Today, comic publisher Sun Denshi announced something special for the Japanese WiiWare service: digital comics. You will download them like you do WiiWare games, so most will be familiar with it and nothing new will need to be learned. For the amount of Wii Points the comics will cost is so far undetermined, and a release outside of Japan also has no word on it yet.

Sun developed a special viewer for the Wii that will allow you to read the comics. The details for the special viewer are sparse though. It is still unknown whether it will feature it panel by panel, on the whole screen at once, or what other possibiltiy it will pursue. With the new viewer, a new branch has been opened known as Sunsoft Books, which will be exclusively for managing the digital comics and other content related to it.

With the launch will be an original manga from Reiji Matsumoto, a famous manga artist best known for the "Space Battleship Yamato" series (the North American equivalent is "Star Blazers").