Viz Media has announced upcoming manga:
Get ready for some nose-busting and heart-breaking action in KENKA BANCHO OTOME: LOVE’S BATTLE ROYALE, coming next month! Based on the Japanese romantic adventure game of the same name, the first volume (complete in 2 vols) will be available April 3rd from favorite retailers everywhere, as well as in digital formats through the VIZ Manga platform (VIZ.com and the VIZ Manga app) and the partner storefronts for comiXology, GooglePlay, ibooks, Kindle, Kobo and Nook!
On the first day of high school, orphan Hinako gets kidnapped en route by none other than her twin brother Hikaru! Pressed into attending his all-boys school in his stead, she finds that the school has quite an unusual student body – one which enrolls notorious delinquents from all over the country… Now Hinako, posing as her twin brother, must fight her way to the top of Shishiku Academy to become boss of all of the delinquents!
Kenka Bancho Otome: Koi no Battle Royale © Chie Shimada / HAKUSENSHA, INC. © Spike Chunsoft
It’s just an everyday apocalypse in Eisner-nominated Inio Asano’s latest manga, DEAD DEAD DEMON’S DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION! Volume 1 will be available at favorite retailers everywhere on April 17th, and will also be available digitally through the VIZ Manga platform and partner digital storefronts!
The creator of SOLANIN, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD, GOODNIGHT PUNPUN and more is back with a tale that blends the ordinary, teenage angst, and impending doom! Three years after the invasion, the Japan Self Defense Forces are still looking for a way to combat the looming alien threat, but so far conventional weapons have no effect on the mother ship. Meanwhile, high schooler Kadode and her best friend avidly track the aliens’ movements through social media and less enthusiastically study for college entrance exams. When the end of the world is overhead, you learn to take it one step at a time.
On a related note, Inio Asano will be a guest at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this May! More details on his appearances may be found here: www.torontocomics.com
Another awesome edition of Anime Boston just ended this past weekend, and VIZ Media had a full roster of new acquisitions on tap, with titles debuting this Fall and Winter!
- Look forward to the upcoming release of K: SEVEN STORIES! The original K anime series gets a collection of six original animated stories & spinoff shorts featuring new and returning characters from the K-project universe! VIZ Media holds the digital streaming, EST, home video and merchandising rights.
- Four new Shonen Jump releases this fall, including DRAGON BALL: THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS YAMCHA!, the science-powered DR. STONE, high school comedy WE NEVER LEARN and the third and final BLEACH BOX SET!
- On the VIZ Signature side, harrowing dystopian thriller ABARA: COMPLETE DELUXE EDITION, the adorable & magical coming-of-age story RAN AND THE GRAY WORLD, and last but not least, the TOKYO GHOUL COMPLETE BOX SET!
- Two art book acquisitions, Akira Toriyama’s DRAGON QUEST ILLUSTRATIONS: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, and THE COMPLETE ART OF FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
- Finally, rounding out the announcements are shojo title AO HARU RIDE, the French title RADIANT, and fantasy RECORD OF GRANCREST WAR!
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