>>87451908You're looking at it wrong. You're looking at it through the lens of what would be best for the livers' long-term career prospects.
What you should be doing is looking at the situation through the lens of what would be best for increasing shareholder value, because that is the lens Anycolor will be looking through when they make their final decision on the branch's fate. And while a merger like what they did with ID and KR is the most likely outcome, it's not the only possible outcome:
They can close the branch and release all hands as indies, like Prism and Kawaii did. Obviously this is extremely unlikely, since if they cared enough about the livers' careers to allow them to keep their IPs, they wouldn't be in this mess in the first place, they wouldn't have spent nearly all of 2023 intentionally stifling Selen's creativity, and they would have at least tried to negotiate for Pomu's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
They can sell the branch to another company (Brave/Cover/Sony/etc.) like how Aviel sold Idol to Brave. Also extremely unlikely, both for the same reasons as above; and also because of the question of who would actually buy the Niji EN brand, and what strings would AC attach to the sale. Incidentally, this is the only outcome which involves the Niji EN brand still officially existing.
They can close the branch outright and graduate all hands over a period of several weeks, like what Cover did with Hololive China. There is a tiny bit of similarity in the situations, as both involve the respective company being involved in a massive yab which forever cost them a specific market. Somewhat unlikely, but not entirely out of the question.
Or they can just close the branch wholesale, like they did with VTA and Yume. A little more likely than the Holo CN option; a faster but slightly less lucrative way of tossing the livers to the wolves than by spamming 4 graduation streams a week for two months.
If EN management does a yab that's worse than the Selen situation; or if either Vox or Luca do something which forces management to fire them, but management still wants to protect those two's reputation in spite of what they did; in either of these scenarios, they will take the last option. But even if that doesn't happen, they might still take the last option.
Also they might take the last option on either Feb 5 or Feb 12, so they can tell the world the true reason why they're nuking the branch without officially telling the investors in writing why they're doing it.
