Forum - View topicTokyopop Plans Manga Publishing Relaunch, More Projects
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Fronzel
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The Riding Shotgun comic is pretty good...but that little animation based on it is moronic. I'd love to see more of the story since the second volume ends on a cliffhanger, but not if it's like this.
Ha ha ha. Oh wow. |
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medama_oyaji
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haha wow, those videos on their YouTube page are garbage.
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Tenebrae
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Tokyopop is trying a comeback?
Remind me again, why did they go bankrupt in the first place, are the same people still in charge, and why wouldn't the same thing happen again? Yeah, thought as much. |
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RestLessone
 Posts: 1426 Location: New York |
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Bleh.
Tokyopop can stay dead. Their business decisions and Stu Levy's comment right after the closure were terrible. Sounds like they wont be able to work with larger publishers, either, and small/indie titles probably cant keep them afloat. And Levy is STILL chasing this film/TV dream? |
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EleutheroMaster
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Welcome back, Tokyopop!
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HanaBana
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Again with the tv crap no one cares about. Why make such grandiose plans for side projects when you don't even have licences for your main business? If they start by continuing old series they left hanging like Silver Diamond or Immortal Rain then I'll help them get started in a jiffy but like hell am I buying anything new they bring over.
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ZeetherKID77
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I'm surprised that there are people who are excited about this, because after hearing that Stu "delusions of grandeur" Levy completely screwed over several of the artists who worked on their OEL stuff and is bent on continuing it with this relaunch, I won't pay a cent. They've got nothing to license unless they go for really obscure stuff, and I bet they'll try to put their "hip" spins on the translation again, leave SFX untranslated and make the quality bad overall. I still won't forgive them for their "whiteout and Sharpies" statement on Initial D and now that I've heard their contracts contain statements that are almost as immature and that they've caused trouble for folks, I'm not the only one disappointed in them.
Oh, and let's not forget that awful Van Von Hunter anime and the Priest movie which bombed hard in the box office. |
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Utsuro no Hako
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Well, they were one of the first publishers to go in for light novel publishing, and when that didn't work out as well as they expected, they abandoned tons of series with only two or three volumes published (and that was well before they went out of business). |
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Ashen Phoenix
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I would love to own some series Tokyopop Germany has under their belt.
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HeeroTX
Posts: 2046 Location: Austin, TX |
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TokyoPop USA began as "Mixxzine" which was an anthology manga that caught fire because they lucked into the Sailor Moon manga license (other titles were good, but the Sailor Moon was the bread & butter). They went on to split the magazine taking the "girl" titles into another magazine and shoving a bunch of "interest" articles about fashion and makeup and boys etc. into it hoping to take over the magazine world. Needless to say, the concept bombed and ticked a lot of people off. (while Sailor Moon was running, the magazine DID continue to sell) Mixx then decided to rebrand itself as TokyoPop. They led the charge on the unflipped, collected volume movement (most publishers at the time were trying to sell US style 30 pg "comics") and really built a solid base of customers and were becoming the "go-to" manga publisher in the US. They decided the best way to leverage that was to: -Start publishing butchered anime (Initial D with renamed characters and rescored music), everyone hated their efforts and derided their thinking -Start the "Rising Stars of Manga" initiative. (a plan that said "hey, every kid that dreams of being a mangaka, give us your ideas including all rights in perpetuity, we'll publish some of them no matter how terrible if we think we can market it but we own it") Needless to say, there were people that went for it, very few of whom were customers, but it led to a WHOLE lot of online arguments -(my personal favorite) Stu decided "reality TV" was the biggest thing since sliced bread and decided to break into Hollywood by making "America's Greatest Otaku", this went EXACTLY as you would think based on the above There's other things too, but these were some of the big failures that were both financial burdens AND public humiliations for the company. When Borders closed, a bunch of product went back and the assumption is (was) that if TokyoPop wasn't funding Stu's ridiculous superstar dreams, then it may as well close shop, so "poof". |
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NieR
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It seems like a manga series that maybe Yen Press, Kodansha, or maybe even Viz would get, but since that didn't happen I'd want to see Tokyopop release Mysterious Girlfriend X.
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firedragon54738
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Maybe they will finish Maid War Chronicle
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TsukasaElkKite
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Agreed full stop. |
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joelgundam00
 Posts: 153 Location: Western NY |
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"Why can't he just stay dead?" - Joker (Batman: The Animated Series)
That's the first thing that popped into my mind when I read this article. |
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RAmmsoldat
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dont discount it yet it may still get picked up by a good publisher it needn't be thrown to the likes of tokyopop just yet. |
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