Future US publishes 2nd future Anime mag issue

[Roy Mustang]

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Future US, the California-based publisher of Nintendo Power, Guitar World, Maximum PC, and other gaming and lifestyle magazines, has published a second one-off issue of its Future Anime magazine. Gary Steinman, the former editor-in-chief of A.D. Vision's Newtype USA magazine and the editor-in-chief of Future's PC Gamer, helmed this issue as he did the first issue last summer. Like the first issue, the second issue features 12 posters but no DVD. Instead of Gurren Lagann which adorned the first issue's cover, the second issue's cover showcases the Mobile Suit Gundam 00 anime series. Steinman told the AnimeVice.com website, "We produced a second Future Anime because the first one sold so well for us. We're very proud of this second issue, so if we continue to see strong support, we'll definitely consider producing more!"

Viz Media's Animerica magazine ceased publication as a periodical for retail sales and subscriptions in 2005, and Newtype USA ceased publication in 2008. Wizard Enertainment's Anime Insider, the last monthly anime magazine in the United States, ended last month.

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[yukoxholic]

I can understand why they're trying so hard to keep an anime-mag afloat but seriously perhaps they should give it a rest until things are looking up for the industry. XD I'm sure fans do not wish to see another future-anime-magazine-hopeful canned again.

It will break their precious hearts! /end melodrama. ^_^ That or the publisher should've kept paying for Newtype. >_>

Plus, PLAY! still features a few pages of anime in the back of their magazine so I'm happy with that not to mention the wonders of the internet. So, really if they think about it an anime magazine isn't necessarily needed because most anime watchers are informed by other means aka internet, word of mouth, new trailers on DVDs, etc.

[Nate]

What are these..."magazines" you speak of? Are they anything like that fantastic steam engine I have heard of, or perhaps that revolutionary Model T horseless carriage I have heard rumors of?

[Blitzkrieg1701]

I think I remember those! They were like the internet, only way slower and could give you paper cuts!

Seriously, with the web making magazines in general obsolete, it's a very risky venture to create them for one of the most web-savvy demographics out there.

I haven't seen Anime Future anywhere. Where would one pick a copy up?