News - by Ian - November 16, 2009 - 09:00 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Once a month the mammoth TOKYOPOP UK release a plethora of manga onto the UK market and November is no different. The following tiles are all available immediately and include some very well known titles such as Chibi Vampire and Aria. The full list is as follows:
- Animal Academy : Hakobune Hakusho Volume 1
- Gravitation Collection Volume 1
- Aria Volume 2
- .hack GU+ Volume 3
- Momo Tama Volume 3
- Fate/stay night Volume 4
- Starcraft Frontline Volume 4
- Mamotte Shugogetten Volume 5
- Junjo Romantica Volume 7
- Trinity Blood Volume 10
- Battle Vixens Volume 14
- Chibi Vampire Volume 14
- Rebirth Volume 15
- Liberty Liberty ! Volume 1
- Pixie Volume 2
So you’d better start ordering those Mangas now!
News - by Ian - October 19, 2009 - 09:00 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Every third Monday of the month, the lovely TOKYOPOP unleashes it’s latest manga and graphic novels to the UK market, for us to read and enjoy and then reread next month as well. This month is no different, and the October releases are as follows:
- Domo Volume 1
- PeaceMaker Kurogane Volume 1
- Samurai Harem – Asu no Yoichi Volume 2
- takeru: OPERA SUSANOH SWORD OF THE DEVIL Volume 2
- Phantom Dream Volume 3
- Togainu no Chi Volume 3
- Warcraft Legends Volume 5
- Bizenghast Volume 6
- Gatcha Gacha Volume 7
- Kare Kano Volume 10
- D.N. Angel Volume 12
- Sgt Frog Volume 17
- GOTH Novel Volume 1
- Fruits Basket Ultimate Edition Volume 3
All of these volumes are out today in all good retailers.
News - by Ian - November 11, 2008 - 20:53 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
The IT Crowd is a series about two socially dysfunctional IT professionals, who work for the fictitious Reynholm Industries, very happily for many years. Answering phones with the IT mantra: “Have you turned it off and on again?”, or just not answering it at all. Although located in the basement, Roy and Moss were happy at the bottom of the company ladder until a new manager turns up – Jen. Jen has managed to blag her way into the job and knows nothing about the geek and otaku culture. It’s the perfect show for people who work in an office, with IT or enjoy the geek life. Graced with the presence of the legendary Noel Fielding, as the emotional goth: Richmond, the IT Crowd is moving from strength to strength.
In the third series the director of the show Graham Linehan asked for fans of the show to continue to try and evolve the IT office from geek-chic to geek-heaven. Where would any geek, otaku or IT fan be without anime and manga? In the third series, due to start this November on Channel 4, many different manga titles from TOKYOPOP UK will be making the occasional appearance. The two manga currently confirmed to be seen in the office are titles such as Sgt Frog and Devil May Cry. So keep your eye out for these titles and various others dotted around the office.
Source: TOKOYOPOP UK
News - by Ian - November 7, 2008 - 09:48 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Today it has been annoyed by TOKYOPOP UK that they will be taking part in an exhibition at Durham Univeristy from the 4th September until the 21st December, 2008. This exhibition is part of the Oriental Museum, which displays various artifacts and bits and pieces of oriental culture across time.
As TOKYOPOP are arguably the largest UK publishers of manga, they have been included in part of this exhibition, where manga is taking a huge part. As manga is part of the Japanese culture, and is slowly becoming part of UK culture, it’s prudent for TOKYOPOP and manga to appear at this highly regarded museum.
For additional details about the exhibition, click here.
Source: TOKYOPOP UK
News - by Ian - October 28, 2008 - 15:50 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Tokyopop UK today announced that they had great success at London MCM Expo this year. Along with selling out of every edition of Dramacon Ultimate Edition that was with them over the weekend, the manga signing session ran over time by two hours. This was due to the sheer level of fans who wanted to get their favourite mangas signed by the author of Dramacon, Russian born Svetlana Chmakova .
Along with the sheer level of people showing up to get their manga signed, Tokyopop also gave away the must have gaming machine, the Nintendo Wii to one lucky fan. Darren De Doncker was that lucky fan, who just happened to pick up a copy of Chibi Vampire Volume 1 that had been marked in a particular way. So compeltely at random, he managed to win himself a Wii by just turning up!
Along with this great news, the UK based anime magazine NEO announced the results of their annual “Best Of” awards, and Tokoypop UK won the “Best Manga” award, which was for Tatsuhiko Takimoto’s Welcome to the NHK, and they also won the award of “Best Ditributor” as well! So we’ll be seeing Tokyopop in NEO yet again.
Below are a couple of the photos of that lucky Wii winner along with a Cosplayer and just how much manga Tokyopop brought along with them!
Source: Tokyopop UK
News - by Ian - October 24, 2008 - 19:48 Europe/London - 1 Comment
This is just a reminder to everyone to say that tomorrow is the start of the London MCM Expo! Down in London Town at the ExCel Centre, not too far from London City Airport thousands of anime and manga fans will flock together to enjoy and the plethora of new products that are being launched during this flash in the pan expo.
Beez Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, Viz, MVM and even the videogame publisher Koei are going to be in attendance. For those of you who aren’t on the Beez Mailing List, there’s going to be a lot of Beez products around, and there’s meant to be a few announcements tomorrow as well, along with the Q&A panel.
