#happyele you suck

[andrewkun]

[Targeted.]

There's this person close to me that keeps doing something that, not only is just straight up quite rude about a certain topic, but it's more ignorant.

Bro can tell me about characters they love like some dudes from some type of dating sim with sensitive topics or portal 2 and I still remember certain elements about the said character they talked about

But if when I talk about Arashi Narukami, a Transgender character, to which I always refer with words (female, women, queen) and pronouns (she/her/herself), bro can't remember shit or even her gender??

Recently on the Engstars HappyEle translated idk what story where Tetora referred to Naru as "him" and I had this silly idea to email the company and just throw insults (HAPPYELE YOU HAD ONE JOB.) and wrote a wall of things I'd say to them in my native language.

I went to rant to this friend about it by asking "how can I send an anonymous email?" And then send the wall of what I would say. I also said that the whole fandom is enraged about it (maybe not whole since there's still some people who refer to Arashi as a man sleep with one eye open bi-) and they asked me something like "do you not see how overblown this is? Everyone in the fandom mad cuz the company that made the character called them a he/him?" YES. AND THEY ASKED "Is his gender fanon?" And quickly edited to "their" asap.

I felt rage and had to hold it to try to explain to them that it is canon. LIKE I TELL YOU "BCS SHE IS A TRANS WOMAN" AND YET YOU ASK "fanon or canon?" UGYCYCVVUYCYCVYYVVYJHCXYH

Not to mention I sent them screenshots of someone on Arashi's wiki explaining her gender over the years in ! Era and !! Era and why refering to trans women as they/them sometimes is wrong.

Not that it's just straight up rude since I've TOLD you lots of times when I talked about Arashi, but you're just straight up fcking ignorant. Sure, I don't care about your characters or your interests that much, but at least I remember things about the characters you always yap about. Do better.

[nazuna-tunnel-vision]

rest assured, even if i didnt liveblog it here, i spent about 45 mins freaking out about knights event

[neolxzr]

you do see my point though, I was saying that yes a piece of media can have a character imply they are queer, but it’s frustrating when they won’t explicitly confirm such, because of (in the case of… checks app store purchase statistics…. A multi million dollar game franchise!) the need to market to as many people as possible. Shumika will never be “canon” because some people just don’t like shumika and won’t spend money on the game if shu and mika are in a relationship, whether or not that’s because they like the ship or the characters or are genuinely homophobic or whatnot. If the writing team cared about telling a love story, they would tell a love story, not go “well maybe they’re in love, it’s up to viewer interpretation!” like this works, sometimes it adds to the meaning of the work, but enstars really doesn’t have an excuse for their constant “this character might have feelings for this other character, but we’ll never have them say it out loud!” except the fact it makes them a lot of money, since they can market to people who like a character being the way they want that character to be, whether that’s with that character being in love with another in game character or self-shipping or whatever else. Outside of shipping, this is why some characters like Shinobu haven’t changed despite wanting to change (he continuously talks about how he wants to be more mature and taken seriously but his cards continue to make him look small and cute because his fans like that about him and god forbid we change anything!) I just think enstars should not be your first thought when someone asks you about a good piece of queer media because they’re doing just about the same job as large cast games with characters of the same gender (minus Arashi) who continue to have characters go “we’ll do all these things to imply we could be in love, but we’ll never have our characters actually date! teehee!”

i can understand being frustrated about your ships not being "confirmed", but the obsession with what is "canon" and "not canon" is just straight up not a very interesting discussion to have. what happyele's or the writers' agenda is is not of particular importance to me. one of the first things they teach you in classes about media analysis is that once a work is out there, the intentions of the creator no longer matter. the only thing that matters in your analysis is your own thoughts and the way you interpret a text.

