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Viz Media Turns 30 (Promises Goodies to Thank Fans) - Japanamerica Pop Culture Scholar Roland Kelts Contemplates the Impact of Three Decades of Viz

3/6/2016

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Happy 30th Birthday Viz Media
This summer, Viz Media celebrates its 30th birthday firmly entrenched as North America's foremost exporter, and promoter, of Japanese manga and anime.

There will be no big party in the streets by all accounts.  Yet fans can look forward to special offers and goodies given out as a thank you for for thirty years of support. 

However, those deals currently announced are only available to indivduals attending anime conventions across the USA.  Kicking off on July 1st-4th 2016, at the Los Angeles Anime Expo, and continuing throughout the summer and autumn season.  More on all that when we know further.

What Did Viz Media Ever Do for Us Anyway?

The obvious response is that Viz Media brought us Death Note.  Game over and cause to party right there.

However, if we can broaden our horizons for just three seconds, an even greater boon may be discerned. If you're reading from a Western nation then you have a lot to thank the company for in how it's spent those decades. Viz Media is probably the reason that you're here, or have even heard of Death Note. 

Even if only indirectly, with Viz acting as the trend-setter company that inspired others elsewhere to follow its lead, bringing Japanese pop culture into your local stores.

It barely seems possible that a time existed when the words 'manga' and 'anime' weren't mainstream in the West.  That outside Japan and its immediate neighbouring states, only Eastern ex-pats, Japanese Cultural Studies students, and a scattering of literary sci-fi geeks in any nation could have told you with any certainty what such alien terms described.  Or even hazarded a decent guess.

Yet in 1986, when Seiji Horibuchi - a Japanese ex-pat from Shikoku, then living in San Francisco - mooted to friends the notion that he could interest Americans in manga, anime and other cultural mainstays from his homeland, most people laughed.  They didn't think readers in the US would go for that at all.

Though obviously the majority first had to ask him what manga and anime were, before getting on with the general amusement and cynicism. 

Three decades later, we can say with great certainty that he wiped the smile off their faces.  Seiji's efforts through Viz Media - the company he founded to make good his idea and his dream - not only made him extremely rich, it secured a place for manga, anime and all else attached in the American heart and throughout the Western world.
Seiji Horibuchi Founder of Viz Media

Viz Media founder Seiji Horibuchi

Roland Kelts Puts Viz Media's Achievements in Context

Japanamerica by Roland Kelts cover

Buy Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture
has Invaded by US
by Roland Kelts on Amazon US
Just in case you haven't already grasped the enormity of Viz Media's impact in the West, Roland Kelts is on hand to spell it out.

As an academic specialising in Japanese Cultural Studies, Kelts is an author; essayist; lecturer at Keio University, Tokyo (and the occasional TED Lecture too); journalist with regular articles and columns in such illustrious publications as Time Magazine, The New York Times, Newsweek Japan and The Guardian; and steering committee member of the Tokyo Think Tank Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

He also wrote the acclaimed JapanAmerica (see left), all about how Japanese manga, anime and other pop culture became so big in the USA.

In May 2016, his monthly editorial for The Japan Times was devoted to Viz Media's thirty years as the main instigator of that.

Entitled Viz's 30 Years Pack a Punch in the US (May 14th 2016), Kelts outlines how Seiji Horibuchi pulled it off - from unlikely beginnings in the 1980s through to the legacy left behind by the time he parted company with Viz Media to explore pastures new.

Comparing notes with modern day Chief Marketing Officer Brad Woods, Kelts explores how Viz Media played a key role in the changing face of manga interest and sales throughout the West; touches upon the ever-growing mainstream awareness of Japanese pop culture, and projects how that success may continue into the future.

He's rather excited about how titles like Death Note are discussed as commonplace, particularly within the glittering circles of Hollywood studios executives, telling us that, 'in all the years I’ve watched manga and anime become mainstays in American homes, I’ve never seen a moment quite like this.'
More to the point, Kelts discusses the effect of such global popularity success on the domestic market in Japan. With its shrinking population population and declining consumerism, the business opportunities at home were always limited.  The injection of worldwide capital turned out to be very timely and very welcome for the overall prosperity of that island nation.

Not bad for a notion mooted by a San Francisco hippy, which turned out to be quite a fabulous one at that.  Happy 30th birthday, Viz Media; the celebrations may run worldwide.
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Manga Entertainment: Death Note Blu-Ray Anime Coming to UK in 2016!  (Meanwhile Viz Media Promotes Death Note: Omega Edition in Blogs & Illinois)

31/5/2016

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Looks like the high definition, formatted blu-ray Death Note Omega Edition will be appearing in British stores later this year.

