Totoro Cookbook, Naruto Blu, And Other Viz Media Offerings Of Spring

Whenever you watch My Neighbor Totoro, do you ever wonder what Totoro tastes like? How about what it’d be like to scarf down a mouthful of those weird black fuzzy things? If so, Viz Media’s upcoming My Neighbor Totoro: The Official Cookbook is for you. Riding a wave of cookbooks based around popular properties (both official and unofficial), this 64-page volume contains everything you need to concoct kitchen edibles based on the world of Totoro, including Satsuki’s Homemade Bento, Moving Day Caramels, Granny’s Ohagi, and Soot Gremlin Donuts (told you so). My Neighbor Totoro: The Official Cookbook comes out April 22 and it’s just one of several items Viz plans to introduce in the month of April….

Viz is a publisher of both manga and anime; on the anime side there’s the sixth Naruto Shippuden set on Blu-Ray; on the manga side there’s Pink Candy Kiss, The Climber Vol. 1, and One Piece Heroines, a book devoted to the Grand Line’s female characters like Nami and Perona. For American Big Time IP converted to Japanese entertainment, there’s a new Star Wars manga and a new “Disney Wonderland” manga coming April 8.

For those interested in getting into the biz, there’s Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques, written by Kazuhiko Torishima — the sixth editor-in-chief of Shonen Jump. The name of the book comes from the fact that Akira Toriyama modeled a character in Dr. Slump after him — Mashirito was his name. This book currently has no specific release date, but it’s most likely coming out later this spring.

Here’s Viz Media’s full list of April offerings, in order of release:

Pink Candy Kiss, Vol. 1 — April 1

Kaiju No. 8: B-Side, Vol. 1 — April 8

Star Wars: The High Republic, The Edge of Balance: Premonition — April 8

Disney’s Twisted Wonderland: Book of Savanaclaw, Vol. 1 — April 8

The Climber, Vol. 1 — April 15

My Neighbor Totoro: The Official Cookbook – – April 22

One Piece: Heroines, Vol. 1 — April 22

Naruto Shippuden, Set 6 — April 29

Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques — soon