It is with great sadness that we must report to you today that AnimEigo's annual and much-anticipated April Fools posting has been postponed, a victim of the economic uncertainty plaguing the nation.

In normal times, we would spend hundreds of man-hours and tens of thousands of dollars coming up with our annual joke -- in fact, it's pretty much all we work on the first 3 months of the year.

However, these are not normal times, and we made the hard decision to economize. The tipping point was when we realized that if we wanted to do the joke on schedule, we'd have to either fire Bobby or institute a company-wide policy banning extra shots in the morning cappuchinos. We want you to know that it was a close call, but the incessant weeping and unconsolable sobbing coming from his office finally got to us -- not to mention the headaches they caused were worse than caffeine withdrawl.

Therefore, we have rescheduled the joke for later in the year; exactly when depends on how sales go.

Needless to say, the uncertainty about when our prank will appear will probably have negative effects on the entire economy, the humorous equivalent of the Paradox of Thrift. We're sorry about that, but what can you expect from a company like ours?

So when you see an announcement from us that makes you think "That's too good to be true!", well, it just might be. Or it might not. Sometimes even we can't tell the difference.