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Written by maehara   
Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:00
Newtype/USA - February 2004With articles on more different series than you can shake a stick at, it's the latest issue of Newtype/USA - set aside a few hours to get through it all...

This month's bits & pieces:
Cover DVD: Kino's Journey
Manga Insert: Angel/Dust
Centerfold: Happy Lesson
Postcards: Kiddy Grade
Poster: Azumanga Daioh

Nice Happy Lesson swimsuit picture, although if you use any anime wallpaper sites you'll have seen it before. Some new-to-me artwork in the Kiddy Grade postcards, though, which is nice to see. Azumanga Daioh poster is another piece of recycled artwork.

For the articles, there's this lot:
- Full Metal Alchemist
- Inside Sunrise (mainly a Gundam article, natch)
- Galaxy Railways
- Kino's Journey
- 'Higher Love' - profile of live-action director Ryuhei Kitamura
- Spirit - GONZO's first theatrical release
- Bushilord
- Samurai 7
- Samurai Champloo
- Inu Yasha - Swords of an Honourable Ruler - 3rd IY movie
- Peace Maker Kurogane
- Azumanga Daioh
- This Ugly and Beautiful World
- Yugo-Negotiator
- Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
- Tenbatsu Angel Rabbie
- Moekan
- Moso Dairinin (which I think is aka Paranoia Agent?)
- Area 88
- Monkey Turn
- Burn-Up Scramble
- Saiyuki
- Howl no Ugoku Shiro - latest Ghibli movie
- Innocence
- Kill Bill - a look at Production IG's role in the movie
- RoboTech
- Gungrave
- Yukikaze
- The Monolith - US manga-style comic
- Oh, The Horror! - a look at Japanese horror films
- Official Art of GunParade March
- VA Spotlight on Hitomi Nabatame (Yuna from Maburaho)

...and the usual regular features.

What's to say - there's such a long list of shows covered that deciding if it's worth buying should be as simple as checking the list & seeing how many articles catch your attention. The number of pre-production shows covered makes things a bit more difficult, though - and that's becoming NT/USA's selling point. While finding websites for in-production shows is fairly easy, most of them are in Japanese - so here's your opportunity to get some English-language info. I'll leave you to take that into account & make your own judgement on this issues worth...