This carrd is made to be a guide for Enstars!! Extra, a fanfiction written by nikiritsu.Ensemble Stars characters, stories, and places are owned by Happy Elements K.K. The canon characters' profiles are written by the Ensemble Stars Wiki team and linked back to the corresponding wiki page. The OC designs are made using Picrew temporarily and they will be drawn by the author one day. Basically, the author doesn't own anything other than the OC's profiles and the fanfiction. To understand the story, it isn't required but recommended to read the canon stories first to prevent getting spoilers.

Summary

Anzu is our one and only producer who works for the main units from Yumenosaki in Ensemble Square. One day, she was hospitalized and everyone panicked. The idol jobs must be carried out no matter what and they need the hand of the producer. Eichi and Ibara decided to get in touch with Anzu's guardians from London. They are well-known producers who graduated from the London branch of Yumenosaki Private Academy and will be the temporary producers of Starmaker Production and Cosmic Production. Who are they?On the other side, we get to learn more about the popular Bishoujo-senpai, who is mostly known by his stage name Kissa in public. Kissa is a male soloist who specializes in crossdressing. His producer is a shut-in that is specially assigned to him by the President of Rhythm Link. Only the President and Kissa know their name, gender, and what they look like. They also heard about Anzu's situation and for some reason, they were dragged to be the temporary producer of the units that Anzu handles in Rhythm Link. Can they do it?In season 2, a new only female idol group in Ensemble Square has born: Grace, a unit consisting of three female members. They are Yuri, Kiko, and Kanae. If you think their names are familiar, yes they are the brass band club from Ensemble Girls. Follow their journey to become an idol group!

COMING SOON

Main Story- Prologue
- Season 1.1 - Starpro (Aika arc)
- Season 1.2 - Cospro (Ari arc)
- Season 1.3 - RhyLink (Kissa + Rin arc)
- Season 2.1 - NewDi (Grace)Idol Story- Kissa (Spoiler: ⬛⬛ Kisaki)
- Yuri Natsuno
- Kiko Hayakawa
- Kanae MiyoshiProducer Story- Anzu
- Aika
- Ari Tsukinaga
- Rin Towa

Ari Tsukinaga

Ari Tsukinaga is a temporary producer recruited by Ibara for managing the units in Cosmic Production, especially Crazy:B. She is one of Anzu's self-claimed guardians and the oldest sister of Leo from Knights and Ruka from Ensemble Girls. She graduated from the producer course in the London branch of Yumenosaki Private Academy which is called Dreamscape Private Academy.

Appearance

Ari is a petite girl who has light green eyes and mid-length, orange-colored hair with a low ponytail. She's also usually seen with a briefcase which is her "weapon".Ari's outfit during autumn and winter consists of a newsboy hat, a long light grey coat, dark blue jeans jacket with grey plaid patterns at the back. During spring and summer, she wears pale blue jeans colored shorts. Her boots are brown and her socks are black.

Personality

Ari is a friendly person and very eager to be a big sister figure... for girls. She is protective of girls younger than her, especially Anzu.On the contrary, she is very harsh to boys. She agreed to be the temporary producer of Cosmic Production mainly to bully the male idols who overworked Anzu. Despite her hatred, she is a hard-working producer. She used to be an idol member of Uranian, a popular female idol group project, when she was in high school and those experiences were very helpful as a producer.

Etymology

Ari's first name (あり) is a gender-neutral name written in hiragana. There are many interpretations of the name's meaning with the most suitable one being in Greek due to her parents meeting in Greece. The name Ari means "the best" or "the bravest". It may also mean "lion" in Hebrew, which is similar to her little brother, Leo.Her last name consists of two characters, tsuki (月) means "moon" and naga (永) means "eternity" or "forever”.

Ari Tsukinaga
月永 あり

Producer
プロデューサー

"Those idol boys are stressing you, Anzu? They'll pay for it."

Profile
▰▰▰▰Age 19-20 (Ensemble Stars!!)
Graduated from Yumenosaki Private Academy (London Branch)
Height 157cm
Weight 50kg
Date of Birth June 24th (Cancer)
Handedness Ambidextrous
Blood Type O
Likes Idol merch (secretly)
Dislikes Rain, attention seeker
Favorite Food Cream soup
Family Parents, younger brother, younger sister
Hobby Food tasting, blogging
Specialty Babysitting, petsittingDebut
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Trivia

