"we never actually see these characters perform outside of the anime" sorry for the nitpick but weren't the stageplays and 3dcg dream lives a thing since 2016 and 2017 respectively? got into enstars in 2021 via the stageplays so im biased towards them lol. i found it interesting how the music mvs had the same choreo from the dream lives that were released years before them (and lost my shit when the judge of knights dream live choreo was updated for !! era in 2022) great video i was entertained the entire time :D
I only fell into Enstars hell with the release of Engstars, so this is all new to me and it's crazy how perfectly timed the release was with the start of covid! I can only assume that it worked out crazy well for Happiele to have their new game launch right as everyone has literally nothing to do but stay inside and look at their phones
10:19 i'm not an old player but i always thinking about this like, the old time the center songs mvs was just like, classic stage with some decorations, like Niki's center.. they just add a flags there and decorating the stage😭 and they started making new stage for center songs like little romance even thought it feels kinda bland cz theres no other things like tree in the outside but its good. But look now, they make a city for Rinne's center same goes for trickstar, now they can make a whole yumenosaki just for one mv..
i only got into enstars in late 2020, so i love knowing the history of when i wasn't there!!! i just like these kind of "fandom" history in general lmao loved the video!!!!
Thank you so much for this video! As someone who started playing last year, this was so interesting to watch! Honestly I’m so happy I started playing only in the !! Era, because I would not bear THIS MUCH waiting. It’s insane!
Im so glad I found ensemble stars by accident. 3 years ago I was going through channels on our family tv, and I just so happen to have stumbled upon a channel called "animax" and ensemble stars was airing so I stayed for a while because I liked the character designs. I thought they looked cool so I looked them up on my phone and found out they have a game then forgot about it. Fast forward to 3 months ago, I suddenly remembered enstars music exists, I downloaded it and really enjoyed it. I also listen to their songs a lot when me and my family go on a trip. Now I am so attached to ensemble stars and I cant live without it.
Thanks for this trip down memory lane! I remember being super busy during the collection event periods that I ended up only just got the 5 star of Mika. Then once the update to !! happened, I remember how I would just login to the game every day to check if the game was updated. When it finally did update, I was so happy that all of my cards were still there, but not before having a mini panic attack. But yeah, I'm super glad that Enstars is still alive and kicking, when so many of my other favorite games from like 6-7 years ago are gone, almost gone, or just not popular overseas. Seeing the amount of growth that this game has undergone and how many new fans are still getting into it makes me so happy. I hope to continue to see this game thrive since it has been my comfort game for years
One other interesting thing about Enstars was that ,for April Fools of 2019, they did a collab with the series Uta no Prince-Sama called "Dream Star Live" Where Trickstar and fine appeared both in their own game (Ensemble Stars!) and also Shining Live with the groups STARISH and QUARTET NIGHT. The relevance of this is that fine's leader and the Leader for a group called HEAVENS in UtaPri both share the same Seiyuu (Hikaru Midorikawa) but that one was a bit odd because ,at this time, HEAVENS didn't appear in the mobile game so that one was a bit awkward BUT Trickstar had Hokuto (Maeno) and Makoto (Morikubo) who were also in the UtaPri series as Camus (which is why Hokke making a "Brrr" joke actually made me chuckle) and then Reiji and Makoto were the same. This was...2019 and I think someone has a video up from the Shining Live half of this which featured characters from both games. The story parts were also put on another website for people to watch and I still believe that the prank was popular enough with the English audience that it is why in 2022 we got the English version of EnStars. I know this wasn't neccessarily relevant to the timeline but its something that I thought might help to fill in a gap in case anyone didn't know this
DAMN THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION WOWIE NIKI AND NACCHAN maybe they interacted in backstage um eerrmrmrmmm i often really often think about what interactions they would have cause i love them both A . A. LOT. !! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 and to KNOW that the two universes utapri and enstars did canonically interact UUUEEEMMMRLHHHHHAH HELP okay thank you for this information........................:....................).
