>>66546694God, I remembered when Lazulight's 1yr anniversary happened, and management was a full 24hrs late on actually putting their anniversary merch up for sale. Then, just 2 days later, they shoved it to the side to promote Luxiem HALF-anniversary merch (a first for EN) that wouldn't be sold for another 3 weeks, for an anniversary that wouldn't be for another 4 weeks, with more merch items than Lazulight's 1yr, complete with a 2nd group song for Luxiem (also a first for EN). Not only that, but the Luxiem merch was going to ship before the Lazu merch, despite the Lazu merch being sold 3 weeks before theirs.
And then 2 months later, right during Obsydia's 1yr anniversary, they decided to pull the same shit again and announce Puchisanji (Niji's animated shorts series), but ONLY for Luxiem. At the same time, they discontinued NijiScenario, which was a shorts series that featured the whole branch - effectively replacing something for all waves, with something just for Luxiem.
It's like NijiEN management were actively and purposely trying to piss off fans of Lazulight and Obsydia. "Oh? It's your wave's important 1yr anniversary? MOVE ASIDE, HERE'S LUXIEM STUFF INSTEAD!" Shit like this completely dominated the year of 2022 and pissed off fans of the girls, causing many of them to leave for other corpos. And when Luxiem's numbers cratered in 2023, to the point where the girls who management kicked to the side before started out-performing Luxiem, what did management do? Nothing. At all. 8+ months of doing absolutely nothing. Actually, worse, they moved on to supporting Noctyx, whose numbers also tanked like Luxiem, and whose numbers were worse than even some of the girls. It's like whoever was put in charge of NijiEN when Luxiem debuted, just HATES the girls.
Anyway, glad Pomu is leaving all that shit behind, hope Selen isn't too far behind, and then hopefully Rosemi, Maria, Finana, Elira (just her, not her other friends), and Vivi join her.
