#ensemble square

[raelyn-dreams]

Enstars dorms, basically:

Mika/Ritsu = Gay goths with separation anxiety and a fear of abandonment.

Sora/Madara/Wataru/Subaru = Loud and chaotic, Sora becomes a willing accessory to far too many crimes.

Tetora/HiMERU/Arashi = Gender.

Mayoi/Tomoya = "I did not sign up for this".

Tatsumi/Koga = Rock and revolution but in wildly different ways.

Jun/Kohaku = Chill Reimei technically (but fuck the school actually).

Tori/Yuzuru = Himemiya privilege bc how the FUCK does Tori get his own personal butler as a roommate???

Kaoru/Yuta/Nagisa = There is Something going on but Kaoru is too scared to ask.

Keito/Hokuto/Hajime = Autism.

Tsumugi/Ibara/Midori/Mitsuru = Pathetic cats and a bread ADHD.

Makoto/Adonis/Chiaki = Most likely to be kidnapped because "someone needed help reaching something in their car".

Hinata/Hiiro/Niki = Energetic and kind initially, but actually the personification of "I'm pretty sure I'm worthless if I can't be of service".

Eichi/Rei/Aira = Hell combo and passive-agressive 24/7, save Aira.

Leo/Natsume/Nazuna = Unmedicated and neurodivergent af (2), Very Concerned (1).

Shu/Izumi/Kuro/Mao = "I can't sleep, it has tO BE PERFECT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND-"

Kanata/Hiyori/Rinne = God & insecurity complexes.

Tsukasa/Souma/Shinobu = Incredibly specific moral codes that no one can quite figure out, but God forbid you make them break it.

[xitty]

Collection of cards which show you locations around Ensemble Square. Only 5* and 4* cards, no 3*s that use the same background art as the homescreen scenes. This is a long post, so putting most of it under cut, please check it out!

Ensemble Square Main Entrance

StarPro office on 20th floor

StarPro office conference area on 20th floor

Reception room on 20th floor

Break room on 19th floor

CosPro office on 18th floor

CosPro office conference area on 18th floor. (Ibara has three 4* cards with this damn white board and a couple of 3*s too lolol)

Soft drink bar on 15th floor

RhythLin office on 12th floor

RhythLin office conference area on 12th floor

Sky Garden on 12th floor outside

Sky Garden on 12th floor outside from another angle

Meeting room on 10th floor

Dance room on 9th floor

Recording room on 8th floor

Band rehearsal room on 8th floor

Vocal practice room on 8th floor (damn 8th floor is crowded, shower room (not pictured) is on there too... wouldn't that have made more sense on the same floor w training or dance room or dojo?)

NewDi office on 7th floor

NewDi office conference area on 7th floor

Infirmary on 7th floor

Dressing room on 6th floor

Prop room on 5th floor

Dojo on 5th floor

Café Cinnamon in the lobby (Niki has cards in the kitchen area too, like his FS2)

Lobby

Garden space on the western side of ES island

Café Cochi on western side of ES island (1st floor)

Staff dining hall (which floor? As seen on Niki's 4* FS1 card and Hinata's 2x2 card, it's somewhere on the higher floors)

Simple studio (which floor?)

Bonus: company car

Notes: there are cards for Heliport on the roof (Neverland Shu, starter Izumi) but you can't see much; Training Room on 15th floor (Mayoi FS2) but can see mostly just floor panels; Café Cochi 2nd floor (Bogie Time Hajime); Stage inside the building (leader Hiiro and Rinne) and corridors and staircase but I had to leave something out.

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Mayoi Ayase…

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[hebimoonlight]

HELP ME WITH COOPERATION EVENT PLS

Since I am new to this game I would like to complete more missions as to learn about this game and universe qwq pls, somebody, can you help me doing these missions? I wanna get this card too! Thank you!

