>>14202767Enma was only "hated" on 4chan, where >we like to shit on everything, especially in that early phase when the organizational behind-the-scenes structure of EN was much more unclear so people latched onto the first identifiable "manager character" as a lightning rod for everything that they think is going wrong.
But that's just 4chan, who cares (Cover doesn't)
The wider normie masses on youtube/reddit/twitter loved the manager characters, they happily and uncritically make up lore and character artwork for them.
The whole "evolution" of EN managers itself is an interesting one.
At first, we pretty much didn't know anything, as nothing "official" or even indirect was given to us by the talents (probably because they were new and unsure how much bts stuff they are even allowed to talk about).
The first appearance of "Enma" was the L4D collab where someone from staff filled in as a fourth player. The audience went wild with this "new character", which at first was more like an amorphus undescribt amalgamation stand-in for all and any background person, but over time it differentiated out, as the girls became more open to talk about their ACTUAL personal managers, dropping bits and pieces of information here and there, where people put together the pieces, and gave them actual character artwork. So we got to know that Mori is actually managed by "Jchad", and Kiara/Ame/Gura were managed by "Jenma" (infos mostly dropped by Kiara, who had the closest connection with her, due to being in Japan at the time), apparently Ame and Gura have their own personal managers now. The one who spoke least about heir own manager is Ina, she tried to "claim Enma" (even made artwork), but wasn't Enma supposed to be a hollow catch-all character in the first place? Anyway, without going too deep into the "'Enma' never actually really existed in the first place, and was just a smokescreen character to distract from the fact that Ina is actually close to AO (her old chatmod, gee why doesn't he appear anymore, hmmm) who is actually OA, the branch director" theory, well there's probably a reason why Ina doesn't talk much about her manager.
As for "A-chan can't be duplicated", well the point is that Cover didn't even really try. They could have tried it - give the girls a defined manager character, who's ACTUALLY FEMALE (so she can actually appear on stream with them, instead of a dude hiding behind tweets), so she can do A-chan stuff like organize events, hype stuff up, do outreach, and serve as an MC for collabs etc.
Instead they didn't have a clear manager character at first, but the organic growth of talent-fan interaction that gave birth to characters like Jenma and Jchad who everybody loved showed that there was at least some interest and hunger for manager-characters in the fanbase. But Cover, or at least whoever is in charge of the EN branch, seems to have gotten the worse message from that. "Oh the people seem to like and have fun with these organic talent/fanmade manager characters, well WE'LL GIVE THEM an official manager character for our next Council gen right from the start!! Complete with LOOORE, everybody loves lore, amirite?? I, the producer of EN, humbly volunteer for this role, and have already prepared a model for my self insert character, and conveniently placed myself at the top of their cosmology! Oh shit, but I forgot, I am a male, so I can't really appear on stream. Well, no problem, I just do sassy bitch tweets from the sidelines, that's just as well good enough, right? And everybody will love me for it!" Cue this half assed shit that never really worked out anyway, and from the last looks of it, is quietly gonna be dropped anyway.
So yeah, if they tried to do any sort of "EN A-chan" with Omega, they failed hard, and I hope they recognize why, and simply do it right by doing what's proven to work, instead of trying to deviate from the formula: a FEMALE character, who actually APPEARS on stream, and is actually shown DOING helpful stuff for the talents. That's it, bing bong so simple, that's all that's needed (instead of some dude overcomplicating things with trying to force himself into it, but then also not really appearing at all), and the fans would eat it up.
