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Tokyopop recent quality issues

Tokyopop should just give up on translating Japanese manga. I mean there was a mention once that their Original English manga, sold almost as well as their best-selling manga. It's for Tokyopop's own good if they want to stop receiving hate mail or more backlashes. And plus, without those Japanese licenses in Tp's hands, fans would probably see their favorite series in better condition( meaning as close to the original as possible and in translation quality too(:

VIZ deals mostly with Shogakukan and Shueisha, while Del Rey works with Kodansha; they all have contracts/co-ownderships with these companies and they don't seem to go outside these boundaries unless they know it will benefit them. That means that Tokyopop picks up series mostly from Nihonbungeisha, Akita Shoten, and other more minor publishers.

Ooo, good news!!

From the Amazon discussion, from a Tokyopop rep:

"A few months ago, a number of you were discussing the new paper in our manga -- I believe J. Gebhard began the conversation -- and I responded that we were exploring our paper options since we made the paper change in March. I'm here to report that our printer has now found a mill in the U.S. that will produce the equivalent of our 50-lb paper -- paper that is nearly identical in quality to what we used before we made the switch this past March. Books that will go on sale in October will have this new paper."

Yay!