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Today during Anime Expo, Viz Media took to the stage and announced three titles they were localizing for the US market. One was Nier Automata….the manga, we mean. Nier Automata, a video game released by Square last year, was popular enough in Japan to get its own manga collections, released in two volumes. The first of these, Long Story Short, was already announced for US release earlier, and will arrive this October. Today Viz revealed it’ll be followed by Short Story Long, another novella collection. The game is just as popular here as in its home country if not more, so the manga should find a receptive audience. Short Story Long is due out in 2019. Viz also announced they’d be localizing more twisted tales from the warped mind of Junji Ito! Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection wraps together thirteen new stories of horror. Viz was not specific as to what the stories were about (perhaps they’re too afraid to even talk about them). All we have is this; make