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VIZ Media Debuts New Brainiac Superhero Manga Series My Hero Academia

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ADKG-NEW3media-SBVIZ Media has announced the launch of creator Kouhei Horikoshi’s brainiac action manga series – My Hero Academia – now available.

My Hero Academia is rated ‘T’ for Teens and print volumes carry an MSRP of $9.99 U.S. / $12.99 CAN each. The series is also available digitally via VIZManga.com and the VIZ Manga App and from the Nook, Kobo, Kindle, iBooks, comiXology, and GooglePlay stores.

Future English editions of My Hero Academia, which is ongoing in Japan and also serialized in current digital issues of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, will be published bi-annually under VIZ Media’s Shonen Jump imprint.

What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…

VIZ Media Announces Digital Debut of Barrage

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VIZ Media brings Barrage to VIZManga.com and the VIZ Manga App on October 4th. Volume 1 of the action series, created by Kouhei Horikoshi, is rated ‘T’ for Teens and debuts today, the same day the graphic novel launches in Japan. Digital MSRP will be $4.99; the print edition is scheduled to debut in March 2013.

Barrage is a space battle fantasy series set on a planet called Industria, which is in a state of chaos, and its fate lays in the hands of Astro, a kid from the slums! You can visit VIZManga.com/barrage for a free chapter 1 preview of Barrage, as well as to purchase and view Volume 1.

VIZ Media’s innovative digital manga platform allows for universal access to read manga from your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android smart phones and tablets, as well as on VIZManga.com on your desktop and laptop computers. The free VIZ Manga App is the top application for reading manga and features a rapidly growing library of the most popular manga series in the world.

The VIZ Manga App is available for free through the iTunes Store and Google Play Store, and all manga volumes are generally available for purchase and download in the U.S. and Canada within the application for $4.99 (U.S. / CAN) per volume. More than 100 series and 800 volumes are currently available for download with new series and volumes added every Tuesday.