ADV Manga Announces New Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ADV MANGA SETS STREET DATES FOR TWO NEW MANGA RELEASES
FULL METAL PANIC! MISSION 01 RELEASES SEPTEMBER 9 2003; AZUMANGA DAIOH VOL. 1 TO APPEAR SEPTEMBER 16
HOUSTON August 6 2003?ADV Manga today formally announced street dates for the label?s first two releases Full Metal Panic! Mission 01 and
Azumanga Daioh Vol. 1. Both titles will be available at bookstores and comic/specialty stores nationwide.
Full Metal Panic! Mission 01 A tie-in to the smash-hit ADV Films anime release of the same name the
Full Metal Panic! manga skillfully balances high-school comedy and hard-hitting action with the story of gung-ho young secret agent Sosuke Sagara assigned to go undercover and protect high-school honor-student Kaname Chidori from a band of international terrorists. Needless to say Sosuke?s background as a counterinsurgent guerilla isn?t the best possible preparation for high-school.
Full Metal Panic! appeared serially in
Newtype USA magazine helping to build an enthusiastic audience for this ADV Manga release.
Prebook: 8/8/03
Street: 9/9/03
Genre: Action/Comedy
Age rating: 13+
168 black & white pages (color intro pages)
Author: Shouji Gatou
Illustrator: Retsu Tateo
Azumanga Daioh Vol. 1 It?s not manga it?s Azumanga (and it?s smart fun and totally addictive)! Created by the iconoclastic Kiyohiko Azuma (hence the name)
Azumanga Daioh is strongly character driven telling the story of the precocious Chiyo (promoted to high-school at age 12) a group of her classmates and their hilarious daily tribulations.
Azumanga Daioh boasts exceptionally strong name recognition including overwhelming fan enthusiasm about the anime series (forthcoming 2004 from ADV Films).
Prebook: 8/15/03
Street: 9/16/03
Genre: Comedy
Age Rating: 13+
168 black & white pages (color intro pages)
Author(s): Kiyohiko Azuma
About ADV Manga Specializing in Japanese and other East Asian comics illustration books graphic novels and more ADV Manga is the publishing division of A.D. Vision Inc. parent company of ADV Films Newtype USA Anime Network and more. Founded in 2003 with nationwide mass-market distribution ADV Manga is poised to dominate the explosively growing U.S. market for imported graphic novels and related published materials. More information is available at
http://www.adv-manga.com.
Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 (Archive on Saturday, September 06, 2003)