#newtype usa

[annlarimer]

Newtype USA cost a bit, but its free DVD generally more than paid for the cover price - either directing you to series you needed or sparing you buying ones you didn't - and it was gorgeous. If you find a cache at a garage sale, grab it.

[anime-herald]

Looking Back on Newtype USA 15 Years Later

“Oh no! We’ve…we’ve just received word that this is the last issue of Newtype USA magazine. Good heavens!”, reads a small line of text tucked quietly to the bottom of the final page of Newtype USA’s February 2008 issue. “There was so much anime left to watch, so much manga to read…but no worries, for we hear that the same folks are launching a new, even better magazine real soon! Wahey! Oooh, and…

[theinternetisaweboflies]

[kerorowhump]

[hexitca]

God i love all this love for Trigun

I think i mentioned it before but when i watched the anime on Toonami i just loved it.

-space western

-stupid protag(s)

-angst

-amazing story

I'm gonna have to watch the old series/movie again to refresh myself, and read the manga, and then watch the new anime series but i catch myself thinking "GASP i remember that *o*"

[keroinnie]

i have never felt so insane in my life until i physically flipped through this magazine like actually had to put it down and turn around hands on my head wanted to SCREAM these shoots are so fucking good yang jeongin is so INSANE i need to give jungwook mok and shin kim kisses on their lips bc of how insanely incredible yang jeongin's shoot is like i wanted to SCREAM ALSO FUCKING BAE DOONA ADDITION??? I DIDNT EVEN KNOW ???? THE BAE DOONA THEEEEE BAE DOONA IM SO SICK ALSO A LIM KIM INTERVIEW ?????????????????

[animepopheart]

Look what I dug up!

I used to be obsessed with Newtype USA, though I rarely bought the magazines because of the cost. At $9.95, they would be a steal nowadays.

This issue had Fooly Cooly postcards! The coolest character designs but I could never make it through the OVAs—a little too manic for me. :/

The cover story: .Hack stuff! Another series I never finished (.hack//Sign—I don't think I've watched or played anything else). The OP, art design, and whole "trapped-in-a-game" story (before SAO) were cool, though!

L: I'm pretty good with recognizing anime but this one is not in my memory bank at all. Anyone watch this series? Was it good?

R: Oh boy, look at all the dead companies here: Central Park Media, Suncoast, Fry's, and—my prediction—Best Buy eventually, too. That Ebert quote got a TON of play back in the day, too. I'm pretty sure I used it in more than one article.

More FLCL. Any fans out there?

And yet ANOTHER show I never finished. The colors and designs in Witch Hunter Robin were A+, but I got bored and dropped the series around maybe episode 15...

If y'all like these, I'll post some more photos another time. I only made it about 10% of the way through this Newtype USA issue!

[l-crimson-l]

If you can help it don’t buy gunpla from Amazon. It’ll almost always be at an inflated price if it’s not a brand new batch release.

Here’s some US based shops that I’ve found/used to help you avoid using Amazon:

-Newtype

-USA Gundam Store

-Mecha Warehouse

-Gundam Planet

-Gundam Place Store

-The Gunpla Hermits Shop

-Premium Bandai US

Extra! Lose/broke a part? Check out Plamo Kitbash to order individual parts from runners (I had to do this for my Kyrios)

I’ve ordered from all of these shops so I can confirm they’re all legit

Important thing to note here tho is that shipping for some of these shops is $10 flat rate shipping without another option. So save up a little and then make a bigger cart to make it worth it more. They also have frequent sales (USAGS has one like every week on something) so keep an eye out for that as well!

Now Physical stores is kind of a mixed bag. Barnes and Noble started carrying a few kits, so did Target and Hobby Lobby (I know how we feel about HL but they also put those kits on sale every other week 40% off). But if you’re lucky enough to live close to one Hobbytown USA always has a pretty great selection and you might even seen a Grandpa statue in there too. But of course always do some searching around you and see what local hobby shops are there. Always nice to not have to pay shipping and get it straight in your hands

[fma03anniversary]

Happy 20th anniversary FMA. Let's put some forgotten feathers back in your cap.

