Since the sisters don't watch streams, I translated what Astel had to say about this whole affair.
He talked a WHOLE LOT about what the issues with Holostars were and a ton of behind the scenes stuff.
Feel free to spread the word.
https://youtu.be/OOUlWrOg78g?t=7725tl;dr
> Resources put into Holostars projects are not generating enough to invest into next projects anymore.> In this instance, they had a Live 6 months back, and he assumes they didn't make enough from it to invest into the countdown live.> He doesn't blame the fans, but he thinks the talents have to work harder - as a whole.> When you have only few people, ALL of them have to work hard for the whole Box to thrive.> 1-2 people going viral isn't going to help the Holostars box as a whole.> Negative loop of not having enough people --> Not enough resources to push new debuts.> For the past 2 years attempts were made to gather all 12 members + management to have a discussion about Holostars' future for over 2 years.> Doesn't know if it's management or talents that don't have the will, but revealed that Fuma often drops out of meetings talking about difficult topics saying he's hungry.> And how the vibe generally shifts into everyone else dropping off when one person drops off.> Astel knew even 2-3 years back that things would end up this way, so for him this is more like "ah, so it's finally happened".> Understands how fans would quit if they get sudden shocks like this, but that's why he's been trying for the past 2-3 years to get things fixed, but to no avail.Full transcript Part 1:
https://youtu.be/OOUlWrOg78g?t=7725> about Holostars, well...> take this from someone who knows a lot> Holostars is in a reasonable (state)> If anything, until now there has been a lot of over(enthusiasm) from management> Last year's countdown Live for example, planning for it started from the end of summer> So stuff like this needs at least 6 months of preparation> And we had a live 6 months ago right?> So.. a lot of effort went into that> If we didn't get more than the resources than what we spent on that live> It's impossible to do another one 6 months later right?> So.. we probably weren't able to do that right?> I'm not entirely sure, I haven't been told any details about it.> When you do something, you expect something back, and the issue is about how you're able to bounce back from that investment.> I see some people blaming the fans, but..> I think *lol* it's a problem with the talents y'know..> Even I had some mental issues this year as well, and so I had decide to go slower this year, so..> Right now things are very fun, I'm able to enjoy every day.> But second half of last year I was doing things a little slower.> We don't really have enough people, so every single person has to work at full-throttle in order for us to improve, that's just how Holostars are as a Boxhttps://youtu.be/OOUlWrOg78g?t=7927> *repeats* that's probably the weakness of Holostars> If just one or two people go viral and get views, it's still difficult> Relays and stuff would be more easier> "new debuts soon?" - chat> That's also in a negative loop> *laughs* the resources needed to debut new talents has to be created from current Holostars right?> The current Holostars have to work hard, create resources, and THEN we will have new debuts> So.. there's no choice but to work hard.> It's certainly difficult, we're in a bit of a negative loop with that aspect.> But it's not like it's impossible.> There's no choice but for all of us to work hard.> We'll probably need to have a discussion with everyone about how to move forward.> But well.. if there's a difficult conversations to be had, everyone just sneakily runs away.> "oh I'm hungry so I'm dropping off~" and stuff like that *laughs* 