Talk:Kobushi Factory/@comment-91.155.92.72-20150320181800/@comment-27153547-20150321022752

Those are some really good cases where the norm (or what's perceived as the norm) aren't true definitely. In the case of this group, I even noticed how Inoue's been active since 2012 in NGP! but is so young she probably wasn't considered at all. I did know about Melon Kinenbi too. And to be fair I did forget how little of a difference there was in the time between 9th and 10th gen Momusu.

But to be fair to my point, and to address another you made, Ju=Ju leader and subleader wasn't chosen by seniority, yes, but they were chosen by age/maturity instead, one of the things I tried to point out. This happened as well with Yasuda Kei and Fujimoto Miki being chosen over Abe Natsumi and Takahashi Ai respectively.

I didn't mean to imply that age and seniority were the only reasons a leader or even subleader was chosen or even that they happened in a certain order just that they were the most adhered to I suppose? Like, even if the one who fits both those categories isn't chosen, it's usually the next best. I was never really saying that "this is the Exact reason this happened" but I've seen a lot of people wondering why a brand new KSS was chosen over Rio despite her being older and active longer (in H!P KSS) and I wanted to keep it in general terms? (I've been called out for my tendency to ramble and go Too into detail, honestly.)

But I never really did feel like potential skill as a leader went into consideration much? Not saying that lack of skill would be overlooked either, but leaders don't have extra demands placed upon them and Ai and Risa at least have been quoted saying that it's mostly encouraging members if I remember correctly?