Manga Entertainment announced at MCM London Comic Con that Death Note blu-ray for the UK is on its way. The company has just secured the licence to distribute in that format to the Britons, and the description certainly matched that of Omega.

The news was simultaneously proclaimed on Twitter via its official account (see right), though fans at the convention found out first.

In both venues, the product spec was unveiled as being the entire run of thirty-seven Death Note anime episodes on blu-ray.  Included are the two re-cut movie length features Death Note Relight: Visions of a God and its sequel Relight: L's Successors.
Manga Entertainment: Death Note blu-ray Britain

Manga Entertainment: Death Note UK blu-ray
Announced on Twitter by @MangaUK, May 28th 2016
It's hard to imagine British distributors reinventing the wheel, when an English language blu-ray Death Note edition with that exact specification already exists as Omega. Available for US consumer viewers since March 1st 2016, created, packaged and promoted by Viz Media.

Talking of which, the Viz newsletter recently ran a piece reviewing precisely that Death Note blu-ray box set!

Urian Brown provides a pretty thorough synopsis of the story and what we may expect by revisiting its anime again in blu-ray.  The main event is earmarked once again as the unbelievable quality on display through blu-ray's famed high definition focus.  There's much talk of the detail in L's strawberry or Misa Amane's frills in his Viz blog entry - entitled Death Note: The Omega Edition with the tag-line Death Note finally gets the proper Blu-Ray treatment! (Viz, May 17th 2016).

Worth a read if you're wondering what all of the fuss is about.

Viz Media reps were also busy promoting its Omega Death Note blu-ray box set in Illinois last week.  The company had a booth at Anime Central 2016 convention, held from May 20th-22nd at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare and Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. Fans stopping by to say hello could walk away clutching a free give-away Death Note poster.
Death Note Omega Blu-Ray Ryuk cover detail
Find Death Note Omega Edition in our own Death Note Anime Gift Store
- in fact, buy formatted blu-ray Death Note films from there too!

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Death Note Creators Ohba and Obata's Platinum End Collected into First Manga Volume in Autumn/Fall 2016, Viz Media Anime Boston Announcement

31/3/2016

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It's hardly the shock news of the century, but Platinum End Volume One is being planned for publication by Viz Media.  That was the major announcement of vague interest to us given at last week's Anime Boston convention.

Platinum End is the latest manga collaboration between Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, the duo who brought us Death Note.

It focuses upon the adventures of suicidal protagonist Mirai, who acquires the ability to see and interact with his guardian angel, whilst mid-fall.  Divine intervention saves his life, but eternity still beckons.  Mirai, it transpires, is just one of currently twelve human slated to become gods upon their eventual demise.  How and why this is a thing will have to await your reading of the manga itself.

The collation and publication of Platinum End as a single volume of manga will occur roughly concurrent with the Death Note live-action movie is released in cinemas.  Nothing like a nice bit of tie-in publicity all round! 

Look for both around the autumn (or Fall, if you're American) of 2016.  No set date has yet been released, but you'll be the first to know when we do.
Platinum End artwork by Takeshi Obata
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Death Note Drama on US Television? Distributors Viz Media Teams with UTA in a Partnership Bringing Live Action Anime Shows to American TV

29/3/2016

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Viz Media has teamed up with United Talent Agency (UTA) according to an announcement made on March 23rd.

It's a pairing which could spell drama in the shape of a US live action Death Note TV show.

That isn't precisely what has been said, but it's pretty much the way that everyone's been looking, when they hear the news.

Viz Media publishes Death Note manga and anime in the Americas.  The company owns its copyright there, hence may adapt the content how it will.  UTA specializes in producing live-action media for entertainment.

It doesn't take L to put two and two together there.
UTA logo
However, we might all be jumping the gun here somewhat.  After all, Viz Media has a rather large anime, manga and gaming portfolio, which includes many more big names than merely Death Note aside.  There's Bleach for a start, and One-Punch Man, Naruto, Tokyo Ghoul, Pokemon... in fact, you name it and Viz probably has the US rights to hand.  Ready to turn it into a live-action project with new business pals UTA.

