There was a clip or tweet floating around that mentioned Claude had been auditioning constantly to get into Niji. It’s been a bit hard to tell when people get in because of how the 2023 auditions went: the January one, the April ish one, and the August one. We know that Niji can pick at least 2 waves worth of people through auditions because that’s how they got all of the first 7 waves.I actually wonder if there's might've been some truth to the Shu graduation rumor.
Around the time the leaks were happening, Shu had basically disappeared. According to this fans, he came out and said that he was depressed at the time and that's why he wasn't around and yet, even now the guy barely does anything but stream and only collabs with others in NijiEn just coasting along.
What if Shu was going to graduate but changed his mind when he found out that Niji was going to debut Claude Clawmark? Shu and Claude are apparently best friends going as far back as their PLs. I don't believe the average Vtuber would graduate knowing the corpo is about to debut someone they're close to.
Fujos believe they're something more, but fujos are also fucking deluded.
Idk, just a rrat of mine.
Krisis debuted in June so if it were like the past auditions we would assume they got in maybe April. But given how the PLs of Vezalius and Wilson graduated around February, we could assume they were in by January. Then Vantacrow’s PL graduated in April or something so maybe he got in through the April audition.
So where would Claude fit the timeline? I believe I saw Kyo mentioned they met or at least hinted that he met Claude supposedly during their Japan trip (not the recent one during NijiFes) which was back in October ish.
And on top of that, if introducing new members pre debut still haven’t changed, we can also assume from Mysta’s words that the new wave would be communicating maybe 2 months before they debut. Mysta mentioned right around when Xsoleil debuted, Hex reached out to him to introduce himself right before Mysta went away for a month in November. So Hex would’ve reached out in October and Xsoleil debuted in December.
So Claude at the very latest would have joined officially around September. But Shu came back around to streaming much earlier than September. He might’ve heard that Claude was still trying to get in so maybe that kept him going, but idk, that seems like a long ass time to wait.