I remember seeing content from Ensemble Stars in the internet in 2015, while looking for anime male character designs... I stumbled upon Tetora and Koga's designs at random and decided to dig deeper to find more images of them, just to find so many other characters from the series... I saw it was an idol game, but I didn't really bother at all, just ignored it and got over it. I never saw any other images or content of EnStars again at all. THEN, in 2022, a kid convinced me to play Project Sekai and I was upset cuz there were so few boys in it... AND THEN IT CLICKED IN MY MIND. I'm not even KIDDING. SEVEN YEARS LATER, A SINAPSIS JUST FLASHED INSIDE MY MIND and made me REMEMBE ENSTARS ALL THE WAY BACK FROM 2015 and I looked for it no AppStore , thinking it was an OLD GAME from 2015, just to get in during Music's half-anniversary. Now I'm literally a Tetora producer forever. The world really does go round.
10:26 Okay but this is so emotional for me weeeeee I knew of Enstars because Mafu wrote a song for Undead but didn't really have the chance to play the game. My first event was Crazy:B's first event too-- and I remember being enthralled by the 3DMVs back then lol. Didn't know all of this happened--- they were really confident and that paid off huh....
dude this is great educating as someone who got into enstars right when JP !! released (surreal time in itself) and getting all my info from the english wiki nice video! love hearing enstars fandom talk :D
I remember two things: Getting the Hiyori card to 5*s and the two times I had a birthday before and after the big update. I hadn't started playing until after the regular events stopped, so most of my experience was clicking through the stories that had completely opened since the conversion rate for !! would be worse than !.
i love looking back and hearing about the times when alkakurei just came out :') as someone who only got into enstars at the very end of 2022, its so interesting. And i feel especially relevant now that we've gotten new characters now!! Hearing that people were thinking that alkakurei didnt feel like they lookblike enstars characters is wild, but i get what they mean lol i feel like thats currently happening right now with the release of 4piece. thank you for the video!! i enjoy finding out enstars lore!
While I consider myself a very huge AdamP at this point and have many things to show for it, I've actually only been around since a few months after the Eng ver of !! released so I'm only baby. I always love learning about what the game was like way before I got into it, so this info is cool to learn ^^
this was such a good recap i remember these days and the unicole events really felt eternal lmao also remember how freaking betrayed i felt that it was snow globe and then mika was the first feature card on !! like yeah it was months after but still the last and first meaningful scouts had valkyrie…. targeted fr 😭 also when the miwakugeki mv dropped i was on the queue to get breakfast at a hotel bc i was on a school trip i had to choke back tears there lmao BUT I FEEL YOU
omg i miss this era.. i think genshin kept me busy at the time when enstars is dying/j but when !! era came, i was reallyyy so back but now idk what happened, i wish i could get back into enstars again, i miss ! era😆 thanks for reminding me of nostalgic days
ohh now I understand why when I relog my basic acc on 2022 it's already on rank 5 (or 3? idk) even tho last time I play it around 2019 (before !!-era released). It's still the same acc
I HATE UNIT COLLECTION EVENTS idc what i was doing back in the days but for some reason i couldnt get my favs to a 5* cards and today they doomed to be with uncomleted old card album, this anime baka 5* cards the only one that i miss. going insane actually
omg i forgot about this period of time at all🥹 i feel like i maxed my favs unicolle cards and basically dropped the game waiting for the update to come-- but i remember how stupidly i started a revival event too late and realised that there were like only 5 days left for me to get anything lmao😭 felt so lost in basic with my fav in !! being rank1 while my !fav being rank50+ like did you just forget everything we went through ueueue who's thattt💔💔💔💔
"we never actually see these characters perform outside of the anime" sorry for the nitpick but weren't the stageplays and 3dcg dream lives a thing since 2016 and 2017 respectively? got into enstars in 2021 via the stageplays so im biased towards them lol. i found it interesting how the music mvs had the same choreo from the dream lives that were released years before them (and lost my shit when the judge of knights dream live choreo was updated for !! era in 2022) great video i was entertained the entire time :D
wait that’s true!! ive never watched them myself so the irl lives completely slipped my mind, thanks for the correction!
