>>39006620While I can definitely see it nowadays it's hard for me to believe that they always treated the branch like that, especially after Myth stupidly huge success back in 2020. HoloEN was the first time Cover decided to something that Anycolor didn't do before (no, renaming the IN branch to EN doesn't count), and they struck gold hard and became THE dominant force in the west for the better part of their first year and I can only see them start treating EN as a side branch after failing to capitalize on their early success. Council was an overall a blunder and not the sequel to Myth everyone expected, with the month-long tease that ended up making people tired, a one week wait for debut that was extended by a day because of undisclosed reasons and Sana, well, everything, but honestly their biggest problem was how long it took for them to debut. They should've come out earlier in the year so that the wait for it wouldn't pile expectations over expectations to the point that realistically they would always be disappointing, which actually happened, tho ironically they ended up more dedicated to their jobs than Myth, especially if you include IRyS with them. The should've kept the release schedule for new debuts shorter for at least the first 3 to 4 gens so that they could quickly build a healthy and strong group from their early success and not have to rush to get new additions because the branch started falling apart. There's no need to go full NijiEN, but I think debuting once 8 or 9 months would've been ideal and that would put us on either already having EN4 with 8 months or waiting for them in January with 9, and maybe one of these could've been a smaller Gamer-like gen and it would still be better than only have 10 after 27 months.
