Fear of the 5th string! The Ibanez EHB1005SMS

If you want really small short scale basses and are maybe a bit of a weeb, you could check out the ESP “BanG Dream!” signature basses from the anime.

I’ve seen them in person, high end stores carry them. They are tiny and adorable and I am sure quite high quality. 28" scale:


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Your image if you own one:

This is easily the most brilliant marketing maneuver I have ever seen though. Make an anime about high school/college girl bands with unfortunately suggestive names, with a tie in to a real instrument manufacturer. Then make the characters instruments in real life and sell them for lots of money. Then stage real life concerts with the anime bands, played by the voice actors from the anime made up to look like their characters. Feed the real life events back in to the anime plot. It’s like a constant commercial for ESP.

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