TokyoPop

Currently a major name in manga publishing, I first knew of TokyoPop
because of their crazy "hey, would you like to by stuff that we found
in someone else's moving truck?" sales, where they would apparently
lose money on odd manga issues and DVD sets to increase sales of the
rest of the series'. They used to lurk outside of AX, offering cheap
promos to get otaku to remember their name - like annoying "squishy
ball on a string" and other cheap toys. It was the first place I
bought any significant amount of anime-stuff. 

--Paul Sittig, filling a blank page with a few thoughts.