RBW did a huge blunder with this group. They should have just debuted them as Kpop right from the start.

Their vietnamese boy group D1verse debuted as Vpop(vietnamese pop). But that was the wrong decision from the start, and the group flopped because of that. Why? Because the boys lived, trained and learned korean for 1 year and half. Vietnamese are not into groups, so it was the wrong arena from the first place. If they were Kpop, it would garned a lot of interest in the Kpop community. They were even promoted on 1thek through the show ''We Will Debut'' with Oneus as their sunbae. A lot of folks were curious and I've seen a many Kpop reaction channels react to them. Yeah, I know there are no korean members in the group. But I feel as long as you can speak, sing in korean, are under a korean company and look east asian, it's good enough to be a Kpop artist right?

https://www.habkorea.net/korea…-d1verse-to-debut-feb-27/

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I don't think they would work in Korea just because of nationality

I know the obstacles they would have faced in Korea. But they at least I think, would have a international stan support. Unlike in Vietnam, very little and nobody was interested. Let's just say I believe their chances would have been better in Kpop than Vpop, because of the international brand Kpop has become.

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RBW is pulling up the same bullshit with JBOYZ right now and instead of debuting them they sended them to a chinese survival show despite the fact that the boys were on Produce 101 Japan before and now people who especially like Hiroto fear that RBW could fuck up once more

Wild idea, but Rbw should just take both Jboyz and D1verse, and make a new group out of them. Maybe a international Kpop group like Zpop, but they will sing in korean and identify themselves as Kpop.

I won't be surprised if Rbw suddenly decides to make a chinese group centered around Hiroto. His popularity from Chuang 2021 is no joke.

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Shanghai fansigning!

https://mobile.twitter.com/Iku…tatus/1393552905668419591

https://mobile.twitter.com/Hir…tatus/1393614604245159939

Because of the fan culture in China, he could go solo even more easily than as a group.

Lana from Chuang 2020 had stayed in China after the show and had been on CCTV, their national TV channel.

RBW would earn from Hiroto in China either way.

The Chinese Produce shows are no joke. Caelan, like Hiroto, didn't make the final lineup but you can see how popular trainees still are after the show ended:

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He could go solo, but just have a feeling Rbw might throw a ''D1verse'' Cpop group for him. I'm sure they have chinese trainees ready for debut. But since koreans values east asians more than vietnamese, the production for a potential group will be much better. Either way, I'm happy for Hiroto. He was underrated in PD Japan, but seems he found success in China & Cpop. Never seen a japanese fansign for him after he was done in PD Japan.