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Pat McCrory

Patrick Lloyd McCrory (born October 17, 1956) is an American politician, businessman, and radio host who served as the 74th governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 53rd mayor of Charlotte from 1995 to 2009.

While serving as mayor of Charlotte, McCrory served on the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2002 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He was the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina in the 2008 general election and was defeated by Lieutenant Governor Bev Perdue, the Democratic nominee. McCrory was again the Republican nominee in the 2012 gubernatorial election and won with 55 percent of the vote. McCrory became the first Mayor of Charlotte to win the state's highest office, as well as the first Republican to win the governorship of North Carolina since 1988.

In 2016, McCrory came to national attention after signing the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act ("HB2"), sometimes called the transgender bathroom bill. Among other provisions, HB2 prevented local governing bodies from establishing their own anti-discrimination statutes. It declared that in government buildings, individuals may use only the restrooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificates, preventing transgender people who have not altered their birth certificates from using the restroom consistent with their gender identity. The United States Department of Justice, in addition to several private citizens, filed lawsuits against McCrory and the state regarding HB2. Over 100 corporations voiced their opposition to HB2, notably to the elements that limited protections for LGBT individuals. In 2017, economists estimated that HB2 had negatively impacted GDP in the state of North Carolina by an amount between $450 and $630 million, or 0.1% of the state's annual gross domestic product. HB2 was partially repealed on March 30, 2017, after McCrory's reelection loss in 2016.

McCrory lost his bid for a second term as North Carolina's governor in the 2016 gubernatorial election, conceding to Democrat Roy Cooper a month after the election but continuing to make voter fraud allegations. Court injunctions blocked his attempts to limit Cooper's power during a lame-duck special session. In 2022, McCrory ran for the U.S. Senate and lost the Republican primary to U.S. Representative Ted Budd.

Early life, education and business career
McCrory was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Audrey Mona (née Herzberg) and Rollin John McCrory. His family moved to North Carolina when he was a child. He was raised Presbyterian and his family attended First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro. He graduated in 1974 from Ragsdale High School in Jamestown, North Carolina. He attended Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, where he received degrees in political science and education in 1978. McCrory was active in the Student Government Association and was part of a conservative backlash to the growing "hippie" culture at Catawba in the mid-1970s.

In 2001, McCrory gave the graduation keynote address at his alma mater, Catawba College. The college awarded him an honorary doctorate of legal letters. He has served as a member of Catawba College's board of trustees.

In January 2008, after 28 years with Duke Energy, he retired from the company to run full-time for governor. In January 2009, McCrory was named a partner with Charlotte-based McCrory & Company, a sales consulting firm. In January 2010, he was named a Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives for Charlotte-based law firm Moore & Van Allen PLLC. He is a 2014 Young Leader Alumni member of the American Swiss Foundation.

Since 2017, he has hosted the "Pat McCrory Show with Bo Thompson" on WBT 1110AM in Charlotte, NC.

Charlotte City Council (1989–1995)
McCrory began his political career in Charlotte in 1989 when he was elected an At-Large City Councilman. He was re-elected in 1991 and 1993; McCrory served as Mayor Pro Tem from 1993 to 1995.

Mayor of Charlotte (1995–2009)
In 1995, he was elected mayor of the city of Charlotte, succeeding Richard Vinroot, who ran unsuccessfully for the 1996 Republican gubernatorial nomination. At the age of 39, McCrory was the city's youngest mayor. McCrory gained a reputation as a very popular, affable mayor. In the 2007 mayoral election, he defeated seven-term Democratic state Rep. Beverly Earle, 61 to 39 percent.

McCrory announced in late 2008, shortly after his gubernatorial campaign, that he would not seek an eighth term. McCrory is the city of Charlotte's longest-serving mayor.

Transportation
McCrory helped develop Charlotte's 25-year transportation and land-use plan. Working closely with U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, McCrory made efforts to secure $200 million in federal funds for the city's new Lynx Light Rail system. The plan helped expand bus service in Charlotte as well as bringing light rail to the city. The light-rail line has been cited as McCrory's biggest achievement as mayor.

Economy
During McCrory's tenure (1995–2009), Charlotte's population grew by 20%, and the population of Uptown Charlotte increased to over 13,000 people. McCrory led the effort to recruit such companies as TIAA-CREF, General Dynamics Armament, The Westin Hotel, and Johnson & Wales University. The Charlotte Arena and the U.S. Whitewater Center were opened during his term. In 2005, Money magazine listed Charlotte in its Top 3 Best Places to Live and Reader's Digest named it one of the 20 Cleanest Cities in America.

National involvement and Homeland Security
McCrory has also been involved in many national organizations, having served as president of the Republican Mayors and Local Officials (RMLO) organization; chairman of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) Committee for Housing and Community Development; six-term Chair of the USCM Environmental Committee; and founder and inaugural chairman of the North Carolina Metropolitan Coalition. McCrory was also the only elected official to serve on the national board of the Afterschool Alliance and was a featured Mayor in Harvard University's Faith-based Executive Session.

In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed McCrory to the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council alongside Mitt Romney, Sonny Perdue and Lee H. Hamilton.

NASCAR Hall of Fame
As mayor, McCrory spearheaded the effort with local business leaders, local officials, and NASCAR teams to bring the NASCAR Hall of Fame to Charlotte. On March 6, 2006, Charlotte beat out Atlanta, Daytona Beach, Kansas City, and Richmond, Virginia, to be home to the Hall of Fame.

Awards and local involvement
McCrory established a Residential Tree Ordinance in 2004, which required developers to save 10% of the trees in every new residential development. He also established a Sidewalk Policy, which required sidewalks in every new subdivision and provided funding for sidewalks in neighborhoods without them, in order to encourage walking. He also worked to integrate bike lanes into the city's transportation policy, establishing 42 miles of bike lanes throughout the city.

In 2003, McCrory received the national Homeownership Hero Award, recognizing his work in leading Charlotte to have one of the highest homeownership rates in the country.

McCrory founded the Mayor's Mentoring Alliance in 1995 and has personally served as a mentor to two youths. In 2005, Charlotte was named as one of the '100 Best Communities for Youth' by America's Promise. The Mayor's Mentoring Alliance has grown to include 40 youth-serving and mentoring organizations, among them Time Warner Cable's "Time To Read" program. An additional partnership with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department initiated "Gang of One," an after-school gang-prevention and intervention program that works to keep children from joining gangs or helps lead them away from gang life.

McCrory has served as the honorary chair for the Charlotte chapter of the Alzheimer's Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation.

2008 gubernatorial campaign
McCrory reportedly commissioned a poll to test the waters for a run for governor in November 2007, shortly after his seventh mayoral re-election victory, but well after other Republican gubernatorial candidates had begun campaigning. A 2007 Rasmussen Reports poll had McCrory leading both major Democratic candidates, Bev Perdue and Richard H. Moore, by three points each.

The Raleigh News & Observer reported on January 9, 2008, that McCrory had filed the necessary paperwork with the State Board of Elections to run for governor. He announced his candidacy in his hometown of Jamestown on January 15, 2008.

In the primary election on May 6, 2008, McCrory defeated four opponents, including State Senator Fred Smith, to win the Republican nomination for governor. During the primary, McCrory was criticized for lacking conservative credentials and for the high taxes and large debt accrued in Charlotte while he was mayor. McCrory countered with negative ads against his foremost opponent, Sen. Fred Smith, inaccurately accusing Smith of running up state debt while in the legislature.

In the general election, Democratic lieutenant governor Bev Perdue raised $5.6 million and ran attack ads against McCrory, criticizing him on various issues. McCrory later referred to the ads as "shameless, inaccurate, and negative". Perdue and McCrory remained closely competitive, with the two often polling in a statistical tie in what was the tightest race for governor in the nation. The McCrory campaign spent $3.4 million, and an independent expenditure funded by the Republican Governor's association assisted McCrory with a further $6.2 million in spending for attack ads on Perdue. Perdue ran slightly behind her opponent in polls released the week before the election. Pundits speculated that Perdue was hurt by belonging to the same party as the increasingly unpopular incumbent Governor Mike Easley, and by McCrory's efforts to tag her as part of corruption in Raleigh. Consultants also mentioned Perdue's "difficulty of being the candidate of continuity in a change election."

In October 2008, McCrory received the endorsement of most major newspapers in the state, which typically endorse Democrats. McCrory's candidacy for governor was endorsed by the Raleigh News and Observer, the Charlotte Observer, the Greensboro News & Record, the Winston-Salem Journal, and the UNC-Chapel Hill Daily Tar Heel.

Even so, Perdue squeaked out a win with 2,146,083 votes (50.27%) to McCrory's 2,001,114 (46.88%), in what turned out to be the closest gubernatorial election in the United States in 2008. McCrory failed to win even in Charlotte, where he had been mayor for 14 years.

Hiatus (2009–2012)
Following his defeat in the 2008 gubernatorial election, McCrory announced that he would not seek a record eighth term as Charlotte mayor in 2009. Having retired from Duke Energy after 29 years of service in early 2008 to run for governor, McCrory decided to return to the private sector. He went on to work for his brother's consulting firm, and also joined the law firm of Moore Van Allen. McCrory also began to pave the way for a possible 2012 gubernatorial campaign by remaining active in the North Carolina Republican Party. He spoke at numerous GOP county and district conventions and dinners, as well as the 2009, 2010 and 2011 state GOP conventions.

After being a centerpiece of the 2010 Republican takeover of the North Carolina Legislature, McCrory worked closely with Senate Leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis, both of whom hail from the Charlotte area and are close friends of McCrory's.

2012 gubernatorial campaign
Governor Bev Perdue declined to seek re-election in 2012. McCrory then announced his candidacy for governor on January 31, 2012. On May 8, 2012, he won the Republican primary with 83.40% of the vote. McCrory went on to defeat Democratic Lieutenant Governor Walter Dalton in the general election, 55%–43%. It is the largest margin of victory for a Republican in an open-seat race for governor since Reconstruction.