Meanwhile, each company's respective executives are coming up with broad sweeping soundbites, which look good in print but tell us nothing of real import at all.  Like if there will be a Death Note US TV show?
We are excited to start this partnership to push the boundaries of storytelling, innovation and character through VIZ Media's prolific portfolio.
~ Howie Sanders, UTA
The UTA partnership represents an important new direction for VIZ Media and our colleagues in Japan.  Bringing the rich stories of manga and anime to life in new ways is an exciting opportunity with tremendous potential. UTA is an innovator that shares our vision, and their proven track record and strong relationships throughout the domestic and international entertainment sectors will be important factors as we move forward.
~ Brad Woods, Viz Media, Chief Marketing Officer
But what, if anything, are you doing to Death Note?!
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Viz Media Talks Death Note Omega Blu-Ray Edition at Chicago Con C2E2 2016

21/3/2016

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Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo has just finished over in the Windy City.  It ran from March 18th-20th and Techaeris's Kyle Funk was there to catch what Viz Media had in store for fans of Death Note.

Turns out there's not much that we didn't already know or could guess.

In his piece VizMedia At C2E2 2016 #C2E22016, Funk confirmed that no add on to the Death Note manga is planned now or in the future.  That should answer the regular search terms leading people to this site, asking 'when will there be a new Death Note manga?' or 'is there a sequel to Death Note?'  Nope.  Sorry.

Mostly it seemed that Viz were in Chicago bigging up the Blu-Ray Death Note Omega Edition, which was recently released.  They showed a trailer demonstrating the difference in quality between the old bog standard anime and Blu-Ray.  Which is also on their YouTube Channel, so you may see it too, alongside an extended marketing clip unboxing the Death Note Blu-Ray Omega Edition, also by Viz Media.

Death Note Omega Edition Blu-Ray Official Trailer

Unboxing Death Note Complete Series Omega Edition Blu-Ray (Viz Media)

Blu-Ray Death Note Omega Edition

For those tl;dw people: it's the entire Death Note anime in high definition Blu-Ray, all 37 episodes plus both Relights.

The Relight films have commentaries from the makers, explaining what decisions and processes had to be completed to compress the whole story into two shorter movies.

There's also a booklet, which looks like a Death Note, containing the pilot manga one-shot story featuring Taro Kigami.  The content is pretty much copied from How to Read, but the cover looks fabulous.

Talking about covers, the box containing the Blu-Ray Death Note anime discs itself has a reversible cover. You can opt for Misa adorning your collection instead of Light and L.

Those are the highlights.

Death Note Omega Edition on Blu-Ray was released on March 1st 2016. 

There's more about it in our anime and movie gift section.

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It's Here! Limited Edition, 10,000 Run of Takeshi Obata's Blanc et Noir in English Just Became Available for Pre-order!

28/1/2016

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It's finally out! Takeshi Obata's book of artwork - Blanc et Noir - in the English language!

We've been promised this by Viz Media for quite some time. Now it's actually upon us - in a limited edition run of only 10,000 copies available for pre-order. 

That's just 10,000 editions of Blanc et Noir to serve the entire English speaking world.  Expect a rush on.

Takeshi Obata's art book is officially out on May 3rd 2016. But early bird buyers can snatch a copy now - or at least a guarantee that they'll eventually own one - via retailers like Amazon.

This special edition print of Blanc et Noir: Takeshi Obata Illustrations includes three laminated double-sized posters alongside 132 pages of exquisitely illustrated Obata artwork - the vast majority of which is Death Note, including several of the posters.

These are the kind of full colour, highly detailed pieces that the mangaka would have pulled off, if he'd had infinite time to dedicate to each panel. It's a glimpse of Death Note as it could have been, if it was literally Takeshi Obata's life work.

The artist himself chats for a further twelve pages in explanatory commentary about his pics; ten shares his expertise in a How to Draw tutorial.

I do want. It's beyond 'sell my granny' territory. For this you can have my entire extended family, the missus and both of my kittens too. Gimme!

And naturally, we've already shoved it into the reference section of the Death Note News books and manga shop.
Blanc et Noir: Takeshi Obata Illustrations

Cover of this limited print, Death Note rarity the
Takeshi Obata illustrated Blanc et Noir art book
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Death Note Manga Store Fully Updated on Death Note News

18/1/2016

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Death Note Book Shop on Death Note News
Sales of Death Note literature on Death Note News
(Screenshot January 18th 2016)
So you think you've read (and probably own) every book about Death Note? Check out our store, you might be surprised.

We certainly have been.  During a whole weekend of hunting down errant manga and other literary Death Note works, there were tomes we'd never heard of, let alone read.

