>>32461084Nijisanji needs storylines.
They have gone for SO LONG without having a single fucking compelling company-wide storyline except for Koshien.
Hololive's power is the building of storylines during almost every single one of their phases.
> Rushia arc> Holocure arc> Pekora's anniversary collab series leading into her Anniversary live.> Minecraft summer festival - despite being less of a story behemoth compared to the last one.> August : Celebration month.> Rust arc, especially the final battle, raidboss pekora, the twists and turns, Koyo missing the note, Pekora shooting her down - anime level shit.> Ayame's comeback arc (ongoing).The arcs are there because they allow the "hololive fan" to have a shared experience with other holo fans.
Everyone saw the Peko Rust finale.
Everyone saw Ayame's comeback.
Everyone saw the Summer fest.
Even if you weren't able to witness every moment, you know it happened, and it will remain a memory for the hololive collective.
StartEND, despite their hilarious loss, DOMINATED the entire narrative surrounding VSaikyou 4 - this was despite Nijisanji having multiple teams.
The only other major story arc that went on was Astel's Mad Maggie run, which was also a genius bit of storytelling that got him a significant incline after that event.
Kuzuha and Ibrahim's team were... just there. They won, but they were a high end team, and won by turtling. Their most popular clips from that tournament were... their interactions with StartEND.
There was no story behind them. No unexpected twists or turns. It was... just a win.
In addition to this, every single month, Hololive feels like they've moving TOWARDS something. HoloCure is coming out in a week, highly anticipated and will have another great arc of holomem reacting to more references, the new stage, and the more hardcore gamers attempting challenges.
HoloEarth is also highly anticipated, despite the doomposting about it. As long as it's a decent enough or even mediocre sandbox game, it will be good enough since that will be used as another platform for the fandom's collective enjoyment.
There's also the HoloAlt project, mangas and other stuff that are INSANELY slow moving, but guaranteed to come out in the next 5 years. There's something for fans to look forward to.
Nijisanji need something like this.
Management is trying with "Lie:Verse" and that Horror game thingey, which is a good start from the company side. But there's been nothing happening from the liver side. NijiMelody is good, but it came out of nowhere and went into nowhere as well, it didn't connect into anything, it didn't feed into the NEXT narrative or step for Nijisanji. Everything they do is split apart across so many different groups which do not have any cohesion between themselves to make a "Nijisanji Story".
Where do they go next? What arc are they bringing next month? None that I can see.
If they get a group of at least 10-12 livers and start building storylines around them EVERY SINGLE MONTH, then maybe there might be some people who get invested in them.
You need the audience to be invested in you for growth, and if you don't have a story behind you, the audience WILL NOT FUCKING CARE.
