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Vampire Knight Season 1 - iTunes, DVDs & more!

There's brand new episodes of Vampire Knight Guilty on Viz Anime every Friday, but if you need to catch up on the first season of Vampire Knight, you can grab the entire season from iTunes, on DVD or from one of our other online partners. Check out the following links for more info!

- Get the entire season from iTunes for $22.99 (or buy/rent individual eps.)

- Grab the Episodic DVDs: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3 (coming soon!)

- Get the entire season from Amazon Video-on-Demand

- Search for "Vampire Knight" on PSN / Xbox for downloads

10/10/10 HAPPY BIRTHDAY NARUTO!

Kick off Naruto's weekend-long birthday celebration starting on 10/8/10! It is going to be one of the best birthdays for Naruto, as our street team will make an appearance in New York City to give away swag. Here's the schedule:

•    Morning in Times Square
   o    42th and 47th Streets between 7th Ave. & Broadway

•    Afternoon at New York Comic Con and New York Anime Festival
   o    Jacob Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street

Thanks to our participating partners at Atlus/Tomy, Bandai America, NAMCO Bandai, Rock Paper Pencil and Great Eastern, our ninja street team, will be handing out thousands of prizes all day. Those wearing Naruto gear will have chances at winning even BIGGER swag, so DON'T MISS OUT!

To live it up in your home town, also check out 10 Ways to Celebrate Naruto-style.

Want more Naruto now? Click here to enter the NARUTO BIRTHDAY SWEEPSTAKES! or check out the September issue of SHONEN JUMP for more info. 10 LUCKY NINJA will win a Pakkun backpack filled with shiny new Naruto Shippuden merchandise! Contest ends October 15, get your issue today and enter now!

Bleach Quick-cast has begun!

That's right, the latest Bleach episodes from Japan are now on VIZ Anime following the same "Quick-cast" program that started with Naruto Shippuden & One Piece and which is now continuing with Bleach & Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan. And like all the videos on VIZ Anime, the new Bleach episodes will be available totally FREE to all visitors! Keep watching this space for more announcements in the coming weeks!

Kekkaishi Everywhere!

The last few weeks have been huge for Viz Anime & Kekkaishi! Excitement continues building in the subtitled version of the series here on Viz Anime, and last weekend Adult Swim broadcast the premiere episode of the English dub!

Kekkaishi spotlights compelling cool characters, in an intense yet fun-filled supernatural action adventure saga. It possesses all of the hallmarks of great anime. We are very excited to add Kekkaishi to the Adult Swim anime lineup for U.S. fans to enjoy!

As of today, the subtitled versions of episodes 1 - 13 are no longer available on Viz Anime, but the first dubbed episode is available for FREE in all of the following places:

- iTunes [click to download]

- AdultSwim.com [click to watch]

- Zune / Xbox Marketplace [Search for "Kekkaishi" on your Xbox console or Zune player]

- PlayStation Network [Look for the series under "Video > TV Shows > Anime > Viz Media"]

New episodes will continue airing on Adult Swim every Saturday night at 12:30AM (Eastern & Pacific time) right after FMA: Brotherhood. Check the Adult Swim schedule for details. Each week new dubbed episodes will be available for purchase from iTunes, Zune / Xbox, PlayStation Network a day or so after they air on Adult Swim, with Amazon Video-on-Demand sales coming soon. Each episode will also be available for a limited time on AdultSwim.com.

Support Yuki with a Vampire Knight T-Shirt

As I watch Vampire Knight, I realize that Yuki is at crossroads. She needs to decide who she is and who she wants to become. Should she always protect Zero, knowing his secret, and give him the blood he needs? Or should she try to build a relationship with Kaname? Both decisions will prove dangerous for Yuki But it's that danger that draws Yuki to Zero and Kaname even more. What should she do? What would you do? We'll need to wait to find out.

While you're waiting for the story to unfold, show your love for Vampire Knight with these awesome T-shirts. Get the black T-shirt with Yuki Cross in full color at F.Y.E. retail stores. Want the T-shirt with Yuki in haunting black and white? That one is at Hot Topic. Or, go Night Class with the Vampire Knight white T-shirt, available at Hot Topic and Hastings Entertainment.

— Rebecca Chow, Consumer Products Associate

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