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Dec 27th: Exploring The Stakes / Sugoroku Board Battle will begin on Sep 15th. This event features 5*s Ibara + Natsume, 4*s Rinne + Madara and 3*s Yuta + Arashi + Tsumugi.

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Oct 12th: ALKALOID’s 4th song event will begin on Oct 15th at 3PM JST.

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Sep 27th: 2wink’s 4th song event will begin on Sep 30th at 3PM JST.

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Aug 28th: Scout! The Sea's Heartbeat - Look Back - will be released on Aug 30th at 3PM JST.

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Jul 27th: The promotional video for Double Face’s Climax Event has been released.

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Jul 12th: Cooking Showdown / Drifting? Island will begin on Jul 15th. This event features 5*s Niki + Nazuna and 4*s Rei + Mao.

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What has happened this week on the fandom.. I feel like I have nothing to talk about

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This week on Ensemble News

With the announcement of the Ra*bits climax event, fans decide to theorize about the possible meanings behind the MV that we'll discuss today.

A fandom project that has gained popularity, the "Ensemble Stars!! Cookbook" is currently in it's interest check, more information about this project ahead.

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Ra*bits Climax Event

The MV for the newest Ra*bits event has been previewed, the song, "Parallel Mazes" happens to contain not only a detailed scenario but also references and winks to the past of the unit, the same way we saw Crazy:B's "Crazy Anthem" go through a similar process.

In a determined part of the video, we're able to see Ra*bits crossing a bridge while looking at their old selves, but the interesting part of it is the poses they make.

A couple of fans decided to discuss these poses trying to find their meaning, to what the conclusions so far have reached two different possibilities.

A user on Twitter ¹ deduced that their poses have to do with them imitating people that have had an important influence for Ra*bits individually, or, people that they look up to.

However, there's also another possibility that people have pointed out, and that is their similarities with Undead and fine.

The argument behind this has to do with the analogy of Heaven and Hell that these two units form.

In any case, both theories have interesting funds, so let us know your opinion about them!

References:

1. Yun (@.sunspotgaze) via Twitter. 14/06/2023. Link

The Ensemble Stars Cookbook

The Ensemble Stars Cookbook is a zine leaded by Posebean, which consists in the recollection of food recipes with an Ensemble Stars theme, the information in their site states:

"Niki's cookbook is an upcoming unofficial cookbook fanzine centered all around cooking!

It will contain art, writing, merch all based off food, and self-made recipes that are specifically themed around various units/idols/groups of Ensemble StarsThe specs of the zine are still up in the air and will be finalized after the interest check has concluded, as well as whether the zine will be for profit, for charity, or both.More detailed information can be found in our Primary Info Doc, as well as application guidelines and contributor expectations.

The goal is to have at least one recipe per unit and one recipe per member of Niki’s kitchen (except for Niki, who should have 2 recipes). There may also be other recipes themed after shuffle units, circles, dorms, other characters in general, specific events, and etc… if all of the goal recipes have been filled.

There will be art pieces to match some of the recipes, as well as stand-alone art pieces with the theme of cooking and food. Small anecdotes written in the character’s perspectives will be scattered throughout, and writing will be short scenes also centered around cooking and food." (Niki's Cookbook via Google Docs) ¹

As mentioned before, the project is currently in its interest check phase, so we encourage everyone interested to fill it out and contribute. The form can be found in the project's social media.

Some links on where to find the project

Official Document

Tumblr: @escookbook

Twitter: @EScookbook

Make sure to give this project your support.

References:

1. Niki's Cookbook (@.escookbook) via Google Docs. 15/06/2023. Link

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Event

Ra*bits climax event has been announced. "Infinite * Parallel World of Our Potential" will be Tomoya's center.

Synopsis:

"Tomoya is worrying over whether he is properly contributing to Ra*bits as its leader. One day, Ra*bits is summoned by Bishoujo-senpai, a major person in their agency..." ¹

Feature Scout

Feature Scout 2: Aira, has been announced. It features 5* Aira, 4* Subaru and 3* Rei.

Synopsis:

"Aira has already prepared his own candid shots for the pamphlet, but the producer feels like there's something off about those photos." ²

Event Scout

Event Scout: Raindrop-covered Show Window has been announced. It features 5* Souma, 4* HiMERU and 3* Ibara and Kanata.

Synopsis:

"Souma and some others have ended up competing by designing a display. Souma decides to use individuality as his theme, but he finds himself having a harder time than expected." ³

References:

1. Iridescent (@.iridesenescence) via Twitter. 13/06/2023. Link

2. Iridescent (@.iridesenescence) via Twitter. 09/06/2023. Link

3. Iridescent (@.iridesenescence) via Twitter. 13/06/2023. Link

June Tsukisuta Notes

Happyele will post hiring campaings every month during Tsukisuta. Green Missions of the Rainbow Season start. Enstars 15 Million Downloads campaign. Album releases per unit after their respective events. SS Satellite outfits available in the MV store. New collab job featuring 2wink and Crazy:B, Ra*bits event and MV announcement.

