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INTEREST: Tokyopop to Hold 'Garage Sale' in Los Angeles


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minakichan





PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:21 pm Reply with quote
Aren't those Hetalia anime cards from Funimation, not Tokyopop? Hahaha.

I'd love to take part in helping to greedily devour the putrid rotting corpse of Tokyopop like other vultures, but sadly, I am not in Los Angeles =(
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Rukiia



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:22 pm Reply with quote
Forgive my ignorance, but now that TokyoPop is shutting down what is going to happen with that show, "America's Greatest Otaku", that they were doing? I haven't heard much of what was going on with it. Guess its canceled now? O.o

And LA? Booooo.....
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TsukasaElkKite



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:33 pm Reply with quote
Sunday Silence wrote:
TsukasaElkKite wrote:
Racheldoublemm wrote:
And that bus just perplexes me. What's going to happen to it?


DJ Milky will use it to hold all his precious Princess Ai crap *snark*


Which hopefully "explodes" under mysterious circumstances. Or we find out DJ Milky committed insurance fraud.


Laughing Laughing Laughing works for me.
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Ryusui



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:21 pm Reply with quote
Whatever happens to the bus, I hope the Mythbusters are involved.

3...2...1...*MYTHSPLODE*
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:34 pm Reply with quote
I would love to take a trip to Los Angeles, although mostly to get away from this weather than to scavenge off the dying carcass of Tokyopop (it snowed two days ago! Snowed!). But unlike the employees of Tokyopop, I have a job (Oh, I am so going to Hell for that one) so I can't make any unplanned trips.

And that's a real bus? I mean, its not photoshopped or anything? God, that's hideous. There is a natural order to things, and it needs to be followed. There is a reason why otaku are not supposed to have reality shows, and it's because if they do, they make things like that bus. *shivers* Ugh, that's worse than Donald Trump's hair.

/Wait, is that a box of Pocky in that picture? Because, you don't need to go to the Los Angeles to pick that up. I get mine at the local Wal-Mart.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:29 pm Reply with quote
Melanchthon wrote:
I would love to take a trip to Los Angeles, although mostly to get away from this weather than to scavenge off the dying carcass of Tokyopop (it snowed two days ago! Snowed!). But unlike the employees of Tokyopop, I have a job (Oh, I am so going to Hell for that one) so I can't make any unplanned trips.

And that's a real bus? I mean, its not photoshopped or anything? God, that's hideous. There is a natural order to things, and it needs to be followed. There is a reason why otaku are not supposed to have reality shows, and it's because if they do, they make things like that bus. *shivers* Ugh, that's worse than Donald Trump's hair.

/Wait, is that a box of Pocky in that picture? Because, you don't need to go to the Los Angeles to pick that up. I get mine at the local Wal-Mart.


Eh it's just TP horrible sense of design. It can be anime/manga themed if it's done well.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:30 pm Reply with quote
...Seriously? A garage sale? That's their first announcement as to what they're doing now that they're shutting down.

I rather find out about what the heck they're doing with their licenses now that they aren't publishing them anymore, whether are they are now dead or going to be picked up by another publisher or not. Come on Tokyopop, can you give us a hint to that instead of telling us that we can go to LA to buy random things from your office that very likely we'll be buying off the Internet shortly afterward?
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Scormio





PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:13 pm Reply with quote
Aura Ichadora wrote:
...Seriously? A garage sale? That's their first announcement as to what they're doing now that they're shutting down.

I rather find out about what the heck they're doing with their licenses now that they aren't publishing them anymore, whether are they are now dead or going to be picked up by another publisher or not. Come on Tokyopop, can you give us a hint to that instead of telling us that we can go to LA to buy random things from your office that very likely we'll be buying off the Internet shortly afterward?


Same here. My poor Kampfer never even got to see the light of day Sad
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:53 pm Reply with quote
Scormio wrote:
Same here. My poor Kampfer never even got to see the light of day Sad
Sadly neither did Chibisan Date, and I was looking forward to that after I read the little preview at the end of Hetalia Vol. 2.

