Newtype Magazine
December 22nd, 2006
I walked into Borders the other night to get a copy of the the Scanner Darkly DVD, and impulse-bought Newtype Magazine, as I was checking out. I’m only on page 3, and already I am hooked. The magazine looks and feels great. But a big part of the appeal is that I’m actually on page 158! Yes, you guessed it, the magazine is printed back to front, just like in Japanese. The magazine’s editors had this to say about it “Let’s get something clear here: People in Japan have been reading and writing a lot longer than us English-speaking folks — so don’t even think about calling this book backward. This is a magazine that focuses on Japanese pop culture, so it’s only fitting that it follows a similar format” Well, how fucking cool is that — 
