THE NEW UI IS HERE AND I HAVE....MIXED FEELINGS!!!!!! But mostly positive!!!!!!!!! Overall, I like a lot of the new aspects...which unfortunately means most of my gripes are about the function, not the form.


WELCOME TO THE NEW HOME SCREEN!!!!!! I honestly love how colorful and fun it is- it reminds me a lot of original Love Live, in a good way! I love that it's not afraid to be bright and almost tacky, especially when so many games lean towards minimalism :D
HOWEVER................I hate that a lot of the important features are now hidden behind buttons, including things I'd like to be able to see at a glance. BP (stamina), work tickets, and diamonds are now accessed by clicking the big star in the upper left that displays your rank, which looks cool but they don't belong within a menu. They're the sort of things that should be right there when you login. I also don't like that Story and Cards are no longer on the home screen- they're within the big star in the bottom right that says Produce, which is where most of the important shit is.

okay okay okay I'm not trying to write a tutorial here XD I've had a lot of reactions since it came back online approx ~24 hours ago...and now it's down for pre-event maintenance, hence why I'm rambling here.

There's also just a lot of hiding important things that shouldn't be hidden, imho. In the office item purchasing screen, it no longer tells you how many of each item you already have, unless you click on yet another button. The theme here is "plz put that back where you found it so help me" I guess :T

Seriously, the new UI is already bright and full of a bunch of fun shapes, I promise that keeping a few numbers/small images on there won't hurt. It'll just add to the organized chaos that I'm pretty sure they're going for! IT'S OKAY TO SHOW US INFO I PROMISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't wanna just be negative above the cut, so lemme say some more things I like~


the MEGA PHONE screen is honestly delightful- I think it's so fun!!!! I just wish that MV fitting room didn't take quite so many menus to get to :T

( many more images + new UI discussion under the cut, because I have a lot of feels )

OKAY. Okay. This was a lot of post, mostly about the JP enstars app, so lemme finish it off with proof that I actually left my house today: the boys at Costco~

HELL TO THE YEAHHHHH I GOT TSUMUGI!!!!!!!!! :D
It was a lot of grinding in the last 48 hours or so, but!!! I DID IT!!!! I brought him home ♥ Now I have all of Switch in Yellow - all of them Vocal-based, even! - and I have to somehow get used to his shorter hair ;w; New glasses, too...

That's basically most of what I did today and yesterday XD I finally got a good night's sleep because we got more Nyquil and it KNOCKED ME THE FUCK OUT. I slept for nearly 12 hours, but it means I've now mostly shaken off whatever made me so sick :D

Oh, right!


2-for-1 special: I got Mika today in English~


Now they can hang out in the abandoned building XD
Okay, okay, it's after 5 am and Liz is falling over themself asleep, so I have to pass out!!

Instead of making any icons, I spent today filling out a "get to know my enstars taste" template/meme I saw on bsky...because I am really bad at staying focused, okay XD Original template from HibikiMango


okay soooooooooooooooooooo let's not start with how much Double Face is on there...I'm a man who knows what he wants~ And sometimes what I want is murder boyfriends, as if that's so wrong ♥

My dream shuffle unit is one Liz and I came up with, affectionately known as "autism hours: the shuffle" because...well......look at them. It's every flavor of autism in one unit :D And Wataru & Nagisa would finally get to perform together, instead of their eternal "ships passing in the night" duo experience.

Kaname and Jun are moirails for lyfe, I don't make the rules, they're just the palest of pale and I blame Obbligato for how insane it made me about Kaname fucking Tojou. GODDAMN.

Everything else is pretty self-explanatory I think???? KEEP OUT best enstars song; I had it on repeat for so much of last year and it still brings a smile to my face every time I hear it ;w;

OH AND THAT 3* OF MIKA IS THE ONE LIZ AND I CALL "PREGNANCY TEST MIKA" BECAUSE UMMMMM LOOK AT HIM XD

we're so mature I swear

Other than that, I finally started working on the descriptions for my icons. Now that I have 300+ of them, it's pretty daunting, but I'm trying to tell myself I can just pick away at them, bit by bit, and eventually they'll be done. Like, they definitely won't ever be done if I don't start, sooooo.....

I got Mika!!!!!!!


he's so beautiful this event is so beautiful I love it ;w;
Honestly, the whole aesthetic of the event is soooooo good...I love Valkyrie *w* Also, they actually launched Mika into space, which was delightful. I wasn't sure if it was gonna be a bait and switch in the first half, but no!!!!! They really sent him to space!!! :D

And they dropped the "new" Valkyrie song in game, aka the beautiful past-Valkyrie MV that Studio Orange made for the bluray release of the anime. I figured it would be the new song added right after the event, but nooooope, we're still getting a new song this week! Valkyrie is just so spoiled XD All the riches of heaven with this unit...

Anyway! Tonight we're having a bit of an anime throwback~ Pat wanted to watch Black Butler and asked Liz if they had a physical copy (because Liz owns a lot of anime on DVDs). During the discussion, Lumos perked up and got so excited, it was so cute!!! But then we watched something random on Youtube during dinner, as we usually do, and she was so upset- she turned around, tucked her head into the corner of the couch, and refused to look at any of us.

....until we finally put on Kuroshitsuji, and then she immediately got into it.


my cat is a fujoshi ♥
Literally, she was SO PUMPED that we finally put it on, she's been happily watching it with us for hours now. She's having the time of her life!!! It's so fucking cute ;w;

I love her ♥

It's been a fun bit of nostalgia, though! I haven't watched the anime since it was airing - Pat and I were following it while I was in my freshman year of college and he was still back in Pittsburgh finishing up high school - so it's been......a very long time XD But it's definitely a delightful watch still, and honestly? I think current fandom culture could use a bit more shamelessly horny shotabait. I'd forgotten just how much it was deliciously itself.

AND GOOD FOR IT!!!!!!!

Also, never forget the time Pat & I bought an incredibly explicit Sebastian/Ciel doujin at our first Otakon...the cover was so elegant and beautiful, and since you couldn't look inside doujins at cons back in the day...we had no idea it was almost 100% pornography XD That's the first doujinshi I ever purchased, and it's such a fond, dumb memory~

Hmmmmmmm that's about it!! Back to watching anime ;D