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ikemen series + other assorted games (NOT SPOILER FREE) - joseimuke game overload

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Links & Info

Hello, this is going to be an index of where to find my stuff. I split this up into guides/info and translations. I have made the pages displayed on my tumblr, but if you're on mobile or otherwise can't get to the pages, links are in this post for ease of navigation

Guides index - Route release guide, party event writeups

Translation index - Sorted chronologically by game, labeled with characters

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Trailer for the election starting soon on June 10

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Eien June Event Schedule

Collection & Story Events

Jun 1-9: Story event with Hideyoshi, Kenshin, Kennyo

Jun 10-23: Collection event with all characters (Kanbei main route release event)

Jun 24-30: Rerun story event with Nobunaga, Masamune, Motonari

Gachas

Jun 1-Jul 1: Card gacha with Mitsuhide, Mitsunari, Sasuke, Rikyu

Jun 3-Jul 3: Avatar gacha

Jun 17-Jul 17: Card gacha with Ieyasu, Shingen, Hisahide, Saizo

Jun 20-Jul 20: Ranmaru birthday gacha

Jun 30-Jul 30: Yukimura birthday gacha

Other

Jun 22: Ikemen Sengoku's 11th anniversary

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the difference in clavis's and mattias's portraits of jin...

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nica's such a lightweight that even though he didn't drink, he got drunk after kissing kate who was drunk

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A Summary post about Ikemen Sengoku: Eien

Official Website | Official Twitter | Official LINE

What is Ikemen Sengoku: Eien?

Ikemen Sengoku: Eien (Eternal Bonds) is a new application for Ikemen Sengoku, using updated UI and architecture to modernize it and serve as a continuation for the story of Ikemen Sengoku. Act 3 will continue in the new app, and Act 2 sequels for current characters are also being planned to be included in Eien going forward.

Why is it being made?

According to the dev team, the current Ikemen Sengoku app is showing its age. In April of 2022, the app was inaccessible for approximately one month due to server issues caused by unauthorized third party access to the game's servers which caused damage to user data. Although steps have been taken to update the systems and strengthen security, there is only so much that can be done with a program that's 10 years old. A complete revamp of the existing app will take too much resources and time. Therefore, the decision was made to create a new app using more moden practices and capability.

What are the features of Eien?

Eien is presumably going to be modeled after the Ikemen Prince and Ikemen Villains apps. A list of features is below:

Updated UI

My room/avatar customization that allows for freely placing avatar items

A bond system with fully voiced stories

A gacha system with cards and avatar gachas similar to Ikemen Prince/Villains. This also includes a beginner gacha with standard cards that you can select

There are further improvements to presentation with things like blinking sprites, among other improvements, in order to improve immersion

When will Eien be available?

Eien will be released in the fall. No conrete date is available yet. Preregistration is currently ongoing.

Will Eien have old stories?

It is planned for all routes to be ported to Eien eventually, but not all of them will be available at launch. Some will be available at launch, while others will be added over time. As of right now, there are no specifics on which routes they are or what the timeline for this is.

After all existing routes have been ported, there are plans to add an archive where assets from Ikemen Sengoku can be viewed in Eien. At the moment, it is unclear what is meant by assets.

Update July 28 - On launch, Eien will have the following routes

Nobunaga - Main, Sequel, Continuation

Masamune - Main

Kenshin - Main

Saizo - Main

Rikyu - Main

What is Act 3? What is the plot?

In Act 3, a new enemy force the Ashikaga army faction seek to travel back in the past in order to change the childhood of the warlords. You, as the protagonist, will experience conflict as you witness the pain of their childhoods with your own eyes. This is a tale of the past, present, and future, about a search for happiness that transcends time itself. Act 3 is a tale of love more dramatic than anything before, as you find yourself shaken by the appearance of new enemies that leave you questioning your values.

Act 3 will begin with Nobunaga's Continuation Route.

Continuation routes also feature route splits. One of the route splits will contain CGs of the suitor as a child.

Furthermore, after fulfilling certain conditions when finishing a Continuation Route (likely to be maximum points, just like getting epilogues currently), you can obtain a story where you marry the suitor. This story also contains a CG.

Who are the new characters?

