Thread 149970177

>Comic spin-off of an obscure kid's novel series that only lasted three books
>Done in the style of manga but read left to right and the art done by an up and coming Chinese artist
>Third volume cancelled because the publisher went under
Any other /co/ oddities like Spy Goddess?

>>149970177 (OP)
The fact that pic is an official thing sanctioned and approved by nitro+ still boggles my mind.
If it was a rippoff like, say, Diessel, i would have an easier time wrapping my head around it. But it has fucking nitro+ website in the first page.
I would have read a Cyberslayer, Phantom or Demonbane /co/mic

>>149970177 (OP)
thats like half of tokyopops books
i checked them out recently and its all yaoi dating stuff now.

>>149970281
>thats like half of tokyopops books
How many of them are based on established kids novels though?
Spy Goddess is jarring to me because you go from pic related to the cover in the OP
That and the artist apparently became a huge success when she went back to China

Vampire Kisses. It has art by Rem, although for some reason she's embarassed about having worked on it

>>149970355
>How many of them are based on established kids novels though?
good question, i know you can find every work theyve done on the wiki page, it has some really obscure ones aswell which i used to own like mark of the succbus

Another Tokyopop one but they really went all in on Van Von Hunter despite the original webcomic being incredibly obscure. Three original graphic novels and a really cheap movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxiJADpH33g

Also I'm not sure what volume it is but the back of one of the Hayate the Combat Butler volumes makes a reference to Shortpacked of all fucking things.
>>149970256
I did that for the storytime of pain years ago, I think it might have been the second one we did actually, and its just such a baffling series.

>>149971115
Oh yeah Tokyopop also had the webcomic start running in papers for a period of time, along with another Tokyo Pop "Amerimanga" Peach Fuzz.

>>149971146
Ah Tokyopop they had so much good shit and so much bad shit. Anyone remember that one Courtney Love "manga" they had, or the "manga" made by Steve Austen

Neat.
Thanks OP!

>>149971176
I was gonna make fun of cine-manga but apparently stuff like that still gets made and even Japan has done something similar

>>149970874
I can't handle so much kino

As far as TokyoPop original art is concerned, it doesn't look bad

>>149970933
Most artists tend to cringe at their early work

>>149974929
I don't think she was cringing at her art, I thinl she was cringing at the writing of the author, which if she was is kind of shitty considering said author praised her art work and has it hanged up in her home

>>149974184
Sex

There's a manga about courtney love

>>149971176
*Chuck Austin

>>149975718
>>149974929
Don't forget that Tokyopop screwed over all the creators who signed with them for their "OEL manga" program. They lost all rights to their art and work from it.

>>149970355
didnt Yen Press do a Maximum Overdrive American manga?

>>149976684
But she still has Devil's Candy

>>149976684
Yeesh

>>149970933
Raven is cute and I'm gonna do a storytime around Halloween

>>149976684
I think Brandon Graham was the only one who was able to wrangle his book out from them right? Cloonan had a book too but I think it's with them still

TokyoPop was such a fucking wild ride, more money than sense and they'd piss it out over the weirdest shit. Remember I Love Halloween getting a whole animated webseries to itself? And Stu Levy directed that Priest adaptation too IIRC

>>149970933
Did anyone else read these books? I admit the writing wasn't the best and the characters are kind of flat but they"=÷ very light reads, were cute and I liked Raven a lot

Are there lewds?

>>149978990
Nope

>>149979113
Working on it, then.

>>149979122
Both books are available to rent on the Internet Archive in case you need more references
https://archive.org/details/chaseforchalice0001spra
https://archive.org/details/questforlance00spra

>>149970177 (OP)
Tokyopop put out a ton of OEL manga stuff in the period between 2000 - 2010. A lot of it just wasn't very good and a lot of it never got completed.

Tokyopop had a Rising Stars of Manga competition where they were trying to find new OEL talent. They aggressively tried to push "I Luv Halloween.' Even though it wasn't very good.

>>149970933
For some reason Tokyopop really liked putting out OEL goth themed manga. They had a ton of goth stuff like Gothic Sports, Bizenghast, Princess Ai, and Dark Moon Diary. And I'm sure I'm missing a few.

Posting more Raven

>>149979441
>Not on Internet Archive
>Not on eBay
>Not on Amazon
Okay a fucking cine-manga of The Simple Life shouldn't be this rare

>>149970177 (OP)
It looks fantastic. I'll definitely read it.

>>149979856
It's possible that the manga never even existed, and just the cover was released for promotional material.

