This week's big story is the launch of the VIZ Manga app. For a monthly fee of $1.99, the app gives subscribers access to a library of 10,000+ chapters from series like Call of the Night, InuYasha, NANA, and Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead. Not everything in the VIZ catalog is included; as Dean Simons reports,
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