Forum - View topicNEWS: Tokyopop's Employee Ranks Shrink This Week
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Scormio
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Give it a month or two. Kodansha will buy them. Not like what they did with Vertical by just investing in them, actually buy them.
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SnaphappyFMA
Posts: 216 Location: California |
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Lillian Diaz-Pryzbyl was an excellent editor and a class act at Tokyopop. Hope another publisher picks her up soon. This long slow death of the manga industry in America is getting very hard to watch...
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Megiddo
 Posts: 8360 Location: IL |
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Huh, I would have thought Hetalia would have stopped the sinking for a bit, but I guess I was wrong.
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Jaymie
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If Kodansha or Mag Garden or Kadokawa Shoten buy Tokyopop, I hope they give Stu a good bonus to leave the company forever. It should be enough for him to pay for his douchey haircuts, in any case. I`ve never understood why a 44 year-old middle-aged man acts like he`s a 16 year-old hipster, but whatever floats his float. |
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Sailor S
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At this point, I just wish that Tokyopop would publish the rest of Aria so I could stop caring what happens to them. It's obvious they're run by an incompetent boob and unless he can be forced out, they're pretty much doomed.
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lys
 Posts: 1008 Location: mitten-state |
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@Sailor S, sorry if you already knew this—Aria 6 came out a couple months ago (end of December). So it's making a comeback—hopefully sales are decent so Tokyopop can continue publishing it.
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Sailor S
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Yes, I know. I also know that there are still 6 more volumes to go, and the time between the releases of volume 5 and 6 was just over a year. Doesn't exactly instill me with a lot of confidence.
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bayoab
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RestLessone
 Posts: 1426 Location: New York |
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Thanks, and wow...That's a pretty big jump. After Hetalia and all, I began to think TP was making a comeback. Last spring, I was expecting them to die off during the summer. When they didn't and they started bringing back older titles, I thought that they might survive. I'm beginning to doubt that now, though they don't seem to be utterly destroyed or anything. (But why oh why do they waste money and resources on stupid ventures like those "movies" and such?) I wonder if the manga glut they had awhile back continues to hurt them. They weren't licensing a bunch of series and releasing them over the course of a few years; they were licensing and releasing in bulk. If TP does die, I can only hope that the unfinished series will be picked up again and employees find new jobs quickly. Of course, most series would probably be dropped; TP has a lot of series that simply aren't selling or have been put on hold. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see where TP goes... |
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Scormio
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They're getting into the NA manga business, why not get a bunch of people who already know what it's about? Stu Levy excepted, of course. |
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adam_omega
 Posts: 256 Location: Seven Seas |
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10 to 1 odds this is related to the problems with Borders. That's my take.
Still, this is extremely sad to hear. |
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Sunday Silence
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I believe he's going thru whats called a "Mid-Life Crisis." Some buy a Corvette or Viper, some buy a boat. Stu Levy attempts to hit jailbait worse than Vic Mangina. |
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daggerbob
 Posts: 52 Location: Colorado, US |
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Don't think it is just about the problems with Borders. Hands down, I personally think it is the quality of their product. It has tanked over the past year or two, plus they left quite a number of series uncompleted. Who would stick with a company with a poor track record like that. The local independent comic book shop I get my manga through had returned almost all of their Tokyopop stock back to Diamond because it would not sell. They now only do special orders for Tokyopop titles. At least now they have more room for Viz, Vertical, Yen, and others that do sell off the rack. |
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Sunday Silence
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It's a variety of problems. They lost several big licenses (Initial D, etc.), Stu Levy is wasting money on stupid narcissistic penis wagging "projects," the way TOKYOPOP has slapped fans in the face ("Giffenize" Battle Royale? The f***?), quality control issues, trying hard to be "Hip" and cool, the whole Rising Stars of Manga/OEL Manga Bullcrap....the problems have been mounting for years now. Theoretically speaking, TOKYOPOOP should've either filed for bankruptcy already (namely Chapter 7), or run Stu "Dj Milky" Levy out and fix the messes he made and salvage the company. |
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bglassbrook
 Posts: 1243 Location: Gaithersburg, MD |
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Considering that a fair number of them (more than one or two) have moved on to other publishers and continued doing well, I think it shows that program at least had potential. Doesn't bode well for all the titles they just starting returning from "hiatus." At least it's only freelancing the work, that way it is still possible to ramp up for the bigger releases and slim down between. |
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