¿Donde estan los talentos? Owozu, an agency which seems to have been the most prominent in the ES space since Wactor’s decline, underwent a rapid collapse last week. The agency launched in August 2021 and appears to have had ten talents pre-collapse if their web site was up to date. The agency was founded by three people, one who was a man who went by the handle Drakeout. Drakeout has been accused of, among other things, operating a “blacklist” of other vtubers who the talents in his agency were forbidden from having any contact with and even contacting the management of other agencies to get talents on the blacklist fired, playing his own talents off of each other in terms of goading them to get higher view counts than each other, and maintaining a friendship with and defending a man who goes by Riglock who seems to have been grooming at least two vtubers while they were as young as fifteen years old.
At some point he left Owozu management, but on January 28, he re-joined Owozu as talent named Zero. In response, every other talent for the company to quit by the next day. Owozu would tweet announcements about the departure of two of the talents, plus Zero himself, but it’s my understanding that the reality of the situation is that all of them have departed. Owozu had ownership over the identities of all talents, so they will all have to return to previous identities or rebrand.
Owozu’s Twitter account has not posted anything regarding the disillusion of the company, but then again, neither has AkioAIR’s, and I unilaterally declare that any agency which doesn’t have any talents left and doesn’t seem to be in a good place to bring on more talents to be dead. So congratulations to Owozu for holding the ignoble record for the world’s fastest collapse of a pos-launch agency. That I’m aware of, at least.
Special thanks to Brain Doko at The Virtual Asylum for helping to translate details of this story to English, as my single semester of high school Spanish was not up to the task.