if we were having a conversation about how much the creator of something sucks, then sure, talk about that all you want, but i am specifically referring to discussions about the piece of media and these characters and their relationships and their growth and the themes of the work etc. those things are removed from whether or not the company writes the way they do because of profit motives or whatever. companies make money, that's just what to expect. if you want art that is free of profit motives, read something by an independent creator.

even so, it feels strange to place enstars into the bucket of "stuff that should be gayer but the bad company that makes it wont let it be" because the characters ARE so very openly queer. there are so many instances in it where characters pour their heart out to each other or offer themselves to another character in beautiful and poetic ways, and i think it's wrong to claim it doesn't count because they didn't confirm their relationship status at the end of it. if you ask me, there is absolutely no way to interpret enstars in a way completely free of queerness. there is so much explicitly queer text that ignoring it is just plain incorrect. but, if homophobic people like this game and choose to look the other way at all of the gay shit, again, that is not my problem.

why is canonization the only thing that matters? is a shitty BL with awful writing better and more worthwhile than enstars as a queer narrative because the characters had explicit gay sex on screen? are poorly written gay characters in the background of other media with nothing going on more worth talking about than shumika or wataei or rinniki or whoever else just because they say the words 'i'm gay' out loud?

queerness is so much more than all of that. it is so much more than labels and it is so much more than relationships that are easy to understand. it is so much more than the extremely narrow view of it that the internet has concocted about it over the last few years, where you’re only allowed to talk about queerness if you yourself are openly queer and out of the closet, and even then you’re only allowed to make art that makes for ��good representation.” that is just so incredibly limiting. i would rather tons of companies who are trying to profit off fujoshis make vaguely gay media with unconfirmed romances and relationships that aren't easily defined by labels than have less queer art in the world.

more queer art means more queer people who will find something to really connect to. more queer art means telling more queer stories. why should who is allowed to write lgbtq media be limited? why should the kind of media people are allowed to make be limited?

its fine to criticize happyelements if youre unsatisfied with the way they do things, im not always 100% in love with everything they do either. i wouldn't even consider enstars to be the worlds' best example of a queer piece of media. but no one is forcing you to like or engage with it or give the company money if you're unhappy with how they write and market their game. they don't owe anyone explicit confirmation that any of their characters are dating, and it doesn't even matter if they do provide that confirmation or not.

regardless of who made it or for what reason, queer stories are worth talking about, "canon" or not.

[natsmagi]

ABT THE SWITCH CLIMAX STORY THING. I AGREE WITH U SO MUCH i need more tsumugi and sora interaction please !??! Like it feels like they barely have anything going on sometimes, like they do have interactions but idk its like !? The fact that theyre a trio and yet their relationship feels underdeveloped makes me sad bc. I love both sora and mugi sm!??! Idk if im making sense like i know they do interact and what is there I enjoy (like idk i think its funny how they kinda take turns taking care of each other, tsumugi being his usual mommy self and sora being very like ... "ok senpai lets get u to bed" sometimes LITERALLY) BUT LIKE. idk its not enough especially compared to their respective dynamics with natsume like... yeah. Im not saying their relationship is bad just that it lacks depth and I just wish we could see more of it, more of them bonding without needing natsume so they can truly feel like a trio where everyone gets along and not like a triangle yknow. SORRY FOR RANTING ITS JUST I LOVE READING UR TAKES AND SEEING WHAT U SAID ABOUT SORA AND MUGI MADE ME REACT anyway ur art is awesome ily !!!!

