EN5 is happening any day now. There was an 11 month gap between Myth and Council, and there was an 11 month gap between Advent and Justice. The only reason EN3 took so long was because of the Promise rebrand and the fact that ID3 had been long overdue. It has been almost 11 months since EN4 and in that span of time so much stuff has happened with the English branch. This doesn't need to be elaborated upon, it's just brought up to emphasize how important the next few weeks will be for Cover to regain goodwill with the Western audience. If they opt to do something akin to DEV_IS, it will alienate people. If they are dumb enough to debut more Stars members, it'll just cannibalize a branch that's been circling the drain. ID4 *would* make sense but the same logic applies, the pool cannot grow much larger and you don't want potential infighting. At the same time, if they pick the wrong people for EN5 or give it a more generic theme (as has been the case since arguably JP4) this will just diminish the idea that every new EN generation is an event unto itself. JP5 could have crashed and burned, but the initial controversy brought those four closer together and they're all still going as strong as ever. EN5 is in a similar situation, context suggests they have an impossible expectation to live up to – literally filling empty slots of some of the branch's biggest names – and that means they're probably even more nervous than Council were back in 2021. It's one thing to be next in line, it's another thing entirely to know that your role is to essentially replace people who have all but admitted they disagree with your soon-to-be boss. Forget the drama and rrats, this is an existential issue, because on the slim chance EN5 doesn't impress people, that may indeed have a cascading effect. Maybe not leading to more graduations, but stagnation. That's arguably worse, since right now the iron is blazing hot and hovering over that announcement. It's now or never.