thinking about the inherrent lack of freedom in this fandom.
if you have a different interpretation from the majority, you are an odd specimen no one wants to interact with. even illiterate in severe cases.
if you criticize characters belonging to a minority, you are ableist, racist, and a transphobe.
if you squint at someone's choice to use she/her on literally Any character in the game, you are a transphobe.
if you use a specific emoji to refer to a black character, you are racist.
if you criticize a character, you are immediately assumed to be a hater of that character.
if you talk about a character non-stop, it's immediately assumed you don't care about the rest of the cast as much.
if you don't pick the she/her pronouns for the explicitely gnc character who has hobbies and preferences that are commonly liked by girls and completely disregarding any exceptions, you are a transphobe.
akira being actively prevented by both the fans and hapiele from writing the stories he wants to tell.
akira's core slowly fading away from enstars, replaced by the stereotypical idol slice of life shenanigans.
enstars is about the lack of freedom, in the entertainment business, their daily lives—all to keep face in front of their fans, to be what they want them to be, because that's what is expected of them. and that theme has now fully bled into the fandom. no one is safe anymore, absorbed in their own depiction of the franchise, without any regard towards their fellow fans.