‘Bleach,’ ‘My Hero Academia’ Special Editions to Be Launched by Viz Media
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJapanese manga and anime fans will get a chance to deepen their obsessions with the Viz Media re-release later this year of volume 1 of “Bleach,” an iconic comic strip.
One of the best-selling manga titles of all time, “Bleach” has sold over 120 million copies since its debut in Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, including 2.7 million copies in the U.S.
As an anime TV series, it ran to 366 episodes and spawned four feature films.The release of a limited-edition 20th anniversary edition is set for Aug.
2, 2022, a couple of months before the scheduled October debut of a new animated series based on the final arc of Tite Kubo’s fantasy-adventure “Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War.” Separately, Viz Media is planning the release of the first twenty volumes of the “My Hero Academia” manga series as a special boxed set, later in the year. “My Hero Academia” is the fastest growing manga series today.
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