Enjoy, Canadian manga lovers! On Tuesday, November 4, 2025, US-based manga publisher TOKYOPOP announced that it is expanding its e-commerce operations to Canada. This means Canadian geeks can order TOKYOPOP’s wide variety of manga, light novels, and officially branded merchandise directly from the publisher’s website. See the entire selection now at www.tokyopop.com.
Stu Levy founded Mixx Entertainment (now TOKYOPOP) in 1997, which he defined as “a combination of entertainment, a combination of media, a combination of culture,” seeing manga publishing as a way to create a catalog of content in the digital space that could be used as a bridge between Japanese and American audiences. We started with only four officially licensed manga titles (Parasyte, Ice Blade, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Sailor Moon). Levy worked with Kodansha to introduce the following ideas to bookstores: We sell translated manga in the original right-to-left reading format. Although booksellers initially reacted with skepticism, “unflipped” manga, published with uniform size, design, branding, and pricing, proved to be a winning model that put publishers at the forefront of the “manga revolution” in the early 2000s, forever changing the manga publishing landscape in the United States and ultimately leading many North American manga publishers to follow in TOKYOPOP’s footsteps.
Manga has waxed and waned in popularity over the past few decades, but in recent years manga titles have often topped the bestseller lists for graphic novels and comics in the American market. Similar to recent trends in the American market, manga sales are on the rise in Canada, increasing by 31.8% between 2013 and 2017, according to BookNet Canada. According to the 2024 Canadian Leisure & Reading Survey, 19% of Canadian adult readers report reading comics or graphic novels, and “Eastern Style” works account for 67% of all sales and 53% of all library loans, indicating that manga titles make up a significant portion of what adult comic and graphic novel readers enjoy.
In fact, BookNet Canada reports that five of Canada’s best-selling comic and graphic novel titles in the second quarter of 2025 were all manga, including Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen Volumes 25 and 26, Chugong’s Solo Leveling Volume 12, and Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man Volume 18. Volume 1, Hirohiko’s “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 7 – Steel Ball Run” is included. Mr. Araki. Similarly, the top titles borrowed from the library include manga titles such as Akutami’s “Jujutsu Kaisen” series, Kohei Horikoshi’s “My Hero Academia” series, Koyoharu Gotouge’s “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” series, Masashi Kishimoto’s “NARUTO” series, and Eiichiro Oda’s “One Piece” series.
With this announcement, Canadian fans will be able to purchase their favorite titles directly from the publisher’s catalog. The catalog features a wide range of manga, including popular romance works from the LoveLove imprint, as well as licensed graphic novels and manga-inspired works based on Ubisoft, Capcom, Disney, and Mattel franchises. The company’s ever-growing lineup also features new lines of branded merchandise such as advent calendars, playing cards, SD figures, and tote bags, all based on popular anime, manga, and manga works such as Attack on Titan, Dr. Stone, Fairy Tail, Tokyo Ghoul, Fullmetal Alchemist, Sword Art Online, On or Off, and Star Crossed.
Additionally, Canadian fans will be eligible to participate in promotions and contests on all TOKYOPOP websites.
Source: Press release
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