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In other words I'm speaking from a position of knowledge not speculation and I resent this magazine for the way it is written. It's like the writers have nothing but distain for Otaku and their sense of humor within the magazine is tasteless to say the least.

That's fine, we can take our disagreement to PMs.

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In other words I'm speaking from a position of knowledge not speculation and I resent this magazine for the way it is written. It's like the writers have nothing but distain for Otaku and their sense of humor within the magazine is tasteless to say the least.

Kabuto, I agree with you. Rereading the issue, it's really few bits in it that aren't crass or kind of offensive. I went to their website, and there was a blog entry that said "YOU WANTED MORE JAPANESE CONTENT? YOU GOT IT!" and had a youtube video of bad karaoke. To me, they're sending a message that says: "We're not catering to the anime community. So stop asking."

Shadowrun20XX,

I'm am very sorry if I mislead you into thinking that PiQ is a part of ADV.
PiQ is an entirely separate magazine that is not owned by ADV (as far as I have been told by PiQ).
Therefore money spent on PiQ will not go to ADV.
If you want to help support the anime industry by buying an anime magazine that is directly supported by an anime distribution house then I think that only OtakuUSA is left.
I may be wrong but I think that's Funimation's magazine. So money spent on OtakuUSA will most likely go to Funimation and thus support the anime industry.
In my humble opinion, PiQ is a waste of an Otaku's money for the simple fact that they are trying to lead Otaku into other genres than anime.
I cannot speak for the rest of the Otaku out there, but for me, that was a turn off.
The anime industry is in enough trouble as it is without a third party trying to get Otaku to spend their cash on non-anime goods.
Buying American comics and American Sci-Fi products is all well and nice but it will do nothing to save the anime industry in North America.
Protoculture Addicts, Anime-Insider, Shonen Jump, and OtakuUSA (which comes with a free DVD BTW) all support the anime industry in one way or another. In my opinion, PiQ does not.
But don't take my word for it, judge for yourself.

KT

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In other words I'm speaking from a position of knowledge not speculation and I resent this magazine for the way it is written. It's like the writers have nothing but distain for Otaku and their sense of humor within the magazine is tasteless to say the least.

Kabuto, I agree with you. Rereading the issue, it's really few bits in it that aren't crass or kind of offensive. I went to their website, and there was a blog entry that said "YOU WANTED MORE JAPANESE CONTENT? YOU GOT IT!" and had a youtube video of bad karaoke. To me, they're sending a message that says: "We're not catering to the anime community. So stop asking."

Kabuto, I agree with you. Rereading the issue, it's really few bits in it that aren't crass or kind of offensive. I went to their website, and there was a blog entry that said "YOU WANTED MORE JAPANESE CONTENT? YOU GOT IT!" and had a youtube video of bad karaoke. To me, they're sending a message that says: "We're not catering to the anime community. So stop asking."

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Kabuto, I agree with you. Rereading the issue, it's really few bits in it that aren't crass or kind of offensive. I went to their website, and there was a blog entry that said "YOU WANTED MORE JAPANESE CONTENT? YOU GOT IT!" and had a youtube video of bad karaoke. To me, they're sending a message that says: "We're not catering to the anime community. So stop asking."

I dunno. I get the impression that it was meant to be a joke and/or sarcastic. I've seen similar instances of that type of humor in other publications like EGM and GamePro. It's not that unusual.

But for a newly established publication whose demographic consist of fans are already unsure of them would you consider that wise? I mean sure you can say "it's a joke LOL", but NEWTYPE was a special interest magazine not a general one. It catered to a specific type of customer, and comic book fans already have Wizard. They do not need PIQ, but PIQ needs us to an extent. I guess what I am saying is this, you don't shit where you eat. Basically, PIQ can continue thier UScentric approach saracstic tone or they can bend.

Oh, and I was amused by the little "I only shot two or three people on the way to work" comment.

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Oh, and I was amused by the little "I only shot two or three people on the way to work" comment.

I'm not going to say you meant that as flame bait, but considering everything that has been said in this thread, it sure could be misconstrued that way.

I got the first issue of PiQ with my latest TRSI issue. I'm not quite sure what to make of that PiG article, but otherwise I liked it even though it didn't have as much anime (or video game) coverage as I would have liked. But I can always use more reading material to kill time at work and it does a good job at that. Unfortunately, I have zero interest in Appleseed: Ex Machina becasue I'm not a fan of CG but the "Is Anime Dead?" article was interesting and its nice to read a bit about what's going on in the world of American comics. I'm not into that myself for various reasons, but it makes for an interesting read. I have four other video game magazines and three other anime magazines and go much more in depth with that material, so being a little lightweight there isn't a big deal.

I'll probably subscribe to it.

Oh, and I was amused by the little "I only shot two or three people on the way to work" comment.

I'm not sure how you interpreted my comment that way. I thought it was funny. Probably because I wasn't expecting anything remotely like that when looking at the contact information. I was going to mention it even if no one else had talked about it beforehand but it had absolutely nothing to do with people in this thread and I'm still not sure how you construed it that way.

My only question is did anyone else that was a Newtype USA subscriber get the promised two free issues of the first issue out or am I misunderstanding the two for one they seemed to be talking about?

Also found it funny on a slight side note that though it would have been after the switch even if released on time, Kanon volume two had a promo for Newtype USA on it... anyway what does anyone know about the two magazines we are suppose to get for each copy of the remaining Newtype USA subscription we might have left?