So, Kyo Kaneko is leaving NijiEN, the latest in an increasingly rapid line of graduations on the english side of the company. Using very similar language as Pomu Mika, Mysta, and Nina used, about 'Accomplishing everything he wanted to do' there - reading between the lines (considering Mysta and Nina immediately took on other personas which I won't mention here) the rest of the sentence is 'that Nijisanji will allow us to do'.

With Selen still MIA on her stream accounts, and *nobody* talking about her on stream, it's pretty clear she's been put into suspension for the bad press of calling them out for pulling her cover song on Christmas (Which still hasn't been put back up, to my knowledge) - after MONTHS of dicking her around on permissions that were already given - it's likely she's going to be next.

I feel so sorry for everyone who's left at NijiEN, both for losing genmades and branchmates and because they, for whatever reason, can't (or possibly won't) leave. Maybe they're getting treated better than Pomu, Nina, Mysta, Mika, and now Kyo? Maybe they don't have the same...drive to be creative that they had.

(I know how that sounds, but it's okay if you don't really want to push boundaries, or color outside the lines, or do wild stuff, lord knows I don't. But it seems like that's the common factor in the recent graduations - being constantly denied things that they wanted to do.)

The only shocking thing was that it wasn't the Selen announcement. Actually shook.

Anyway, I don't watch Kyo myself but I've heard that he basically said beforehand that oh yeah, he's going on vacation starting Feb 17 and into March but then he'd see 'us' again after that, so that's about as blatant as can be made of what his next plans are.

I'm not especially *invested* in Niji, Pomu and Nina were the only ones I actually *watched* in Niji, along with some Selen - I just don't match vibes with most boytubers - the only one I have was probably Vesper.

But it's still sad to see all this being so...poorly handled.