And coming from a gang of such Death Note obsessives, that's quite saying something.

For example, did you know about L: File Number 15?  A canon book of short Death Note cartoons created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.  Half of our team did not.

Or what about Notes of Reasoning, the Chinese novel by Zao An Xia Tian? Which may or not not be a canon work taking the Death Note universe and adapting it to a Chinese setting.  Or it may be an elaborate and published piece of fan-fiction.  We don't know. None of us speak Chinese.

How about the hardback special editions of Death Note manga that exist out there in the English language?  Some of those even took us by surprise, missing our radar entirely.

As you may have surmised, this weekend has been a time of skipping interesting things and putting our nose to the grind of finding, collating, formatting and arranging  Death Note books everywhere, in various languages, across the board of genres.

All now beautifully arrayed in the Death Note News book shop.

It's worth nipping inside, if only to discover what you may have missing from your own library collection.  But also to purchase a volume or two to help with the costs of running this website.  Enjoy!  And if you buy, thank you.

In addition the anime/movie Death Note store has been tidied up, hence will be easier to open, load and navigate.  While the music merchandise has had one or two updates too.


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School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei Manga Volumes Launched February 2016, Co-Created by Death Note Artist Takeshi Obata

15/1/2016

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Viz Media has announced a February 2nd 2016 publication date for the first volume in its collection of School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei manga chapters.

The series has been running in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since December 2014.  Penned by Nobuaki Enoki, it features artwork by Death Note creator Takeshi Obata.

School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei's (improbable) storyline takes place within the walls of Tenbin Elementary School, where crimes, misdemeanours and quarrels occur on a regular basis - and their resolution by-passes all teachers and education authorities.

Instead, the country's top lawyers are drafted in to settle matters via frequently tense courtroom battles.  Said lawyers just happening to be fellow students at said secondary school.

Because that's the way this manga rumbles, and why not?

Chapter one - thus volume one - opens with a murder in the school, with Tenbin Elementary pupil Tento accused of being the killer.  Can his classmates get him off?  Wild, young attorney Abaku Inugami gives it his best shot.

February 2nd will see the launch of Takeshi Obata's School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei in both paper and digital form.

It's already available for pre-order on Amazon US (along with the second volume too!), plus Amazon UK.

As well as the print version appearing in bookshops, the manga's first volume can be read via the Viz Media app, Kobo, Kindle, Nook, iBooks, comiXology and Google Play.

All are published under the Shonen Jump Imprint and the recommended retail price is currently $9.99 (US), $12.99 (CAN) or £6.99 (GB).
School Judgement: Gakkyu Hotei manga volume 1
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Manga UK Asks If We'd Like Death Note Anime on Blu-Ray?

2/12/2015

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Manga UK Death Note Blu-Ray poll.

Manga UK Blu-Ray Death Note Poll
(Screenshot Dec 2nd 2015)
I'm a little late on this one, but there's still a day left to vote in Manga Entertainment Ltd's weekly poll.

It's asking whether we would like to see Death Note released on Blu-Ray, and spells out the reasons why this might be a preferable thing to, say, DVD or streaming the anime online.

Read what they have to say and vote before midnight tonight on their website.

This isn't just a random internet poll by the way.  Manga Entertainment Ltd has close links with Viz Media - which owns the North American rights to the Death Note anime - and its subsidiary Manga UK is the largest distributor of Japanese anime in Britain.

In short, this poll might be your big moment to influence wavering policy. Or it might be a subtly disguised heads up that it's going to happen anyway.  Only they're going to create the circumstances to state that we demanded it outright via this poll.

Either way the poll is there, vote if you will, don't if you won't.
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Platinum End Chapters Hit the Comic Stands - New Manga by Death Note Creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata

4/11/2015

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Platinum End English version chapter 1 page 1 and cover

Platinum End begins - chapter 1, page 1, and front cover of the English version
Platinum End - the new manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note's creators - launched today with its first chapter simultaneously appearing in Japanese and English translations on opposite sides of the Pacific.

Readers in Japan may find it serialized in Jump Square magazine's December 2015 issue 12 (Nov. 4th 2015), while English readers can download a digital version from Viz Media's Weekly Shonen Jump website.
Platinum End first chapter cover Jump Square Issue 12 Nov 4th 2015

Jump Square Issue 12 front cover and contents for introduction of Platinum End
Naturally a copy of the first chapter of Platinum End has been grabbed here, so we can see what it's all about and how the Death Note fandom might possibly receive this latest manga by Ohba and Obata.

