Short answers, pulled from the story.
Famitsu began as a column within the computer game magazine Login running from March 1985 to December 1986 before evolving into its own entity. The first issue of what would become the most influential video game publication in Japan hit newsstands on the 6th of June 1986 under the name Famicom Tsūshin.
Necky the Fox is the cartoon creation by artist Susumu Matsushita that appears on odd-numbered issues of Famitsu. The name Necky was chosen through a reader poll and derives from a complex Japanese pun involving the word for fox and the onomatopoeia for a fox's bark.
Famitsu uses a unique scoring system where four separate critics each assign a score from 0 to 10 which are then added together for a total out of 40. This method has resulted in thirty games achieving the elusive perfect score of 40.
Kadokawa Game Linkage formerly known as Gzbrain has been the publisher of Famitsu since 2017. The publishing rights shifted hands multiple times moving from ASCII to Enterbrain in March 2000 and later to Kadokawa in 2013.
The PlayStation 3 holds the record for the highest number of perfect scores with seven titles. All but three perfect-scored games originate from companies like Nintendo Square Enix and Sega.