I looked back in Live Journal, and last year the schedule announcements for the following year came out on August 29th.  In 2007, it was August 21st.  Today is the 9th (American time, at least), so I guess that means we'll be hearing about the 2010 schedule sometime in the next two to three weeks.  And probably news in regards to tsukigumi's next ( Read more... )

quinquin made a comment about how already four people from the 2008 Young Star Guide have announced their retirement.  I thought it would be interesting to go back to some of the older Young Star Guides and look at the statistics:

( List of stars + their status under the cut )