>>12371418>Why is JP so much more profitable than EN in Hololive? I am not just talking about superchats, but also sponsorships and merch. Why are the JP chuubas getting sponsorship deals with massive corporations like Square Enix, Capcom, Red Bull or Toyota? The only notable sponsor EN girls had was a shitty 1 hour Taco Bell stream, a mobile game and Tails.It's "Tales of" and its not that only the JP can get them it's that the EN don't want them or to do them, I don't understand how you can make a thread like this but then praise Kiara for turning down FF14 sponsorship. As far as we know, there's nothing off limits to EN that JP hasn't done you're also conveniently forgetting all the cons the EN girls have been doing while the JP girls never do those in Japan.
>Is it because corpos are still scared of anime in the West? Yes...coropos are so afraid of anime and VTubing that Netflix and Crunchy Roll decided to fight back against the anime scourge by making their own anime waifus
>Gura gets an average of 20k CCV, it's still massive and other normal streamers her size get sponsored by Intel, Amazon, McDonald's and Red Bull. Also, JP gets deals for a lot more merch than what EN getsGura's actual average is somewhere around 9k not 20 also majority of Hololives merch is obviously produced in Japan there where (thanks to China and the pandemic) and already slow travel time of getting merch is even slower, this means that they see less oversea fans buying it and thus not bothering with opening production lines or even making more merch with the currents ones so yes obviously the EN girls don't do as well on standard physical merchandising.
