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NEWS: Tokyopop to Release Nightmare Before Christmas Sequel Manga




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Emerje



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 9:36 pm Reply with quote
Sooooo, Stu is into fanfics? Disney and Tim Burton really OK'd this?

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GATSU



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:01 pm Reply with quote
Emerje: As long as it's family and Hot Topic-friendly, I assume it's a go. Cool
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revolutionotaku



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:20 pm Reply with quote
It's good to see TokyoPop releasing manga titles again. Anime smile
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Calico



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:33 pm Reply with quote
Hey, at least they haven't tricked any new unsuspecting young comic artists into working with them again. I hope writing a sequel to a 20+ year old movie is the most work they ever get.
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Weazul-chan



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:41 pm Reply with quote
Calico wrote:
Hey, at least they haven't tricked any new unsuspecting young comic artists into working with them again. I hope writing a sequel to a 20+ year old movie is the most work they ever get.
that's the only good thing about this. altho better news would be this getting pretty much ignored after it comes out and helps drive them back into non-existence.

seriously, if Tokyopop rises from the grave it needs to do so without that asshat involved in it. it needs to come back with someone who respects the people buying their product, the people who make the product, and the product itself helming it instead of some arrogant jerkwad.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 12:49 am Reply with quote
Emerje wrote:
Sooooo, Stu is into fanfics? Disney and Tim Burton really OK'd this?

Emerje


Disney owns the property outright, and while Tim would probably demand input on a sequel or TV series, print media is off his radar.
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Francesco Vitiello



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:05 am Reply with quote
Other websites said in the title of their news that it was a sequel and only said it was a comic in the full article.Making people get excited for a new movie and disappoined when they found out the truth.They didn't even say it was a manga.Before reading this article,I tought it was an american comic.
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Sakagami Tomoyo



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:17 am Reply with quote
I don't usually wish failure on anything, but if Tokyopop were to quietly go back into its grave and Stu Levy were never heard from again, that would be lovely.
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Usagi-kun



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 10:03 am Reply with quote
DJ Milky (pseudonym of Tokyopop founder Stu Levy) is writing the story...

Hmmmm... Rolling Eyes
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Seishin Jinrou



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 4:01 pm Reply with quote
Sounds lame; why doesn't zero visit some other holidaytowns, like Guy Fawkes-town or Kwanza-town?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 4:31 pm Reply with quote
CR85747 wrote:
Emerje wrote:
Sooooo, Stu is into fanfics? Disney and Tim Burton really OK'd this?


Disney owns the property outright, and while Tim would probably demand input on a sequel or TV series, print media is off his radar.


Otherwise, Tim Burton would okay ANYTHING that mentions TNBX, if Disney remembers to credit his name on ownership.
Few directors have so built their careers on a movie they didn't direct.

My reaction, okay, instead of Japan doing Western-superhero manga they don't culturally understand, their Disney obsession is going to do a This-Is-Halloween manga they don't culturally understand?
(Insert usual discussion of "How an utterly baffled Japan tries to improvise an explanation of the western Halloween holiday.")
The answer is that the story is going to be "Zero in Christmas Town", so we instead deal with Japan's interpretation of Christmas and Santa--And the movie joke that Zero's red nose was supposed to be Rudolph's, which is pretty much the only other thing the Japanese know about Santa. Rolling Eyes
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lunaitc



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:37 am Reply with quote
EricJ2 wrote:
CR85747 wrote:
Emerje wrote:
Sooooo, Stu is into fanfics? Disney and Tim Burton really OK'd this?


Disney owns the property outright, and while Tim would probably demand input on a sequel or TV series, print media is off his radar.


Otherwise, Tim Burton would okay ANYTHING that mentions TNBX, if Disney remembers to credit his name on ownership.
Few directors have so built their careers on a movie they didn't direct.

My reaction, okay, instead of Japan doing Western-superhero manga they don't culturally understand, their Disney obsession is going to do a This-Is-Halloween manga they don't culturally understand?
(Insert usual discussion of "How an utterly baffled Japan tries to improvise an explanation of the western Halloween holiday.")
The answer is that the story is going to be "Zero in Christmas Town", so we instead deal with Japan's interpretation of Christmas and Santa--And the movie joke that Zero's red nose was supposed to be Rudolph's, which is pretty much the only other thing the Japanese know about Santa. Rolling Eyes


None of that information on the Japanese perspective on Christmas is remotely relevant, because this is yet another vanity project by the very not Japanese Stu Levy using the Tokyopop brand and the "hip with the kids" pseudonym of "DJ Milky" to sucker those who don't know any better. Again.
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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:02 am Reply with quote
Seriously, TP would be better without Stu. Their business decisions TP made, especially with the OEL manga rights issues, is 1 of the reasons they temporarily went out of business. Since they haven't seemed to have learned from that, I think they will go out of business again in the next few years.
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Lady Multi



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 4:32 pm Reply with quote
There already was a sequel; and we don't need Tokyopop working on any more "sequels". I mean, after all this time how many people accept the Labyrinth sequels? Or the Dark Crystal prequel?

Tokyopop should have stayed dead.
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