I wonder who will use the niji classics this time "We talked to her" "We tried to stop her" "She was putting us in danger" "She was given so many chances"

If she gets fired before Luca I’m gonna laugh my ass off. Ain’t a chance in hell that Niji could beat the favoritism allegations at that point.

The thing with Kotoka and Mel is that there are too many coincidences that led people to believe that she said something to her in confidentiality and Kotoka decided to spill the tea. Just way too many coincidences for people not to raise eyebrows.

I don’t think they did, but if they did, what Legal Mindset said could actually be true. Nijisanji could have a case of gender discrimination. The male members (Vox, Uki, Luca) can do whatever they want, but as soon as a female talent makes a single mistake (Zaion, Selen) they get eviscerated instantly.

Yeah Kotoka was probably fired, its the average niji pattern. Before the month ends we'll probably see that termination letter on niji twitter page for sure🤷🏽‍♀️

Deja Vu, sudden hospital visit, the apostrophe (possibly redundant), streams privated. She might be on her way out it seems. best bet, our questions will be answered in the next few days, maybe week.

Niji be firing everyone except luca at this point 🤣🤣

I feel like Niji can never escape drama

Check Mint's sub count. She's over 100K. She will finally get to keep a Play button.

Oh, shit. This does not bode well for Nijisanji.

The biggest betrayal for Zaion was Kotoka saying, she had nothing good to say about Zaion. After Zaion felt they were really close. And spent much of her time helping. Mel said she was betrayed by someone she thought could be trusted. Blames herself for breaking NDA and accepts the termination gracefully. Mel didn't go to some drama tuber. What third party would she leak info to? That it would quickly come back to Cover? And to which company it would be a major offense to leak to?

It already seems likely with what happened to selen

*"sigh"* Days without Kusosanji scandal (0)

Man first we had allegations against one of their members and now a ton of videos get privated on one of the channels which is strange

Allegations popping up, Hopital Visit, Privating VODs and no futher activities in the future Another shadow banning of a liver? Is Kotoka even in control of accounts? This is Kurosanji were talking about. Though hoping for livers to abandon Kurosanji as this is Kurosanji theu are a company all about the money so they support the livers who can rake in that money as they questionable and awful behaving livers under Kurosanji.

This might be a stretched but what if she (hypothetically if the allegations were true) was the one to thank Raziel Warmonic for coming out with her experience with Luca ? Since Raziel did say one of the livers of the company messaged her and thanked her for spreading the word about his behavior

