I mean Hanlon's razor is a thing, but with so many dead projects you've got to wonder at some point if it isn't a matter of "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action"...
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Graduation of Pomu Rainpuff
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Like I've said elsewhere, Pomu will reincarnate somewhere else but that combination of character model, name, and voice was just too perfect. Even her little gimmicks like "I'm Pomu" and Big PP Energy, all of it just had the perfect vibe.
Pomu Rainpuff was lightning in a bottle, and it'll be a tough act for herself to follow wherever she goes.
She was actually Pomura this whole time bros...
Unironically the holofans cheering this shit on for a year kind of made their own bed to lie in when that sort of stuff starts happening. Did you guys seriously believe Phase Connect or some other small corporate was going to fill the vacuum that NijiEN will leave behind? How much copium are you guys on lmao. Niji's audience isn't quite the the hard-core idol-otakus like Hololive. Most of NijiEN's fans are either disenfranchised Hololive fans or some brand of normie/"ironic" weeb. The vacuum will be filled by an agency with that sort of reputation like Vshojo.
As a big unity-fag; The time for Unity ended in late 2022. You get to reap what you've sown now.
I might be wrong but I remember Pomu accidently slipping that Finana "wasn't planning on graduating this year" or something in her stream today.
i knew it! just another moth enjoyer sock.
theres always the slim hope lightning strike twice. Id say Sayu came pretty close though she was less established her model is almost as good design wise as the old one.
NijiEN-HoloEN unity kind of got killed in the crib with the NijiEN discord leak talking about "feels like an all-out war" around Council and NijiEN males wave 2 era.
Probably a nothing burger to the talents themselves, but it was kindling for rabid fans to latch onto.
It can be the other way around
Kuzuha leaves Nijisanji because he is already too big on his own without them
Time will tell
JP vtubing doesnt seem too shaky like their EN counterparts
Honestly her activity as Doki and Pomu going cements for me that she is gone be it termination or graduation
2 tards and Silver all she did was dare to live her wizard dreams
Mysta was the 3rd Pomu is the 4th on the en side at least plus ex id Mika
Kiara and Pomu still had their bromance long after that leak and one of the holostars EN boys, i forgot if it was Altare or Axel, played with Ike behind the scenes, plus you had events like TeamSnakeBite revive some of that unity for a moment
It's only the truly brainrotted ones by drama posters/vt that see it dead. I see mostly nothing but cheering/fanfare whenever people see a HoloEN x NijiEN collab in their schedule.
Isn't it on record that Pomu and Kiara knew each other, or were at least in the same circles as each other pre-vtuber lives?
I'd consider Unity to be frequent collabs that involve a decent amount of people from both corpos, but instead we have extremely sparse ones with only a select few people.
The discord leak was a nothingburger. The biggest we got over it was Calli unfollowing people on Twitter. I said back then but I'll say it again, the only one who looked truly retarded in that chat was Fulgur, who was spouting some retarded rrats.
Iirc didnt Calli refollow Vox a couple weeks later?
I believe so since the western Idol circles are not too large, but they still kept it going in spite of drama, and Kiara is somewhat sensitive to outside drama, so if the leak really was large then id say they wouldnt or even couldnt play it up as much as they did
Yeah I forgot to include that part and I don't even think it was weeks, more like a couple days lol
I personally think that's a bit of a stretch because most people just seemed to really enjoy doing it as shit posting. There's always some people that are going to go hard to cause issues but for the most part I always saw it as the old console war level nonsense. Often for a general fun dunking on whoever is catching shit at the time as long as it isn't something wildly fucked.
Unless I've just missed a whole lot I had always swore both fandoms were pretty cordial outside of the shitholes that thrived on stirring turns in a pot.
Edited*: Christ I worded that like a retard.
That said
this whole thing was rightfully called irrelevant nothing burger by anyone with sense. Only the absolute most desparate of no lifer was clinging to it as an attempt to drum up issues. Fulgar was kind of a gay but it was hardly anything that was an issue.
Hell arguably the most true and relevant part was iirc the last message was Mysta being Manhera or something par for his course lmao
Fair enough, I mostly thought it caused shit in the fandoms, less so between talents themselves, but I guess my sense for it was off by a large margin.
