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posted 7-2-2009 12:06 PM by Ho Lin
Anime Expo Meet and Greet

VIZ Media reps will be roaming around Anime Expo this weekend chatting and taking photos with fans in VIZ Media property cosplay. Meet them, and you might get a surprise!

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posted 6-26-2009 6:09 PM by Narasu Rebbapragada
High Castle + Japan + Science Fiction = Haikasoru.com

In Philip K. Dick’s science-fiction masterpiece, The Man in the High Castle, Japan rules, and in particular, rules America. With Haikasoru, the romanized Japanese spelling of “High Castle,” we’d like to think we’re doing the same thing (albeit more peacefully) by bringing the best Japanese science fiction to a North American audience.

The first two books in the line-up, All You Need is Kill, and The Lord of The Sands of Time, will be out in July. The second two books, Usurper of the Sun and Zoo, will be released in September. And stay tuned for future titles, including…

Battle Royale! Which brings me to the Haikasoru.com blog. Folks with healthy (and unhealthy) enthusiasm rap about the world, galaxy, and universe of Japanese science fiction. Plus, where else will you find editor Nick Mamatas channeling his inner eight-grader on whether Battle Royale has a prayer of ever making a high-school reading list?  

Made you look.

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posted 6-25-2009 5:50 PM by Narasu Rebbapragada
Get Informed on IKKI!

Have you been reading Children of the Sea online on VIZ Signature IKKI? It’s a great summer read with hypnotic artwork and a subtly addictive story (as in, you don’t know you’re addicted until you try to get up from your screen). Chapter 6 is available now, so check it out. And while you’re at it, check out the interviews with series creator Daisuke Igarashi and his editor.

We’ll be giving you a new online manga chapter each week as well as feature stories each month. Plus, the site is filled with the opinions and meanderings of the IKKI team -- a thoughtful bunch to say the least. The best way to find out what’s happening on IKKI is to sign up for the newsletter. That way, we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop.

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posted 6-24-2009 12:00 AM by Mike Montesa
RIN-NE Chapter 9 Live Now

Have you been reading the weekly online chapters of Rumiko Takahashi's RIN-NE? They're up for free every week on The Rumic World. Chapter 9 is up now. This week: the ghost of the fallen warrior haunting Kaori Himekawa isn’t gone yet, but Sakura and Rinne have a plan. There’s only one way to send the ochimusha ghost to the afterlife, and it seems simple enough, but will it really work?

If you're new to RIN-NE, you can catch up on chapters 1 to 8 on The Rumic World. Let us know what you think.

-- Mike Montesa, RIN-NE editor

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posted 6-22-2009 2:43 PM by Rob L McCarthy
VIZ Big: DRAGON BALL vol. 5

VIZ Big DRAGON BALL vol. 5:

This VIZ Big omnibus volume contains the final chapters of DRAGON BALL, which leads us to the beginning of DRAGON BALL Z. A much better, less marketing-driven descriptor is "Piccolo takes over the world and there are a great many really big fights." To go any further would be a spoiler. In this case you REALLY don’t want that! Heck, even sort of remembering this story from the anime, Toriyama is such a COMIC artist. There were many moments that made me say "Oh my God." Comics, as I have so often said, are a marriage of words and pictures. The pictures pack a powerful punch! Peruse when possible! Sorry, got caught in an alliteration loop! Buy it, would you?

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VIZ Big DRAGON BALL vol. 5 hits stores on August 18, 2009.

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