Funny thing - shortly before I made the horrifying discovery, I was looking through the magazine racks and found PiQ, so I bought that instead of the
NewtypeUSA I was looking for. Really, it was a wonderful magazine because it covers all that other awesome stuff that gets touted here on the boards quite
frequently. However, I think that what really turned the customer base against them was not the reader-depreciating terminology in the editorials or anything
else like that. What really hurt them, I think, was that there simply wasn't all that much content on anime, manga, j-music, and light novels anymore. PiQ
would only cover a few anime and manga titles in an issue - no more or less than any other American entertainment magazine that didn't have asian
pop-culture as a focus.
Now, if they had simply just upped the sheer amount of content to include the American entertainment industry without sacrificing any of the ordinary Japanese
entertainment content... Why hell! I wouldn't have cared if the magazine had been cut down to a quarterly! Well, maybe I would have, but still...
NewtypeUSA I was looking for. Really, it was a wonderful magazine because it covers all that other awesome stuff that gets touted here on the boards quite
frequently. However, I think that what really turned the customer base against them was not the reader-depreciating terminology in the editorials or anything
else like that. What really hurt them, I think, was that there simply wasn't all that much content on anime, manga, j-music, and light novels anymore. PiQ
would only cover a few anime and manga titles in an issue - no more or less than any other American entertainment magazine that didn't have asian
pop-culture as a focus.
Now, if they had simply just upped the sheer amount of content to include the American entertainment industry without sacrificing any of the ordinary Japanese
entertainment content... Why hell! I wouldn't have cared if the magazine had been cut down to a quarterly! Well, maybe I would have, but still...