Newtype USA - July 2007 issue

[Roujin0308]

If you haven't seen the July issue of Newtype USA yet, here's some of what you're missing:

Highlights:
cover - Haruhi Suzumiya (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
centerfold - Kurau & Christmas (Kurau Phantom Memory)
manga - Kobato, exam 2 (by Clamp)
official art - The Wings of Rean (7 pages)
voice actor spotlight - Fumie Mizusawa (Juliet in Romeo x Juliet, etc)
"How to art" - Eiji Kaneda (Aquarion OVA)


Anime/Manga features: (all are 2 pages unless otherwise noted)
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (6)
Air
My-Otome
Shonen Onmyouji
Freedom
Tsubasa - RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (6)
Karin
Black Lagoon
Gunbuster 2 (4)
Fate/stay night (6)
Toward the Terra
Evangelion (new movies)


Other stuff:
- Newtype Express Jp provides bits of news on Vexille; School Days; Umisho; Mononoke; Tetsuko no Tabi; Hayate the Combat Butler; Shigurui; Piano no Mori; Kyo Kara Maoh! (new OVA); and Prism Ark.

- Newtype Express USA mentions Girl's High; Mushi-shi; Innocent Venus; and The Story of Saiunkoku.

Game of the month: GrimGrimoire
Book of the month: Kingdom Hearts II vol. 1
DVD of the month: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya vol. 1


On the DVD:
Girls High eps 1 (sub only)
Suzuka eps 1 (dub only)
The Third: The Girl with Blue Eye eps 1 (dub only)

[gogeta999]

On the DVD:
Girls High eps 1 (sub only)
Suzuka eps 1 (dub only)
The Third: The Girl with Blue Eye eps 1 (dub only)

I really want to see Suzuka and The Third. Plus it looks like there will be a lot of articles that I want to read in this issue.

[chloes_fork]

Suzuka eps 1 (dub only)
The Third: The Girl with Blue Eye eps 1 (dub only)
NTUSA would significantly improve their chances of selling me magazines if they'd stop doing this.

[Fencedude]

Suzuka eps 1 (dub only)
The Third: The Girl with Blue Eye eps 1 (dub only)
NTUSA would significantly improve their chances of selling me magazines if they'd stop doing this.


You really can't blame Newtype for what the companies decided to give them.

[chloes_fork]

Suzuka eps 1 (dub only)
The Third: The Girl with Blue Eye eps 1 (dub only)
NTUSA would significantly improve their chances of selling me magazines if they'd stop doing this.


You really can't blame Newtype for what the companies decided to give them.
Can't quite imagine why FUNi or Right Stuf would deliberately withhold the sub versions. And Newtype could certainly request them, if not insist on them. Inclusion on NT's DVD would seem to me to be at least as beneficial for the releasing companies as for the magazine, so there should be a certain amount of leverage there.

[NewtypeCJ]

And it *is* a sampler DVD. We usually have something that has subs on the disc because we know how important it is to some. Last month we had two -- 009-1 and Kashimashi. Unfortunately no two anime fans have the exact same taste in language options so we do what we can... covering all the bases is not as easy as you might think. :'(

Anyway, I hadn't seen any comments on here yet so I thought I'd ask -- What do you guys think of the re-tooled look?

[bci110]

Anyway, I hadn't seen any comments on here yet so I thought I'd ask -- What do you guys think of the re-tooled look?

I like it. I think the magazine looks better organized now than it was before. The one thing I wanted to see was for the regular columns to be part of the Newtype Express section at the front of the magazine; I never could figure out why those columns were always in the middle. The fonts on the articles now makes them more readable then before. One minor complaint is that I wish that the fan art and the convention reprorts were grouped together instead of alternating from page to page. Other than that, nice job! :D

[tstidm1]

It takes forever to get my Newtype USA. I just got the June issue two weeks ago and I saw July's out at B. Dalton booksellers in DC on Sunday. I thought subscribing meant getting it before it hit the store shelves.