>>60954381Fun lil fact from a rrat: When NijiEN first started the whole IDEA was to just copy Hololive. They had no plans for male vtubers beyond keeping a pin on potential hires for the future when they *had* to debut men. Management really did not want to debut male vtubers, even when the top JP talents are all males
So yeah. The plan was exactly that - to copy Hololive (and they told the talents that they wanted to copy Hololive too. Constantly comparing them internally in the lead-up to the launch of the branch). It was Luxiem, and Ethyria, that fucked it all up and it snowballed from there