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elfsThe premier magazine in the US for anime fans is Newtype, which is produced with articles from the original Japanese edition. Someone felt that what was needed was a strictly American magazine, one that catered to US fans without Japanese input or oversight, and that the market had room for more than one anime magazine, so out comes Otaku USA.
The problem with this magazine is that there's absolutely nothing in that a well-tuned RSS reader can't give you. The "coming soon" articles are handled by various blogs, media release houses, and aggregators, I've read deeper and more significant reviews on rec.arts.anime.written, and (maybe this is just me) I don't find the industrial aspects of the craft all that interesting: interviews with directors and writers don't pique my interest in quite the same way that their output does.
Launching a magazine in the era of blogging and RSS and pipes and Google news is a courageous one, but I don't think there's enough here in Otaku USA to sustain it for very long.
The problem with this magazine is that there's absolutely nothing in that a well-tuned RSS reader can't give you. The "coming soon" articles are handled by various blogs, media release houses, and aggregators, I've read deeper and more significant reviews on rec.arts.anime.written, and (maybe this is just me) I don't find the industrial aspects of the craft all that interesting: interviews with directors and writers don't pique my interest in quite the same way that their output does.
Launching a magazine in the era of blogging and RSS and pipes and Google news is a courageous one, but I don't think there's enough here in Otaku USA to sustain it for very long.
