>>101995046
If they wanted to make their own music from scratch, they wouldn't have joined Hololive at all: its the economies of scale that something like a major company offers that makes the possibility, well, possible in the first place.
Without that, the scales of the costs change wildly: in the thousands of dollars on the low-end, and several hundred thousand dollars on the highest. Almost all of that cost will also be up-front, and there's basically nothing you can do if someone flakes out without the expense/hassle of a lawsuit.
In theory, something like Cover mitigates a lot of that: yearly commissions keep artists basically on retainer, there's actual capital to borrow from (apparently interest-free,) no worries with licensing rights, and internal production is usually consistent. There's a lot of theoretical upside.
But that's the thing, it's theoretical: if management has a nepotism problem that lowers the quality of the work (but not the price,) or if the company decides to keep throwing someone's projects on the back burner because that's making someone with authority within the company happy, then the individual can find themselves stuck in permanent mediocrity.
