I love Tokyopop!!

[budd]

"Well i really wanna collect Lone Wolf and Cub"
it's good too! $9.99 for each is rough, but it's worth imo
that is, until viz releases it even cheaper
it's "kozure okami" in case people want to venture out and find japanese sites on it
plus animeigo got phat liner notes and such on their site

edit: re. lh, i can take a picture of the american manga and the japanese also, to compare
but it would be up to the webmaster to approve of it being posted

 

[Spike308]

Pics

Maybe you should just email it. Save you and Webmaster some trouble.

 

[budd]

word!

 

[Onigiri Chan]

Lone Wolf and cub is merveilles....everyone should own it.

 

[Spike308]

I P\/\/|\|3|) it!

 

[budd]

students get 20% off this week on total purchases at borders
signs posted on the door
plus for the other peeps, there's a 10% off as well
if it's cool, i will try to get a link

 

[Spike308]

that would be pretty good. discountanimedvd.com is running a special now for up to 20% off manga books and other stuff.

 

[Onigiri Chan]

nifty ness!
(i'm back)

 

[Huki-Ko]

Tokyo Babylon

Bei uns ist der Manga bei Carlsen Comics erschienen. Jetzt mﾃｼsste gerade
Band 4 erschienen sein.
Ich kenn' mich mit Tokyopop nicht so gut aus habe aber schon mal was davon gelesen. Wer Lust hat kann mir ja mehr darﾃｼber schreiben! :winklove:

 

[Knives]

Sunrise mall in sacramento had a little anime convention and the ppl from tokyo pop were there it was pretty rad. I go to walden books in the mall they usually have a big manga selection.. and for all the ppl that liked love hin you should read nagima its good

 

[Onigiri Chan]

Yeah I go to Walden books too. It would have been excellent to have been in California when the little mall convention was happening. I've never had a chance to go to a convention yet. =\
I'd love to meet the Tokyopop people...that'd be great - I might have to tell them to stop making stupid cinemanga though...

 

[antantrevolution]

The way I see it is this.. I am not happy with what TP has done to some of their books in the past. Initial D especially. There is absolutely NO REASON to edit that book, in my opinion. I don't care if there is a part of that book where Mogi is laying and her boobs are hanging out or not, I pay $10, I expect the exact same thing I can get for $4 at a Japanese bookstore. The name changes annoy the **** out me too. Tak is sort of acceptable (not sure if it is a nick for Takumi, however...), but Iggy and Natalie?? How the hell are those Japanese names? I would detest their DVD's of Initiall D, but they are 15 bucks with an equal episode count of the Japanese versions.

As for Love Hina, that also shouldn't be edited as it shouldn't even be read by children.

TP is a double edged sword, without them I have read things I never could have before. With them, I haven't learned as much Japanese as I would have liked.

Peace,

Ant

 

[Koori]

I go to borders to get my mangas suncost would be better sence the are doing this 2 for 15$ sale but the dont have the good stuff I had to go to walden books to get gravitation 7 like a week after the release date when no other place had it at alll (I was looking all over), I think tokyopop has good intentions, manga wise, for people like me who cant read japanesse and they have some of the best titles, eerie queerie, gravitation, FAKE, .....hmm see a connetion between those 3, hehe. anyway yeah... thats just me and my ramblings

 

[Knives]

ya unfortunatly they extreamly edit stuff out of the american versions of manga. It sucks because i guess the american public isent as open about sexuality as other countrys are. because you know if that scene in initial D you were talkin about with the chick and her tits, you know some ppl will get hella pissed
as for the name changes i know what ya mean like in berserk they changed the main char. name from gatz (i think the actual name is longer) to guts i dont know why but they do if anyone liked the love hina series like i did then you should check out nagima its made by the same person and its great

 

[ryuichi]

I thought that they did a good job with Jing King of Bandits or Demon Diary. Most of my favorites are made by them. In my preferance there better than VIZ and stuff like that.

 

[dreamer]

hum...does tokyopop export to european countries too?

 

[Nuala]

Barnes & Noble, That's where I go. The current Manga I mean Manwha that I am reading right now is I.N.V.U and Ragnarok. Can't wait until the next volumes come out! O-O

The customer help you recieve there is dreadful.

 

[Onigiri Chan]

I've no idea why they would edit anything out of Initial D...especially when it's just some chick's tits.
FAKE and Eerie Queerie are the shizzle, Koori =.=
Suncoast used to be where I got all my manga, they have nice deals and what not there - but they don't carry much in the way of manga now. At least not when you compare suncoast to Walden Books....which is where I get all my manga now too.

 

[budd]

i doubt that they edit anything out of happy mania though
anyway, i think "Guts" is is his real name, just that the fansubbers thought it must be "Gatz" because "Guts" would have been/must have been so corny
unless Kentaro Miura spelled his name "Gatz" in an interview...
but as far as being ridiiculous, dark horse takes the cake
this last go-around with ghost in the shell, they have one page where motoko is sitting in this chair with "p.i. unit" backwards... they have a blurb saying that "the letters are the way the author intended"! really? then why, in the original japanese version, they are not reversed? does he hate america that much? i kind of doubt it.
they probably asked him to change it, he said forget it, i know kodansha, etc are producing comics with unflopped pages and making moolah, so like it or leave it.
they chose to leave it, and blame him in the process of covering their
good-bye toren smith! and good riddance!!! you will not be missed

 

[White Comet]

The way I see it is this.. I am not happy with what TP has done to some of their books in the past. Initial D especially. There is absolutely NO REASON to edit that book, in my opinion. I don't care if there is a part of that book where Mogi is laying and her boobs are hanging out or not, I pay $10, I expect the exact same thing I can get for $4 at a Japanese bookstore. The name changes annoy the **** out me too. Tak is sort of acceptable (not sure if it is a nick for Takumi, however...), but Iggy and Natalie?? How the hell are those Japanese names? I would detest their DVD's of Initiall D, but they are 15 bucks with an equal episode count of the Japanese versions.

As for Love Hina, that also shouldn't be edited as it shouldn't even be read by children.

TP is a double edged sword, without them I have read things I never could have before. With them, I haven't learned as much Japanese as I would have liked.

Peace,

Ant

i agree with u 500%
tokyopop destroyed initial d with their crappy language, crappy names and crappy everything, i like initial d, but i will NEVER read or watch the english version, i will die before i do that. Actually watching it is even worse because u have to hear their annoying voices and wached up slang like "yo dawg whasup, u wanna go drift down the mountain dawg?" i mean what is that........