MAGIC IS IN THE AIR, AS MAMESHIBA RETURN FOR THEIR LATEST SPELLBINDING ADVENTURE IN MAMESHIBA: ENCHANTED!
VIZ Media’s Perfect Square Imprint Delivers New All Ages Adventures Featuring Japan’s Irresistibly Cute Sensations
San Francisco, CA, September 3, 2013 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media),
the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga, graphic
novels and anime in North America, announces the return of the whimsical
Japanese character sensations – MAMESHIBA – for a brand new original
graphic novel adventure in MAMESHIBA: ENCHANTED!, featuring stories by James Turner and artwork by Jorge Monlongo.
MAMESHIBA: ENCHANTED! is rated ‘A’ for All Ages and debuts today from VIZ Media’s Perfect Square imprint with an MSRP of $6.99 U.S. / $7.99 CAN. A digital version of MAMESHIBA: ENCHANTED for the Apple iPad® and iPad® Mini is also available for download from the Perfect Square App for $4.99 U.S. / CAN.
In ENCHANTED – the third graphic novel featuring the cute bean-dogs from Japan – there's magic in the air! Cranberry
Bean is under a spell, Edamame's kitchen is haunted, and Sword Bean is
protecting the newest members of the Mameshiba family: Babyshiba! It’s
all fun and games until someone upsets a magic tortoise!
“We’re
going out with a bang in our last MAMESHIBA volume! We've got ghost
hunters, tributes to comic great Jack Kirby and author Jane Austen,
and... a tutu,” says Traci Todd, Senior Editor, Children's Publishing.
“The story and art team of James Turner and Jorge Monlongo have really
raised the bar this time, and we're so thrilled with the results."
Perfect
Square is VIZ Media’s new comprehensive publishing imprint aimed at
kids and kids at heart with a focus on delivering comics, manga, graphic
novels and other children’s books with an emphasis on strong
storytelling, eye-popping graphics, empowering themes, and a dash of
irreverence, that captures the imagination of a whole new generation.
MAMESHIBA writer James Turner started
making comics as soon as he was able to hold a pencil, and he has been
spouting a nonsensical whirlwind of monsters, robots and talking
vegetables ever since. His acclaimed web comic 'The Unfeasible Adventures of Beaver and Steve' won tens of thousands of followers online, and his anthropomorphic crime fighting team, “The Super Animal Adventure Squad,” appeared weekly in the pages of the children's comic, DFC.
Jorge Monlongo is
a renowned comics and book illustrator and game designer who blends
traditional and digital techniques. His work has been featured in
several prominent magazines, including Rolling Stone.
Additional details on Perfect Square are available at www.PerfectSquare.com.
For more information on MAMESHIBA other titles from VIZ Media, please visit www.VIZ.com.
About VIZ Media, LLC
Headquartered
in San Francisco, California, VIZ Media distributes, markets and
licenses the best anime and manga titles direct from Japan. Owned by
three of Japan's largest manga and animation companies, Shueisha Inc.,
Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co., Ltd., VIZ
Media has the most extensive library of anime and manga for English
speaking audiences in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland,
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. With its popular digital manga
anthology WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP and blockbuster properties like NARUTO,
BLEACH and INUYASHA, VIZ Media offers cutting-edge action, romance and
family friendly properties for anime, manga, science fiction and fantasy
fans of all ages. VIZ Media properties are available as graphic
novels, DVDs, animated television series, feature films, downloadable
and streaming video and a variety of consumer products. Learn more
about VIZ Media, anime and manga at www.VIZ.com.
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