{"id":8270,"date":"2005-01-26T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2005\/01\/26\/shogakukan-to-merge-american-subsidiaries\/"},"modified":"2005-01-26T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T15:42:00","slug":"shogakukan-to-merge-american-subsidiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/shogakukan-to-merge-american-subsidiaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Shogakukan to Merge American Subsidiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viz LLC has officially announced that it will merge with ShoPro Entertainment this spring, forming a new American distribution company for Japanese comics and animation. Viz LLC is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha. ShoPro Entertainment is a subsidiary of Shogakukan.<\/p>\n<p>Anime News Network hosts the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/pressrelease.php?id=807\" target=\"_blank\">entire official press announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viz LLC has officially announced that it will merge with ShoPro Entertainment this spring, forming a new American distribution company for Japanese comics and animation. Viz LLC is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha. ShoPro Entertainment is a subsidiary of Shogakukan. Anime News Network hosts the entire official press announcement.<\/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-8270","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\/8270","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=8270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}