I feel like I need to start posting here more often but Kamen Rider ZEZTZ is insane already and I'm only one episode in????? To be fair, my only prior experience to the Kamen Rider series was Amazons (Jin Takayama girlie right here), so that was a whole different level of insane.
Anyway uhhh I'm already attached to the scrunkly emo (Nox) whom I know literally nothing about. However, are we surprised after Jin? No. Not at all...
(ALSO THAT PHOTO OF HIM IS SO GOOD OH MY GOSH???????? I LIKE THE LIGHTING ALOT)
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I'm going to be slightly delusional and say that Mellow Dear Us singing Melty Kitchen at their concert this weekend is just Happy Elements teasing us that the finale of MM is going to be Ra*bits VS Mellow Dear Us. Guys you just have to trust me 🤭
(I would genuinely scream if this is what happens so hehe~)
Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.
(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)
Are you safe?
Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.
I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.
I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.
A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.
The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.
I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.
…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.
Remaining time: 11 hours 24 minutes
(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)
A new friend came in!! First itsunui and omgggg he is just a little scrunkly fluffball with no thoughts in his head 🥺🥺💕💕✨✨ actually love him so much 💛💛💛💛 Ni~channnnnnnnnn~♪
(Surely this means his Prettycal Parade 4* will come home now……….. righttttt????? 🫣🫣🫣 I’ve done 50 pulls and he’s dodged me each one, it’s horrible 😭💦)
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Whoooo boy, long post here we go! 😅 genuinely thank you to whoever sent this ask for enabling my yapping LOL
Since I already answered 5, 16, 17, 19, and 26 in another post, just refer to that for those answers!
1. When did you join the fandom/start playing?
Around summer of 2023!
2. First fav?
Nazuna!
3. Current fav?
Also Nazuna, but now add Kohaku. It really fluctuates between the two of ‘em honestly. Other favorites I have are Raika, Tsukasa, Mashu, and Akiomi.
4. Favorite song?
I’m JAMMING to Prettycal Parade right now. My favorites really do fluctuate but I tend to enjoy upbeat and peppy stuff like RaRaRa*Station and KumaKuma ResQ.
6. Favorite story?
I feel it in my BONES I’m going to really enjoy the new Ra*bits VS Esupuri one LOL
7. Fav ship?
I’m not a big shipper, but I really enjoy whatever in the world Leo, Makoto, and Izumi have going on.
8. Any gachas or events you’re looking forward to?
I need Nazuna’s FS3/BMU immediately 🤭
9. Do you kin any characters?
Nope!
10. Favorite collab?
Helios Rising Heroes purely because the music is SO good.
I know we already got a Sanrio collab on ENG, but it would be cool to maybe get a Fragaria Memories one on JP whenever that game comes out or something.
11. Favorite group?
Ra*bits and Double Face 💕
12. Who do you have the highest amount of 5 stars for?
6 of Chiaki, Nagisa, and Nazuna. The former two really like haunting me when I pull 😅 but I also love Nagi cards so it’s ok
13. The lowest amount of 5 stars for?
Only 1 Arashi on my EN account 🥲 had to get her with the “This Room Hides my Fav” event. Also only 1 Midori.
14. Fav song chart?
I always find myself going back to play Distorted Heart on Expert. It was the first high-difficulty expert map I managed to clear, and it was just really satisfying! I also like Twinkle Kuchusen special 🙂↕️
15. Least fav song chart?
Can’t think of any off the top of my head, but I tend to struggle with flicks of different orientations in close succession. So any map with those tends to be harder for me.
Also I’m a thumb player, so those all-hands-on-deck type special maps are ones I stay away from after one attempt 😅
18. Any merch?
Ehehehehe~ yeah quite a decent bit of merch 😅 I’ve got multiple trip albums, clear cards, acrylic stands, and various nuis.
20. What difficulty do you play on?
Expert or Special with 12 note speed! I gradually up the speed whenever I feel like those maps get too easy LOL
21. Fav card illustration?
22. Fav 3 star card?
23. Current game rank?
118!
24. Any titles you want to show off?
I genuinely forget titles exist 😭 but I like the Trip album ones!
25. Fav song from all units?
Ok so this one is going to be a little bit long 🫠
Fine: Ghostic Treat House
Trickstar: Finder Girl or Celebrate!!
