{"id":3697,"date":"2001-07-09T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-09T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/07\/09\/tokyopop-announcements-from-anime-expo\/"},"modified":"2001-07-09T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2001-07-09T18:53:00","slug":"tokyopop-announcements-from-anime-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tokyopop-announcements-from-anime-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyopop Announcements from Anime Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vampire Miyu and St. Tail TV series will debut at the end of August and will be released bi-monthly with 3 episodes on each DVD at $29.99 per disc. Vampire Miyu will consist of 8-9 DVDs and St. Tail will require roughly 15 DVDs.<\/p>\n<p>Remastered, replacement copies of Spring and Chaos should be ready in 2-3 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyopop has the American rights to release domestic version soundtracks for Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 4 &amp; 10, Trigun &#8220;Spicy Donut,&#8221; Bubblegum Crisis 2040, and Vampire Miyu.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyopop will start a &#8220;J-Idols&#8221; line, featuring Japan&#8217;s &#8220;Most Beautiful Women.&#8221; 3 DVDs will be released in September featuring &#8220;Yuka,&#8221; J-pop star Kyoko Fukada, and swimsuit clad Japanese automobile &#8220;race queens.&#8221; The DVDs will include photo galleries, music videos, virtual dates, video messages, behind scenes footage, and personal profiles.<\/p>\n<p>The Paradise Kiss, Planet Ladder, and Mars manga will all appear in Smile Magazine beginning in November.<\/p>\n<p>The English language version of the Marmalade Boy manga will debut in November and the Kodomo no Omocha manga, which will be titled &#8220;Popstar Kodacha,&#8221; [Kodocha?] will premier in December. Both will be &#8220;unflipped.&#8221; The first 5 issues will be comic book size, then switch to graphic novel format for the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyopop has the American publication rights to the Gundam W Battlefield Pacifist, Endless Waltz, and G-Unit manga series.<\/p>\n<p>The second graphic novel volume of Clover will be available in September. Most of their graphic novel releases will be sped up to 2-3 months between releases.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animeondvd.com\/press\/conventions\/2001\/anime_expo_2001_report.htm#tokyopop\" target=\"_blank\">Anime on DVD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vampire Miyu and St. Tail TV series will debut at the end of August and will be released bi-monthly with 3 episodes on each DVD at $29.99 per disc. Vampire Miyu will consist of 8-9 DVDs and St. Tail will require roughly 15 DVDs. Remastered, replacement copies of Spring and Chaos should be ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}