TP cancels volumes with release dates after May 4

[digitalskye.livejournal.com]

As we all know, Tokyopop is going to be shut down by May 31. I'm fairly certain that most of us were expecting that the 3rd volume of Hetalia (along with any other series with volume releases in the near future) were going to be canceled. This is just official confirmation from RightStuf: that volumes with release dates before May 4 seem to be okay, but volumes slated to be released after have been canceled. Being that Hetalia vol. 3 was scheduled for a May 31 release date, it has been canceled.

http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/main/news/individual/?ForumThreadName=FT0000002354&Offset=0&ReturnTo=Archive

EDIT:
Just to let people know, the closing of TP's North American publishing branch appears to affect the United Kingdom as well, as the UK's books are all imports from NA. The German branch of Tokyopop will be unaffected.

Comments

Re: D;

[novara-chan.livejournal.com]

now we order things from Japan and say fuck tokyo pop.. 8l.. honeslt if they CARED about the fans in the first place they wouldn't be ditching us 8l

Re: D;

[gabby-hetalia.livejournal.com]

StupisBastards! I guess someone will be godly and buy up the translationa, but god knows how long that'll take!

Re: D;

[hypercoffee117.livejournal.com]

I don't think you understand. You know of Supply and Demand? Tokyopop is a prime example of having more supply than demand. So, they have to shut down because they don't have any money, likely because of the Borders issue.