Ryuseitai: Ryusei Hanabi
Alkaloid: Kotonoha Cantabile
Eden: Rakuen Tsuiho -Faith Conquest-
Eve: Trap for You
Adam: Melting Rogue Soul
Valkyrie: Seishonen Yugi
2wink: Turbulent Storm
CrazyB: Foolish Alien
Undead: Swinging Paroniria
Ra*bits: (is it cheating to say everything?) Melty Kitchen
Akatsuki: Hanaakari No Koibumi
Mellow Dear Us: Mellow Addiction
Knights: Article of Faith or Secret Masquerade
Switch: Galaxy Destiny
MaM: Hands Craft
Special for Princess: Be My Princess
Double Face: Bye Bye Buddy
J&A: Hana Ni Nare!
As for shuffle songs, I like Noir Neige, it’s (k)not lov?, Deep into You, and KumaKuma ResQ! For anni songs, Call Your Name and One with One are also bops.
5. Random memory you have associated with the game?
Well, when I first started playing, it was actually because I walked by the ES Store irl. They have a massive TV outside the store front that just plays MVs, and it happened to be playing Crazy Anthem. In the like… 5 seconds I spent walking past the store, I decided “yep, I’m gonna play this game” and when I got home, I downloaded it!
16. Any oc’s or self inserts?
Funnily enough, no. 😅 Which is kind of surprising to me.
17. Character headcanons?
Uhhmmmm, wow everything is slipping my mind 💀 Okay, I thought of a (slightly goofy) one, but I feel like Mashu uses brainrot. Or he at least knows Gen Alpha slang. He already calls himself “Unc” basically, so what’s to stop him from saying “aura” or “maxxing” or “sus” or something else crazy.
19. Favorite quote from the game if you have one?
I’ve attached it below but akdhjahdjs seeing brainrot in Enstars absolutely SENT me. Somehow I’m not surprised it came from Rei but when I first saw this quote I genuinely thought it wasn’t real and someone made it, but nope this is actually in the game.
26. Fav solo song
Alright, so my moots have literally had to force me to listen to solo songs because I always refused to listen to them (not because I hate them or anything, but I tend to enjoy the dynamics having multiple singers brings into the mix, whereas solo vocals don’t really do it for me). That means my solo song knowledge is very limited.
With all that said, I have two that stand out: Nazuna’s 「に~ちゃん応援団★」 (Ni-chan Oendan) and Arashi’s 「Jewel Stone」.
I really loved Nazuna’s, but seeing it performed at Superbloom just put it on a whole new level. It’s a very cute song and very fitting for him!!
Similar story with Arashi’s solo. I loved the Starry Stage 2nd performance of it where Jin & Akiomi’s seiyuus were background dancers. It was a very goofy silly time and Arashi is cutieful as always. It’s also a very peppy song so I find myself listening to it pretty often!
Although, Juis’s 「Betting on U」 has been growing on me 🤭
So, if you didn’t see my theory post from a few days ago, I’ll link it right here. Looks like it ended up being spot on!! With Sebek being the only wild card I didn’t really expect. Now that we can see everyone it’s abundantly clear that:
Rook - Honey Lemon
Jade - Fred
Silver & Kalim - Baymax
Ruggie - GoGo Tomago
Sebek - Wasabi
I’m still sticking by the final theory of mine that Grim & Yuu will represent Hiro and I am THRILLED!
My prediction of Ruggie being in this event was genuinely a pipe dream of mine (because it would be awesome to have my two favs, Silver and Ruggie, in the same event again), so I’m actually so happy to see it’s true!! akdhkahdjahdjs cannot wait for this event to release omgomgomgomg 🤭
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Ok, so I have a quick theory for the upcoming TWST JP event themed around Big Hero 6! (Check below the cut for more info)
I just wanted to say first of all that all everything below is a lot of speculation, so please don’t take my word for the truth!! We’ll have to wait to get the actual details confirmed when the event releases, but for now it’s fun to theorize!!
Anyway, so as we can see from the little preview they gave us of the SSRs and SRs along with the Baymax sprite (pictured below), this is most likely going to be a “Lost in the Book” event. These events tend to have 2 SSRs, 2 SRs, and 2 Rs. We haven’t seen the Rs yet, but we’ve seen the other 4.
Now, there are six main characters in Big Hero 6 (I’m including both their casual and suited-up art below). I think this event is going to have a character in TWST that represents each of the 6 main characters of Big Hero 6.
Now, let me explain who I think is who.
Going based off of the little bits of the card art we saw in the teaser, I think it’s safe to assume both Kalim and Silver are based on Baymax, what with the goggles with Baymax’s face on them and the redder theme to their clothes. It’s definitely similar to his suited-up outfit in the movie.
