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Tokyopop to Close North American Division

yepperoni · 2011-04-16T00:57:30+00:00

Yepp. Basically what the title says. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-04-15/tokyopop-to-close-north-american-publishing-division ANN has confirmed with Tokyopop Senior Vice President Mike Kiley that the company will shutter its Los Angeles-based North American publishing operations on May 31. The company's film and European operations will be unaffected by this closure, and its office in Hamburg, Germany will continue to handle global rights sales for the company. I have to admit, I don’t really read manga, I only really really watch anime, and ocasionally buy the DVDs whenever it’s a title I really enjoyed. Still, this means a ton of manga will be left half-translated...

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shiki-kun

13 years ago

Callonia wrote...

Part of the problem could be because bookstores don't really keep their bookshelves well shelved. I usually go to a bookstore and check out the manga, its rather likely that the shelves isn't updated even when there a bunch of manga already published.

Regrettable.

Exactly, the same happens over here... all the local bookstores only keep stuff from a few years ago and never update...

gizgal

13 years ago

Tokyopop was on the out-and-out anyhow.

While I don't like the decrease in diversity of publishers for manga, I will say that I'd never particularly cared for any of the series they carried.

HungLikeAZombie

13 years ago

Cormac wrote...

I’m not sad to see them go.

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