[Haggis]

Several months ago I went to a comic convention and TokyoPop were there. I asked them why there wasn't more diversity in their releases (for example they weren't interested in releasing manga like Monster and MPD Psycho etc) and they basically said that they were only interested in targetting the teenage audience.

I think the problem is if other companies release manga targetted at a different audience and it doesn't do so well, then they'll give up on it and start pushing out the same sort of titles as TokyoPop. I'd imagine VerticalInc don't get anywhere near the same sort of sales with their Buddha titles but I think it's great that they were brave enough to release it.

It's like music, you need a wide variety of styles, jazz, pop, rock, classical, etc. Pop music is good, but if it's going to be released to the exclusion of all other styles then I think that's a bad thing. Again I love all Anime, but I would hope that titles popular with a younger audience like Naruto, Inu Yasha etc. don't prevent future releases of titles they might not be so interested in (for example why is nobody licencing Monster, Angel's Egg etc?)