While there’s tremendous sonic potential in PoroPoro Baroque, the subject of the Adopt-an-Idol pilot, and they were allegedly supposed to have their debut this past Thursday, March 3, they most certainly have not debuted and are still two anime-looking characters being tweeted out by somebody working for Daichi. But this happened:

【麗】

私はかなりの負けず嫌いです。
だから、フォロワー500人
いったからって満足してない。
全然まだまだだと思ってる。
こいつ馬鹿なの？って思われる
かもしれないけど始動前に
フォロワー1000人超えたい。
普通のアイドルグループで
ぽろバロは終わらせない。

— ぽろぽろバロック (@poro2baro) March 5, 2016

If you’re new to this idol business, here’s a short explanation: They were going to debut when they got to 500 Twitter followers, but now they’re going to wait until they get to 1,000. BiSH did that, basically. It’s manipulative and (for purposes of this exercise) annoying, but it is what it is.

I really hope that telling management about this project didn’t inspire the delay.

So let’s keep going for now, and maybe we’ll still get an outcome worth talking about. We can reassess after.

UPDATE: At least here’s some visual confirmation that they’re two real human beings do some promo work! via Idol 2.0