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Viz Media
VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is a Japanese-American manga, anime, and entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro).〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Viz Media )〕
==Early history==
Seiji Horibuchi, originally from Tokushima Prefecture in Shikoku, moved to California in 1975. After living in the mountains for almost two years, he moved to San Francisco, where he started a business exporting American cultural items to Japan, and became a writer of cultural information. He also became interested in publishing Japanese manga in the United States, though he himself was not a fan of Japanese comics until a visit to Japan in 1985 exposed him to Katsuhiro Otomo's single-volume title ''Domu: A Child's Dream''. His idea came to fruition after he met Masahiro Ohga, then managing director of Shogakukan, in 1985 and shared his vision. Shogakukan provided Horibuchi with $200,000 in startup capital, which Horibuichi used in 1986 to found VIZ Communications.
VIZ Communications released its first titles in 1987, which included ''Legend of Kamui'', however sales were mediocre due to the specialist comic market being adverse to venturing into new territory. To counteract this problem, VIZ expanded into the general publishing business and began publishing various art related books in 1992. Into these titles, Horibuchi began publishing manga, calling them graphic novels so they would be carried by mainstream bookstores. The plan worked and after several years, leading booksellers began to have dedicated shelves for manga titles. Sales also picked up when VIZ Communications acquired the license for the comedy series ''Ranma ½'', which became an instant hit.〔
The company continued to see success when it expanded into the anime distribution market, began publishing ''Shonen Jump'', an English adaptation of the popular Japanese magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''. It also acquired another huge selling title, ''InuYasha''. In the late 1990s, VIZ began making the push to move into the European and South American markets.〔
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