Adds Viz Comics film for Ghibli Arrietty film

The American publishing manga series Viz Media announced on Sunday that license the film comics to Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Arrietty of Studio Ghibli the borrower (Karigurashi no Arrietty) film on your panel's FanimeCon. The comics of film will begin in two volumes in North America in January 2012. (The film comics originally had sent in four volumes in Japan last August and September). That is the retail price suggested for the project has not been announced.

VIZ also indicated more arrietty works publications, but made no announcements specific version. The Deadline.com film news Web site reported in January that Disney will release the film in North American theaters next February.

The film of 2010 re-imagines borrowers from the novel by Mary Norton, moving the history in a suburb of Tokyo. The story revolves around Arrietty, a member of the "little people" who live in the floorboards of the House of the regular human family and their struggle to remain hidden from the human "beans".

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