I doubt it. HoloEN 2 isn't done yet with the auditions. I remember someone posted the Subaru clip multiple pages ago, saying that for JP they had 6k applications (chances were roughly 1:1200, 5 spots, so 6k applications), so around 1k applications a week. EN is far more popular, let's say 10x considering the size in target language difference. That would mean 10k applications every week. 1k a week can be done by one person (I work in a callcenter and can get up to 300 emails done, with a 3 minute per email allowed maximum - the audition tapes alone are 5 minutes, and the paper parts will take a few minutes to look through too, putting their per capita maximum daily output at 100-200-ish).Considering the recent graduations, it looks like the rrat is shaping to be correct and we are about to get the new HoloEN/NijiEN.
The candidates are:
Ryuusei Nova
Miori Celesta (MyHoloTV)
Manaka Umio (MyHoloTV)
Marica Bellerose (MyHoloTV)
Maid Mint
I don't know how niji works with debuts/gen so I'm leaning more to say this is the HoloEN Gen2, only missing the Vsinger.
Has anyone here watched any of these girls?
And the time allowed for a response is different too: usually it was within 2 weeks of your application. This time it's "1 month after audition ends". That's already weird, unless they want to stop people from doing a Nene. Aren't they also handling Bloom around this time? So upscaling is almost impossible, which would mean they're probably handling auditions differently this time.
Sure, I could be wrong, but I don't think it's likely they're all HoloEN. Look at Gen1. 3 out of 5 have no real history as Vtuber (Kiara, Calli, and Ina). They had a nice mix of talents, I'd be surprised if all 5 for EN2 come from a vtubing background. On top of one of the MyHoloTV girls keeping their avatar, so they're definitely not HoloEN2. Add that it's super statistically unlikely for an entire generation from another company got taken over, and that it's very likely to cause legal trouble (at least the girls would all have contracts for set time - and I doubt MyHoloTV would take kindly to having an entire generation poached).