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Hiro94
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 Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:27 pm
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hey has anybody heard of this fairly new anime mag called Senpai?I just found it while browsing online it says its 4 times a year.
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vashna
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:57 pm
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Hmm, no, I'm unfamiliar but I wasn't able to find it online as easily as you had. Does it publish serialized manga, or just articles?
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Shiroi Hane
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:26 pm
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This?
http://www.senpaimagazine.com/
Looking at their back issues page they are quarterly and have three issues out, available both digitally and print on demand. $17.99 seems like a heck of a lot of money for a magazine though (Newtype costs something like that these days but that's via diamond with import and retailer markups etc) - and they're asking for donations too.
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Hiro94
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:44 pm
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| Shiroi Hane wrote: | This?
http://www.senpaimagazine.com/
Looking at their back issues page they are quarterly and have three issues out, available both digitally and print on demand. $17.99 seems like a heck of a lot of money for a magazine though (Newtype costs something like that these days but that's via diamond with import and retailer markups etc) - and they're asking for donations too. |
Yep thats the magazine
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vashna
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:49 am
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I understand that print on demand is quite expensive, but the digital copy's price doesn't seem that bad. Strangely, some of the sections are not yet filled in on their website. That really concerns me about the stability of the magazine in question.
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Hiro94
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:58 am
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| vashna wrote: | | I understand that print on demand is quite expensive, but the digital copy's price doesn't seem that bad. Strangely, some of the sections are not yet filled in on their website. That really concerns me about the stability of the magazine in question. |
Cant be any worse than the stability of Protoculture addicts  lmao
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Jrittmayer
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:31 am
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Hey, at least they're trying to bring soem anime mags back. I'll probably still continue to get MEgami and New Type for my news/interviews and such but I'm glad to see another US anime mag. Newtype USA was the best thing to ever hit the magazine market here, shame it went under.
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ailblentyn
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:03 am
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I have to say, just based on what's on the website, that that is one ugly, ugly fanzine.
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vashna
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:30 pm
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As, so it is a fanzine indeed? I had a tiny bit of hope that the heretofore unclear manga section would serialize something.
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ailblentyn
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:44 pm
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I know absolutely nothing about this magazine apart from what's on the website (and thanks to Hiro94 for the info!), so I'm speaking from my judgment (of the ugly fan art on the covers and throughout) rather than knowledge!
Maybe you're right and there might be something along the lines you're thinking, vashna.
Does anyone know?
And of course the writing may be great!
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Hiro94
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:17 pm
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| ailblentyn wrote: | | I know absolutely nothing about this magazine apart from what's on the website (and thanks to Hiro94 for the info!), so I'm speaking from my judgment (of the ugly fan art on the covers and throughout) rather than knowledge!
Maybe you're right and there might be something along the lines you're thinking, vashna.
Does anyone know?
And of course the writing may be great! |
No prob im just trying to spread the word 
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Echo_City
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:13 pm
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Never heard of this. I've heard of Otaku USA, but their magazine is rather thin for its price, and some of those reviews strike me as written by corporate shills. I suppose I could stand to check this out.
| Quote: | | $17.99 seems like a heck of a lot of money for a magazine though (Newtype costs something like that these days but that's via diamond with import and retailer markups etc) |
As I recall it, that's only slightly more than what Hilary Haag said NewType USA cost, back in the day. I miss NewType USA.
BTW, on RightStuf an issue of NewType Japan is $25.45, and that's in the allegedly-discounted subscription plan. Their included shipping makes the price somewhat debatable, but that's a heck of a lot of cash for something that isn't in English. (And when the no-work-required imported magazine retails for more than the involved English adaptation, something is wrong.)
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jsc315
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:44 pm
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| Echo_City wrote: | Never heard of this. I've heard of Otaku USA, but their magazine is rather thin for its price, and some of those reviews strike me as written by corporate shills. I suppose I could stand to check this out.
| Quote: | | $17.99 seems like a heck of a lot of money for a magazine though (Newtype costs something like that these days but that's via diamond with import and retailer markups etc) |
As I recall it, that's only slightly more than what Hilary Haag said NewType USA cost, back in the day. I miss NewType USA. |
You couldn't be further from the truth about Otaku USA. $20($10 if you know where to look) a year is not all that much for a subscription. Most the people who write for the magazine I have met at one time or another at a con of some sort.
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Echo_City
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:14 pm
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You couldn't be further from the truth about Otaku USA. $20($10 if you know where to look) a year is not all that much for a subscription. Most the people who write for the magazine I have met at one time or another at a con of some sort. |
I don't have a subscription, I go by the cover price, especially in my quote about the old pricing of NewType USA.
10 dollars a year, for the 4 or so issues that gives, is affordable, sure. But when those issues contain reviews which gloss over a show's flaws and rate it much higher than it could ever merit, eyebrows and suspicions are raised about their integrity. Rideback was at best a "by the numbers" formulaic show, and that's if you're wearing rose-colored glasses when you watch it. Otaku USA all but sang praises of it on high. Even devout fans of the show have to see that it is not the magnum opus of the anime genre, so why didn't Otaku USA?
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Hiro94
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:55 pm
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You couldn't be further from the truth about Otaku USA. $20($10 if you know where to look) a year is not all that much for a subscription. Most the people who write for the magazine I have met at one time or another at a con of some sort. |
I don't have a subscription, I go by the cover price, especially in my quote about the old pricing of NewType USA.
10 dollars a year, for the 4 or so issues that gives, is affordable, sure. But when those issues contain reviews which gloss over a show's flaws and rate it much higher than it could ever merit, eyebrows and suspicions are raised about their integrity. Rideback was at best a "by the numbers" formulaic show, and that's if you're wearing rose-colored glasses when you watch it. Otaku USA all but sang praises of it on high. Even devout fans of the show have to see that it is not the magnum opus of the anime genre, so why didn't Otaku USA? |
I didn't understand that one bit lol besides the first sentence
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