When asked in a debate what further abortion restrictions he would sign into law if elected, he answered, "None." McCrory publicized his positions on the economy and education in two white papers. One was called "The North Carolina Comeback" and focused on economic recovery. In it he stated that he would work to get the unemployment rate below South Carolina's and also to restructure the North Carolina's tax codes.

The other paper, "A Passion for Education," advocated several areas for reform: more classroom technology, such as virtual courses and hand-held technology; teacher merit-pay systems; and expansion of charter schools. McCrory also suggested stopping social promotion of some students and creating a new method of grading schools.

Campaign finance
The Raleigh News & Observer reported that McCrory would declare adding $2.2 million in the second quarter, totaling $4.4 million available for campaign spending, with 98 percent of the donors from North Carolina. For 2012, the North Carolina Board of Elections required second-quarter campaign-finance reports to be filed by July 11. In the first-quarter campaign-finance reports, McCrory showed that his campaign added at least $1 million more to its bottom line than Dalton's campaign. In the first quarter McCrory reported outraising Dalton by more than $1 million. He also reported raising nearly $3 million more than Dalton for the election cycle to date. McCrory reported having $3.1 million cash on hand, and Dalton reported $670,356.14.

Governor of North Carolina (2013–2017)
McCrory took office on January 5, 2013, the first Republican Governor of the state since James G. Martin left office on January 9, 1993. His swearing-in gave the Republicans complete control of state government for the first time since Reconstruction.

Legislation
McCrory's election marked the first time that Republicans controlled both houses of the General Assembly as well as the governorship since 1870. From taking office, McCrory had signed into law a number of bills promoting conservative governance.

He signed legislation which made North Carolina the 8th state to cut unemployment benefits since the 2007 start of the Great Recession. In addition to cutting maximum weekly unemployment benefits by 35%, the state reduced the maximum number of weeks of assistance to between 12 and 20, down from 26. The cut prevented 170,000 North Carolinians from benefiting from federal emergency extended benefits, which require a minimum of 26 weeks of state support, but also allowed the state's unemployment fund, which had become bankrupt over the course of the recession, to become solvent three years sooner. The move was criticized by some for passing up federal support and weakening the government safety net when the state had the nation's 5th-highest unemployment.

In March 2013, citing concerns about the sustainability of the program, McCrory signed a bill that opted the state out of the expanded Medicaid program of the Affordable Care Act of 2009, which would have provided healthcare coverage to 500,000 North Carolinians. He also proposed managing Medicaid accounts, by enrolling patients in managed-care programs run by private companies.

In May 2013, McCrory signed a North Carolina adaptation of Caylee's Law after receiving unanimous consent in the General Assembly. Caylee's Law had been enacted by several state legislatures in response to the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial, which garnered national attention. The law makes a parent/caregiver who deliberately fails to report their child missing guilty of a Class I Felony, among other felonious acts such as concealing the death of a child under the new law.

McCrory signed into law a bill repealing the state's controversial Racial Justice Act of 2009. The law was unique in that it allowed inmates facing the death penalty to use broad statistics to challenge their sentences on the basis of alleged racial discrimination. Prior to repeal of the Racial Justice Act, nearly every death row inmate, regardless of race, used the law as a basis to file an appeal. The delays caused by those appeals still persist today. The state of North Carolina has not executed an inmate since 2006.

He signed legislation to require voters to present government-issued photo identification in order to vote, repeal same-day voter registration, and reduce the number of days of early voting. In July 2016, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the photo ID provisions, finding that they targeted African Americans "with almost surgical precision" and that the legislators had acted with "discriminatory intent" in enacting the strict election rules. McCrory said the three-judge panel had a liberal makeup, and that 33 states have enacted some form of voter ID requirement.

In July 2013, McCrory signed tax reform legislation that created a modified flat-tax system for the state by specifying a single income-tax rate and a larger standard deduction but eliminating the personal exemption. It also repealed North Carolina's estate tax.

In August 2013, McCrory signed into law the Regulatory Reform Act of 2013. The legislation, according to the bill, was "an act to improve and streamline the regulatory process in order to stimulate job creation, to eliminate unnecessary regulation, to make various other statutory changes, and to amend certain environmental and natural resource laws." The law requires all previous rules and regulations not mandated by federal law to be reviewed over ten years by the Rules Review Commission through a three-step process.

In June 2014, McCrory signed the Energy Modernization Act of 2014 into law. The bill allows hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," in the state, and criminalizes the disclosure of fracking chemicals, lifting a 2012 moratorium that blocked fracking permits. "We remain intensely focused on creating good jobs, particularly in our rural areas," McCrory said. "We have watched and waited as other states moved forward with energy exploration, and it is finally our turn. This legislation will spur economic development at all levels of our economy, not just the energy sector." Once the state completes its regulations, the law will allow for permits to be issued without additional approval. The bill also criminalizes the disclosure of chemicals or substances used by oil and gas companies during the fracking process. The legislation also bans local governments from interfering with oil and gas exploration, development, and production activities.

Lame-duck special session
During a special lame-duck session, after having conceded defeat in the 2016 election, McCrory signed legislation into law that would reduce the power of the North Carolina governorship, including his ability to appoint the majority of the members to the State Board of Elections. The Editorial Board of the Charlotte Observer critiqued the bills as an egregious power-grab, citing former governors of both parties. On December 30, 2016, a state judge temporarily blocked the law from going into effect, and a panel of judges extended the block on January 5, 2017.

Vetoes
McCrory issued his first veto as governor in August 2013, of a bill that would have required people applying for welfare benefits to pass a drug test. He later also vetoed a bill that extended from 90 days to nine months the amount of time that an employee could work without undergoing a background check in the E-Verify system. Both vetoes were overridden by the General Assembly in September 2013, meaning that both bills became law.

In June 2014, McCrory vetoed a bill because of a provision altering the makeup of the Division of Employment Security Board of Review.

On May 28, 2015, McCrory vetoed a bill that would have allowed magistrates with religious objections to refuse to perform same-sex marriages. The next day, McCrory vetoed a variation on an "ag-gag" bill. Both of these vetoes were overridden by the legislature.

Education
McCrory signed the largest education budgets in North Carolina history in 2013 and 2015. A number of education changes were included in the state budget enacted in 2013 and 2016. McCrory supports merit-based pay in some cases. McCrory entered office in 2013 with teacher pay ranked 47th in the nation, and by 2016, the state's ranking moved up 41st in the nation. McCrory signed the largest teacher pay raise in the nation in 2016, which led to average teacher pay rising to $50,000 per year. The rankings for year 2017 will account for the 2016 pay raises. Those yet-to-be-released rankings are expected to move North Carolina up several slots. School districts are authorized to give $500-per-year raises to up to 25% of teachers. Low-income students are now eligible to receive vouchers up to $4,200 toward the cost of attending private schools. Teacher tenure has been replaced with a contract system. State funding for Teach for America has been increased to $6 million.

In a nationally broadcast radio interview with conservative talk-show host William Bennett, McCrory made a series of comments on the future of higher education in North Carolina that generated controversy. McCrory stated that "some of the educational elite have taken over our education where we are offering courses that have no chance of getting people jobs," and later responded to a comment Bennett made on gender studies courses by saying: "That's a subsidized course. If you want to take gender studies, that's fine, go to a private school and take it. But I don't want to subsidize that if that's not going to get someone a job."

"Moral Mondays" protests
Several bills signed into law by McCrory and multiple pieces of proposed legislation were the target of ongoing "Moral Monday" civil disobedience protests during his tenure, organized in part by local religious leaders including William Barber II, head of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP at the time. Cited reasons for the protests included proposed changes to Medicaid, changes to voting regulations, school vouchers, and tax reform. McCrory criticized the protests as unlawful and a drain on state resources, and declined to meet with the protestors, later stating "outsiders are coming in and they're going to try to do to us what they did to Scott Walker in Wisconsin."

Abortion access
In July 2013, McCrory signed into law legislation which required abortion providers to meet the same standards as surgical centers, allowed health-care providers to decline to perform abortions, and prevented any public health-insurance policy from paying for abortions. Abortion-rights groups criticized McCrory, who had promised during his campaign that he would not sign new abortion restrictions. McCrory responded: "This law does not further limit access, and those who contend it does are more interested in politics than the health and safety of our citizens." WRAL stated that the legislation broke McCrory's campaign pledge.

Duke Energy
Following a February 2, 2014, coal ash spill that was the third-largest of its kind in US history, the US Attorney's Office opened a grand-jury investigation into Duke Energy. McCrory had been an employee of Duke Energy for 28 years, and critics said his administration had intervened on Duke's behalf to settle lawsuits over environmental violations. The U.S. Attorney's office subpoenaed 23 officials of the McCrory administration and sought records of "investments, cash or other items of value" passed from Duke to McCrory administration officials, but produced charges only aimed at Duke Energy in February 2015. Duke Energy was fined $99,111 for leaks from ponds at two power plants; the amount was part of a deal made by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources' secretary, John E. Skvarla III, a McCrory appointee.

In August 2014, McCrory announced that he had previously owned more than $10,000 in Duke Energy stock and that he sold the stock after the coal-ash spill without disclosing the sale in state ethics filings. His lawyer stated that the mistake was based on the lawyer's misunderstanding of the timeframe covered by the earlier disclosures.

On March 8, 2015, the McCrory administration fined Duke Energy $25 million for years of groundwater pollution, the largest fine for environmental damage ever imposed by the state. The second-largest fine ever imposed by the state was in 1986 for $5.7 million.

