AnimePlay Magazine

[Commander McBride]

IIRC, we recently were discussing Newtype USA, and the fact that it's nearing it's first year anniversary. Well, here's another anime magazine, the Bimonthly publication AnimePlay, from Hirameki Int'l.

What do you guys think of this magazine? I got the first issue at AX, and just picked up the second yesterday. While the magazine itself is lacking content, the main focus of the publication is the included DVD, which itself contains articles, trailers, and documentaries, as well as other interesting items, like interviews and con reports.

I'm liking this magazine. I especially like the fact that it's very hardcore, going into up-to-date news about current Japanese TV anime, and discussing things that even NTUSA is not likely to go into.

Also interesting, it has an Animegio Macross trailer, which quotes MW!

Oh, also, I'm in it.

If you're wondering, i'm on the second page of AX interviews, in my Kira Yamato cosplay.

Edited October 19, 2003 by Commander McBride

[JELEINEN]

I've never heard of it. Do you have to subscribe to get it, or is it being sold in stores?

[areaseven]

I've never heard of it. Do you have to subscribe to get it, or is it being sold in stores?

I picked up the first issue at Suncoast early this year.

[JELEINEN]

I picked up the first issue at Suncoast early this year.

Ah. I usually buy stuff locally through comic book stores and Best Buy. I avoid SC like the plague.

[Commander McBride]

I actually got mine at Barnes & Noble. You'll also find it, most likely, in Kinokuniya if you have one around.