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 Feed From Viz Media at New York Comic-con 2008. Transcription: bayoab

11:15:04 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Nichole - senior sales associate at simon and schuster
11:16:05 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Candice - senior product manager
11:16:11 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Mark - director of marketing and publishing
11:16:33 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Starting with bleach
11:16:39 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Official profile book, oct 21
11:16:58 <bay|NYCC|Viz> All colour but the black - art from kubo
11:17:02 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Bonus thing in the souls book: bonus manga, stickers, and a bonus poster
11:17:06 <bay|NYCC|Viz> On the anime side... Bleach Movie: memories of nobody (June 11-12 in theaters)
11:17:10 <bay|NYCC|Viz> DVD oct 2008
11:17:18 <bay|NYCC|Viz> If you want your tickets first, sign up for the newsletter on shonenjump.com
11:17:21 <bay|NYCC|Viz> We are excited to bring bleach to you this year...
11:17:28 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Vol 25 of bleach in december
11:17:32 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Arina:
11:17:34 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Time strange kyoko (july 08)
11:17:46 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Time strange kyoko (july 08)
11:18:01 <bay|NYCC|Viz> .Short tempered melancholic and other stories (aug 08)
11:18:08 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Time strange kyoko (july 08)
11:18:19 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Vagabond Viz Big (Sep 08)
11:18:23 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Inoue path...
11:18:30 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Real (July 2008)
11:18:32 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Slam dunk (sep 2008)
11:18:36 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Viz big (dragon ball/dragonball z) June 3rd
11:18:44 <bay|NYCC|Viz> The movie moved to spring 09
11:18:50 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Cowa! (Akira Toriyama July 08) One shot.... first chapter will be entirely in color in Shonen
11:18:51 <bay|NYCC|Viz> jump.
11:18:57 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (aug 08)
11:19:00 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Cat Eye boy (june? 08)
11:19:05 <bay|NYCC|Viz> solanin (oct 08)
11:19:09 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Black Lagoon (aug 08)
11:19:15 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Yu-gi-oh GX (Nov 08 vol 2)
11:19:20 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Thunder king exclusive card...
11:19:35 <bay|NYCC|Viz> One-pound gospel (July 08)
11:19:37 <bay|NYCC|Viz> rereleasing the entire series.. vol 4 in december
11:20:06 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Anime and home entertainment
11:20:10 <bay|NYCC|Viz> ....that bug again
11:20:21 <bay|NYCC|Viz> doing the anime part...
11:20:25 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Pokemon: Rise of Darkrai May 27 08
11:20:31 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Naruto Movie 2 July 29th, Movie 3 Oct 11 08
11:20:37 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Legend of the stone of gelel is movie 2
11:20:47 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Busou renkin at the end of the month (part 1)
11:20:56 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Hunter x Hinter Q4 this year, straight to boxset
11:21:45 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Live now... (just caught up... technical problems)
11:21:49 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Blue Dragon trailer is on now
11:23:48 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Another video game is going to be coming shortly... a toy line and a card game...
11:23:56 <bay|NYCC|Viz> the dvd for blue dragon will be out in september
11:24:21 <bay|NYCC|Viz> (sorry no vols numbers earlier...)
11:25:08 <bay|NYCC|Viz> 40th anniversary of weekly shonen jump... win a trip to JUMP festa
11:25:37 <bay|NYCC|Viz> info will be in the august issue of shonen jump
11:25:41 <bay|NYCC|Viz> now Q&A
11:26:41 <bay|NYCC|Viz> the souls book from earlier is profile book
11:26:43 <bay|NYCC|Viz> Hunter X Hunter... how many eps in the box set? OVas too?
11:27:08 <bay|NYCC|Viz> we are not yet working on the ovas, i don't have a count on the episodes.. we are planning to release 2 box sets...
11:27:33 <bay|NYCC|Viz> when is naruto shippuden coming to the US? that is not yet determined... but there is a good chance it will continue when it catches up
11:28:06 <bay|NYCC|Viz> naruto is one of the top rated tv shows on cartoon network
11:28:47 <bay|NYCC|Viz> with claymore.. is vol 12 the last volume in may or june....? no, i don't think so
11:29:38 <bay|NYCC|Viz> any problems with sales with shrink wrapped titles? with mature titles.. we are forced by chains ... does it hurt us? i don't think so...
11:30:40 <bay|NYCC|Viz> pot, hng, fmws? they are taking a break... we are taking a look at the best format to release them in
11:31:18 <bay|NYCC|Viz> details on the oishinbo license/release? we probably aren't going to release all 100 vols... we will have news on it soon
11:31:31 <bay|NYCC|Viz> vampire knight anime? that is definitely on the radar
11:31:37 <bay|NYCC|Viz> highest manga release for shoujo in 2007
11:31:41 <bay|NYCC|Viz> only 3 vols so far
11:34:42 <bay|NYCC|Viz> any news on the novel front?
11:34:58 <bay|NYCC|Viz> (huh... i didn't get that response)
11:36:16 <bay|NYCC|Viz> any plans for kindle/sony reader? nothign that we can talk about
11:36:25 <bay|NYCC|Viz> any plans for blu-ray? nothing we can talk about
11:37:52 <bay|NYCC|Viz> it was a "we'd like to but nothing is done yet"
11:39:47 <bay|NYCC|Viz> (lots of meh questions/not relevant)
11:40:33 <bay|NYCC|Viz> for sub only dvds.. considering them for niche titles?
11:40:56 <bay|NYCC|Viz> that is open.. there are certain niche titles that we have looked at that it might be a good model... but we have to see what makes sense and what we hear from our fans
11:41:18 <bay|NYCC|Viz> if there is a niche title that would justify sub only, we are open to it
11:41:39 <bay|NYCC|Viz> (note, they did not say that there are 2 total boxsets, just that the first two were planned)
11:41:45 <bay|NYCC|Viz> for hunter x hunter
11:42:42 <bay|NYCC|Viz> how can the market reach grow to meet the market as it ages? the majority of our fanbase is among tweens, we are looking to acquire titles that will grow with them...
11:43:44 <bay|NYCC|Viz> they are showing off the death note t-shirts now... after complaining that nobody asked questions...
11:43:47 <bay|NYCC|Viz> the novel and how to read just came out...
11:45:16 <bay|NYCC|Viz> with death note.. there is an artbook... thoughts of bringing it over? we are finding a way to make it affordable for us to put out
11:45:50 <bay|NYCC|Viz> now doing give aways
11:55:42 <bay|NYCC|Viz> there will be a big announcement regarding novels coming soon from viz
11:55:59 <bay|NYCC|Viz> they are also looking at rereleasing some of their older series at a value price
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