Anime is over. It's done. It's dead. Dead as a doornail. Over and done with. At an end. Gone. It's pushing up daisies. Terminated. Concluded. At an end. It is no more. The wheels have fallen off.
And how can you tell when a fad like Anime is over? Here's how. When people old enough to be your grandparents start posting blog entries about how cool they were to be doing cosplay in 1983.
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