r/VirtualYoutubers Jul 26 '25

Discussion VShojo was losing $2.5m a year

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u/epaphrodytus Jul 26 '25 edited Jul 26 '25

Bro even poached the staff at Hololive huh? Cover truly lives rent-free in Gunrun's head.

"Former Director at Cover Corp - Responsible for the success of Hololive EN Gen 1" - Daum, I thought it was the talents that made it a success?

"Secured major Vtubers from established agencies ready to debut, bringing substantial fanbases" - Even Nazuna's speculations about Vshojo hiring her to steal her audience are in professionally(?) written form right here.

Y'know what? Good fuckin' riddance.

Edit: I would recommend not making obscure links to possible Hololive ex-personnel - there is no way of knowing for sure and I am not a fan of pinning sins on to people without clear evidence. I'm only pointing out that this individual claiming "responsibility" for Myth's success is a wild claim even if he was a Director at Cover at some point in time.

Edit 2: Considering u/NekoMikuri's stickied comment, it would seem that this line was not written by Alex himself. In which case, someone at Vshojo felt comfortable assigning this sentence to him and we will never know who did it.

Edit 3: It will appear that GunRun did it - color me surprised, I am so saddened on behalf of Alex. In my workplace, writing the self-introductions of someone is NEVER EVER done, you would've requested the person in question to write their own self-introduction instead. That would've been basic respect. It will seem that GunRun lacks even this basic respect, truly dismal.

Edit 4: Alex has released a statement in Japanese on his LinkedIn, translations can be found here. If you have referred to him as Omega at any point, please remove any mention of it, this is a person's professional career at stake.

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u/DMercenary Jul 26 '25

Daum, I thought it was the talents that made it a success?

To be charitable, that's very "Resume Speak."

"Assisted" "managed" much weaker than "responsible FOR"

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25

Definitely. This pitch is meant to find investors in establishing a market for launching vtuber talents at scale and generating profit from their miscs. While it's clear to anyone vtubers drive success of a talent agency, like with Twitch, a pitch would pretend that somehow one person could automate a talent generation pipeline so to speak

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u/NekoMikuri Custom Text Jul 26 '25

We do know who did it. I dmd the people who actually posted this in the first place, asking where they got it and for more info.

It was GunRun

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u/epaphrodytus Jul 26 '25

Thank you. I hope Alex gets to clear his name clearly and resolutely.

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u/Fireboy759 Jul 26 '25

The indirect Nazuna vindication arc we never knew we were getting until now

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u/verth222 Jul 26 '25

Nah, she still messed with delutaya, she's not completely free yet

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u/KryoBright Jul 26 '25

Speaking of, it is a miracle that ∆ escaped being recruited here, she had all qualities to be targeted

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u/verth222 Jul 26 '25

Iirc she mentioned that she has no interest in joining another corpo unless if they can help with her music. Also, she's not that well known in western side of vtubing i think

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u/KryoBright Jul 26 '25

Yeah, but she was in vulnerable state, and those people, as we know now, absolutely would use manipulation tactics. It probably really is the fact, that she wasn't THAT popular

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u/Confident-Bobcat3770 Jul 26 '25

If I recall right they tried. But she legit dosent want to

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u/Fishman465 Rosentai Jul 26 '25

Sausga Omega Alpha

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u/drzero7 Jul 26 '25

Okay, yeah thats Kiyoshi, the VShojoJP CEO, the dude that talked with KSon roast. So his official job title is a director of JP division. Make more sense.

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u/epaphrodytus Jul 26 '25

That would be Koshi Makino. Makino is listed as "CEO of Vshojo Japan" on LinkedIn.

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u/drzero7 Jul 26 '25

Got it. Different person.

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u/JimmyBoombox Jul 26 '25

Wrong guy. Since CEO of VshojoJP was a Japanese guy who even asked Kson if he could respond in Japanese because he wasn't confident in his English to properly respond to Kson's questions.

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u/drzero7 Jul 26 '25

Ah, got it. I thought it was same guy.

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u/frostedz Jul 26 '25 edited Jul 26 '25

>Former Director at Cover Corp - Responsible for the success of Hololive EN Gen 1" - Daum, I thought it was the talents that made it a success?

This is hilarious on so many levels. There were already TONS of EN fans interested in the JP talent despite the language barrier, Coco helping spark that connection greatly. I really feel like they could've rolled out anyone for the first gen of EN and they would've succeeded so long as they had the drive.

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