StarTropics and Evermore will be safe for a LONG time. Both were developed in the US for American audiences. Therefore, being associated with either of them is akin to having the plague. A shame, since both were amazing titles, and Secret of Evermore's alchemy system had a lot of potential.
I was thinking the same thing when I read that last sentence in the submission. "Manga" is not a style, it specifically refers to Japanese graphic storytelling. Otherwise there'd be no reason to even use that word. We use that word to refer to their comics/graphic novels because they use that word to refer to the same material. (It is the same with "anime".)
If anything, TOKYOPOP has been heavily pushing the idea that manga is a "style" more than a genre and descriptor of origin. They seem to be quite happy to call their American-drawn line "manga." They continue to push this idea on the consumer at every convention, and in every press release. They like to call this phenomenon "the manga revolution." Of course, this is also the same company that heavily edited most releases they got their paws on when they were still Mixx Publishing, so I'm not really surprised.
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StarTropics and Evermore will be safe for a LONG time. Both were developed in the US for American audiences. Therefore, being associated with either of them is akin to having the plague. A shame, since both were amazing titles, and Secret of Evermore's alchemy system had a lot of potential.
I was thinking the same thing when I read that last sentence in the submission. "Manga" is not a style, it specifically refers to Japanese graphic storytelling. Otherwise there'd be no reason to even use that word. We use that word to refer to their comics/graphic novels because they use that word to refer to the same material. (It is the same with "anime".)
If anything, TOKYOPOP has been heavily pushing the idea that manga is a "style" more than a genre and descriptor of origin. They seem to be quite happy to call their American-drawn line "manga." They continue to push this idea on the consumer at every convention, and in every press release. They like to call this phenomenon "the manga revolution." Of course, this is also the same company that heavily edited most releases they got their paws on when they were still Mixx Publishing, so I'm not really surprised.