10
Jun
2014
VIZ Media Manga Now On ComiXology
Starting today, you’ll no longer have to go and teach yourself Japanese and pay exorbitant overseas shipping or be subjected to the limited stock in your local bookstore in order to find some of your favorite manga, because now you can download Viz Media mangas through comiXology, including Bleach, Death Note, Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Claymore, and Tenjo Tenge.
Today comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform, and VIZ Media, the largest distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, announced a digital distribution agreement to bring fan-favorite manga series to comiXology’s entire platform across North America.
To celebrate this announcement, VIZ Media has made available today more than 500 volumes of fan-favorite manga series on comiXology including NARUTO, ONE PIECE, BLEACH, NANA & more! Manga fans will be able to read all these great series using comiXology’s Manga Fixed Format a dedicated right-to-left full-page manga reading experience.
“Launching over 500 volumes of VIZ Media manga is amazing for our manga fans,” said comiXology CEO David Steinberger. “The addition of VIZ Media today marks a huge increase in our manga offerings and I, for one, cannot wait to dive into today’s releases and the many thousands yet to come.”
“We’re excited to bring our great catalog of VIZ Media titles to comiXology,” said Gagan Singh, VIZ Media’s Executive Vice President. “ComiXology is the premier destination for digital comics and we’re happy to help make them the destination for manga. We can’t wait for manga fans to experience comiXology’s high resolution Manga Fixed Format developed especially for this content.”
The full list of manga titles launching today on comiXology from VIZ Media include:
- BAKUMAN (all volumes)
- BLEACH (all volumes and same day as print)
- BLUE EXORCIST
- CLAYMORE
- DEATH NOTE
- DRAGON BALL FULL COLOR (SAIYAJIN)
- DRAGON BALL/ DRAGON BALL Z
- HIKARU NO GO
- KNIGHTS OF THE ZODIAC
- NANA
- NARUTO
- ONE PIECE
- ONE-PUNCH MAN
- ROSARIO + VAMPIRE
- ROSARIO + VAMPIRE SEASON II
- RUROUNI KENSHIN
- RUROUNI KENSHIN: RESTORATION
- SHAMAN KING
- TENJO TENGE
- THE PRINCE OF TENNIS
This is pretty cool news, because, I’ll admit it, I don’t always know the proper reading order for panels in manga. I manage, but they developed a whole new digital format for these, so it should be easy and enjoyable, in addition to being much easier to fill your collection.
 JohnScott is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company.
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