YEAAAAA i love sora and tsumugis dynamic SOOOOO MUCHHHHHH i love how silly they can get yet also be so tender..... such as tsumugi trying to meet sora at his level when there is a conflict, such as him attempting to join him in playing with the plushies mugi had made to more easily converse with him (although it didnt work out too well bc tsumugi kinda sucked at it AKJHSDFJKH) LIKE!! THEY HAVE SUCH A GOOD AND FUN DYNAMIC!!! i just wish it was utilized more and had a bit more depth to it!!

like with natsume and tsumugi theres. well. Theres alot. you got them meeting in childhood, the war, theyve truly been through thick and thin together and that weight carries into how they interact

with natsume and sora they too met in childhood, aswell as natsume being very protective over sora due to his own internal struggles and sora deeply looking up to natsume (and tsumugi ofc! but natsume is his shisho!) which also carries into how they interact

tsumugi and sora dont really have this ?? at least not to the same extent. so i guess in contrast their dynamic ends up feeling shallow. that aswell as shipbait sells and people dont exactly ship those two very often so it tends to take a backseat in favor of natsume pairs JDKHSJKFH I JUST. GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO BOND OVER!!! PROPERLY!!!!!!! since they DONT have the same foundation with each other as they do natsume that makes this a prime opportunity to BUILD ONE!! theres SO much potential for those two but it just never gets utilized properly....... so many missed opportunities............... happyele dont fuck this up for me

[beast-of-mosss]

mmmmadara?

*SLAMS SELF INTO WALL*

So sorry, I kept writing up my reply in my head and then forgetting to answer. It's been a while so I may of forgetting most of the questions^^

First impressions:

When I first heard of our dear Mama, I was amused. Here is my boyfriend, @eviltranskanata, explaining enstar characters to me and then he brought up a guy calling himself "Mama". I was instinctly hooked. He was chaotic and I always love characters like Mama. A mystery, but oh so silly. I just found him interesting.

Impressions now:

I still find him just as interesting and I just have no idea how he managed to worm his way into my heart. I still find him interesting and just generally a complex character. I still need to read his stories. If you're in a enstars discord server with me (looks at Checkmate cafe), you'll know some of my thoughts on him. He's complex, an asshole, and just please Happyele let him heal please! Give him to me!

Story idea?:

I actually was planning on writing a Watamada scene for this (hence why it took me so long to answer), but my motivation sucks ass. Had a thought of them being in their dorm room....making...out.... That's it. A break down of their masks, giggling and being just...people. sparkle sparkle. Or something like a first date or just...something nice and warm. Maybe a little angst but my heart can't handle too much angst when it comes to...well, Mama.

Fandom?:

This is where I admit I forgot the rest of the questions (I'm so bad at remembering things and I can't find the post again TwT). I actually don't really know how the fandom interprets him, I kinda only engage in a small portion of the fandom here on tumblr. And I end up blocking a lot of KohakuxMadara blogs/ships because....dude....DUDE! Otherwise from that, not..much. I know Madara isn't really popular in general (as I heard), and I don't know if I should count that as a blessing or as a curse. Because on one end: People overlook just how complex he is and how much of a hot mess he is(and more). But on the other end: people would end up simplifying him, just like they did with other characters, to fulfill a ship. Talking of ships, I do have my favourite trio of ships (Madarei, WataMama, and Madaleo), but I feel like who he is right now(as in his character atm)...wouldn't exactly be possible due to how many barriers he has up. This is of course my view of him, and remember that I kinda...just only read Meteor Impact. Reading Enstar stories, in its current format, is kinda hard for me to do. Mostly the time aspect of it really stops me, I wish there was an audio format for it.

So sorry for forgetting the rest of the questions, but honestly! Feel free to send me more characters, I would love to tell you guys my thoughts.

[ryusei-blue]

Rant in tags so be warned of that

[codes]

thank you for being a fellow izumi and izuleo fan i can’t say i love either without being sent to the pear wiggler in my server bc happyele burned down all translations of “why izumi isn’t /that/ insane over makoto and why he loves leo the most” :/

the what in your server. you should mute them all and establish urself as the king, its ur server and u can do whatever u want like make a channel dedicated to posting picture of amoeba izumi (<- i approve)

the burning of alexandria sucks bc now we have interpretations of characters through 1. word of mouth 2. enstars memes 3. !! era stories. these all lowered the average media literacy lvl to below the earths core.

