Over at About.Com, Deb Aoki provides a wrap-up of Tokyopop’s recent webcast, including a list of upcoming new titles and updates about ongoing series. If you’ve got a minute, check Deb’s listings, then take a look at the poll below and click whichever titles sound good to you.
I usually enjoy series that use eateries as a setting, so I’ve got my eye on Kou Matsuzuki’s Happy Café. I’m also a fan of whodunits, so I’ll certainly give Yoshitsugu Katagari’s Kokaku Detective Story a try. Higuchi Tachibana’s Portrait of M & N sounds like it could be really intriguing or go horribly awry. And the prospect of a bishie-infested, eye-rolling take on Wonderland draws me to Alice in the Country of Hearts by quinrose and Hoshino Soumei.
The Manga Curmudgeon 
Hinako Takanaga trumps all else, so Liberty Liberty! is the number one on my shopping list. After that, Portrait of M & N looks worth a shot, although Kazusa Takashima has done some very good BL, so maybe Mad Love Chase too.
I’m looking forward to Happy Cafe, too. It looks cute, the characters sound fun and who doesn’t like food? ^__~
Of course, I’d rather have them return to some other titles *cough, SUPPLI, cough* if they have the so-called time…
I’m intrigued by the new Alice retelling. That’s always a fun story, and it sounds like this one has some interesting twists.
Hana to Yume’s shoujo titles are always fun, and I’ve been waiting for M & N for a loooong time! Tachibana Higuchi is pretty awesome at what she does, so I don’t think it will disappoint. I’m very excited for Karakuri Odette and Happy Café as well 😀
And HaruHana sounds super cute. Tokyopop’s really got a lot of awesome shoujo manga coming up, and I do love shoujo manga!
I feel kind of like an old curmudgeon looking at this list — I wasn’t really excited about any of Tokyopop’s new acquisitions, with the possible exception of Happy Cafe.
I kind of know where you’re coming from, Kate. On the one hand, it’s hard to get too excited when there’s been so much great/interesting seinen and even josei stuff announced lately, but I’m still enough of a shojo nerd that my heart could be set aflutter by some of these. And what on earth is wrong with being a curmudgeon?!
I’m still hung up on a couple of series that they’ve infinitely delayed. Can’t I have the rest of Genju no Seiza instead of yet another cross-dressing/ robot girl/ high school hijinks/ demons-in-the-real-world manga? It is nice to see that another Trinity Blood light novel is being released.
Marla: Not to mention (as Lorena did) Suppli. Suppli, Suppli, SUPPLI.
I agree with you, Marla! When I read that long list of new acquisitions, it was like hearing that an old boyfriend was dating again: I knew wasn’t meant to be, but I felt a pang or two that he’d moved on.
I think I’m pinning my hopes on Portrait of M and N, though as you suggest, it could go horribly awry. It sounds the most interesting to me overall, though. Happy Cafe also sounds promising, and okay, I sometimes have a weakness for things like Game X Rush.
I had to vote for Kokaku Detective Agency. None of the other titles really rang my bell. Though I think it’s odd they’re taking on another mystery/detective series when they never finished Kindaichi (Just one vol left!!) I…don’t want to go into all the other titles TP has abandoned on me. It…hurts too much. T__T
I haven’t picked up Suppli, since by the time I might have, it was put on hold. It’s one thing when the mangaka abandons a series (sadness!), but when the publisher does, it makes me angry. And then I wish I read Japanese and lived near a Kinokuniya.
I’m pinning my hopes on Yen Press and CMX to bring good stuff over. Viz has my love already.
I voted for Liberty Liberty. I recently became a fan of Hinako Takanaga after reading Little Butterfly and I’m looking forward to buying more of her manga in the near future.
I’ve always been a little put off by the youthful appearance of one of the protagonists, but I’ve heard so many good things about Little Butterfly that I might have to reconsider.
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