However, sensible of spoilers, all thoughts in review of the chapter will be hidden behind a read more mask.

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Free Comic Giveaway in Global Halloween Comic Fest 2015

29/10/2015

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Halloween ComicFest 2015 logo
This might be worth checking out.  At the very least, it's free comics from participating stores on October 31st - L's birthday.

I don't know if it has a damn thing to do with Death Note, but I had the heads up from Viz Media - the North American distributors for Death Note manga - so you never know.

We're taking about Halloween ComicFest 2015, held on October 31st (obviously), purportedly worldwide. 

From what I've seen - granted, in a most cursory look - there's an emphasis on North American stores.  But I did chuck in my own local, non-American area into the store locator and came up trumps with two options from which to choose.  (Or visit both, if free comic greed overtakes my need to limit travel costs.  As it probably will.  I've been known to cross many, many miles in pursuit of a good story.)

The country list, while not exhaustive, does indeed appear quite extensive.

Death Note Cosplayers, Get Yourself to ComicFest 2015!

In addition to the bonanza in comics given away free, Halloween ComicFest 2015 will see other events taking on a global scale.  Most notably the HUGE and self-proclaimed GREATEST Halloween Costume Contest Ever.
Halloween Costume Contest ComicFest 2015
Also known as a fabulous opportunity for Death Note cosplayers to dress up, hang out, have fun and potentially get very rich on prize money.  Worth digging out the old costume glad-rags and giving it a go? 

Or putting a Death Note cosplay together brand new with just two days to go - nothing like leaving it to the last minute, but at least it puts you ahead of the game in terms of the year's usual array of comic conferences and conventions.

If any of you do participate in this way, please do share your pics with us, so we all get to enjoy the greatness.  We might even feature them in a Death Note News gallery!

Here's Spiderman to tell you how to enter your Death Note costume in the contest:
Basically, you turn up at a participating store (with or without your cosplay in full regalia) and pick up one of the freebie comics in the giveaway. 

Then take a photograph of yourself in costume holding said comic - it must be clearly visible, presumably for potential use in future marketing materials - before heading on-line to fill in the form and submit the picture.

Finally, beg, bribe, blackmail or otherwise persuade all of your friends, family and fans to vote for your entry into the competition.   Sit back and await riches, fame and fortune resting on the laurels of your fabulous Death Note cosplay.  (Or any other costume obviously, it's just that this is a Death Note  website, hence we're duty bound to push you in that direction.)

Oh! And send a link for your picture to us, or send a copy via our contact channels for extra international acclaim.  Good luck!
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Platinum End: Death Note Creators' New Manga Available in USA Same Day as Japan

6/10/2015

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Takeshi Obata's artwork for Platinum EndPlatinum End artwork
by Takeshi Obata
An English language version of Platinum End - the new manga by Death Note writer Tsugumi Ohba and artist Takeshi Obata - will be released in the US, Viz Media have announced.

Not only that, but it will keep pace with the Japanese Jump SQ serialisation of the manga.

The US Platinum End manga series will run in Viz Media's digital Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, matching each new edition with English translations available on-line at the same time.

However, chapters are going to be individually published, with readers paying 99c a time to follow the unfolding tale.

Platinum End appears to be closer to Death Note's plot than the creative duo's interim collaboration Bakuman. 

Ohba and Obata's new manga follows the fortunes of a boy named Mirai Kakehashi, who 'does not seek hope in order to keep on living'.  While Light Yagami's worldly frustrations found vent in a shinigami's deadly notebook, we don't yet know what happens to Mirai.

But a supernatural entity is also lurking, as may be assumed by the tale being about 'a human and an angel'.

How that encounter plays out is yet to be seen.

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Viz Makes Takeshi Obata's Hikaru no Go Anime English Dub Free to View Online

30/9/2015

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Hikarau no Go
Takeshi Obata had only just finished working on Hikaru no Go, when he received the call to say he'd been hired as Death Note's artist.  Working with author Yumi Hotta, the manga ran to 23 volumes and inevitably spawned an anime adaptation.  Including a version dubbed into English.

Now Viz Media has made its Hikaru no Go English dub anime available on-line, as free viewing on its own Neon Alley, plus Hulu.  Previously it could only be legally seen on DVD.

Hikaru no Go tells the story of a Japanese six grader, who finds an old, bloodstained Go board and is possessed by the ghost of an ancient game-master. The phantom Fujiwara-no-Sai cannot rest until he's played the Divine Move.

