>>27933032After luxiem's hype dying, noctyx being not remotely as big as them in follow-up and the males being a debuff for the most dick-hungry nijiEN girls (reimu/nina), factored in with the obvious fact it's the Chinese who held them up ergo they were never actually that successful in the West yet that audience is basically impossible for Cover to get back, and they don't really merit a strong argument vs a better-put-together EN3 than Council.
Council had plenty of flaws from the getgo in both who they picked and how the gen was designed, comparing JP5 vs 6 shows that the composition really fucking matters. EN3 if done right probably would generate a FUCK TON more money than even a somewhat-successful male gen. Holo fans don't actually watch males much and just pay lipservice to the idea over being afraid of being called incels on the internet, NOT because they actually care and wanna watch these guys, the data is quite solid on that. Holo also lacks having a pre-existing fandom of millions of East Asian women and already having male chuubas at 20k+ CCVs which are the backdrop into which Luxiem was dropped into - and also the audience that made them a success to begin with as opposed to an organic western market. When Vox is doing cop rape sex RP on Bilibili you can't tell me with a straight face that Luxiem "proved" there's a Western market. It only reinforced what we already knew, people just weren't paying attention because they only had ever heard of Kuzuha and only knew him for the big numbers.