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Hello and good day to everyone. This is a quick communicate to announce that this week's news will be a bit delayed due some admin's personal reasons.

In our normal schedule, news should be published in aprox 7 hours or so, however, this delay may take half a day or an entire day for what I'm calculating.

Thank you very much for the understanding and please stay tuned ♡

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Hello Ensemble News Team!

I'm posebean, the head mod of Niki's Cookbook https://www.tumblr.com/escookbook (an upcoming enstars cookbook zine!)

I don't know how often your posts are, but would you be able to spread our interest check? Thank you!

Hello, yes of course! I've seen your project before and find it very nice.

We post weekly, we'll make sure to give you column in the fandom section ^^

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This week on Ensemble News

A popular blog, @.katsuhiras, receives an anonymous attack under the pseudonym of "ribbon anon". The attacks last over almost a week and are rooted on the hatred of a popular enstars character.

Fans speculate about the possible second half of the current, foreign exclusive, bridal scout. Speculations conclude on the possible characters available in this new scout, the "white swans"

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The anonymous attack to user "katsuhiras"

WARNING: This article contains mentions of violence, death threats and other similar topics. Proceed with caution.

The past day, May 30, a popular blog known as katsuhiras, who's fame in the enstars community comes from their editing abilities and icon requests, received a strange ask from an anonymous user in one of their requests.

This ask felt awkward enough for the community and followers of the editing blog to start discussing the topic. As it felt pretentious and just plainly weird to make such a request in a public blog.

But this was just the beginning of it. This anonymous user, who always signed their messages with a ribbon motif which made them win the name of "ribbon anon", continued to send repeated hate and to make strange demands to katsuhiras blog. Fortunately, this topic was taken with humor at the beginning.

Regarding the censorship of the Rei Sakuma layout, Katsuhiras did fullfil the request in a funny, comical way; changing their layout more than one time to accommodate everyone's "needs".

The issue escalated when "ribbon anon" started crossing a limit, by sending death threats, insults and just plain harassment to the admin and presumably to other blogs.

"it is 100% weird though when it's so easy to curate your own space on here. I am assuming the reason I wasn't blocked instantly is because they like the non-rei edits but if rei is such a dealbreaker, just find someone else who posts edits and art you like...?" (Katsuhiras via Tumblr) ¹

(delicate content) Some of the threats are included the following images:

On the current time, Katsuhira's inbox is completely closed, as they've stated their will to stop this situation that even trespassed and became stalking.

"official announcement: I don’t want my inbox to keep breaking + don’t wanna be subjected to more dumbass monologues from our dear failed theatre kid ribbon, + I have a lot of requests to fill anyway so my inbox is just fully closed for now" (Katsuhiras via Tumblr) ²

They also decided to add a couple of information, like the fact that they received 38 messages from ribbon alone overnight and that despite having blocked them three times, the anon didn't decide to seize.

We send our entire support to katsuhiras and hope this situation settles down soon. On a same note, we do not condone any type of violence directed towards anyone involved in this case.

References:

1. Katsuhiras (@.katsuhiras) via Tumblr. 30/05/2023. Link

2. Katsuhiras (@.katsuhiras) via Tumblr. 03/06/2023. Link

The white swan, potential scout

Because of the recent release of the "black swan" scout in the foreign servers, fans have been speculating of the possibilities of a second part, as it's well known that foreign scouts tend to have more than one part as seen in multiple occasions before.

The most important clue the fandom has encountered has to do with the black swan/white swan motifs found in the collab page. As it's stated that StarMaker Production falls under the category of black swans, meanwhile, Cosmic Production falls in the category of white swans.

As for the characters that the scout may feature, it is currently unknown, however, a user ¹ has pointed out some of the possibilities.

Himeru, Kohaku — Crazy:B

2wink

Shu — Valkyrie

Jun, Ibara — Eden

The list features character that haven't gotten any limited time overseas card, which makes the chances higher for them.

Of course, nothing is set in stone, so we'll have to wait.

References:

1. Ree (@.seavenwaves) via Twitter. 04/06/2023. Link

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Event

"Sugoroku* Journey! Number Eight is Our BGM" is still ongoing.

It features 5* Rinne Amagi, 4* HiMERU and 3* Niki Shiina and Kohaku Oukawa.

Feature Scout

Feature Scout 2: Koga, is still ongoing.

It features 5* Koga Oogami, 4* Mika Kagehira and 3* Tsumugi Aoba.

Event Scout

Scout: Biblion, is still ongoing.

It features 5* Tsukasa Suou, 4* Kaoru Hakaze and 3* Hajime Shino, Nagisa Ran and Tsumugi Aoba.

June's Tsukisuta has been announced.

The guest will be Hiruma Shunya (Tomoya's VA) and the hosts will be Ono Yuuki (Koga's VA) and Kamio Shinichiro (Kuro's VA). It'll be premiered on June 13 at 9 pm (JST).

