When you are in the media business as a company, you tend to evolve, sooner or later. Take it or leave it. It doesn't work like ages ago, when two or three good friends would start a company and "see where it goes". No, Sir, if you want money, you need to make sacrifices on the long run.

This seems to be the case of Tokyopop, as they recently announced a big split for the manga publisher. We'll get Tokyopop Inc., which will still be responsible (more or less, quality wise), for the actual publishing business, While Tokyopop Media LLC (beats me what LLC stands for) will supervise other... company activities. You know, the newly formed trend of digital "we won't leave you to sub our stuff" things, plus, according to ANN, some aspects regarding "comic to film".

What does this mean, according to the numbers? Well, in short, Tokyopop will fire some 39 people due to their slacking off and jerking on the wrong anime series, while the publishing department will see a decrease in e-peen size, from 470 volumes published per year, to a more relaxing, more suitable for lazy desk employees, 225-240 volumes per year.

On the long run? Hell knows. I ain't no Nostradamus, but this might get interesting. I wonder how the other related companies will retaliate.