VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES THE SEPTEMBER RELEASE OF NEW MANGA STORY COLLECTION TIME KILLERS FROM THE CREATOR OF BLUE EXORCIST
Acclaimed
Creator Kazue Kato Takes Readers To Locales Familiar And Foreign,
Whimsical And Realistic, With Collected Manga Short Stories Published
For The Very First Time In North America
San Francisco, CA, August 18, 2014 –
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest distributor and licensor of
manga and anime in North America, delivers a noteworthy new manga title
to fans with the release of Kazue Kato’s TIME KILLERS on September 2nd.
The
single-volume standalone collection of manga shorts from the creator of
the bestselling BLUE EXORCIST manga series will be published under the
Shonen Jump imprint, is rated ‘T+’ for Older Teens, and will carry an
MSRP of $14.99 U.S. / $17.99 CAN. TIME KILLERS also features 13 pages of
full-color artwork as well as a fold-out, full-color gatefold poster.
A digital version of TIME KILLERS will launch digitally on September 2nd for $10.99 (USD/CAN) from VIZManga.com and through the VIZ MANGA App for the Apple iPad®, iPhone® and iPod®
touch, Android-powered smart phones, as well as through the store
fronts for comiXology, Nook, Kobo, Kindle, iBooks and GooglePlay.
Explore
fantastic realms of imagination in this stunning collection of short
stories by Kazue Kato. With her amazing and distinctive art leaping from
the page, TIME KILLERS includes Kato’s first work, Boku to Usagi (Me and the Rabbit),
and also features the stories and character designs that would become
her breakthrough series, BLUE EXORCIST. Take off on a flight of fantasy
with TIME KILLERS!
“This
exciting new release offers a collection of captivating stories and a
comprehensive look at Kazue Kato’s earlier work that preceded her
current smash-hit manga series, BLUE EXORCIST,” says Mike Montesa,
Editor. “The stories in TIME KILLERS move at a quick pace and feature
unique characters drawn in the exceptional style that has garnered Kato
substantial critical acclaim and a strong international fan base. We
invite readers to enjoy this new release from the Shonen Jump imprint in
September!”
Manga
creator, writer and illustrator Kazue Kato was born in Tokyo in 1980.
In 2000, at the age of 19, she won the prestigious Tezuka Award for her
work Boku to Usagi (Me and the Rabbit), which was published in Akamaru Jump. From 2005 to 2006 her series Robo to Usakichi,
a sci-fi adventure featuring a rabbit (again!), was published in the
monthly magazine Shonen Sirius (Kodansha). Her latest series, BLUE
EXORCIST, began serialization in Japan Jump Square magazine in April of 2009 and is also published in North America by VIZ Media.
Catch the BLUE EXORCIST manga series available in-print and digitally from VIZ Media on VIZManga.com and other partner platforms as well as the BLUE EXORCIST anime series which streams on HULU and Neon Alley as well as a host of other digital platforms available throughout North America.
For more information on TIME KILLERS, or other shonen manga 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 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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