With Dada Chen at NYAFF 2013

With Dada Chen at NYAFF 2013
With Dada Chen at NYAFF 2013

Friday, June 13, 2014

VIZ Media and ComiXology announce digital manga distribution agreement

BLEACH © 2001 by Tite Kubo/SHUEISHA Inc.
VIZ Media Comes To ComiXology!

VIZ Media & ComiXology Announce Digital Distribution Agreement

More than 500 VIZ Media manga titles are now available
on comiXology throughout North America including
NARUTO, ONE PIECE, BLEACH, & more!

Recently comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform, and VIZ Media, the largest distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, announced a digital distribution agreement to bring fan-favorite manga series to comiXology’s entire platform across North America.

To celebrate this announcement, VIZ Media has made available more than 500 volumes of fan-favorite manga series on comiXology including NARUTO, ONE PIECE, BLEACH, NANA & more! Manga fans will be able to read all these great series using comiXology’s Manga Fixed Format – a dedicated right-to-left full-page manga reading experience.

ONE PIECE © 1997 by Eiichiro Oda/SHUEISHA Inc.

“Launching over 500 volumes of VIZ Media manga is amazing for our manga fans,” said comiXology CEO David Steinberger. “The addition of VIZ Media today marks a huge increase in our manga offerings and I, for one, cannot wait to dive into today’s releases and the many thousands yet to come.”

“We’re excited to bring our great catalog of VIZ Media titles to comiXology,” said Gagan Singh, VIZ Media’s Executive Vice President. “ComiXology is the premier destination for digital comics and we’re happy to help make them the destination for manga. We can’t wait for manga fans to experience comiXology’s high resolution Manga Fixed Format developed especially for this content.”

NARUTO © 1999 by Masashi Kishimoto/SHUEISHA Inc.

The full list of manga titles launching today on comiXology from VIZ Media include:

BAKUMAN – all volumes
BLEACH – all volumes and same day as print
BLUE EXORCIST
CLAYMORE
DEATH NOTE
DRAGON BALL FULL COLOR (SAIYAJIN)
DRAGON BALL/ DRAGON BALL Z
HIKARU NO GO
KNIGHTS OF THE ZODIAC
NANA
NARUTO
ONE PIECE
ONE-PUNCH MAN
ROSARIO + VAMPIRE
ROSARIO + VAMPIRE SEASON II
RUROUNI KENSHIN
RUROUNI KENSHIN: RESTORATION
SHAMAN KING
TENJO TENGE
THE PRINCE OF TENNIS

With over 50,000 comics and graphic novels from more than 75 publishers, comiXology offers the widest selection of digital comics in the world. ComiXology’s immense catalog and cinematic Guided View reading experience makes it the best digital platform for comic and graphic novel fans worldwide.

Find your favorite comics and graphic novels at comixology.com and try the comiXology app available on all major mobile platforms.