New York Times Manga Best Seller List, May 8-14

2 One-Punch Man volumes, 3 Tokyo Ghoul volumes, My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, One Piece, The Seven Deadly Sins, Blue Exorcist

The New York Times newspaper listed the manga bestsellers in the United States for the week ending on May 14.

Rank	Prev. Rank	Title	Author	Publisher	Weeks on List	Cover
1	1	One-Punch Man #6	Story: ONE / Art: Yuusuke Murata	Viz Media	2
2	3	One-Punch Man #1	Story: ONE / Art: Yuusuke Murata	Viz Media	37
3	6	Tokyo Ghoul #1	Sui Ishida	Viz Media	45
4	5	Tokyo Ghoul #6	Sui Ishida	Viz Media	4
5	2	My Hero Academia #4	Kōhei Horikoshi	Viz Media	2
6	10	Attack on Titan #18	Hajime Isayama	Kodansha Comics	6
7	4	One Piece #78	Eiichiro Oda	Viz Media	2
8	-	The Seven Deadly Sins#14	Nakaba Suzuki	Kodansha Comics	1
9	-	Blue Exorcist #15	Kazue Katō	Viz Media	1
10	-	Tokyo Ghoul #2	Sui Ishida	Viz Media	25

Viz Media to Release Bleach Anime on Blu-ray Disc Starting This Summer

1st set shipping on July 19 includes art gallery, clean ending, bonus video

Viz Media announced at its panel at Anime Central on Saturday that it will release the first set of the Bleach television anime series on Blu-ray Disc this summer. The first 27-episode set will ship on July 19 and will retail for US$54.97 and CAD$63.99, before discounts.

Viz Media describes the set as follows:

For as long as he can remember, Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see ghosts. But when he meets Rukia, a Soul Reaper who battles evil spirits known as Hollows, his life is changed forever. Now, with a newfound wealth of spiritual energy, Ichigo discovers his true calling—to protect the world of the living and the dead as a Substitute Soul Reaper. When Rukia is taken away to face the ruthless justice of the Soul Society, Ichigo and his friends must cross over and do battle in the spirit world...

The first set will include an art gallery, textless ending videos, and a behind-the-scenes video featuring interviews with the English cast.

The Bleach television anime series adapts Tite Kubo's manga of the same name, and it premiered in 2004 and aired for 366 episodes before ending in March 2012.

Viz Media has released the entire series on DVD, shipping the final set (cover pictured above right) in September. The company is also releasing the original manga in North America.

One Piece Anime Gets 'Heart of Gold' TV Special Featuring Shun Oguri on July 16 (Updated)

Special's story ties into One Piece Film Gold opening on July 23

This year's 25th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that the One Piece anime will get a television special on July 16 from 9:00-11:10 p.m. titled One Piece: Heart of Gold.

Actor Shun Oguri (live-action Lupin III's titular character, live-action Terraformars' Kō Honda, Harlock: Space Pirate's Captain Harlock) will guest star in the special as the evil treasure hunter Mad Treasure, and the character will also appear in One Piece Film Gold. Mad Treasure is a chainman devil fruit user who has eaten the JaraJara (clank clank) fruit. The official website for the franchise has revealed the character design for Mad Treasure (pictured below) and the key visual for the special (pictured below right).

The special will will tie in to One Piece Film Gold, which opens a week later in Japan on July 23. The story will center around a mysterious treasure called "Pure Gold" that even Gild Tesoro desires. The Straw Hat Pirates meet a girl named Orga who knows the treasure's location, and together they sail to the legendary island Alchemy.

The issue will also reveal a key visual for the special, as well as costume designs for some of the Straw Hat Pirates and new character designs for the special. Original manga creator Eiichiro Oda drew the designs.

Weekly Shonen Jump is also revealing that while theaters will distribute five million copies of a "volume 777" book to One Piece Film Gold filmgoers, the first two million filmgoers will get a rare bonus item. The issue did not elaborate on what the item will be.

