>>22544958
nta, but iirc the Nene story often gets mis-told because it sounds like a sympathetic perseverance story ("she applied four times, until she finally got in!!" with the moral implication that "see, perseverance pays off, even you can make it if you just try hard enough" etc).
The actual story is less about perseverance and more about her just being a ponkotsu.
She applied only to one audition period, that of the fifth gen, (so it's not like she applied to four different audition generations for a long time and got rejected everytime or anything), and just didn't know if her application got sent through / was even received by Cover, because she didn't hear anything back in time, so she just re-sent her application several times to make sure