What would you want in an Anime/Manga themed magazine?

hmmmm, that would be awesome, we could it like where it holds are manga(for austriala) AND reviews games, manga, anime etc. Also it could have interveiws about the various mangaka...

lol. I see.

kenro wrote:I'd love to hear about new, and old but currently lesser-known perhaps better than the popular, titles.

That's definately one of our plans. I personally want to avoid the popular stuff since it's likely people will know about it already if they'll be buying our mag.

The reviews page will be two pages set up in columns, each column for a genre and featuring one anime.

Since people have different opinions (I personally find Lucky Star cute but painfully slow paced whilst others love that sort of thing), we'll probably have a few different people give their opinion of each of the featured animes. It'll also give the team an excuse to get together, watch all the anime, discuss them as well as the mag.

Since it'll be quarterly, we might be able to add in one for manga as well. Since I know it can take me 2-3 days to read 30 chapters.

You said it would be printed in Australia? Did you mention how long it would take the reach The States? I thought you did, but I can't find the reference...

Well, it'll be first print here and mostly about the local anime/manga scene as it is in Australia. It won't be huge.

Shipping costs are expensive so there's probably no way we could send a large amount to the US, especially in our first year. And there's no way we could have something printed there.
However, we'll always have the option for those overseas to buy copies through our website (converted cost so whatever it is in Australia, it'll be __% cheaper depending on exchange rates).

I believe the cost to send just one mag is about AU$12 and takes 2 weeks to arrive.

It's unlikely that it will even reach Stateside - the comics and manga scene here isn't what one would call large.

Queenie, how much do you think it would be to ship interstate (to, say, Melbourne)?. I can never find these kinds of magazines.




Not that I've really been looking hard, or anything.

Melbourne's the home of Oztaku http://www.oztaku.com.au, the Aus manga anthology. Though they're focussing more on graphic novels now.

There's also the Generation anthology for manga.

However, I'm hoping ours will be broader than those and more of a community magazine.

I think, depending on the size and weight it be average around $6 to ship it anywhere in Australia and to Melbourne it would take 3 - 5 days to arrive.

Just had the idea of using 'SanQ' as the name of the mag.

San referring to 3 (as in anime, manga and games/cosplay which the mag would cover) or from sanshou meaning 'three cheers' or 'praise'.
[I'm really trying to find a meaning for the san, aren't I?]

Q referring to Queensland.

And together equalling phonetically sankyu - Japanese pronounciation of Thank You.
(Funnily enough, lengthen the u sound [sankyuu] and you have maternity leave apparantly.)


I like it but I don't. Seems strange to have a mag basically called Thank you. Opinions?

I'm glad you asked >.>

Latest anime and manga releases..what just came out and what is about to come out.

Big news, straight from Japan. Season anime list, reviews on those anime etc.
Also state if any movies are coming out, Japanese DVD and Manga releases.

Anime/manga of the week...have each person working on the project(assuming it's only 2 write a review over a certain anime or manga of choice.

Fan Art.

Contests. Maybe for a DVD or a Graphic Novel.

OEL manga news, perhaps not even exclusively manga if it's something good coming out. More focus on obscure publishers who deserve attention. I disagree with having a lot of focus on Japan, you can get news about their anime and manga scene in just about every other manga and anime focused website and magazine I've ever seen. And that's not right I say, NOT RIGHT! (And I think it's ridiculous..)

Ambitious...
Unfortunately, he forgetsto mention he prints in Australia and we'll hafta mailorder expensively after the first copy free.

You could always set up a website and have any non-local deliveries be order-only, thus only needing to mail one volume to your current non-local subscribers. Include your profit and the shipping into the subscription fee and you should be set for anyone outside of your current shipping zone.

Caffeine wrote:OEL manga news, perhaps not even exclusively manga if it's something good coming out. More focus on obscure publishers who deserve attention. I disagree with having a lot of focus on Japan, you can get news about their anime and manga scene in just about every other manga and anime focused website and magazine I've ever seen. And that's not right I say, NOT RIGHT! (And I think it's ridiculous..)

Mmm. Exactly. I'd like to focus on, in terms of what we reviews, older works. Not the popular stuff most people have heard the name of. But we'll probably focus on what is available in Australia and what's happening in Australia. Because we're so isolated, everything takes a while to get to us and because we have a PAL video system, not NTSC like the US (which adds extra time as they convert it).

I don't want to focus on what's happening in Japan unless it affects us. For example, the world cosplaying championships, which are hosted in Japan. They have preliminaries here to find the Australian representative and we'd interview them before and after the event most likely.

kenro wrote:Ambitious...
Unfortunately, he forgetsto mention he prints in Australia and we'll hafta mailorder expensively after the first copy free.

1. Yes. Incredibly ambitious.
2. The actual mag should hopefully be no more than $8. However if we have a following from readers more advertisers will support us then we would be able to afford to make it a free mag but we may make it really cheap though so we can have future funds for the mag.

Kriven wrote:You could always set up a website and have any non-local deliveries be order-only, thus only needing to mail one volume to your current non-local subscribers. Include your profit and the shipping into the subscription fee and you should be set for anyone outside of your current shipping zone.

That's what I'd like to do, since many people not in Brisbane (Australia and overseas) are already interested in it. We'll definately need a bigger team for the mailouts. As much as I'd like to accept subscriptions I probably won't until we're sure that the magazine will continue. I want to be fair, despite the fact that may leave us poorer than what we could be.

I don't plan to do this for profit. If I can breakeven I'm happy and any excess will go towards anything mag related.

..This sounds cooler and cooler every post you make. Ooohh, I wish you were is the US!

Caffeine wrote:..This sounds cooler and cooler every post you make. Ooohh, I wish you were is the US!

Teeheehee. Thanks.

I want something people want and would be interested in as there's not much here at the moment since anime and manga are just starting to grow in popularity. The convention in my city is only a few years old.

There are already anime reviews, some manga reviews (though few) and game reviews, and magazines with manga in them but nothing that emcompasses more than that.

Does anyone have anything else to add?

I wish there was some way to get the mag in the U.S Because it sounds like it is going to be soooo kool

It won't happen unless we get a huge following and publisher picks us up but the fact it will be about the stuff happening in Australia, some of it won't be relavent for the people in other countries (except the articles and reviews).

There will be an international order system so you could always order one if this project does print.

okays

^_^

So let me know what you'd like in it content wise and it may be.

All I want is manga that isn't popular or manga that no one has heard of before.

Hehe done.

We will post original english manga and will review lesser known manga that are available for purchase in Australia (since we want to avoid being seen to be encouraging reading or watching anime/manga online).