Melissa was the #1 anime theme song to wrap 2003, and peaked at #2 on the Oricon Singles Chart - Japan's music industry standard for charting CD singles. Melissa became the #34th top selling single for 2003 and was only on sale for two months of the year (Melissa went on sale Sept 26th and Oricon is tracked Dec 1 - Nov 30). Melissa ranked #66 in top Japanese singles for 2004 too. The song would be on the Oricon charts for 38 weeks! Melissa won Animage Magazine's 2004 Anime Grand Prix for Best Anime Song.

Ready Steady Go! was the 18th best selling single of 2004 and peaked at #1 on the Oricon Singles Chart, and would do so charting less than half the time of Melissa, 16 weeks.

FMA sweeps Animage Magazine's 26th Annual Anime Grand Prix held in June 2004 - winning best series, best male character (Ed), best female character (Riza), best voice performance (Romi Park), best song (Melissa @ #1, Kesenai Tsumi @ #2), and best episode (7).

FMA is on the cover of all 3 major Japanese animation magazines for July 2004 - Newtype, Animage, and Animedia.

July 31, 2004 L'arc~en~Ciel make their North American debut at Otakon. Prior to their concert held at the 1st Mariner Place (now CFG Bank Arena) in Baltimore, to a crowd of 12,000 the first episode of the upcoming FMA English dub is premiered.

Rewrite peaks at #4 on the Oricon charts and becomes the 63rd best selling single of 2004. Rewrite won Best Anime Theme Song at the American Anime Awards at New York City Comicon in 2007.

FMA gets the rare honour of going to reruns in Japan.

FMA debuts on Adult Swim and is on the cover of all 3 major North American anime magazines for November 2004 - Newtype USA, Anime Insider, and Animerica.

FMA pulls in a ton of new viewers to Adult Swim for December 2004.

TV Asahi ranks FMA the most popular animated TV series in Japan in fall 2005, a year after it finished airing.

FMA is the best selling anime series on DVD for 2005 in North America. Individual DVD volume sales are so strong they rank alongside anime movies.

Anime News Network crowns FMA the best series of 2005.

Link is the #4 anime song for 2005 and peaks at #2 on the Oricon chart.

Conqueror of Shamballa is the #7 anime movie and #47 movie overall in Japan for 2005.

Anime Expo 2006 celebrates FMA. AX teams up with FUNimation to premiere Conqueror of Shamballa at the convention, hosted by guests of honour: Seiji Mizushima (Series Director), Mike McFarland (EN Director), Masahiko Minami (President of Studio Bones), Romi Park (who unfortunately had to cancel last minute), and Vic Mignogna.

Conqueror of Shamballa set to screen in 40 North American theatres. In !!2006!!

In the first ever event to honour voice acting, direction, production, etc of English anime in North America, the American Anime Awards were held at New York City Comic Con in 2007, handing out awards for the Best Of 2006. Online fan voting selected the finalists and FMA led the nominations with 5. The series would lose Best Feature (CoS) to FFVII Advent Children, but win Best Long Series, Best DVD Packaging, Best Cast, and Best Theme Song (Rewrite). Source (1), (2), (3)

Over five years after its Japanese debut and four years after it's North American start, as Brotherhood begins airing in Japan FMA still ranks #7 for best selling anime series on DVD in North America for spring 2009!

[distress]

GET CURSED! Imagine hugging a boy and he turns into a cat. Wouldn't that be PURRfect?!

Fruits Basket Ad from November 2004 NewType USA, scanned from my collection.

[animehouse-moe]

The Animanga Find Of A Lifetime

Yeah, I haven't really been too active this week. I've been busy during the week with life and whatnot, but a good chunk of the end of this week has been about this pile of anime and manga magazines. It's no longer just a "pile" of Animerica Extra, but a bonafide Mt. Everest encroaching on 400 issues, so I have lot to explain with just this haul alone.

So, where to begin? An outline is probably best.

This haul is a total of about 311 issues (a little more because of a few duplicates and magazines that aren't strongly related to animanga). That huge number is split across 16 different magazines, 4 of which (combining for 37 issues) are Japanese language.

