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littlegreenwolf
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Tokyopop's latest bookseller catalog *just got it in this week* says Feburary now for book 6.
I got around to reading #1 and I think I'll continue the series. |
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HitokiriShadow
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For book 6? What about 4 and 5? They would need to get 4 out soon unless they are planning on releasing all three close together.
Well, I really hope that's true. I love Scrapped Princess and I would hate for it to not get finished. Thanks for the good (maybe) news. |
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littlegreenwolf
Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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I have no idea what Tokyopop is doing. I did a search on our store's order system which lets us order books and see when some are coming out, and the following books are given these dates:
Scrapped Princess 4: March of the Knight July 2007 978-1-59532-987-5 Scrapped Princess 5: Waltz of the Castaway Girl October 2007 978-1-59532-988-2 Scrapped Princess 6: February 2008 978-1-59532-989-9 Our distributor never got any copies of book 4, but Amazon is acting like they have copies, and used book sellers act like they have some too. I'm guessing the book might be printed, but just no shipped out yet. |
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HitokiriShadow
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Hmmm.... I'll believe it when I see my copy of volume 4 shipping out. At this point, I think Tokyopop just forgot (or didn't care) to update their catologue and let retailers that don't specialize in anime/manga know about it. It's over a month past when volume 4 should be out and TRSI doesn't even have listings for 5 and 6. Now, TRSI isn't the be all and end all of release dates, but they are up to date and reliable 99% of the time. And Tokyopop's website doesn't even have volume 4 on it.
On another note, Tokyopop's new and "improved" website sucks ass. Every time they "improve" it, it becomes exponentially worse. Note to Tokyopop: You are not f***ing MySpace or YouTube. |
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littlegreenwolf
Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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I know exactly what you mean. I've never encountered such a hard to navigate business site. I try to look at what they have to sell, and it takes me 5 minutes to get there. |
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Shigi
 Posts: 41 Location: CA, USA |
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Editor Stephanie Duchin over on the Tokyopop forums said:
Hopefully this will be resolved sooner than the Kino no Tabi issue. -_-; |
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HitokiriShadow
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So it seems to be licensing issue. Damn. Well, at least we finally heard something about it.
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Zalis116
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 Posts: 6897 Location: Kazune City |
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Shigi
Posts: 41 Location: CA, USA |
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Just in from AnimeOnDVD via giapet's report:
TokyoPop, why do you make it SO HARD FOR ME TO GIVE YOU MY MONEY?! WHY?! 
I guess we should all just keep an eye on the situation. *SIGH* |
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HitokiriShadow
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Yeah, I noticed that. I've already given up on ever seeing the rest of the Scrapped Princess novels released in the U.S. Goddamn you Tokyopop.
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Manji13
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I'm not sure how reliable buy.com is, but they have it listed here with a release date of 8/10/08.
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HitokiriShadow
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I'll believe it when I see it. I don't put too much stock in retailer street dates. TRSI tends to be pretty good about it, but even they aren't always accurate.
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Apterous
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I emailed Marco Pavia, the director of marketing, from their contact page (marketing people always know what's coming it since they need to sell it), and he was kind enough to respond honestly:
This means not that it was canceled, but that volumes 4+ were never licensed in the first place. There's still hopes from other companies like DelRey, but not from TokyoPop. At least now we know for sure. I posted the email on my blog as well. |
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Shigi
Posts: 41 Location: CA, USA |
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This seems really strange to me since they were soliciting volumes 4-6. I mean, they even had covers done and everything for volumes 4 and 5 and I had volume 4 on pre-order. I don't think you can do that without first licensing the material. Perhaps they had an option that they allowed to lapse?
They did say there were licensing issues, so that might have had something to do with it? Either way, I am very disappointed. (It also fills me with paranoia about the state of the Kino no Tabi license.  )
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Apterous
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My guess is that they priced it lower and toned down the anime-ness of the covers to appeal to a mass market. If it was meant to just sit in the anime section, they might have charged more for it and put brighter covers on it (like the Slayers novellas). I'm guessing the higher amount of text is more expensive to translate (take more time), and that they decided using that time on 6 volumes of $10 manga instead of one volume of an $8 novel (that wasn't selling well to boot) was a good business decision.
On the bright side, DelRey seems to be doing more novellas... maybe they'll pick up SutePri and give it a good home? (please please please...) |
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