VIZ Media And comiXology Add 650 Shogakukan Manga in Massive Update
VIZ Media announced that 650 VIZ Media manga, originally published in Japan by Shogakukuan, are now available in English on comiXology.com and their app for Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android, and Windows 8. This includes more than 65 acclaimed series, many in their entirety, spanning an extremely diverse range of adventure, action, sci-fi, horror, mystery, and romance genres. As of this most recent update, more than 1100 VIZ Media manga in 190 different series are now available on comiXology.
Shogakukan, Inc. is a VIZ Media parent company and one of Japan’s biggest publishing companies. “With this latest update manga fans now have even more to love with these VIZ Media Shogakukan books,” said comiXology CEO and co-founder David Steinberger. “VIZ Media’s huge library of classic and fan-favorite series offer something for every reader and every week we’re bringing even more to the comiXology platform.”
“The latest titles to join comiXology’s catalog substantially expands the VIZ Media roster of series available through the platform, and we are thrilled to deepen our relationship with this innovative platform and offer so much exciting new content to fans,” says Eric Eberhardt, VIZ Media’s Director of Digital Marketing. “Readers are increasingly enjoying their favorite titles digitally, and comiXology has become a great destination for them to access a broad array of content. This latest update provides the latest installments for scores of continuing VIZ Media series and the complete runs of dozens of other acclaimed legacy titles.”
Among the highlights of the Shogakukan additions: ten volumes of the rated Mature science fiction horror series The Drifting Classroom; ten volumes of the rated Mature Happy Marriage?! which concerns the institution of arranged marriage; seven volumes of the rated Mature vampire series Midnight Secretary; ten volumes of the rated Teen dungeon crawler fantasy Magi; eighteen volumes of the rated Teen supernatural fantasy Black Bird; thirteen volumes of the rated Teen Plus Itsuwaribito, which concerns an unrepentant liar raised by monks; and, fifty-three volumes of the Teen Plus Case Closed, in which the son of a mystery novelist becomes a kid detective.
