>NBA "collab">"collab" starts only after the nba finals are over>not a single team's social media account ever posted or acknowledged them even during the 2nd merch release in taiwan which is one of the biggest markets for the NBARiku's a massive retard. No wonder their stock price is freefalling.
it was a damage control cope to compete with cover after kotoka leaked the baseball collab to niji suitsall they wanted was the APPEARANCE of an NBA "collab" even though it was literally nothing
>>88912247KWAB
>>88912247don't forget excluding 2 of the girls who are actual basketball fans lol
>>88917029If Wose wanted to be in she could have just fucking asked
>>88912247Anyone can pay to have an NBA collab. Riku just paid for this, it’s not like the NBA wanted to collab with niji. Any random anon sitting at home with enough money could pay the NBA to sell merch like this
>>88917637Vivi wanted to be in it too
>>88917756It wasn't even a real NBA collab they were just collabing with Rakuten, who has the exclusive rights for the NBA in japan.
>>88912247Shit was swept under the rug so fast, you can call it Josh Giddey
They're waiting for next year's hololive dodgers collab to release part 2
>>88918225jej
Meanwhile.... Hololive collabed with Dodgers.Gura sang Take my out to Ballgame. Dodges came back from a losing game and won. Then went on to win the World Series. Shit was like a movie plot. I ain't even making this shit up.
>>88912247it was a collab with rakuten, not the NBA. rakuten is the japanese merch distributor for the NBA.
I just noticed something interesting:>https://collection.rakuten.co.jp/feature/nba_nijisanji/en/When this site first launched, they said they were working on making the merch available in both Japan and "internationally". At that time, you could only buy items from Japan. Now, the site has been updated to include the Taiwan store, but there’s no sign of any plans to open additional stores. ...Is this it? Were they talking about Taiwan all along? Did they REALLY have the nerve to make a promo like this and only make it available in the Asian market? I’m laughing my ass off, they couldn't be any more transparent
>>88921712>Did they REALLY have the nerve to make a promo like this and only make it available in the Asian marketThe collab was with Rakuten, who has the exclusive merchandise rights for the NBA in Japan (and seemingly Taiwan too), niji literally can't sell their shitty NBA acrylic stands outside Japan and Taiwan without paying for the license to all the involved teams.
>>88921712 (me) Also, it’s worth mentioning that they’re still in the middle of 'Phase 1' out of a total of three, so there's a good chance they’ll be spending most of next year on this shit. Given how slow Nijisanji usually is with things like this and that each phase features unique art, it’s reasonable to assume that the members that were part of the Phase 1 were chosen quite a while ago.Now, this is interesting because, from the start, it seemed odd that some EN talents were missing from this promo, and instead, JP members were featured in their place.The missing talents are...>Vivi>Kunai>Hex>Rosemi>Aia>Scarle>MelocoI might be forgetting a few, but it’s interesting that three of them have already graduated. At the time, Vivi was disappointed she wasn’t selected for the promo and that they hadn’t even informed her, so it’s possible she requested to join before deciding to graduate, and was later removed once she was already in the graduation queue. I’m not necessarily saying this is a list of the next graduations (Meloco isn’t going anywhere anytime soon), but it’s something to keep in mind...
>>88922329Rosemi-sama... come home...
>>88922329>something to keep in mindWhy waste the brain power on this? Literally any slop would be better
>>88917637they could just fucking ask
>>88922473Luca's cocksleeve...
>>88922329Wasn't phase 2 supposed to start in September/October?
>>88925032Phase 2 was always TBA, they just quietly added a link to the Taiwan store last week, which now that I think about it is all kinds of funny because it means that any remaining mainland chink sisters who want to buy the merch have to do so from Taiwan
Are they even still posting updates in the EN twitter account? It's really funny to think about all the few remaining western sisters trying to hype this shit when they aren't even the target fans and can't buy anything
>>88924864>Lucadon't you mean his manager who was skinwalking his account lol?
>>88925581taiwan actually cares more about nijiEN at this point than the mainlandI was just in mainland china last month and I went to all the anime places including the fujoshi places. The nijiEN presence is massively reduced.
>>88912247Riku is a dropout.
>>88922329*sigh* you also forgot Aster. Though I don't blame you. Honestly, my rrat right now is that it's been delayed indefinitely due to a gradation or two from the remaining line up. Cause simply put there's no way that notable money grubber Anycolor is gonna miss the opening of the new NBA season to shill this without a actual reason.
>>88922329It's pretty fucking insane to me they added fucking finana and reimu and didnt include their top 3 money makers (at the time) Hex, Scarle and Aia. Even with the added context of Hex graduating, it doesn't make sense to not push your money makers to phase 1 to get as much as you can before they leave, much less if you are including Finana of all people
They still have phase 2 and 3 coming soon so nijisis open up your wallet so you can assist anycolor to hit that 10b q2 profit and save your dying company
>>88934788>ScarleI'm not surprised. She has BIG whales, but she has barely any viewers and probably can't sell that much merch. Anycolor doesn't care about the superchats revenue at all, they are only interested on merch.
>>88912247skippa
>>88918011I'll have to use that.
>>88912247this was from a long time ago already, no?i don't think anyone cares anymore. skippa skippa
>>88926498I don't think his manager could skinwalk himself into a women underwear store.
>>88922329wait a fucking minuteI remember this list, and thinking how it was impossible because Hex would never graduate.
>>88912247It wasn't a real collab. It was just so Anycolor didn't have to live in a world where Cover got the Dodgers collab and they had fucking nothing.It literally exists to give a line item to idiot boomer investors so they don't realize how far behind Nijisanji is as a brand now
>>88913697wut
>>88953194There is a rrat that Mel told Kotoka about hololive's upcoming Dodgers collab and she went and told niji management about it, which is why they rushed this shitty "NBA" """collab""" 2 weeks before hololive officially announced the Dodgers collab, so they could beat them to the punch of being the first corpo to collab with a major sports league.
>>88912247Council didnt do as well as expected.
>>88954293>6 streams vs 16>still this closeoof. This is also ignoring the gigantic yellow bird in the room who's about to lap Finana and Elira AGAIN. Possibly even by the end of the week for Finana.
>>88917758but she didn't ask>but she didn't know ...well she should be more proactive and ask manager about collab every day.
>>88926542>taiwan actually cares more about nijiEN at this point than the mainlandnah i had a 5 day layover/vacation in taiwan a few weeks back and nijien and niji in general presence has been massively reduced there as well compared to when i was there back in 2023wanted to buy some sanbaka and rofmao merch there to sell to my friends back in cali but its almost non-existent now compared to last time
>>88912247I genuinely forgot this was even a thing
>>88959280>>88926542>taiwanNo, the only reason taiwan is on the map is because china routes everything through them.It's exactly the same shit as Coco saying taiwan was a big supporter, when it was just china using them for VPNs.
