>>40715185In case you aren't baiting: holostarsJP had a fucking awful time when they started. Like, a really awful time. But they kept at it and steadily grew their fanbase, small as they might be in comparison to the girls. They don't fuck with anyone, they mostly keep collabs between themselves or with vtubers from outside the company and they don't actively seek to change anything and just do their own thing. Even some hololive JP fans have no problem with them, because they're just doing things by themselves or with friends they've made along the way.
holostarsEN is composed mostly of guys that are very into the twitch and niji way of doing things, meaning collab spams with anyone they can get their hands on no matter what. And it was obvious that EN management wanted to push the niji angle by allowing them to collab with the girls before they could collab with the JP stars, which was a huge red flag. They've been handed excessive, aggressive promoting, they've been handed the girls and they've been given management as well. They were just given everything. Not even the EN girls had it that easy, and they also couldn't collab with their JP senpais but management made no exceptions for them on collab bans, but they did with starsEN.
They're too manufactured and way, way too forced on everyone. The closest there is to a starsJP in there is Vesper, and maybe one or two of the new guys. The rest don't belong in stars, they were better off in Niji for the type of people they are.