There are 5 new characters:

Ashikaga Yoshiteru (Doll x Obssession) - CV Yamashita Daiki

Matsunaga Hisahide (Allure x Immorality) - CV Sakata Shogo

Kuroda Kanbei (Benevolent Ruler x Pet) - CV Sato Takuya

Kirigakure Saizo (Death Wish x Demon) - CV Kobayashi Chiaki

Sen no Rikyu (Psycopath x Abnormal Love) - CV Dojima Hayato

I have translated their profiles here

What will happen to the old app?

Starting from fall, the old Ikemen Sengoku app will only have reruns. By the end of December 2025, the app will stop updating entirely, with no more events running at all.

Can you transfer your data over? What will be transferred between the old app and Eien?

There is a data transfer capability but not everything can be transferred. There is a campaign going on where your total Beauty and Glamour will grant you items in the new app based on how much of each you have, and some things will transfer. At this point, we don't have any information on what will be transferred to the new app. More information will come at a later date.

What about the English version?

I don't know anything about that at this point, it's best to wait for official announcements. Please also do note that all info that I have is specific for the JP version, I do not know if it applies to the EN version.

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Miscellaneous Info

Announcement trailer

Detailed Information about the Beauty/Grace redemption

The cutoff for counting Beauty/Glamour is August 25, 10 AM JST. Based on your final recorded beauty/glamour amount at that point in time, you will receive certain in-game items when you link your account in Eien. The specific amounts are below:

Detailed timeline of old app/new app

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since it's going to be here soon

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Eien May Schedule

Events

May 1 - May 5: Story event with Masamune, Kicho, Kanbei

May 9 - May 15: Collection event with Mitsuhide, Mitsunari, Shingen, Yoshimoto, Motonari, Kanetsugu, Saizo, Rikyu

May 18 - May 24: Rerun story event with Masamune, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu, Kenshin

May 25 - May 31: Rerun collection event with Yukimura, Shingen, Kenshin, Sasuke, Yoshimoto, Kanetsugu

Gachas

May 1 - May 31: Card gacha with Nobunaga and Rikyu

May 12 - Jun 11: Card gacha with Hideyoshi, Kenshin, Motonari, Kanbei

May 21 - Jun 19: Card gacha with Masamune, Yukimura, Ranmaru, Keiji

May 28 - Jun 27: Card gacha with rerun cards for all characters

Birthdays

Nobunaga & Yoshiteru

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Ikesen 11th anniversary illustration

The anniversary is going to stick with the series anniversary of June 22, despite Eien releasing in August

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in today's unpleasant discoveries, at least some of Cybird's engineers/coders are openly posting about how they use Gen AI

Articles on CYBIRD - Qiita

Articles on CYBIRD.

There's posts explaining how they vibecoded a video analysis tool or a game jam entry, etc. Scroll down and you'll see keywords like AI, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, nano banana, etc

Note: This blog is specifically for engineers. I haven't seen any evidence whether AI is involved with any of Cybird's writing or art

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Official date is May 9th for Shingen, Yoshimoto, and Motonari's main routes (includes eternal end) to be added to Eien

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2026 Election Results

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I miss the Ikepri mouse account

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little bit of victor backstory from the baby kate event

victor had a favorite teddy bear as a kid. he would sneak into his father's study with the bear and hoped that his father would take a break from work to play with him. however his father didn't speak to him and just called for a servant to send victor back to his room :(((

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ikesen has a kindergarten au, where principal kennyo is holding a staff meeting with hideyoshi-sensei, shingen-sensei and saizo-sensei to discuss what their little demons have gotten up to

including things like toddler mitsuhide spreading false rumors to destroy the morale of the opposing team during a game between classes, rikyu collecting poisonous plants and kanbei tying them to arrows to shoot at the azuchi class, etc etc

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ikepri's april fools is a jrpg parody. there's going to be a story for every party here, presumably going vertically

so party 1 is warrior leon, knight mattias, healer sariel, and wizard clavis

party 2 is warrior rio, knight licht, healer chev, and wizard nokto

party 3 is warrior kagari, knight jin, healer azel, and wizard yves

party 4 is warrior silvio, knight luke, healer keith, and wizard gilbert

during the stories, you can choose "actions" like in a jrpg like attack, defend, magic, heal, etc and they will have slight effects on the story. these stories will be available to reread in your memories for 3 weeks or so to let you try out different combinations

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hold the phone, the series-wide april fools has maid dress alfons

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happy april fool's, it's body swap time again

will and jude, and then victor and darius