A week before AR live btw

Imagine if Kotoka releases a black screen video slandering Mel regarding her termination (as a result Mel would fire back against Kotoka with this message which is a parody of Selen regarding her statement with Elira) I was ready to continue working with the friends I trusted, I had made my last statement and I hadn’t looked at anything regarding my past for 3 months straight. I haven’t looked at anything regarding legal documents or anything regarding my situation since I moved back to Rica. I wanted to be hopeful for the future and never interact with that snitcher again. So to see her all come back and reopen a wound that I was ready to heal from and to have to talk to my lawyer again on how to respond. The document mentioned was at first made to document my thoughts and history with evidence so that my lawyer could see the general picture of what was going on before and after my termination and if there were issues that should be addressed. It was first made during my darkest time mentally and I wrote everything on my mind little by little at that time. I made the document thinking that it was never going to be public to anyone but to my lawyer. Although it was a document filled with my confidential information as well as privacy information that should not be public, there were no other addresses or specific locations mentioned. Regarding a recording, this was not intended to be anything other than a distribution test for planning a collaborative event between two people, which happened to be left over from one test recording, and I never recorded any other conversations with anyone. The recording was never shown anywhere even in a legal setting and there are no other records. However, I regret that it was mentioned and I am sorry to all parties affected for the misunderstanding in this. I requested that I just wanted to regain the trust I had lost. Sometimes I didn’t hear anything for days from the lawyers on the other side and felt like I’d be alone and isolated for a long time. It made it so hard for me mentally. On Feb 5th, my lawyer discussed and said it would be best to show the document I wrote to the other lawyers as we have not heard from them for a week or any negotiation talks or given a meeting to discuss after I requested part. It was never intended to be used for anything else, I’ve asked my lawyer to convey that and have communication that the document as it was written wasn’t going to be released anywhere, and my lawyer did so when sending the document. Less than two days after my lawyer sent the document, the termination notice came out. I was very shocked but thought that was the last time I would hear or think about the document and that this, personally and in my own opinion, was the end of the lawyers and legal involvement. All of the communication was done between lawyers not in Japanese but also English as well. Things are not black and white and everything gets more complicated and muddled when lawyers are involved in a different country. When things are conveyed to multiple parties through different degrees of communication, everything turns into different narratives and different translations. I thought it was over and I've accepted what happened and am ready to continue working with the friends I cared dearly. Everything I posted to the public about the situation was a response. If it was a month ago, it would have been different as I was angry but I was also very alone in my head. But it's not a month ago and I've accepted it. I wanted it to be neutral and private but now the whole world is involved and the public is watching every step that happens. I am not perfect and I have faults. I had to watch my mom Ayamy cry and break down in tears in a stream for the first time during the day I was terminated. Despite everything that has happened, please show kindness to all parties involved, there are real people behind the monitors. One of the reasons why I wanted this to be private is that the people on the other side I recently collaborated with can be cruel and deceiving and I knew this would happen the moment my end of contract dropped. What I didn't reveal to anyone and only my coworkers and management was that I wasn’t fired for being backstabbed, but I was also robbed and plagiarized because that friend who snitched on me also copied the document I made for my lawyer which is illegal, and my income that I made for the past 5 years was completely stolen from me, which happened 2 days after the termination. My friend who was in heartbroken tears after my contract had ended found me in time after searching for me for hours before anything happened. I was in a dark place and I do not wish this to anyone. No one should go through what I went through. I reveal this now not for pity but to state that no life, no matter what should be risked for ego or winning anything. There are no winners in this. Please don't make it like high school. Treat everyone like adults and with some empathy and kindness. For those who wish to see receipts or documents or anything else, hoping I will reveal them, I'm sorry but these are the things that should be private and if needed, between lawyers. Revealing private documents and talking about the details within will only just make things worse and more complicated as outside parties get involved and will just hurt everyone. No one deserves to be pushed over the edge. So many people have been hurt and involved even if they were innocent bystanders. In the end, I will always be here to respond and that is the only thing I will do in public. I hope this will be the last statement I have to make.

Niji announcing graduation is bad for their brand...bro that's their entire branding

Normally, I would say that assuming that Kotoka snitched simply because she was the last out of company person to interact with her on stream is ridiculous, but Mel specifically stated that her trust was broken in her statement. Kotoka and Mel were very close. They collabed numerous times, so the fact she conveniently unfollowed her on both of her accounts right as she says that is too much of a coincidence. I thought Selen's termination was the final nail in the coffin for the Nijisanji, but my goodness, if Nijisanji is responsible for robbing not just another corpo, but one of the entire industry of one of its pillars, they're definitely doomed. Good riddance. As if the trauma of nearly losing a friend and pillar of the entire community didn't already cause enough industry-wide damage and burn enough of their bridges.

Tbh, it seems Kotoka might have trusted Niji over Zaion and this is the result. People being dumb over hearsay.

people speculated that nijisanji was posting on her twitter account to "break her silence". however there was a japanese apostrophe, which really made people believe that anycolor was posting on her account. the japanese apostrophe is also present in the tweet that kotoka posted. however since kotoka is fluent in japanese herself im not going to jump to conclusions here and nor am i saying thar anycolor DID post on their accounts. this is just a theory iv come up with Edit: i have just noticed thar kotoka has used this apostrophe a handful amount of times, but with the apostrophe change with selen i dont think that it is an unlikely change that management didnt do this. this is a very messy theory if its wrong dont take it seriously-

Please let Sayu have more viewers than Kotoka when she tries to go indie. We'll see who's wishing the best for who then.

I can see either a graduation at best, a contract termination at worst, or a one-year hiatus much like Moira. What a bad start in the new fiscal year for Nijisanji.

Oh well if it is just a one time issue with Zaion but when issue with MEL and hololive popped up I doubt these rumors are not true. More than just one instance is a pattern of behavior usually we don’t see

I would really want more information regarding the suspected incident between Kotoka and Mel, I known more will start to emerge as time goes by, in Vtuber world, nothing can stay silence forever.