McCrory appointed Dr. Randall W. Williams, an OB/GYN, as the state's Health Director. Williams became embroiled in controversy over the safety of household well water near coal ash ponds. In testimony in May 2016, related to a lawsuit, state toxicologist Ken Rudo said state health and environmental officials including Williams and former Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Assistant Secretary Tom Reeder, attempted to “play down the risk” of coal ash contamination of those wells. The two officials had rescinded a "do-not-drink" notice sent to some well owners in March 2016. Rudo said in his deposition in the case that the state was informing residents that their household water was safe to drink when it knew it wasn't. Williams contended that he had rescinded those warning notices because he felt they were unnecessarily stirring up alarms. The state's Department of Health and Human Services disagreed with Rudo's contentions. Megan Davies, a state Division of Public Health epidemiologist who was section chief and Rudo's supervisor, resigned because of the manner in which the department and McCrory's administration disputed Rudo's testimony. Davies and a co-worker testified regarding concerns they held about the state inappropriately rescinding the warning notices. On December 30, a day before McCrory was leaving office, he appointed Williams, one of his closest advisors, to the Oil & Gas Commission, a regulatory body that had been moribund since the governor won a legal battle with the legislature over appointments a year earlier. Six weeks later, Williams was appointed Health and Senior Services Director in Missouri by controversial Governor Eric Greitens.

I-77 toll lane
Under McCrory, the NCDOT signed a 50-year contract with Cintra, a Spanish company, to add variable toll lanes to I-77 (a major, heavily congested trucking route and north–south corridor through the state) so as to provide a reliable travel speed of 45 mph for those who pay the toll. The fee per mile will fluctuate in order to keep the toll lane from being over-crowded.

Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act
On March 23, 2016, McCrory signed the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act (commonly known as House Bill 2 or HB2). The law eliminated anti-discrimination protections including for gay and transgender people and barred municipalities from re-establishing them. It initially legislated that in government buildings, people could only use restrooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificates, preventing transgender people who do not or cannot alter their birth certificates from using the restroom consistent with their gender identity. More broadly, the law eliminated municipal anti-discrimination policies concerning race, gender, and veteran status or military service, and prohibited municipalities from establishing local minimum wages, benefits, employee protections and leave policies. Senate Democratic Leader Dan Blue said "This bill essentially repeals 50 years of non-discrimination efforts and gives lawmakers in Raleigh unprecedented control over our city and local governments." "North Carolina Republicans want to pass what would potentially be the single most discriminatory act in the country. This is a direct affront to equality, civil rights, and local autonomy." McCrory stated that the law was passed in response to the Charlotte City Council on February 22, 2016, passing a non-discrimination ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in public accommodations (including restrooms) or by passenger vehicles for hire or city contractors. McCrory had asked council members not to pass the ordinance. The speaker of the House and lieutenant governor invoked a rarely used constitutional provision to call themselves into session, without McCrory calling it, by collecting sufficient signatures from legislators. On March 23, 2016, the legislature sent the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act to the governor's desk for his signature and McCrory signed the bill on the same evening it passed.

The law sparked public protests and motivated entertainers such as Bruce Springsteen to cancel shows. Companies pulled jobs and investments out of the state: PayPal stopped a planned expansion that would have created 400 jobs, Lionsgate moved production of a television show out of North Carolina, Deutsche Bank halted plans to add 250 jobs in the state, and over 160 other companies called for the law's repeal. Several states and cities, including Atlanta, banned official travel to North Carolina. Time Warner Cable News estimated that as of April 22, the law had cost the state over 1750 jobs and over $77 million of investments and visitor spending. On July 21, 2016, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that it would move the 2017 All-Star game out of Charlotte. The NBA's decision to move the game away from Charlotte outraged Republicans who noted Charlotte was chosen for the All-Star game by the league after the city had voted down a similar ordinance itself. Republicans also noted HB2 had no jurisdiction over private facilities, meaning the league could set any bathroom policy it preferred for games it was to host in Charlotte. September 12, 2016, the NCAA announced that it would pull their championship games from the state due to the association's opposition to HB2.

On Tuesday, April 12, McCrory signed an executive order that "expands the state's employment policy for state employees to cover sexual orientation and gender identity" and "seeks legislation to reinstate the right to sue in state court for discrimination." McCrory's executive order also encouraged the General Assembly to reinstate the ability for residents to sue an employer in state court for discrimination. On July 28, 2016, the General Assembly officially restored that portion of the law.

On several occasions, McCrory pushed for a deal that would repeal HB2 in exchange for the City of Charlotte voting to repeal their ordinance. On September 19, 2016, a Charlotte news station reported a majority of Charlotte City Councilmen had agreed to repeal their ordinance, which would have led to the legislature repealing HB2. A Democratic member of the North Carolina legislature told the station a fellow member of the legislature personally lobbied Democratic members of the Charlotte City Council to keep the ordinance in place, which would, in turn, keep HB2 in place, creating a wedge issue to boost Democratic turnout in the November 2016 general election.

On July 1, 2016, WBTV reported members of the General Assembly had an agreement in place to come back into session and repeal some of the more controversial portions of HB2. In this case, an off-the-record source said then-Attorney General Cooper, played an integral role in killing the compromise bill. According to the report, 10 House Democrats had signed on to the plan to alter HB2 in a way that would satisfy the business community. The report said Cooper personally called the 10 Democrats and demanded they vote against the bill if they "wanted to be on the team in November." The state Carolina Republican Party said Cooper helped kill their modification bill in order to keep the controversial issue alive in his bid to unseat McCrory. A Cooper campaign spokesperson said the A.G. remained concerned about the damage HB 2 was doing to the North Carolina economy and, "...has consistently urged members to pursue a full repeal." "Unfortunately Governor McCrory and legislative Republicans have repeatedly offered so-called 'fixes' that fail the basic test of undoing the economic damage done by this discriminatory law. This isn't that complicated: instead of pointing fingers and holding secret negotiations, lawmakers should simply repeal HB 2 and send a message that North Carolina is open for business."

The United States Department of Justice, in addition to several private citizens, filed lawsuits against McCrory and the state challenging HB2. The Justice Department said that North Carolina was in violation of federal civil rights laws. Separately, McCrory filed suit against the federal government, asking a court to find the state law constitutional.

After McCrory was defeated in his 2016 bid for re-election, legislators repealed HB2 and passed a replacement on March 30, 2017. The repeal legislation passed the House 70-48 and the Senate by a 32–16 vote. Gov. Roy Cooper signed the repeal bill later that day, though he said the new law was "not a perfect deal and it's not my preferred solution. It stops short of many things we need to do as a state." Some repeal advocates opposed the compromise because of provisions they contended would still permit discrimination, specifically a three-year ban on passage of new local nondiscrimination ordinances, a provision that ended in December 2020.

Approval ratings
According to polling by the Civitas Institute, McCrory's approval rating during his first year in office fell 15 percentage points to 49% between June and July 2013. A second poll conducted in July 2013 indicated that the governor's approval rating had fallen to 40%, down from 45% in June. The same poll indicated that only 35% of voters approved of the Republican-led state government. At the start of April 2015, the Public Policy Polling firm found McCrory to have an approval rating of 36% and a disapproval rating of 45%.

Towards the end of his term in office, in September 2016, a poll commissioned by Bloomberg Politics reported 49% of North Carolinians approving of his job performance, and 44% disapproved.

2016 gubernatorial campaign
McCrory faced Cooper in the hotly contested 2016 general election. On election night, McCrory narrowly trailed Cooper, with fewer than 5,000 votes separating the candidates out of more than 4.6 million cast.

Refusal to concede and unproven fraud accusations
On November 10, 2016, McCrory's campaign set up a legal defense fund in anticipation of a legal battle and potential recount citing "grave concerns over potential irregularities" regarding 90,000 votes from Durham County. The McCrory campaign filed election protests alleging that voter fraud helped Cooper in 50 counties. After the recount made clear he had lost by at least 10,000 votes, McCrory conceded the race to Cooper on December 5. McCrory was the first sitting Governor of North Carolina to lose a bid for reelection since Charles Manly in 1850.

In November 2018, McCrory falsely claimed that there were many North Carolina students who committed voter fraud during the 2016 election. McCrory said that North Carolina students with out-of-state driving licenses were illegally voting and that voter ID laws would have stopped them; however, it is entirely legal for college students to vote in the state where they are attending college. The News & Observer noted that it is illegal to spread misinformation about people's voting eligibility; McCrory said he was simply "raising questions."

2022 U.S. Senate election
In 2022, McCrory unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate election to succeed the retiring Republican Richard Burr. During the campaign, McCrory mentioned "I was a huge defender -- and continue to be a huge defender -- of Trump policies." McCrory objected to Trump's efforts to overturn the election, acknowledging that Joe Biden had won the election. McCrory accused Trump of "destroying democracy." Trump endorsed U.S. Representative Ted Budd in the Republican primary for Senate. McCrory subsequently lost the primary.

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Viz Media

VIZ Media, LLC is an American entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California, focused on publishing manga, and distribution and licensing Japanese anime, films, and television series.

The company was founded in 1986 as VIZ, LLC. In 2005, VIZ and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media, which is owned by Japanese publishing conglomerates Shueisha and Shogakukan, as well as Japanese production company Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro). In 2017, Viz Media was the largest publisher of graphic novels in the United States in the bookstore market, with a 23% share of the market.

Founding
Seiji Horibuchi, originally from Tokushima Prefecture in Shikoku, Japan, moved to California, United States in 1975. After living in the suburbs for almost two years, he moved to San Francisco, where he started a business exporting American cultural items to Japan, and became a writer of cultural information. He also became interested in publishing Japanese manga in the United States, though he himself was not a fan of Japanese comics until a visit to Japan in 1985 exposed him to Katsuhiro Otomo's single-volume title Domu: A Child's Dream. His idea came to fruition after he met Masahiro Ohga, then managing director of Shogakukan, in 1985 and shared his vision. Shogakukan provided Horibuchi with $200,000 in startup capital, which Horibuichi used in 1986 to found VIZ Communications.