Rook seems to be based off of… Honey Lemon??? You thought I was going to say GoGo Tomago, didn’t you? Ok well, that’s honestly what I initially thought, but after doing some digging to find out exactly what he was holding, the image below came up. He seems to be holding a phone similar to Honey Lemon’s. I’m honestly a little confused because his color scheme seems to match GoGo (in her suited-up form), or maybe it’s closer to Honey Lemon’s casual outfit. So it could honestly go either way. Maybe everyone is given a phone like Honey Lemon’s for this event??? I don’t know. For him I’m torn between either one, but for the sake of this current theory post I’m just going to say he represents Honey Lemon.
Jade seems to be based off of Fred!! At first I was thinking it would be Wasabi, especially because the color of Jade’s beanie matched the color of Wasabi’s armor, but it seems more likely he’s wearing a beanie similar to Fred’s casual outfit one! You can see below that the patterns are very similar!! The goggles are possibly hiding the eyes and mouth, so we’ll have to see if they pop up in the groovy! Very interesting to see Jade possibly representing Fred, I feel like that’s a little unexpected!
Anyway, so now that we have those characters out of the way, that leaves us with Hiro, GoGo Tomago, and Wasabi.
I firmly believe Hiro will be represented by Grim and by extension, Yuu. Grim feels like he could fit the black and purple color scheme that Hiro has, especially since we’ve seen him in similar color schemes for events like Glorious Masquerade. It would be really cute to see someone as tiny and small and precious as Grim interact with the nanobots too 🥹 TWST please make this happen! 🙏
That leaves us with our 2 Rs representing GoGo Tomago and Wasabi. I honeslty think we could end up seeing a character from Heartslabyul, Savanaclaw, or Ignihyde since we already have representation from all the other houses in this event, and I don’t find it likely that they double up and have two characters from the same house (although it has been done before with Lost in the Book events, see below).
So now I’m going to go into details of who I think it’s likely we see assuming there are no duplicates from former events or doubled up members from the same house. It’s possible we could see:
Deuce
Trey
Cater
Leona
Ruggie
Idia
Ortho
Since we haven’t seen an Ignihyde member in a LitB event yet, I think either Idia or Ortho could fit the role of Wasabi really well and have high potential to pop up in this event. This is because Wasabi is a really smart and cautious character, which I think either of the Shroud brothers could fit into. Also I feel like Idia is less likely to jump into danger headfirst without a plan of some sort (Ortho maybe not so much), so another reason why he could fit.
As for GoGo Tomago, this is mostly personal preference, but I’d almost put Deuce or Ruggie into that position. ALTHOUGH, if we do double up on having multiple members from one house, I think Epel would fit the role as well. GoGo Tomago is a very combative character and also a speed-demon. Deuce and Epel would fit the bill because of the blastcycles, track club, and spelldrive club respectively. As for Ruggie, I also picked him for his involvement in the spelldrive club, but he’s less likely to be chosen in my opinion.
Anyway, sorry if this post is a bit scatterbrained!!! I really love Big Hero 6 and I am very excited for this event, so I hope you all enjoyed my theory-crafting! If anyone else has any inputs or theories feel free to reblog/comment and add them, because I’m super interested if people maybe picked up details I missed!!!
I think Ruggie's name actually means roar! But this could be me being delusional. Anyway--
The word "rugir" in French means "to roar", but the past partible of it is simply "rugi". Sound familier?
Okay, counter point. Ruggie's name is rendered in katakana as "ラギ" which would be pronounced "ragi", BUT!!! The English translation made his name "Ruggie", which means the "u" was very intentional. I think it's just a play on the word "rugir" to make it a name. Add an extra g, drop the r, tack on an e at the end since English words hate ending in i, and bam, you've got his name 👍
It is a potentially silly theory but I'm sticking with it.
Also while you're here 🫵 I wanted to point out that Rook's nickname for Ruggie is "dent-de-lion" or "tooth of lion", which ofc sounds like "dandelion", but is also probably a play on the fact that Leona is the brain while Ruggie is the one actually acting.
Just a teeeeensie bit late (but I figure still worth posting anyways), but the KR Enstars Twitter posted this video on Nazuna’s birthday! It was part of the countdown to their 10th anni celebration!
