Because of course it does, it's fuckin Eden, their music is always so fucking good!!!!! So I knew it was gonna be awesome and I couldn't wait and YET IT'S EVEN BETTER THAN EXPECTED!!!!

IBARA IS THE CENTER FOR IT AND HE'S BRINGING ALL THE WEIRD HORNINESS AND I LOVE HIM FOR THAT!!!!!

I'm so pumped!!!!!!!!!!!

Also the 5* & 4* cards look sick as hell ;D


it's Adam time babeeeeyyyyy~~~~
Hiyori and Jun are the 3* cards, which I'm sure the HiyoriPs are gonna riot over because he's sooooooo overdue for an event 5* weh weh weh. Meanwhile Ibara was the most overdue Eden member for a 5* in general, so even though he kinda jumped the line in getting an event, I'm delighted. Also it's not as bad as Keito jumping the event order so much he now has three AKATSUKI center events while the rest of them have one!!!!

Anyway.

The MV is also just so fucking good it's so delightfully Eden!!! And it's great for me, someone who loves Melting Rouge Soul, that we're having Ibara's insane energy so soon after the engstars run of that event!!!!!!! :D

Watch on YouTube

I know I don't usually embed videos, but this song is so fun so I'm making an exception ;D
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :D

omg also announced yesterday: NEXT MERGE EVENT IN GLOBAL ENSTARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HIMERGE MANSIONS RETURNS!!!!!!!!!!!!! This time Tetora is gonna be the merge game reward, which is like...fine? He's not my favorite and I think HiMERU had a more "me" coded design in his little wizard outfit last year, but I am still delighted to have the merge game return.

.......unfortunately engstars is behind because we had a mini event thing, so Adonis's spotlight time is only starting this week - it ended a couple weeks ago in CN/KR - but that's okay!!!! That's why I play in CN too ;D

Also I don't feel like cutting apart the preview images for the merge stuff because they're all these LONG NARROW VERTICAL IMAGES because they're meant to look good on mobile I think? idk. I don't wanna do it, I already made an icon specifically for this entry XD But the SCR of Tetora's outfit is far superior to the regular, so it's a good thing I'm gonna merge my mansions hard enough to max him out. I'm still regretting not maxing HiMERU tbh.

uhhhhh also we went to Walmart last night and got a bunch of stuff and I frolicked and bemoaned them not being 24 hours anymore, because tbh that was their only real redeeming factor. Still! It was good to get out of the house~

OH AND ANOTHER THING!!! I got my stinky bastard man in CN yesterday :D


lookit him and his stupid fucking cute fucking face I hate him ♥
Now to wait approx 1.5 years for him to hit the ENG server......sobs. Up next for him in engstars is...Last Mission........RIP DOUBLE FACE ILU ;w;

FRIDAAAAAAAAY!!!! The day started with us booking it to registration so I could grab my badge before heading to the room for our panel- Anime Before Anime: Animation in Pre-WW2 Japan. Even though we got there 10 minutes early, there was already a huge line waiting to get in OwO This is the second time we've run it at katsu, and both times now it's gotten a really good reception :D

This year, I recorded Liz and Pat presenting it, so we now have a solid recording- or at least I hope so XD I haven't had a chance to review the footage yet, because you know, con weekend~

OH RIGHT. I didn't end up styling Ibara's wig on Thursday night, so I went in casual clothes + a fun wig so it'd be easier to get around and shop and such. Which was nice! It's always very cramped, especially artist's alley, so being more mobile made it slightly easier.

...only slightly, though, because it's still fucking Katsucon XD

We managed to hit artist alley before the infamous(?) "sewage" explosion!!! A pipe burst on Friday afternoon/evening and dumped gross dish water from the kitchens into artist alley, right on top of someone's booth D: I feel so bad for who it affected ;w; I really hope they're able to get some sort of compensation or something, since that fucking sucks!

Anyway...I usually try to do a full round of artist alley + dealers room before buying anything, but I couldn't resist the allure of Yu-Gi-Oh!


also the artist very kindly gave me badge ribbons for buying so much stuff XD I was just so fucking excited to see anyone selling ygo fanmerch *w*
And then the hell gauntlet: Dealers Room. It's soooooo big and katsu is so hit or miss for dealers, so it ends up being a lot of walking around to find a few gems. But that's cons babeeyyyyyy!!!! Honestly, one of the best parts wasn't even shopping: it was catching up with Tasty Peach! I've been buying their adorable plushies for so long, I've gotten to watch them go from a tiny booth in artist alley to a large presence in dealers room to seeing their stuff for sale in Hot Topic and other physical stores, which is so awesome. Apparently, they have stuff in fucking Epcot now!!!!!! I got to see pictures and it was just so wholesome to see how far they've come ;w;

BUUUUUUUT we only got about halfway through dealers room before we had to bitch out because we were exhausted. I ended up sitting in the lobby for awhile, watching the world go by, while Liz and Pat got our stuff out of our locker. Right before they got back, I saw a Kohaku cosplayer in the Spring Night outfit and let me tell you, the way I practically flew out of my seat to go say hi...

