<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	
	>
<channel>
	<title>
	Comments on: Following calls to oust Kadokawa&#8217;s CEO and reform FromSoftware game publishing, activist investor Oasis raises stake to 15.25%, with plans to buy more shares	</title>
	<atom:link href="https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/</link>
	<description>AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:38:25 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<sy:updatePeriod>
	hourly	</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>
	1	</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1</generator>
	<item>
		<title>
		By: Bort Gorbler		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-9156</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bort Gorbler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-9156</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[These ghouls will be the death of yet another beloved company.

You hate to see it. Prepare for the fall of Fromsoft if these nonhumans get their way. Employees will be laid off and their fantastic art and sound teams will be replaced by AI cost cutting slop. Hopefully Fromsoft realizes this and either buys themselves out or the core taken leave and start something new (and privately owned)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These ghouls will be the death of yet another beloved company.</p>
<p>You hate to see it. Prepare for the fall of Fromsoft if these nonhumans get their way. Employees will be laid off and their fantastic art and sound teams will be replaced by AI cost cutting slop. Hopefully Fromsoft realizes this and either buys themselves out or the core taken leave and start something new (and privately owned)</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: Helman		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8967</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Helman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8967</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8886&quot;&gt;ANameToSurpassMetalGear&lt;/a&gt;.

There would be a recommendation from Japanese government to reject a deal in the name of national security, in case there is a potential of hostile takeover or confidential info leakage. I&#039;m not sure whether it&#039;d work for this case tho. But, as long as the CEO is smart enough to not bow so easily, then it&#039;s still safe]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8886">ANameToSurpassMetalGear</a>.</p>
<p>There would be a recommendation from Japanese government to reject a deal in the name of national security, in case there is a potential of hostile takeover or confidential info leakage. I&#8217;m not sure whether it&#8217;d work for this case tho. But, as long as the CEO is smart enough to not bow so easily, then it&#8217;s still safe</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: Pmoney5		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8946</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pmoney5]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8946</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Oasis will be the end of Kadokawa and the industry. Activists investors have killed Hollywood and western entertainment and we have more than enough proof of this. In fact even western media outlets that promoted global standards are starting to realize this. If people wanted sanitized slop they would watch or play western entertainment. They will get control tank the company and entertainment meduim than sell. In fact Tencent is doing this right now with several Japanese studios Marvelous is just one example.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oasis will be the end of Kadokawa and the industry. Activists investors have killed Hollywood and western entertainment and we have more than enough proof of this. In fact even western media outlets that promoted global standards are starting to realize this. If people wanted sanitized slop they would watch or play western entertainment. They will get control tank the company and entertainment meduim than sell. In fact Tencent is doing this right now with several Japanese studios Marvelous is just one example.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: Joshua		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8923</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8923</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8886&quot;&gt;ANameToSurpassMetalGear&lt;/a&gt;.

Not at all? It&#039;s a publicly traded company,the Japanese govt is just like everyone else they just need their palms greased enough]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8886">ANameToSurpassMetalGear</a>.</p>
<p>Not at all? It&#8217;s a publicly traded company,the Japanese govt is just like everyone else they just need their palms greased enough</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: ANameToSurpassMetalGear		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8886</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ANameToSurpassMetalGear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8886</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Isn&#039;t it illegal in Japan for a non Japanese company to have a controlling stake in a Japanese company?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn&#8217;t it illegal in Japan for a non Japanese company to have a controlling stake in a Japanese company?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: ZXXZ		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8884</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ZXXZ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8884</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Looks like From needs to hop off to another company if they&#039;re trying to use money to pry the company open]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks like From needs to hop off to another company if they&#8217;re trying to use money to pry the company open</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: dratsab		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8883</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dratsab]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8883</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8875&quot;&gt;Lalala&lt;/a&gt;.