[anzuhan]

craziest collab idea ever if we honest (transparent & alt below cut)

[subzeromoron]

I don’t think HiMERU would like how my HiMERU nui looks

[astronite13]

office interactions~

[enstarsrefs]

Burning UNDEAD Outfit

[klspacecadet]

it’s always so weird reading a fic or literally anything that takes place in ny and clearly isn’t written by someone who lives here. The tourist lenses are so obvious and tbh whenever nyc is even mentioned in a piece of writing I have to stop and cringe it’s so bad… Please don’t write your characters as tourists in new york I might have a heart attack and die of cringe

the one enstars movie was bad enough for me, I absolutely despise the romanticization of nyc it makes me want to shrivel up and die every time

it is not as nice here as you think it is it’s literally the same as dc, new haven, chicago, (boston too probably but I haven’t been there), etc.

and time square is WEIRD it’s like a tourist hellhole of bright lights and grown adults in character costumes I avoid it at all costs

[xitty]

Ensemble Square

Here's the guide to outside areas of Ensemble Square from Ensemble Stars!! Official Works Vol. 1. More info after picture.

Main road

Side road leading to ES

Side road leading to Seisoukan/Starmony Dorms

Green space

Parking lots 1 and 2

Square in front of outdoor stage

Tree-lined avenue

Outdoor stage

Observation deck

Wild bird forest

Riverside promenade

The introduction text says Ensemble Square, ES, is a brand new high-rise built in the middle of river by Eichi Tenshouin with aim to nurture the next generation of world-class idols and that the building houses four entertainment agencies and stages with latest equipment.

There are some backgrounds in-game that show the areas more closely. Main entrance of course and the garden is near no. 7 in the picture. The bigger glass building should be the greenhouse and the lower one you see in the upper right corner Café Cochi.

The MDM stages in the !! Main Story were on ES grounds. The main stage on that outdoor stage (no. 8), clock tower stage on that white square (no. 6) and lawn stage on the grass area in the middle of no. 8, 6 and 11.

[yume-fanfare]

*sora voice* this is like when love live sifas 2 announced its launch and shutdown in the same tweet

[idekka]

I haven't been keeping up with the translations, but do the 4 Piece kids live in Seisokan/the dorms?

[tsundilemma]

happy elements i am the parasites in your brain. listen to me happy elements. you will put ibayuzu in the graceful punishment selection 10 song together. you will do it because it's the right thing to do and the objectively correct decision. anything else would be a crime and you will be punished. listen to me happyelements i know what the ibayuzu community wants and it is more content. please give us prison warden ibara and yuzuru or i will genuinely tweak the fuck out.

[mihai-florescu]

I hope wataru gets a lookback scout so i can say "wow wataru how come happyele lets you get TWO cards where youre 5 years old"

[akaikami-cherryblossom]

I need to have a word with the Mankai Stage choreographer

[mywifeleftme]

282: Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble // Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions & Outtakes 1972–1977

Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions & Outtakes 1972–1977 Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble 2018, Tompkins Square (Bandcamp)

Still wildly underknown given the transporting beauty of their compositions, there is a world next door to this one where Baltimore’s Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble is as popular a soundtrack for meditation and study as Steve Reich or Philip Glass are in our own. Their music lies somewhere between modern chamber music and progressive folk, with a dash of jazz, and it was often used to score experimental dance and theatre productions. The band released two albums in the 1970s on Folkways before dissolving following the death of bandleader Joe Clark in 1983. Most probably their obscurity came from practicing their craft outside a major cultural centre; if anything, the 1,600 monthly listeners they command on Spotify represents wider exposure than they enjoyed in their prime.

Ceremony of Dreams, available in a three-hour digital format or an abridged ten-track vinyl, collects material that didn’t make it onto either of their Folkways records. Compared to Entourage and The Neptune Collection, these tracks are a little less playful, less overtly experimental in their production; they weren’t after all recorded specifically for release as an LP. But even in its condensed wax form, I can speak to the quality of Ceremony’s sober reveries, the lot of it grey or ghost-haloed yet coruscating, like black and white footage of waves crashing at night. Rather than a mere trove of demos, it meaningfully expands on their discography.

The Pitchfork review does a better job of namedropping comparable artists than I have the chutzpah for today (Arvo Pärt, Bert Jansch, La Monte Young, John Cale, Sandy Bull, raga like in general), but if you have a taste for open-concept acoustic music, Ceremony of Dreams is a sure shot.

(As an aside though: It's either endearing or grownworthy that the Entourage boys still have the classic doofy musician dude sense of humour that compels them to give these ethereal compositions "Lick My Lovepump"-ass names like "Sleazy Sue" and "Necrophelia.")

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