1 | Ken Haley

December 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 pm

The preview pages I’ve seen for Tantric Strip Fighter Trina didn’t light me on fire, but the premise is off the wall enough that it might just work.

2 | MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Industry notes, gift ideas, and more

December 3rd, 2008 at 8:57 am

[...] last, some answers: Manga Recon posts Tokyopop’s 2009 shipping list, which provides reassurance that many series are in fact going to live on, along with a handful of [...]

3 | Michelle Smith

December 3rd, 2008 at 3:14 pm

I wonder whether we can bar comments from You Are Anime from appearing here—they’re just poaching content from MangaBlog.

4 | Rena

December 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Ah, Tokyopop, you’ve still found ways to disappoint me! I actually clicked over to this list from MangaBlog just to see if Suppli had a release date yet. I just assumed that they canceled the series to spite me and all the other fans…

But if a letter-writing campaign is what’s needed, I’m in!

5 | Katherine Dacey

December 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pm

@Ken: There were a few panels in the Tokyopop catalog, and the art looked OK. Hard to say what the “action” (ahem) sequences would look like, but it certainly has the potential to be fun. Or awful.

@Michelle: I’ll talk to Jon–it’s really frustrating that they’re scraping her content!

@Rena: I’m serious about a letter-writing campaign–check back here in a few days for more details. I’m really frustrated that Tokyopop licenses interesting, cutting-edge josei, only to pull the plug when it doesn’t find an immediate audience. Suppli seems like a series that needed more time to build a following. Given how positive the reviews were, I’m surprised they didn’t hang onto it for its prestige value.

6 | Danielle Leigh

December 3rd, 2008 at 8:33 pm

I’m so there for a Suppli letter writing campaign (or blog-campaign as the case my be). No question, this is my biggest disappointment in terms of TP’s publishing plans right now.

7 | Michelle Smith

December 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm

Count me in, too! I’m extremely happy that Silver Diamond has managed to stay aloft, but Suppli is a big disappointment.

8 | arnoria

December 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm

No Demon Flowers 5? That and Suppli, two real favorites over here.

9 | Jon Haehnle

December 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm

@Michelle Smith – We don’t currently have a way to ban anyone right now, without making people log in to leave comments. Something to consider, but for now I’ve deleted YAA’s comment here

10 | Ephidel

December 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 pm

Owch, no Mobile Suit Gundam: Ecole du Ciel?
I’ve been hoping against hope that the next volume would see the light of day. Even a horribly, horribly slow and delayed light of day. Not seeing it listed at all is somewhat depressing.

I’m glad, at least, that the next Twelve Kingdoms novel has a date now as I really enjoyed the first two. There are a couple of new licenses that I’ve held some interest in too that I’m quite glad to see do have dates now but… well. I want my mikimoto gundam story

Meh. Can I at least be somewhat amused that Warcraft: Legends, Vol. 5 (of 5) is coming in April, whilst Warcraft: Legends, Vol. 4 (of 5) is coming in June?

11 | Katherine Dacey

December 4th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

@Ephidel: You’re a better proofreader than someone at Tokyopop, because that gaffe came straight out of the catalog! I caught a few others (Trinity Blood was listed as being 10 volumes in one place and 11 in another), but missed that one. Thanks for the tip–I’ll correct it!

12 | Erin F.

December 4th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

@Kate and @Michelle – I actually went so far as to make “Save Suppli” buttons when I thought it was cancelled, but I haven’t had time to make a blog post about it or decide how to distribute the buttons other than giving them away for free at conventions to people who seemed interested.

Lalalala we should probably discuss this over email then start the blog campaign rolling.

13 | Ephidel

December 4th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

@ Katherine Dacey
I guessed it was probably an error out of the catalogue.
I should admit though, that after I wrote that last time, I realised that volume 4 was listed for a February release as well (so, 4 was listed for both February and June, with volume 5 in between in April) so I wouldn’t like to say whether one had been listed twice, or whether one had been listed the wrong way around, or both, so it might not be so easy to correct

14 | Isaac Hale

December 12th, 2008 at 12:30 am

There is nothing on this list to convince me to abandon my boycott of Tokyopop. I’m so, so mad that they dropped Off*Beat. Grrrrrrr.

15 | Michelle Smith

December 12th, 2008 at 9:38 am

That bugs me too, Isaac, since I had just really heard about it and considered starting it when I learned the conclusion would be delayed indefinitely.

16 | Katherine Dacey

December 12th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

Hey, Isaac, I share your disappointment about Off*Beat, a title that, like you, I really liked. (I’m also frustrated that Qwan has been dropped from Tokyopop’s list.) As emotionally satisfying as a boycott sounds, though, it’s hard to fault publishers for dropping unprofitable books. I’d love to see publishers look for alternative ways to bring outstanding volumes to fans–perhaps through digital distribution, which is much less costly than print. Heck, I’m still holding out hope that someday I’ll see the final volume of Club 9, despite DH’s vigorous denials.

Besides, if you did boycott Tokyopop, you’d miss out on some great series like Jyu-Oh-Sei. It’s crack in manga form, I swear!

17 | Oliver

December 22nd, 2008 at 11:48 am

Where’s Nosatsu Junkie Volume 7?! Oh the throbbing agony of it all!!

On a side note, this list looks pretty good for supporting it’s other top Shoujo series, and older series like Samurai Deeper and Getbackers (you’d think those would have been dropped by now).

People, continue to collect those so-called dropped series, we may see them soon enough (well, after August 2009, at least).

18 | Oliver

December 27th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

Also, continuing the trend on listing items NOT on this list:

Fruits Basket Ultimate Edition 4 (out of 11, dammit!)

