Viz Media Dates Several Manga

Posted by Vic Mar - 7 - 2018 0 Comment

Viz has dated several upcoming releases:

Plans for revenge go awry in THE YOUNG MASTER’S REVENGE, a romantic comedy from Meca Tanaka, the acclaimed creator of METEOR PRINCE! Volume 1 will be available in print and digitally March 6th.

In THE YOUNG MASTER’S REVENGE, when Leo was a young boy, he had his pride torn to shreds by Tenma, a girl from a wealthy background who was always getting him into trouble. Now, years after his father’s successful clothing business has made him the heir to a fortune, he searches out Tenma to enact a dastardly plan – he’ll get his revenge by making her fall in love with him!

Kimi no Kotonado Zettaini © Meca Tanaka 2015/HAKUSENSHA, Inc.

VIZ Media’s Shonen Jump imprint debuts a hilarious spin on a classic high school love story on March 6th – KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR! The first volume will be available in print at favorite retailers everywhere, as well as digitally through the VIZ Manga platform and the Nook, iBooks, Kindle, GooglePlay, and Kobo storefronts.

As leaders of their prestigious academy’s student council, Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite! But it’s lonely at the top… Luckily for them, they’ve fallen in love! There’s just one problem—they both have too much pride to admit it. And so begins the daily scheming to get the object of their affection to confess their romantic feelings first… Love is a war you win by losing.

Award-winning Japanese author Dempow Torishima tackles a stark vision of bizarre surreality for all lovers of science fiction in SISYPHEAN. Torishima’s English-language book-length debut will be available in print and digitally on March 20th from VIZ Media’s Haikasoru imprint!

A strange journey into the far future of genetic engineering, and working life. After centuries of tinkering, many human bodies only have a casual similarity to what we now know, but both work and school continue apace. Will the enigmatic sad sack known only as “the worker” survive the day? Will the young student Hanishibe get his questions about the biological future of humanity answered, or will he have to transfer to the department of theology? Will Umari and her master ever comprehend the secrets of nanodust?

Next month, VIZ Media is thrilled to debut the first book of the pop-culture phenomena, HOMESTUCK! Book 1, collecting Acts 1 and 2 of the long-running saga, will be available on April 13th at favorite retailers everywhere in a full-color hardcover collector’s edition, perfect for fans to reread the story guided by commentary from creator Andrew Hussie and for new readers looking for a gateway to enter this rich universe! A digital edition will also debut on the same day!

The sprawling HOMESTUCK saga is essential reading for everyone, a master class in creating a mind-bending, genre-defying epic journey – one writer even called it “the Ulysses of the internet”! Launched in 2009 online, this massive hybrid work consisting of web comics, chat logs, gifs, video games animation and music comprises over 8,000 pages spanning diverse genres such as action / adventure, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, romance and drama!

In HOMESTUCK, a young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that he’s about to embark on an adventure involving birthday cakes, magic chests, hammers, arms (detachable and otherwise), harlequins, imps, eccentric architecture, movable home furnishings, bunnies, and a video game that will destroy the world!