{"id":7136,"date":"2009-10-28T11:25:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2009-10-29T01:42:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T07:42:50","slug":"viz-media-invites-readers-to-a-walk-on-the-wild-side-with-the-new-beast-master-manga-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=7136","title":{"rendered":"VIZ Media Invites Readers to a Walk on the Wild Side with the New &#8220;Beast Master&#8221; Manga Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/viz.com\/\">VIZ Media<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry&#8217;s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, expands its popular SHOJO BEAT imprint with the release of Kyousuke Motomi\u2019s <em>Beast Master<\/em> manga on November 3rd. The new series is rated &#8220;T+&#8221; for Older Teens and will carry an MSRP of $9.99 US \/ $12.99 CAN.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Aoi looks like a crazy animal with wild eyes &#8212; and no one at his new high school will go near him! He does seem to have a special connection with animals, which intrigues overzealous animal lover Yukio Kubozuka. In reality, Leo isn\u2019t nearly as frightening as he appears, but Yukio finds out that he goes berserk whenever he sees blood! Will Yukio be able to get through to Leo during one of these violent fits? Or will his ferocious side eventually devour her? The debut volume also includes a special bonus short story called &#8220;Fly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Manga artist Kyousuke Motomi debuted in Japan\u2019s popular shojo manga magazine <em>Betsucomi<\/em> with <em>No Good Cupid<\/em> in 2002, and she is also the creator of <em>Handsome! Beads Club<\/em>. Her latest work, <em>Electric Daisy<\/em>, is also currently being serialized in <em>Betsucomi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Beast Master<\/em> is part comedy, part romance, part drama and all fun as it adds a new twist to the idea of animal attraction,\u201d says Gonzalo Ferreyra, Vice President, Sales &amp; Marketing, VIZ Media.\u00a0\u201cReaders will empathize with Leo and his terrible secret and root for the tender relationship he forms with Yukio. Will she be able to tame Leo\u2019s wild side? Will the pair find true love or will his secret destroy them both? Find out in this truly <em>wild<\/em> new series from VIZ Media!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from VIZ Media: VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry&#8217;s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, expands its popular SHOJO BEAT imprint with the release of Kyousuke Motomi\u2019s Beast Master manga on November 3rd. The new series is rated &#8220;T+&#8221; for Older Teens and will carry an MSRP of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=7136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIZ Media Invites Readers to a Walk on the Wild Side with the New &#8220;Beast Master&#8221; Manga Series&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-arts-culture","category-books-writing","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}