>>68844089Going off of what others have said about the company in the past, I assume that the management are highly underpaid SEA and India who want to do as little as possible because their top manager (who only speaks Japanese) is a pain to work with and has no creativity or flexibility in anything. So whenever someone has something they want to do outside of play games they have perms for, it is 2 levels of bureaucracy to deal with that takes forever and has to be done by the book.
Pomu went through the proper channels only to be denied and strung along. Selen saw that the mangers did jack shit and did it herself, which pissed off the managers since she went over their head since they take forever to so anything. So Selen gets punished in a Japanese way to get her to stop, but Selen DNGAF about that and continued to do things her own way. Like with the MV, someone needs to get the rights? Well the management who suck at English won't get to it so Selen gets it. Same with the other things. She needs perms from the other members to appear in the video? Well, she gets them herself since management is doing fuck all. Since this video was in progress for a long time (August 2022 was when the song rights perms was first gained) she most likely asked Nina and Mysta and gotten theirs before they graduated.
Now either Niji management didn't like her getting the OK by herself, or wanted to not allow graduated members in the video, so they wanted her to remove them. Apparently they were given a version with them in it for a while, even if the final (final) this one for sure version wasn't done until Dec, and only said no right before it went up, which, for something that takes this fucking long is like telling the editor to edit a movie the night before release date, she did it anyway because she was tired of their red tape and bullshit.
That is what likely happened.
