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40cakesHappy 10th anniversary, Tokyopop! Variety has gone balls-out promoting them today, for whatever reason. Hopefully you don't need to register to see these.
Hollywood Eyes Manga Properties ::Checks watch:: Let's see, it's 10:30 in 2007, and I'm STILL waiting on that Sailor Moon movie. Remember? That all the starlets that are washed up and on drugs and have babies now were gonna be in? Or that Eva movie? With CGI by ILM? Anyone?
Profile of Tokyopop CEO Stu Levy. For whatever reason, he wore his Bono Halloween costume for the photo.
Tokyopop's Top 10 Titles From 10 Years. I found it surprising how much of their top 10 was recent, and also how many of the books were original works considering what snobs we otaku can be about non-Japanese anime and manga. I chatted with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jaina and she agrees that it smells of bullshit. Then again, they don't say "best-selling" or "most reorders per volume", just "biggest". Which can mean "We all really love it around the office," or "We got a poster-sized reprint of the cover of this one," or "Courtney Love is here with a cake knife at my throat and swears she'll kill me if we don't include Princess Ai."
Hollywood Eyes Manga Properties ::Checks watch:: Let's see, it's 10:30 in 2007, and I'm STILL waiting on that Sailor Moon movie. Remember? That all the starlets that are washed up and on drugs and have babies now were gonna be in? Or that Eva movie? With CGI by ILM? Anyone?
Profile of Tokyopop CEO Stu Levy. For whatever reason, he wore his Bono Halloween costume for the photo.
Tokyopop's Top 10 Titles From 10 Years. I found it surprising how much of their top 10 was recent, and also how many of the books were original works considering what snobs we otaku can be about non-Japanese anime and manga. I chatted with
jaina and she agrees that it smells of bullshit. Then again, they don't say "best-selling" or "most reorders per volume", just "biggest". Which can mean "We all really love it around the office," or "We got a poster-sized reprint of the cover of this one," or "Courtney Love is here with a cake knife at my throat and swears she'll kill me if we don't include Princess Ai."
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