i am definitely on ur side even if i dont have much context for this ask. theyre doing a lot better now, izumi can still be a lil weirdo but its definitely not as bad as it used to be. most importantly, makoto trusts him more now and isnt prone to running away which i think is an extremely positive thing in his own character development and in their dynamic!!

and dont get me wrong early interactions btw the two were ungodly terrible, izumis actions were comically evil and akira was so clearly gunning for a certain dynamic btw the two that were still feeling the negative effects of, but it rlly annoys me like no other when ppl disregard leos importance in their dynamic bc while it is a dependency born from a combination from early relationships w him and his parents, it was leos disappearance that further strengthened that need for control and fueled izumi mistaken idea that he can "protect" makoto like he failed w leo. this is part of why izuleo bodies the competition. the rest is that they have synced menstrual cycles.

and this is not counting that recent story where akira decided "fuck this character development" and justified every izumi action by saying he was jet lagged and tired... but anyways. i do hate when ppl view izmk as a funny lil joke, it pisses me off bc izumi is still learning to recognize makoto as a person instead of an object that he can be possessive over.... im sorry i made this my ranting place. you should make roles in ur server labeled "you receive a gummy worm" and "you do not".

[lanshappycorner]

Since you are in your enstars Era I wanted to ask if it's worth getting into the en version due to all the issues I've heard it has (most lately being it literally scamming people!?) Since all the translations got taken to who knows where after Happyele (may they die swiftly) copyright??? Striked??? The wiki???

Kira !! Hello✨ ur giving me whiplash by saying I'm in my enstars era bc on god I rly am huh,

Hmmm as someone who's never played enstars before the EN version and had No knowledge of any of the lore or how anything worked beforehand, I would say that it's worth getting into

Idk abt the scamming, I heard that some players couldn't get their stuff after buying it but personally I have been able to purchase things just fine? I think it's a pretty average mistake in the system and they're not like...trying to actually scam or anything. As for the translations on the wiki being taken down, I think it rly sucked that they did that, but recently Mahoyaku bombed their EN fantranslation wiki too, so I'm just gonna assume that might be a standard thing with these companies 💀

The quality of the translations and the game itself isnt bad tbh I feel like the constant shit talk abt the game is similar to TWST where people just didnt want an EN version and cherry picked every mistake/shitty instance in game to make the game seem worse than it actually is

[sizhui]

Happyeles writing of jet and mademoiselle sucks only because it makes you think your alters will be this cool badass guy or a doll who acts like your best friends mom and instead my alter is a failgirl who doesn't like to talk or do anything

[fstive]

mika + OH YEAH, YOU GONNA CRY? by lovejoy. w male reader

first person

sex, arashi cheats on mika w Reader, Arashi has top surgery confirmed because im happyele , kinda toxic reader, (Frenemies to lovers au coming soon??) , allusions to shumika , tell me if i missed anything..

[ my first ever smut fic ]

BUT I QUITE LIKE YER GIRLFRIEND

" ahn!~ ah-k! Fuh.. Fuck! " arashi moaned as i thrusted into her harshly and slapped her ass, " ah~.. Feels good, Hmn?... " I asked arashi , before she could answer me her phone started ring. she looked at me as if she wanted me to stop while she took the call, but i urged her to answer while i kept going, So she did. " hey ara!!~ Whaddya doin right now?. " I gave one particularly hard thrust and she let out a whimper, " i- .. hmn! m' good mi- haah! mimi... But... ah! - " my voice interupted arashi, Saying " Sorry mikaa.. but arashis busy doin sumnthin for ya- hmn! Anh~.. B-bye bye Mika " mika finally got the hint, now he knew you've always wanted to fuck his girlfriend.

HOW THE FUCK SHE END UP W YOU?

