It’s that time of year again — Get ready to pick up some free comics on Free Comic Book day this Saturday! Along with the American comic distributors, VIZ is pulling out the stops and is offering two free releases: a VIZ Kids comic sampler and a VIZ Media manga sampler.
What’s being featured in these samplers? Find out after the break!
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Recap of Pop GO posts published on Jan. 21, 2013.
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As of today, Weekly Shonen Jump, in a partnership with Viz Media, will release its weekly magazine in English, at the same time as they release their magazine in Japan.
The English release is only available in a digital format and a yearly subscription costs $25.99. Currently, each issue contains the following titles: One-Punch Man, Naruto, Nisekoi, One Piece, Bleach, Toriko, Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, and Cross Manage. One-Punch Man is the only title that is being released at the first chapter, the other titles are caught up with Japan.
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If you’re still reading VIZ manga on scanlation sites, you’re running out of legitimate reasons to do it. At least, if you live in the US. Find out why after the jump.
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Present for the “Super Secret VIZ Media Anime Project” were Marketing Director Candice Ulyoan and Vice President Brian Ige. Some information was leaked a couple days ago in regards to what the project was, but the purpose of this panel was to finally reveal what VIZ had under its sleeve.
That particular project is known as Neon Alley, a 24-hour anime programming channel.
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Continue Reading →“Hi 5” with Mark DeVera from VIZ Media!
Mark DeVera works as the publishing sales coordinator at VIZ. His responsibility, along with his team, are to deal with print publishing. Print and digital publishing are two separate entities. His team is responsible for basically getting the physical content into stores.
Watch on to see and hear about how Mark got into the industry and find out how quirky we can be.
We hope you enjoy our first video ‘Hi 5’. It’s unscripted and raw and straight from this past weekend’s FanimeCon. Make sure to change the quality to 720p for maximum quality.
You can’t go to an anime convention and forget about VIZ Media. There’s a lot of manga and anime news so let’s get to it!
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Back for more! More anime, more cosplay, more awesome in our Day 2 coverage of FanimeCon 2012!
Take a look at our take on the behemoth that is Day 2.
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During the Shonen Jump Alpha Fan Meet-Up on Saturday at FanimeCon 2012, the editors of the digital magazine announced they will be publishing a new manga named Barrage.
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It’s official: The current Berserk anime film trilogy is coming out globally to 16 countries including the U.S.
Details after the break.
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Recap of Pop GO posts published on Feb. 11, 2012.
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My very first Pop GO contest has come to an end. Thanks to everyone who participated! It’s been tough verifying whether people stuck to the rules, but I’m finally done and have drawn the winners.
I drew three different winners: one from Facebook, one from Twitter, and one with the entire bag.
Continue on to see who won free VIZ manga!
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Population GO has gotten pretty big in a short time, and we have no one else to thank than you, the reader, for helping us get there. And as thanks, I’d like to give you a chance to give you some free VIZ manga!
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One of my favorite mangaka (cartoonist or comic artist in Japanese) is Miki Aihara. I fell in love with her work when I first read Hot Gimmick in 2003.
The story revolves around a 16-year-old girl named Hatsumi Narita. Her whole family lives in a company housing complex ruled by the wife of the company’s vice president, the self-righteous and tyrannical Mrs. Tachibana. Depending on how a family behaves within the housing complex can also affect an employee’s status within the company. If you get on Mrs. Tachibana’s bad side, life becomes hell in the complex. When Hatsumi’s promiscuous younger sister Akane thinks she might be pregnant, she talks Hatsumi into going out and buying a pregnancy test for her. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned for Hatsumi as on her way back, she accidentally bumps into Ryoki Tachibana, the son of Mrs. Tachibana who used to bully Hatsumi as a kid. Ryoki promises not to tell about Hatsumi’s secret, only if she becomes his slave.
This 12 volume series plus a novel (Hot Gimmick S) is rated M for Mature audiences since it addresses several adult themes such as an abusive relationship. What pulled me into reading Hot Gimmick is how the story digs deep into a problem found in every society yet it still maintained it’s shojo aspects. You can relate to one or two of the characters and with the way Aihara draws the artwork makes for some juicy and colorful senarios. 
As of 2009, Viz is now publishing Hot Gimmick in the Vizbig Edition format and is slowly being released throughout this year. You get three (3) volumes in one (1) Vizbig book making 4 Vizbig volumes in total. The Volume One (1) in the Vizbig Edition is out now.
Hot Gimmick S is in novel format but is based on a “what-if” senario if Hatsumi didn’t choose Ryoki. This is also out now.
But of course, you can always stayed tuned here for more updates…
<3 -spamula27
