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Written by maehara   
Friday, 06 February 2004 00:00
Newtype/USA - January 2004Time for another issue of the premier English-language anime magazine. Allegedly. I suppose an Evangelion cover makes a change from all the recent Gundam SEED ones. :)

This month's bits & pieces:
Cover DVD - Happy Lesson
Manga insert - Angel/Dust
Centrefold - Lupin the 3rd - Treasure of the Sorceror King

Strange centrefold - it's from the Lupin the 3rd game & is very 3DCG. Nice, but I'm not convinced. Postcards are noticeable by their absence - hopefully that's a one-off and they haven't been discontinued.

Moving on to articles, there's this little lot:
- 10 years of Evangelion, including a look at a new Eva design created for the upcoming Eva 2 game
- Avenger
- ROD ~The TV~
- Happy Lesson
- Macross Zero -vs- Sentou Yousei Yukikaze, pitting the two current air-combat OVA series against each other
- Yami to Boshi to Hon no Tabibito
- Teizokurei Daydream - bondage anime. Hmmm.
- Last Exile
- Knights of the Zodiac
- Inu Yasha
- Planetes
- Air Master
- Vampire Hunter D - under the Anime Essentials banner
- Official art of Mao-chan and Asagiri no Miko
- VA Spotlight on Houko Kuwashima (Gundam SEED - they had to get it in there somewhere, I guess...)
- VA interview with Amy Howard (focussing on her role as Nova in Star Blazers)
...and the usual regular features.

It's only when you list it like that that you realise just how much there is in the typical NT/USA issue - the only problem sometimes is how little of it I want to read. This month, however, that isn't a problem - there's plenty in there to give reading material for just about anyone's taste in anime. Complaints? I have a few (where are the postcards? ...and enough with the Gundam SEED, please!), but this is an issue that is well worth picking up.