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Thunderbird-
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Well, now I know what I'm probably going to get with any money I get for Christmas.
![]() I also feel a lot better about Strawberry Marshmellow. |
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RestLessone
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Perhaps there is a chance that I will finally be able to read more of The Embalmer. TP did mention that they were looking into alternative ways to release it in a Twitter post a few months ago...Including print-on-demand.
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asimpson2006
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While I like the concept, even on sale this seems a little steep in price. When it is not on sale it's $16 that seems a bit expensive for this.
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Brand
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Considering some OOP titles go for 40+ dollars I don't think $16 is all that bad. |
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JuicyB
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Hmm, I didn't find this feature anywhere in the store. I thought it would be a great way to fill the gaps in my Blame! and Lupin III collections.
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Gyt Kaliba
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This is a brilliant idea, I hope other manga companies start doing print-on-demand for older stuff too. TokyoPop alone though has a lot that I want eventually that is getting harder to find, so putting it this way would be great.
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kamidai
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The Embalmer was the first thing I thought of too! I miss all the Mitsukazu Mihara manga that Tokyopop used to publish... ...kinda sad that the shop only has DOLL volumes 1-4 right now. Maybe they'll put up the others later? Maybe? Or maybe R.I.P. or IC in a Sunflower? Needs more Mihara! But anyway, I'm still totally delighted with RG Veda and parts of Tokyo Babylon. Missed out on buying those and have been kicking myself ever since. |
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Toshirodragon
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Damn, maybe now they'll finish Satisfaction Guaranteed which they dropped ONE issue before completing.
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bglassbrook
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This would be so much easier if it was possible to dive straight to the on-demand section. Hunting around every TP title collected or finding one of their sky-is-falling cancelation noticies from the last few years just seems like a lot more work than they should be putting us through. Par for the course on their site I guess, considering they even got rid of release dates back in the last great* revision.
*Just to be perfectly clear, great=large or massive, not to be confused in any way shape or form with a mesasure of quality. |
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wandering-dreamer
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Eep, looks like all the new volumes of Gauken Alice are going to be released this way, crud, guess I'd better start saving up for that...
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bahamut623
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That's definitely the biggest problem for me. I just want to go straight to the print on demand titles. If they can categorize by title and genre, it shouldn't be so hard to create a separate category for print on demand. That aside, I love the idea of print on demand for older titles. I hope they make a lot of their older stuff available this way. Maybe I can finally get a copy of Planetes 4 without missing pages!! |
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freshkazuki
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So far, I haven't been able to find any of these print on demand titles in the Tokyopop shop. I pretty much gave up on using their site when they "redesigned" it a couple years back. It's so poorly designed and user hostile. In reality, it could be so simple. I do like the fact that they are doing the free shipping over $25 thing like Amazon though. Like others have commented, they should put a new tab up with a list of the titles you can have printed.
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einhorn303
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Is there any comprehensive list of all titles are getting print-on-demand? Then I wouldn't need to browse for them.
Ain't it the truth. |
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The Goron Marshall
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Oh goodness, this is almost a dream come true for me, and a brilliant idea.
I really hope more companies do this sort of thing, there's so many rare out-of-print copies out there that I want that are just otherwise too expensive as a result. Coughphoenixdawncough. |
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Jaymie
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Too bad Tokyopop doesn't have the decency to release new volumes to any of its series that don't make the NYT Manga Bestseller List.
![]() Del Rey is excusable because it's dead. Tokyopop is still as active as ever, making iPod Touch skins and selling manga for prices I haven't seen since the 90s. Oh yeah, and a Reality Show. Some Tokyopop series haven't gotten new volumes since 2008. Even Tactics, which Tokyopop insisted was "back on schedule", had its last volume released precisely a year ago now. |
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