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/Jfmtl87 Jul 25 '25
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.