IIRC, the California office isn’t even an office, it’s a merch warehouse, all of the actual managers live in Japan.

What is taxing for anyone who wants to be a corporate vtuber is that you will be expected to fly over to the headquarters of your agency and be there for at least a month or so out of the year every year, if not moreso depending on certain aspects.

I’m not sure how many people have children that would want to become a vtuber, but the most useful thing that your child can learn to get an advantage is Japanese. Even as an independent vtuber, shit helps a ton in terms of marketing.

But yeah, I don’t believe that Cover is going full Nijisanji anytime soon, but I do wonder how Cover plans on adapting to all of this. Motoaki Tanigo, otherwise known as Yagoo, the CEO of Cover Corp, has been having regular meetings with the talents as a way to figure out each of their specific issues to try and mitigate things, but we shall see. For a lot of the members of the earlier Japanese generations, being a member of Hololive was their first job.