Whois & Analysis for viz.com

VIZ Media LLC is a Japanese-American manga, anime, and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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).

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

They have a long and complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.

is Japanese hand-drawn or computer animation.

The word is the abbreviated pronunciation of "animation" in Japanese, where this term references all animation.

Outside Japan, anime is used to refer specifically to animation from Japan or as a Japanese-disseminated animation style often characterized by colorful graphics, vibrant characters and fantastical themes.

Arguably, the culturally abstract approach to the word's meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in countries other than Japan.

For simplicity, many Westerners strictly view anime as a Japanese animation product.

Some scholars suggest defining anime as specifically or quintessentially Japanese may be related to a new form of orientalism.

A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content.

Although the word "novel" normally refers to long fictional works, the term "graphic novel" is applied broadly and includes fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work.

It is distinguished from the term "comic book", which is used for comics periodicals.

is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million speakers, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, whose relation to other language groups, particularly to Korean and the suggested Altaic language family, is debated.