
The North America publisher Digital Manga
announced on Friday that manga from
Tokyopop's
Blu imprint were removed from the
eManga.com website "permanently" and ahead of the previously
announced May 20 deadline.
Tokyopop is
shutting down its North American publishing operations later this month, but Digital Manga said that it "received a request from
Gentosha Publishing to take the titles down despite the contractional deadline." However, fans who purchased volumes prior to the cut-off date will be able to save the titles to their reading list for later consumption.