I only fell into Enstars hell with the release of Engstars, so this is all new to me and it's crazy how perfectly timed the release was with the start of covid! I can only assume that it worked out crazy well for Happiele to have their new game launch right as everyone has literally nothing to do but stay inside and look at their phones
yeah ikr they got it out juuust in time, and if they delayed it any longer the game might’ve got stuck in development hell
10:19 i'm not an old player but i always thinking about this like, the old time the center songs mvs was just like, classic stage with some decorations, like Niki's center.. they just add a flags there and decorating the stage😭 and they started making new stage for center songs like little romance even thought it feels kinda bland cz theres no other things like tree in the outside but its good. But look now, they make a city for Rinne's center
same goes for trickstar, now they can make a whole yumenosaki just for one mv..
Just in time to study for my masters thesis in ensemble stars 💪💪💪
i only got into enstars in late 2020, so i love knowing the history of when i wasn't there!!! i just like these kind of "fandom" history in general lmao loved the video!!!!
Thank you so much for this video! As someone who started playing last year, this was so interesting to watch! Honestly I’m so happy I started playing only in the !! Era, because I would not bear THIS MUCH waiting. It’s insane!
Im so glad I found ensemble stars by accident.
3 years ago I was going through channels on our family tv, and I just so happen to have stumbled upon a channel called "animax" and ensemble stars was airing so I stayed for a while because I liked the character designs. I thought they looked cool so I looked them up on my phone and found out they have a game then forgot about it.
Fast forward to 3 months ago, I suddenly remembered enstars music exists, I downloaded it and really enjoyed it. I also listen to their songs a lot when me and my family go on a trip.
Now I am so attached to ensemble stars and I cant live without it.
Thanks for this trip down memory lane! I remember being super busy during the collection event periods that I ended up only just got the 5 star of Mika. Then once the update to !! happened, I remember how I would just login to the game every day to check if the game was updated. When it finally did update, I was so happy that all of my cards were still there, but not before having a mini panic attack. But yeah, I'm super glad that Enstars is still alive and kicking, when so many of my other favorite games from like 6-7 years ago are gone, almost gone, or just not popular overseas. Seeing the amount of growth that this game has undergone and how many new fans are still getting into it makes me so happy. I hope to continue to see this game thrive since it has been my comfort game for years
great, now we wait for !! anime announcement and wait for another whole 5 year until the anime released
One other interesting thing about Enstars was that ,for April Fools of 2019, they did a collab with the series Uta no Prince-Sama called "Dream Star Live" Where Trickstar and fine appeared both in their own game (Ensemble Stars!) and also Shining Live with the groups STARISH and QUARTET NIGHT. The relevance of this is that fine's leader and the Leader for a group called HEAVENS in UtaPri both share the same Seiyuu (Hikaru Midorikawa) but that one was a bit odd because ,at this time, HEAVENS didn't appear in the mobile game so that one was a bit awkward
BUT
Trickstar had Hokuto (Maeno) and Makoto (Morikubo) who were also in the UtaPri series as Camus (which is why Hokke making a "Brrr" joke actually made me chuckle) and then Reiji and Makoto were the same.
This was...2019 and I think someone has a video up from the Shining Live half of this which featured characters from both games. The story parts were also put on another website for people to watch and I still believe that the prank was popular enough with the English audience that it is why in 2022 we got the English version of EnStars.
I know this wasn't neccessarily relevant to the timeline but its something that I thought might help to fill in a gap in case anyone didn't know this
DAMN THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION WOWIE NIKI AND NACCHAN maybe they interacted in backstage um eerrmrmrmmm i often really often think about what interactions they would have cause i love them both A . A. LOT. !! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 and to KNOW that the two universes utapri and enstars did canonically interact UUUEEEMMMRLHHHHHAH HELP okay thank you for this information........................:....................).
I’m so glad I started last year because I would have lost my mind during that drought period💀
great video i feel so educated now
oomf😢
I remember seeing content from Ensemble Stars in the internet in 2015, while looking for anime male character designs...
I stumbled upon Tetora and Koga's designs at random and decided to dig deeper to find more images of them, just to find so many other characters from the series...
I saw it was an idol game, but I didn't really bother at all, just ignored it and got over it. I never saw any other images or content of EnStars again at all.
THEN, in 2022, a kid convinced me to play Project Sekai and I was upset cuz there were so few boys in it... AND THEN IT CLICKED IN MY MIND.
