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

[sakuraiyo.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. Incidently, when Tokyopop shuts down, then all of their products will be removed(or sell out) from shelves in book stores. (right?)
So if, for example, Hetalia vol 1 and 2 are removed from shelves then that leaves Hetalia inaccessible to newer fans of the series (who want to know what's the series about). And because Hetalia has a large growing following, then that would be enough initiative for the next publisher to start "re-publishing" the series from Vol 1. Because of it's growing popularity, combined with the fact that Vol 1-2 are gonna be sold out for good should be enough motivation for the publisher to just restart Hetalia back to Vol. 1.

But, then again, what do I know.. >_>'

[shadowcatgc.livejournal.com]

I kind of do hope it is "retranslated" because I still don't have Volume 2 -no money, whee- but at the same time I wish they'd release volume 3 quickly. Maybe they could work on 3 first and then retranslate the others?

[sakuraiyo.livejournal.com]

Well I know something that happened similarly with Viz Media and their Pokemon Adventures Manga. About a couple of years ago, they began to translate the manga. Problem was that they wanted to translate it from the VERY BEGINNING and the manga in Japan was already at Vol 30 or something (This manga originally started in 1997). Since there would virtually be no way to catch up, Viz Media began publishing the most recent arc of the manga while at the same time publishing the beginning.

So maybe what you say is not out of the question. But then again, I'm comparing 2 Volumes of Hetalia to over 30 of Pokemon xD.

[hoshiko-2000.livejournal.com]

You're probably right (sadly) :(