{"id":6744,"date":"2003-12-17T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/12\/17\/tokyopop-expanding-beyond-japanese-imports\/"},"modified":"2003-12-17T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T15:39:00","slug":"tokyopop-expanding-beyond-japanese-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tokyopop-expanding-beyond-japanese-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"TOKYOPOP Expanding Beyond Japanese Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsarama has published an <a href=\"http:\/\/newsarama.com\/forums\/showthread.php?s=&#038;threadid=7255\" target=\"_blank\">extensive article<\/a> discussing TOKYOPOP&#8217;s plans for 2004, 2005 and beyond to focus greater attention on publishing original comics by American artists and attracting a larger consumer base than traditional manga and anime fans alone. Tokyopop editor Mark Paniccia reveals that while TOKYOPOP still has a strong desire to bring Japanese manga to fans, but the company has always had plans to publish original American material rather than fully rely on importing managa from Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaggedteam.com\/bin\/shownews.cgi?id=3346\" target=\"_blank\">Jagged Team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsarama has published an extensive article discussing TOKYOPOP&#8217;s plans for 2004, 2005 and beyond to focus greater attention on publishing original comics by American artists and attracting a larger consumer base than traditional manga and anime fans alone. Tokyopop editor Mark Paniccia reveals that while TOKYOPOP still has a strong desire to bring Japanese manga [&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-6744","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\/6744","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=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}