Editing Protoculture Addicts (section)

===End of regular production===
The last regularly released issue of ''Protoculture Addicts'' was #97, the July/August 2008 edition.<ref>{{cite web|title=Protoculture Addicts 97|work=Protoculture Addicts|url=http://www.protoculture.ca/PA/PA97.htm|access-date=April 26, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709153737/http://www.protoculture.ca/PA/PA97.htm|archive-date=July 9, 2011}}</ref><ref name="deal">{{cite web|url=https://nergalheavyindustries.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/dead-english-language-anime-magazines-protoculture-addicts/|title=Dead English Language Anime Magazines: "Protoculture Addicts"|date=June 12, 2014|work=The Anime Archivist|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913170116/https://nergalheavyindustries.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/dead-english-language-anime-magazines-protoculture-addicts/|archive-date=September 13, 2014|access-date=November 13, 2015}}</ref> This was a symptom of the general collapse of the North American anime market which occurred throughout 2008 following the closure of [[Geneon USA]] in September 2007  However, it was also the result of increased competition with anime news websites, such as Anime News Network itself. Only  a few months before, ''[[Newtype USA]]'' shut down in February 2008  This was followed not long afterwards by the closure of ''[[Anime Insider]]'' magazine in March 2009, the last anime news magazine published on a monthly basis in North America.

The magazine still technically exists, though only as a neglected subsidiary of Anime News Network, and for all intents and purposes it has been directly absorbed by ANN.  According to their forum, Anime News Network officially discontinued efforts to release ''Protoculture Addicts'' as a regularly released magazine with issue #97, but hoped to continue the name as a bi-annual trade paperback, not focusing on news (a function which had been supplanted by the internet) but on special features and reviews.  However, the project has not been given a high priority, and only two staffers were assigned to gradually produce the special trade-paperback issue, which was still going to be numbered "''Protoculture Addicts'' #98" to continue the legacy of the original magazine. A new issue of ''Protoculture Addicts'' had not been published since 2008.<ref name=deal/><ref>{{cite web|title=Any news yet about issue 98?|work=Anime News Network forum|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=131120&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0|access-date=April 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724220023/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=131120&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0|archive-date=July 24, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> This leaves ''[[Otaku USA]]'' as the only regularly published anime news magazine in North America, which is published on a bi-monthly schedule.