>>149979957
It's listed on PreviewsWorld and it lines up with the Amazon listing's release date
ISBN info can be found across multiple sites as well
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL043151
https://andersonuniversity.ecampus.com/simple-life-kaftan-jod-langhorn-robert/bk/9781595322135

>>149979912
The art's nice but the volumes themselves are pretty short
Not sure how it compares to the novels
It's more of a novelty for its sheer existence but admittedly the main character looks cute

>>149970256
I think is weirder than the Nier comic

>>149980708
Well shit, i didn't know that was a thing.
I still think it's not that far-fetched. SE is a decently sized company and i can imagine them comissioning a couple issues to promote their new game.

>>149981424
Most of the time it's the publisher who goes the rights holder

>>149979441
>For some reason Tokyopop really liked putting out OEL goth themed manga
Because goth was in.

>>149978125
Ruby Rose?

>>149982085
Raven Madison. She rules because she likes spooky shit and wants to be a vampire
>>149981678
The first book in the series it's based off was apparently written in 1997 but didn't release until 2000 in Europe and 2003 in America

>>149979441
It was the 2000's
It's like being surprised why SLG had so much goth themed stuff

>>149971176
>>149976661
Christ I must have been drunk with that post but I'm surprised we don't have a Steve Austin manga/comic considering how many WWF stars had one

>>149978387
They also died and got resurrected. Now it seems they mostly just publish "LGBT friendly" (mostly just BL and yuri) romance manga and they're still getting their lunch eaten by imprints like Seven Seas who publish the spicer shit

>>149983747
Cute

I love this.

>>149985686
The books themselves are actually pretty cute. It's not amazing but they're fun quick reads - there's nine of them

>>149986557
I'll keep that in mind

>>149976710
If you mean Maximum Ride than yeah

>>149975718
Is it shitty?

>>149983984
Times have changed people want disgusting smut now

>>149990241
They're not amazing or anything but they're all right books that have a lot of cute moments in them and the main character is pretty fun and likeable imo

This is what /co should be about, too.

>>149976710
To be fair, at least that novel series did well enough to last longer with more books and had a movie

>>149970177 (OP)
>>149979441
Their Dark Crystal manga wasn't bad. The Labyrynth one... had a nice cover.

>>149979441
>Princess Ai
That even got a spin-off book. Was the Avril Lavigne manga from them?

Also, what did Paris Hilton look like in this?

>>149970177 (OP)
She’s cute and I would kiss her tummy

>>149993423
She's for me only, so you may not.

>>149979856
>>149979441
It does. I have it. Somewhere.
Because... damn... that is a photo I took ages ago at an old apartment and posted ages ago.

>>149993046
>Also, what did Paris Hilton look like in this?
It was just a bunch of screencaps from the show with speech bubbles and sound effects.

>>149994526
If the cover isn't in bad quality can you scan it?
It's literally the only pic I can find online

>>149994591
>>149993046
Their Power Rangers line at least incorporated a few drawings and at least one of their NBA books had two original characters narrate

>>149970177 (OP)
the dark hunter series is similar

>>149970177 (OP)
Pouring one out for some old-school failures (that I enjoyed reading).

>>149997094
This one, too.

>>149997123
You know they released new volumes of this in 2020, right?

>>149997094
I actually liked Last Hope, I read it at Barnes and Noble or Borders or something. I remember one of those girls had an energy drink addiction. The series ended at 2 volumes and was never concluded with a third.

I remember liking Destiny's Hand. Seven Seas put out a lot of pirate themed OEL manga in their early days, and Destiny's Hand actually managed to complete all 3 volumes of the story.

>>149997364
I picked it up on a whim, I think. I'll always associate it with Summer 2005, along with the og Halo book trilogy, Gundam SEED, and DDR techno/Eurobeat (there was definitely a technofuturistic theme going). Simple story and the art was almost too clean, but I liked the characters and wanted to see where the dimension-hopping gimmick was going to go. Weirdly, the artist is still going.

I feel like I have to check out Destiny's Hand, if it's just 3 volumes and actually completed. Thx.

And I gotta wonder where SS was pulling all these people who were JUST hanging off the ledge on the other side of the "actually real manga" uncanny valley.

>>149996967
Had no idea this existed

I wanna make love to her.

>>149994591
Oh. Oh wow.

Well shit, i was going to make a thread about OEL Manga which are just comics for all intents and purposes. But looks like this thread just became that.
Anything noteworthy about these? Or just stuff for teenagers to read and be embarassed in later years?

>>150000493
I've seen plenty based on public domain books lately

>>149970256
>approved by nitro+
They also approved a western live-action of Steins;Gate. God knows how that will turn out.

Bump for interest

Wish I knew this before.

This is apparently a thing now
Scholastic got an actual Japanese mangaka to make the art
I kind of want to see if /a/ would be cool with it but
>color
>still read left to right
>western publisher

>>150003595
Just sucking all the soul out of one of my childhood favorites, I should be used to it by now but this one kinda stings

>>150003639
At least it's confirmed Flip-O-Rama is still in it
Dav seems pretty enthusiastic over the project

>>150003595
I've never heard of Motojiro

I'd storytime if there were scans

>>150003924
Apparently he specializes mostly in kids manga in a daily newspaper

>>150000493
I remember I liked MBQ. Felipe Smith won second place in the Rising Stars of Manga competition. It felt like a very black comic with the stuff with gangsters.

