Posts Tagged ‘Viz’

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 [...]

Viz Media is now streaming the first two episodes of romantic drama I’s and the complete follow-up I’s Pure series on Hulu and via its dedicated VizAnime portal, also powered by Hulu.  The stream is restricted to those aged 17 or older due to the sexually charged subject matter. Synopsis: The course of true love [...]

Viz has confirmed that it will simulcast Bleach via its “Quickcast” simulcast initiative that it currently runs with One Piece and Naruto Shippuden on its Viz Anime streaming portal.  This follows the announcement of the simulcast by Crunchyroll last week and pending launch this Tuesday after petitioning its user base to gauge demand for the [...]

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. [...]

Nick Simmons has released a formal statement regarding the allegations of plagiarism raised last week by the Bleach LiveJournal community Bleachness. Like most artists I am inspired by work I admire. There are certain similarities between some of my work and the work of others. This was simply meant as an homage to artists I [...]

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 [...]

RightStuf has begun its latest 4 day sale with up to 40% off the retail price of of all manga, novels and books from VIZ Media which includes in stock, on order and special order merchandise. The base discount is 33% off of MSRP with an additonal discount added for Got Anime card holders, totaling [...]

A Bleach LiveJournal community by the name of Bleachness has been investigating instances of reported plagiarism by Nick Tweed-Simmons, son of KISS frontman Gene Simmons. Nick Simmons currently authors his own comic book series called Incarnate, published by Radical Comics out of LA and draws heavily from the art style and tropes, but the community [...]