VIZ Is the Creature with the Black Lagoon!
About goddamn time! MangaCast spotted some new VIZ licenses on Amazon.com, including the fantastically badass smuggler dramedy Black Lagoon, as well as another work by Vampire Knight’s Matsuri Hino called WANTED, two Arina Tanemura manga– Time Stranger Kyoko and one called Kanshaku Tamano Yuuutsu (no relation to Haruhi; “Short-Tempered Melancholy”) and the manga of Rosario to Vampire. Oh, and another Akira Toriyama work: Cowa!
Also licensed: Ayumi Komura’s Mixed Vegetables, Hisaya Nakajo’s Sugar Princess, and Youzabara Kanari and Kuroko Yabuguchi’s Gimmick!. MangaCast also has covers for previously-announced (I think) titles Cat Eyed Boy, One Pound Gospel, and of course, Slam Dunk.
Tags: akira toriyama, arina-tanemura, black-lagoon, cat eyed boy, cowa!, gimmick!, matsuri-hino, mixed vegetables, one pound gospel, rosario to vampire, short-tempered melancholy, slam-dunk, sugar princess, time stranger kyoko, vampire-knight, viz, wanted
January 25th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I have big gun!
January 25th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Yeah, Slam Dunk and 1lbG were previously announced but I wanted to make a point of which versions were coming.
Viz had been rumored to only release Vol 4 of 1lbG and not the re-print the rest. But they are going to start from 1 (woohoo!!) And sadly Slam Dunk is not going straight to Viz Big like Cat Eyed Boy is. I understand why, but I think that was a bad move. Wideban might not make Inoue happy but it might help with sales (14 vols instead of 31…oh yeah easier on the wallet especially since people in the States are allergic to sports manga/anime),