>>103957558And those random Asian girls wouldn't get nearly as much fan support as an all-male wave would, much less support from management.
For vtuber agencies, there are certain unavoidable costs involved with creating a vtuber character - not just the model and the rigging, but also registering copyrights and trademarks. These are costs which the company generally can't pass on to the talents, or reasonably expect the talents to pay up front, due either partially or completely to that whole "the company owns the character IP rights" thing.
Multiply that per-character cost by enough vtubers to debut them together as a wave, add in the art asset costs and IP registration costs for creating that new wave, add in however many dozens of yen Niji would spend on promotional materials for that wave, and you've got the up-front cost of the new wave. And then compare that cost to the expected revenue generation of that wave for their first 90 days.
If the new wave isn't an all-male boy band wave, how big will the deficit be? If the new, non-boy band wave is comprised entirely of ESL girls from SEA, Japan, Taiwan, and/or Korea, how big will the deficit be?
And how willing do you think Anycolor would be to eat the costs of another failed wave in a dying branch that's already hemorrhaging revenue?
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tldr the only two options for a new EN wave are yet another boy band, which will have positive ROI at the cost of reduced LuxNocBTB revenue
or a wave that isn't a boy band wave, which will have negative ROI
