I looked into the Bandai/ANN thing last year, but I don't think I posted about it on this thread. ANN was involved in some failed international streaming thing several years ago on the American side of it that involved the streaming company buying some of their stock with the idea that ANN would produce website content/news content or something relating to it (I don't know why anyone would bring ANN into anything, so don't expect me to explain the logic of this). Subsequently, there was a hostile buy-out by Bandai just to shut it down to eliminate competition to their streaming service and they did just that. There's even ANN news articles about them complaining about how Bandai destroyed it. Hilariously, this thing was such a failure I don't think anyone apart from ANN users knew it was even a project. I've literally never heard fans ever mention it before. It doesn't even get a mention on the ANN Wikipedia page.
I don't know why Bandai are keeping that stock instead of getting rid of it, but it's not like they purposely were trying to invest in ANN or whatever fucking nonsense they're suggesting with those disclosures that obfuscates the context in which this occurred. Also, I think those disclosures are the the result of a law or rule that was hilariously passed/changed during GamerGate that GamerGate may had some hand in bringing about due to complaining about game journalists not saying who their sponsors were on online articles.
But overall, it's like Big Company A bought tiny start-up B and to shut it down, and tiny start-up B had a few shares of stock in ANN, so now Company A has the stock. The fact they gained the stock obviously was pure happenstance imo.
