The fantastic Wakaba has done it again.

This has probably been out for a while now, meaning it’s all old-hat for some of you, but she’s news to me. And what’s she’s got for her over the rest of the OS-Family: Her own commercial.

(I really wanted to show you the video ’cause it’s all sorts of moe, however there seems to be some difficulty with the embedding. So instead of junking this post, clicking on the picture will take you to the utuebs for now until the video can be shown here)

Coming off Japanator, Eric Sherman, President of Bang Zoom! Entertainment, is heralding the End of Days as he sees it:

Last year we saw Bandai fire 90% of their staff on one Monday in January, and two years ago we saw Geneon (neé Pioneer) shut their doors and auction off their wares to the highest bidder. CPM died a slow, painful death. And ADV fell hard and fast, the way mighty giants will. But from here on, it won’t be so exciting. Japan is already suffering and struggling to bring out quality titles. They can’t rely on everything being picked up by US distributors anymore. And little by little, it just won’t be here anymore.

The cause? Straight up theft.

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