>>61839201She's talked about it before yeah. I'd say a lot of that's just because they get absolutely blasted with a big audience that loves them from the outset as soon as they debut in Niji. Certainly bigger than anything they had while indie, and the fear of not being able to carry that on post graduation undoubtedly keeps some of them willing to put up with shit they wouldn't otherwise.
Mata's also talked a lot about her Niji friends while at VShojo, just never by name. She 100% keeps up with the Ethyria girls and Pomu. When she accidentally showed her desktop on stream a couple days ago she still had 2 image files on there with Pomu in the name.