'Viz Big' brings finished SJ titles back to life, with YGO follow?

[Yūgi's Black Magician]

Viz Big (check out ANN for more info) is seemingly a new marketting line for Viz to release older titles (launching in May 2008 with Rurouni Kenshin, Dragonball/Z) in new $18 omnibus books with new cover art and full color pages. I suppose Viz is giving us a quasi-kazenban line of GNs.


What the real pisser here is that I just finished collecting all of RK. And the only YGO stuff I'm missing are volume 19-22.

Additional Comment:

Because ANN is being difficult right now I managed to find exactly what Viz said on Daizex.com:

Viz Media opened its panel with the announcement of "Viz Big," an omnibus line that collects long-running series into three-in-one volumes. This new US$17.99 format offers new illustrations on paperback covers with gatefold flaps, color page inserts, and a larger print size (5.75 by 8.625 inches, like Vagabond). The May 2008 launch titles under Viz Big include Rurouni Kenshin, Dragon Ball, and Dragon Ball Z.

[Ryusaki]

That does sound like an invitation for an English release of the new cover YGO volumes. Although even those with their fancy-quality paper don't have full-colour pages...

[JLewko]

This does sound interesting...

That does sound like an invitation for an English release of the new cover YGO volumes. Although even those with their fancy-quality paper don't have full-colour pages...

I'm guessing, if this does net us the reprint volumes, we'll get ones with the original versions of those darker, more detailed pages; the ones that must've initially been colored in Jump. Like the beginning of Yugi vs. Haga or Kaiba's emergence from his coma.