I toyed with her boob and stroked her slowly, i heard a car door slam and got the hint mika was back. mika would love the sight of a fucked out arashi,, " ahh... no more yn.. i can-t! ah! i- im gonna.. haah! ngh, Plea-aase!.. m-mikas gonna be~ back soon! " he was watching anyways, " He's watching , so no need to whine " as soon as i said that arashi came all over my hand and herself , all mika could do was watch in shock as his hands shook " Ya like this dont cha, prick. " mika asked me quietly , all we could hear was arashis panicked moans. I went down to kiss arashi while still looking mika in the eyes . " she tastes so good too.. What if we let you join. your choice, mika " i said. Arashi looked away in shame as i continued To thrust slowly. " Cmon mimi~ you're such a whore anyways.. you shouldnt care! You even fucked Shu"

Y'KNOW WE TALK ABOUT THE STUFF WE DO TO YOU TOO.

i was pushing him over the edge on purpose just to see him break , just a little. " mika , your Girlfriends moaning like a little slut n' yer not gonna do anythin' about it?" he wasnt and i knew for a fact. mika finally came in the room and closed the door , walking over to me and slapping me in the face. " Yer' such a dick sometimes , ynie. " he finally broke. I reached my goal , finally. I sat up with arashi on my lap and Called out mikas name, " mimi, come n suck " .

cliff hanger.. anyways this is the start of my enstars masterlist.. , very bad written smut its so confusing omfg i hate this

[nnatsume]

Grinding sucks, gonna break in at HappyEle's office to politely ask when they are going to drop Subaru shuffle event. Jk.

I grinded for like 30 minutes or so, probably more, and then stopped, I am at 700 dia.

-🌠

take me with you cause i want to know about the mugi shuffle. i'll pack my pitchfork then we can go❤

700 DIAS IS GOOD THOUGH !!!! if you get the 100 whistles, that might even get you through an event if you're smart with spending.. hmhm

[turinn]

HiMERU has such good cards so it pains me even more that I probably won't get him with the 300 dias I have like that's impossible svdbdbd

And oh god I feel you on the whole favorites back-to-back thingy, it sucks so much!! I'm glad you at least managed to get Keito home quickly but it's very rude of Aira to decline your invitation to come home smh 😔

It honestly feels like happyele just loves to somehow give all of us our favorites back to back. I remember my first tour event I participated in being the ancient legend one at literally had both of my favorite characters ( Mika and Kohaku) as the five stars so that was a very rough thing to start my enstars story with sbsbs Also can we talk about how mean they were to run that event during kohaku's birthday so I couldn't afford to play regular songs on his birthday because I had to put every BP I had into the tours? Because it was *very* mean of them and I haven't forgiven them yet 😤

And then soon after they pulled that knights event on us with a Ritsu 5 star and hell once again began sbssdb

We gotta start making hate posts about our faves so happyele won't put them into the gacha anymore sjsh

Oh my god that's so painful! My first tour (and my first event, actually) was Night Club which was the second tour ever and they changed a lot about how tours worked for it and I remember everyone was so confused KSJFK but I can't imagine how painful having to pick between them for your first tour event must have been 😭 And that's so evil wth... I didn't play that event bc of it being double face but GOD. cruelty

And then euthanasia so soon after 😭 whyd they do you like that!! Happyele are addicted to being evil I think

GOOD IDEA @ happyele my favourite enstars character is uhhhh bingus <3 Mayoi WHO I have NEVER heard of him. What the hell is an alkaloid? is that a fruit?

[stargazer-balladeer]

HiHi enstarrie here. you liked some of my posts so I came and saw your rant.

Yes, you pretty much get it. this community has being going through a lot since engstars release, the fame it's getting but the lack of information it's spreading are things that we're not very happy about,,

You see, enstars is a game that heavily relies on reading. so imagine how we feel when the new players are coming here and doing everything but that. I accept it, we've been very sour towards the newbies because of their lack of information (I'm vv sorry) though Tumblr is pretty chill overall? there are other places like TikTok that are hosting misinformation sprees and it's very painfully and raging to watch. TwT

If you read the original story, you'll notice that Akira (one of the main writers) makes a lot of references to classic literature and plays. quotes poetry and other similar things !! Akira is a well cultured person, and his writing is part of the spark that brings joy to all the enst stories.

