>>99734630Maybe not call her a "brand risk", for starters.
The sad truth is that this entire situation could have been avoided with a small amount of cultural sensitivity and a modest amount of autonomy for the artist. JP business culture is nothing if not ethnocentric to its very core.
Goob's situation should serve as a lesson for the JP kaban-mochi management types. Berating the Western talents isn't going to get them to "work harder". It's only going to piss them off. Manager-kun will get the compliance demanded by Shachou-dono, but it will be the malicious type of compliance. And the talent will eventually leave, taking at least 50% of their audience with them.
