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Kiara stated that she knew Calli long before the auditions started (and not as a part of her character, she seems pretty cavalier and only plays her character when it suits the situation) and was surprised to meet up with her when she stopped at Cover's offices, presumably to pick up her equipment and get briefed on the debut process. It stands to reason that Keekihime knew (or knew of) Dice before they became hololive idols and came up with this character dynamic during the preparation process for their debuts, much like other pairings such as Korone and Okayu or Pekora and Miko.
The reason I say hololive seems more like a big screwed up family is because the comraderie between all the talent is on full display and they seem to interact much less like coworkers (which is how nijisanji vtubers tend to act) and more like friends and family to one another. Nijisanji has very distinct groups or cliques to them so people might get along within their own group but might not interact with many outside of that. Bear in mind nijisanji had issues in the past regarding a member's graduation over a fucking accent. That shit would not fly in hololive with any of the talent, at all.
Many of the hololive girls also do this as a side thing and not full-time. Calli is (presumably) an English tutor and Korone has another job doing...something. Many of the talent have part time jobs doing something else (particularly among holostars it's common since Roberu is notable for being a full-time streamer in that group) and the requirements of hololive talent retainment are that, barring situations such as illness or special projects, you only have to produce 3 hours of content a week.
As for the others you mentioned: Coco has drastically cut down on the amount of content she produces as Kson, and Ina as Nagu/wooperfuri has basically done nothing of note recently because of hololive; even then she worked off commissions so she was never a full-time artist by any of these companies. Karen has stopped all activity as Dice and basically adapted Calliope Mori as her new artist name to produce music under.
The reason for the outside-generation streaming restriction is to let the new talent figure out their niche and establish their own audience as well as develop relationships within their generation, and it has worked spectacularly. Even when they collaborate outside their own generation, since they started enforcing this shit with gen3 onward you can tell each group of performers has a very close relationship with one another. Even outside their generation you get performers who end up being close due to previous friendships (Pekora/Miko) or shared bullshit (Haachama/Coco.) Basically they want the performers to find themselves and see on their own who they could work with easily.
The holostars situation is...weird. The original restriction and lack of promotion was from when hololive was going hard into the idol thing, and they didn't even give the holostars a proper branch manager. They kind of just set them out into the world and let them do whatever, but now they actually give a shit about them. As evidenced by multiple talents and by talents across other companies, Cover really doesn't care what the Stars do and will happily promote their stuff now. As far as the idol purity thing goes, before that restriction was in place but has since been lifted, and only a few girls work with the Stars mostly because they're the only ones who can make time for it. A lot of the girls' schedules are very strict so making time for the Stars seems almost like an afterthought and only a few talent from the main branch do it, although others will watch them. Fubuki and Matsuri have both been on Roberu's stream and Choco has been spotted in his audience a few times, so such restrictions no longer exist. I think even Astel has responded to Watson and expressed interest in working with her over something, but that might not happen simply because of Astel's poor grasp of English and Watson's poor grasp of Japanese. Kiara has also expressed interest in having the Stars as part of her talk show but only after going through all the girls, and her stated reason boils down to just liking girls more than guys.
What rock are you living under that makes you believe hololive has more scandals? Nijisanji was once referred to by Mito (you know...their flagship talent) as having conditions more akin to working for a black company to the point where their office workers would be sleeping on the floor. Nijisanji has a lot more shit go down but not a lot of it reaches western shores. Hololive's stuff is typical idol nonsense while Nijisanji involves questionable working conditions and a lot more organizational fuckups. Towa's scandal of having her guy friend be heard over her discord is nothing compared to some of the shit Ichikara has gone through.
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