This is not new, every year they ask the same question and Yagoo keep insisting in expanding overseas but he never elaborate in what that means, the theories are that he want to expand to the european time slot that is barren, expand to Korea (that idea died pretty quickly when sites like twitch pulled the plug out of there) and ofc the fabled meme of HoloES
Actually he did answer differently once, IIRC he said he would like to keep whatever expansion close to JP and SEA was a possibility. For some reason corpos are jumping in on Thailand, so it could be a thing. The one problem with Korea is they are ... corrupt as fuck. They really don't lose out to chinks on that front. Unless Cover manage to make a branch consist of 0 koreans management, the same problem nijiKR had will port over to Hololive
Not to mention their kpop fanbase are even more toxic than the usual chink
While the talents are aplenty, korea is literally a huge can of worms. If Cover goes into it they might find themselves another HoloCN
Probably got canned after the brand decided that the vtuber thing wasn't bringing in enough views/money or their rose tinted glasses of "Okay gayz we're gonna enter this beetouber thingamajig and get as popular as this stupid shark girl jeremy found the other day and then we will be fucking loaded! Amazing plan I know!" wore off.
Speaking of brand randomly enter this thingamajig. TV asahi, a mega corporation with a net sale of 232.7 billion Japanese yen in fiscal year 2023, founded all the way back in 1957, jumped into the vtubing hypetrain. In January of 2023, they debuted 4 vtubers sharing the same channel called Metaverse Metaship. No I'm not joking. That's the channel name.
And they .... completely failed at promoting these girls, after 1 year in activity they garnered a total of 5 thousands subcribers. For some reason, only the pink girl is streaming and with the occasional 1 per 6 months collab with one of the other girls
For some unknown reason, the yellow girl actually stream alot on this
Gariben comedian channel, a famous comedian that'd often interact with the hololive girls, but she herself arent allowed to interact with the hololive girls however. Give the girls their own channels you stupid fuck.
They streamed as moderate-low quality 3D models instead of live2D, and TV asahi pulled their connections to feature them on Vtuber Fes Japan 2023 as well as whatever the fuck Life like a Live 6 is. Yes they had more 3D performance than NijisanjiEN.
The 2 other girls randomly stopped tweeting around November 2023 but I dont think either announced graduation. And one of them posted a
picture celebrating 1 year anniversary with all 4 member on Jan 2024.
Completely baffling whatever the fuck they are doing. They have the money, they have the connections, but they seemed like Hillary Clinton's "pokemon go to the poll" at every step of the way. I honestly think the producer of this project don't even know hololive/nijisanji existed. They just saw VALIS/Virtual Witch Phenomenon one day and think "we can do it too" despite not knowing they are vsingers and not even vtubers. That's the only explanation I can come up with.