Comments on: Anime Magazines within America: A Chronological History

By: Douglas

Douglas — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:32:29 +0000

Thanks for the comments Gerry. Considering the niche area that Anime magazine covered, that standards for magazine production was pretty high for sure. It seems the print media overall has taken a pretty big hit that’s hard to rebound from unless you transfer to some sort of online element (like Otaku USA has). I’m still surprised to see Protoculture Addicts and Otaku USA still around, especially the former–it’s quite remarkable.

Thanks for the comments once again, they are truly appreciated.

By: Gerry Poulos

Gerry Poulos — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:46:08 +0000

Wow! I Don’t know how I never saw this before! Personally, I think it is a great piece and captures the anime mag market fairly well… which I’m going to consider myself something of an authority on having written for most of them… I think the problem with the mag industry is that a high quality mag is expensive to produce in smaller numbers (pretty much anything less than 50,000-100,000 copies is less than impressive in the industry) I remember Newtype USA fretting over the “60,000 copy” line. This makes it very hard to provide a high-quality product at an affordable price. Claude has done a remarkable job walking that line and I thknk that and his personal investment is why he’s still around. I am proud to have written for him. It would be great if he could pull protoculture up a bit, however, I don’t know that he would ever want to be person he would have to be to do that. However, he is the kind of person that will refuse to fold which is what, in my opinion, has saved Protoculture Addicts.

By: robert torres

robert torres — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:11:08 +0000

ADV canceled newtype USA and replaced with PIQ was big mistake, piq was a financial failure from beginning, after the final issue PIQ is canceled just four months later,after that ad vision give up on anime magazines,two years later fans of newtype USA still pissed and they want it back but never happened and some fans move on to other anime magazines or import them like newtype from japan.

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By: Kid Fenris

Kid Fenris — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:48:34 +0000

Anime Insider was canceled primarily because Wizard Entertainment was falling apart, though there was more to it. Anime Insider supposedly sold well enough, but the Wizard higher-ups just didn’t like (or understand) the whole anime thing all that much. So when the company was losing money in other venues and had to drop a magazine, Anime Insider got the chop instead of ToyFare or Wizard.

By: Michael Pinto

Michael Pinto — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:31:51 +0000

anime-zine (published by Robert Fenelon and Bevery Headley) ran for about 3 issues and featured a color cover and was professionally typeset — I have issue 2 which dates to 1987 so this may in fact pre-date Protoculture Addicts. And before that Space Fanzine Yamato (Jerry Harrison and Ardith Carlton) which was a one shot was on the level of what I’d call a professional publication — real typesetting, printing and even a fold out poster. It’s also worth mentioning that non-anime mags like Starlog, Starburst and Comics Scene would feature anime articles which helped open the door (i.e. if you could have a professional magazine that covered Star Trek and Star Wars why not anime?).

By: Mike Toole

Mike Toole — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:20:52 +0000

Pretty good, but I’d recommend seeking out Animag (semipro precursor to Animerica; most of the magazine’s initial staff started at Animag and went straight to Animerica when it launched), Animeco, published by Lime Publishing of Hawaii, and V-Max, the sporadic anime magazine from R. Talsorian Publishing, for a more complete picture of the scene as it was.

By: robert torres

robert torres — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:08:05 +0000

very good history about anime magazines within america,two anime magazines got canceled are anime insider and newtype USA which broke my heart, i love those magazines but i’m moved on to other anime magazines like otaku USA and protoculture addicts fill the void.