ANN wrote:Representatives of A.D. Vision (ADV) have contacted retail partners to inform them that the February issue of Newtype USA is to be the last. At this time it is unclear if this refers to the official February issue, which is set to go on sale later this month, or the March issue, which would go on sale in February.
According to reports from those contacted by ADV, the company is planning to replace Newtype USA with another magazine. No information about the new magazine is currently known.
Newtype USA's circulation is estimated to be similar to competing publication Anime Insider's, somewhere between 50,000 and 75,000 copies per month. No North American anime magazine publishes audited circulation numbers.
After briefly being attached to Digital Manga, Newtype USA was launched by ADV with issue 0 at Anime Expo 2002. The first regular issue was the November 2002 issue. Including issue 0 and the February 2008 issue (January shipping), 65 issues will have been printed, 66 if the final issue is the March issue (shipping in February).
Newtype USA was licensed by ADV from Kadokawa Shoten, the publisher of the original Newtype Magazine in Japan. Newtype Japan has been in publication since 1985, with the March 1985 issue being the first. Newtype is named after the fictional Newtype evolutionary-humans from Gundam.
In addition to Newtype USA, there is also a Korean Newtype, published by Daiwon C&A Holdings since 1998.
A representative of Newtype USA was unavailable to comment in time for this article.
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