I don't even want to start on my rant again on Hetalia, Butterfly, and Alice in the Country of Hearts...grr...hopefully they'll release some sort of word on their licenses in the next few weeks instead of things like this.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:19 pm Reply with quote
Huh. Yeah, this sounds a little...I guess it could be useful, but I imagine most of the stuff there is going to be from TP's original graphic novel line. Or useless junk. Or manga that will forever remain unfinished.

Seeing Priest in that photo, though...What will happen to that? Films, regardless of quality, bump up sales of the original comics to some degree. Of course, the film and manhwa have nothing in common it seems. And what of that series TP was planning in conjunction with the film's release? Eh, I just have this feeling Priest may vanish, unless another company decides to take it up. I was thinking about buying it, but I want the TP mess to finish first.
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:26 pm Reply with quote
Seriously, what is the point of selling manga that likely will be left unfinished either forever for for several years to come.

As for the other items, it's likely nothing that is in any way valuable. Worn out office chairs, severely outdated computer equipment and a bus that once held the dreams of many youthful manga fans and older manga fans. Now years later, those dreams have long been forgotten about and all that bus has is a smell of Jack Daniels, Princess what ever posters and manga and the feeling that the good times have long gone by and what is left is the soul of a very burned out man that wanted to get out of manga industry years ago.

Now I just wonder what I do with my Aion book (volume one) as I highly doubt that it will ever be continued. Yet, given how horrid the translation was (I had hoped never to say this) but the word choice(s) were very bland and some of the text did not make any sense at some points. It's sad because Tokyo Pop's translation of Love Hina actually wasn't that bad and at times, made me laugh. But that is old news and that was years ago.

But at the end of the day, it's ultimately Stu that will have to deal with his own decisions. But somehow, I think Stu probably knew that it would either be this year or next year before he would be forced to shut down due to the lack of staff he had left and the massive amount of debt he has incurred recently and in the past.

But seriously, what are fans supposed to do with incomplete series? More to the point, why does Tokyo Pop think people will go wild about incomplete series? The posters I guess I can understand and some of the office stuff, but I can only guess they are just trying to get rid of stuff instead of spending money/time and throwing it away or giving it away.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:04 pm Reply with quote
I think it's hilarious that they are hosting a contest to give people the chance to buy their stuff.

I really hope nobody submits anything.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:34 pm Reply with quote
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Seriously, what is the point of selling manga that likely will be left unfinished either forever for for several years to come.


Y'mean, what's the point of "buying" because the point of "selling" those is to get something out of sunk cost. Laughing
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:01 am Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Seriously, what is the point of selling manga that likely will be left unfinished either forever for for several years to come.


Y'mean, what's the point of "buying" because the point of "selling" those is to get something out of sunk cost. :lol:


Sorry about that, I meant for the fans. Now I guess one could resell them, but I figured Tokyo Pop "garage sale" would have the same price retail. Maybe not, but I imagine the manga won't be that much cheaper.

By the fans I mean what would they gain if they bought it for the sake of reading a series if it was unfinished/discontinued from Tokyo Pop?

Any way once this sale is over with, I imagine this probably will be the last we hear of Stu Levy and manga in the same sentence most likely. Maybe not, but I heard he always wanted to go in film, so it's really hard to tell.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:07 am Reply with quote
Lightning Leo wrote:
Sunday Silence wrote:
TsukasaElkKite wrote:
Racheldoublemm wrote:
And that bus just perplexes me. What's going to happen to it?


DJ Milky will use it to hold all his precious Princess Ai crap *snark*


Which hopefully "explodes" under mysterious circumstances. Or we find out DJ Milky committed insurance fraud.


That bus... *snf*... it used to carry the dreams of what manga could be in America. Now the shell of its former glory, the only fittingly dramatic conclusion to its perlious road would be ironic.

Like being shoved off a cliff. Or incinerated by satellite laser. Or exploded.
Or resprayed in the livery of the LACMTA and put back on a route. Wink
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