VIZ Communications released its first titles in 1987, which included Legend of Kamui; however, sales were mediocre due to the specialist comic market being averse to venturing into new territory. To counteract this problem, VIZ expanded into the general publishing business and began publishing various art related books in 1992. Into these titles, Horibuchi began publishing manga, calling them graphic novels so they would be carried by mainstream bookstores. The plan worked, and after several years, leading booksellers began to have dedicated shelves for manga titles. Sales also picked up when VIZ Communications acquired the license for the comedy series Ranma ½, which became an instant hit.

The company continued to see success when it expanded into the anime distribution market, began publishing Shonen Jump, an English adaptation of the popular Japanese magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. It also acquired another huge selling title, Inuyasha. In the late 1990s, VIZ began making the push to move into the European and South American markets.

Shueisha co-ownership (2000–2005)
When Shueisha became a joint owner of Viz in 2002, both Shogakukan and Shueisha began to release manga exclusively through Viz. Shueisha's deal with Viz may have been prompted by competition with Raijin Comics, a rival manga publisher created in 2002 by editors and artists who had split off from Shueisha, taking their properties with them.

Some exceptions to this exclusivity exist, however: Shueisha permitted DC Comics's subsidiary CMX Manga to license Tenjho Tenge (although it was later re-licensed and re-released by Viz Media) and Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne, permitted Dark Horse Comics to license Gantz, Lady Snowblood, Shadow Lady, The Monkey King, and recently Yasuhiro Nightow's Blood Blockade Battlefront and CLAMP's Gate 7.

Shueisha also permitted Udon Entertainment to license The Rose of Versailles, Seven Seas Entertainment to license Hayate X Blade, and will later permit Seven Seas Entertainment to license Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs and Super HxEros, and permitted Tokyopop to license Kodocha, Marmalade Boy, and Digimon Next and Manga Planet to license Silver Fang -The Shooting Star Gin- and will allow Kodansha USA to license the Battle Angel Alita manga in America. Shogakukan permitted Tokyopop to license Corrector Yui (even though Viz Media licensed the anime) and Yumi Tsukirino's Stitch! manga (because Tokyopop had the rights to Disney), Seven Seas Entertainment to license Dai Dark and Polar Bear Cafe and Digital Manga to license The Amazing 3 and the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger manga, Udon Entertainment to license the Infini-T Force manga (even though Viz Media licensed the anime), the now-defunct ComicsOne to license Wounded Man - The White Haired Demon, permitted Dark Horse Comics to license Crying Freeman (even though it was previously licensed by Viz), New Lone Wolf and Cub (however, this is because Dark Horse has the original series), The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and Mob Psycho 100, and permitted Hachette Book Group's subsidiary Yen Press to license Azumanga Daioh, Silver Spoon, Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, and Cirque du Freak (however for Cirque du Freak, this is because their sister company publishes the original novels. For Azumanga Daioh, Yen Press's license of the manga was a month before Shogakukan reprinted the manga in May 2009, resulting in a change of license holders from ASCII Media Works (when Yen Press announced the license) to Shogakukan (when Yen Press released it). The Yen Press edition is a newly translated and lettered version of ADV Manga's edition (taken from ASCII Media Works) as opposed to the 3-volume edition by Shogakukan. Yen Press has expressed interest in releasing the 3-volume edition although editor Kurt Hassler said he is not "sure this will be possible.", possibly because Shogakukan owns Viz and that they almost exclusively license their titles to them). In March 2010, Shogakukan began a partnership with Fantagraphics Books to issue a line of manga to be edited by Matt Thorn. In 2003, possibly in response to Shogakukan and Shueisha's co-ownership of Viz, Japanese publisher Kodansha formed a co-venture with Del Rey.

ShoPro merger and Restructuring (2005–2013)
In 2005, VIZ Communications merged with ShoPro Entertainment, an American subisidary of Shogakukan and was renamed to Viz Media. Horibuchi became the new company's chairman. During the same year, Horibuchi started a related division, Viz Pictures, for releasing selected live-action films in the US to theaters and DVD.

On December 17, 2008, Viz Media announced that starting on April 1, 2009, Warner Home Video (now Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment) would be handling the distribution of both its new and existing catalog releases. Viz itself is still the licensor and will do all production, while tapping the distribution powerhouse that distributes the works of other major companies such as Disney XD, Adult Swim, and Cartoon Network. Viz president and CEO Hidemi Fukuhara stated that he believes the partnership will help the company grow its anime holdings more effectively. Distribution was then transferred to Studio Distribution Services, LLC, a joint venture between WBDHE and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

On February 20, 2009, Viz Media laid off an unknown number of employees in order to help be more streamlined to face the current economic climate. On May 11, 2010, Viz Media again laid off a number of workers, 60 this time, again in order to try to become more streamlined. This time they released a press release claiming that none of their current product lines would be affected.

On April 2, 2012, it was announced that the senior vice-president and general manager of Viz Media Ken Sasaki would be succeeding executive producer Hidemi Fukuhara as president and CEO; Fukuhara will subsequently take up the position of vice-president at the end of the month.

Partnerships and expansion (2013–present)
In Fall 2013, Viz began distributing titles to the Philippines. In 2014, it announced it would do the same in India with 75 Shueisha titles being released in that country; Viz titles had been distributed unofficially to that country prior to the announcement.

On July 3, 2019, Viz Media partnered with Crunchyroll to distribute select Crunchyroll licensed titles on home video and electronic sell-through in the United States and Canada.

In 2020, Viz Media saw a 70% growth in the U.S. market, in line with a 43% increase in overall manga sales in the United States the same year.

On July 3, 2020, Funimation announced that they would begin streaming the original Naruto series on July 6. More content from Viz Media started to launch in their catalog such as Hunter × Hunter, Sailor Moon R: The Movie, and two Berserk films.

On September 9, 2020, Funimation announced that they had reached a distribution partnership with Viz Media, with Viz Media titles being made available to stream on Funimation's website. The deal was made after select Viz titles were previously made available on Funimation.

On May 9, 2023, Viz Media launched a digital manga service called "Viz Manga", featuring licenses from Shogakukan and Shueisha that are not published on the digital "Shonen Jump" service, and has simultaneous English releases of ongoing manga.

On July 5, 2024, Viz announced on their social media channels that they had acquired RWBY following the shuttering of its original parent company, Rooster Teeth, several months prior.

Manga ratings
In contrast to similar TV and film ratings, Viz also has set up certain "manga ratings" for their products based on their content.

 * A (ALL AGES) 6+: May be suitable for readers or consumers of any age. For example, may contain mild language and fantasy violence but no swearing or nudity.
 * T (TEEN) 13+: May be suitable for early teens and older. For example, may contain violence, infrequent use of strong language, suggestive themes or situations, crude humor, alcohol and/or tobacco use.
 * T+ (TEEN PLUS) 16+: May be suitable for older teens and adults. For example, may contain intense and/or gory violence, sexual content, frequent strong language, alcohol, tobacco and/or other substance use.
 * M (MATURE) 18+: Suitable for adults only. May contain extreme violence, mature themes and graphic depictions.

Despite its name, Viz's manga ratings were also used on licensed anime titles, though, in the later 2000s, they instead relied on local countries' rating systems.

Reception
Viz Media was awarded the Manga Publisher of the Year Gem Award by Diamond Comic Distributors in 2007. VIZ continues to publish many titles, some of the most popular including: Dragon Ball, One Piece, Detective Conan (as Case Closed), Bleach, Inuyasha, and Naruto which results a high success of the company as well as a large amount of the North American readers.

Viz also received an award for Manga Trade Paperback of the Year for its release of the fourteenth volume of the Naruto series.

Publication style
By 2002, Viz Communications kept some publications in the original right-to-left format, while in other publications it mirrored pages from Japan's right-to-left reading format to fit the Western left-to-right reading style. During that year Dallas Middaugh, the senior marketing manager of Viz, stated that the left-to-right version of Neon Genesis Evangelion outsold the right-to-left version of Neon Genesis Evangelion on a three to one basis; Middaugh concluded that readers wanted "an easy reading experience." Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball, requested that his work, which was separated by Viz into Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, be published in the original right-to-left format. Vagabond was printed in right-to-left to preserve historical accuracy. Middaugh said that younger readers of Dragon Ball adapted to the right to left format more easily than their parents.

VIZ has censored some of its titles. Some titles, such as Dragon Ball, were published in both censored and uncensored forms.

Viz Productions
Based in Los Angeles, Viz Productions coordinates the licenses of Japanese material (manga, books, and film) to American film companies. Their goal is to involve the Japanese creators in the production and facilitate communication between all parties in the US and Japan. VIZ Productions' first film is the live action adaptation of All You Need is Kill, Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Their second production was the American live-action adaptation to the supernatural thriller manga series: Death Note, which was directed by Adam Wingard and starred Nat Wolff, as the film's lead.

Viz also has many partnerships with various authors and celebrities, perhaps the most famous being the cosplay film that debuted in the 2013 Tokyo Anime Festival with Kirata Uchiha, played by JadexRoyal. Winning multiple awards for the board including Masashi Kishimoto. Others include Full Moon, and Last Quarter.

Films

 * Edge of Tomorrow

Television

 * Seis Manos

New People
In November 2005, New People was officially formed as a sister company for releasing live-action Japanese films as theatrical releases in selected markets called Viz Pictures. According to Horibuchi, the company will focus on films that focus on the "Japanese 'kawaii (cute) and cool' pop culture." In 2007, the division released seven films to theaters, including Train Man: Densha Otoko and Honey and Clover. DVD releases for all VIZ Pictures films are distributed exclusively by its parent, VIZ Media. Viz Pictures renamed themselves to New People and no longer shares office space or employees with Viz Media. Viz Media no longer distributes DVD and Blu-ray releases of their products.

