Posts Tagged ‘Viz Media’

Viz Media has confirmed on its Facebook page that it holds the license to the second season of Vampire Knight in Vampire Knight: Guilty.  While the distributor previously announced the license to the Vampire Knight anime adaptation during Comic-Con in July, it did not specify if it had acquired both seasons.The Vampire Knight anime adaptation’s [...]

Viz Media has announced the August 28th premiere of the ninth season of Bleach on Adult Swim beginning with episode 168.  This follows the previous confirmation of the premiere within the pages of Shonen Jump in June.  The ninth season of series was also plagued with delays, as it was originally meant to premiere last [...]

The first volume of the Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan manga has been listed on the Simon & Schuster portal with a February 2011 release date along with the second volume, which is also listed for an April 2011 release.  Viz Media has not officially announced the manga license at this time, although the [...]

A blurry magazine scan from the latest issue of Shonen Jump (yet to be released to US newsstands) has confirmed August 28th as the return of Bleach to Adult Swim after being delayed due to production issues. The scan surfaced on the Adult Swim boards. Adult Swim is currently airing Kekkaishi in the timeslot normally [...]

Deb Aoki of About.com has published an in-depth article on MangaFox and its recent activity in removing licensed titles from Viz Media amongst other major US publishers. On top of that development, she also managed to speak with a former staffer that has opened up at length about the site’s parent company (based in China) [...]

Publishers Weekly reports that  the 36 member Japanese Digital Comic Association and U.S. manga publishers Vertical Inc, Viz Media, Tokyopop and Yen Press have banded together under a new coalition to address the issue of online scanlations and aggregator sites such as OneManga and MangaFox that illegally distribute unofficial and official translations of copyrighted titles, [...]

Following up on the appearance of Kekkaishi on Adult Swim’s online schedule for April-May, Viz has confirmed via Twitter that the series will begin its TV broadcast on May 29th, replacing current hour-long reruns of Bleach until this Fall, when new Bleach episodes are expected to air in its timeslot.

Adult Swim has updated their online schedule for April-May and has begun listing the Kekkaishi supernatural action anime as a midseason replacement for Bleach starting in May. Bleach was previously scheduled to premiere new episodes earlier this month, but unforseen production delays forced the delay of airing new episodes until the Fall of this year. [...]

The Heat Vision blog hosted by the Hollywod Reporter notes that the director of Get Smart, The Longest Yard and Anger Management in Peter Segal is negotiating and in the process of securing the live-action film rights to the BLEACH supernatural action manga penned by author Tite Kubo and distributed in the US by Viz [...]

Viz has announced that it has expanded the availability of the ever popular Naruto in Latin America via its ongoing partnership with Miami, Florida-based holding company Televideo Services Inc. to include Central and South America on top of current availability in Brazil. As part of the agreement, Season 3 (Episodes 105-156) of Naruto has been [...]