What the fuck is in the water at Nijisanji?
YOUR REPUTATION IS
EVERYTHING, YOU DUMB FUCKS.
Why on earth would they ever choose to vomit out THREE PAGES of half truths trying to babble their way terminating a well-liked talent after a suicide attempt? This serves no purpose except to deliberately start rolling in the poop. AS A FUCKING BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY. The self-inflicted damage to the brand is what's immeasurable.
Anyone who feels a bunch of fiddly rules or a laundry list of offenses justifies the termination would feel just as justified by a single strong reason. There is
no one to be convinced by going overboard. In this particular case, there's the added layer of running face first into the mainstream suicide prevention attitude in the west, where no matter what logic, driving someone to make an attempt will look inexcusable.
It is entirely possible to terminate a contract by saying "We regret to announce we are terminating our relationship with X". Perfunctory statement about Obsydia. Perfunctory statement about the channel. End of notice. There's an entire spectrum from instant graduation, to termination but saying nothing, to reasons without specifics.
BUT YET here we are. Again.
Anyway, I'm glad she's okay, and glad the community rally behind Doki has been so massive. I'm genuinely impressed by the humanity of it. Dramatubers and holofans getting their licks in is one thing, but I'm somewhat impressed by artists giving up jobs, ex-talents and mamas showing support, even clippers dropping the company. Hell, fan discords with strict past life rules relaxing it to let Dokibird and Selen be mentioned in the same breath. Pity these courtesies were never extended to Sayu, but I guess it was different time then.
Oh, also,
If we're looking for others to follow this trend, I would say Ike and Rosemi
I fucking called it.
There are plenty of kind souls in NijiEn who are going to vote with their feet and self-select straight out of the company over the next year. Not sure how long openly empathetic people like Ren, Vivi, Alban etc will last.