01/14/2024
Talent: English Gen "Exalta", ID Gen "Bhimasaka"
Affiliation: Vizora Live
Graduation date: Jan 13th.
DETAILS:
Vizora Entertainment is an UK based multimedia company, working on music, games and more recently Vtubers. Last month they debuted they
newest 2 gens (EN and ID) with 7 new talents in total. A month later, on January 13th, they publised a
blogpost on their website detailing that the same full gens that were supposed to be celebrating their 1 month anniversary soon would be graduating instead. They indicate that this is the result of a shift in priorities, since the company wants to focus more resources on their videogame projects, and since this was not what the talents signed up for, they decided to release them
"to embark on new journeys, either alone or as a group, without Vizora Interactive.". Vizora is still managing 3 livers, from their Origin gen.
This was
reported by Murray a few days ago. It's not related to any current pick but I found it newsworthy, you don't see 2 full gens walking out the door everyday.
01/15/2024
Talent: Abigail Marina
Affiliation: Amber Glow
Graduation date: Immediate
DETAILS:
Abigail Marina debuted on July 2022 as a member of Amber Glow's 2nd gen. On Jan 15th both
Marina (
archive) and
Amber Glow (
archive) notified their fans on twitter that she was being released from her contract immediately and that she decided not to have a graduaton stream.
With Marina's departure, Amber Glow's 2nd gen is left with no active members. On top of that, Amber Glow had 11 talents leave the company on 2023 alone (some graduations, some "departures").
Asylum Post -
funny containment break pic
01/16/2024
Talent: YOZORA MEL
Affiliation: HOLOLIVE JP - GEN 1
Graduation date: - TERMINATION -
DETAILS:
To the shock of many people, Cover released a statement on all their social media pages (
website -
archive) regarding the termination of contract of Yozora Mel. The reasons behind it are that she
alledgedly leaked private information with third parties and that after a short deliberation both Mel and Cover agreed on the termination her contract. Regardless of that fact, Cover let Mel send a final goodbye message on her own
twitter (
archive). Since she was terminated, there will be no graduation stream. The remaining talents of Hololive Gen 1 went live on YT to express their feelings and send Mel and her fans thier affection.
Yozora Mel was had been active since
May 14th 2018, and during her time in Hololive she had some major hiccups (Channel demonetization for nearly 4 months, a harassment case that prompted changes within Cover to protect their talents in the future).
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