Mappy(martin.hopley@gmail.com) added

> > January's Newtype USA arrived on my doormat late and amid 
> > reports that the magazine will be ceasing publication with the
> > February issue.  But there's still this month's DVD to look at...
> 
> You got me scared for a second. Is Newtype Japan still going to be 
> in publication? That was the first anime magazine I bought at Minami 
> Con 2 and it had Mizuno Ami on the cover. THAT magazine is an old skool
> classic.

It's only Newtype USA that's closing, something to do with the publisher not
wanting to pay Newtype Japan for using the name etc. so they're going to
produce their own magazine.
First reports suggest that it won't be 100% anime/manga related and it won't
have a DVD.


== Peter ==
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"There's no such thing as a
weapon that doesn't kill"
(Chise: Saikano)

Quoting  Peter Boulter :
>It's only Newtype USA that's closing, something to do with the publisher not
>wanting to pay Newtype Japan for using the name etc. so they're going to
>produce their own magazine.

http://comics212.net/2008/01/18/first-look-advs-new-piq-magazine-mediavendor-kit/

One assumes with the bubble so thoroughly burst, this is an attempt to
attach the magazine to more general yoof culture and the last gasp of the
anime spinoff stuff like EGL. I have a nasty suspicion it's going to
stagger on for a year or so and expire.

Note that NTUSA subs carry over, and I presume many of the staff.
-- 
David Damerell  flcl?
Today is Gloucesterday, January.