Quick, join the hate train against tokyopop.

Ragnarok into the abyss scans got taken down from mangatoshokan

So naturally I started looking at tokyopop only to see they still have same ten volumes for sale.

STILL DISCONTINUED!

So i wrote a rather angry thread on their forums.

For u people that don't care. Omamiri Himari got taken down too, however it seems like Yen Press will be translating it. Pfft.

I don't like Tokyopop. They're covers are crappy paper. Anything that Yen Press takes over will be so shiny and awesome.

Just look at Yotsuba&!.

Never bought any Yen press manga myself, but from the ones I have my current favorite is Del Rey. For the paper quality, aesthetics and translation. Viz is also cool.

What sucks about tokyopop is that they hold some very good licenses in their hands but don't deliver with the quality.

The majority of American Manga companies are bastards.

Most of the translators are crap and can't even match online scanlators who only do it in their free time.

The speed at which they get things done is ridiculous. A year or more to catch up what's going on in Japan. Yeah...

And the mark-up on the prices for manga is outright ridiculous. Something like 200-250%

What's wrong with supporting the mangaka by buying the books? They certainly don't make money when the scanlators translate for free. And who says scanlators are moar accurate? How do you know, huh? :|

Though, I agree. I don't really like Tokyopop.

Because when you get even people who don't know the language being translated read it and go "Wait, that doesn't sound right."