Entertainment complex
In August 2009, Viz Pictures (now known as New People and a separate entity from Viz Media) opened a three-story entertainment complex in San Francisco called New People. The center piece of the complex is a 143-seat movie theater that screens anime and Japanese live-action films. The center also has a cafe, a store selling anime and manga related items, and clothing stores offering Japanese clothing items.

Neon Alley
Neon Alley was a streaming service dedicated to anime and related programming established in October 2012. After moving streaming content from its own platform to Hulu, the branding would be retired in May 2016.

Animerica
Animerica is a quarterly anime and manga digest that initially started as a monthly magazine featuring reviews of anime and manga titles, as well as related works. After a preview issue was released in November 1992, the magazine's first issue was released in February 1993 with a March 1993 cover date. The magazine originally featured articles and reviews on manga, anime, and related media, as well as manga preview chapters. In 1998, Animerica Extra was launched as a manga anthology that eventually focused specifically on shōjo titles. It was canceled in 2004.

VIZ changed the magazine's format in April 2005, with the new magazine really being two free publications of the same name. One is advertising-oriented and created specially for distribution at anime and manga conventions while the other is more general in scope and distributed through retail stores. Both versions have fewer and briefer articles and a lower page count. The last monthly issue of the original format Animerica had a cover date of June 2005 (Volume 13, No. 6).

Animurica was one of the first professional anime and manga magazines released in the United States, and one of the most popular in the 1990s. In 2004, it had a circulation of 45,000 readers, but low sales and high competition from Newtype USA resulted in the essential cancellation of the original magazine and its reformatting as a free digest.

Game On! USA
''Game On! USA'' was a monthly magazine that focused primarily on Japanese-developed video games, with an emphasis on the import scene. It served as the American counterpart to Shogakukan's Game On! magazine. It was published in May 1996 and ran for 7 monthly issues before being discontinued that same year in November. The magazine had news and reviews and other articles about classic fighting games like Street Fighter, Samurai Shodown and Virtua Fighter. Two video game-based manga series, Super Street Fighter II: Cammy by Masahiko Nakahira, and Samurai Shodown by Kyoichi Nanatsuki and Yuki Miyoshi, were serialized in the magazine. A one shot story based on Battle Arena Toshinden, illustrated by the game's character designer Tsukasa Kotobuki was published in the magazine as well.

Manga Vizion
Manga Vizion, sometimes misspelled Manga Vision, is a manga anthology introduced by VIZ in 1995. It is believed to be the first manga anthology published in the United States. The premiere issue was dated March 1995 and featured three series: The Tragedy of P, Samurai Crusader: The Kumomaru Chronicles, and Ogre Slayer. It ran for three and a half years until it was canceled in August 1998.

Pulp
Pulp was a monthly manga anthology introduced by Viz in 1997. The magazine featured more mature titles, marketed at adults rather than teenage readers. Some of titles serialized in the magazine included: Uzumaki, Banana Fish, and Dance Till Tomorrow. The magazine was canceled in 2002.

Shonen Jump
Shonen Jump is a shōnen manga anthology that debuted in November 2002, with a January 2003 cover date. Based on the popular Japanese anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump, published by Shueisha, Shonen Jump is retooled for English readers and the American audience and is published monthly, instead of weekly. It features serialized chapters from seven manga series, and articles on Japanese language and culture, as well as manga, anime, video games, and figurines. In conjunction with the magazine, Viz launched new imprints for releasing media related to the series presented in the magazine, and other shōnen works. This includes two new manga imprints, an anime DVD imprint, a fiction line for releasing light novels, a label for fan and data books, and a label for the release of art books.

Prior to the magazine's launch, Viz launched an extensive marketing campaign to promote the magazine and help it succeed where other manga anthologies in North America have failed. Shueisha purchased an equity interest in Viz to help fund the venture, and Cartoon Network, Suncoast, and Diamond Distributors became promotional partners in the magazine. The first issue required three printings to meet demand, with over 300,000 copies sold. It was awarded the ICv2 "Comic Product of the Year" award in December 2002, and has continued to enjoy high sales with a monthly circulation of 215,000 in 2008.

Shojo Beat
Shojo Beat was a shōjo manga magazine Viz launched in June 2005 as a sister magazine for Shonen Jump. It featured serialized chapters from six manga series as well as articles on Japanese culture, manga, anime, fashion and beauty. Viz launched related "Shojo Beat" imprints in its manga, light novel, and anime divisions to coordinate with the magazine's contents.

Targeted at women ages 16–18, the first issue of Shojo Beat launched with a circulation of 20,000 copies. By 2007, average circulation was approximately 38,000 copies. Half of its circulation came from subscriptions rather than store sales. In May 2009, the magazine was discontinued after 49 issues, with the July 2009 issue being the last released. Viz stated the "difficult economic climate" was behind the magazine's cancellation, and that it would continue releasing the magazine's titles, as well as others, using the "Shojo Beat" imprint.

Haikasoru
In January 2009, Viz Media announced plans to launch a Japanese science fiction novel line called Haikasoru. The first novels were scheduled to be released in the summer of the same year, with four novels: The Lord of the Sands of Time by Issui Ogawa, ZOO by Otsuichi, All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, and Usurper of the Sun by Hōsuke Nojiri. In addition, the imprint released an expanded edition of Kōshun Takami's Battle Royale. In 2010, the imprint release Project Itoh's novel Harmony, which later won a Special Citation Philip K. Dick Award. The imprint is distributed to trade by Simon & Schuster.

SuBLime
In October 2011, Viz Media launched SuBLime as an imprint for titles. The imprint was formed in collaboration with the Japanese yaoi publisher Libre and its parent company Animate to publish English-language yaoi manga for the print and worldwide digital market. Although the first slate of books announced under SuBLime are Libre titles, the imprint will potentially offer titles from other Japanese publishers in the future.

Business partnerships
In March 2016, Viz Media announced that they are collaborating with United Talent Agency on their live action projects based on anime series. On July 3, 2019, Viz Media announced that they had partnered with Crunchyroll to distribute select Crunchyroll licensed titles on home video and electronic sell-through in the United States and Canada, as well as stream selected Viz Media titles on Crunchyroll.

Viz Originals

 * BETWIXT †
 * Devil's Candy †
 * Fangirl †
 * The Girl That Can't Get a Girlfriend †
 * I'm the Grim Reaper †
 * Star Wars: The Mandalorian - The Manga †
 * Status Royale †
 * World Piece †

Viz Media

 * 07-Ghost
 * After Hours
 * Animal Crossing New Horizons: Deserted Island Diary
 * BakéGyamon
 * Beyblade X †
 * The Children Nowadays
 * Deadman Wonderland
 * Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering Manga †
 * Detroit Metal City
 * Dinosaur Hour
 * Disney Twisted-Wonderland †
 * Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Manga—Anthology †
 * Dogs
 * Doraemon
 * Excel Saga
 * Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M
 * Flame of Recca
 * Fluffy Fluffy Cinnamoroll
 * Fullmetal Alchemist †††
 * Gestalt
 * Happy Happy Clover
 * How Do We Relationship? †
 * Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
 * Jormungand
 * Kirby Manga Mania †
 * The Law of Ueki
 * Leave it to PET!
 * The Legend of Zelda
 * The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
 * Little Battlers Experience
 * Love's in Sight! †
 * Loveless †
 * MÄR
 * ''Marvel
 * Deadpool: Samurai
 * Secret Reverse
 * Spider-Man: Fake Red
 * Spider-Man: Octo-Girl †
 * Wolverine: Snikt!
 * X-Men: The Manga †
 * MegaMan NT Warrior
 * Minecraft: The Manga †
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Nightmare Inspector: Yumekui Kenbun †††
 * O-Parts Hunter †††
 * One-pound Gospel
 * Persona 5 (manga) †
 * Pokémon †
 * Pokémon Adventures †
 * Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!
 * Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team
 * Portus
 * Radiant †
 * Rainbows After Storms †
 * The Record of a Fallen Vampire †††
 * Record of Grancrest War
 * Requiem of the Rose King
 * Sexy Voice and Robo
 * Splatoon
 * Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show †
 * Splatoon 3: Splatlands †
 * Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills
 * Star Wars: The High Republic – The Edge of Balance †
 * Star Wars: The Legends of Luke Skywalker
 * Star Wars: Visions †
 * Super Mario Adventures
 * Switch
 * That Blue Sky Feeling
 * Tiger & Bunny
 * Transformers: The Manga
 * A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow
 * Turning Red: 4*Town 4*Real
 * Tuxedo Gin
 * Video Girl Ai
 * Wolf's Rain
 * X
 * Yo-kai Watch †

