NYCC08: VIZ Media
Sorry about the lateness of my liveblog; I had some technical difficulties. Stupid internets.
The VIZ panel is being run by Mark, the director of marketing, senior project manager Candace, and Simon and Schuster senior sales assistant (and level 70 blood elf for the horde) Nicole.
On the Bleach front, the SOULS character profiles book Rain Drains Black Sun Down is due out in October for $14.98 and it will feature stickers and a poster. The Bleach movie is going to hit theaters June 11th and 12th, with the DVD being released in October and volume 25 of the manga coming out in December.
Vagabond is joining VIZBIG (three volumes in one book) starting in September 2008, along with two Vagabond artbooks– Sumi and Water.
More works from Takehiko Inoue: Real in July 2008 and Slam Dunk in September 2008.
More VIZBIG: DragonBall and Dragon Ball Z are both hitting the BIG shelves on June 3rd.
Cowa! by Akira Toriyama is coming out in July 2008, and the first chapter will be previewed in the American Shonen Jump in color.
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is going to be released in August 2008, a different set than the ones VIZ published previously.
Kazuo Umezu’s Cat Eyed Boy volume 1 AND 2 are coming out in June, and Asano Inio’s solanin is due out in October.
Official confirmation of Black Lagoon, whose first volume will be out in August ‘08– shrinkwrapped, of course.
Naruto the Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel is coming out July 29th, straight to DVD this time. The third movie is also coming out October 11, 2008.
One Pound Gospel volume 4 is finally finished in Japan, ending the series. VIZ is going to rerelease volumes 1-3 starting in July and release the fourth volume in December.
Buso Renkin is coming out straight to box sets; the first is due out on April 29th. Hunter x Hunter is also going straight to box set in Q4.
Blah blah Blue Dragon trailer. Giveaways for Shojo Beat and Shonen Jump, a shopping spree and a video game system, respectively. You can also win a trip to JUMP Festa, for the 40th anniversary of Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan. The August issue of Shonen Jump will have details on how to enter.
For Hikaru no Go, Prince of Tennis, and Mar, they’re just on a break.
Someone asked me about Oishinbo, so I asked– they say they probably won’t be releasing all 100+ volumes but that solid news on it will be coming soon. They hope to release the Vampire Knight anime. Someone asked how long Bleach will continue, the answer being “forever,” according to Mark. No end in sight, at any rate, of course.
Someone just asked about whether they’d be accepting any original series, and they answered that they weren’t really looking for anything, which is a little counter to what Brigid and other bloggers heard yesterday.
ANN rep just asked about whether there’s any news on VIZ’s novels– big news is coming up for a launch in 2009, we’re told. Whee!
They have no plans to do any Osamu Tezuka manga just now, though they’d love to. No plans for digital manga releases just yet. They would love to do releases on Blu-Ray and believe it’s the future but can’t give out anything official or solid just yet.
They just referred to themselves as “the underdogs.” I guess they mean maybe in the entertainment industry in general, seeing as most people would put them tops in the anime and manga industry…
Someone just asked about Shojo Beat’s featuring of American comicker Bryan Lee O’Malley; they’d like to find more opportunities like that but nothing specific at the moment.
They’re giving away a Black Lagoon volume (Japanese, v1), and the question is: “Chuck Lee or Bruce Norris?” (Oops.)
Tags: liveblogging, nycc08, viz-media
April 19th, 2008 at 8:26 am
So they didn’t announce a license for the D.Gray-man anime? If they haven’t gotten it by now, I guess they’re just leaving it to someone else. I’m kinda surprised… maybe we’ll hear about it at some other industry panel this weekend.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:32 am
@CJ: I wouldn’t be so quick to assume, but it’s hard to say.
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