Newtype USA is folding!

azulmagia · Post by **azulmagia** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:33 am

The last issue is the February 2008 one!

They had centrefolds, post-cards, manga, free DVD - every issue!

So you guys gonna miss this magazine as well?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:05 am

wow, that's a bummer.

lots of cool stuff in Newtype, but the subscription did cost a lot ($89 a year IIRC)

Malificus · Post by **Malificus** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:15 am

Awwwwwwwww....

I really liked gettin mah newtype. It's the reason I own half the anime and manga I have too. D:

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:06 am

.. received quite a few good single episodes on DVD from them .. too bad they are folding .. however, none of the newer series are really that interesting anymore!

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:50 am

I looked at a few issues a while back. Even bought one. I'm not sure if they changed their format or not, but all they seemed to focus on were state-side releases, so I wasn't interested. They didn't exactly have the best business plan... I mean, who really spends that much on a magazine that isn't a rabid fan? And those rabid fans either, like myself, don't watch dubs so they don't give a shit about state-side releases (they watched them months or years ago) or get their news faster than once a month through all the online anime news sites. With a flawed business plan they got by until now... must have been going into the red for several quarters already.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:20 pm

.. agreed!

.. I think if you take a closer look at the Company itself, you will see that AnimeNetwork actually put themselves out of business by "not letting the common man have access to its programming." It is better to make a few pennies from Millions of subscribers than to rake the Millions from so very few subscribers!

-- nuff said.

Mroni · Post by **Mroni** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:54 am

Um rabid fans don't watch dubs! Rubbish! Aren't we over that yet???? But anyway Newtype sucked it concentrated on stateside releases because it was a big ADVERTISEMENT!!! and that was it's main fault as a rabid otaku it was hard to get excited about series I had saw a year or more ago. And many times the magazine would cover the same anime in multiple issues.

Mr Oni

Sukunai · Post by **Sukunai** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:50 pm

Basher more or less sums up my thoughts.

I'd have liked to have had all the issues available since I found anime back like him late 90s (no I don't know how long Newtype has been around).

But thanks to the internet, and a bitching unlimited bandwidth service, I usually already have all the anime that is hot long before it shows up in print on this side of the pond.

And I'm not really a fan of the way anime is made english language friendly or more correctly how it's mangled to be acceptable to north american views on what's ok and what's not.

Times are changing though. Just watched Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's and when the girls do their transformation sequence, they actually take off their clothes from outer layers to under clothes in a very bold fashion and then effectively get dressed from a visibly nude state into their magic using appearance.
This would never fly in the Sailormoon years. I'm curious if they would show this ala north american edition though.
Granted, you still see nothing sexual ie a naked Barbie doll is as daring.

Oh well, anyway, print is not an easy medium to sell these days. And I have seen the effects of the modern world on quite a few publications. Newtype wasn't able to warrant a high price tag just because it had some freebie "stuff" and a dvd that I can download in minutes if I actually wanted it. That, and the focus on only north american content was likely a very bad idea. The speed that stuff is hitting the online scene now is simply too fast to just focus on the stale stuff that's been dubbed.

Mroni · Post by **Mroni** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:40 am

Just to be clear here yes stuff shown on tv has been mutilated to conform with american tv standards. Most dvds you buy at the store however have not unless you are buying some kiddy series like naruto.

Mr Oni