Sokora Refugees
Sokora Refugees was an amerimanga webcomic by Segamu and Melissa DeJesus started on 31 December 2004 as an ongoing webcomic, updated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It has not appeared since 10 November 2006. All comic strips on its website were available free along with some fanservice contents to amuse and excite readers. This webcomic is also published as a trade paperback by Tokyopop. According to Nielsen BookScan, "Sokora Refugees" is one of the publisher's best-selling amerimanga. The relevancy of this sales success was called into question in March 2005 in the comics newsblog "The Beat , due to a perceived conflict-of-interest involving the author. In its 21 March 2005 issue, Publishers Weekly" identified the writer of "Sokora Refugees" as Kurt Hassler, who was the Borders and Waldenbooks buyer for graphic novels; "Segamu" is presumably Hassler's pseudonym. Hassler left this position in November 2006. The website for this webcomic was offline from 13 January 2007 to 29 March 2007, then back online with no new content. It went back offline on 18 April 2007 and, since 2 March 2009 the domain name redirects to a cybersquatter. Plot. Kana's life is normal if not  bad due to her bad habits. Her life only changes for the worse when elf boy Tien comes along and he thinks Kana is an elf too. Tien gets Kana into a trap in the girls' bathroom, which is a portal to his home world Sokora. It is under siege by a demonic army. Then she gets herself into more mishaps, when her body is time-shared by a powerful elf sorceress. Along the way, Kana meet Tien's brother and the Nymph girl, Salome. She now has the job of saving Sokora. She did not really want to, but  Kana may be the only hope for Sokora, if only she can stop being so lazy. Books. On 2 November 2004, Tokyopop announced plans to publish "Sokora Refugees" before the comic was actually a webcomic. The first volume was published on 12 March 2005 and reached No. 7 in the BookScan list of graphic novels.