TOKYOPOP to close North American publication Division (Update 3)

ANN has confirmed with Tokyopop Senior Vice President Mike Kiley that the company will shutter its Los Angeles-based North American publishing operations on 31 May. Movies and the company's European operations will be affected by this closure, and based in Hamburg, Germany, will continue to manage global sales of rights for the company.

A representative of public relations, working for Tokyopop CEO Stu Levy informed ANN that "Tokyopop announce the future of specific titles and other versions in the coming weeks."

In a post on the Web site for Otaku web series greatest reality of America's Tokyopop, Levy revealed they will spend the next year located in Miyagi, Japan, to make a documentary on the effects of the great Hanshin earthquake disaster Japan East (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) on 11 March. The proceeds of the documentary will be to support victims. She also sent a message of goodbye official Tokyopop site.

May 31, is less than three weeks after the first major feature film based on Tokyopop properties, priest, opens in American theaters.

Levy founded the company, originally called Mixx, in 1997 and published manga in serial form in his magazine Mixxzine. The company's titles include the popular manga series Mahou shojo Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi, Hitoshi Iwaaki's Parasyte horror/science-fiction, fantasy manga series Magic Knight Rayearth and clamp.

TOKYOPOP experienced following the publication of manga "unflopped (shown in its original format of reading from right to left) for all its titles in 2002 divisions and launched in United Kingdom and Germany, as well as an imprint dedicated to boys love manga called Bluebetween 2003 and 2005. Other efforts have included a line of Tokyopop novel lightweight program Rising Stars of Manga and more recently, manga print-on-demand and digital printing.

In 2006, the company announced that it had negotiated the rights to a live action adaptation of manhwa Korean Hyung Min-Woo priest. In 2008, the company has undergone a deep restructuring that divide society publishing division and a new Division of media and film. The company also toured the United States throughout the summer of 2010, largest Otaku web series in America.

In 2009, Tokyopop has confirmed that all licenses Kodansha would lapse. Last month, Levy commented that the failure of February of the borders bookstore had played a significant role in his decision to dismiss a number of employees of the company.

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Update 2: Added more history information and company background.

Update 3: Comment information added to the State licensing.
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Studio 4 ° C core Campus Crusade for Christ Jesus short

Japan Studio 4 ° C (Party of genius, Tekkonkinkreet, segments of The Animatrix) animated adaptation of nine minutes of Jesus, the live version of the 1979 film of the story of Jesus Christ from the organizers of Campus Crusade for Christ Group (CCC), and producers sent the short on-line on Tuesday. "My last day" depicts the biblical story of the crucifixion of Jesus through the perspective of a thief who was crucified.

Barry Cook, Director of the Disney film Mulan, wrote the screenplay for the short and the Ministry of Jesus Film Project of CCC. The current on-line version is in English, and the producers planned to translate the short in other languages.

Christianity has been covered in Tatsunoko anime series Superbook (Anime Oyako Gekijo) and manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka worked with the Vatican on In The Beginning-anime series of Bible stories, just before he disappeared. Gundam character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (Arion) created a manga about Jesus and another about the Catholic St. Giovanna d'Arco (Joan).

Source: Christian Post

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Liceo DxD light novels have Souls in the works

Ichiei Ishibumi the author and Publisher Fujimi Shobo announced on Friday that High School DxD Ishibumi light novel series of anime has a project in the works.

The story follows Issei Hyodo, a student of the Lycée dim-witted, lustful sophomore who is killed by a girl on her first date ever. Issei is reincarnated as a devil, and from that day forward, he serves as a subaltern Riasu, a devil that is also the most beautiful girl on campus of Issei.

Miyama-Zero was illustrating the original light novel volumes since have launched in 2008, and the ninth volume will ship next week. Hiroji Mishima has been drawing manga adaptation in Monthly Dragon Age in Fujimi Shobo's magazine since February.
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Aria the Scarlet ammo's seventh BD/DVD to add unproduced episode

The seventh Blu-ray Disc and DVD volume of the television anime series Aria the Scarlet ammo ship in Japan on December 21 with the 12th episode of the television episode. The anime adaptation of the light novel series of Chugaku Akamatsu just debuted in Japan on Thursday and the first volume DVD/Blu-ray will ship on 22 June.

Source: Neowing

Image © 2011 Chugaku Akamatsu Tokyo, Media Factory/Butei High School
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Ask John: there are any Anime Bishoujo Gunplay on the way?

Question:
There is or there will be any more like Madlax and Noir series?

Answer:
Canaan TV explosion is the best contemporary girls with guns anime outside the canon of Noir/Madlax/the Hunter/ghost of Koichi Mashimo and Canaan is probably superior at least Madlax and El Cazador, if not Noir and Phantom as well. But if other shows such as grenadiers, Canaan and Gunslinger Girl are too old or too familiar and Angel Beats last year does not provide enough power to fire bishoujo, there may be a new destination to focus on. New series this week of television of gunplay Hidan for bishoujo Aria does not provide many of the beautiful girls and highly stylized gunplay, although its quality of animation and action choreography are not quite as stylish or impressive as black or Canaan. Hidan no Aria tentatively only can fill the gap in girl gunplay anime because it does not display a prominent tsundere of Shakugan Shana and Toradora MoE, and a lot of sexual innuendo said that they give a very different from dramatic tonemelancholy and morally provocative shows as Noir, Canaan and Gunslinger Girl.

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