I get how people are frustrated with Viz, and they definitely don’t take as many risks as they should, but pretty much all of their recent decisions for the last few years are perfectly justified if you think about it. Honestly, the biggest problem with Viz is their neglection of the digital market. It takes like a year after acquiring a license to get a spot on bookshelves, which massively slows the process, but Kodansha has found a way around that through Digital. In the past year, they’ve caught up on countless series that they wouldn’t have even started releasing yet if they were doing simultaneous print/digital releases. Viz could’ve done exactly the same with Kimetsu and other series, but they’e not. I was honestly hoping their recent big announcement was an update to their sales model, because its definitely what they need right now. They are starting to do Digital-first releases, but theyre not early enough for there to really be any point to them.