TOKYOPOP And Noir Caesar Entertainment Announce ‘Try Again’
by Anton Kromoff
Welcome to the table,
I think my first TOKYOPOP book was about an early 2000s emo club kid who was undead and in some kind of love triangle with a werewolf. I could be remembering it wrong but I recall a skull-themed hoodie and a belt with buttons and studs on it. It was unhinged and I really liked it, but I can’t recall what it was called. What’s fun though is that, thanks to that book, TOKYOPOP as a company kind of solidified themselves to me as the go-to company for Manga whenever it came up. It was accessible and felt un judgmental and those two things made all the difference when a lot of people I knew were reading five-foot stacks of manga on the weekly from the big box bookstores. 
Recently TOKYOPOP and Noir Caesar Entertainment, a black-owned indie creative company that supports and nourishes content from marginalized communities across various media, announced the release of a new title Try Again.
Try Again is an original manga-inspired gritty crime and redemption saga that will be launching on November 14th, 2023 . The story follows Danielle Burroughs, who is one of the criminal underworld’s most renowned hitmen. Despite her success, memories from her past bleed into the present and force her to reconsider the life she now leads. Events are soon set in motion once she kills Emilio Francesca, her caretaker, but accidentally also kills his daughter, Lilio, in the process. She realizes that she’s had enough of this life, one now truly without meaning. Leaving it all behind, she soon realizes that even death is no escape from her past.
Try Again is the latest Noir Caesar graphic novel to join the TOKYOPOP catalog, which also includes the coming-of-age martial arts drama, Xogenasys, and the sci-fi adventure, Primus7, which were published by TOKYOPOP earlier this summer. Try Again will be published in print and released digitally on major online comics platforms.
Until next time, I have seen the first few pages of this title and I can tell you it looks super rad, I will report more soon!
