>>58574975>That changes if Luxiem graduates because they're responsible for the lion's share of NijiEN's revenueThat's the thing, the whole "merger" concept is exactly to allow for "overt favoritism", which would allow them to, for instance, do what is likely to be their original plan for
>pic relatedI have no doubt in my mind that the original plan was to give Luxiem their 3D and make a Luxiem only concert, but Nijisanji couldn't power through the protests of the rest of the branch and ended up cornered in promising to give them all 3D and a spot in the concert.
In case of a merger, the following situation would happen
>Luxiem = EN ROF-MAOand they could have all sorts of privileges due to their position as revenue generators.
Nobody in the JP side protests about ROF-MAO getting pretty much a weekly series, all sorts of advertisement and sponsors and albums and whatnot. They won't protest about Luxiem getting the same as well.
There is no downside for Nijisanji to merge NijiEN in SPECIALLY now that they're underoperforming the main branch even in revenue per liver.
>>58574994>Was this the beginning of the end? Or were things already irreversibly fucked by this point?The beginning of the end was the exodus of the sisters after August 2022.
That one was just the stake at the heart