What went wrong?
>>151899986https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQNkvQiClw
Awful to work for even by comic industry standards which naturally meant attracting, let alone retaining, talent was a big problemAlso bleeding licenses. If, by the late 2000s to early 2010s, the most notable license you have is .hack, well, you're not gonna fly so good
I want to find this just so I can make my own Madagascar 2 cine-manga with suspiciously high-res shots of Gloria's butt
Was there any reason Tokyopop had just the shittiest binding? Any time I saw a book from them like picrel, there'd be pages coming outI have a couple of their Mars volumes and they don't have that problem
>>151900137Money
>>151899986Owner gambled on a TV show, didn't work out, didn't kill the company either.2008 happened, brick and mprtar bookstore closes.Problem is Tokyopop keeps shoveling mangoes at them.Suddenly fuckloads of unsold stock and exorbitant print numbers ordered.
I'm kind of upset we never got Spy Goddess vol 3
>>151899986They got popped
>>151899986Got big early when there was a lack of competition, thought that meant they had the market on lockdown and could dictate how things were run, newcomers with better business practices ripped talent and licensing out from under them, attempted to push adjacent product on an uninterested market audience, and finally publishers took note of the expanding US market and started making their own inroads and cutting distribution deals themselves.
From my own observation, it seems like they started with licenses and then wanted to move on to originals, which ended up being the worst kind of Deviant Art "how to draw manga" webcomic slop. I didn't even know they licensed manga until recently, I always associated them with "American manga".
>>151903291They had some big licenses back in the early to mid 2000s - Fruits Basket, .hack, Sailor Moon and Love Hina off the top of my head.
>>151900006Jeez.