Shojo Beat

 * Absolute Boyfriend
 * Ai Ore!
 * Aishiteruze Baby
 * Alice 19th
 * Angel Sanctuary
 * Anonymous Noise
 * Ao Haru Ride
 * Baby and Me
 * Backstage Prince
 * Banana Fish
 * Basara
 * Beast Master
 * Beauty is the Beast
 * Beauty Pop
 * Behind the Scenes!!
 * Black Bird
 * Blank Slate
 * Bloody Mary
 * Boys Over Flowers
 * Boys Over Flowers Season 2
 * Butterflies, Flowers
 * Cactus's Secret
 * Captive Hearts
 * Ceres, Celestial Legend
 * Colette Decides to Die †
 * Crown of Love
 * Crown of Thorns
 * Dawn of the Arcana
 * Daytime Shooting Star
 * Demon Love Spell
 * The Demon Prince of Momochi House
 * Dengeki Daisy
 * Descendants of Darkness ††
 * A Devil and Her Love Song
 * Dolls
 * Doubt!!
 * The Earl and the Fairy
 * Earl Cain
 * Everyone's Getting Married
 * Fairy Cube
 * Fall in Love Like a Comic!
 * Firefly Wedding †
 * Flower in a Storm
 * From Far Away
 * Full Moon o Sagashite
 * Fushigi Yûgi
 * Fushigi Yûgi: Byakko Senki †
 * Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden
 * Gaba Kawa
 * The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross
 * Godchild
 * Grand Guignol Orchestra
 * Hana-Kimi
 * Happy Hustle High
 * Happy Marriage!?
 * Heaven's Will
 * The Heiress and the Chauffeur
 * Here is Greenwood
 * High School Debut
 * Honey and Clover
 * Honey Blood
 * Honey Hunt
 * Honey So Sweet
 * Hot Gimmick
 * I.O.N
 * Idol Dreams †
 * Ima Koi: Now I'm in Love †
 * Imadoki!
 * In the Name of the Mermaid Princess †
 * An Incurable Case of Love
 * Jiu Jiu
 * Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits †
 * Kamikaze Girls
 * Kamisama Kiss
 * Kare First Love
 * Kaze Hikaru †
 * Kenka Bancho Otome: Girl Beats Boys
 * Kimi ni Todoke
 * Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You: Soulmate †
 * The King's Beast †
 * Kiss of the Rose Princess
 * Komomo Confiserie
 * La Corda d'Oro
 * Last Quarter †
 * Let's Do It Already! †
 * Library Wars
 * Like a Butterfly †
 * Love Com
 * Love Me, Love Me Not
 * The Magic Touch
 * Maid Sama!
 * MeruPuri
 * Meteor Prince
 * Midnight Secretary
 * Millennium Snow
 * Mistress Fortune
 * Mixed Vegetables
 * Monkey High!
 * My Love Mix-Up!
 * My Love Story!! †
 * My Special One †
 * Nana
 * Natsume's Book of Friends †
 * Neighborhood Story †
 * Not Your Idol †
 * Oresama Teacher
 * Otaku Vampire's Love Bite †
 * Otomen
 * Ouran High School Host Club
 * Phantom Thief Jeanne
 * Pink Candy Kiss †
 * Please Save My Earth
 * Prince Freya †
 * Punch!
 * QQ Sweeper
 * Queen's Quality †
 * Rainbow Days †
 * Rasetsu
 * Red River
 * Revolutionary Girl Utena
 * Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution
 * Romantic Killer
 * Rosen Blood
 * S · A: Special A
 * Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura
 * Sakura, Saku †
 * Sand Chronicles
 * Seiho Boys' High School!
 * Short-Tempered Melancholic
 * Shortcake Cake
 * Shuriken and Pleats
 * Skip Beat! †
 * Snow White with the Red Hair †
 * So Cute it Hurts!!
 * SP Baby
 * Spell of Desire
 * St. Dragon Girl
 * A Star Brighter Than the Sun †
 * Stepping on Roses
 * The Story of Saiunkoku
 * Strobe Edge
 * Sugar Princess
 * Sweet Rein
 * Tail of the Moon
 * Takane and Hana
 * Tamon's B-Side †
 * Time Stranger Kyoko
 * Tokyo Boys & Girls
 * Ultra Maniac
 * Vampire Knight
 * Vampire Knight Memories †
 * Voice Over! Seiyu Academy
 * W Juliet
 * Wanted
 * The Water Dragon's Bride
 * We Were There
 * Wild Ones
 * Wolf Girl and Black Prince †
 * Yakuza Lover †
 * Yona of the Dawn †
 * The Young Master's Revenge
 * Yukarism
 * Yume Kira Dream Shoppe
 * Yurara

Shonen Jump

 * 7thGarden †
 * Agravity Boys
 * Akane-banashi †
 * Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater
 * Aliens Area
 * All You Need Is Kill
 * Assassination Classroom
 * Astra Lost in Space
 * Astro Royale
 * Ayashimon
 * Bakuman
 * Barrage
 * Beast Children
 * Beat & Motion †
 * Black Cat
 * Black Clover †
 * Black Torch
 * Blade of the Moon Princess †
 * Bleach
 * Blue Box †
 * Blue Exorcist †
 * Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo ††
 * Bone Collection
 * Boruto: Naruto Next Generations †
 * Boruto: Two Blue Vortex †
 * Build King
 * Burn the Witch †
 * Buso Renkin
 * Candy Flurry
 * Chainsaw Man †
 * Cipher Academy †
 * Claymore
 * The Comiq
 * Cowa!
 * Cross Manage
 * D.Gray-man †
 * Dandadan †
 * Dark Gathering †
 * Death Note
 * Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
 * Demon Slayer: Kimetsu Academy †
 * Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba ― Stories of Water and Flame
 * Do Retry †
 * Dogsred †
 * Doron Dororon †
 * Double Taisei
 * Dr. Slump
 * Dr. Stone
 * Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya
 * Dragon Ball
 * Dragon Ball Super †
 * Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha
 * Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai †
 * Earthchild
 * Eiichiro Oda Before One Piece †
 * ēlDLIVE
 * The Elusive Samurai †
 * Eyeshield 21
 * Fabricant 100
 * Food Wars!
 * Four Lives Remain: Tatsuya Endo Before Spy x Family †
 * Genkaku Picasso
 * Ghost Reaper Girl †
 * Gin Tama ††
 * Ginka & Glüna †
 * Gokurakugai †
 * Guardian of the Witch
 * Gun Blaze West
 * Haikyu!!
 * Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin
 * Hell Warden Higuma
 * Hi-Fi Cluster
 * High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku
 * Hikaru no Go
 * Hoshin Engi
 * Hunter × Hunter †
 * The Hunters Guild: Red Hood
 * I"s
 * I'm From Japan
 * i tell c
 * Ice-Head Gill
 * Ichigoki's Under Control!! †
 * The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins
 * Jaco the Galactic Patrolman
 * Jiangshi X †
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure †
 * Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan †
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Shining Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak †
 * Jujutsu Kaisen †
 * Jujutsu Kaisen 0
 * Juni Taisen: Zodiac War
 * Just Listen to the Song
 * Kagurabachi †
 * Kaguya-sama: Love Is War †
 * Kaiju No. 8 †
 * Kaiju No. 8: B-Side †
 * Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu: Beyond The Promised Neverland
 * Kill Blue †
 * Knights of the Zodiac
 * Koyoharu Gotouge Before Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba †
 * Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible
 * Kuroko's Basketball
 * The Last Saiyuki
 * Love Rush!
 * Magu-chan: God of Destruction
 * Marriagetoxin †
 * Martial Master Asumi
 * Mashle: Magic and Muscles †
 * Me & Roboco †
 * Mission: Yozakura Family †
 * Mitama Security: Spirit Busters
 * Moriarty the Patriot †
 * Moriking
 * Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation
 * My Hero Academia †
 * My Hero Academia: Smash!!
 * My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions †
 * My Hero Academia: Vigilantes
 * Naruto
 * Naruto: Chibi Sasuke's Sharingan Legend
 * Naruto: Konoha's Story — The Steam Ninja Scrolls †
 * Naruto: Sasuke's Story — The Uchiha and the Heavenly Stardust †
 * Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring
 * ne0;lation
 * Neru: Way of the Martial Artist
 * Nine Dragons' Ball Parade
 * Nisekoi: False Love
 * Nora: The Last Chronicle of Devildom
 * Nue's Exorcist †
 * Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan
 * One Piece †
 * One Piece: Ace's Story
 * One Piece: Shokugeki no Sanji
 * One-Punch Man †
 * Our Blood Oath
 * Phantom Seer
 * Platinum End
 * PPPPPP
 * Pretty Face
 * The Prince of Tennis
 * The Promised Neverland
 * Protect Me, Shugomaru!
 * Psyren
 * Ral Grad
 * Red Sprite
 * The Right Way to Make Jump!
 * Robot x LaserBeam
 * Rosario + Vampire
 * Rosario + Vampire: Season II
 * RuriDragon †
 * Rurouni Kenshin
 * Rurouni Kenshin: Restoration
 * Sakamoto Days †
 * Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru
 * Sand Land
 * School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei
 * Seraph of the End †
 * Shojo Null †
 * Show-ha Shoten! †
 * Slam Dunk
 * Spy × Family †
 * Stealth Symphony
 * Super Psychic Policeman Chojo
 * Super Smartphone
 * Takama-ga-hara
 * Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 17–21 and 22–26
 * Teenage Renaissance! David
 * Tegami Bachi
 * Tenmaku Cinema
 * Time Killers
 * Time Paradox Ghostwriter
 * Tista
 * Tokyo Demon Bride Story
 * Tokyo Shinobi Squad
 * Toriko
 * Twin Star Exorcists †
 * Ultimate Muscle
 * Undead Unluck †
 * Wāqwāq
 * We Never Learn
 * Whistle!
 * Wild Strawberry †
 * Witch Watch †
 * World Trigger †
 * You and I Are Polar Opposites †
 * Yu-Gi-Oh!
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! R
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
 * Yui Kamio Lets Loose
 * YuYu Hakusho
 * Zipman!!
 * Zombiepowder.

