>>9816768If Cover actually demanded their next JP gen 6 talents should all be able to actually speak english, their talent pool of fitting applicants would suddenly shrink to probably less then 5 percent of its size.
The only ones who were able to speak english at a conversational level or above were Coco who was born in the US and, being generous here, Haachama who also went abroad for a bit. The sample size is small (but that's the point), but the pattern is there, if you're only living in nipland you have no incentive to learn. All the other dozens of JP girls are varying degrees of gaga gugu imbeciles - which to be fair, english has never been a priority for them, their main market is japan and they're doing fine enough at home that they never had the actual economic need to seriously reach out (notice how little has come out of their supposed "english lessons" that some of them took... and apparently already gave up), and the EOPs were happy enough when the anime girl just threw them an occasional "h-hey gaiz..." bone and stammered some cute nonsensical phrases.
But yeah, as Hololive gets more and more overseas members it's getting a bit more ridiculous that no JP speaks english and the whole onus of communication is on the other side: notice how it's pretty much always the "foreign" girls (some of the ENs and IDs, about half of the girls) who actually made the effort to learn japanese, that bridge the gap and makes successfull collabs happen, meanwhile no JP (that didn't know english before) has returned the favor and learned english above gaga gugu level.
And Cover will probably rather continue in that way - no serious onus on the JP girls to learn english, no requirements that for the next JP gen audition english ability will be a strong criteria they select for, but rather keep things as is and haha let's just put that burden on our foreign branches and have them be able to speak japanese to us, because that's "easier" (for the company)
