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VIZ Media

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This article deals with the American media company. For other uses, please see Viz (disambiguation).VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a major American anime, manga and Japanese entertainment company formed by the merger of VIZ, LLC, and ShoPro Entertainment. The company is commonly referred to as "Viz", the same name used in previous incarnations of VIZ LLC.

Viz also produces a manga and anime review magazine, Animerica; as well as an English language version of Shueisha's Shonen Jump (shōnen manga) magazine, and a shōjo manga monthly called Shojo Beat.

It formerly published Animerica Extra, a shōjo manga monthly, and PULP magazine, an adult-oriented manga monthly that featured story lines inappropriate for younger readers, though not pornography (see seinen, josei).

It is jointly-owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and licensing house Shogakukan Productions (ShoPro), a Shogakukan subsidiary.

Books published by Viz

Manga

Full article: List of manga published by VIZ Media

At various times in its history, Viz has published manga under the Viz Comics, Viz Communications, VIZ, LLC, Shonen Jump, PULP Manga, Shonen Jump Advanced, and Shojo Beat imprints. Amongst some of their more popular titles are manga series.
* Big O (manga)
* Black Cat (manga)
* Bleach
* Buso Renkin
* Case Closed (Detective Conan)
* Ceres, Celestial Legend
* Death Note
* Dragon Ball series
* Excel Saga
* Fullmetal Alchemist
* Hikaru no Go
* Hunter x Hunter
* Mobile Suit Gundam series
* Hot Gimmick
* Houshin Engi
* I"s
* The Law of Ueki
* MÄR
*
Midori Days (Midori no Hibi)
*
NANA
*
Neon Genesis Evangelion
*
O-Parts Hunter (666 Satan)
*
One Piece
*
Pokémon Adventures
*
The Prince of Tennis
*
Ranma ½
*
Red River
*
Rurouni Kenshin
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Shaman King
*
Train Man: Densha Otoko (Densha Otoko)
*
Ultimate Muscle
*
X/1999
*
Whistle!
*
Yakitate
Japan
* Yu-Gi-Oh!
* YuYu Hakusho
* Zatch Bell! (Konjiki no Gash!)
* Zombie Powder

Ani-Manga

* Howl's Moving Castle
* InuYasha
* My Neighbor Totoro
* Pokémon: The First Movie
* Pokémon: The Movie 2000
* Spirited Away
* Steamboy
* Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie

Novels

* Battle Royale
* Be With You (Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu)
* Full Moon wo Sagashite
* Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence After the Last Goodbye
* Kamikaze Girls
* Naruto: Innocent Heart, Demonic Blood
* Rurouni Kenshin
* Shakugan no Shana
* Socrates in Love

Magazines published by Viz

* Animerica (discontinued)
* Animerica Extra (discontinued)
* Manga Vizion (discontinued)
* PULP (discontinued)
* Shojo Beat
* Shonen Jump USA

Anime distributed by Viz


* A Chinese Ghost Story (Chinese animation)
* Bleach
* Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango) [TV-14] [MPAA: PG-13]
* Case Closed (Detective Conan)
* Ceres, Celestial Legend [TV-PG] [MPAA: PG-13]
* Corrector Yui [TV-PG] [MPAA: PG-13]
* Croket
* Deko Boko Friends
* Doraemon [TV-Y] [MPAA: G]
* Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf [TV-14] [MPAA: PG-13]
* Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle (1993) [TV-14] [MPAA: PG-13]
* Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (1994) [TV-14] [MPAA: PG-13]
* Flame of Recca
* Full Metal Alchemist
* Full Moon o Sagashite (confirmed as of February 17, 2006. Scheduled for release June 2006)
* Galaxy Express 999 (along with Orion Pictures) [TV-PG] [MPAA: PG]
* Great Dangaioh [TV-PG] [MPAA: PG]
* Hamtaro [TV-G] [MPAA: G]
* Hikaru no Go
* Hunter × Hunter
* InuYasha [TV-PG]/[TV-14]
* Key the Metal Idol [TV-14] [MPAA: PG]
* Maison Ikkoku [TV-PG] [MPAA: PG-13]
* MÄR
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MegaMan NT Warrior (RockMan EXE) [TV-Y7 FV] [MPAA: PG]
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Mirmo! (Mirumo de Pon)
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Monkey Turn
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Naruto [TV-Y7 FV/TV-PG V]
*
Night Warriors
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One Piece
*
Ogre Slayer
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Please Save My Earth [TV-14] [MPAA: PG-13]
*
The Prince of Tennis
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Project ARMS
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Ranma ½ [TV-PG] [MPAA: PG (movies)]
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Saikano [MPAA: PG-13]
*
S-CRY-ED
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Sonic X (along with 4Kids Entertainment) [TV-Y7 FV] [MPAA: PG]
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Taro the Space Alien
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Trouble Chocolate [TV-PG] [MPAA: PG]
*
Video Girl Ai (along with Geneon) [TV-PG] [MPAA: PG-13]
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Zatch Bell! (Konjiki no Gash Bell'') [TV-Y7 FV] [MPAA: PG]

Other media

In addition to the above, Viz has also published online magazines (the now-defunct J-pop.com)

External links

*Viz Website
*Viz LLC and ShoPro Entertainment become VIZ Media



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