An Open Letter in Support of Kiara's Concerns
For those of you just waking up, Kiara had a twitter space earlier this morning discussing her recent frustrations with Cover and one part in particular stood out to me as especially worrying.
Here is a brief summary provided to me by someone on discord about the portion in question:
49:05
Think it's cool that Suisei, Calli and some others have done 3D concerts for conventions, she wants to do that too
Tried to do that Dokomi in Germany but it wasn't an option
50:45
"ID also did that with Vivid cruise" - chat. "I wants to do something like that too... hellloooo?"
I'm never gonna get a solo real venue concert so can they at least get me to perform in 3D at a convention?
That's like the least they could do for me y'know?
I've just become really pessimistic at this point. I've just realized that there's not gonna be much done. For me.
I've been fighting really hard to not just get this birthday concert this year (which has been delayed half a year) and she's been insisting on getting an anniversary one too.
Because it's the third anniversary! We've been here for 3 years, we've never had one anniversary 3D.
I've been insisting on it since February but I haven't gotten ANYTHING about it. So probably not gonna get anything. Also doesn't look much better next year.
Doesn't seem like I'm gonna get anything like that next year, but I'm gonna continue insisting.
Because I feel like its only fair that after 3 years of being here and being so patient and working so hard and doing our own thing in the Ame studio, finding out own way of handling things.
Like.. y'know? The Japanese side gets first year, second year, third year, every year y'know?
And I've been waiting for 3 years. And 3 years is a lot in this.. business.. company really.
And 3 years is also such a special number so I'd have really liked to do that.
But, alas.
"time to push it early for the 4th year!" - chat
Nah it doesn't matter how early I push it.. like, I was very early. *sigh*
When I joined, the oldest gens were around for 3 years.
Back then they seemed super experienced, like super senpais right?
So now I'm also super experienced and super senpai, but if.. we just keep on having to do all these things by ourselves y'know?
It's a bit.. or very, what's the word.. when you get your hopes and dreams crushed *laughs*
Discouraging, yeah. Disheartening yeah that was the word I was looking for.
It's everything, all of those words.. frustrating, discouraging, unfair, demoralizing, fuck yeah, all of that.
But I'm not giving up. I'm not going to give up.
I want to do the same things that others get to do. At least ONCE."
Being a fan of HoloEN ever since 2020 has been bittersweet at times - with Covid keeping everyone isolated we were able to witness Myth somehow explode onto the scene and bring us all together despite never actually being in the same room. There was a certain pain behind all the scuff such as in their homegrown 3D VRchat from the 1st Anniversary that really added a personal element to their story, every small step of growth for them was also a small step for us. I still treasure that feeling when Ina was finally able to hug her gen-mates for real; the complete humanity of it all couldn't have been better written if it were fiction.
Moments like Astel pouring his heart and soul into bringing the magical POLAR EXPRESS
out of nowhere in his live felt like something out of Disney, especially seeing how he grinded in Apex that year to become an actual menace in Vsaikou. Or the gap-moe of having IRyS rant about anime and keyboards in her bedroom to HipRyS
completely dominating the stage in 3D are hard to replicate. These 3D lives and events literally add a whole 'nother dimension to our favorite talents and represent one of the few times that we as fans are truly able to celebrate their creativity and hardwork in a culmination of their idol journey.
Please give us more opportunities to celebrate our overseas talents Cover, I understand that there are bottlenecks at the studio but it is extremely concerning that things are difficult enough for Kiara to feel forced to voice her problems publicly.
Connect the World this year was a smash hit that I hope demonstrates just how dedicated we are as fans. Hopefully a compromise can be had that will be satisfactory to everyone because it really is each talent's "idol journey" that truly elevates Hololive to something special.
Edit: An important bit of context that I forgot to mention is that Myth as a whole wanted to have a 3rd Anniversary concert to conserve studio time but were then shot down in favor of individual concerts to make logistics easier, which were again denied or delayed until next year; her statements aren't purely out of self interest.
