Shy friend · 3d
I think another anon compared MDU's promotions to kpop and I definitely see where they are coming from. I'm not familiar with a lot of modern kpop but I do know it's a big thing for agencies to promote a new group through magazine covers, billboards, etc which seems to be exactly what HEKK is doing with them (not to mention their first unit event song sounds like you asked ChatGPT to generate a very bubbly kpop song name (it's called like bubble gum pop or smth)
Also from what I've seen I think all the members are going for a specific gimmick (the Pink Thing is a social media user, Madoka is a queen but he just feels like knock-off ibara without any of Ibanyan's gap moe, and I could not tell you about Juis or the other one.) Which is not unlike enstars but they tend to have more of a cohesion to them which is lacking in MDU if that makes sense.
Esupuri are also poorly thought out but in some ways I can see their thinking (Esu is a yumenosaki knight, Fuyume is... Well they takes up 70% of the unit's image, Raika is friendly and lacked human connection for a while and I don't know a lot about Kanna but I think his robotic personality and struggles with humanising himself could work with the prince theme still if that makes sense.
Anyway the point is that MDU don't have that same vibe. They just feel like generic ukes you would find in any other mobage, they didn't embrace the dessert theme at all and even though I despise MDU I think that's a waste.
Anyway I probably got all of this wrong but I wanted to get this off my chest because everything about MDU pisses me off
?! I don't know if you got it wrong because I don't know much about MDU lol. I know Juis is a postwar dissolved zaibatsu Japanese-American princeling from what I can tell (suspicious implications there.) and Chitose is like a boyfail who dyes his hair. I'm simplifying them to the extreme. Glad to see my "The Pink Thing" designation of the pink one is sticking with some others (genuinely cannot remember his name; he is just pink to me). I kinda figured the lack of cohesion was supposed to be part of MDU's thing, like they're all supposed to be superstars who can hold a candle in their own right. But maybe that's completely wrong. Again, what does Youko know? Only that there's yaoibait between Juis and the Hoyoverse looking one. I agree, the dessert theming doesn't sit right with me. They should be wine sommeliers instead to emphasize their mature image. But in all seriousness, I don't really care that much about MDU appealing to trends or feeling artificial, I guess. Though it's arguably representative of a broader trend in the franchise, I've lost that kind of investment in Enstars. My gripe isn't with MDU so much as it is with people hopping on their bandwagon in ways that contradict previously held positions about Enstars and Happy Elements.
