PiQ premiered in May 2008 as a replacement for Newtype USA. A.D. Vision (ADV) contacted its advertising partners to let them know that the February 2008 issue of Newtype USA was the last issue of the magazine. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (February 15, 2017). "SoftCel Pictures Relaunches With New Adult Anime". Koulikov, Mikhail (February 7, 2009). "New York Comic Con Yen Press". They wanted to get their transfer of assets done three years earlier declared void. In this article, I will explore three recurring elements in A-bomb anime: (1) "cuteness," (2) the role of female and child characters, and (3) apocalypse, fantasy and technology in more recent anime. For example, in Chieko Hosokawa's Ai no Hitomi (Gaze of Love), a young couple fall in love and plan to wed only to find out that the young and beautiful female protagonist Yoko has contracted an unspecified disease related to radiation exposure. In the words of Susan Napier, "Both films privilege the masculine as the dominant force in the family structures by showing two young boys taking care of their respective female relatives."20 Marie Thorsten Morimoto argues that Japanese culture has entered a demasculinized state due to the overwhelming saturation of feminine cuteness in Japanese society, but is "still haunted by the images of a dead, absent, or inadequate father and a problematic masculinity".21 This absent father figure pervades both Barefoot Gen and Grave of the Fireflies in which sons assume the fathers’ roles.