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(CN-EXCLUSIVE) May 31st: Bloomed images for CNstars’ 13th original scout has been released. This scout features 5* Tori, 4* Eichi and 3* Makoto, and will be released on Jun 5th. Participate in the linked event to also obtain a 5* Natsume!

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Oh well, as the popular belief says, "there's always something going on in enstars", right?

day 1 of enstars newspaper and we're already getting some wild inner-circle events.... beautiful world

enstars newspaper?

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Mod would love to show their gratitude for all the support the first post of this blog is getting. Thank you so much, I really hope we can continue with this little project for a long time 🫶

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This week on Ensemble News

The newest Crazy:B event has the community busted. Several theories, notes and analyses have appeared as a consequence.

Last week's catastrophy regarding the Enstars assets Drive appears to have settled down, however, the future of the drive is still unknown.

Ensemble News, our account, is finally running! Round of applause, we hope you support us through our journey.

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Crazy Anthem and its landmarks

The newest Crazy:B music video for their song "Crazy Anthem" has been released. Because of this, the fandom has been making speculations about the possible landmarks that the video may feature, alongside theories and other writings.

A user on Twitter ¹ has deciphered many of the possible locations in which Crazy:B appears through the video and, possible, during their event story.

The video happens in California, as the event synopsis explains, but it looks like their route starts in San Francisco and finishes in Baja California, Mexico.

Curious about the locations? Here are some of the ones the fandom was able to find;

— Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills

"Venus Beach" — Venice Beach, California

— Walk of Fame, Hollywood

— Los Cabos, Baja California, Mexico

References:

1. Lisaw (@.mafucchu) via Twitter. 28/05/2023. Link

The Enstars assets Drive and its future

The past May 18th, the Enstars wiki Twitter account made an important post ¹ spreading awareness about the current state of the assets drive held by the account @.gradualcolors. The Twitter thread written explained that the assets drive — in which all cards, art, chibis, gifs, voice packs, and etc. are hosted, was going to be taken down due to multiple DMCA violations.

A week later, @.gradualcolors mod replies:

"All I want to say is that I want to stick with my belief of "assets = fandom creativity" and I'll try my best to maintain the new drive when I put it out again. I want to keep seeing how ppl decorate their social media with those files or do fun things like reading guides!!

Tldr; drive gone, will be re-hosted because I want to, rip my wallet tho. - H.E. had precedent to nuke the drive for reposting reasons so pls be careful posting fan created edits - Lemme see the cool edits and cute carrds you guys use these files for when drive comes back" (Rai via twt) ²

We don't know how much time it'll take them to make the proper accomodations to restore the folders, but we sure hope the struggles seize sooner than later.

References:

1. Enstars wiki (@.enstarsENG) via Twitter. 18/05/2023. Link

2. Rai (@.sakasakitty) via Twitter. 21/05/2023. Link

Inauguration! Ensemble News is finally up

To conclude with this fandom section, we'd like to express our excitement for this passion project. Ensemble News is a little blog that was constructed with pure love, with the objective of informing others and bonding with the community further. We hope you give this blog a chance, we encourage you to interact with us and to enjoy your time here. ♡

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Event

The first Climax event has been announced. It's time for Crazy:b and their newest event "Sugoroku* Journey! Number Eight is Our BGM" to shine. Synopsis:

"Rinne and co. are invited to appear on "Number Eight", a show that was popular once upon a time, and so they head overseas. From Crazy:B's dice result begins their road trip where everything is left up to fate--" (Iridescent via twt) ¹

This event will feature 5* Rinne Amagi, 4* HiMERU and 3* Niki Shiina and Kohaku Oukawa.

Feature Scout

Feature Scout 2: Koga, has been announced. Synopsis:

"Koga isn't quite able to figure out what casual shots should be like, causing him to struggle in his photoshoot. He wants to show a cool side of himself while still looking natural." (Iridescent via twt) ²

This scout features 5* Koga Oogami, 4* Mika Kagehira and 3* Tsumugi Aoba.

Event Scout

Scout: Biblion, has been announced. Synopsis:

"Tsukasa isn't entirely sure about joining Biblion yet, but he joins as a temporary member. He finds a book that interests him in the bestseller section, and is engrossed in the book's universe." (Iridescent via twt) ³

This scout features 5* Tsukasa Suou, 4* Kaoru Hakaze and 3* Nagisa Ran, Hajime Shino and Tsumugi Aoba.

References:

1. Iridescent (@.iridesenescence) via Twitter. 27/05/2023. Link

2. Iridescent (@.iridesenescence) via Twitter. 24/05/2023. Link

3. Iridescent (@.iridesenescence) via Twitter. 28/05/2023. Link

May 2023 Tsukisuta notes:

Main story 1.5 is currently being voiced, part 3 will come out on June 26th. Summer voicelines will be added in-game on June 1st. New stamps were added to the Ensemble Live shop. Outfits for the 8th anniversary are now in the dia shop. Element (animation) prints are out and currently being sold at 7-Eleven JP. The next round of Starry Symphony tickets will start being sold on Jun 8th.

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