Regarding Anime Insider Issue 50

I’m not scanning Anime Insider Issue 50 (the Nov 2007 issue). The reason for this is that someone has already done so for the entirety of the magazine, which would make redoing specific pages in black and white pretty redundant:

http://imgur.com/a/T8LW8
http://www.mediafire.com/download/n0iokyk4s9lkjh0/Anime+Insider+issue+50+2007-11.zip

[Thanks to fredofirish for the tip.]

In lieu of scanning the articles, I will note that there are several interviews in there which you may find interesting to look at:

-Mitsuo Fukuda on Gundam Seed Destiny (p. 24)

-A piece on Kaze no Stigma with comments from director Junichi Sakata (p. 34)

-A 3-page interview with Black Lagoon director Sunao Katabuchi (p.40)

-An interview with US VA/ADR Director Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (p.76)

-An interview with US VA Travis Willingham (p.77)

-An interview with US Publisher Vertical’s executive VP, Ioannis Mentzas (p. 84)

Via Anime Insider: Koichiro Natsume (October 2007)

An interview with Aniplex head Koichiro Natsume. He talks about music tie-ins, discusses how his own career in Sony Music Entertainment’s corporate department led to his being assigned to Aniplex (then SME Visual Works), and estimates the approval rate for projects pitched to Aniplex at 30-40 percent. Note, though, that this interview was conduced well before a conscious decision was made to cut down on the total number of anime being produced yearly, so the figure may well be lower now.

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