For anyone who wants to have a look at a full issue of that magazine: A few of them can be found online.

Yeah, I don’t have much hope in that regard. I am sure Takahashi’s involvement with the series will mean that the original manga’s casual misogyny will be toned down, but I doubt that Takahashi will change much about the overall plot.

Yeah, that is - unfortunately - how it usually goes. The average game developer stays in the gaming industry for ~7 years and then gives up and does something else entirely.