History

Early Years
Ari and Leo used to play together when they were young. Ari liked singing while Leo loved mimicking the idols on TV, which made Ruka and their parents smile. It was the happiest time in Ari's life and thus, she decided to be the person who could make more people smile the way Ruka and her parents did. She rambled a lot about the concept of what kind of an idol she wanted to be with Leo. Leo enjoyed listening to her rambles and promised he would compose songs for her when she becomes an idol in the future.Both of them were scouted by a British man who happened to see them sing on their way home from school. He recognized them as music geniuses. Their parents supported Ari and Leo's dream of becoming an idol and a composer but they were just an ordinary middle-class family, so their parents could only send her to study abroad.The British man, whose name is still unknown, sent her to an idol training project called Uranian. As a result of being separated from her family at an early age, she couldn't have a normal youth and didn't learn how to form proper relationships. While she showed how happy she was during the practices, she felt lonely most of the time. She started writing about her idol dreams in a blog as a way to kill her loneliness, but it ended up being filled mostly with food reviews.War EraAbout two years before The War era, she started studying in the idol course at the London branch of Yumenosaki Private Academy. She raised her popularity as an excellent student in a short time, mostly because she was a female idol group member under Uranian's training. Unfortunately, an accident that led her to quit being an idol happened, which was known as The Explosion. She felt lost and isolated, so she decided to take a break from school.Her depressing life began to heal when Ruka sent her a postcard of Leo and her picture. Ruka told her that Leo started studying at the Japan branch of Yumenosaki Private Academy. Leo also wrote about his world music tour and reminded her of the promise to work together in the future. She thought she would embarrass Leo so she avoided meeting him when Leo and Madara were in London for a music tour. Leo noticed there was something wrong and luckily he found one of Ari's acquaintances who told him about The Explosion. He was about to confront her, but Madara told him not to be hasty because they didn't know the details.Ari didn't get involved in The War era because she was still in London, but learning about her problem made Leo decide to "fight" as an idol during The War era, which happened in Leo's 2nd year. In the same year as The War era, Ari returned to school and transferred to the producer course as a 2nd-year student due to her failing grade in the 2nd year of the idol course, making her in the same grade as Leo. She made a fast comeback as an excellent student just like she used to be when she was a 1st-year student.Last Year (Enstars! Era)
A year after "The War", Ari came back to Japan for a short time when she heard Leo finally was going back to Japan after his world music tour. She visited Yumenosaki Private Academy in Japan and accidentally became a Ritsu stan when she saw Knights' performance. During Concerto, she finally met Leo properly and confessed to him about the time when she avoided him. She also met Madara who gave her the newsboy hat she's always wearing now. That time Eichi also saw Ari and learned about Yumenosaki's London Branch for the first time.She went to London again no longer after that to continue her study. During that time, a student conference of Yumenosaki producers from all branches of the world was held for the first time. Although Ari wasn't chosen as one of the representatives, she found her way to befriend Anzu, who was the student representative from Japan.Current Year (Enstars!! Era)
Anzu was hospitalized after completing the BIGBANG job. Ibara got Ari's contact from Anzu and made her the temporary producer for Cosmic Production, especially Crazy:B, since the unit had a bad reputation after the scandal in Enstars!! Main Story. Ari's first tasks were helping Eden's event during Conquest and getting Crazy:B a job.Next Year
It was implied that after Anzu recovered, Ari still continues to work as the producer of Cosmic Production. During the SS arc, there's a new rule that the producer (Anzu) has to be fit physically and mentally during the whole event. Thus, all of the temporary producers helped Anzu to make the event successful. Although the producers were barely mentioned, there's a hint that they were present during SS finals when Ari and Aika were debating about the red and white team.

Family

Since middle-high school, Ari has been living in London, so people usually don't know the Tsukinaga household has an older daughter. Even though she rarely meets her family, she gets along well enough with them.Her dad used to be an art curator and her mom was a tour guide. They met each other in Greece and have stayed in Japan since they got married. Even though it's not explicitly written, the children's love of art undoubtedly came from their parents. Their parents are also very supportive of wanting them to be successful in art-related dreams.Ari loves her siblings very much. See Leo and Ruka's page on the wiki for more information.

Appellations

Notes:^[1] Paisen is Japanese slang for senpai.
^[2] Since Leo was called "Ousama" (=king), Eichi sometimes calls her Joō-sama which means "queen". Same with Eichi, but Tsukasa adds "nee" which means older sister.
^[3] Kane (金) means money in Japanese, and Ari combined it with Aika's name because of her money-grubbing personality. She used this sarcastic nickname while they were in London, where people didn't understand its meaning. Sometimes Ari also called her "Kanegurui", which translates to "Money Witch" in English. After they started working in Japan, Ari stopped using these nicknames and called her by her name to maintain professionalism, but she avoided mentioning her name most of the time by only saying "that girl."
^[4] Both Hiyori and Tenki mean "weather" in Japanese.
^[5] In Japanese, Ari calls Arashi shin'ainaru (親愛なる) which means "my dearest". In the English translation, it became a wordplay to "Dearest Naru" because Naru is Arashi's nickname.

Grace

グレイス
The band-aid for your soul

The only female group debuted in Ensemble Square. Led by Yuri Natsuno, Grace was originally a brass band club from Kimisaki Private Academy. They were scouted as fine's opening band for the ChocoFest event and later debuted as an official unit.Grace is known for their powerful and beautiful harmony, so their work focuses primarily on appearing in concerts and official events as the opening band. When doing work in media, they appear on some variety shows, commercials, and act as the face of advertising campaigns. Their theme color is brink pink (#F24D77).Grace is affiliated with New Dimension. See also: their stories.

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