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Rosiero



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 4:39 pm Reply with quote
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The equity shares are Class B Common Stock, and they do not include voting rights.


Stu knows that if there were voting rights, nerds would team up to buy all the shares and push him out.
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YagamiBlackstone255



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 6:10 pm Reply with quote
Lets pull a buying Game Stop lol.
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CLAMPFan25



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 6:43 pm Reply with quote
There are still a number of TOKYOPOP series I really want to read:

-DOLL
-Kamichama Karin
-Lament of the Lamb
-Mahoromatic

I was fortunate enough to get copies of DearS and Pita Ten last year in excellent condition, but I wish these were licensed again (Seven Seas rescued Rozen Maiden, Pet Shop of Horrors, Marmalade Boy, etc.)
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PipimiOden



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 8:52 pm Reply with quote
Why the hell did Disney decide to help revive Tokyopop over here anyway?
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crh1985



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 5:13 am Reply with quote
PipimiOden wrote:
Why the hell did Disney decide to help revive Tokyopop over here anyway?


Name recognition, Tokyopop was super big tell it shut down (going by name not the company itself)
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 1:18 pm Reply with quote
Before anyone jumps on this, um, 'opportunity', make sure you look over their SEC filing. The numbers speak for themselves:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2111984/000187285626000100/tokyopopformca.pdf

Also, a tid bit the ANN article, for some reason, failed to mention:

"Based on the 2025 results, Tokyopop’s accountants provided a going concern opinion with the financials, which states that “conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year.”
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Tanteikingdomkey



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 5:52 pm Reply with quote
Stu Levi Mindset : Hey it's okay I killed my business AGAIN! I'll just rip off the "idiot fans" again and it'll be fine.

Seriously NO ONE SHOULD TRUST STU LEVI with a CENT of their money. The only way I would support tokyopop was if we could vote him out, which he made sure wasn't an option.
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TsukasaElkKite



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 10:16 pm Reply with quote
Time to pull a GameStop.
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TheSeventhSense



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 11:41 pm Reply with quote
Surely "25+ years operating" should have an asterisk by it?
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yuricon



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2026 7:44 am Reply with quote
Game Stop was a publicly traded company, shares came with return on investment and voting rights. This is literally an unguaranteed investment, like a real-world indiegogo project. If people band together and buy lots of non-voting shares...all that happens is that Stu gets the money. That's it. You won't be driving stock up and you still have no guaranteed return on investment.
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Blanchimont



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2026 7:50 am Reply with quote
yuricon wrote:
Game Stop was a publicly traded company, shares came with return on investment and voting rights. This is literally an unguaranteed investment, like a real-world indiegogo project. If people band together and buy lots of non-voting shares...all that happens is that Stu gets the money. That's it. You won't be driving stock up and you still have no guaranteed return on investment.

'reads the article' Is this all by-the-books/legal even?
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Alan45
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2026 8:59 am Reply with quote
CLAMPFan25 wrote:
There are still a number of TOKYOPOP series I really want to read:

-DOLL
-Kamichama Karin
-Lament of the Lamb
-Mahoromatic

I was fortunate enough to get copies of DearS and Pita Ten last year in excellent condition, but I wish these were licensed again (Seven Seas rescued Rozen Maiden, Pet Shop of Horrors, Marmalade Boy, etc.)


From news reports, I understand that at the time of theirs first shutdown, TokyoPop released all of their Japanese manga licenses back into the wild, so to speak. For those titles to be license rescued there is no reason it has to be TokyoPop. I would say that the odds of those titles being republished by anyone are rather slim. There is an awful lot of manga that has not been licensed in English. There is no need for any company to try stuff messed up by TokyoPop unless it is extremely popular.

@Blanchimont I'm sure their lawyers have a basis for arguing it is legal. Lets say it is legal until a court says differently.
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GeorgH



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2026 4:32 am Reply with quote
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The company lists that it currently has 31 employees, including 20 employed by its German subsidiary, as of April 8. Tokyopop also uses independent contractors and advisors.

The file lists Tokyopop's 2024 revenue as $14,843,004.

https://x.com/JesusInStripeZ/status/1866927917369868490 suggests, that the 2024 book sales (note: graphic is missing the last 3 weeks) were roughly € 10 million, so about $ 11 million.
However this statistic is likely(!) the revenue at retail, so the revenue at wholesale is likely about half of that. Still, the German branch is responsible for a large portion of the total revenue.

Also the Naruto the Gallery, which accounts for $2 Million in costs, was in Berlin, Germany.
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