VIZ Media is an anime and manga distribution company, co-owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan, its licensing division Shogakukan Productions (ShoPro for short) and Shueisha. It is a primary distributor of many popular
shonen-oriented manga series (such as
Dragon Ball,
Naruto,
Bleach and
Death Note), which have also been serialized in Shueisha's
Weekly Shonen Jump manga anthology. It currently publishes an American version of that monthly.
From 2005-09, VIZ also published
Shojo Beat, a monthly shojo manga anthology. The folks at Viz also managed to achieve linguistic immortality by coining the term
"glomp" for use as a sound effect in their translations of
Ranma ˝ and
Urusei Yatsura.
Not, repeat
not, to be confused with British humour anthology comic
Viz.
Shonen Jump (and Shonen Jump Advanced) titles:
Shojo/Shojo Beat titles:
Other anime and manga released by Viz Media include:
* - license formerly held by CMX
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