Today I was surfing the net and I found this article from Tokyopop:
Frequently Asked Quetions: Why do series go on hiatus? by Author: LillianDP (Senior Editor)
tl;dr:
In here we, the customers, get blamed for them dropping a title because we wait for it to be complete before buying. Plus we shouldn’t expect that many copies of the early volumes if we wait too long or until it’s complete.
So today I will discuss their arrogant attitude, well I’m hoping they will see this and answer where answers needed, cuz let’s be serious; They fucked the customers up really bad, not once, not twice…well you know the deal if you are a Tokyopop customer.
My thoughts after reading the article:
Tokyopooooop still think that we trust them enough to buy manga from them before they even ended. I know it’s an old deal but really politics and manga don’t fit together well.
Let’s start with some things I’ve wondered about and would love their reply:
Tokyopoooop doesn’t tell you when something is canceled or going to be.
Why? Cuz then they can’t sell those titles to suckers. Why Tokyopooop, why?
I got rebirth and chronicles of the cursed sword which are korean manwha which you replied: “We drop and never look back!” What do I do with those…? Rebirth is at vol 26 atm and CotCS is complete with vol 39…which I will never see complete if I don’t learn korean and buy them from korea in the near future cuz Tokyopoooop stopped those.
I got getbackers and samurai deeper kyo (thank god for delrey existing with sdk)…you stopped before the end!
Why? Because they took the license from you after you just wasted time not releasing it all when you could…totally Tokyopooop’s fault. Then when you found out you had one year left you tried to sell all the volumes you could and then drop it, massively in our heads who’s stuck near the ends. Don’t start me on other titles. Now I have to learn japanese and buy them from japan in the near future cuz Tokyopooop messed up.
Tell me one thing Tokyopooop: What kind of shithead do you think I am? Who’s going to pay me for those volumes that’s at home collecting dust cuz they got stopped in the middle?
This wasn’t a “Ahhh what a nice complete collection I got” no it’s more like “omg…I’m never gonna buy manga from them. If I do then let it be after they complete it.”
You may think that this is our fault that you have to leave the titles and later drop them but you should find the root of this problem: You, Tokyopoooop, you!
My old dropped-by-Tokyopooop titles aren’t going to come back so tell me what is your worth when you want us to buy after saying “We will in the future work on what we want to work on” Cool but remember the readers who just don’t read your manga but actually buy them. If you were a scanlation group then we could say “Fine, you do it for free, it’s your choice since we aren’t paying anyway” but in your case we as customer are paying you, big money even so thinking you can screw us up like that and then expect us to jump in with both legs once again:
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
from StubbornOne : I’d like the Nguruwa raws if you please, thanks.
geez.. why did i do this… xD
Thanks Vinz, it seems like it worked fine now. I really dunno what was wrong with his blog before but I could put them on his blog just fine today.^^
Let’s wait for more nice manga in the future…that start from the start. xD
Hi, this is rather late but thanks for the raws! (=
Now I know why I import my Mangos from Japan, lol.
Yes, this is also why I’m taking my japanese classes seriously.
I’m tired of their crap about scanlation is bad when they screw that well with us when we support them by buying the manga.
Plus buying manga from japan is cheaper for me than buying them from usa.
Now that Tokyopop is dead there’s no point rehashing this, but you’re right that they brought this on themselves. In the beginning people would buy their series without even thinking about it. After years of randomly dropping stuff without warning, everyone was wary and they shouldn’t be blamed for that. No wonder they collapsed, with an attitude like that.
Exactly, I totally agree. At the start when I contacted them about some questions and titles, they told me straight out. Quite nice a bunch I thought and I kept buying their manga. Then some years later at the beginning of their OEL stuff, I was on their forum where people were complaining about their edits (read: censored stuff) and the mods on the forum replied like this: IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT THEN DON’T BUY IT.
People don’t buy stuff if you act all high and mighty without a good reason. People wanted the 100% authentic manga with translation style, not censoring and crappy cropping. Fruit Basket volume 14 is a perfect example of how you do not crop. I’m a bit sad that they are dead but it comes as no surprise when the heads don’t know how to control their people and how not to piss off the readers and the ones they bought licenses from.
A bit too sad if you ask me because they could have gotten huge the right way and not the infamous way.