Honey, I’m home, what’s on Newtype?
SaiAni is currently reporting that Newtype - a popular Japanese monthly anime magazine - is establishing its own anime channel.
According to the report, Kadokawa Shoten, the publisher of Newtype (the Japanese one), announced the establishment of the Newtype Channel today in Japan. It isn’t a linear TV station, however, but a web-based one. A single episode of an anime costs ¥105, about 86 cents USD (are you listening, American anime distributors?). A splash site is already up, and it features Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, so I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that the show will be among its introductory titles.
So now the only question is: can people NOT in Japan buy episodes, too?
86 cents? Now I really have to learn Japanese.
The page says the site will open on 7/24… which is today, but it’s not up yet. For anyone who cares, the large orange text says “Bookmark this page and wait!!”
Hmm… it’s up now, but you need to supply a postal code, a prefecture, a city and an address, none of which I have. Maybe I’ll make something up later.
Andrew, from the article I read, you’ll probably have to pay by credit card, so if they require an address, it probably has to be your billing address - I’ll fuss with it later.