Viz to Launch Shonen Sunday Imprint

Viz Media will launch its Shonen Sunday imprint with the simultaneous Japanese and American publication of the first collected volume of Rumiko Takahashi’s Rin-ne manga on October 20. Select Viz Media titles including Inuyasha, Case Closed, Kekkaishi, Hayate the Combat Butler, and Yakitate!! Japan will be transitioned to the Shonen Sunday banner. And new acquisitions for the line will be formally announced on the 24th at the San Diego Comic Con.

The American publication of the first Rin-ne graphic novel will mark the first ever simultaneous American and Japanese publication of a collected manga volume.

The Shonen Sunday imprint is named after Viz Media parent company Kodansha’s highly successful Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, which released its first issue in March 1959.

Viz Media’s Shonen Sunday website will formally open on the 22nd.