#ena5 spoilers

[mimikyuno]

the way they used the 2d models in chapter 8 tho. oh they’re special. oh how much care and love they put in telling mizuki’s story……

[commic-jester]

maybe i am just a notorious pessimist when it comes to queer rep in media, but ena5 is pretty much exactly what i expected. this event is about ena’s perception of mizuki over everything. the whole point is that ena doesn’t care.

would i have liked for them to outright confirm mizuki as trans? absolutely i would, but i can also understand that they have been confirming it for the past four fucking years and you gotta be either illiterate or outright transphobic not to understand that. and as for the transphobic fans, giving them the time of day is not going to stop them. even if mizuki looked at the camera and said “i am a transgender woman”, we all know they wouldn’t have stopped. it would not have shut them up. the most we can do now is fucking ignore them and stop reposting rage bait that hurts us trans fans.

ena5 is good, at least for me. i’m happy with it. it’s not perfect, they were a little bit of a pussy about it, but it’s what i expected. i have enough faith in this game to know they’re not skirting around the truth or going back on anything.

tl;dr, ena5 is good, mizuki is trans, clpl are a little bit of a pussy, but it’s literally fine. goodnight

[demon-of-ur-dreams]

WlW winnnnn

Lesbians are really winning this year

[lifelesscomplains]

I haven't even read Ena5, but considering how it was much less hyped than Mizu5 and the only thing I've seen from it are the 4* cards, I imagined something like this happened. Honestly, disappointing :(

I'm just gonna leave this here because I feel like I should say something. Mizuki is trans, I still agree with the stuff I said a month ago. Did they say it in the story? No. Were they ever going to say it in the story? Well it seemed like I was but they just pulled the most insane 4 year queerbait.

Did people warn me? Yes, and I probably should've listened more, but from a writer's perspective what happened in Ena5 is very stupid so I had a little bit more hope for clpl. Confining any sort of actual coming out scene to a card story and fading to black over the actual reveal is honestly just cruel. Not to mention that Mizuki's bio is probably locked as "gender: ?".

Mizuki is still a trans character and trans representation, though the lack of actual confirmation really sours her story. Especially since the only indirect confirmation of her identity as a woman comes from student a talking to Ena about Mizuki (the whole Ena is a "normal girl" thing). Having Mizuki being robbed of her chance to come out by transphobes, and never resolving this so her bullies are left as the only credible source of her gender is atrocious. Mizuki being outed was a crucial plot point, to never resolve just leaves a bad taste.

It's still a glaring issue that clpl is trying to play both sides here. Which has always been an issue with things like white day and other marketing featuring Mizuki and the boys together. It's just gross that they're still trying to do it now, cutting off the actual reveal of Mizuki's secret and having the characters say "Mizuki is Mizuki", something that's often used by people who want to deny any trans reading, and a new area conversation about Mizuki's voice. Remember that old area convo about Mizuki having a lower voice. It gets referenced in a new one.

The reveal of the secret itself, transness aside, is comedically bad. Project SEKAI's writing isn't exactly amazing by any means, it's pretty basic in the grand scheme of writing, but this is worse than a lot of their other worst offenders. Building up to this big reveal of a secret that is incredibly important to one character's development, only for it not to actually be revealed, and probably never mentioned again, is ridiculous. It feels like a last minute change to ensure mass appeal but I don't know if it was. If it was, they still failed because some fans are dissatisfied that they never got told what it was, regardless of what they think it was.

And no, it's not corporate meddling. Probably. From colopale, maybe, from Sega, honestly probably not. Sega has other franchises and games with queer and specifically trans characters so it's not like Mizuki would be harmful to their brand image. If anyone interfered it was other staff at colopale.

Anyway, I'm not quitting the game and I'll still be running this blog for the time being. Not saying you have to continue playing and I totally understand people who are dropping the game over this. If anyone wants to add their thoughts to this post or send an ask freel free to.

[appledoves]

“I don’t care if Mizuki doesn’t feel like talking, I don’t want to see that expression again…

I mean, Mizuki’s my…”

[ros-sauce]

*COUGHS UP BLOOD.*

THIIIIISSSSS PART FOR THE OUTFIT PREVIEW? INSANE. YOU'RE INSANE. I'M INSANE.

Forgive me if I'm misremembering and talking out of my ass, but at the very start of this clip, isn't she saying "After all, that's my identity"? Following that up with one of the blue -> pink lighting transitions forms a full sentence... That's insane... Trasn gedner . Wow .

[theinsterminators]

the ominous tolling of bells? nuh uh. the harmonious chiming of wedding bells, babe. we're so fucking mizuback. mizuenaback, even.

[clairdeluneeeeee]

I was thinking really hard about the Kamiyama High Festival event. More specifically, about how some bits are meant to parallel Mizu5 and Ena5, and this one stuck out to me the most.

It’s interesting to note how Mizuki often comes across as reluctant about referring to the other Niigo members as her friends, and this is a constant throughout the whole event: while Rui appears as more willing to recognise WxS as his companions, Mizuki hesitates, because how can she label their relationship at all when she’s incapable of being honest with them? How can she call them her friends when there’s still this huge rift between them, when she’s being nothing but elusive and they’re being hurt by her in the process?

But then Ena shows up and puts an end to all her insecurities. Ena, who wears her heart on her sleeve and is not afraid of voicing her true feelings, tells her that nothing has ever changed between the two of them from her perspective, and Mizuki still is her most precious friend.

It doesn’t matter how much Mizuki will hurt and break down along the way, Ena will always be there to carefully pick up the pieces and fix the situation over and over again. She will forever be Mizuki’s pillar and strongest connection.

They make me a little sick.

[bloodraven55]

the queer fear of bigotry directed at you impacting your loved ones too as mizuki’s lines in villain already expressed but then ena not even hesitating for a second before pushing back against it……. such a healing and cathartic moment

[mimikyuno]

tears in my mizuena eyes

rough translation (my bad japanese + google translate lol)

mizuki: even so… is that really okay even for someone like me [to want to be friends / want to be with you]*…

ena: i told you, it’s not about whether it’s okay or not. that is something you get to decide for yourself.

ena: i’m sorry, i’m tired of running around…

mizuki: !!

ena: *falls to the ground*

mizuki: me too…

mizuki: even if it’s a bother, even if i hate it… i want to be together! i want to start feeling like it’s always okay to be together!

ena: then…

ena: let’s be together, mizuki… everyone in niigo is waiting for you.

*in the lines before this one, mizuki cries about wanting to still be with ena and niigo and be their friend, but now she won’t be able to be the kind of friend she wants to be (as she feels like a bother, for she fears they will have to walk on eggshells around her and people will talk etc.). the acting Floored me btw satohina how dare u…

[xqllin]

this might as well be a wedding set.. 🤎🩷

[drinkabletoxicdishsoap]

apparently ena5’s story already got leaked!!! and someone has already made an English translation of it. So here it is for those who want it/need it!! Please be aware that it’s a little laggy since so many people are viewing at the same time.

[selysie]

f2u ena5 stamps mwade by mwe ⊂⁠(⁠´⁠･⁠◡⁠･⁠⊂⁠ ⁠)⁠∘⁠˚⁠˳⁠° !!

dwon't claim as kyurs, credits are apprweciated ,,,,

[bronseelemylove]

PLEASE tell me I'm not the only one who sees a heart here..

[shinsei-hatsumi]

Ena5 full translation here

[nono-uwu]

Welcome back Mizuki <3

Had to get this out if my system before I explode. Ueueueueueueueueeunrwgpkjsdrhnpirjaegn i love themmmm