More On Tpop Layoffs: Layoffees and BL
Some of you may have been following the comments on my post about TOKYOPOP’s split, which now include two Tpop employees who were among the ~39 to get axed. One of them tells us that the layoffees got no prior notice. Frankly, the whole thing sounds like a giant round of SUCK for most of the people involved.
The removal of one employee, midorihebi, is at least mourned on the forums of BLU, TOKYOPOP’s yaoi line, by remaining Tpop employee Shounen Ai Samurai, who also talks about what all this will mean for the BL titles:
This is a very unfortunate situation for us all and I’m close to tears right now just thinking about how I won’t have Midorihebi here to help me out any more. She’s done an awesome job the last 6 months or so checking the BLU emails and always being there to support BLU. She was so looking forward to representing us at Yaoi-Jam but those plans have been canceled now and Yaoi-con plans are also up in the air. Times are very tough right now and with problems in the bookstore industry, we’re facing a lot of challenges. I don’t know exactly how things will end up right now but I would expect some changes in the BLU release calender. Hopefully the changes will be minimal. We have had a lot of success selling our books on Amazon so I want to thank you all who support us even when you can’t find the books in stores.”
(Via Kuri.)
Tags: bl, TOKYOPOP, western industry
June 9th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
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