 So what about
Inu-Yasha? Producer Toshifumi Yoshida of Viz Video said there's nothing
new on the company's chances of getting the latest animated series based
on the works of Rumiko Takahashi. Whatever North American company gets
the rights to Inu-Yasha might be able to get that series on store shelves
before the end of 2001, he speculated. In the meantime, Viz continues to
prepare for the 2001 release of the Ayashi No Ceres anime, based on Yu
Watase's manga, and the spring release of the sixth season of Ranma 1/2
(there's enough Ranma to be released for another couple of years, he said). |
 Anime series
also have provided Viz with many of the manga titles they produce, with
the Revolutionary Girl Utena manga scheduled to start in early 2001. Viz
also has a Gundam Wing manga (which is not the same as the series published
by Mixx, Yoshida said) and an El-Hazard series. POkemon remains a big series
for Viz with several manga titles and TV shows on the way, and even a Pokemon
newspaper strip that has found its way into some papers in North America. |
 Fans of the
Maison Ikkoku series might have something to look forward to; there's a
chance that Viz may revive the series with a fresh set of dubs, depending
on the decisions of a new supervisor of the Viz Video division who is an
Ikkoku fan, Yoshida said. "If the fan support was there, it would have
never stopped," he noted. And Yoshida said that Viz was working on getting
several new titles that he could not yet discuss. |
