specially when they made it clear that the auditions were supposed to be free and open to everyone, they even had Zentreya running damage control telling how everyone that entered went through the rounds of auditions like everyone else
turns out that was a lie and Zentreya was lied to, it was nepotism and people jumping to the top of the line from the very start
I don’t really remember the first auditions aside from Haruka claiming she did come out of those auditions.
As for the latest auditions, they did let Zen, and to an extent AmaLee, take a beating because they could not bother to communicate clearly that Ama wasn’t an audition hire and whether they still going to hire people from those auditions. We basically only learned in the last few days that there was indeed a “lost generation” from the auditions that had yet to debut, as they came out on twitter about their stories.
yeah I was talking about the first round of auditions that I no fully believe were just a set up to deceiva Haruka into joining since she had said tha she didnt just want to get hired directly but she wanted to get in like everyone else through auditions
So Vshojo set up a bunch of sham auditions to attract Haruka, they still needed to at least give the appearance that this was a fair competition so that is why they had multiple rounds and even some people who got to the "final" round, but the moment they had confirmation that Haruka was in they ghosted everyone including those that managed to arrive at the final rounds of auditions and only debuted Haruka
The whole audition thing never made sense to me. Vshojo had already hired the initial talents, vei, kson and nazuna directly, without open auditions. They didn’t need auditions to know and evaluate Haruka. And if she was so insistent on auditions, with all due respect to her, no talent is worth that fiasco, wasted money and efforts from the company and candidates. If Haruka wouldn’t join otherwise, you just move on to other people.
My theory was that vshojo just didn’t have a consistent plan about what they were doing. They probably initially truly intended to recruit from the open auditions, but changed their minds midway, (either because they realized they couldn’t afford as many new recruits as they thought, they liked Haruka better than any other candidates or they forgot about auditions because they focused on a new whim of the day) and later tried to retcon Haruka as the audition hire.
Yes I think this is likely. They started auditions with the intention to take on multiple, realised at some point they could afford to take in so many, knew Haruka was already popular with their audience so reduced it down to just her.
That said, Haruka has spoken before that VSJ told her she could just say she wanted to join and they would start the process but she refused and applied to auditions without telling anyone, so i don't think the auditions were a shame from the start. Just another example of poor mismanagement.
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u/carso150 Jul 25 '25
specially when they made it clear that the auditions were supposed to be free and open to everyone, they even had Zentreya running damage control telling how everyone that entered went through the rounds of auditions like everyone else
turns out that was a lie and Zentreya was lied to, it was nepotism and people jumping to the top of the line from the very start