The full list, in alphabetical order, is: Animage (JP), Animerica, Animerica Extra, Anime USA, AX (JP), AX DVD (JP), Mangajin, Neo, Newtype (JP), NewtypeUSA, OtakuUSA, Pulp, Protoculture Addicts, Shoujo Beat, Super Manga Blast, and Yen+.

Protoculture Addicts and Animerica stand out in the bunch because they together combine for over 100 of the issues in the haul, which is good because they're by far the longest running in the lot.

Speaking of those, let me give a bit of broad history in regards to the magazines.

While the majority are English language, there's actually a pair of them that were created/published outside of the US.

Starting it off, Protoculture Addicts was created in Montreal, and was actually ran as a Robotech Fanzine for about a year or so before becoming a full fledged magazine.

And then there's Neo, the UK based magazine. It's arguably the most interesting ongoing magazine out of the lot (with Otaku/Anime USA being the only others). It's also the only monthly animanga magazine to be currently published in English as OtakuUSA is bimonthly, and AnimeUSA is quarterly.

But that's enough history, what about the insides? For the most part they're relatively standard, but there's not "as many" manga anthology issues in this mountain.

Super Manga Blast, Shoujo Beat (only 9 issues), Animerica Extra (which I now have extras of), Pulp (only 2 issues), and Yen+.

That last one is the most interesting to me purely because of an editorial/column penned by "The Otaku Pimp". Yeah, that's a real thing that appears in that magazine which is incredibly funny to me.

More on the interesting side though is Mangajin, a magazine focused on teaching Japanese through Japanese culture, which of course includes manga. This one is especially interesting because it oftentimes features the only instance of the manga inside being translated to English.

And this is all just the tip of the iceberg. There's an insane amount of information and history in the magazines, and an exciting amount of unknowns with the frankly incredible amount of promotional DVDs that remain attached to so many of these issues.

I just have to get through it all.... which will take a long time. Will certainly be recruiting friends and whoever to help out, so hopefully I won't be doing this for the rest of my life haha

[flojocabron]

11/20/24: Alrighty then! Here's the breakdown of my Wednesday fleamarket finds. First pic was all for $30 bucks: three blurays, three videogames, three Issues of Raijin comics 0, one Newtype USA magazine, and two Anime Expo program guides. Second pic got me for $14 bucks: one board game, a Ken Shamrock figure and four pre-teen novels and comics. Guitar Hero 3 and Devil's Rejects were a quarter each! And $4.00 got me a new unopened dvd series of Hatfields and McCoy's and an empty case for Xbox Conker Live and Reloaded. Last pic has a lot of movies and a wii game. They were $2 each, totaling $38 for everything. Some criterion collections, some 30s gangster flicks, and other cool random flicks. A great day!

[testure-1988]

Speaking of magazines, feast your eyeballs on this! It's a two page advertisement for the first DVD of Invader Zim, circa an anime magazine (Newtype USA) from 2004!

[ponett]

i'm literally ten minutes away from USA gundam store but i don't have a car with which to go there so i feel weird ordering from them and paying for shipping so instead i always end up buying my model kits from newtype on the opposite side of the country

[memesmadefullmetal]

Congratulations to you on reaching 3,000 followers! And thank you for running this fun tournament to celebrate! In Fullmetal Alchemist character popularity contests, Ed and Roy so often take the top two spots, and as much as I love those characters, it is refreshing to see their counterparts Al and Riza take the top two spots for a change. Also, although I voted for Riza, I think that Hiromu Arakawa would possibly be pleased by Al's win. When Newtype USA magazine interviewed her for an article in their January 2006 issue, she reportedly told them that she identified with Al.

Thank you so much! 🥹🫶🏻3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

We’re so, so glad you enjoyed the tournament! It really means the world to us <33

We didn’t anticipate this outcome at all, so we’re pleasantly surprised that both Roy’s and Ed’s counterparts were the ones taking the top spots this time around! Go Al and Riza! 🥰

(Mod Mustang is also always VERY happy to see Riza do well! 🤭)

It is the greatest honour to think that we might have also even pleased the great Arawaka 😍

- Mod Mustang & Mod Hawkeye 🔥🦅