Sorry to butt in, and sorry if i sounded scizo about this.
Well, aqua's graduation plan was already announced prior 3-4 months before today to all talent, confirmed by pekora herself, hence the reason why she held the ARK event so she and others could made some good memories with her, probably the same with the minecraft hardcore. No wonder why aqua and pekora become so much closer recently. Not only that, at the beginning of this month, august 1st during aqua's karaoke stream, before she sing 'stay alive' she hinted that she was fighting for her 'justice', which most likely she talked about the discussion about her future activities in hololive with the management as it was her 'last straw' if they can't meet with her demand. And unfortunately for us, they can't accept her wishes and so her graduation is finalized. Guess there no longer "starend" group since its ironically "end", and poor marine she lost another close person she deared most to her.
Altought the growth of the company, Cover started to get messy with their talent's management, AGAIN. Even worse with the retirement of A-chan, the key person who can handle and bridge talents with management so they can meet the middle ground when it comes with some agreetment. She literally talent's 'mental support' they needed the most despite their plan to made their own mental support department, which doubtfully functional at the current. Now that she's retired and there's nodoka left, there's no way she could handle that responsible alone since she's still a freshmen despite she been on company for one or two years. They better fix this problem or else this will become a thicking time bomb for the company. Heck, after aqua's graduation announcement their stock went drop by 21% (at the moment).
In the end, i hope for better future for aqua. If she still want to do streaming after her graduated from hololive, all the best bet is to join vspo if she don't want to be independent, in my honest opinion.