It was the worst Holo year of the decade so far:
-ID and EN fans angry for the lack of support regarding 3D and when Link Your Wish was already announced things didnt get any better because they were there just for solo perfomances
-The whole Rushia Debacle
-Her termination and the aftermath of that
-Mikeneko redebuting thanks to her fans getting her a model in record time showing that JPs could leave holo and still survive thanks to fan support
-Sana Going MIA
-OmegAlpha being OMEGA RETARDED
-Sana Graduating
-Kson debuting in Vshojo and trowhing shade at Holo
-Nazuna debuting and people thinking that K brought her over with her (she later negated this: i wonder why LOL)
-Hype around these two debuts and fans both from EN an JP spheres that also shat on Holo
-Omega getting replaced by Dimitri Jap
-Finally Gura getting Burned out problaby was thanks to this year
I would say that 2021 was problaby the best year for unity because both Niji and Holo were in right positions and other competitors were mostly harmless but now its kinda impossible with everyone stepping up their game and becoming more competitive
I mean, you aren't totally wrong. These is a large portion of tribal idots on Twitter, Reddit, and /vt/ that will take every opportunity they can to shit on the other team. They don't represent the larger part of the fanbases, but they are the loudest.
Sitting here as work has wound down and I can finally post thoughts, I'm still kinda spinning even 8 hours later. I know I voted Pomu in the dead thread, but I really thought it was more towards the end of the year. Anyone who knows Pomu knows how much she actually loved the entity that was "Nijisanji" and it's livers. And she always seemed like a Niji Ride Or Die member.
I expected more shit to have to go down before we got to this point so have it be on DAY 5 of this year is shocking. Even as I sit here, saying "NijiEN without Pomu" is as boggling to me as "Tumblr banning porn" was when that shitshow went down. I know it's happening, but it's like part of my brain just won't accept it's actually happening.
As to the coming months, I hope she revives Mint FANTOME, aka Maid Mint. That design is top tier, and having an updated version of it would be a winning move. As to where she ends up, I do think it is going to come down to "How much Idol stuff does she want to be involved in." She LOVES that side of the equation, and you are just not going to get it that heavily at vShojo. And she has a clear in at Hololive with Kiara. Kiara would be honest with her about the state of management and what she would even be able to do at Holo.
Though I suspect if it's vShojo we'll see her before Winter is over. In what form though, who knows.
The wild card on their side of the equation is "What is Lia and Pomu's relationship like?" Most people did not know at all they had a history/friendship outside vTubing. So how deep does that go? Add onto the fact that Sayu has been cozying up with many of the Phase talents recently, and there is a slim (Very VERY VERY VERY slim) possibility we could get an Invader wave that is all former Niji-Livers. Which a business concious man like Fish would see as a major vector to get massive growth for Phase.
My money is still on Holo or vShojo still either way.
Yea, she seems completely blindsided. There's another clip that happens just after this part.
I expected more shit to have to go down before we got to this point so have it be on DAY 5 of this year is shocking. Even as I sit here, saying "NijiEN without Pomu" is as boggling to me as "Tumblr banning porn" was when that shitshow went down. I know it's happening, but it's like part of my brain just won't accept it's actually happening.
As to the coming months, I hope she revives Mint FANTOME, aka Maid Mint. That design is top tier, and having an updated version of it would be a winning move. As to where she ends up, I do think it is going to come down to "How much Idol stuff does she want to be involved in." She LOVES that side of the equation, and you are just not going to get it that heavily at vShojo. And she has a clear in at Hololive with Kiara. Kiara would be honest with her about the state of management and what she would even be able to do at Holo.
Though I suspect if it's vShojo we'll see her before Winter is over. In what form though, who knows.
I don't think Phase-enjoyers expect Phase to take on the fans that flee Niji, but rather to keep growing and earn a spot in conjunction with the rest of the companies. I think they would be less interested in "Niji fans", and more interested in "Pomudachi" or "Dragoons". Fans of the individual livers and not the turbo toxic company defenders.
The wild card on their side of the equation is "What is Lia and Pomu's relationship like?" Most people did not know at all they had a history/friendship outside vTubing. So how deep does that go? Add onto the fact that Sayu has been cozying up with many of the Phase talents recently, and there is a slim (Very VERY VERY VERY slim) possibility we could get an Invader wave that is all former Niji-Livers. Which a business concious man like Fish would see as a major vector to get massive growth for Phase.
My money is still on Holo or vShojo still either way.
Yea, she seems completely blindsided. There's another clip that happens just after this part.
You could also bring up the graduation of the bois in ENStars as well after their debacle. I couldn't tell you if it really fucked up the growth of everyone else in StarsEN but that was certainly not a high point for Cover's year either. Arguably Advent being so well received really chopped down the sting that was. If that gen wasn't such a powerhouse out the gate Cover might actually have not looked nearly as good as they did for a couple months. That and Niji always doing some silly shit to draw attention away.
Hell you can also add the number of lives and shows that have been delayed by months due to them not being able to handle demand and trying to get the new studio running. (Which hopefully is mostly smoothed out.) Admittedly however, their production quality has like tripled so you can probably make comments on whether or not it's been worth the hassle some talents have dealt with.
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