>>5219841Sciolist. She and VOMS overall were popular here before the West even knew of them. The first time I was linked to her was from /jp/ - in a stream where she had literally like 39 viewers. To be honest I didn't think much of her at the time back then either, not any more than you would take some random 3-10k sub indie today for granted. Pika was one of the most damn popular non-Holo chuubas here when EN started, people here were salivating for Pika collabs literally immediately.
The big drop off came from the double tap of Monoe and then the new designs. Even then a lot of people still like VOMS but any hype/hopes for them got dashed. Losing 33% of the talent in one go hurts so bad, with no closure as to what happened to this day, just suffering. Then Pika getting redesigned into basically a reinvention of the char, and tmsk looking like she got a bunch of gum in her hair and had to hack it all off. If Gyari didn't open up new auditions lately I would have been as gloomy about VOMS as ever and now there is a slight bit of optimism now.
