The thing about logistics for "minor events" is that Holos have used overseas studios for them before. When Towa had Moona and Risu as guests for her birthday live she explicitly said afterwards that Moona and Risu used an overseas studio. Also note that Moona, Risu and Iofi all travelled to Japan for their 3D debut despite that. I think having the 3D debut in Japan is more about Cover's autism (and sometimes the talent's autism *cough*Kiara*cough*) than access to studios. But that said, Moona and Risu are IDs and their studio probably didn't cost 6 figures.I've said it before, but I'll expand further: Ina and Calli specifically have very distinct styles of movement. Calli in the Myth or Treat that I linked does not move like the Calli we know from either her own personal live shows or real life. Normally I think she would have been there to do her own dancing, but she's been insanely busy and constantly travelling for the past...several months(?) and she probably just couldn't make the time to learn choreo and record while in Japan.
And Ina, she just literally does not move like this (40:24, timestamped to her song with Marine), that is how the JP girls move being in studio and taking dance lessons together and what-not. Watch Ina's Holofes performance again if anyone can find it. It was great, one of my favorites actually, graceful, elegant, etc. But I can't imagine her IRL doing the sort of 'bouncy anime girl' choreo that the JP's are always doing. She would probably literally die.
Gura and Kiara (and somewhat Ame) I could go either way on, because they do have more of the 'JP style' and interest in idol dancing/physical performance and being 'traditionally cute anime girls'. But for them I fall back on the logistics argument...
Yes they have access to studios, like whatever they used for their Holofes performances, but even back then people talked about the logistics of renting those places out even just to record a 5 minute video. Holofes was a major event where the 3d models were first being unveiled, and Cover probably paid out the butt to make sure the quality was up to their standards at each of the studios the girls had to go to (at least one in NA and one in EU). A cameo in a birthday stream is not nearly the same level of importance as Holofes. If it were economically viable for Cover to rent these places out for minor events, there is NO WAY that Kiara would not have just paid out of her own pocket to record her Birthday Live (a major event for her) in that quality. In fact, she explicitly said that all of the studios in Europe that she got quotes from were 6 figures for 1 day. Let's just go with the absolute lowest '6 figures' (very generous of me), $100,000 for a studio for a day, to record a 1 hour stream. Let's just pretend that a 5 minute cameo takes 1/12th of the time to record as a 1 hour stream and the studio offers smaller time segments like that (again, being very generous), that would still be an $8.333.33 (repeating, of course) expense per cameo. From a business perspective, even this extremely low estimate is still not really viable.
So once again: 1. For some girls, the movement simply does not match their own personal style. 2. Logistics of 'major events' vs. 'minor events'. 2b. Their real '3d Debut Streams' are going to be major events; if it were so easy to get these into these mocap studios, why the huge delays and girls constantly hoping to be able to travel to Japan to be able to record them?
And I've said this before too; this doesn't mean I'm pooping on anyone or being mad at Cover or anything, it's more "eh, that was fun, can't wait to see the real thing". I'm just excited for the real debuts and I don't need to pretend to be all amazing-super-hype-Nolan-style excited over these in order to still be excited for those.
Blue Boy really can sing, it only he could fix that lil faggy laugh, at least he no longer does "wah."
Ayo- Blue Boy is about to rap? edamame of course lol
And of course someone made this lol.
Kobo has better flow than Regis, but she probably had more practice.
Whose stream?Been busy and caught up with the stream and it was nice to see her laugh so much she showed off her fucked up fluoride-free tap water teeth.
I know she tries pretty hard to hide them when smiling so the laughs actually were nice.
Zeta's birthday totsu. wew that hashtag
Mumei: Is it possible for us to share a stomach?
A-chan: Maybe you are seiso, but sometimes you try to share your brain with Mumei-chan.
Pochi-sensei called in and gave Zeta coffee cup hands as a present. Her answer to Zeta's question "If you could disguise yourself as any creature in this world for a day, what would it be and why?" - manta ray.
Koyori: You wanted to conquer the world, so I give you the world.
Koyori wanted to be Zeta so that she could do the sad cat dance as Zeta.
Ame wanted to be a flying squirrel with a gun.
Ame: I'll get you one next year.
Zeta: ...This is recorded.
Zeta's Japanese is getting very good. Pochi-sensei, Iroha and Koyori can improvise with English, but her conversation with her artist mama Arutera was entirely in Japanese.
Ina sent a drawing with a request to collab again sometime.
A-chan: Maybe you are seiso, but sometimes you try to share your brain with Mumei-chan.
Pochi-sensei called in and gave Zeta coffee cup hands as a present. Her answer to Zeta's question "If you could disguise yourself as any creature in this world for a day, what would it be and why?" - manta ray.
Koyori: You wanted to conquer the world, so I give you the world.
Koyori wanted to be Zeta so that she could do the sad cat dance as Zeta.
Ame wanted to be a flying squirrel with a gun.
Ame: I'll get you one next year.
Zeta: ...This is recorded.
Zeta's Japanese is getting very good. Pochi-sensei, Iroha and Koyori can improvise with English, but her conversation with her artist mama Arutera was entirely in Japanese.
Ina sent a drawing with a request to collab again sometime.
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