Talk:Viz Media

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1 Viz Anime
2 Ani-Manga
3 partial Manga List section
4 Criticism
5 Question

[edit] Viz Anime

How come this article doesn't say anything about the anime Viz has? Like Naruto & Bleach. The criticsm in the article should be made to include the criticism of Viz's anime. I would say that the criticism would be that Viz has been changing a lot of openings and closings into their own crappy ones (Rise, anyone?). I guess it's good that "Haruka Kanata" was used by Viz but still it's not in order and they skipped "ROCKS".

[edit] Ani-Manga

So what the heck exactly is "Ani-Manga"? Shouldn't that be "Anime"?

Ani-Manga is a manga book series oriented towards younger readers. The difference is that instead of using the original manga, it pulls from the equivalent anime series. For example, while the InuYasha manga is the original Rumiko Takahashi work, the IY ani-manga is the script of the anime, written into prose form and changed slightly for younger viewers, set against scenes from the anime. It is believed that the color images and simpler language provides a gateway to "regular" manga. Oh, and Viz isn't the only company that does this: Tokyopop has a similar product, called "Cine-manga". Hope that answers your question.--Mitsukai 04:02, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Some Japanese publishers also publish these, especially with popular children's anime. In Japan, Ani-Manga/Cine-Manga are called "film comics" (フィルムコミック). Doinkies 00:46, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] partial Manga List section

Folks, we should be putting Viz' major titles here, not every single one. That's what the larger list is for. Hanakimi is not one of Viz' bigger titles, and should not have been placed there. Please ensure that we're putting only the major titles in this section.--Mitsukai 02:51, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bleach is licensed

[edit] Criticism

We should add a criticism section for Viz Media, in part because Del Ray and Tokyopop also have critics and Viz has a lot of problems people tend to simply shrug off in private. Chiefly, my points are the localisation of early manga with heavy detracting art edits (Ranma 1/2), inconsistency of edits in modern Shounen titles, rephrasal of dialogue for younger audiences (as if manga were a kid's genre) and virtual monopoly of everything from the Shogakukan/Shueisha manga libraries without any competitive bidding. 169.237.214.137 01:29, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

this entire section is heavily author-interpreted and conclusion drawing. rather than just pointing out actual citable criticisms, most of the references cited are nothing but press releases and leaves whats in this article as opinion pieces. The content of this section has bias and NPO issues and needs to be looked at.RCHM 06:48, 11 December 2006 (UTC)