Viz Media surprised everyone today with their license announcement event on X (Formally Twitter) for Spring 2025. In this event, Viz announced a total of twenty seven new titles. Let's take a closer look at what they showcased! Viz Media Spring 2025 License Announcement Recap
Physical Manga Announcements
Minecraft: The Manga by Kazuyoshi Seto
Publisher Summary: Add this book to your enchantment room! Join Nico on his chance to escape the blocky confines of his home and prove how strong he’s become when zombies attack
RuriDragon by Masaoki Shindo
Publisher Summary: Ruri Aoki awakens one morning to find a pair of horns growing from her head! It’s hard enough trying to be a normal high school girl and now she’s a half-dragon?!
Kaiju No. 8 B-Side, with story by Naoya Matsumoto and Keiji Ando and art by Kentaro Hidano
Publisher: In this spin off of Kaiju No. 8, learn more about the backstories of beloved characters from Hoshina to Kikoru!
The Climber, with story by Yoshio Nabeta and Hiroshi Takano and art by Shin’ichi Sakamoto
(Based on the novel by Jiro Nitta)
Publisher: A dangerous bid for solitude introduces Mori to the rush of solo climbing, addicting him to the heights
Dr. Mashirito's Ultimate Manga Techniques by Kazuhiko Torishima with Takanaka Shimotsuki
Publisher Summary: Learn how to make manga from past editor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Jump, Kazuhiko Torishima, who collaborated with masters of the craft
Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, with story by Masashi Kishimoto and art by Mikio Ikemoto
Publisher Summary: The ninja adventures continue in this second series featuring Naruto’s son, Boruto! When Code attacks Konoha, Boruto returns to show how powerful he’s become!
Firefly Wedding by Oreco Tachibana
Publisher Summary: Satoko must marry into wealth, but in order to survive the assassin who’s after her, she asks him to marry her! Her proposal isn’t sincere, but unfortunately for her, Shinpei loves as intensely as he kills.
One Piece: Heroines, written by Jun Esaka, created by Eiichiro Oda and illustrations by Sayaka Suwa
Publisher Summary: Follow Nami, Robin, Vivi and Perona as the heroines of One Piece go off on their own adventures in this collection of prose short stories!
Viz Media announced they're re-releasing Hunter x Hunter in a brand new 3-in-1 Omnibus Format
Publisher Summary: Gon might be a country boy, but he has high aspirations. Despite his Aunt Mito's protests, Gon decides to follow in his father's footsteps and become a legendary Hunter. The Hunter hopefuls begin their journey by storm-tossed ship, where Gon meets Leorio and Kurapika, the only other applicants who aren't devastated by bouts of seasickness.
Having survived the terrors of the high seas, Gon and his companions now have to prove their worth in a variety of tests in order to find the elusive Exam Hall. And once they get there, will they ever leave alive...?
Dogsred by Satoru Noda
Publisher Summary: From the creator of Golden Kamuy, Satoru Noda, comes a new manga. After an outburst that left him banned from figure skating, Rou joins an underdog hockey team! Rou‘s never played ice hockey, but he sure knows his way around the rink!
Tokyo Alien Bros by Keigo Shinzo
Publisher Summary: Aliens walk among us—but they’re just two bros hanging out in Tokyo! Tasked with colonizing Earth, adapting to this new life might be harder than imagined.
The Liminal Zone Volume 2 by Junji Ito
Publisher Summary: Junji Ito invites us back into the liminal zone with part two of his haunting short story collection. What fate awaits when death is not the end?
My Love Story!! Volume 14 by Kazune Kawahara and art by Aruko
Publisher Summary: In this stand-alone story, Takeo and Yamato head to college where a series of ominous events occur. Will this chapter in their life end with… murder?! My Love Story!!
Pink Candy Kiss by Ami Uozumi
Publisher Summary: Takara's never felt jealous over any of her boyfriends; then her middle-school crush Ema re-enters her life as a married woman. Can Takara find happiness with Ema or is she 20 years too late?
Spirited Away Film Comic (All-in-One Edition)
Publisher Summary: Fantasy and adventure await in this deluxe hardcover film comic based on Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away, the winner of the 2002 Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature!
My Neighbor Totoro: The Official Cookbook
Publisher Summary: This charming cookbook invites you to recreate the delicious foods seen in the beloved Studio Ghibli film, My Neighbor Totoro
Mujina into the Deep by Inio Asano
Publisher Summary: From the Eisner Award-winning creator of Goodnight Punpun comes a new world where human rights are for sale and without them, you’re nothing—a mujina.
A Star Brighter Than the Sun, by Kazune Kawahara
Publisher Summary: Sae has always been taller and stronger while her childhood friend, Koki, is the opposite, but then comes his high-school glow-up! Sae will have to confront her growing feelings for Koki
Four Lives Remain: Tatsuya Endo Before Spy x Family
Publisher Summary: Journey back to the 2000’s with this stand-alone collection of dark and gritty one shots from Spy x Family creator, Tatsuya Endo
Beyblade X with story by Homura Kawamoto (Kakegurui) and Hikaru Muno, and art by Posuka Demizu (The Promised Neverland)
Publisher Summary: 3-2-1… LET IT RIP! Beyblade returns when an amateur teams up with a champion, vowing to rise to the top!
Viz Media announced they are releasing a Definitive Edition of Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond Publisher Summary: The first three volumes of Vagabond are collected in a large-trim edition with gorgeous textured design. Follow Musashi’s epic journey from the beginning
Digital Only Manga
Doron Dororon by Gen Oosuka
Publisher Summary: Wannabe monster slayer Dora Sasaki wants to become a samurai to help defend humanity, but he has no supernatural energy! That’ll change when he meets a kind hearted spirit.
Ichigoki's Under Control!! by Seiji Hayashi
Publisher Summary: Kai Ichigoki loses his life just as he is about to enter high school and he wakes up as a cyborg piloted by Misao, his microscopic childhood friend residing in his head!
Wild Strawberry by Ire Yonemoto
Publisher Summary: Tokyo is taken over by Jinka, a parasite that turns people into human-eating plant monsters! The Jinka have taken Kingo’s sister, his chance at a real family and soon, him too
Do Retry by Jun Kirarazaka
Publisher Summary: In postwar Japan, orphan Aozora Okami enters an underground yakuza boxing league to survive!
Ginka & Glüna by Shinpei Watanabe
Publisher Summary: Glüna possesses an incredible aptitude for magic. Alas, her isolation hinders her from being acknowledged. That is, until Ginka, a former magician turned snowman, enters!
Shojo Null by Kanae Nakanishi and art by Akima
Publisher Summary: When robots known as Gijin start to display sentience in the 23rd century, humans will have to answer for their injustices!
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