One of my favorite jokes in enstars is tatsumi being like "smart phones? I haven't heard of that. I've been in the hospital" and then you find out he was in the hospital for like one year
It there's one thing that ensemble stars EN is great at its localizing the fonts for banners 💖 they feel so natural I forget that they weren't always in English
"The amethyst shattered.
One upon a time there was a girl who became an amethyst. Everytime she granted a wish, she'd crack.
Her final wish--
Eheh, It was the same as Yume's.
For you to have a wonderful life. ♡
But sadly this is real life, not a fairytale."
Deciding what's Canon to a characters characterization can be like being a religious scholar... like sure maybe you think this text is apocryphal but I will never give it up
No one told me I Saw The TV Glow was going to look into my soul and rip my heart out and completely destroy me and then tell me to keep going and live actually live or life will be like dying
Always thinking about how eichi made es a system where you get paid in fake idol money that gets turned into nothin in conversion rates to real money so in es youre stuck here forever or perish int his world you either idol or dir
The extent to which the happy elements staff is anonymized is kind of insane 😭 we don't even know the enstars character design lead... the fact that the illustration tutorials use generic sudonyms without even voice over is like... it's a lot
You could write an essay on gender and gaze in the way enstars makes yume CGs and then the interaction within the text usually ends up between two male characters
If I was localizing enstars for an assumed american audience the obvious choice would be to have ibara use your excellency and just import American military lingo otherwise to get the tone across, but the funny choice would be to make him call him Mr. President
Considering that he was writing engirls first in my mind I've always believed he signed onto enstars thinking it would shut down in 5 minutes and expected to write galgames his whole life and now has to pretend he's writing girls to be fulfilled
Every since Akira said he sees a big part of the enst characters as genderless beings and the fact he has stated he writes men and women the same…. It makes sense that it feels so “yuri” sometimes, because he literally uses many of the tropes
The problem with voting for contrasting aesthetics is that everyone's votes get scattered across every category, while the expected votes end up collecting in the usual spot. So I'd guess everyone voted for different gap moe songs, and the majority votes still ended up safe
You have to think with your mind before you start saying "how much money do you make" "You're insane" "I hate you" to someone in a foreign language. Already most of these comments are bad to leave on English speakers videos but now they have to Google translate ur weirdness
What Tori says about Yuzuru in togenkyou makes me so fucking sad. He was an emotional child, his fear of dogs and his crybaby side are fragments of the child he was before the trauma
Who is working at enstars en that thinks censoring the yaoi and trans stuff is advantageous for an English release of a game. Did they check what English fandoms are like before they started making an English game
I think its a little bit funny when people are like "actually ibara wouldn't so this bad thing because xyz" like "actually ibara wouldn't like crypto" why are we defending this man who hates all of humanity and calls me fat on my home screen . He's evil that's why he's so cute
14 year Olds here's my wisdom for surviving liking enstars. People will tell you you need to get into discourse. You do not. You have English class and that will present you enough discourse
Favorite story is koi wa primavera where he manipulates the stock market to ensure they can still have chocolate for the next chocofes after the Foreign War is squashed by the himemiya familys private military
Teenagers if you're ever stressed abt enstars discourse just know it does not matter and someday you'll have to have a job and pay rent and it won't matter if your oomf vagued you 💖
I know he loves five night at Freddy so much and ibaras always like kakka this is below you... and nagisa is like... heh. You haven't read the lore, ibara
I love the parallels between western kin culture and Japanese yumejo/riako culture... down to both groups making DNIs and having "no doubles" type culture
I get not showing your face but I wish they at least got personalized sudonyms..... I wish I could follow their work and recognize various members of the teams styles in individual cards!! 😔
First one is
"Yume: Humuhumu, Yume knows all the books in this section.
Yume's name is Hanamura Fuyume! What about you? Are you a Yumenosaki grad?
Oh, you wanna know what Yume's reading?
It's one of my favorite stories!"
Going to a school with a lot of students from China meant that I met SO many enstarries... People in the elevator would just see enstars on something and be like YOU LIKE ES 😲
I like how oremeru is like not a good big brother. From his coldness in obligatto to his prioritizing his fantasy of his brother while trying to be selfless
Protips:
1. Children do not get into discourse people your age will present you with the most insane takes possible
2. You're not obligated to fight with anyone
3. No epic win online is worth the potential harassment
4. Fandom shit/online harassmeny can be traumatizing
In attempting to strike a balance between a yumejoshi and fujoshi audience enstars creates a mental dissonance that highlights the difference in culture. The stereotypical fujoshi attempts to avoid direct interaction with the narrative, to be "voyeuristic"
sometimes i wonder who among us might be an enstarrie. im taking bachelors in education starting next sem and those poor kids in the future wont know their teacher is an enstarrie. is my therapist an enstarrie? what if you commit a crime and your lawyer was a knightsP
The godfather stuff in enstars becomes more meaningful if you know how evil the male idol industry really has been and how it had an actual "godfather" figure