I wonder what money Genosha is investing in TP?

Well, Gentosha is a decent sized publisher it seems. I certainly love Lament of the Lamb which TokyoPop already released. Then I see the bit about ” developing into feature films, television series, and web shows.” Well gee, sounds almost like TokyoPop is more interested in other mediums outside of comics and just wants to scoop up some properties.

Considering the little news I’ve read about their horrible ideas for their Lament of the Lamb film, I’m not looking forward to any films TokyoPop has to offer. They’re Americanizing and even turning to the trick of 3D effects. Only the concept sounds vaguely similar. Plus what horrible fan fiction did the find the protagonist’s name of Blake Edwards from? This is adaptation on the scale of LXG or Halle Berry as Catwoman. I thought we were beyond that.

On the bright side hopefully we’ll see more manga stateside from Gentosha Comics. Aside from the irony of TokyoPop who insists on calling their stuff manga turning to a Japanese publisher that has the word comics in their name, they have some interesting titles. They have a number listed on the English part of their site. They seem to have a couple more by Kei Tomei (Lament of the Lamb). Of course in particular I’m hoping they have the guts to publish the questionable blood and guts and sexually explicit series Tokyo Red Hood by Benkyou Tamaoki. They also seem to have a section for a number of shonen-ai / yaoi books too.