MANGA SUBMISSION GUIDELINES MANGA PILOTS WANTED   TOKYOPOP is looking for creators who can deliver tight, punchy, well-paced Pilots that entertain and introduce a new property. The primary task of a Manga Pilot is to captivate its audience with characters, concepts and worlds. A Manga Pilot may be the first chapter of a planned graphic novel, but it doe...

MANGA PILOT FAQ   Where Do I Read the Manga Pilots? All of the Pilots are listed under the "Featured Content" banner. Click on a Pilot's icon, and you'll be taken to that Pilot's own page, complete with its manga viewer and its ratings and reviews. Why Create Such Short Manga Stories? TOKYOPOP is looking for creators who can deliver tig...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION From dolls to the big screen, the fashion diva phenomenon known as BRATZ finally makes it over to manga. Personally, I’ve always been a fan of high-fashion and high school angst, so getting to work on this project was a whole lot of fun! Artist Anthony Tan did a great job staying true to the BRATZ image while adding the vibrancy and mot...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Coming SERIES SYNOPSIS Coming   CREATOR PROFILES Coming   CHARACTER INFORMATION Coming   REVIEWS Tuesday, August 28, 2007 Poison Candy v.1 [http://prosperosmanga.blogspot.com/2007/08/poison-candy-v1.html] by David Hine, art by Hans Steinbach Published by TOKYOPOP Slugline: How can it get worse than...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Normally, this spot is where the series' editor makes some (hopefully) witty observations about how they came to work on the particular project and what that experience was like.   But seeing as how writer James Barr came to eV via a route a little out of the norm for an original TOKYOPOP manga, I felt he'd have a much more interesting...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION What an honor to work on this book! Doors of Chaos is one of the first projects where TOKYOPOP has teemed up with our Japanese editors in Tokyo and some extremely talented artists to make some dazzling manga! And Ryoko Mitsuki is no exception. Not only is her artwork real eye candy for the average gothic & Lolita fan, but it’s clear...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Coming SERIES SYNOPSIS Coming CREATOR PROFILES Coming CHARACTER INFORMATION Coming REVIEWS the Comic Book Bin On the surface, Dark Metro seems to be stuck in a formula familiar to horror fiction, in particular EC Comics and "The Twilight Zone." However, the twist ending isn’t a bad thing or seem o...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Horror is a genre that’s hard to do successfully in manga. It relies so much on music and the movie director controlling what you see and when you see it. It’s just difficult to make a book that scary. That challenge is what first attracted me to Daemonium and I hope it will cast a spell on readers as well. As the editor, what exc...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION I love pulp fiction. No, not the Tarantino movie (although, I love that, too!). I’m talking about the literary genre after which Quentin named his watershed film. The “pulps,” as they were called, were filled with fantastic strange new worlds, bizarre technology, sensational action, and of course, a stalwart hero. Pulp ser...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION When we first sat down to discuss creating a manga based on the, at the time, highly anticipated Hellgate: London video game, stories of warriors traversing the streets of The Great Wen strategizing the defense of the city with gritted teeth and burly bluster. But then we thought to ourselves “this is manga. What else characterizes mang...

J-Pop Idol EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION A #1 Hit Cellphone Manga in Japan!! There’s only one dream you’ve been chasing after… There’s only one love you’ve been longing for… There’s only one true friendship you’ve gotten… But what if you lose them all in just one day!? Mika is an active, outgoing and attra...

MANGA SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Manga Pilots Wanted In February 2008, TOKYOPOP launched its Manga Pilot program, an exciting new stage in creative and artistic development for TOKYOPOP. In this new program, promising manga creators are selected and hired by our editorial team to create a 24-to-36-page “Manga Pilot”—a short-form manga that ...

TOKYOPOP Manga Online Click HERE to Read and Buy Online Manga Click HERE to see Online Manga Profiles Featured manga and comics from friends of TOKYOPOP Online Manga is not only from TOKYOPOP anymore! IDOL and more from Yaoi Press Hand of the Morningstar and other Christian Manga from Zondervan Penny & Aggie Webcomic (archived) ...

Online Manga Program BACK ISSUE ARCHIVE TOKYOPOP Manga Online Click HERE to Read and Buy Online Manga Click HERE to see Online Manga Profiles Featured manga and comics from friends of TOKYOPOP Online Manga is not only from TOKYOPOP anymore! IDOL and more from Yaoi Press Hand of the Morningstar and other Christian Manga from Zondervan ...

Submission Details To qualify for the Rising Stars of Manga competition, all entries must meet the following specifications. Note: this is not a replacement of the Official Rules. To avoid possible disqualification, please read and abide by the Official Rules. 1.    Each eligible manga submission must be a self-contained story between 15 and 20...

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Introduction ATTENTION ASPIRING MANGA-KA!! THE 7th RISING STARS OF MANGA COMPETITION RUNS FROM JUNE 15th, 2007 THROUGH JANUARY 11th, 2008 We're changing things up a bit for Rising Stars 8 -- this time around we're making the prizes genre based. That's right, eight equal prizes--one for each genre listed below--and of course the ever-popular on-line People Choice...

"Want to be a manga artist? No one makes it easier than TOKYOPOP." --WIZARD   The competition for Rising Stars of Manga 8 has started! What is Rising Stars? Only the coolest and best way to get your foot in the door and take part in the Manga Revolution!   If you have no or little prior publication experience, entering the Rising...