Viz to debut new imprint

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

Viz will launch a new Shonen Sunday imprint that will encompass the print edition of Rumiko Takahashi’s Rin-ne as well as the existing series from Japan’s Shonen Sunday magazine: InuYasha, Hayate the Combat Butler, and Yakitate!! Japan, among others.

Going to SDCC? Gia has an etiquette primer for Q&A sessions.
Andrew Cunningham explains why Faust is important at The Eastern Standard.

Kate Dacey has another half-time poll at The Manga Critic: What do you think is the best continuing series of 2009 (so far)?

Digital will be publishing an omnibus edition of Makoto Tateno’s Yellow (not Yellow 2, as I wrote a few days ago), but it will be under their June imprint, not 801. They will also be publishing Yellow 2 in the June line, but that manga is only 60 pages long and was originally published to cell phones—it has yet to be printed in Japan, according to ANN.

Malaysia needs more homegrown manga, according to this guy.

News from Japan: An Nakahara, creator of Kirarin Revolution, has a new series, Kururun-Rieru Change!, that will launch in the August 3 issue of Ciao magazine. ANN has last week’s comics rankings.

Reviews

David Welsh on vol. 3 of Astral Project (Precocious Curmudgeon)
Holly Ellingwood on vol. 1 of Black Bird (Active Anime)
Davey C. Jones on vol. 6 of Black Lagoon (Active Anime)
Michelle Smith on vol. 26 of Boys Over Flowers (Soliloquy in Blue)
Terry Boyden on vol. 1 of Detroit Metal City (BuzzFocus.com)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 3 of Gunsmith Cats, Revised Edition (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Julie on vol. 2 of Happy Happy Clover (Manga Maniac Cafe)
James Fleenor on vol. 3 of Hayate Cross Blade (Anime Sentinel)
Erica Friedman on vol. 1 of Itoshi wo Tome (Okazu)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 1 of Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Shojo Flash on vol. 10 of Kitchen Princess (Shojo Flash)
Lorena on vol. 3 of Land of the Blindfolded (i heart manga)
Andre on Over the Rainbow (Kuriousity)
Margaret Veira on vol. 32 of The Prince of Tennis (Active Anime)
Alex Hoffman on Short-Tempered Melancholic (Comics Village)
Tangognat on vol. 2 of Two Flowers for the Dragon (Tangognat)

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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One Response to Viz to debut new imprint

  1. laurie says:
    July 9, 2009 at 11:04 am

    urgh… I basically leave the rooms once QA starts. The most rude ones are the ones where the question is basically to insult the guest for what ever cooperate scandals going on.

    ah, the site looks nude with out the graphics ^^

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