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January 20, 2021

Viz Media’s February Manga Headliners

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Viz has a lot of manga coming out next month, and they asked us to pass on the word. They’re calling attention to three volumes in particular, one original, one based on a movie and one based on a game. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Vol. 1 The life has just been about drained out of young Akira; the cruel corporation he works for has run him ragged. Bit if he feels like a zombie now, he doesn’t quite know the true definition. The next morning he walks into work to find his landlord has joined the undead and is munching on a co-worker. The onslauught of the zombie apocalypse is weirdly freeing to Akira, who finally has the freedom to run around and do everything he ever wanted now that society can’t pin him down. In a trash-filled apartment, 24-year-old Akira Tendo watches a zombie movie with lifeless, envious eyes. After spending three hard years at an exploitative corporation in Japan, his spirit is broken. He can’t

October 9, 2019

Viz Goes Diz: Star Wars And Frozen Manga Are On The Way

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Manga publisher and anime licensor Viz Media dumped a boatload of news on the press during NYCC, and we’re just now attempting to assemble it all. The first thing they revealed was that they were now publishing manga produced for Disney licenses: Star Wars and Frozen books will be released soon. Specifically, the manga adaption of Frozen 2 will be published Stateside in early 2020, and Star Wars: The Legend of Luke Skywalker: The Manga will be appearing around the same time. The latter is an adaption of Ken Liu’s novel, which shares the same title except without “The Manga” added to it. Look for art inside by Akira Himekawa (THE LEGEND OF ZELDA manga adaptations), Haruichi, Akira Fukaya, Takashi Kisaki and Subaru (not the car). So Viz licenses JoJo….any news there? Yes, and it’s good news. The show has been a staple of Adult Swim’s Toonami ever since it joined the lineup in 2016, but lately there’s been a dearth of Joestars and their bizarre adventures on the block.

March 12, 2015

Inevitable “Frozen 2” Finally Greenlit

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It was mere days ago (only two) that the producers and co-director of Frozen appeared at a press conference hyping the short Frozen Fever and said there were no plans for a Frozen 2 at that time. 48 hours later, this very morning at a shareholder’s meeting, Bob Iger and John Lasseter finally copped to it: yes, they’re going to make another one. They weren’t specific beyond that, but the greenlight could have very well come down hours ago. I’m all for respecting the creative process above all other concerns, but I’ll be honest and say the silence coming from Disney as to whether anything else would be done with Frozen besides a 7-minute short felt bizarre. To be a multinational corporation and ignore THIS kind of cultural phenomenon is nothing short of insanity. (How do Capcom and Square DO THIS all the time? It must take a lot of willpower.) No doubt cash was a motivation here. But it’s a different Disney than the dark days when Michael Eisner