History Trivia / EnsembleStars

* FollowTheLeader: Following ''[=EnStars=]''' long reigning popularity, there have been numerous games that have opted to imitate the gameplay, aesthetics and mechanics, most likely due to most of its popularity coming from the simplistic play style. Some examples include the training games ''DREAM!ing'', ''VideoGame/OnAir'' and its biggest competitor, ''VideoGame/{{A 3}}''.

* VirtualCelebrity: The characters became this with the introduction of '''DREAM LIVE''', which is a concert consisting of units from the game performing in front of a live audience via projection, similarly to Music/HatsuneMiku’s "live" concerts. So far, there have been four live tours titled ''Morning Star!'', ''Bright Star!'', ''Double Star!'', and ''Prism Star!'', respectively. A fifth tour was originally planned for 2020, but was inevitably [[https://stars-dreamlive.com/ pushed back to 2021 due to COVID-19]].
** More units are introduced to perform with every tour update and so far the only units to perform have been Trickstar, Akatsuki, UNDEAD, Knights, RYUSEITAI, Ra*bits, 2wink, Valkyrie and Switch. [=MaM=] and fine were announced to perform in 2020 (which was pushed back to 2021) for the 5th tour with a guest performance from Eden.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: WordOfGod admits to doing this in an 2020 interview, stating that ''Ensemble Stars!'' is written as though it’s an “unplanned {{Fanfiction}}”. Unfortunately, due to this method of writing the story runs into quite a bit of NegativeContinuity issues, retcons and more often the writers taking the story in a direction that doesn’t quite match up with any of the developments that came before it (usually in the form of things established in ''Ensemble Stars!'' event stories being contradicted) solely because they wanted to give the characters a new struggle, much to the consternation of readers.

* IKnewIt: Some fans guessed correctly that [[spoiler: Tsumugi is an ex-member of fine]].
** Fans who guessed that Madara [[spoiler: lied about Anzu being his ChildhoodFriend were correct, or at least partially, as there was a bit of truth to the statement with lies built around it. Though it’s not as if the story was subtle in their implication that he was lying.]]
** Many people guessed that the new unit Double Face would consist of Madara Mikejima and Kohaku Oukawa. The silhouettes very blatantly looking like the characters didn’t help much.

* TheOtherDarrin:
** Arashi Narukami's voice actor changed sometime after the game's first launch due to undisclosed reasons.
** Due to a throat injury, Tomoaki Maeno is casted as Hokuto while Yoshimasa Hosoya recovers.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://ensemble-stars.wikia.com/wiki/The_English_Ensemble_Stars_Wiki The Ensemble Stars Wiki]].

* ActorAllusion: When [[Creator/YukiOno Ogami]] is fighting with Kuro in the first episode of the anime, a "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable DORARARA]]" can be heard.

* TalkingToHimself: Whenever the two 2Wink members are in the same scene together, since they're both voiced by Creator/SomaSaito. They have very few similarities in the way they sound, which has been lamp-shaded in story. Lucky, they’re both color-coded and have name tags attached to their dialogue boxes.

* ReclusiveArtist: For most of the staff outside of the main scenario writer Akira, who actually has a twitter that he updates occasionally following event stories and the voice actors. Very little is known about the people who work on the game. The main card artists are elusive in that they go by aliases so vague that one wouldn't find results for them on search engines. The artist for the ''Ready For Stars'' manga artist is this as well, as googling whats assumed to be their pen-name will bring you to the twitter account made specifically to update readers about the manga and nothing else.

* CastingGag: The ''Ensemble Stars! On Stage'' series had the Aoi twins be played by actual twin brothers Kenta and Shouta Yamanaka.