Viz began digitally distributing the Blue Dragon anime on iTunes by handing out the first episode for free. Now the series launched on the Xbox Live Marketplace.   Guess what Viz media is doing!   They are handing out the introductory episode on Xbox Live from today until March 2rd, 2009. You have five days [...]

Viz Media announced Blue Dragon would appear on Cartoon Network’s schedule sometime this spring. However, a handful of sources are pinpointing the start of Shu’s journey in April as part of Toonami’s 10PM-ish timeslot. Animation Insider specifically has Blue Dragon in at 10:30 PM, which means it will replace Dragon Ball Z and Bakugan Battle [...]

At Anime Expo ADV Films announced they have acquired the rights to the twelve episode Devil May Cry anime series. This isn’t the first video game anime series ADV has the rights to. Last week ADV Films announced they picked up the Xenosaga anime and the first DVD will arrive in stores this September.   [...]

Earlier today, Death Note anime aired its final episode in Japan and while the series has yet to debut on TV, Viz Media is planning to sell the episodes online. The first sixteen episodes will appear on Totalvid.com for $1.99 a piece on June 28. These episodes of Death Note are straight from Japan and [...]

The game/anime/manga has yet to debut in North America, but during the first day of International Licensing Show Viz Media announced Bandai America has been granted the license to make toys based off of the anime.   “Bandai America will bring its extensive design and manufacturing resources to bear to develop an exciting and must-have [...]

  Ubisoft sent over a canned Q&A session with some juicy information on their Xbox 360 Naruto game. Naruto: Rise of a Ninja is due out this fall and the development team wants their title to move beyond fighting.   Some very good games have already been release about Naruto. However, they almost all focus [...]

Ubisoft lifted the veil on their Xbox 360 Naruto title, now called Naruto: Rise of a Ninja. Instead of being a two player fighting game like most Naruto games, it looks like Rise of a Ninja is a third person action game. It’s hard to tell, since the teaser trailer mostly shows Naruto running around, [...]

A day after announcing that they picked up the license for Blue Dragon, Viz Media announced they picked up the rights to the Mega Man Star Force anime series.   In the year 220X, a new technology has been developed to enable contact with extraterrestrial life forms. A mysterious accident occurs during the first communication [...]

Akira Toriyama’s anime series just made its debut in Japan on April 7, 2007 and a few days later Viz Media announces that they’ve picked up the rights to the anime and manga. Both will be released in North America and Europe, but a date has not been set. There is something else interesting in [...]

This weekend New York City Comic Con is taking place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (655 West 34th St) and gamers can spend some hands on time with Naruto: Ninja Council 3. Naruto: Ninja Council 3 is a multiplayer arena fighting game for the Nintendo DS known as Naruto: Saikyou Ninja Daikesshu 4 [...]

O-Parts Hunter, Vol. 1 Story and Art by Seishi Kishimoto Publish Date: December 19th    In a world where mankind battles over O-Parts and relics from an ancient civilization can either be used for good or evil, Ruby Crescent is determined to follow her father’s footsteps and become the next renowned treasure hunter.  Her objective [...]

Hayate the Combat Butler, Vol. 1 Story and Art by Kenjiro Hata Publish Date: November 21st   This manga by Kenjiro Hata presents a humorous twist to the meaning ‘destiny.’  Hardworking sixteen year old Hayate Ayasaki’s world is turned upside down on Christmas Eve when he discovers that his unemployed gambling parents have offered to [...]

Punch!, Vol. 1 Story and Art by Rie Takada Publish Date: November 7th     One of several new titles from Viz Media, the latest shojo beat manga from the same creator of “Happy Hustle High,” features Elle Nagahara who wants to live a normal life outside the family’s long history of fighting champions.  Her [...]

Starting on Nov. 4 in Atlanta, GA Viz Media is bringing Naruto to malls around the US. At the Naruto national tour fans can watch sneak peeks of upcoming episodes and play Naruto games from Namco Bandai and D3 Publisher. Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 and Naruto: Ultimate Ninja are likely to be playable while [...]