>>17665343>did management demand the ship until they worked it into their contract renegotiations? I don't think management or Cover really cares about shit like that, they've never done it in JP and yuribait is way more accepted in JP than EN (we even know how EN management actively tries to avoid Japanese behavior like using senpai and generations).
The ship was just too good theoretically speaking so thats why girls went with it at first, for example another obvious ship was InAme because the "detective" or "investigator" is a very common archetype in Lovecraftian fiction and having the detective falling in love with the eldritch monster is an obvious story right there BUT Ina and Ame are not really that interested in ships so they probably didn't even talk about it.
With regards to Takamori i'm sure it was Kiara who first proposed the idea because well... Kiara is Kiara, she's a romantic, she loves the whole weeb and idol identity, yuribait is a quintessential part of idol fandom for decades and Hololive already had several pairings so she probably saw it as pretty normal.
Sadly she picked the wrong partner but there's not much to do now, they shot their shot and missed. I think Takamori still has a place in Hololive, in fanart, fiction, etc. But i'm happier with it being dropped by the girls.
