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NEWS: Tokyopop Confirms Founder, CEO Stu Levy Has 'Stepped Back' From U.S. Operations




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TsukasaElkKite



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2023 1:04 pm Reply with quote
Took him long enough!
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PipimiOden



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2023 2:03 pm Reply with quote
How is it still alive?
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ZeetherKID77



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:08 pm Reply with quote
And nothing of value was lost. Goodbye Stu, go take your crappy Princess Ai poetry with you.
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Nobuyuki



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:48 pm Reply with quote
Get Kleckner’s name out of your mouth.
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merr



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2023 5:49 pm Reply with quote
ZeetherKID77 wrote:
And nothing of value was lost. Goodbye Stu, go take your crappy Princess Ai poetry with you.

RIP DJ Milky.
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Toyokaaaa





PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2023 6:32 pm Reply with quote
PipimiOden wrote:
How is it still alive?

You can always visit their site and see they found quite a profitable niche for themselves.
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AiddonValentine



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 12:21 am Reply with quote
Begone, Bozo!
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lumenotaku



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:50 am Reply with quote
why all the hate? He did indeed have a huge impact and for the better imho. I read so much manga through Tokyopop as a young otaku
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 7:54 am Reply with quote
lumenotaku wrote:
why all the hate? He did indeed have a huge impact and for the better imho. I read so much manga through Tokyopop as a young otaku


Scummy practices, specifically over his handling of OEL manga and their creators.

There are other examples too (their handling of the Initial D & Rave Master anime, their manga quality, their old reality show that exposed Funimation in one episode, their illegal streaming of a fansub of Angel's Egg) but the OELs is what everyone goes back to whenever Tokyopop gets brought up in the news these past few years.
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Blanchimont



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:47 pm Reply with quote
NJ_ wrote:
There are other examples too (their handling of the Initial D & Rave Master anime, their manga quality, their old reality show that exposed Funimation in one episode, their illegal streaming of a fansub of Angel's Egg) but the OELs is what everyone goes back to whenever Tokyopop gets brought up in the news these past few years.

You forgot their light novels(Shana, Slayers, Crest of the Stars, Kino..), which they edited to hell and back to make them more 'appealing' as they saw it...
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 7:48 pm Reply with quote
And then one day, Levy walked into the manga office and pulled the plug on all the running series regardless of status. Reportedly he said something the effect that print manga was too old fashioned and he had better things to do. A few years later TokyoPop comes back to the manga market and allows it is still viable after all. Dumping on the people who do buy your stuff and insulting them in the process is not the way to win friends and influence people.
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