One Piece Film Gold is getting 3D, 4DX, and MX4D screenings in Japan, and six theaters in Japan will also screen the film with English and Chinese subtitles starting on July 23.

Dragonball Xenoverse 2 Ships for PS4 in Japan This Winter

Dimps returns to develop sequel for PS4, Xbox One, PC in 2016

This year's 25th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that the Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 game will ship for PlayStation 4 in Japan this winter. Bandai Namco Entertainment unveiled the game and announced on Tuesday that it will ship for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (via Steam) this year.

Players will fight to "protect the history of Dragon Ball" in the game. In the game's story, Time Patrollers go on missions to prevent history from being changed. However, there may be parts of history that they would like to change.

The game's website confirms that Dimps is developing the title after it worked on the first Xenoverse game.

The first game shipped for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360 consoles in Japan on February 5, 2015. It then debuted in the United States on February 24, 2015 and in Europe on February 27, 2015. The game also debuted on PC via Steam on February 27, 2015

SCREEN mode, nano.RIPE Perform 2nd Food Wars! Anime Season's Themes

Shokugeki no Sōma: Ni no Sara premieres in July with returning cast, staff

This year's 25th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced the theme song performers for the second season of the Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma anime series on Monday. SCREEN mode will perform the opening theme song "Rough Diamonds," and nano.RIPE will perform the ending theme, which has yet to be titled.

The anime's second season, titled Shokugeki no Sōma: Ni no Sara (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Second Plate), will premiere in July. The main cast and staff from the first season will reprise their roles in the sequel.

The second season's cast so far includes:

• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Sōma Yukihira
• Risa Taneda as Erina Nakiri
• Minami Takahashi as Megumi Tadokoro
• Junichi Suwabe as Akira Hayama
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ryō Kurokiba
• Natsuki Hanae as Takumi Aldini
• Saori Ōnishi as Hisako Arato
• Chinatsu Akasaki as Alice Nakiri

Yoshitomo Yonetani (Gaogaigar, Betterman) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff. Shogo Yasukawa (Terra Formars, Hyperdimension Neptunia, Invaders of the Rokujyōma!?) is in charge of the series' scripts, and Tomoyuki Shitaya (Bakuman., BlazBlue Alter Memory, Hatsukoi Limited) is designing the characters. Jin Aketagawa is the sound director, and Tatsuya Katou (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club, Medaka Box) is composing the soundtrack.

An original anime DVD will be bundled with the manga's 19th volume on July 4. The 25-minute anime will feature an original story about Sōma and his friends during a short summer vacation before the Autumn Elections.

The television anime series adapts Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma manga. The first anime season aired for 24 episodes from May to September. Crunchyroll streamed the first anime adaptation as it aired in Japan, and Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for North America.

The manga centers on Sōma, who works with his dad at his family's restaurant. His dad is a culinary master, and he often hosts cooking battles with his father. His father then enrolls him in an elite culinary school that is very difficult to enter, and the graduation rate is only about 10 percent.

Vertical Licenses Chihiro Ishizuka's Flying Witch Manga

Manga about witch living in verdant northern Japan has ongoing TV anime

North American manga and novel publisher Vertical Comics announced at its Anime Central panel on Sunday that it has licensed Chihiro Ishizuka's Flying Witch manga.

The comical story follows the 15-year-old witch Makoto Kowata and the other boys and girls in her daily life. With her black cat Chito, the somewhat aimless girl moved from Yokohama to live with her second cousin in Aomori in verdant northern Japan.

Ishizuka launched the manga in the September 2012 issue of Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, and Kodansha published the fourth compiled volume on March 9.

The television anime of the manga premiered in Japan on April 9. Katsushi Sakurabi (Gunparade March, Heaven's Memo Pad, Lunar Legend Tsukihime) is directing the anime at the studio J.C. Staff, and stars Minami Shinoda, Eri Suzuki, Shinsuke Sugawara, and Kana Aoi. Crunchyroll is streaming the television anime series in several regions as it airs in Japan, and Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime for digital and home video in North America.

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