So imagine when the eng translation gets released. a tl not even made by english natives neither proofread by anyone. a tl that doesn't get all those references I spoke about. a tl that had to be purposely censored to avoid conflict (though I agree. there's bigotry and other problematic topics in a lot of stories) because western audiences are not good at handling them.

Happyele (the company who manages the game) is extremely strict with copyright. that's why you won't find a single leak about the game. why you won't easily find translations publicly (tls are actually illegal. that's why the wiki got nuked approximately a year ago) and that's why fan tls are a miracle. fans do get their references. fans make their investigations and their proofread with the most amazing quality, they're literally the miracle of this community.

Also, you pretty much got it !! "entering our community so violently" yes !! most of us feel that way. please don't get us wrong, I've seen some new players complain that we're being "rude" because of our silly gatekeeping; however, even if we're not receiving them with open arms and the biggest smile, we haven't harassed neither attacked anyone (actually we've been trying to help with guides and things).

As you said, this community has always been very small, so all of us know each other and all of us are in the same page (?) obviously since the game is getting more popular, more people are entering this place and I guess that makes us feel unsafe, since not everyone agrees on the same things once communities start growing.

I apologize for this ramble in your ask. with this I really don't want to discourage you to enter this franchise. actually most of us have been making guides on how to read stories and similar !! overall I just want to thank you. you're the first eng player I've seen that empathized with our situation 0(-(

I hope you have a nice day !! feel free to come to any of our blogs to inform yourself further if you feel like it.

Wah- well whoever you are behind that anon, i think you have an amazing writing 🫶 HSHHSHS PLS I’ve probbly already read most of the fics existed here in tumblr for enstars 🥲🥲

Anyway, I understand that ya’ll aren’t that welcoming ehehe its really scary qwq i’ve always hated when communities starts to grow, which means at some point, there’ll be uhm ✨ toxicity ✨ (*discreetly looks at one certain fandom*) it doesnt make it better when enstars is LITERALLY ON ADS QWQ everywhere i look there’ll be an enstars ad pls- but im still salty that they haven’t released from where im from >:(

And we all agree that eng translation can suck 😒😒 twst is another example of that smh

Thank you for the information 🫶🫶 i really appreciate it! Also thank you for taking the time to write this and for the guides ehehe (the sorry ramble part) its finee dont worry about it

I HOPE YOU HAVE A NICE DAY TOO !

[lilikags]

LILI LILI LOOK I FOUND THE ENGLISH VERSION ANDJSJJD

OK OK I HAVE. A LOT OF THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THIS GAME

friend me

2. the reason why im so high leveled when u look at me and why i already have event point title is because im a beta player so i got special privs </3 i thought they would reset my acc but i guess not

3. the translations suck so ass that you should just read fan tls instead cuz you'll get the wrong idea about some of them :skull: (famous examples of who got done dirty: 2wink, kanata)

4. overall im happy you're getting into it but also ! please remember to read and not judge characters because happyelements is the biggest clown ever and they only ever include the second era so theres a lot of missing backstory and character development

5. im not an expert but i can always try to guide you to stories! also @/lisxdumbr is like the smart person in terms of stories (specialty: 2wink) so ya

6. have fun !! and also feel free to ramble because i ramble here too i hope this wasn't too long i wrote this right as i wake up lololololol

[fictionkinfessionsarchived]

depression sucks but at least makoto yuuki exists. @happyele let me date my boyfriend you cowards. if he doesnt have a 3 star in the wedding event im yelling. me big gay (i cant do emojis rn but imagine this is signed with the two swords crossed emoji like i usually do)

[ *uncurls paw carefully* here u go! ⚔️ ]