>>326226If I remember correctly, the VA got back in full power as a comitee member not long ago because the shared VAs thing got so out of hand that the company started to take every single deal they could to gain money, it got so bad that sometimes they wouldn´t be able to recall or register what did they signed up to for profits (reason why there was so much Kizuna Ai merch yet it seems there was not enough people to buy it) because there was multiple people signing deals and near to zero management for them, also the interest on her started to decline by the "not the original VA" stuff.
Then the old company pretty much imploded and lended the rights to a new one which is the one in which the VA works as an advisor (not comitee member, sorry) and they are basically trying (not sure if succeding) to regain her fame, because the fallout was so bad some people who recently got into it think companies like Hololive or Nijisanji were the ones to pioneer VTubers, not Kizuna Ai and the similar ones.
I don´t really think this is gonna go anywhere, I mean, I would like Ai to get her crown back but pretty sure they have NO PLAN to actually tackle the issue of the overcrowded JP market nor they have good enough advisors to tackle the foreign market, specially the ENG one.
No idea if they still catter to the Chinese, but if they do, they definitely cannot go full "western audience", because we know what happened last time someone fucked up by pure accident, the chinese never consider anything an accident.
