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REVIEW: The Treasure of the King and the Cat

I really hope that people boycott this release, because SCREW STU LEVI

Seriously he needs to just be forced to leave the manga industry

Tanteikingdomkey wrote:

I really hope that people boycott this release, because SCREW STU LEVI Seriously he needs to just be forced to leave the manga industry

What did he do?

HoshizoranoUtage wrote:

Tanteikingdomkey wrote: I really hope that people boycott this release, because SCREW STU LEVI Seriously he needs to just be forced to leave the manga industry What did he do?

for one thing there was the time he shut down Tokyopop with no warning to anyone. I remember he was hyping changes to the site and the community on there and then all of a sudden out of nowhere he was basically "bye, all you losers who still buy manga, I'm off to better things!" and left all the non-freelance workers still working for him in the lurch. the dude literally insulted people who bought manga, the customers buying the stuff his company released, and only him and the one directly under him had any knowledge he was shutting down Tokyopop.

then there was BS pulled with the creators of some of their OEL works and their contract BSery involved with OEL projects.

then there was the handling of some of their novels. like how the hardcover version of the fourth Twelve Kingdoms novel was missing a chapter and they did nothing to fix that issue outside of fixing the issue for the trade paperback version leaving people who bought the hardcover with faulty copies.

I've called the guy a troll, I've heard him called the Charlie Sheen of manga, he's a mess and myself and many other manga fans want nothing to do with anything he's involved with.

Dang, yeah, I'm old enough to remember when Tokyopop first shut down and Stu Levy's name was poison even back before social media was really a thing, which kinda tells you how bad he was for the then-tight-lipped manga industry grapevine to have broken down that catastrophically. I wouldn't touch Tokyopop properties with a 10-foot pole these days, and I'm surprised and disappointed to find Levy still at the helm.

On-topic, this sounds like a series that was gearing up for a longer run but didn't do well enough to last longer than three or four chapters; there are a few afterward chapters in stuff like Prince Freya that hint that mangaka are encouraged to write their stories intending for longer runs but are ordered to write their stories in such a way that they can basically be cut off at a moment's notice if the sales tank hard. Which it kinda sound like it did in this case, which is unfortunate.