VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF
GOTHIC FANTASY ANIME SERIES CASTLEVANIA
VIZ Media Acquires Home Media Rights To Season 1 Of The Hit Netflix Animated Series CASTLEVANIA
San Francisco, CA, July 23, 2018 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a
premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution,
and global entertainment licensing, expands its catalog with the
acquisition of Season 1 of CASTLEVANIA.
VIZ Media announced the acquisition of CASTLEVANIA
during its official panel held this past weekend at Comic-Con
International, one of the nation’s biggest annual pop culture
conventions. VIZ Media has acquired home media distribution rights to the American
anime-influenced series, which is produced by Frederator Studios.
CASTLEVANIA Season 1 has streamed to wide acclaim on Netflix.
Inspired
by the classic video game series, CASTLEVANIA is a dark medieval
fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont
clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad
Dracula Tepes himself. In Season 1, Trevor Belmont, embittered and
excommunicated, finds himself drawn into a battle for the survival of
Europe – a region that has brought doom upon itself by taking away the
one thing its greatest monster loved.
“We
are very excited to announce VIZ Media’s acquisition of the CASTLEVANIA
animated series,” says Brian Ige, VIZ Media’s Vice President of
Animation. “The series has drawn a wide following and we look forward to
giving new and existing fans the opportunity to add this adventure to
their personal collections.”
“CASTLEVANIA is
one of those unique series that had instant global recognition and
popularity. Frederator is proud to have VIZ as one of our special global
partners, singularly equipped to reach our fans across the world,” says
Fred Seibert, President & CEO of Frederator Networks.
VIZ
Media has worked with Frederator Studios and Frederator Networks to
license publishing titles based on popular properties from the company’s
catalogs including BRAVEST WARRIORS, the acclaimed animated series from
Pendleton Ward, the visionary creator of the Emmy Award-winning Cartoon
Network show, Adventure Time. VIZ Media also published EASY EATS: A BEE AND PUPPYCAT COOKBOOK, inspired by the hit animated web series, Bee and PuppyCat, which was produced by Frederator Studios and seen widely on Frederator Network's Cartoon Hangover web channel.
For additional information on CASTLEVANIA and other anime and manga titles distributed and published by VIZ Media, please visit viz.com.
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VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES NEW PUBLISHING TITLES SET TO DEBUT IN EARLY 2019
VIZ
Media Expands Publishing Roster With MY HERO ACADEMIA: SCHOOL BRIEFS,
URUSEI YATSURA, FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST Four-Panel Comics, And More!
San Francisco, CA, July 23, 2018 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a
premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution,
and global entertainment licensing, expands its publishing catalog with a
variety of new acquisitions announced during its official panel events
held this past weekend at Comic-Con International 2018.
The new titles are scheduled for release beginning early next year and include MY HERO ACADEMIA: SCHOOL BRIEFS,
the first of three prose short story collections based on the hit
superhero action series created by Kohei Horikoshi. Rumiko Takahashi’s
beloved manga series URUSEI YATSURA receives a new large trim edition,
and Hiromu Arakawa brings us hilarious four-panel comics from the world
of FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST. Two new NAUSICCAÄ books, THE ART OF NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND and NAUSICCAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND PICTURE BOOK were also announced. Each book features vivid Studio Ghibli art from the legendary director Hayao Miyazaki.
Additional information on each of these titles will be announced in the near future.
MY HERO ACADEMIA: SCHOOL BRIEFS, By Kohei Horikoshi and Anri Yoshi
Debuts Spring 2019
The
U.A. High School hero course teaches young hopefuls everything they
need to become heroes. Between killer events like the sports festival
and internships, there’s even a Parents’ Day! Life is never dull for the
students of U.A. High!
URUSEI YATSURA, By Rumiko Takahashi
Rated ‘T+’ for Older Teens · Debuts Winter 2019
Revisit
the acclaimed romantic comedy about an unlucky human boy who meets a
beautiful space alien princess in this large trim size edition with
all-new translations and new cover designs. In the series, Ataru
Moroboshi’s supernatural encounters with the feminine kind all start
when he’s chosen to play tag with an alien princess named Lum who
invades the earth on her UFO. Ataru has ten days to touch Lum’s horns or
aliens will take over the earth! As it turns out, the game of tag is
only the beginning of Ataru's troubles, as he continues to attract
strange encounters with otherworldly beings like beautiful snow spirit
Oyuki and the sexy crow goblin Princess Kurama!
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: THE COMPLETE FOUR-PANEL COMICS, By Hiromu Arakawa · Rated ‘T’ for Teens · Debuts Spring 2019
Collects
all of author Hiromu Arakawa’s beloved four-panel comic strips from the
graphic novel series, her bonus strips from the anime DVDs of Fullmetal
Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and rare strips from
Japan! No joke is too cheesy and there are no sacred cows when Arakawa
takes up her pen to spoof her own characters in this delightfully zany
take on FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST!
THE ART OF NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND, By Hayao Miyazaki Debuts Spring 2019
Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, based on his own manga, was
released
in 1984 and has been a cult classic ever since. In a long-ago war,
humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. The earth is slowly
submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic
forest that creates mutant insects and poisonous spores. Beyond the sea
lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens and home
to Nausicaä, who risks everything to save her people and bring peace and
health to the valley. Includes sketches, developmental water colors,
cel animation, and more.
NAUSICCAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND PICTURE BOOK, By Hayao Miyazaki · Debuts Spring 2019
In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. The earth is
slowly
submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic
forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous
spores into the air. At the periphery of the sea, lies the Valley of the
Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens; a nation given fragile
protection from the decaying sea's poisons by the ocean breezes; and
home to Nausicaä, who risks everything to save her people and bring
peace and health to the valley. Includes scene-by-scene illustrations
and character dialogue from the film in a double-length picture book.
For additional information on anime and manga titles distributed and published by VIZ Media, please visit viz.com.
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