I've been on full Nanasis mode since the eos announcement so might as well write something here too. I've been playing for 11 years so it does hurt to see it go, even though the players have been speaking about eos for a solid decade, it wasn't the same after Motegi left and the last year has been especially concerning.
Some reminiscing under cut:
I think the first time I heard of the game was on tumblr actually, I thought the girls looked super cute and wanted to try the game but it might've been for ios only back then, or I just couldn't figure out how to get japanese apps. In spring 2015 I was watching the first episode of Show by Rock where the main character was playing the rhythm game app, which I then went to seek out. After getting the game to work, I remembered 'that something 7 sisters' game that looked cute and was happy to find out I could now play that one too. Next thing I found out was that the game had fantastic songs that were right up my alley (with all due respect to sif who is the mother of all idol taptap games, nanasis music blew it out of the water), even before the most infamous bangers like SEVENTH HAVEN too.
Sui was the girl I was interested in the most in the beginning, but I was converted to Musubism after reading her story chapter. And the rest is history. She's my kamioshi of 11 years.
The game really never became very well known in the west, which was sad because there wasn't much discussion or fanworks, but on the other hand it was kinda nice to have this kind of 'secret' game. I did try to shill it on my main blog by making gifs of the MVs and later the movie, but it didn't really take off. However I have met several treasured mutuals through Nanasis and always had wonderful time chatting about it with them, so maybe you call it quality over quantity.
Nanasis was already plenty special to me before, but then came the 4.0 story where Motegi went just full movie director with the writing and execution, and the result is the best idol story I've exprienced yet. Some might call it melodramatic, but I think it's just right, idol stories are about evoking big feelings after all. The following episodes were just as great and I'm forever grateful that Motegi got to tell the story he wanted to tell to the finish, which can't be taken for granted with neither gacha games and idol media, I think. Made a post about what kind of impact the story has had on me, which I'll just paste here because I'm lazy:
Now post-Motegi Nanasis has obviously not been the same, and it has had its rough moments, but I've tried to keep an open mind with it, and I do think the 2053 story is interesting and fun in its own right. And as a patriot I have to stan our Finnish rep Alina Laisto, never thought I'd see the day when my favorite idol game adds a girl from my country! However, as the eos news came I felt like I had already done half of the mourning process back when Motegi left, and I don't think it's a coincidence that most players seem to reminiscence songs, stories and characters that were from his era.
So what now? I'll be playing until the last day, and hope that Donuts will be able to deliver on the offline version of the app so I can still go check on Musubi on my home screen, and go reread the stories. If not, then I hope there will be at least some sort of official story archive, because the story deserves to not to be forgotten. But I have faith in the passion of my fellow shihainin and their archiving skills, in case that won't work out.
I don't write stuff like this often so I'm gonna finish it off very awkwardly. Thank you Nanasis, thank you Motegi, thank you Musubi, you had a good run.
Anyways, go read some peak: