General Thread v2: Enhanced Segregation Techniques!

- There are no plans for what happens to Phase if Sakana passes away.
- Phase Wars took 1.5 years to plan. There was a lot of difficulty finding games that would be easy to pick up and have a low skill ceiling (and they still failed with god gamer Michiru).
- Sakana's idol dream is still alive (lol)
- "None of you are the way you are before you're hired" - Sakana, 2024
- In year 2, Sakana still thought that talents should have a plan B after vtubing. Sakana still thinks that (but content creators will pivot to new forms of content).
- The main cause of shipping delays is due to slow arrival of items
- Sakana thinks that Phase is the only small vtuber company that sorts out most of their items in-house, rather than outsourcing to other companies. Sakana says that the reasons to do in-house is better profit margins and improved customer service. The plushies were outsourced to another company that have dropped the ball hard and Phase has moved to a new company.
- Sakana would most like to improve on human errors in running things in the background
- Sakana will be hiring two more talent managers soon
- Sakana says one of the most important pitfalls is not managing verticals (income streams), especially since payments from various income streams happen at different times and can change
- Dizzy asks for help with finding an accountant, Sakana tells Dizzy to use Google or do it herself
- Dizzy and Sakana agree that the EN sphere is about three to four years behind Japan
- To start a new company these days, you'll need either brand power or much more money than before, raising the barrier of entry.
- Sakana says he won't release cut figures because he calls it "virtue signalling". Sakana says not to compete with large capital or with vitue signalling.
- Sakana's advice to other CEOs is to not get heated in public. There were two times that Sakana wanted to angry tweet and he called Dizzy, who advised him both times to do it. Professional Sakana stopped Sakana from doing it.
- Sakana says that vtubing is a very people-oriented business, more so than most. Dizzy laughs at how Sakana cannot manage people.
- Sakana hinted that there might be new invaders and plans to add three more by the end of the year (nothing has been solidified).
- There are no hard requirements for Invaders in terms of views or CCV
- Dizzy asks about Lia's mother as an Invader, and Lia's sister is bought up. Sakana turns this down, saying that if there were issues at work they would continue at home and there would be no downtime.
- Sakana says his children will be forbidden from having cell phones until they're eighteen. I guess he learnt from the talents how bad having internet access was.
- Pippa submits a question about future growth plans. Sakana wants to expand in Japan but not add new talents before they've expanded in size.
- There are no plans for new gens in EN in 2024. Sakana wants a year at least before a new gen.
- Sakana has unspecified big plans for 2025
- Dizzy tries to get Sakana to leak some future plans, Sakana declines.
- Sakana is told to plug the clipping contest, and fails miserably.
- Sakana says no handcams (he might watch a Marine handcam stream)
- Sakana doesn't like donothons. He feels like talents are demotivated after donothons
- Sakana picks talents based on voices, and he doesn't like Dizzy's voice. He only picked Dizzy because of her old model. There was one talent who was demotivated and felt like they weren't being sincere on-stream, and Sakana attempted to console them by telling them at least they don't sound like Dizzy (Sakana claims not to remember this).
- Sakana feels like the original songs talents could be marketed better
- Sakana likes 3D, but says you got to build up to it, rather than start off with 3D
- Sakana and Dizzy say the costs of making models and debuting has ballooned by three to four times what they cost a few years ago. Sakana says a corpo talent costs 10-15K to debut (modelling, rigging, stingers, song and so forth), and that doesn't include advertising costs.
- Sakana says no to furries
- Sakana spent high 6 figures, nearly 7 figures on commissions last year. For context, last year they debuted three Invaders, Gen Euphoria and had to get JP Gen 1 set up, as well as commissions for other talents, various events and each talent's birthdays, and so forth.
- Sakana and Dizzy would like to do a pop-up cafe for Phase Connect
- The first thing Tenma did when meeting Sakana in real-life was to punch Sakana.
- Pippa cannot appreciate food that costs over $20
- Dizzy: "Say something nice about your wife." Sakana: "I'm going to... go pack more boxes." He then immediately ghosts Dizzy without saying goodbye.