Honestly, I'm on the same opinion as that guy who simply said he doesn't give a damn about Kotoka. And honestly, after backstabbing Zaion I wouldn't see it below her to do the same to poor Mel. She's the kind of person who would step over others if she can benefit from it somehow. But again, and because of that, I couldn't care less about what happens to her

This type of sentences doesn't only mean something actually went wrong for the vtuber, but it's pretty clear in my opinion that the company wants them out, I feel seriously bad for Kotoka in both cases...

Another day, another Kurosanji video. 🙃

honestly before joining nijisanji she alr has a huge following on her twitter and youtube. used to play games with other vtubers and collab with other irl jp content creator. plus, super pretty irl.

Hey Khyo! I just wanted to say thank you so much for doing what you're doing on this channel! I've never actively watched Vtubers (only subbed to Suisei, a visual novel focused vtuber and Ina just to support them) but ive been mildly curious about how the vtuber community was like: yours really gave me the insight I wanted into this place! Though I do sub to FalseD as well to see his professional reports, I genuinely looked forward to yours because of how digestable and comfy your video are. Ngl good song choice in ur background music, kinda spurred me on to make this comment and make me feel nostalgic in a way! PS: I've only actively started keeping an eye on this corner of the internet because of the Selen drama - I thought Niji & Hololive were healthily competetive with each other :/

She is definitely leaving, now we need to wait to see if it is graduation or termination. I don't particularly care for her since her comments after Zaion termination but i do not wish her any harm, those people harassing her over acusations with zero proof are idiots

Yeah the mass nukes will happen soon but the most important is that you reminded me of Mint stream today. TY.

Mel unfollowed her while talking about her trust being broken. How clear can it be

"oh boy, it's been a good day! sure hope there wont be any niji bs today!!" Niji was indeed, doing more bs today

I did not even know Mint was Pomu. I remember Mint streaming years ago but never realized she was actually Pomu.

After Kotoka threw Zaion/Sayu under the bus. I’ll just say I never considered myself an “anti” of anyone until that happened.

>threw Zaion under the bus >threw Mel under the bus >bullies Selen >somehow she needs therapy no accountability

0 days since last Niji drama

How about that? Pomu getting a Play Button she can ACTUALLY touch.

If you told me a year ago Niji's undoing would be striking a cover MV would be their undoing, I'd have called you farfetched. But holy hell. First Doki breaking the spell and then LM, Sayu, and others basically absolving Niji's contract as flappable had obliterated Niji's hold on the EN talents seemingly. If, as Luka's case has shown, they weren't easily manipulatable in the first place.

The only reason I can think of Kotoka's disappearance is that she is terrified because she has angered the world's largest Vtuber community Hololive

I certainly hope that Nijisanji stopped the auto-renewals on Kotoka's membership just so her fan's aren't paying for nothing?

If Kotoka really did get the vampire fired, it wouldn't be the first time Niji and the sisters got a holotalent lose their job.

“Hey Siri? Play ‘Drama’ by Aespa”

It was definitely Kotoka, and Mel heavily implied it so. Blocking Contacts, trust issues emerged, yep.

Another female talent looming to be terminated. Meanwhile, Luca are getting away from lots of violations. 🙄

Kotoka is following the Zaion and Selen route.

Regardless of what she may or may not done, I hope she is okay, we don't need another attempt after Selen incident.

I think there's a red flag hidden in one of the membership videos..... I don't know for certain what kind of red flag, but it could be something that indicated Kotoka was in contact with Mel or she knew something about Hololive that she was not meant to know. As there are back-ups of all the vids, they can't just private or shorten only one vid, so all the videos get privated to cover the tracks. You do wonder if Nijisanji are willing to go THIS far to censor the truth, will Nijisanji look for an excuse to terminate Kotoka soon just to bury the idea of corporate espionage/sabotage so it doesn't fall back on them, rightly or wrongly. Not impossible for a company that skinwalks on it's talents accounts when they are in the hospital, responds to private legal statements with public attacks on their character wrapped around termination letters, and has timed legal acceptance activation switches built into contract changes.

i don't think we will see anything drastic on corporate end until the AR Live. It really feels like they are axing the entire branch close afterwards, and they are just stemming the loss.