>>150005656
>Felipe Smith
Didn't he go on to write ANAD Ghost Rider. That book fucking ruled

>>150005656
>>150005676
He also lived in Japan and made an actual manga published by a Japanese magazine

>>149997123
>>149989734
>>149982393
>>149970177 (OP)
This genre of artstyle always gives me weird nostalgic pain. Genuinely one of the few things that make my brain wish I was a millenial despite me not liking "born in the wrong generation" notions. Retarded childhood to blame probably.

Surprised nobody brought up Serenity yet

>>150006431
I’m fond of the Tokyopop originals for the same reason, sucks they screwed the artists

>>150006051
Do American otaku actually think that

>>149970177 (OP)
Where do we start here?

Charmful.

>>150007576
It used to be a bigger thing, back when the
"community" was smaller and the average age was lower.

>>150006431
It's kind of like pop music tween girls liked to me
I didn't care for it as a kid but now it just reminds me of simpler times

>>149970177 (OP)
Serenity

>>150007576
They still do
The Jet Set Radio composer even pointed it out

>>149997123
I read that as Carthlight at first

>>150007250
>>150006431

There's just something very... authentic about the Tokyopop OEL mangas. The range really is a window into how the early weeaboos of the 2000s Western anime boom, the time from the creation of Toonami to the 2007 Geneon crash, really thought and reflected the media that they were consuming.

>>150007120
Serenity wasn't based off a novel series.

Also hot take but Raven > Serenity

>>150014020
Completely understandable.

>>150016207
It's still an OEL which this thread became about

>>150007576
Yeah

>>150000493
I heard good things about Miki but I'm more familiar with Crilley's work on Akiko

>>149973660
>>149974184
Yeah, pretty cool.

>>149976710
>>149989734
>Maximum Ride
Yeah, what happened to that series? I had a classmate who was into the book series, I just assumed it was another big YA franchise like Hunger Games and Divergent.

>>150019586
I did buy Miki Falls books 1 - 3, but I got bored of it and never got around to reading book 4. I did like the artwork, but the story was kind of meh.

I really liked My Last Summer with Cass though. I read it twice. It doesn't feel like Amerimanga, it feels like it's own thing and it has a touching story. In general, I'm not a huge fan of OEL manga set in Japan, because the author usually only understand about Japan from manga and will always be an outsider.

>>150003595
Captain Underpants is pretty well liked in Japan so I have faith it’ll be alright.

>>150019980
Captain Underpants gets released in Japan?

>>150019748
Ended in 2020

Oh yeah Empowered

>>149997364
i remember seeing this shit at the book fair when i was in 45th or 5th grade back in the mid 2000's. The pirate anime girl has been in the back of my head for decades. Even millennial weebo manga had SOVL back then.

>>150024417
I actually think I prefer to a good chunk of anime influenced western art that's been coming out lately

>>150019748
It apparently has a sequel series now but the last book came out in 2021
Not sure if it left anything open

>>150003595
Looks like it could be fun

>>149970177 (OP)
>Done in the style of manga but read left to right--
Either commit to the bit or don't bother at all.

>>149970177 (OP)
>Spy Goddess?
Why does it name that way?

>>150019980
>Captain Underpants is pretty well liked in Japan
How do you know this

>>150026844
She's the reincarnation of a goddess and is also a spy

>>150027600
That is an awesome premise. Where could I read it?

>>150028620
Internet Archive has the Tokyopop volumes but I think it also has the actual novels as well

>>150028620
https://archive.org/details/spygoddessbookon00mich
https://archive.org/details/spygoddessbooktw00mich

>>150026257
Maybe it's one of those "the artist more used to it" sort of deals?

>>150034679
God that art is ugly.

>>150029370
>>150030340
Awesome!

>>150035636
True that yo.

>>150037243
See >>149979369
Tokyopop books here

>>149970177 (OP)
Is this still anime-ish?

>>150037243
She should have gotten the person who drew the Japanese covers of the books. Bella's a qt in them

>>150041099
I'd argue yes

>>150034679
I actually have both volumes 1 and 2 of the Twilight manga. Although I probably should just sell them. They really aren't very good. Covers 1 and 2 do connect to make a full art piece though.

>>149970933
I've been wondering what happened to all these American mangakas after Tokyopop died.

>>149970933
>>149975718
Who is this again?

>>150026257
Silly, it would suck if they made it right to left.

>>150035636
The art itself is decent, thr colors are just kinda bad

>>150044161
Rem, the artist of Devil's Candy and character designer for River City Girls