Did You Hate TokyoPop Because It Was a “Teenager” Company? You know, I honestly thought I wouldn’t be writing a lengthy piece on TokyoPop after I had posted my TokyoPop license-rescue wish list. However, after reading Lianne’s insider thoughts on TokyoPop’s closure and her speculation on the reason people hated TokyoPop so much, I had
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My TokyoPop Manga License Rescue Dream List
June 15th, 2011 
AstroNerdBoy I took some time to take the books down from my manga bookcase in order to do some much-needed dusting and get some new titles inserted such as Fairy Tail. As I did this, I looked at the TokyoPop manga titles and lamented the fact that it is very possible that some or all of
Why the Harem Genre?
May 21st, 2011 AstroNerdBoy Why the Harem Genre? Considering my nutty schedule this month, which makes watching anime nearly impossible, I was trying to think of some anime or manga-related topic I could discuss. As I looked at my tastes in anime and manga titles, I find that I have a strong preference for the so-called harem titles. So
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Why Watch Classic Anime?
May 7th, 2011 AstroNerdBoy Why Watch Classic Anime? The other day, someone asked me, “Why do you watch so much old anime?” I found it to be a good question because watching anime from the 80’s certainly isn’t something that will increase blog traffic. Indeed, I’d say that so much blogging about the original Mobile Suit Gundam and Urusei
X-Men in Japan Circa 1983 — Wolverine’s Wedding and the Seeds of My Love of Japanese Honorifics, Terms, and Culture
April 22nd, 2011 AstroNerdBoy A few days ago, I wrote a piece on the 1982 4-issue comic strip series called Wolverine, which the recent anime series used as a foundation for their own story. Considering how different the comic and anime stories end, combined with the current X-Men anime series which sees the villain character Mastermind lurking around, I
Goodbye, TokyoPop
April 16th, 2011 AstroNerdBoy Goodbye, TokyoPop Times they are a changing. Last year, Del Rey all but completely dropped from the manga publishing field (save for a very few titles like xxxHOLiC). Yesterday, word came out that TokyoPop is going to close its publishing doors, meaning TokyoPop will now disappear from the manga publishing field as well. Turn the
The Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
March 11th, 2011 AstroNerdBoy I was sitting at work when one of the large monitors that endlessly plays CNN started saying something about a massive Earthquake in Japan. Since I had Twitter up on the side, I took a glance and saw folks from Japan beginning to tweet on the Earthquake. Azuma-sensei (Azumanga Daioh; Yotsuba&!) posted this on Twitter.
Manga Sales Suck! (It’s Stu Levy’s Fault and May Be the Cause of Border’s Bankruptcy)
February 27th, 2011 AstroNerdBoy Manga Sales Suck! (It’s Stu Levy’s Fault and May Be the Cause of Border’s Bankruptcy) Several days ago, Toonleap had a repost of an article taking information from Japanese sources talking about the collapse of the manga markets in France and in the U.S. Completely absent from the quoted piece is anything about the general
