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I found a new anime mag in the US called Senpai.

This?
http://www.senpaimagazine.com/

Looking at their back issues page they are quarterly and have three issues out, available both digitally and print on demand. $17.99 seems like a heck of a lot of money for a magazine though (Newtype costs something like that these days but that's via diamond with import and retailer markups etc) - and they're asking for donations too.

I understand that print on demand is quite expensive, but the digital copy's price doesn't seem that bad. Strangely, some of the sections are not yet filled in on their website. That really concerns me about the stability of the magazine in question.

I know absolutely nothing about this magazine apart from what's on the website (and thanks to Hiro94 for the info!), so I'm speaking from my judgment (of the ugly fan art on the covers and throughout) rather than knowledge!
Maybe you're right and there might be something along the lines you're thinking, vashna.
Does anyone know?

And of course the writing may be great!

$17.99 seems like a heck of a lot of money for a magazine though (Newtype costs something like that these days but that's via diamond with import and retailer markups etc)

Never heard of this. I've heard of Otaku USA, but their magazine is rather thin for its price, and some of those reviews strike me as written by corporate shills. I suppose I could stand to check this out.

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$17.99 seems like a heck of a lot of money for a magazine though (Newtype costs something like that these days but that's via diamond with import and retailer markups etc)

As I recall it, that's only slightly more than what Hilary Haag said NewType USA cost, back in the day. I miss NewType USA.

You couldn't be further from the truth about Otaku USA. $20($10 if you know where to look) a year is not all that much for a subscription. Most the people who write for the magazine I have met at one time or another at a con of some sort.

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You couldn't be further from the truth about Otaku USA. $20($10 if you know where to look) a year is not all that much for a subscription. Most the people who write for the magazine I have met at one time or another at a con of some sort.

I don't have a subscription, I go by the cover price, especially in my quote about the old pricing of NewType USA.

10 dollars a year, for the 4 or so issues that gives, is affordable, sure. But when those issues contain reviews which gloss over a show's flaws and rate it much higher than it could ever merit, eyebrows and suspicions are raised about their integrity. Rideback was at best a "by the numbers" formulaic show, and that's if you're wearing rose-colored glasses when you watch it. Otaku USA all but sang praises of it on high. Even devout fans of the show have to see that it is not the magnum opus of the anime genre, so why didn't Otaku USA?