What's going on with Kanpai? I was following it casually, but I don't think there's been a new volume out from Tokyopop in a long, long time. Is the series discontinued in Japan and TP just picked it up because it was written by Maki Murakami and could make a quick buck from Gravitation fans, is the series still ongoing in Japan, or is TP just padding out the release?
And what about those new chapters of Gravitation that I think have been serialized on an internet magazine? Is there any chance those chapters will be collected in book form and distributed by TP or another manga company?
I don't believe that we've had any official word as to whether or not the Gravitation continuation would be picked up by TokyoPop or not (though from what I've heard, it's really quite bad and thus we aren't missing much...after the ending of the original manga's run, I doubt I'd be picking it up if it was brought over).
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