I’m still highly suspicious of her, considering how she behaved with Zion, but this is not going to make things better or get anything done. I don’t think she deserves this, but any color definitely does

The sad thing of all this, is that we can't trust anymore in any statement provided of any talent, in niji at least

Welp unless her fireing was planned ahead of time the 3d concert will probably be delayed again so they can delete her footage if she was participating.

Hey Khyo, I'm curious why haven't you talked about COVER USA yet? Or have you already and you just haven't released the video yet?

Honestly I never liked kotoka but doesn't mean I should ignore she is human like the rest of us and humans make mistakes

No, you can stay in niji Kotoka san. You deserve niji.

*Member post about Medical/Being in Hospital* *2months later* *Graduate/Terminated*

This is very out of character even for the terminations, I'm curious if maybe they're checking vods for things she's said or something, we know management has full access to everything

Luca could break every clause in the contract and walk away free, yet Niji drop the guillotine for the girls for far more less

Well, I think it's very likely that Kotoka is the reason that Mel was fired, there's too many things that coincide to give it credibility. Why say there's no evidence, when the unfollowing and the recent off collab are evidence? It's at least enough to raise a big red flag. Either way, I'm over the fact that Mel was terminated, I think that Hololive didn't have to do it, and shouldn't have done it, but I'm glad to see that Rica is doing well despite that. As for Kotoka, I don't think anyone deserves to be harassed, even if they're a horrible person. If it is true that she was the one responsible, I do hope she feels guilty for that, but I ultimately want her to get the help she needs to sort out her issues, and learn from this experience.

Everytime there is a health problem. It's the companies health that is implied.

After streaming Suisei and Kobo's latest songs, I stumbled here. Damn, what a whiplash.

Cant wait for the 3 page letter from Niji disparaging another one of their talents.

Nijisanji days without drama: 0

Kotoka patern of "dissapearing" seems awfully familiar to that other "dissapearing" at the begginin of the year... .........coffee anyone?

Some niji mod have hate bonner for hololive kotaka might have told someone from staff or a mod got that information and decided to do something to make troubles for holo since this happened when niji is under fire

I saw some jp post on twitter about Luca, Meloco and Kotoka but I didn’t know what it really meant because translation was pretty bad.

can we go 1 month without a nijisanji controversy, drama, termination or graduation? unless its Luca...his termination is welcome and long overdue. But can they manage? starting to think they hoard bad PR nightmare as badge of honor now..

If you see her channel scrubbed of videos beyond member's streams, she's fired

"Apologies for the silence" Ahhh shxt, here we go again...

If the Luca document is to be believed then there are at least two livers there unhappy with his behaviour and (presumably) unhappy with Nijisanji not taking action against him, now I am not saying there's correlation between liver's using their Previous\Personal Life Twitters but I am not not saying it either.

I honestly won't be surprised that ninji announces her graduation somewhere around this month

Well , a company always have that one person that push everyone into abyss

I still don't get how Niji recruitment going. Either it's Nepohires or the one in charge just look at twitch streamers and said "yep good enough, you're hired" Twitch streamers are bunch of snakes, I'd rather be in a room with serial killers than twitch streamers.

I still have no idea where people got the accusation of Kotoka sabotaging Mel's career from. I just kinda assumed that Mel vented to a cousin or something who blabbed too much about it and wouldn't shut up.

Im just waiting for the day NIJISANJI/ANYCOLOR officially releases a statement terminating ALL their vtuber activities. They cant even handle their livers properly.

PLs re-emerging? Not a good sign for AnyKuro

I might go so far as to say that it was a statement written by a new PR guy who took experience and learned from all the previous bad statements they made before. We already know that when they want to punish someone they take away all social media accounts and sometimes post a statement pretending to be the person. Scarle went silent then the first thing we get was a statement from someone else, meaning that they did not take away her social rights but did forbid her from talking. Kotoka might end up on an indefinite hiatus or gone completely from the scene. Likely she talked about something on her member stream but couldnt remember which one, so best thing management could do is to private them all to prevent someone from making clips.

