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Tokyopop Returns With Hetalia 3

After ceasing as a publisher a year ago, Tokyopop started making noises last September about bringing back one of their most popular titles, Hetalia. Now, in conjunction with online retailer RightStuf.com, comes the actual announcement. Right Stuf announced that, through a special arrangement with Japanese publisher Gentosha Comics and TOKYOPOP, it will be offering manga fans the opportunity to purchase Hetalia Axis Powers, Volume 3, in English-translated book form for the first time ever, as well as reprints of the […]

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Tokyopop Planning the Return of Hetalia #3?

Late Friday evening, a post went up on the Tokyopop Facebook page asking an interesting question: if there is a way to bring you Hetalia V. 3 but it’s a bit more limited than back in the old days, would you be interested? (I know that’s vague — not trying to be coy but wanted to see the level of enthusiasm before I’m able to get into more specifics). If you “like” this, I’ll take that to mean you’d be […]

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Tokyopop Website Replaced By …

As promised, today Tokyopop has shut down their website. If you try tokyopop.com or any more specific links to that site, you’ll get directed instead to their Facebook page. We knew that they’d been doing more promotion of that venue, with exclusive contests and the like, but it never occurred to me that they’d use it as their only public venue online. The comments currently appearing on that page are somewhat sad — fans who hadn’t heard the news about […]

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Tokyopop’s Demise Spurs Deep Thinking, Memories of Favorite Series I’ll Miss

While it’s horrible that Tokyopop is closing, at least folks remembering both the good times and bad have resulted in some thought-provoking reading. Tokyopop Changed the Industry For the Worse… Matt Thorn blames Stu Levy for depressing the page rate for translators to the point where professionals couldn’t do the job any more: The point being, there were standards, and even a rookie was guaranteed a decent rate…. Mind you, there was no shortage of enthusiastic otaku willing to work […]

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More Thoughts on Tokyopop’s Demise, Publishing Schedule, Website Update

Following up on the closing of Tokyopop as an American manga publisher … Instead of updating their website, as previously announced, they have declared their intentions to shutter it on April 26. As stated in our previous newsletter, on Tuesday April 26th, TOKYOPOP.com will go offline. We know that you probably have kept copies of everything you’ve uploaded (photos, videos, drawings etc.), but we just wanted to be extra-sure and give you this notice so that you could pull anything […]

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Tokyopop Stops Publishing: And Then There Were …?

News broke yesterday that was simultaneously shocking and unsurprising. Tokyopop is closing as of May 31, although they plan to continue their film division (split off in a 2008 reorganization), an area where company head Stu Levy’s attention has been more focused lately and the reported holder of the intellectual property rights. Sales of those rights will continue out of Germany, where a licensing office will remain open, as well as the European publishing program. (This news might also explain […]

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Tokyopop Redesigns Website, Throws Out User Content

Several years ago, Tokyopop tried to make its website “stickier” by adding all kinds of social networking features to emphasize the “manga lifestyle”. You had to log in to access certain areas of their site, and they encouraged discussion and posting of fan art. Brigid Alverson called it an attempt “to create a kind of MySpace for manga fans… What they ended up with was exactly what you always get when you open a website to user content and don’t […]

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Tokyopop Layoffs — Who’s Left?

Heidi MacDonald is reporting that Tokyopop has laid off “several more people — including editors Lillian Diaz-Przybyl and Troy Lewter. The staff is now reduced to a mere handful of people”, which doesn’t include, based on Heidi’s experience, the PR person, who is also gone. Lillian Diaz-Przybyl was the longest-running Tokyopop person I knew (not counting company head Stu Levy). She was an excellent editor, especially known for reaching out to fans, including most recently an essay on buying manga […]

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