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The Nova usagi is back

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English language school chain Nova has a new commercial for its kids’ classes:

The infamous Nova usagi is back, joined by a blonde foreigner speaking with a heavy gaijin-san accent.

The end of the commercial adds a “G Com before the familiar Nova jingle, perhaps as a reminder to viewers that this is Nova is different from the Nova that ripped off so many former students.

Related Story: Former Nova president Nozomu Sahashi was sentenced to three years, six months in prison yesterday for embezzling some 320 million yen in company funds.

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4 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - August 27, 2009 at 8:20 am

Categories: Teaching English Tags: chain, ecc, Eigo, eikaiwa, japan, nova

somegirl

scary
http://theghostletters.blogspot.com/ freedomwv

Well, NOVA might actually make it. The NOVA brand is not 100% ran by G.Com there are a few other companies that got in on the action. It is getting rebuild fairly well; although there are some growing problems like any restart of a brand.

There is some profit starting to be made. Although, it is being ran as a very tight ship when it come to spending.
http://dimesfornickels.wordpress.com/ William George

“Hello kids! I’m the NOVA usagi! Today’s words are ‘over-charging’, ‘embezzlement’, and ‘non-payment’. Repeat after me….”
http://hubpages.com/profile/jcwin228 Jason

I never trusted NOVA. I worked at AEON for nearly 8 years. Later I tried to apply to a place called G. Communications. Watch out! That’s the place that took over Nova. Now I have a good job at an all English preschool. I wrote an article about etting a job in Japan for newbies along with a lot of other articles about Japan. Check them out.
Jason

The Nova usagi is back

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