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Silver’s lowkey reminds me of the same vibes I get from Tinkerbell movies!! Trey’s is super cute with him holding a big yummy sugar cube though! 💕
Anyway, I’m patiently waiting for someone to post Epel’s since I don’t have the card. I’m veeeeery curious to see how cool his groovy looks! (I hope he has the cute little needle sword and is doing fencing with it or something akdhakdhs live laugh love fencing 🤺)
(Edit: JUST SAW HIS GROOVY 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 I WAS RIGHTTTT HES BASICALLY FENCING IN IT)
hallo hallo! quick question for you, should i get into enstars?
on the one hand, i truly should not add another gacha to my plate. and i could easily see myself becoming obsessed very quickly…on the other hand i love rhythmics and the boys seem very pretty (what’s their ages?)
i hope this isn’t too much, but how ftp friendly is it? like, compared to other gachas? and what is the gacha pulling system like?
tyyyyyyyy ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Heyas Anon!! Thank you for the ask, and no worries about it being “too much” because it’s not! Happy to answer any questions you have 💕✨
So, I’m gonna talk about a few things in this ask, so it might be a bit on the longer side (which means I'm putting everything below the cut to save people from infinite scroll of doom), hope you don’t mind 🙂 (the length of my answer to this ask is what caused it to take a while to answer LOL I promise I didn't forget you alskdfjkasdjf)
Ok so first off, Enstars is really funny in the sense that it is the only fandom I’ve ever had the pleasure of being in where when you ask people if you should play the game, the overwhelming response is “RUN!!!! SAVE YOURSELF WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!!”. Not even in a negative way, most people say it for fun, but also because the rabbit hole goes DEEP and the characters are INSANE (/pos???????).
There’s a lot of crazy lore in the game, some of it dealing with very sensitive topics. There’s a whole “War” and “Revolution” arc in the first era of the game (which happens entirely in high school so… yeah). There’s a lot of other insane things, of which I won’t mention here to save you some time, but it’s highly funny that one time when I looked up “enstars” a while back, Google auto-recommended a list of all the crimes each of the boys in the game has committed LOL.
ANYWAY!!!
I’m not very familiar with a ton of other gacha games, their rates, and how F2P friendly they are in comparison to TWST and Enstars, because I’ve only ever played a handful of gacha games in my life and I haven't enjoyed a decent amount of them which leads me to stop playing them. Currently I solely play TWST and Enstars because of the nature of my content on both my YouTube channel and my translation blog. University keeps me really busy, so I only have enough time to dedicate to those two games.
Now, let me talk a little bit about Enstars! So, it has what’s known as the “Global Servers” and then the “Japanese Servers”. I’m going to talk about both because I currently play on both, so I know kinda what’s different between the two.
🌐Global Servers🌐
So, the global servers are available for download in the following regions:
—United States, Canada, Australia, & the United Kingdom -> known as ENGstars
—China -> known as CNstars
—Taiwan -> known as TWstars
—South Korea -> known as KRstars
(When I say “known as…”, that just means that’s how I’ll refer to them throughout this ask 🙂)
These are all collectively known as the “Global Servers” and which one you’re able to download depends on where you live. If you’re not able to download it because you reside outside those regions, please check this guide (if you have an Apple device) and this video (if you have a non-Apple device).
However, just because they’re all the “Global Servers” doesn’t mean they’re all the same. If you’re on the ENG Server, you can only add and play with people on the ENG Server. If you’re on the CN Server, you can only add and play with people on the CN Server, etc. So if you have friends who already play the game that you want to play with, maybe factor that in to what version you want to download!
Additionally, the ENG Server is about 2 years behind the JP Server, which means it’s a lot easier to plan what scouts (what the game’s summoning banners are called) to pull for and which ones to skip. I really enjoy being two years behind because it lets me come up with a plan to save up for my favs 🙂↕️! This guide is something I use regularly to track what scouts are coming up, and as I said before, it goes two years out from the current date.
The Global Servers have a lot of quality-of-life (QOL) features that the JP Servers are lacking, so here’s a list of them really quick:
—There’s what’s called a “Society” in these servers. If you play any other games with a comparable feature, think of this as a clan/guild with a bunch of other players.
—Starry Lives, which are daily lives (that’s what the rhythm game portion is called) where you can get a randomized diamond (summoning currency) amount every single day.
—Infinite/Expert Lives, which are a series of lives you play and at every interval of 10, you get a free single pull ticket.
—Shared Lives, which are short couple-hour long things (that happen I believe once a week but I could be wrong, because I often forget to play them) where you team up with another player to complete a few missions for rewards.
—This one is minor, but I know on Apple devices, there’s an option to turn on haptic feedback when you tap the notes. I really enjoy this feature a whole lot 😅 but it’s not anything too crazy.
—You can display song lyrics while playing the songs in the Lives mode, whereas in JP you can only view lyrics during MV (music videos) mode.
—Autoing Lives, which is an EXTREMELY nice feature to use when you're trying to grind for event cards. Once you get a full combo (completing a live without getting a "bad" or "miss" on notes) on any live, you have the option to "auto" it.