Shonen Sunday

 * After God †
 * Arata: The Legend ††
 * Call of the Night †
 * Case Closed †
 * Cross Game
 * Fly Me to the Moon †
 * Frieren: Beyond Journey's End †
 * Hayate the Combat Butler †
 * Helck †
 * Hyde & Closer
 * I Wanna Do Bad Things with You †
 * I Want to End This Love Game †
 * Inuyasha
 * Itsuwaribito
 * Kekkaishi
 * Komi Can't Communicate †
 * Kurozakuro
 * Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
 * Mao †
 * Maoh: Juvenile Remix
 * Ranma ½
 * Rin-ne
 * Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle †
 * Yakitate!! Japan
 * Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon †

Studio Ghibli Library

 * Baron: The Cat Returns
 * Castle in the Sky (film comic)
 * Howl's Moving Castle (film comic)
 * Kiki's Delivery Service (film comic)
 * My Neighbor Totoro (film comic)
 * Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
 * Ponyo (film comic)
 * Princess Mononoke (film comic)
 * Princess Mononoke: The First Story
 * Spirited Away (film comic)
 * The Secret World of Arrietty (film comic)

Viz Select

 * AiON ††
 * Calling You
 * Chibi Vampire
 * Chocolate Cosmos
 * Clamp School Detectives
 * Crazy For You
 * D.N.Angel ††
 * Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders
 * Eureka Seven
 * Fate/stay night ††
 * Flower of the Deep Sleep
 * Future Diary ††
 * The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
 * Girls Bravo
 * Glass Wings
 * Goth
 * Grenadier
 * Guardian Hearts ††
 * Hanako and the Terror of Allegory
 * Hands Off!
 * Haru Hana
 * Hibiki's Magic ††
 * Judas
 * Kamiyadori
 * Kannazuki no Miko
 * Kyo Kara Maoh! ††
 * Lagoon Engine
 * Lucky Star ††
 * Mad Love Chase
 * Man of Many Faces
 * Metamo Kiss
 * Mikansei No. 1
 * Million Tears
 * Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
 * Momogumi Plus Senki ††
 * Mouryou Kiden
 * The One I Love
 * Ratman ††
 * Red Hot Chili Samurai ††
 * Rizelmine
 * Saber Marionette J
 * Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School
 * Saving Life ††
 * Sgt. Frog ††
 * Shirahime-Syo
 * Someday's Dreamers
 * St. Lunatic High School
 * Suki: A Like Story
 * The Third
 * Trinity Blood
 * Welcome to the N.H.K.
 * ZONE-00 ††
 * Zyword

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 * 20th Century Boys
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 * Alice in Borderland
 * All My Darling Daughters
 * Asadora! †
 * Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun
 * Battle Royale: Angels' Border
 * Battle Royale: Enforcers †
 * Beastars
 * Beast Complex †
 * Black Lagoon †
 * Blue Flag
 * Bokurano: Ours
 * Boy's Abyss †
 * Came the Mirror & Other Tales
 * Cat Eyed Boy †
 * Cats of the Louvre
 * Children of the Sea
 * Children of the Whales
 * Choujin X †
 * The Climber †
 * Crazy Food Truck
 * Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
 * Dorohedoro
 * Downfall
 * #DRCL midnight children †
 * The Drifting Classroom
 * Drip Drip
 * Fire Punch
 * Fist of the North Star †
 * Fool Night †
 * Gangsta †
 * Gangsta: Cursed
 * Gente
 * GoGo Monster
 * Golden Kamuy
 * Golgo 13 ††
 * Goodbye, Eri
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 * Heart Gear †
 * Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku
 * Hirayasumi †
 * House of Five Leaves
 * I'll Give It My All... Tomorrow
 * Insomniacs After School †
 * The Kingdom of the Gods
 * Kingyo Used Books ††
 * La Quinta Camera
 * Levius
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 * Look Back
 * Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. †
 * Maison Ikkoku
 * March Story
 * Master Keaton
 * Mermaid Saga
 * Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand
 * Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt †
 * Monster
 * Mujina Into the Deep †
 * Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams
 * My Name Is Shingo †
 * No Guns Life
 * No. 5
 * Not Simple
 * Oishinbo ††
 * Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
 * Orochi
 * Phoenix
 * Ping Pong
 * Pluto
 * Ran and the Gray World
 * Real †
 * Record of Ragnarok †
 * Ristorante Paradiso
 * Rooster Fighter †
 * RWBY
 * RWBY: The Official Manga
 * RWBY: Official Manga Anthology
 * Saturn Apartments
 * Sneeze: Naoki Urasawa Story Collection
 * Snowball Earth †
 * Solanin
 * Steel of the Celestial Shadows †
 * Sunny
 * Sweet Blue Flowers
 * Takopi's Original Sin
 * Tekkonkinkreet
 * Tenjo Tenge
 * Terra Formars †
 * Tesoro
 * To Strip the Flesh
 * Tokyo Alien Bros. †
 * Tokyo Ghoul
 * Tokyo Ghoul:re
 * Tokyo These Days †
 * Trillion Game †
 * Ultraman †
 * Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist
 * Urusei Yatsura
 * Vagabond †
 * The Way of the Househusband †
 * What a Wonderful World!
 * Will I Be Single Forever?
 * Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead †

Ito-verse

 * Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection †
 * Black Paradox
 * Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection
 * Fragments of Horror
 * Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection
 * Gyo
 * The Liminal Zone †
 * Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection
 * Mimi's Tales of Terror
 * No Longer Human
 * Remina
 * Sensor
 * Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories
 * Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection
 * Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection
 * Stitches
 * Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection
 * Tomie
 * Uzumaki
 * Venus in the Blind Spot

† - New volumes currently being released

†† - Series not published in its entirety

††† - Yen Press has the rights to series' digital release due to being a Square Enix title.

Formerly licensed

 * 2001 Nights
 * A, A Prime
 * A.D. Police: Dead End City
 * Abara
 * Act-Age (rescinded)
 * Adolf (now licensed by Vertical)
 * The All-New Tenchi Muyo!
 * Aqua Knight
 * Area 88 ††
 * Ashen Victor
 * Ayakashi Triangle (chapters 1–88 were released on the Shonen Jump app, volumes are licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment) ††
 * B.B. Explosion
 * B.O.D.Y. ††
 * Baoh
 * Bastard!! ††
 * Battle Angel Alita (now licensed by Kodansha USA)
 * Battle Angel Alita: Last Order (now licensed by Kodansha USA) ††
 * Beet the Vandel Buster ††
 * Benkei in New York
 * Beyblade
 * The Big O
 * Bio Booster Armor Guyver ††
 * Biomega
 * Black Jack (now licensed by Vertical) ††
 * Black Rose Alice ††
 * Blood: The Last Vampire
 * Blue Spring
 * Cheeky Angel
 * Chicago
 * ChocoMimi ††
 * Cobra ††
 * Crimson Hero ††
 * Crying Freeman (now licensed by Dark Horse Comics)
 * Dance till Tomorrow
 * Di Gi Charat
 * Dinosaur King
 * Dragon Drive
 * Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President
 * Eat-Man ††
 * El-Hazard
 * Flowers & Bees
 * Galaxy Express 999
 * Getter Robo Go
 * Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (film comic)
 * Gimmick!
 * Grey
 * Haou Airen
 * Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time
 * Homestuck ††
 * Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs ††
 * Kurohime ††
 * The Legend of Kamui ††
 * Legendz
 * Macross II
 * Magical Pokémon Journey ††
 * Mai, the Psychic Girl
 * Marionette Generation
 * Medabots
 * Midori Days
 * Mobile Police Patlabor ††
 * Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 ††
 * Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
 * Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (now licensed by Vertical) ††
 * Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter
 * Neko Majin ††
 * No Need for Tenchi
 * Ogre Slayer ††
 * Pineapple Army ††
 * Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu
 * Project ARMS
 * RahXephon
 * Read or Die
 * Read or Dream
 * Reborn! ††
 * Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire
 * Rumic Theater ††
 * Rumic World ††
 * Rurouni Kenshin: Master of Flame
 * Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc (rescinded)
 * Saikano
 * Samurai Crusader
 * Sanctuary
 * Sensual Phrase
 * Shakugan no Shana ††
 * Shaman King (now licensed by Kodansha USA)
 * Short Cuts
 * Short Program
 * Silent Möbius (now licensed by Udon Entertainment)
 * Socrates in Love
 * SOS
 * Spriggan (now licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment) ††
 * Steam Detectives
 * Strain
 * Strawberry 100% ††
 * They Were Eleven (now licensed by Denpa)
 * Times Two
 * Togari
 * Tough ††
 * Train Man: Densha Otoko
 * Ultimo
 * Voyeur ††
 * Wedding Peach
 * Wild Com.
 * Wish
 * Xenon
 * Zatch Bell! ††
 * Zoids: Chaotic Century
 * Zoids: New Century