Since we had cosplay to finish - me and my wig styling adventures lmao - we went back to our hotel to get to work!!! If I never touch glue again.....

Also, we had snacks in our room, so we didn't have to pay out the ass for a meal in National Harbor XD

However!!! Some local-ish friends that Liz and I first met at Otakon were also staying in Alexandria, just in a different hotel, so we went over to hang out with them :D Liz was still in Nagisa at that point + they cosplay Hiyori and Jun, which meant that after gossiping for like two hours, I took a bunch of pictures of them. I'm looking forward to going through all the raws of those shots once I feel a little better~

By the time we got back to our hotel room, Pat was getting ready to get a Lyft back to the con for the raaaaaave~~~ Because I was still having a rough time with pain + wig styling to work on, Liz and I stayed behind and just kinda chilled while making glue wefts for Madara. It was sooooooooooo time consuming ;w; They look damn good, but I thought my fingers would be covered in UHU + PVA glue forever D:

After all the wefts for his braids were glued on, I realized two very important things:

1. the glue was gonna take awhile to dry before I could safely tug on the hair enough to braid it
2. we hadn't eaten any "real" food since the continental breakfast at around 9 am, and it was now after midnight

So, it was off to the 24 hour diner!!! There was one across the street from our hotel, which was very convenient after a long day. It's a local chain and we actually went to one of them after Anime USA back in October, and I remembered it being pretty damn good- and I was right! idk, maybe it's just me, but diner food always tastes best at 3 in the morning.


the boys went everywhere with me all weekend, including the high risk situation of taking pictures of them with food ♥
I somehow thought I'd be able to get back to the wig after eating, but it was like...4:30 am at that point???? So we passed the hell out, thus ending ~day 1~ of the con!

( but I doooooo have more pictures to share from it! )

aaaaaand that's a wrap on that! I'll get to the next day soon, hopefully, since I'm technically halfway done already!!!! I wanna complete the con reports~~~~~

one of your best boys is here to cheer you on!!!!
Today is dragonofeternal's 34th birthday!!!! I was afraid I wouldn't finish this in time, but I'm getting it in just under the wire~~~

I have a lot more to say about the day and how much I love them, but we're the middle of watching Dramatica Act 1 with the group chat (the enstars discord we mod) and I don't wanna miss any more of it ♥

I was up until 5 in the fucking morning grinding out the last of the jp enstars event....and then woke up at, uh, 8:45 am. So. I'm sleep deprived but jazzed about idol boys? Which is, I think, my natural state these days XD

(Liz is working from home and I'm sitting across from them and I get to see them being so cute in their meeting it's precious)

ANYWAY. Let's do this in some sort of order...

I didn't end up going super hard in Puffy☆Bunny, probably due to me blowing all my fucking dia on Kohaku (worth it!!!!!), but I did get at least one copy of everyone. So now they can all be Easter-themed jackasses XD However, since I wasn't constantly grinding, I decided to reread the first ever enstars story I read: Black Snow (because I started playing in the middle of La Mort, and I'm still sad I didn't manage to get Ritsu).

Because it was the first thing going on when I started, I developed a fondness for basically everyone in La Mort...despite knowing next to nothing of what was going on. Now that it's been a few months and I've read...a lot.......I wanted to see if my first impressions were accurate~



KOHAKU IS A GOOD BOY WHO CARES ABOUT ALL UNITS HE'S IN, EVEN TEMPORARY

( not me screencapping a chunk of this story just to point at and say 'lookit them they're great' )

Okay, so now that all that's out of my system, I am also VERY EXCITED for Obbligato to start in engstars this weekend!!!!!!!!! It's starting in the middle of our road trip to Chicago, so I'm planning on reading it to the whole car- because everyone wants to hear an angsty anime audiobook, right? XD Liz does better character voices than me, but they also do most of the driving usually, sooooooo I'll have to do my best to capture everyone's tragic backstories OwO

I also redid my office in jp

There's still more I wanna get for it, but a lot of it is in the daily rotation category, so I have to wait :T I'm also sorely tempted to spend some of my precious memorial coins on the office outfits from fleeting spring night...
uhhhhhhhhh there was more but I've now rambled so much that I can't remember all of it :T