>>101296638 (OP)Let's dispense with the shitposting and be real for a second: It's widely believed that your average nijifan is
>Female>Under the age of 25>Performatively woke>Demonstrably apolitical>Kind of a fucking idiotWhy would this caricature give a single fuck about any of this so long as the bishies in her phone keep giving her the good brain chemicals? EN as a branch has been dead for at least a couple years now, to the extent that they don't even show up on earnings reports anymore iirc. Of course they're going to memoryhole this. Twisty dug her own grave repeatedly by alienating anyone likely to support her, and if there's one thing I imagine gross JP business dicks love, it's sekuhara and general sexpesting. Why the fuck would they do anything to Aster at all, when the best thing to save face is do nothing?
And ALL of this is besides my personal rrat that the 'clique' is effectively just NijiEN management because Riku was too fucking cheap to actually hire translators or real professionals. The strat isn't odd at all, it's the only logical conclusion.