†† - Series not published in its entirety

Currently licensed

 * Accel World
 * Accel World: Infinite Burst (film)
 * Bakuman (originally licensed by Media Blasters) †
 * Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I: The Egg of the King (film)
 * Berserk: The Golden Age Arc II - The Battle for Doldrey (film)
 * Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent (film)
 * Blame! (film) ††
 * Bleach
 * Bleach: Memories of Nobody (film)
 * Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion (film)
 * Bleach: Fade to Black (film)
 * Bleach: Hell Verse (film)
 * Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War
 * Blue Dragon
 * Blue Dragon: Trials of the Seven Shadows
 * Blood Lad
 * Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
 * Burn the Witch (film) ††
 * Buso Renkin
 * Captain Tsubasa (2018) †
 * Castlevania ††
 * Castlevania: Nocturne ††
 * Coppelion
 * Death Note
 * Doraemon †
 * Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
 * The Genie Family (2020) †
 * The God of High School ††
 * Hikaru no Go
 * Hunter × Hunter (2011)
 * Hunter × Hunter: Phantom Rouge (film)
 * Hunter × Hunter: The Last Mission (film)
 * In/Spectre ††
 * Infini-T Force
 * Infini-T Force the Movie: Farewell, Friend
 * Inuyasha
 * Inuyasha: The Final Act
 * Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (film)
 * Inuyasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (film)
 * Inuyasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler (film)
 * Inuyasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island (film)
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (originally licensed by Warner Bros.)
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean ††
 * Jujutsu Kaisen ††
 * K
 * K: Missing Kings (film)
 * K: Return of Kings
 * K: Seven Stories (film)
 * Levius ††
 * Mazinger Z: Infinity (film)
 * Megalobox (first season only)
 * Mr. Osomatsu (first and second seasons only)
 * Naruto
 * Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow (film)
 * Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel (film)
 * Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom (film)
 * Naruto: Shippuden
 * Naruto Shippuden the Movie (film)
 * Naruto Shippuden the Movie 2: Bonds (film)
 * Naruto Shippuden the Movie 3: The Will of Fire (film)
 * Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower (film)
 * Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison (film)
 * Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (film)
 * The Last: Naruto the Movie (film)
 * Boruto: Naruto the Movie (film)
 * Naruto SD: Rock Lee and his Ninja Pals
 * Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan
 * Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan - Demon Capital
 * One-Punch Man
 * Pokémon: The Series
 * Pokémon: Indigo League ††
 * Pokémon: Adventures on the Orange Islands ††
 * Pokémon: The Johto Journeys ††
 * Pokémon: Johto League Champions ††
 * Pokémon: Master Quest ††
 * Pokémon: Advanced ††
 * Pokémon: Advanced Challenge ††
 * Pokémon: Advanced Battle ††
 * Pokémon: Battle Frontier ††
 * Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl ††
 * Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension ††
 * Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles ††
 * Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors ††
 * Pokémon: Black & White ††
 * Pokémon: Black & White: Rival Destinies ††
 * Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova ††
 * Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova and Beyond ††
 * Pokémon the Series: XY ††
 * Pokémon the Series: XY Kalos Quest ††
 * Pokémon the Series: XYZ ††
 * Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon ††
 * Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon – Ultra Adventures ††
 * Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon – Ultra Legends ††
 * Pokémon Journeys: The Series ††
 * Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series ††
 * Pokémon: The Movie
 * Pokémon: The First Movie (film; also licensed by Kids' WB) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie 2000 (film; also licensed by Kids' WB) ††
 * Pokémon 3: The Movie (film; also licensed by Kids' WB) ††
 * Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (film) ††
 * Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (film) ††
 * Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai (film) ††
 * Pokémon: Giratina & the Sky Warrior (film; originally licensed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment) ††
 * Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (film) ††
 * Pokémon—Zoroark: Master of Illusions (film) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram (film) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie: White—Victini and Zekrom (film) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice (film) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened (film) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction (film) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages (film) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel (film) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! (film) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us (film) ††
 * Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back — Evolution (film) ††
 * Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle (film) ††
 * Ranma ½
 * Ranma ½: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China (film)
 * Ranma ½: Nihao My Concubine (film)
 * Reborn! (streaming only; Discotek Media has the home video rights)
 * Record of Ragnarok ††
 * RWBY (originally owned by Warner Bros. Discovery's Rooster Teeth)
 * RWBY Chibi (originally owned by Warner Bros. Discovery's Rooster Teeth)
 * Sailor Moon (The first two seasons were originally licensed by DIC Entertainment and ADV Films, while the third and fourth seasons were originally licensed by Cloverway Inc. and Pioneer Entertainment)
 * Sailor Moon Crystal
 * Sailor Moon R: The Movie (film; originally licensed by Pioneer Entertainment)
 * Sailor Moon S: The Movie (film; originally licensed by Pioneer Entertainment)
 * Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie (film; originally licensed by Pioneer Entertainment)
 * Terra Formars
 * Terra Formars: Revenge
 * Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe ††
 * Tiger & Bunny (first season only)
 * Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning (film)
 * Tiger & Bunny: The Rising (film)
 * Tower of God ††
 * Vampire Knight
 * Vampire Knight: Guilty
 * Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
 * Zetman
 * Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

† - Not currently dubbed or released outside of streaming

†† - Only has home video rights

Formerly licensed

 * Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (film; now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Boys Over Flowers (now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Ceres, Celestial Legend (now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Corrector Yui
 * Cross Game (streaming only)
 * Deko Boko Friends
 * Eyeshield 21 (now licensed by Sentai Filmworks)
 * Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf (film; now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (film; now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle (film; now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Flame of Recca (now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Full Moon o Sagashite
 * Galaxy Express 999 (film; now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Grandpa Danger
 * Great Dangaioh
 * Grey: Digital Target
 * Hamtaro
 * Honey and Clover (now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Honey and Clover II (now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Hunter × Hunter (1999)
 * I"s
 * I"s Pure
 * Jin-Roh (film; with Bandai Entertainment, now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Kekkaishi (now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Key the Metal Idol (now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne
 * Maison Ikkoku
 * MÄR (First 52 episodes only)
 * MegaMan NT Warrior (First and Second (Axess) season only)
 * Mega Man Star Force (First 13 episodes only)
 * Mermaid's Scar
 * Mirmo!
 * Monster
 * Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (now licensed by Sentai Filmworks, originally licensed by Geneon and later by Media Blasters)
 * Nana (now licensed by Sentai Filmworks)
 * Neuro: Supernatural Detective (streaming only)
 * Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Ogre Slayer
 * One-pound Gospel
 * Please Save My Earth
 * The Prince of Tennis (First 50 episodes only; now licensed by Crunchyroll)
 * Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva (film)
 * Project ARMS (now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Saikano (now licensed by Sentai Filmworks)
 * Sanctuary
 * Strawberry 100% (streaming only)
 * Trouble Chocolate
 * Ultra Maniac (Originally licensed by Geneon, now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Video Girl Ai
 * Zatch Bell! (First 104 episodes only; now licensed by New Video)
 * Zoids: Chaotic Century
 * Zoids: Genesis

Currently licensed

 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I

Formerly licensed

 * 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
 * 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope
 * 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
 * Death Note (now licensed by Crunchyroll)
 * Death Note 2: The Last Name (now licensed by Crunchyroll)
 * Densha Otoko
 * Detroit Metal City
 * Funky Forest: The First Contact
 * Honey and Clover
 * Kamikaze Girls
 * L: Change the World
 * Love*Com (now licensed by Discotek Media)
 * Nana
 * Nana 2
 * Ping Pong

Haikasoru

 * All You Need Is Kill
 * Apparitions
 * Automatic Eve
 * Battle Royale
 * Belka, Why Don't You Bark?
 * The Book of Heroes
 * Brave Story
 * The Cage of Zeus
 * Dendera
 * Dragon Sword and Wind Child
 * The Future Is Japanese
 * The Gate of Sorrows
 * Gene Mapper
 * Genocidal Organ
 * Goth
 * Hanzai Japan
 * Harmony
 * Ico: Castle in the Mist
 * Legend of the Galactic Heroes
 * The Lord of the Sands of Time
 * Loups=Garous
 * Mardock Scramble
 * The Melancholy of Mechagirl
 * Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriot
 * Mirror Sword and Shadow Prince
 * MM9
 * The Next Continent
 * Noble V: Greylancer
 * Orbital Cloud
 * The Ouroboros Wave
 * Phantasm Japan
 * Red Girls
 * Rocket Girls ††
 * Self-Reference Engine
 * Sisyphean
 * Slum Online
 * A Small Charred Face
 * The Stories of Ibis
 * Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse
 * Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights
 * The Thousand Year Beach
 * Usurper of the Sun
 * Yukikaze ††
 * Zoo

Viz Media

 * Ask Iwata
 * BTS: Blood, Sweat & Tears
 * The Creative Gene
 * Disney Twisted-Wonderland: Rose-Red Tyrant
 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * King of Strong Style
 * NieR:Automata: Long Story Short
 * NieR:Automata: Short Story Long
 * Uncanny: The Origins of Fear

Shojo Beat

 * Hot Gimmick S
 * Vampire Knight: Fleeting Dreams

Shonen Jump

 * Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World
 * Chainsaw Man: Buddy Stories
 * Death Note: L Change the WorLd
 * Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
 * Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — The Flower of Happiness
 * Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — One-Winged Butterfly
 * Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Signs from the Wind
 * Jujutsu Kaisen: Summer of Ashes, Autumn of Dust
 * Jujutsu Kaisen: Thorny Road at Dawn
 * Juni Taisen: Zodiac War
 * Kaiju No. 8: Exclusive on the Third Division
 * Manga in Theory and Practice
 * My Hero Academia: School Briefs
 * Naruto: Innocent Heart, Demonic Blood
 * Naruto: Itachi's Story — Daylight
 * Naruto: Itachi's Story — Midnight
 * Naruto: Kakashi's Story — Lightning in the Frozen Sky
 * Naruto: Kakashi's Story — The Sixth Hokage and the Failed Prince
 * Naruto: Mission: Protect the Waterfall Village!
 * Naruto: Naruto's Story — Family Day
 * Naruto: Naruto's Story — Uzumaki Naruto and the Spiral Destiny
 * Naruto: Sakura's Story — Love Riding on the Spring Breeze
 * Naruto: Sasuke's Story — Star Pupil
 * Naruto: Sasuke's Story — Sunrise
 * Naruto: Sasuke's Story — The Uchiha and the Heavenly Stardust
 * Naruto: Shikamaru's Story — A Cloud Drifting in the Silent Dark
 * Naruto: Shikamaru's Story — Mourning Clouds
 * One Piece: Ace's Story
 * One Piece: Heroines
 * The Shonen Jump Guide to Making Manga
 * Spy × Family: Family Portrait
 * Tokyo Ghoul: Days
 * Tokyo Ghoul: Past
 * Tokyo Ghoul: Void

Studio Ghibli Library

 * Hayao Miyazaki Starting Point: 1979-1996
 * Hayao Miyazaki Turning Point: 1997-2008
 * My Neighbor Totoro: The Novel

†† - Series not published in its entirety

Formerly licensed

 * Kamikaze Girls
 * Mobile Suit Gundam
 * Rurouni Kenshin: Voyage to the Moon World
 * Shakugan no Shana ††
 * Socrates in Love
 * The Stationmaster
 * Steamboy
 * Virus

†† - Series not published in its entirety

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For a period, Viz offered an e-mail service called Viz Mail. In the first two weeks of service, it had 1,000 members. The service allowed users to use stationery and letterheads decorated with characters from Viz Media properties.

Despite the fact that Viz Media's licensed distribution territory includes Canada, the company has been criticized for not providing online anime simulcasts to that country.

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