Yeah, this is my first time learning about this... seems like some actual legit news about the video game industry and what journalists of the culture should be concerned with, aye?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8875">Lalala</a>.</p>
<p>Yeah, this is my first time learning about this&#8230; seems like some actual legit news about the video game industry and what journalists of the culture should be concerned with, aye?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: Lalala		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8875</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lalala]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8875</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Remember when everyone and every single media spread fearmongering news and endlessly doomposted about &quot;the end of anime and games&quot; when Sony bought majority of shares in Kadokawa years ago??? while actually it was Kadokawa themselves who proposed Sony to do so??? Now where are they all????? This is actually 1000000x worse yet barely any media report this thing. I&#039;m not defending Sony as they have their own problems. But, a moment when everyone assumed Sony as a &quot;foreign threat&quot; to Japanese gaming industry while they go chill with this REAL foreign threat is really really unfair to me]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember when everyone and every single media spread fearmongering news and endlessly doomposted about &#8220;the end of anime and games&#8221; when Sony bought majority of shares in Kadokawa years ago??? while actually it was Kadokawa themselves who proposed Sony to do so??? Now where are they all????? This is actually 1000000x worse yet barely any media report this thing. I&#8217;m not defending Sony as they have their own problems. But, a moment when everyone assumed Sony as a &#8220;foreign threat&#8221; to Japanese gaming industry while they go chill with this REAL foreign threat is really really unfair to me</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: Blu		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8871</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Blu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8871</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8859&quot;&gt;Stobbo&lt;/a&gt;.

They may need to try and separate themselves from Kadokawa, but not sure if that will happen. These companies are learning the pitfalls of selling out to investors instead of trusting customer base. One can stop buying, the other can destroy you a variety of ways.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8859">Stobbo</a>.</p>
<p>They may need to try and separate themselves from Kadokawa, but not sure if that will happen. These companies are learning the pitfalls of selling out to investors instead of trusting customer base. One can stop buying, the other can destroy you a variety of ways.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: Blu		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8870</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Blu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8870</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t think it matters much what kind of activist it is, Oasis is based in Hong Kong, now in the hands of Beijing, CCP influence. They will control Japanese companies one way or another, extract, put in position it will decline over time and be dumped just as we&#039;ve seen Tencent and Netease do. A great way to strike at Japan&#039;s sectors indirectly during a time when it allies itself again China with Taiwan.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think it matters much what kind of activist it is, Oasis is based in Hong Kong, now in the hands of Beijing, CCP influence. They will control Japanese companies one way or another, extract, put in position it will decline over time and be dumped just as we&#8217;ve seen Tencent and Netease do. A great way to strike at Japan&#8217;s sectors indirectly during a time when it allies itself again China with Taiwan.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: ClemCa		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8869</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ClemCa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8869</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[I hope this fails, Kadokawa isn&#039;t just the owner of FromSoftware, they&#039;re really important as a publisher in the cultural space. I don&#039;t trust activist investors to understand that long term Kadokawa&#039;s image is very important to keep most of their activities running well.
The day you see Kadokawa&#039;s logo and think &quot;oh this is going to be cost-cutting sh!t&quot;, it&#039;ll be unrecoverable.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope this fails, Kadokawa isn&#8217;t just the owner of FromSoftware, they&#8217;re really important as a publisher in the cultural space. I don&#8217;t trust activist investors to understand that long term Kadokawa&#8217;s image is very important to keep most of their activities running well.<br />
The day you see Kadokawa&#8217;s logo and think &#8220;oh this is going to be cost-cutting sh!t&#8221;, it&#8217;ll be unrecoverable.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>
		By: Stobbo		</title>
		<link>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/following-calls-to-oust-kadokawas-ceo-and-reform-fromsoftware-game-publishing-activist-investor-oasis-raises-stake-to-15-25-with-plans-to-buy-more-shares/#comment-8859</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stobbo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=68722#comment-8859</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[With all these investors trying to get their say in, I guess I can just stop paying attention to FromSoft.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With all these investors trying to get their say in, I guess I can just stop paying attention to FromSoft.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
		
			</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
