They have what I would call the “article” section which has what I would call the traditional NewType spread, and then a “List” section (which is the bigger section, in terms of number of articles), which has a short writeup for each series, which don’t have the NewType image spreads.

How the “List” section is formatted is pretty much a writeup with a larger image hanging around the title, and maybe a couple other images along with the write-up.

And the Geass write-up is 4 pages, including the spread.

I guess part of what I was getting across is that my feelings about the first issue were mixed. I was glad that it was still (mostly) anime related, since I feared that it might be just kind of there to appease the masses, which ended up not being the case.

As for mixing in other stuff, I think that’s more of a preference of the reader. If people don’t mind the other stuff being mixed in, then I think the magazine works perfectly fine. I guess me personally liked how NewType was more anime-centric and so I was kind of annoyed by the additional stuff, but as I said, that’s more personal preference than anything.

I still have something like 5 issues to go on my subscription, so I’ll see whether I warm up to the new set-up by then I guess.

Funny you should say that because we’ve tried to make it very clear that we’re not aiming to make a strictly anime-related magazine. I suppose we haven’t been the most effective in doing that so far. The main goal behind PiQ is to cover various forms of entertainment, and while we’re still primarily focused on anime, we also know that there are other interesting things worth covering too.

Nevertheless, thanks for the words of support (I think) and I hope you’ll stick with us as we continue to grow and improve.