In Part 2, we talk about the Viz consumers, manga production and frequency, and Viz's intellectual property launch strategy.

We recently spoke to Liza Coppola, Viz Media Vice President Sales and Marketing, about the North American manga and anime markets and Viz's place in them. In Part 1, we talk about Viz's TV-driven hits, the openings for shojo in the U.S. market, and the Viz anthology titles.

Right Stuf International announced that it will begin releasing the Boys Be anime series on DVD in February.

In a survey of more than 3,700 boys ages 6-17 Star Wars , Yu-Gi-Oh! and Spider-Man all finished in the top five.

At the recently concluded Yaoi-Con 2005, Digital Manga Publishing announced four new yaoi manga titles.

Neil Gaiman's new prose novel Anansi Boys has topped both the Publishers Weekly and NYT hardcover bestseller lists.

This weekend is shaping up to be the most important of the fall for pop culture retailers.

Tokyopop will publish the first volume of You Higuri's Gorgeous Carat manga in February of 2006.

This fall, two launches will capitalize on the success of Xiaolin Showdown.

The Sunday New York Times included an article about the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar.