A.D. Vision, a distributor of Japanese animation video, has signed an agreement with Japanese Kadokawa Shoten, LTD. to localize, publish and distribute an English language version of Japan's premiere
anime magazine, Newtype. Newtype USA will debut with a special collector's edition "Convention Teaser" at July's Anime Expo convention in Long Beach, California and the San Diego Comic-Con
International in August. The first newsstand edition of Newtype USA will go on sale this fall, and will be available through subscription and at specialty stores across the nation. The magazine has a
monthly circulation of more than 300,000 in Japan. ADV's marketing push for the magazine will reach potential subscribers through the upcoming Newtype
website,
through ADV's video customer database and through subscription cards inserted into the company's DVD titles. ADV forecasts over 1,000,000 new readers within the first two years of publishing.