About 4 years ago, i started college and not even 3 months in, I almost immediately gave up. Starting college during pandemic is an entirely different level and new type of difficulty after all.

During the time i stopped moving, i spent my time with my mangas and anime. Among them was IDOLiSH7. ( I really cant remember how I started it. Maybe coz I was so into TSUKIUTA before entering college, and that the third season was on going around the time). I really got into it that i even downloaded the game. I got hooked that it barely bothered me to navigate through an app I can’t understand 🤣 it’s a first, really, even in terms of gaming Since it’s the first series where I had to play a game rather than read a manga to continue the story. Its such a refreshing feeling.

( though i also wanted to say that i managed to rewatch the anime immediately first before the game coz my sister got interested too, and I watched it with her 🤣)

after a month, thinga happened and I managed to continue my studies. I’d listen to the songs from time to time, and play almost everyday (gotta do the dailies). I even made a reference to RESTART POiNTER in one of my reflection essays in the next semester. I rarely missed a day of playing. Naturally, I get more excited whenever a new content came — an event, new cards, the next season of the anime, the next part of the main story. Maaaan I’ll always remember how I bawled my eyes out during and after the main story’s Part 5

Quite hilarious though, I realized I’m not that good at playing or focusing on more than one game at a time. I got hooked with mobile idol games so when I saw another series bringing out an english version, i couldn’t help myself and tend to neglect i7 from time to time 🥹🙈 (then i got into another open world game and rarely played the 2 idol games afterwards. Do forgive me though, I’m an insufferable college student who barely had time 😭🤣)

Still, I never missed it when i7 brings out something major. I’ll play when I can, I’ll watch when I can. I’ll rewatch if I can. (I changed my phone 3x and also got a new tablet recently, and I always download the game despite not being able to open it everyday) That’s how it has been for my 1st to 4th year in college. I’d often recommend it to my friends too, or just share some content (we love a good comedy AND good looking men 🙈). Although one of my friends who really planned to watch it couldn’t find the time so i figured, “let’s watch this together” — we had our internship together 🤣. Still, after 2 episodes, we really never found the time to continue it again. The downloaded episodes just sat in my device until I ran out of things to watch, and found the time to do so again (alone) — which isss…after our last semester ended (please, we were 4th years doing their internship 😭) Then, I decided to continue it all the way to the main story’s part 6 that I wasn’t able to touch ever since after doing 2 chapters 😭 maybe, i thought of doing so too after remembering the twins’ birthday was coming up. Ironically, that’s when they also brought out the news about Rainbow City. I was like “wow, they’re really going for a bang for the 10th anniversary”

Over the course of Part 6 is when I started to realize…they gradually resolved the conflicts over the previous parts. From TRIGGER, ZOOL, Zero, then we have the upcoming New BoW, and the situation with the Kujo residence. I didn’t realize until today, while doing the last few chapters of pt.6 that the main story has ended. It made sense to me when I think about Beyond the Period 🤣

I don’t know how many times I cried tonight — for the story itself, the flashbacks, the results (i laughed at myself coz 20% of me kinda believed Revale will take it. But ig it was partly coz I wasn’t entirely sure if its really the ending HAHA i really told myself “well, the title us IDOLiSH7 so duh) for the series’ ending, and for thinking how I started this in my earliest college years, and probably one of the lowest times in my life…and now, I finished the main story, 3 days before my graduation. I guess it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that i7 is among the bigger things that carried me in my last years of studying. Really, thank you so much. ( though maybe I’d be more thankful if you had let me get at least 1 SSR in the 60 pulls I did after doing the main story 😭)

And now self, and everybody, with IDOLiSH7, TRIGGER, Re:vale, and ZOOL, Its time to go…

HOW.E.VER.

Unlike android, I cant dl the game from qoo app in apple coz apparently apple cant download qoo app. I tried searching for ways but the instructions I see are from at least 3 years ago, and we know how apple changes so rapidly. In short… guys help me DL and play my i7 again T_____T I’m begging you like the beggiest beggar in all of begdom!! 😭😭😭

HUGE SPOILER ALERT FOR MOVIE 27

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So movie 27 just dropped smth that probably shocked me the most. No, I was among those who sort of believe that toichi and yusaku are related. But still, having a theory you've been holding onto for a while getting confirmed IS A BIG THING. BIG I SAY.

But, going back to my first point, how much of the Movie canon so far are also considered to be main story canon?? Though I also doubt we'd just get a bomb that could never be more direct like that only for it to be called "movie canon only" later on.

Then again, that's one theory out of the way. Tho ig, it also somehow brought more questions like

1. Srsly yusaku, you've been married for almost 20 years and Yukiko knows nothing of this? He knows his brother is Kaito kid. They also showed that he knows "Kaito kid" was Yukiko and vermouth's disguise tutor. What's with u yusaku 😭

2. Can we confirm that Yusaku indeed knows the true identity of Kaito kid years ago?

3. Can we say then that the main reason he's not reporting/catching Kaito kid then is because he's his brother? 😂

4. Is yusaku aware of what actually happened to him? does he know whether his twin is alive or not? Are we getting another "my brother faked his death, gotta keep this secret from our other relatives". Are we getting an akai brothers situation, or the morofushi brothers'?? 🫠😭

5. Obviously toichi was aware of shinichi, which makes me doubt Yusaku doesn't have a knowledge about HIS own nephew (Kaito). But these brothers really kept each other's identity from their families omagdgxhskwlkq you're not convincing me they simply 'forgot' to tell. Given that tho, did yusaku check up on his brother's fam from time to time after the incident? Or no coz he knows toichi is looking after them (supposing he knows he's alive and looking in the shadows xD)

6. Is yusaku aware that his nephew Kaito is the current Kaito kid??

Bonus:

7. Did toichi really just stole a sword, a national artifact, and gave it as a gift to his brother? 😂

edit: (the following items are things that popped into me as I read this again)

8. did yusaku use this twin telepathic powers or smth when trying to figure out kaito kid’s move, or that was just the two of them with their own pure and high intellect 😂

9. Like them being related, it was heavily implied as well that Toichi is alive. We can have that movie to confirm it then, right? Like, the hell they’d go out of their way to tease that, to the point of revealing they’re twins so we know the context behind that very new “gift” of his just to tell us its really someone else disguising as Toichi

WELCOME HOME TO MY FIRST 5🌟NII-CHAN!!! Oh how much I've longed for you 😭

That clip from one of your recent recording for jjk still kinda haunts me both for the yuji's scene, and the way you executed it (dunno how i'll be when I see the scene itself and hear youe voice there) but it ig that's another reason to look forward for in jjk, and you and as a VA.

Happy Happy Happy Birthday to this cool-yet not so cool, quiet but not quite so, but definitely amazing seiyuuu 🤩✨💙

Like srsly, did they all plot smth to make me feel this way all in one go? Anyways, I guess one feeling I'm sure of is how happy I am to celebrate this guy right here

To our dearest, and best nii-chan, Happy Birthday Nazuuuu! 🎉🎂💙