{"id":11699,"date":"2007-07-27T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/27\/viz-media-announces-new-acquisitions\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T15:36:00","slug":"viz-media-announces-new-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/viz-media-announces-new-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Viz Media Announces New Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the ongoing San Diego Comic Con, Viz Media has announced plans for domestic distribution of the Nana and Honey &amp; Clover anime television series.<\/p>\n<p>Viz announced February 2008 release plans for the debut volume of the &#8220;Blue Dragon: Ral Grad&#8221; and &#8220;Be With You&#8221; manga series, the &#8220;Death Note 13: How to Read&#8221; reference guide book, and the hardcover &#8220;Death Note: Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Case&#8221; novel.<\/p>\n<p>Umino Chika&#8217;s &#8220;Honey &amp; Clover&#8221; and Akira Shouko&#8217;s &#8220;Saruyama&#8221; manga series,  under the American name &#8220;Monkey High!&#8221;, will premier in Shojo Beat Magazine next March. Tooko Mizuno&#8217;s &#8220;Harukanaru Toki no Naka de&#8221; will premier in Shoujo Beat Magazine in April under the abbreviated title &#8220;Haruka.&#8221; Kaori Yuki&#8217;s &#8220;Fairy Cube&#8221; manga will premier in the magazine in May.<\/p>\n<p>The manga series &#8220;Switch,&#8221; by creator duo &#8220;Naked Ape,&#8221; will debut in March. Shin Mashiba&#8217;s &#8220;Yumekui Kenbun: Nightmare Inspector&#8221; and Nobuhiro Watsuki&#8217;s &#8220;Gunblaze West&#8221; manga series will debut in April. The &#8220;Record of a Fallen Vampire&#8221; manga by Kyo Shirodaira and Yuri Kimura will debut in America next May. Viz will begin serial publication of Takehiko Inoue&#8217;s &#8220;Slam Dunk&#8221; manga series sometime next year.<\/p>\n<p>Viz also announced plans to launch a line of &#8220;Viz Big&#8221; manga, slightly over-sized books that will contain 3 volumes of a series at a $17.99 retail price. The line will launch next May with Rurouni Kenshin, Dragon Ball, and Dragon Ball Z.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Anime News Network <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/convention\/2007\/comic-con-international\/viz-media\" target=\"_blank\">link 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2007-07-27\/shonen-jump-to-serialize-bleach-publish-slam-dunk\" target=\"_blank\">link 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the ongoing San Diego Comic Con, Viz Media has announced plans for domestic distribution of the Nana and Honey &amp; Clover anime television series. Viz announced February 2008 release plans for the debut volume of the &#8220;Blue Dragon: Ral Grad&#8221; and &#8220;Be With You&#8221; manga series, the &#8220;Death Note 13: How to Read&#8221; reference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}