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This article deals with the American media company. For other uses, please see Viz (disambiguation).
VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a major American anime, manga and Japanese entertainment company formed by the merger of VIZ, LLC, and ShoPro Entertainment. The company is commonly referred to as "Viz", the same name used in previous incarnations of VIZ LLC.

Viz also produces a manga and anime review magazine, Animerica; as well as an English language version of Shueisha's Shonen Jump (shōnen manga) magazine, and a shōjo manga monthly called Shojo Beat.

It formerly published Animerica Extra, a shōjo manga monthly, and PULP magazine, an adult-oriented manga monthly that featured story lines inappropriate for younger readers, though not pornography (see seinen, josei).

It is jointly-owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and licensing house Shogakukan Productions (ShoPro), a Shogakukan subsidiary.

Books published by Viz

Manga

Full article: List of manga published by VIZ Media
At various times in its history, Viz has published manga under the Viz Comics, Viz Communications, VIZ, LLC, Shonen Jump, PULP Manga, Shonen Jump Advanced, and Shojo Beat imprints. Amongst some of their more popular titles are manga series.

Ani-Manga

Novels

Magazines published by Viz

Anime distributed by Viz

Other media

In addition to the above, Viz has also published online magazines (the now-defunct J-pop.com)

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