The Perils of Investing In Tokyopop
I swear, I don't mean to keep picking on Tokyopop. It's just that this company has done so many notably dumb things over the years. It has failed so many goddamn times. It has screwed over so many goddamn people. Yet it keeps coming back like a manga-publishing cockroach, even if its current form is naught but a shadow of its turn-of-the-millennium glory. For the last decade, it's been fairly easy to ignore them unless they pull something audacious like a sketchy charity book for Ukraine or bringing back their controversial Rising Stars of Manga program. So you can only imagine my surprise when a link came across my social media feed advertising Tokyopop not as a manga publisher, not as a multi-media company, but as a potential investment. Their sales pitch is a seemingly simple one. Any wanna-be investor can purchase private shares in Tokyopop itself. These shares are just $5 apiece, although they must be purchased in bundles ranging from $1000 ...