VIZ Media Weekly New Wrap Up
Stay on top of what’s new from VIZ Media with our wrap up.
VIZ Gains Doraemon Merchandise Rights
The celebrated anime character will get a whole new line of products from VIZ Media, North America’s largest publisher, distributor, and licensor of manga and anime.
From VIZ:
Both ShoPro and VIZ Media will be highlighting DORAEMON at the upcoming Licensing Expo, taking place June 17th-19th at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the United States. Please visit them on the show floor at the DORAEMON booth, #P200.
Currently, DORAEMON may be found in North America through digital manga via Amazon Kindle, as well as game apps for mobile devices. A MEET! DORAEMON exhibit was also held earlier this year at the Bernice Pauhi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, HI.
The DORAEMON anime series is set to premiere in English this summer on the Disney XD channel. Dubbed English episodes will be seen for the first time in North America.
DORAEMON is one of the most beloved character properties worldwide and started as a manga (graphic novel) series created by Fujiko F. Fujio in 1970. It later became a popular anime series in Japan and product franchise that continues to be smash hit worldwide, especially in Asia. The comedy series depicts the adventures of Doraemon, a blue cat-type robot from the 22nd century traveling back in time to help a boy named Noby using various secret gadgets that comes from his Four-Dimensional Pocket. Episodes often offer simple lessons to young viewers about honesty, cooperation, courage, and respect.
Be sure to look for new Doraemon products at the 2014 Licensing Expo June 17th through 19th.
Hunter X Hunter Returns to Weekly Shonen Jump with Special Promotion
Brand new chapters of Yoshihiro Togashi’s long-running manga are coming to Weekly Shonen Jump! To celebrate, volumes 1-32 are on sale on VIZ’s digital manga app ($4.99 each) and online at Barnes and Noble (40% off MSRP).
From VIZ:
In the HUNTER X HUNTER manga series, Hunters are a special breed, dedicated to tracking down treasures, magical beasts, and even other people. But such pursuits require a license, and less than one in a hundred thousand can pass the grueling qualification exam. Those who do pass gain access to restricted areas, amazing stores of information, and the right to call themselves Hunters.
VIZ Media publishes the long-running HUNTER X HUNTER manga series in-print and digitally and recently released the latest edition – Volume 32. Future dedicated print and digital volumes of the series will be published twice a year. VIZ Media is also the home media distributor of the HUNTER X HUNTER anime series on DVD.
Don’t miss out on this long-running fantasy action/adventure manga series!