>>74555652 (me)ADDENDUM:
Next week is not only the end of Q4, but also a very short trading week. It's Golden Week, and the TSE will be closed on 4/29 (Mon), 5/3 (Fri), and 5/6 (following Mon) for holidays. If graduations and terminations are to resume next week because they will no longer impact the Q4 and FY2023 revenue numbers, then there are a few dates and times to be on the lookout for:
- 4/30, 1500 JST - the end of Q4 and FY23 trading. Anything which happens over the next 9 hours will still happen in Q4 of FY23, but will not effect the Q4 or the FY23 stock value
- 4/30, 2359 JST - the actual end of Q4, and of FY23
- 5/1, 1900 JST - no particular importance as far as the stock market is concerned, but that time is 0300 PDT, which is the usual time they publish termination notices
- 5/1, 2000 JST - as above, but assuming that management did not set their clocks forward for daylight savings time, either due to incompetence, or due to a prohibition from the home office (because Japan does not have DST)
- 5/2, 1500 JST - when the TSE will close for the upcoming four-day weekend; the only four-day weekend of the year, and the last long weekend until Marine Day on July 15 (Mon). Any fuckery they do at that moment which could have an adverse effect on the stock price, will not have an adverse effect on the stock price for 114 hours - plenty of time for the investors to cool their tempers
Assuming anyone at all will get fired or have their graduation notices published next week, they have up to 16 sacrificial lambs to choose from. The following are "safe" from getting the boot next week:
- The Luxiem and Noctyx boys, because of course (although Fulgur might get culled at branch closure, to punish him for going on PL to tell people Scarle was safe and/or to deny the girls they will cull the ability to file a sex discrimination lawsuit over the culling)
- Elira, because of course
- The Krisis boys, because they have a show in Seattle coming up
- Anyone set to appear in Reimu's 3D debut on 5/4, including Enna and Millie
Also worth noting is that even if any or all of the Ethyria girls are in the queue, none of them will graduate before June 2. They had been scheduled to appear at Offkai on May 31/June 1; obviously their appearance has been cancelled, but the fact that they had been scheduled in the first place means they are NOT scheduled to leave Niji before then.