—Collabs!! Global has a mostly-different set of collabs compared to the JP Server. We’ve had Hello Kitty, Link Click, Fei Ren Zai, etc. These usually come with their own banners of 5*, 4*, and 3* cards, and I really love them all.
—Special Events! Global has two additional types of events on top of the regular ones that carry over from the JP Server. One is called the Spotlight Event, which introduces a Global-Exclusive 5* card for each character. Our most recent one was Family X Family Kuro! These events don’t involve playing beat maps like the regular ones, instead they have a slightly different gameplay structure. The other type of event are the merge-like gameplay events where you merge items and sell them to get event points. For these events, it’s really easy to get one copy of the 5* card for free as long as you play! Scouts usually run at the same time as these merge events with additional cards on the same theme; one of my favorite Kohaku cards is actually from one of these scouts (Secret Swan Kohaku).
There’s also this guide on how many pulls you can get per month as a F2P from just playing the game and taking advantage of some of these QOL features.
Also, since I didn't cover the grind of the events myself in this post, here's a video by Deely that kinda shows how the typical grind for an Event 5* card would go without using the paid subscriptions that the Global Servers have. While I believe these events are F2P friendly, I also think they require lots of planning to be able to complete and also require you to set aside some diamonds to be able to get the card.
The big benefit I personally see from playing the Global Server is the fact that the stories are in English, making them very easily accessible. I do also enjoy how generous they are with diamonds and summons, and I’ve personally never spent any money on the game (aside from literally $1 one time for an event) to get my favorite characters, which I’m very grateful for! 🙂↕️
🎌Japanese Servers🎌
So, as it’s probably obvious, this version of the game is only available in Japan. It’s missing all of the Global QOL features that I mentioned above, which is… kinda a bummer to be honest, but I think there's still pros to playing this version.
First of all, I do really enjoy playing on this version of the game because I get to interact with the new content as it comes out. It is a little bit of a bummer to play on the ENG Server and miss out on the hype and discussion of new content because the ENG Server won’t get it until two years down the road. If you struggle with FOMO, then not being on JP is kinda gonna suck.
The JP Servers have two different versions of the game: Basic & Music. I'm not going to go into that much detail about those two seperate versions in this post, but I'll give a brief summary (feel free to do more research on your own if you're interested in the JP Servers!). Essentially, Basic is the first and original version of the game that released. It was a card-collector and idol-raising game, which lacked the rhythm game elements many are familiar with when they think of Enstars. When Music came out, it released as a separate entity to Basic. Music added rhythm games, music videos, 3D models, etc. Basic still gets updates and it gets the same content as Music, but it lacks any rhythm games and instead keeps the original 2D gameplay elements of Enstars when Basic was the only version that existed.
I would honestly say basic is more "low maintenance" to play than Music, but you said you like the rhythm game elements, so Basic might not be for you.
Anyway, the main downside to JP is (obviously) that it's all in Japanese, so that makes it really difficult for people who don't know the language to understand the content. The whole reason I decided to start playing is because I wanted to learn Japanese, so I use JP Enstars and JP TWST to learn the language via translating the stories myself (shameless translation blog plug🫣) because I'm insane lol. There are many amazing translators out there for Enstars (and especially quite a few on this app) if you do want to keep up with stories before they get added to the ENG Server, but otherwise you have to wait 2 years for official translations.
💙Ages💙
Since you also asked about character ages, here's a really quick tier list I made of all the ages of the main characters in the game, based on the information of them that's listed on the Enstars Wiki. In my opinion, Enstars has a nice age range of characters, especially with the age demographic of the game kind of varying, especially out here in the West.
💕 Conclusion 💕
One of my final recommendations is pick 2-3 characters max to “Produce” and focus on pulling on their scouts. It becomes incredibly difficult to save up if you’re pulling for every single banner because you feel like it, and I would know firsthand how hazardous for my savings it is to like multiple characters and want to pull for them. (Save yourself LOLLLL). But yeah, the cast is around 50+ characters right now, so you can get pulled in all directions if you don’t pick a few characters to like.
However, I do also know people who just pull for cards they think are "pretty" in terms of design instead of picking any specific characters to like, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with that!
There's also not TOO crazy of a meta, so you don't really need to worry about pulling for "strong" cards in my opinion. I've never looked at a card and gone "oh, this would be really good for meta" because that's not ever something that has been super important to me. I think the highest score of my many teams (cuz you play the lives with a team of 5 cards plus 2 support cards, but the support cards don't affect the score) is around 1.1mil which is pretty good and gets the job done for events I choose to grind.
So, Anon, I really hope this information helped you decide if you want to join the fandom and start playing Enstars! If you do join it, I really hope you enjoy! 💕