Seriously, who is buying these Battle Royale Ultimate Eds.? I normally wouldn’t have tried out Fruits Basket had it not been for the Ultimate Ed. Granted, the series itself will never get dropped, but still having the Ultimate Eds. would have been nice. And when Suppli gets back on board, I’ll try that too.

PS: There’s still some good Shoujo on this list. At least Tpop never forgot their core selling point.

19 | Aeryn

February 5th, 2009 at 12:24 pm

There are several long-term series that are MIA from the list. Arcana 10, Queen’s Knight 13, Saver 7, Suppli 4, Never Give Up 9, Seduction more Beautiful 3, Platinum Garden 8, Vassalord 3. If you send TP an e-mail they sometimes don’t even respond or give a generic answer “we still are publishing the series.” My last e-mail took 6 months for a response. It just is a little upsetting when you give TP so much money for all these mangas just to have them drop them before completion. Arcana 10 was the last volume of the series too. Come on TP!!

20 | Kai

February 12th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

Did they drop Genju no Seiza and the Queen’s Knight, as well?

I really wish they would display what they are cancelling, so we can complain when it is relevent. <.< Sneaky corporation is sneaky.

21 | Michelle Smith

February 13th, 2009 at 12:27 am

It certainly seems that way, Kai, which is a shame. I suppose we can continue to hold out tiny shreds of hope that they’ll show up someday.

22 | Oliver

March 2nd, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Rather than look at this list in agony, look at the series’ that T-pop is publishing this year so you know it won’t get cut and read that instead.

23 | Atikah Adzhar

May 29th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

Sorry to barge in, but i wanted to know if the Trinity Blood light novel series has been cut for good. TP was supposed to release the fourth novel of the first series (R.A.M) December LAST YEAR but it somehow didn’t make it but the local bookshop i asked about this to said that it’ll be released July 6th 2009 and yet i can’t find it. I am THIS close to crying and i refuse to read other titles until this one settles. If TP publishes 1 novel a year, and they’re currently 5 novels in out of 12, i might just die. The chances for the latter are steadily getting higher…

Thanks.

24 | Ken Haley

May 29th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

I originally thought that Trinity Blood had received the axe, but recently the Tokyopop twitter feed mentioned that it was still coming out (http://twitter.com/TOKYOPOP/status/1941554761). Sooo… I guess it’s just one of those incredibly slow books due to their reduced schedule.

25 | Isaac Hale

May 31st, 2009 at 5:43 pm

DN Angel, You Will Drown in Love, and Jyu-Oh-Sei will eventually hit my bookshelves… but come back Off*Beat!! I’ll also miss Genju no Seiza. Sigh…

26 | Atikah Adzhar

June 6th, 2009 at 2:12 am

Oh, Ken, you are smashing! Thanks a lot, but i’m still sad its taking so long… :/

27 | Zeke Wilder

June 15th, 2009 at 1:39 am

I can’t believe Kingdom Hearts II Vol.3 is out. I’ve looked everytime I got to go to a BAM or Barnes and Noble, but I couldn’t find it. I’m gonna have to order it, I guess. Can’t believe I gotta wait til August for the next .hack//G.U. Novel. Good thing I’ve played the game, read the manga and watched the movie. Oh and for the one’s who don’t know there is a fifth Volime to the .hack//G.U.+ manga. If ya check out the site .hack//wiki, you can find out all you want about every .hack series.

28 | Alias Nick Name

June 15th, 2009 at 6:44 pm

OKAY. all Kingdom Hearts manga fans need to just stand up for volume 3.
all y’all! We’ve put up with tokyopop’s 9 month wait time inbetween volumes before, BUT THIS IS ENOUGH.
It was scheduled to come out December 30, 2008 BUT IT NEVER DID.

amazon.com AND this list claim that volume 4’s coming out in august. beg pardon? How can that be if volume 3 HAS YET TO COME OUT???!!!

This is insanity!
KH Fans! seriously. how much more can you take?
Japan’s had volume 3 since APRIL 18, 2008
For Reals? and vol.3’s only like 192 pages or so. It’s not even that big! COME ON TOKYOPOP.

All KH fans need to send in e-mails one-by-one during your spare time until they open their eyes and see that the DEMAND for KH is still HUGE, their SUPPLY however is LACKING!

Same goes for Fruits Basket Ultimate Editions and all those other books that just aren’t coming out! LET EM’ HEAR IT ! ! !

29 | Ken Haley

June 16th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Fruits Basket: Ultimate Edition is currently dead in the water. A TP editor mentioned that in a podcast interview recently.

30 | iris

June 30th, 2009 at 10:37 am

What kingdom hearts vol 4~?

Aren’t we skipping a beat here~?

Where is kingdom hearts vol 3~?????

31 | Michelle Smith

June 30th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Hi, Iris! At the time this post went up (Dec 2, 2008) the third volume of Kingdom Hearts II was scheduled for December 30, 2008, so that’s why it wasn’t mentioned in this list. Nobody knew at that time (well, nobody not at Tokyopop) that vol. 3 wouldn’t come out as scheduled.

32 | .Hack//FandomAndRP: .Hack//G.U. Novels

August 2nd, 2009 at 3:28 pm

[...] to http://www.popcultureshock.com/manga/index.php/features/tokyopop-shipping-list-january-august-2009/, volume 2 will be released in English in August 2009. page_revision: 1, last_edited: [...]

33 | .....

October 10th, 2009 at 5:53 pm

This is BS. The Kingdom Hearts manga is long over-due. And why? I’m sorry Tokyopop, but get your shit together.