https://dime.jp/genre/2061976/> Amane Kanata, who was a member of "Hololive" and had 1.68 million subscribers, unexpectedly announced her graduation on December 2nd.> This year, Shion Murasaki, who had over 1.3 million subscribers, graduated, and Chloe Sakamoto, who also had 1.3 million subscribers, ended her streaming activities. In the past, big-name VTubers such as Gawl and Gura have also graduated.>Cover has booked 3 billion yen in "anticipatory investment expenditures" for the fiscal year ending March 2026, with the aim of expanding its organization for sustainable growth. The company announced that profits for this fiscal year will be temporarily pushed down in order to set up a budget for personnel expenses and other expenses necessary for expanding production capacity.>For the fiscal year ending March 2026, full-year operating profit is expected to increase slightly by 2.5% compared to the previous fiscal year.>Amane Kanata's graduation message surprised fans. She listed the following three reasons for her decision to graduate:>"There were many times when tasks outside of the scope of work were required that far exceeded the scope originally envisaged.">"As a result, there was a period of time when the workload was so intense that I couldn't keep up with my activities.">"I have come to feel that it is difficult to maintain my activities due to the physical and mental state caused by the workload.">Although she had been consulting with the agency about this situation for several years, resolving it would require a review of the organization's overall structure, making it difficult to continue healthy activities, and so she decided to graduate.>Up until now, most VTubers have graduated due to "disagreements with the agency's direction," but this time they went into more specific details, such as the workload being so great that it is difficult for them to continue their activities.>It became clear that the management system of the agency was not satisfactory for some of the talents. In order to prevent popular talents from leaving, it was necessary to strengthen the management system.>Cover's operating profit fell by 20% in the first half of this fiscal year, mainly due to the recording of a 550 million yen write-down on previously produced merchandise. When a big-name talent graduates, it becomes difficult to sell some of the inventory, which could lead to a vicious cycle that disrupts plans.......> Cover has 602 employees, including 87 VTubers. ANYCOLOR has 596 employees and 170 VTubers. There is no doubt that Cover is strengthening its workforce, and the foundation for strengthening management is in place.Like what exactly are the people being hired by Cover doing if their talent keeps complaining about having to do too much creative stuff? The answer cannot be Holoearth because there is an analyst saying HoloEarth development only has about 40 people at most.
You would think with all the graduations they will downsize the management to teach them a lesson. You are buried with the chuubas coffin RIP
>>107775400>Cover has 602 employees, including 87 VTubers. ANYCOLOR has 596 employees and 170 VTubers.It's actually worse than that. For some reason he's using the updated number for Anycolor, while Cover's number is old.
>>107775400Cuz we're counting the nerds who run the studio and blue collar guys who in merch warehouses
Having 1000 middle managers is actually good and only a black company wouldnt have a 4:1 manager to talent ratio
>>107775400Hey anonYou forgot to include the second half of the article which is an obvious Nijisanji stock puff piece mysteriously forgetting to mention how badly their Q2 missed its projections.
>>107775529700+ employees, and none of are able to keep the lights on at their 3D studios.
>>107775580>holo deflection why can't you look at yourself in the mirror for once?
>>107775400>>107775400Wow you sisters are trying your damnedest pushing this agenda.
>>107775718>>107775653
>>107775725>>107775653NIJISEETHE
>>107775400Outside of the very top members, Niji livers barely have any personal project to work on. Hololive members actually have tons and require way more supports
>>107775580>Used Kanata venting about her workload as fuel to mudsling at Cover and drive investors to buy Anycolor stockLmao, that's shameless as hell
>>107775400Most of their employees are handling metaverse stuff.
>unexpectedly announced her graduationkanata is literally the most expected person to graduate, wtf are these people smoking
>>107775400>In the past, big-name VTubers such as Gawl and Gura have also graduated.The iconic duo...
>>107775529i know its a tech company on the side but you really dont need that many people
>>107775400Cover is allegedly working on a "massive project" we absolutely know nothing about. Could be bullshit, but all these new hires could also be related to that.
>>107780665it's the rhythm game, we already know.
>>107775400>In order to prevent popular talents from leaving, it was necessary to strengthen the management system.lmaooo. The whole reason over the graduations is COVER becoming as corpo as possible, expanding unnecessarily, trying to keep 10 different soulless projects going on and having a retarded system of managership. All of this goes against the spirit of free streamer vtubers.
>>107780665They did the same shit for years for the dud of Holoearth including beautifully animated and song MVs for it's fantasy world and it turned out to be uninspired shit.What they need is to go back to being the popular, cheery, self-propelled vtuber streamers they once were. Not trying to cope with smoke and mirrors about whatever random-ass snake oil they will try to peddle in the future because they want to be an IP multiverse like marvel or some similar shit.
>>107781399This is what happens when companies go public. They hire a bunch of people, start multiple new projects that detract from their core competencies, and slowly bleed themselves to death through mismanagement. If Cover struggles to find replacement talents for the ones they’ll lose to that grind there’s no way they make it to 2030 without firing a shit ton of employees and cancelling projects that are pointless.
>>107775400Because of Holoearth and similar dumb tech projects. Hopefully the investors will tell yagoo to drop them.
>>107775400>The answer cannot be Holoearth because there is an analyst saying HoloEarth development only has about 40 people at most.Japanese management can label job responsibility however they want but Cover has over 800 employees. They hired over 400 of those employees since they started development on HoloEarth. My guess is there are 100 to 200 employees that are working on HoloEarth. Yagoo will never admit that Hololive is burning that much money on a Metaverse game but game development can quickly bloat. That would explain the contradiction of the massive increase of employees but talents are still doing work that should be handled by management.
>>107775400>Like what exactly are the people being hired by Cover doingNothing, many of them are probably nepo hire. If you've worked in a big company, you'll meet a lot of those types. This happens a lot when a company gets acquired or receives funding from external party, you're forced to do these unnecessary hiring. Dozens of managers and C-suites join your company out of nowhere. They know you're loaded with cash after getting some investment from VC, so they (the VCs or C-suites from the company who acquires you) are gonna bring their friends, families, etc to join your company. You're forced to become a host for these parasites.
>>107775400you are a literal jewbootlicker tranny, op>>107775580lmao
>>107776602Yeah it was so expected that nobody in hololive expected it.Fucking retarded ENtranny.
>>107783985anon, people have been expecting katana to graduate for years nowshe has a very reasonable and public reason to do so
>>107784033Again, so expected that nobody in hololive expected it.Brain damaged ENtranny.
>>107782562>Hopefully the investors will tell yagoo to drop them.LMAO
>>1077755295 employee per talent (let's just say the rest work on holoearth) but the talents keep getting stupid assignments their managers could easily take care of for some reason
never forget that holoass is their biggest money sink
