an issue before. Oh, right, Inaka. By the way this Chapter teaches you common tropes about country…

[zatch-bell-battlefield196]

Zatch part 2 ❤️⚡️⚡️