Though their debut issue didn't quite impress me...

..it may be actually rather debatable whether Otaku USA can be called a clone of the defunct Newtype USA.As I kinda suspected,a licensing issue did the latter in...

Happy birthday to Sumiko Shirakawa(who turns 73),Makoto Ataka(who turns 51),Sailor Saturn Yuuko Minaguchi(who turns 42),Kaori Asou(who turns 30 or 41 depending on which source is correct),Karehaan Isshin Chiba(who turns 40),and Chiro Kanzaki(who turns 29 and may have disappeared off the face of the seiyuu universe after Sister Princess)...

On a sporting note,who'd ever thunk that my Kings would draft the son of a Hall of Famer?