There were a few tokyopop titles i read a lot, and i was upset so many would nto get finished. Unless another co pany picks them up of course, which some titles out tehre really should be.
I sincerely doubt Princess AI will get picked up by anyone else (or any of the Tokyopop original series). The writer is DJ Milky who = Stu Levy, founder of Tokyopop. I'm fairly certain he wouldn't want to release the publishing rights away from the defunct TP entity unless it was for a fairly pretty penny.
I really do hope that some of the more popular titles they had from Kodansha get published/republished, though. :(
Oddly enough, Tokyopop might start publishing manga again. There was a "semi-announcement" to that degree on their Twitter/Facebook in that past few days about it.
They did lose Alice in the Land of Hearts, though- Yenpress will be releasing the entire 6 volumes next summer.
But what about everyone else? I have a huge anime and manga collection because I love anime and manga and I don't want it to die out. I'm not saying that if you download you hate the anime industry, but at least take into consideration the damage you're doing.
I only buy manga, I really hope this doesn't effect the prices of older tokyopop volumes, there are still some I'm trying to get ahold of like the last few issues of Hyper Police and Battle Royale
While they weren't the best company around and really dropped the ball in the later years. I will always fondly hold Sailor Moon, Marmalade boy, Kare Kano, and Peach Girl deep in my childhood memories and I have TP to thank for that. I just wish they hadn't gone all stupid on the fandom and focused more on getting better titles.
Well the short version is the CEO ran it to the ground by doing stupid things like this:
Now if only the same amount of money that went into that trash could have gone into getting sweet titles like Chi Sweet home. :) Also Clamp and other Japanese publishing titles kept moving on and leaving TP behind which also hurt sales and limited the titles they could pick up. So it was a very slow and painful death for them.