Much top class competitive playing commences against players who have devoted their entire existence to being the best Go strategist around. Can a mere High School boy beat them all?
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Standard and Omega Death Note Blu-Ray Box Sets Delayed for Three Months

29/9/2015

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Death Note: The Omega Edition
Fans hoping to find an exciting new limited edition Blu-Ray Death Note box set in their Christmas stocking this year are about to be disappointed.  Death Note: The Omega Edition was due for release on December 1st 2015. It's now been put back until March 1st 2016 with no explanation as to why.

Details of this rather expansive Death Note Blu-Ray collection were recounted a couple of weeks ago. However, we managed to completely overlook the fact that a second Death Note box set in Blu-Ray format was also coming out the same day.
Death Note Blu-Ray Anime Collection

Blu-Ray Death Note: The Complete Series box set cover art
Death Note: The Complete Series collects all of the Death Note anime in Blu-Ray format for the first time.

This is without the bells and whistles accompanying the limited edition Omega Edition.

It's merely all thirty-seven episodes awaiting an almighty binge watch.

Fans can hear the dialogue dubbed in English,  Spanish, French or Portuguese, or hear it in the original Japanese, with all four of those alternative languages provided with subtitles.

As with Death Note: Omega box set, those looking for Blu-Ray Christmas gifts for Death Note fans are being thwarted here too. The Complete Series has also seen its release date postponed until March 1st 2016.

Though Welsh Death Note fans could always exchange Blu-Ray gifts for St David's Day, if that ever became a thing.

In the meantime, there are more Blu-Ray Death Note Christmas gift ideas over in our store, though they tend to towards the live-action movies rather than anime.
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Weekly Shonen Jump: Two Part Bakuman Prequel and More Ahead of Live Action Movie

22/9/2015

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Weekly Shonen Jump No 43 21st September 2015
Weekly Shonen Jump No 43
September 21st 2015
Only tenuously Death Note related, it's all about Bakuman in their creators' world this week.

While we might consider Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata in terms of OUR manga, they have collaborated much more recently than that on the semi-autobiographical Bakuman.

It's a series which chronicles the rise of an author and writer within the manga industry.

The current edition of Weekly Shonen Jump (September 21st 2015) includes the first in a special two-parter prequel to the main Bakuman chapters.

It tells what happened with main characters Moritaka Mashiro - pen name Saikō - and Akito Takagi - later known as Shūjin - before the pair joined forces to produce a wildly popular manga series. Like, you know, Ohba and Obata did in real life with Death Note.

Spanning 23 chapters, the first part of this Bakuman prequel has boosted the manga magazine to a hefty 315 pages!  Featured as an added bonus is a full colour Bakuman centrespread.

The original Bakuman manga ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2008-2012.  Those chapters were collected into twenty volumes published by Shueisha, which have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. An anime based upon the story was televised over three seasons, aired in Japanese television between 2010-2013.

Viz Media and Media Blasters reproduced English language versions of the manga and anime respectively, primarily for North American audiences.

A live action Bakuman movie is due to be released on October 3rd 2015, hence the two part prequel beginning in Weekly Shonen Jump this week. It acts as a tie-in special event and incidentally helps boost publicity for the film.

Bakuman 1 manga

Bakuman Manga Volume 1
Buy at Amazon US
Bakuman 1 Anime

Bakuman Anime DVD 1
Buy at Amazon US

Fictional Bakuman Manga Becomes Real

In the story, Muto Ashirogi's third manga is entitled PCP -Kanzen Hanzaitō- (trans. PCP - Perfect Crime Party). Now that fictional manga is due for release as a real world novel.

It will bear Ashirogi's name as the first author, though his co-author Sei Hatsuno (HaruChika) probably did much of the work here.

Another blatant tie-in, the novel will hit bookshelves on October 2nd 2015, one day ahead on the Bakuman movie.

New Takeshi Obata Artwork for Bakuman OST

Takeshi Obata artwork for Bakuman CD
Takeshi Obata draws the artwork for Bakuman's soundtrack CD
A new live-action Bakuman film means an original soundtrack to accompany it. For fans of Takeshi Obata's art, this is an unexpected avenue in which to discover some.

Obata has created the artwork for the Bakuman CD soundtrack, including that for a CD single Shin Takarajima (pictured above) lifted from the OST. Due to be released in a limited edition format, the song has been recorded by rock band Sakanaction and features in the movie.

A DVD of the Bakuman OST is also scheduled.
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