VIZ Media announced during the company’s panel at Anime Expo 2014 that it has licensed the second part of Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga series, Battle Tendency. The company will release JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, the first part of the series, digitally in September 2014 and in print in February 2015. The print release will be a deluxe edition with color pages and new cover art. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency, will premiere digitally in March 2015.
In addition, VIZ will release its 2005 editions of the third part, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, digitally beginning on July 4, 2014, with new volumes every week.
The company has also licensed Aya Kanno’s Requiem of the Rose King.
VIZ also announced that the company will be releasing omnibus editions of Yu-Gi-Oh! by Kazuki Takahashi and Gyo by Junji Ito.