>>93368767>>93369008Yup. The end is near and all of the livers know it, even if they have to put on a brave face and publicly pretend not to know it. What's worse is that there's fuck-all any of them can do to prevent or even delay the inevitable, and the fact that they are fully aware of their powerlessness.
The branch is already losing money, and it's only a matter of time before they cross the financial thermocline - the point at which it'll cost the company more money to keep the branch operating until all outstanding third party contracts are fulfilled, even with only a skeleton crew of minimum-wage part-timers, than it would cost to cancel those contracts and pay the relevant cancellation fees (] -8 lol ). Once they cross that line, the company can either "safely" merge the EN branch into the main branch (like they did with KR and ID), or just close it and graduate everyone (like Hololive did with Holo CN); or just nuke the branch outright, keeping it in on-paper operation but with nobody actually there (like they did with VTA)
....oh, and they cannot not cross that line. Even if the company keeps the branch in nominal operation until all outstanding third party business contracts are fulfilled, not having any outstanding contracts means that the cost of cancelling outstanding contracts is zero. And at that point, all they will need to officially end Niji EN operations is either an actually true reason (gross mismanagement), a technically true reason (sharp decline in the branch's revenue), or a "technically not a lie" reason (the market crash back in August) to publish as the "official" reason for the branch closure - and they have plenty of reasons to choose from in all three categories.
