I know I tend to post about Niji, but I enjoy watching Ame and Advent from time to time. Biboo is more my cup of tea, but I think Shiori is great. I put her on in the background and her autistic ramblings make me smile. Sure she can be a bit much, but I feel like she knows what's too much and has a nice balance. I never quite understood the hate she received, other than unicorns wishing her the rope, but I can see how she comes off as a bit fake.
Quoting this as a stand in for other posts also saying she has "Fake" vibes.
It's weird, because her PL was literally the same, just with less resources. Kind of difficult to be less fake than changing basically only your model and nothing else when going from indy to corpo.
Being an idol with idols requires her to audition for HL gen 4. Brave group has V4mirai which is their Idol project according to them. They got 3D really fast and did few concert appearances, but their scale is small currently.
But I would ride with Vshojo unless she'll try HL since they are getting into music, concerts and have resources to spend. They put Henya in Candy pop despite saying its late for her, so clearly they try to make things work for talents. She also can appear in other concerts like Kson and Ironmouse did. There's no guarantee HL will say "omg pomu! We are pomu" and recruit her either.
She'll also talk plenty with Kiara and Foxroach, and from what I have caught, I think Foxroach has a higher opinion of Vshojo's management than Kiara does of Hololive's.
A wild theory I haven't heard anyone say is Cover's new Dev_is branch. Technically it isn't under HololiveJP according to the org chart I've seen from A Chan's stream. It's a more idol/human model music focused group.. who says it's JP only? EN gen would be interesting, anyone know of some talents who might be interested
Every EN gen has a Korean. No JP gen has a Korean.
Dev_Is has a Korean.
You make it sound like Pomu is just some 2view weighing her options. The rules don't apply in this situation. Any EN corpo owner who isn't sliding into dokibird's (edit: Mint's) DMs with offers of big cuts, signing bonuses, and MV production budgets is a fool. If she signs, they can call up two or three other candidates who made it to the final round in a previous audition and throw together a new gen in a hurry, or just debut her solo because fuck it, she's Pomu.
I think the majority of EN corpo owners would be fools to try, because Selen & Pomu are too big for them. Phase and VShojo are the only EN corpos that are big and crucially,
proven enough to be worthwhile for them.
And Vshojo is the one that collects former Nijis like they're Pokemon.
Honestly, while their CCV fits into Phase's higher end range, their reputation belies their relatively low numbers, and I'm not sure it'd even be a good idea for Phase to try and get them, as the culture clash between Phase's established fanbase and a flood of Nijis coming in could be problematic.
No such issue with VShojo, they're proven in this regard.
Just a random thought but kinda related to the current discussion about Hololive debut rate.
People need to be aware that the long gap between debuts doesn't only apply to EN.
EN - 23 months between Council and Advent
JP - 26 months since HoloX. If you want to count ReGLOSS as part of JP, then it's about 21 months between HoloX and them, which is still much longer than the gap between JP5 and HoloX.
ID - 22 months since ID3. Though we know that ID4 is definitely coming since they held a dedicated audition for them. (Hmm, next week seems to be good week, with no existing birthdays and anniversaries.)
With the way Holo is selling itself, it's honestly pushing its limits. Maybe it's already past them, even.
Virtual idols don't have anywhere near the graduation rate that real ones do. The agelimit doesn't apply. As a result, almost nobody graduates of their own volition. Yet, if the company doesn't debut new gens, it grows stale. If it does, it bloats, leading to space and time issues like we're already seeing with the setup for the upcoming Holofes. Like we've been seeing with the overbooked & understaffed 3D studio.
It's actually a pretty difficult situation to deal with. Personally, I lean towards Holo's model not being infinitely scalable and, in fact, being significantly less scalable than Niji.
Right now, they're dealing with this by waiting two years for a new gen. But even that doesn't seem to stop the bloat, only slow it down.
It'll be interesting to see how Cover deals with this long term. Dev_Is might actually be them trying to deal with it, now that I think about it.