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You guys are being way too brash with the esupuri conclusions. If anything, the formation of esupuri and the upcoming akatsuki x ibuki event is the TRUE start of the new face kids. Like their spotlight is finally here. Of course they feel like ocs in a shuffle unit because they have yet to have a single event together. The 4piece tours are so clearly a promotional tactic to give exposure to these kids and get potential producers on board with investments (hence the teasing and vague lore revelations but never truly going deep enough to really understand the kids, and also the fact that the kids ended up losing anyways and all the old characters are now getting songs in a temp unit together). I understand that there is a possibility the auditions might have some relevance with the kids in their upcoming events but as it stands the older characters definitely took all the spotlight partly for promo. Having the huge popular units like practically all of knights and eden during the tours was no mistake, they so obviously want more eyes for later during the kids’ events. Also the part about the unit being heavily based on esu and yume (something I’ve seen being said a lot) is way too quick of a conclusion to make. I think it’s just easy to say that because out of all the new face kids, only esu and yume had an ENTIRE event to interact together which is why they both seem the most fleshed out especially as a duo in relation to esupuri. This isn’t a personal attack on you or whatever since you did say to wait and you clearly don’t produce these kids lol but I’ve been seeing this opinion everywhere when in reality the kids haven’t even properly debuted yet or given an event together. They haven’t even interacted except for some super short newly released idol stories, their initial card stories and homescreen lines. Their lore has potential to be extremely interesting but Happyele are clearly gatekeeping for their upcoming events coming late nov and early december. Let’s be patient lol
I covered everything you just said in my previous responses and the thing is that I fundamentally disagree with the approach they are taking.
- Akatsuki+ibuki / esupuri is the TRUE New start
What does that mean? We're approaching the year mark since newface's release, am I supposed to ignore the content we've gotten for them and how it was handled? Even before alkaloid was formed, we got a few chapters of their interaction, and in the case of Crazy:B, from the info we immediately got from their intro it was apparent that they were a group of highly individualistic people that aimed to break the norm. Good writing would mean that esupuri (not talking abt akt ibuki) would build off of the information that we've been given about these characters. At the moment, final ceremony just doesn't feel like it gave esupuri the time it needed to make those connections.
- The 4piece tours are a promotional tactic
And they aren't a well executed one, because they weren't able to split their focus very well. Some of them, like VS Gladiator, completely neglected the kid involved, and even the more balanced ones like VS Audience had interactions and characters that showed up just for the sake of it. I don't know why Nazuna and Hiiro were teamed, and their teamup felt like it wasn't going anywhere in terms of future relationships unlike wataru+Izumi/keito+ibuki. They might mention it in a future scout or something but that's it.
- The unit being based on esu and yume
Actually I said the unit was only based on yume. Esu had a completely different vibe on release. This point was also unrelated to the kids' relationships to each other and more about their individual character concept. When I started reading kanna's story, not once did I think "oh this kid is princely/his character revolves around obsession/lack of reciprocation" does that Make Sense.
- They haven't even interacted yet
Yes! That's the problem! We had months of buildup to final ceremony only for it to be shorter than a gacha story! I understand that they wanted to do a live reading, but they could have done a live reading of only the first 6 chapters and still given us At Least Twenty in-game. This is the story where Esupuri meet! Where we get to know their dynamic and what draws them together and what matters to them! WHY IS IT SO SMALL! I understand wanting to keep the intrigue but gatekeeping something as integral as the unit dynamic by limiting its debut is sooooo unbelievably annoying! Personally I think it's a poor decision. I want to love esupuri. GIVE ME SOMETHING TO LOVE!
There's no need to remind me to be patient when I ended off my reply with "we'll have to wait and see", but the promise of future content does not protect esupuri and happyele's handling of the unit's debut and writing past a certain point. I'm just looking at what we have and voicing my concerns.