Tpop to fans: You oughta be in pictures

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Tokyopop started small, with quick flicks on MySpace, but now they’re making a feature-length mock-umentary at NYAF, and everyone is invited to join in. Here’s the scoop, straight from Marketing Director Marco Pavia:

TOKYOPOP is making movies at New York Anime Fest—on Saturday, December 8, at 10:30 a.m. in Manga Panel Room 1A24, TOKYOPOP will be filming “Van Von Hunter in Maiden Quest,” a hilarious mock-umentary based on the three-volume manga series “Van Von Hunter.”

– All we ask is that fans arrive at Manga Panel Room 1A24 on Saturday morning – just come to the film shoot and you will be in the movie!

– Also, dress up as Van Von Hunter and you will receive great prizes. Here’s a free link to Van Von Hunter’s first chapter: http://www.tokyopop.com/Van_Von_Hunter/tp_manga/287012.html

Tokyopop will also be offering a sneak preview of their Japan/U.S. co-production, an anime/CG/live-action combo starring none other than Princess Ai herself.

There’s more on Tokyopop’s Hollywood ambitions here.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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