PiQ: A Brief Analysis of ADV's Newtype Replacement

All PiQ has done for me is to make me angry. (Read on for detailed explanations or don't if you liked it)
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I skimmed through all 4 of those magazines and it's horrible. All it is doing is mixing Japanese entertainment (that other countries rarely hear about) with American entertainment (a bunch of bull that we've had enough of hearing about). I don't want to read a magazine where I'm reading about things like Code Geass, Maburaho, and Noir and then turn the page and it's a big picture of Spongebob or Drake & Josh. It makes me grind my teeth in disgust. I'm sure anime fans in America are sick of companies that transfer Anime from Japan trying to "Americanize" all of the foreign entertainment. I understand trying to make things more suitable for younger people, but completely changing names, plot and other important details is going way to far. PiQ is just another attempt at localizing things. These changes are outrageous. I say "Stop. If everyone wants it to stay with the original output, why tweak it in a way that angers the readers. Is that your new marketing plan. If so, then you're right. It did fail due to 'lack of proper marketing'. That plan sucks." I'm sick of their attempts at keeping our interest.

if i want to read blockbuster reviews, i would read Empire. if i want to read about games, i would grab a copy of Gamefreak, and if i wanted to read about some tv series i've never heard of, which i don't, i'm sure there's a better magazine out there dedicated to that. PiQ is forgetting that it self is suppose to be a newtype successor, and it's pretty safe to say that the majority of PiQ readers were newtype readers, yet PiQ has turned it's back on the readers, and continues to dissapoint us issue after issue, and if there's a magazine out there with even 1% more of anime content, i would not hesitate to drop PiQ for good.

Like these two poor souls, i also feel ill about what happened. My favorite magazine Newtype stripped from me with out so much as an explanation...only a tiny little blurb on the very last page of the very last issue of Newtype(which i thought was a joke to be honest)

So PiQ comes and im like, "wtf is this shit!". Then they tell me they are going to give me an extra issue for my remaining subscription(which i just happened to renew, how unlucky of me)

THEN to top it ALL OFF! They stop publishing it...leaving me screwed from many angles. The disapointment, sadness, and fury i feel can only be erased with NEWTYPE!!

I have to settle for Otaku USA now...which is ok. A whole lot better than PiQ, but no where near MY Newtype...

just found this post and now im just about in tears newtype was great i could of got used to piq but to tope what the last guy sed i got you beat first when my newtype was allmust up i renew for the 1 year but i lost my stub saying i payd it and got a waring saying i was almost up with newtpye so i rite them one more scheck this time 4 the 2 year fined the old stub ask them if thay can just cash both and give me the 3 years thay sed sure 5 months later bye bye newtype so now this otako is out more then most and dos not have the green to get a new mag andt that a female dog

Dear Publisher,

Please confirm if customers will be eligible for a refund if they do not wish to receive TWO ISSUES OF PIQ for each remaining issue of NEWTYPE they had remaining in their accounts.

Sincerely,

Tarah A. Milam
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