I'm not even KIDDING. SEVEN YEARS LATER, A SINAPSIS JUST FLASHED INSIDE MY MIND and made me REMEMBE ENSTARS ALL THE WAY BACK FROM 2015 and I looked for it no AppStore , thinking it was an OLD GAME from 2015, just to get in during Music's half-anniversary.
Now I'm literally a Tetora producer forever. The world really does go round.
This makes me wish I was a veteran player, enstars rlly holds me captive now
10:26 Okay but this is so emotional for me weeeeee
I knew of Enstars because Mafu wrote a song for Undead but didn't really have the chance to play the game. My first event was Crazy:B's first event too-- and I remember being enthralled by the 3DMVs back then lol. Didn't know all of this happened--- they were really confident and that paid off huh....
dude this is great educating as someone who got into enstars right when JP !! released (surreal time in itself) and getting all my info from the english wiki
nice video! love hearing enstars fandom talk :D
i got into Enstars in November of 2019 so this was quite the fun video to listen to and it made me feel a little nostalgic
my sister had played it since engstars came out and introduced me to it in the end of 2022 so wow.. now i know what it was like before !! era
I remember two things: Getting the Hiyori card to 5*s and the two times I had a birthday before and after the big update. I hadn't started playing until after the regular events stopped, so most of my experience was clicking through the stories that had completely opened since the conversion rate for !! would be worse than !.
i love looking back and hearing about the times when alkakurei just came out :') as someone who only got into enstars at the very end of 2022, its so interesting. And i feel especially relevant now that we've gotten new characters now!! Hearing that people were thinking that alkakurei didnt feel like they lookblike enstars characters is wild, but i get what they mean lol i feel like thats currently happening right now with the release of 4piece.
thank you for the video!! i enjoy finding out enstars lore!
yeah! some of the reactions to 4piece are similar hahah
While I consider myself a very huge AdamP at this point and have many things to show for it, I've actually only been around since a few months after the Eng ver of !! released so I'm only baby. I always love learning about what the game was like way before I got into it, so this info is cool to learn ^^
this was such a good recap i remember these days and the unicole events really felt eternal lmao also remember how freaking betrayed i felt that it was snow globe and then mika was the first feature card on !! like yeah it was months after but still the last and first meaningful scouts had valkyrie…. targeted fr 😭 also when the miwakugeki mv dropped i was on the queue to get breakfast at a hotel bc i was on a school trip i had to choke back tears there lmao BUT I FEEL YOU
LOL YEAH attacked by mika the moment the game released 🤝
9:24 The limbo period started on my 10th birthday 😭😭 I was so bored
Oh my god this brought back memories.... the unicole era almost made me quit enstars 😭
oh no hdjsj I don’t blame you though
2022 enstar player be like- woah
omg i miss this era.. i think genshin kept me busy at the time when enstars is dying/j but when !! era came, i was reallyyy so back
but now idk what happened, i wish i could get back into enstars again, i miss ! era😆 thanks for reminding me of nostalgic days
I'm obsessed with the way you pronounced mobage @6:16 tbh
OOPS LOL I do know how its supposed to be pronounced for the record hdhsj
Unit collections, Unit collections everywhere
This was very nice and interesting
ohh now I understand why when I relog my basic acc on 2022 it's already on rank 5 (or 3? idk) even tho last time I play it around 2019 (before !!-era released). It's still the same acc
I thought it's brand new acc bcs I got free unlimited initial gacha like a normal new acc lmao
I HATE UNIT COLLECTION EVENTS idc what i was doing back in the days but for some reason i couldnt get my favs to a 5* cards and today they doomed to be with uncomleted old card album, this anime baka 5* cards the only one that i miss. going insane actually
omg!! A fellow valkp
EARLY???
omg i forgot about this period of time at all🥹 i feel like i maxed my favs unicolle cards and basically dropped the game waiting for the update to come-- but i remember how stupidly i started a revival event too late and realised that there were like only 5 days left for me to get anything lmao😭
felt so lost in basic with my fav in !! being rank1 while my !fav being rank50+ like did you just forget everything we went through ueueue who's thattt💔💔💔💔
oh no rip your revival 😭😭 I did the same during unicolle, just played for my favs and waited