Viz goes digital!

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Brigid Alverson

Here’s the big news of the day: Viz is launching its own iPad app. PWCW has all the details, and Anna (a.k.a. Tangognat) is first out of the gate with some reactions at Manga Report.

Melinda Beasi’s Pick of the Week is The Story of Sainkoku. Hit the link to find out why. Also, Melinda brings us a look at November’s manhwa releases in her weekly Manhwa Monday column. And she asks her readers: What do you think of the Digital Manga Guild?

Reviews: Ash Brown has a quick rundown of the week’s reading at Experiments in Manga.

Leroy Douresseaux on vols. 15-17 of Air Gear (The Comic Book Bin)
Anna on vols. 1 and 2 of Bakuman (Manga Report)
Connie on vol. 7 of Blade of the Immortal (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 1 of Demon Sacred (Slightly Biased Manga)
Billy Aguiar on Ghost in the Shell (Prospero’s Manga)
Sean Gaffney on How to Draw Shoujo Manga (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Kristin on vol. 2 of Kingyo Used Books (Comic Attack)
Erica Friedman on vol. 4 of K-On! (Okazu)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 28 of Negima (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Lori Henderson on the November issue of Shonen Jump (Manga Xanadu)
Steve Bennett on vol. 1 of Summoner Girl (ICv2)
Shannon Fay on Uzumaki (Kuriousity)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 10 of V.B. Rose (A Case Suitable for Treatment)

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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3 Responses to Viz goes digital!

  1. pdb says:
    November 2, 2010 at 8:15 am

    I think censorship issues with material available on Itunes should dampen any enthusiasm for an IPad app.

  2. Brigid says:
    November 2, 2010 at 12:07 pm

    Actually, since you buy the manga from within the app, I don’t believe they have to be vetted by Apple.

  3. Manga Therapy says:
    November 3, 2010 at 12:12 am

    I hope they announce SIGIKKI titles for the app, since those titles seem to be more appropriate to the majority of iPad users. The target market seems to be towards the 20-40 age range. I don’t see too many teenagers with iPads.

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