{"id":6647,"date":"2003-11-14T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/11\/14\/tokyopop-announces-new-manga-acquisitions-2\/"},"modified":"2003-11-14T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-14T15:44:00","slug":"tokyopop-announces-new-manga-acquisitions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tokyopop-announces-new-manga-acquisitions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TOKYOPOP Announces new Manga Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYOPOP has officially announced its acquisition of translation rights to several new manga series.<\/p>\n<p>Ikkitousen will be localized beginning on April 6, 2004 under the American title &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyopop.com\/dbpage.php?propertycode=IKK&#038;categorycode=BMG\" target=\"_blank\">Battle Vixens<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyopop.com\/dbpage.php?propertycode=AKU&#038;categorycode=BMG\" target=\"_blank\">The Demon Ororon<\/a> (Akuma no Ororon), a dark fantasy by Mizuki Hakase, will also debut in English on April 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Masakazu Yamaguchi&#8217;s horror manga Arm of Kannon (possibly &#8220;Mystery Minzoku Gakusha Yakumo Itsuki&#8221;) will debut in English on May 4th. Yamaguchi may be better known as the creator of ecchi manga series &#8220;My My Mai,&#8221; &#8220;BOiNG,&#8221; and &#8220;Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gotaman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Haruko Iida&#8217;s shoujo sci-fi\/fantasy series Crescent Moon (Mikan no Tsuki) will debut on May 4th also.<\/p>\n<p>Kei Toume&#8217;s Lament of the Lamb (Hitsuji no Uta) will premier in America on May 11, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Shimizu Aki&#8217;s manga adaptation of Konami&#8217;s Suikoden RPG video game series will see its English language premier on May 11, 2004, as well.<\/p>\n<p>TOKYOPOP will also begin localizing Lee So-young&#8217;s Korean manwha series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyopop.com\/dbpage.php?propertycode=MOD&#038;categorycode=BMG\" target=\"_blank\">Model<\/a> on May 4, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animeondvd.com\/news\/pr.php?pr_view=264\" target=\"_blank\">Anime on DVD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYOPOP has officially announced its acquisition of translation rights to several new manga series. Ikkitousen will be localized beginning on April 6, 2004 under the American title &#8220;Battle Vixens.&#8221; The Demon Ororon (Akuma no Ororon), a dark fantasy by Mizuki Hakase, will also debut in English on April 6th. Masakazu Yamaguchi&#8217;s horror manga Arm of [&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-6647","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\/6647","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=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}