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NEWS: Stu Levy: Hetalia Volumes 4, 5 to Get N. American Release

19:50:23 <bay> Tokyopop: The Present
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19:53:00 <bay> moving into print on demand and ebooks
19:53:03 <bay> to explain the print on demand
19:53:05 <bay> allison
19:53:31 <bay> as you may or may not know... right stuf has teamed up with tp and gentousha and we're putting out hetalia vol 3 which you see infront of you for the first time ever
19:53:49 <bay> we're also doing it for bizghast and we annonuced at our panel yesterday that we're doing it for psy-com
19:54:02 <bay> and the impetus is we hate when you can't buy the manga you want
19:54:34 <bay> so check those out
19:54:38 <bay> (didn't copy a middle part there)
19:55:05 <bay> and daniela is going to speak briefly about editorial after in a sec
19:55:10 <bay> after i say things
19:55:22 <bay> we put out 1-3, ther is more hetalia... there is 4..and in a month in japan, there is hetalia 5
19:55:28 <bay> and i just confirmation yesterday
19:55:37 <bay> from gentosha
19:55:42 <bay> who said guess what, 4 and 5 will also come out here
19:55:54 <bay> we don't know the details yet
19:55:59 <bay> we're talking to gentosha
19:56:05 <bay> but 100% sure that both of those will come out, hopefully soon

19:58:11 <bay> Tokyopop: The future
19:58:16 <bay> What about cancelled series?
19:58:20 <bay> Will other series be rbought back?
19:58:25 <bay> What about any new series?
19:58:32 <bay> so...
19:58:42 <bay> basically our situation is that because of everythign that happened over the past year and a half
19:58:47 <bay> our contracts with the licensors have expired
19:58:56 <bay> so basically, whether we can put something out or not, it depends on the jaapnese company
19:59:03 <bay> with gentosha who is really cool, we could make it happen
19:59:15 <bay> how many will work with us or how many will work with others...
19:59:20 <bay> that sort of thing will happen as well
19:59:30 <bay> but there will likely be someother titles that the company in japan is cool with teaming up with us to put it out
19:59:37 <bay> i dont' know exactly until ... until they tell me
19:59:43 <bay> whatever we can put out...they will do our best to do that
19:59:51 <bay> i wish i could sya, here are the series wi'll be putting out, but i dont' know yet
19:59:57 <bay> but gentosha will be able to work witht hem on other titles
20:00:06 <bay> i dont' know 100% ... but i'm pretty sure we can put out other gentosha titles
20:00:19 <bay> the other thing is that if you can email us and let us know or facebook and let us know what titles you want
20:00:23 <bay> google plus, we have that tooo
20:00:27 <bay> myspace, you can myspace us
20:00:36 <bay> we'll also start a request thread in the trsi forusm
20:00:37 <bay> as far as oel manga
20:00:47 <bay> that on the other hand, we will start to do all the oel titles with trsi
20:00:53 <bay> and if there are titles we completed, we'll put those out
20:00:58 <bay> those will take a little bit of time
20:01:01 <bay> we have to see what the market iwll buy
20:01:09 <bay> new series, maybe.. do you want new series?
20:01:22 <bay> you know what.. that enthusiasm..that won me over.. sure why not...
20:01:49 <bay> for new series, if we can get info on what peopel want, ...that leads...and i know other publisehrs are doing it... they are doing kickstarter
20:01:52 <bay> and it works...
20:02:00 <bay> but it's a lot of work once you get it doing
20:02:18 <bay> it's a decent amount of wokr but the good thing about kickstarter is you know there is a market there or not so you can do the best possible quality
20:02:25 <bay> so if we do a kickstarter would we support it
20:02:55 <bay> does anyone not know what kickstarter is?
20:02:46 <bay> (about 1/8th)
20:02:50 <bay> (explains)
20:03:09 <bay> but it's basically you the public deciding what happens and what doesn't happen
20:03:13 <bay> okay...
20:03:16 <bay> and other than that
20:03:22 <bay> there are Film and TV projects in development
20:03:29 <bay> a lot of the OEL, some of these are in development to turn into TV
20:03:36 <bay> we'll see if they get made, you know how hollywood is
20:03:44 <bay> whether they get made or not you'll see
20:03:52 <bay> web video.. is something we're looking at doing more of...
20:04:00 <bay> how many of you like video series on the web
20:04:04 <bay> and then accessories
20:04:12 <bay> we're thinking about doing a bunch of tshirts...and stuff
20:04:17 <bay> so guess what this means
20:04:27 <bay> Q&A.....
20:04:38 <bay> so if you have questions raise your hand
20:04:47 <bay> and they are telling us the panel is over
20:06:04 <bay> end

Nothing on Future Diary, Deadman Wonderland, Ratman, Samurai Harem, Stigmata Qwaser, etc? Darn...

oh crap he's still on about OEL and TV shows, he's learned nothing.

Edit: god is he special needs or somthing? He can't even see that his main business died a death while he was off galavanting around with numerous needless side projects.

RAmmsoldat wrote:

oh crap he's still on about OEL and TV shows, he's learned nothing. Edit: god is he special needs or somthing? He can't even see that his main business died a death while he was off galavanting around with numerous needless side projects.

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I thought that Tokyopop collapsed because of competition from itself -- that is, too many Japanese titles released, meaning that not every title was bought by fans, so some titles would be loss-makers. So it shrunk to accommodate only the titles that were top sellers.

I can't imagine how side projects like OEL can affect the main unless the financial checking was just bad. You can do it as part of a sub-company, so the money earned and spent will be within one section of a company. In general it is good business sense to diversify possible income options, and I can totally understand why he would want to push for OEL.