Rsom In Australia?

[Erisu-Chan]

How can people in Australia get to do something so great like the RSOM (and how can TP see if their work is good or not?) if Aussie people can't enter? (we can't even send ours to the US or UK's RSOM)

What's next for the Aussies?



-Erisu-Chan

[Klawzie]

No no no! :) Let me rephrase for you:

"Dear Tokyopop:

Many Aussies (including myself!) would love to participate in your fabulous Rising Stars of Manga contest! There's a ton of talent right here waiting to be tapped - and we're ready for it!

Do you have any information about your Australian office setting up a RSOM of its own the way the UK did?

Thanks in advance!

-Erisu-Chan"

[Erisu-Chan]

"Dear Tokyopop:

Many Aussies (including myself!) would love to participate in your fabulous Rising Stars of Manga contest! There's a ton of talent right here waiting to be tapped - and we're ready for it!

Do you have any information about your Australian office setting up a RSOM of its own the way the UK did?

Thanks in advance!

-Erisu-Chan"

Yes that is tottaly what i meant to say! [laughs] :D


-Erisu-Chan

[QueenieChan]

I'm an Australian working for TOKYOPOP so maybe I can tell you.

TOKYOPOP is getting an Australian division, starting up sometime later this year. I doubt they'll be launching a RSOM competition right away, but after speaking to the publisher (a division of Funtastic), they say they'll give it a thought after one or two years.

Considering the UK got their TP branch a few years ago and only recently started the UK RSOM, I think the gap of a few year's time is sufficient enough an indicator.

[kayokitten]

TOKYOPOP is getting an Australian division, starting up sometime later this year. I doubt they'll be launching a RSOM competition right away, but after speaking to the publisher (a division of Funtastic), they say they'll give it a thought after one or two years.

Considering the UK got their TP branch a few years ago and only recently started the UK RSOM, I think the gap of a few year's time is sufficient enough an indicator.


In other words, Erisu-chan, you only need to be patient for a few more years! You should probably be able to enter when you're 16 or 17, which would be nice because it gives you some time to work on your story, refine it. Who knows, maybe by then TP will be more willing to accept epic-style stories from OEL manga-ka. Of course, as we've already said, you can always go ahead and make a pitch to TP. ^_^

[Erisu-Chan]

I'm an Australian working for TOKYOPOP so maybe I can tell you.

WOW!!
I want to work for TOKYOPOP one day :D

i know this is off topic but what do you think of this thing i wrote (it talks about the story i'm writing but it doesn't really say much about the pure plot, but hey...

[Stuff that was already posted elsewhere deleted. If a TOKYOPOP person has not responded to you on your story idea, that is because other forum members are already giving you an adequate response.]

[Klawzie]

Erisu-Chan....... Please do not harrass the Tokyopop employees. They have better things to do.

[ParaKiss]

Tokyopop branch in Australia? Wow... Lol that would be a kick in the guts to Madman. Know if I can get involved somehow?

[Erisu-Chan]

Erisu-Chan....... Please do not harrass the Tokyopop employees. They have better things to do.

I know (they work for TP [sniff :( ]) it's only if they have time...i don't really mean to harrass them :D [laughs]


-Erisu-Chan

[PeNCILz]

Ashura, Kahen, Nikori, Suriipu, Teami and Inuwashi, the band of six are the only ones who stand between victory and total destruction and must join together


*cough* Inuyasha *cough*

[Erisu-Chan]

What's Inuyasha?

[PeNCILz]

Don't play dumb i hate it when people play dumb.

[nekokun86]

inu - dog, yasha - demon

[J. Stoncius]

Inu Yasha is the magical story of a plain girl from Japan who wears a school uniform who is whisked away from her humdrum existence in Modern Japan and thrust in the middle of a grand adventure involving picking up pieces of glass somebody lost (or something) and falling madly in like with a cute (????) boy with cat ears. Okay, they're supposed to be dog ears, but they look like damn cat ears to me.

The series spans 3040993874892 volumes of manga, 93479234 x 3.067 to the tenth power anime episodes, and four hundred and ninety three interpretive dances involving mimes and chipmunks. It's been going on since 1917 and probably won't end until after Jack Bruce's and Eric Clapton's seeds are dried up (if that hasn't happened already) and the sun has become a white dwarf.

It's drawn by Rumiko Takahashi, who is the President of Japan.

That's all I know about InuYasha, though, because it's published by some other manga publisher I don't really buy books from.

[kayokitten]

^^; Er...J. Stoncius' perspective on InuYasha is a little over-the-wall, but he has a point. The series started off fairly well, but now it has started to drag onward into a sea of shiny oyster toads. I bought up to manga volume 23--and I wish I hadn't, other than it has gotten my little dyslexic brother to read something. InuYasha is a half dog demon, struck by a magic arrow that bound him to a tree by the one he loved. It turns out to be a trick.

However, his beloved's reincarnation, a modern-day Japanese school girl, tumbles down her family's well into the Warring States Era of Japanese history. From a perspective on learning about some traditional Japanese history and something of demons as the Japanese see them, this is a good story. However, you can only watch Kagome "SIT!" InuYasha so many times before it grows old. -_-. IY is an example of what NOT to do with story pacing.

BTW, I think J's anime numbers hit the mark. -_-() The sad thing is, the anime is actually better than the manga. >< At least it uses episodic treatments (more like an American cartoon than an anime, IMHO) to tide you over to the fact that you've learned basically NOTHING over a length of episodes.

[Erisu-Chan]

Some of my friends have talked about Inuyasha but i personally haven't read the manga or seen the anime, i've heard it's good but drags out alot.
(Who's seen it? DO you recomend it?) :confused:

-Erisu-Chan

[PeNCILz]

*Refrains from punching thee who pretends*

Basically I was trying to point out that the band of [insert number here] has been done and people will instantly connect it with Inuyasha whom has the band of seven. You have the band of six. Connection I sure has hell think so.

Inuyasha. Inuwasshi?! Notice muh point people...

[Klawzie]

Erisu-chan. I find that Google and Wikipedia are my friends. Best friends. You should look them up sometime. I'm sure you'd get along too.

To answer the question: I like Inu-Yasha, but I recognize it is not for everyone. I'm just happy it's popular enough that the whole series will almost certainly be published in English as it's finished and when I'm a millionare, I'll be able to complete the series.

[Erisu-Chan]

Inuyasha. Inuwasshi?! Notice muh point people...


All my characters have meanings behind their names and Inuwashi means 'golden eagle' which suits her as she's an eagle ridder (when i was looking up names i though it was gonna have something to do with dogs as inu means dogs, but hey, guess bot :D )



-Erisu-Chan

[ParaKiss]

Back on topic please.

This thread is on RSOM in Australia, not Inu Yasha.

[Shonen]

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone can tell me where the TP office will be setting up in oz.

[Erisu-Chan]

I think it would be a great idea but i don't know of TP is gonna, i hope so!!

-Erisu-Chan