Quote: Berk wrote:
There was no way around the licensing of the name, as Newtype is owned by Kadokawa Shoten and ADV is not.
And after they lost the money from Sojitz there was no way they weren't going to have to do some serious cutbacks.
I realized that they didn't own the Newtype name, just a license to use it. But one would hope that if they had approached Kadokawa to say, "Hey, the
market is in a slump right now. We still have a lock on the market, but it isn't worth as much money right now. Let's rationalize the licensing
fees..." that they might have been able to keep going. Perhaps dropping to bimonthly issues (didn't they start with bimonthly issues?) Then again,
perhaps they did and the answer was, "No, if things are that bad then we'll just wait for it to get better and bid out the license again."
Or perhaps the budget was in such bad shape that even renegotiating the licensing fee wouldn't have helped. In which case PiQ was probably doomed from the
start.
So, what is the opinion on the modern Protoculture Addicts? I think the last issue I bought was back in... Hmm... Pre-2000. Long enough back for it to have
articles with Mekton stats for mecha from anime of the day. Perhaps late enough to have mention of Heavy Gear 1st Edition.
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