Forum - View topicNEWS: Tokyopop Gauges Interest in Limited Hetalia #3 Release
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Lady Multi
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Tokyopop needs to stay dead with the way they went out. I used to love the company but they began to make every release painful once they got 'bored' with a series.
They just need to let other companies handle it since they decided to cop-out. |
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Sheleigha
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The only thing I was TRULY HAPPY with what Tokyopop did, is make a wide-release of .hack//GU light novel 5, the last one. We .hack fans were lucky, but fans of other series with only 1 volume left... not so much
 I can sympathize since I didn't think .hack would ever get done!
However, this is silly. Why publish vol 3 when the future volumes will never come out anyways? Besides, if the office is folded, how is this even continuing? 0_o I guess it was like .hack vol 5 and already done, but still... I completely agree with the limited print thing being dumb. Give it to a good home like Yen or something! |
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minakichan
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It's true Hetalia was the only series I was following with Tokyopop but DAMN Stu Levy's shenanigans... I am conflicted.
Agree with a previous poster: Yen would be GREAT to pick up Hetalia (although realistically I think it'd be Viz? Since they have more... clout). Stu Levy dumped the manga business (an industry he considered "dying") because he'd rather make films like Van Von Hunter or whatever; it's awful to exploit the fans who actually love this stuff for a final quick buck (but certainly nothing I'd put past the guy!). As someone who actually genuinely loves manga, I'm really unhappy with this. Stu Levy: possibly more deservedly despised man in anime and manga, after Al Kahn? You don't get your own EMPLOYEES blaming the decline of the company mostly on you from NOTHING. |
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enurtsol
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If another company could license-rescue Hetalia right now, they'd had done so already. If even Stu Levy could do it this late in the game, the license would've already been bought earlier.
And Japanese releases do limited releases all the time. Obviously it works. 
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tuxedocat
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Not if Stu was holding on to the rights. My guess is that he is sitting on a few titles, hoping to get a slice of the negotiations. |
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Sunday Silence
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As I said elsewhere: F*** DJ Milky, F*** TOKYOPOP, and F**** Stu Levy for good measure.
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enurtsol
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I believe Tokyopop confirmed all of its licensed titles reverted back to their original owners.
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tuxedocat
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Looks like TP/Stu was lying, then because, if that were the case, he would have to negotiate the rights for the third book. I still say he's trolling.
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Sunday Silence
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Lets be fair: Kahn is Anime's greatest scourge. DJ Milky is Manga's greatest scourge. |
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Rukiia
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I loved the series Tokyopop had, but I dislike Stu Levy alot. And it makes me angry/sad to see fans on the FB page lapping this announcement up like starving dogs. For the love of God, DON'T say yes to this. It is unfair for one thing, and Stu need to GTFO of the manga business for good. Let someone else pick the series up so that they won't do a limited release.
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Sorrior
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You're damn right you were lucky i just had 1 last volume of Karin/Chibi vampire to go the last novel and then i woulda had it all the Manga the dvds the fanbook the side story manga AND the novels but now i'm one novel short. So yeah i say let license revert and curse Stu to heaven or hell whichever is worse for him. Oh and while i am a fellow .hack fan i never started collection the manga or light novels i'm sorry to say. |
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Jaymie
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Didn't say when they would revert. Stu obviously still has the rights to Hetalia, at least. |
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CCSYueh
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TP left Saiyuki & others out to dry long before they folded. I vaguely recalled they floated a fan translation project idea they tied directly to Saiyuki which I took to mean the title sold moderately, but wasn't really profitable so the chance of it seeing light/being re-licensed are about the same as that snowball in hell which is sad because Minekura's stuff is incredible. I know a lot of people have voiced dislike of her art, but the stories she writes are incredible-stick the knife in & twist it sort of painful stories. Saiyuki & Wild Adaptor both have it. Beautiful boys with tragic pasts saving the world. Too bad pretty fluff seems to sell so much better. |
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sailorneorune
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I think what Stu is trying to do is very sleazy. I'm guessing he probably saw how we were trying to screw each other over on the secondary market for out-of-print manga and decided "hey, I want a piece of that!".
I had the other 2 volumes of Hetalia, but when TP shut down, I donated them and about 60-70 other books to my local library, not wanting to have too many incomplete series floating around - they had most of the volumes I was missing, except, of course for Hetalia, whose volume 3 became vaporware until Stu decides to go all Spaceballs on us and decides he NEEDS MORE MONEY! I'd rather see TP's titles go into more capable hands than have this gods-damned flake have any more of my manga dollar. I say we take the money we WOULD use on the obvious cash-grab that is OMGLIMITEDEDITION Hetalia vol. 3 and give it to another publisher that got a title that TokyoPop lost. Sailor Moon, for example. That ought to send a message to both Sleazy Stu and the OOP scalpers that we don't want them. Seriously, Milky, don't you have some fading into obscurity to do? Go on, time's a wastin'! |
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JLightstar
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I was under the impression that Tokyopop has returned all licenses back to the original Japanese publisher so they could license them somewhere else. To hold the Hetalia license like that just reminds me of the whole bebeautiful fiasco. Stu, you left Tokyopop to deliver supplies to Sendai and then announced the plans to make a documentary in Japan while letting the company crumble. I think it's best you simply return the license and let another company work on Hetalia.
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