>>28981474... I just had a very weird idea for a rrat... hear me out.
So back during the HoloCN era, Cover needed local Chinese management personnel in order to assist the HoloCN girls with their streams and events and stuff.
During the Taiwan yab, these personnel tried to spread FUD among the CN girls that they would get to keep their models after graduation, which was never the plan.
After nuking HoloCN, all of these personnel (either one guy or several, whoever were involved in the shitstirring) were obviously Blacklisted by Cover, and since they pulled out of the Chinese market, they no longer had any reason to work with them.
What if... one of those folks (or even the main guy behind HoloCN) got into NijiEN management and is in a prominent position? What if that's the reason for the company-wide blacklist of NijiEN?