Sweatdrop Studios will be revealing a lot of new products, as we updated on earlier. So for fans of the many, many series that are being released, you can purchase the entire lot from the Expo tomorrow, you can see the various products that are being announced tomorrow here.
Genki Gear are also releasing their latest T-Shirt designs tomorrow, and the new manga distributor Dimensional Manga will be doing their pre-release signings as well!
So make sure that you all have fun, if you see anything interesting, worth reporting on or anything else that’s great please let us know at webmaster(at)news-anime(dot)comNOSPAM, remember to remove NOSPAM as we hate spam here. I should be around on Sunday, not that any of you a) care or b) know what I look like, but I’ll have a lot of fun anyway!
Enjoy!
News - by Ian - October 21, 2008 - 09:03 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Earlier on in the year, TOKYOPOP Germany sent a long cease and desist letter to many websites that were illegally hosting material on their sites, normally called scanlations. Now this list quickly become public, and of the 230 title list, only 27 titles have not been released in America, Germany or the UK. This list has been very good at predicting soon to be announced titles, and after cross checking them with our Release Schedule page, where we have every announced title into 2009 by TOKYOPOP listed, none of them are there.
A few titles sparked my personal interest, such as Baroque which was recently released on the PS2 and the Nintendo Wii by Rising Star Games, the list is as follows:
- .hack//Alcor
- Acony
- Akuma to Dolce
- Amatsuki
- Ashita no Yoichi!
- Baroque
- Carat!
- Eensy Weensy Monster
- Far East
- Ga-rei
- Hana to Akuma
- Harlem Beat wa Toaki made
- HaruHana
- High School of the Dead
- Kiss and Never Cry
- Koori no Mamono no Monogatari
- Mamotte! Lollipop
- Metal Heart
- Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam
- Saiunkoku Monogatari
- Saiyuki Gaiden
- Seikon no Qwaser
- The Rose of Versailles
- Tokyo Underground
- Yamada Taro Monogatari
- Yasashii Ryuu no Koroshikata
- Yorozuya Toukaido Honpo
This may be a good teller as to what’s coming soon, it may not be.
Source: Kuriousity
News - by Ian - October 17, 2008 - 13:57 Europe/London - 1 Comment
Today TOKYOPOP sent across their remainding dates for the ReCon’s of 2008, and there are plenty of them as well! These events normally take place in Libraries, Bookshops and sometimes even Schools, it’s an event where you and some of the local people around you who love manga can have a chat with the people from TOYKOPOP and find some friends in your local community who are also interested in this artform.
October:
20th Waterstones Enfield
21st Waterstones salisbury
22nd Waterstones Taunton
29th Waterstones Norwich Castle Street
30th Rugby Library
31st Nuneaton Library
November:
08th Zavvi Oxford Street London
11th Waterstones Portsmouth
12th Borders Swindon
13th Waterstones Bracknell
17th St Johns Wood Library London
18th Waterstones Crawley The Marlets
19th West Kent College , Tonbridge
25th Leeds Central Library
26th Halifax Library
27th Blackburn Library
28th Waterstones Carlisle
December:
08th Waterstones Swansea
09th Clevedon Library
11th Red Lantern Manga Reading
16th Stoke Library Ipswich
17th Brentwood Library
18th Enfield Library
When you decide to go along, there will be plenty of manga available for you to purchase, so make sure that you take a small amount of money with you, and your parents if you’re young. Remember to always keep safe!
Source: TOKYOPOP
News - by Ian - October 17, 2008 - 11:16 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Again not a UK based story, but it’s interesting nevertheless. It’s been noticed by a few bloggers as of late that Amazon.com have updated their TOKYOPOP listings for Summer 2009, and a few of these updates seem to be licenses that haven’t been formally announced. This isn’t unusual for Amazon, as they updated about The Legend of Zelda Manga from Viz Kids before Viz made the announcement.
KimiKiss (Vol. 01)
Takeru: Opera Susanoh Sword of the Devil (Vol. 01)
Nakashima Kazuki
Animal Academy: Hakobune Hakusho
Moyamu Fujino
Future Diary: Mirai Nikki (Vol. 01)
Esuno Sakae (?)
Game X Rush (Vol. 01)
Kusanagi Mizuho
Gorgeous Carat L’Esperanza
You Higuri
Hoshi no Witch: The Witch in the Artemis (Vol. 01)
Hara Yui (?)
Uwasa no Futari (BLU)
Matsumoto Temari
Whilst this is an Amazon listing, they’re normally fairly accurate in terms of content and not actual release dates. So I’d say it’s indicative of what’s to come in the States. Although what happens over there tends to follow in the UK, so I’d expect to see a few of those our way next year too.
Source: Kuriousity
News - by Ian - October 13, 2008 - 09:01 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
The manga publisher Tokyopop will be holding an mini-convention this year in Blackburn. This convention will take place in Blackburn Central Library on the 27th November, which is a Thursday. Fortunately the convention will start after most schools and workplaces have closed, at 5pm and will last until around 8pm.
Throughout this time there will be an art competition, cosplay competition, quizzes, prize draws, free gifts and music, with a few Nintendo game demonstrations as well.
Tickets are only £1GBP, so if you’re in Blackburn, get yourself there on the 27th November.
You can prebook the tickets here.
Source: NanimeW