From what i hear, Cover wanted Mel to stay but Mel left to protect the company. Something tells me Cover was so pissed they told Anycolor that they told them to take care of Kotoka or they will go after them or block their collaborations. Even A Chan when commenting on Mel said we lost a long time friend. I dont want to talk about it mucg. All i have to say is Kotaka already has a history of being fishy from her dating rumors to the Zaion firing. She always was fishy. She was the last collab with Mel too.

Sorry not sorry for Kotoka, She deserves what is happening to her after what she did to Mel, So many people in Hololive are still feelings the effects of her leaving like that, My sadness hasn't fully gone away either. If Kotoka ever wanted any chance of redemption she should come clean and say she's sorry, But considering what she did to Zaion... That probably ain't happening.

I don't think any fans are going to rally around Kotoka lol

man so this is what people watching reality tv feels like xD the drama and suspense :P

I believe she's on extended break, and will shut down her membership for a period. I didn't know about Petra. I'm concerned.

I would like to order tea. *Sips* 🍵

If Kotoka has been fired, but Luca isn't, it sounds like they may have a gender discrimination case on their hands.

How does the saying goes again? once is an accident, twice a coincidence but three times is a pattern? Will she get to do it a third time, tho?

Does anyone know if there’s possibly something in her members stream she doesn’t want the public to know about? Like how the Pomu once in a lifetime thing went mainstream after she unprivated all of her member vods? I don’t really care if it’s paid content, at this point I feel like the information, should there be any, would be vital to understanding the work culture of Nijisanji. That’s if it’s negative at least. People could be right in that she’s being investigated and being legally held responsible for the alleged Mel incident but that’s just speculation. Would partially explain her mental health break though. It’s likely an early warning sign of a graduation but hey, just a theory.

Not to be a Niji defender -ew no- but just because Kotoka was the last person Mel collabed with, doesn't mean it's her. Are Kotoka and Mel close enough that Mel would share such intimate things that would violate her contract? Did they speak in person or on SNS? Personal or official accounts? Because if it was the latter, then it might not have been Kotoka, but a Niji staff, as we all know that Niji staff have access to all of their talent's official accounts. And if it is on official accounts, then Niji staff might have seen it and contacted Cover because of it. There are too many unknowns for me to confidently point fingers. Too many careers have already been run over because of rumors.

Can someone tell me the PL Aia account please? I wanna follow her early before she graduates out of Kurosanji. I already have Scarle's PL account to follow. Thanks. Oh and by the way good job reporting these news Khyo, keep it up brother!

It's like Selen and U-San all over again. At this point, I would not be surprised if Niji had possession of Kotoka's account and released her statement 0:03

So after the AR live we'll know 🤔 _schrodinger's AR live_

You know what CRAZY. I got into Vtubers cuz had nothing better to watch.. Fell in love with some of the personalities.. I never would have thought the DRAMA and STUPIDTY of people in this now massive circle lol

tbh i don't care about kotoka at all since she backstabbed zaion and that thing with mel. I mean her backstabbing a friend I wouldn't think twice anymore what she did to mel as well.

Bruh, the ride never ends

what is the"number x" thing next to the view count and release date on the videos ?

Perhaps Natsuiro Matsuri could write down a statement confirming the allegations that Kotoka did indeed snitch on Mel just like DeputyARUUU accusing Yakirisu She should probably give Mel’s story on the reasoning if the allegations were true. The fact that Mel told everyone not to speculate means that she was being vague like Selen, as she didn’t want to bring harm to other people after her termination, as she didn’t want her departure to be a whole s**tshow.

Betray sayu and betray Mel if she will be graduate that’s well deserve for her and her past action

if 4 chan was the source of kotoka being the reason for mels termination its highly possible as the 4chan community is almost accurate all the time. The thing with luka, ever since he was javaa ive heared words goinng around about the real him not being a good person. Well I cant really blame the guy, as his environment at home is probably so bad that he became the guy he is. But I think he did not take the opportunity to change if his still the same as the old him.

I'm in the camp believing she backstabbed Mel due to that whole fiasco Mel unfollowing her before she got terminated. So... I don't give a fck about her. Deserved.