(specs anon)

… in general the issue is, once again, how rare duets have become lmao. like. outburst dreamer boys and planet loop had approx. a year of distance like what the hell. emunene is probably going to go 2 years without a duet if they don't get one this year.

honestly with that in mind… could next l/n duet be ichisaki…? i really want ichishiho though… if it's raspberry monster or monochrome blue sky icsk i may forgive them (<- half joking). but yeah that's also why i kinda don't want to count those duets, even if they could be counted… i just like to see them more as early game bs, but they could easily count, too… ugh😭 so annoying. (even so, i'd argue mzen are probably next in line for n25 duets. knmf is already at 5 and doing the other 12/34 pairing for n25 would check out enough. i could see them maybe doing mzmf but ngl i think it'd probably ble mzen -> mzmf.

szai getting another duet for mmj is most ideal, too… funny how last n25 duets have all been kanade duets and things are looking the same for mmj with shizuku.

honestly i just can't fathom why they did that during wl2 at all. like. if wl2 events had comms it would be a different thing, i'd be WAY more understanding. but they didn't… at least wl3 has comms now, but even so i don't think doing a "one cover per month" thing would be a good look at all.

even so, did you know that last pjsk year's average cover per month count was actually similar to previous years? for reference:

year 1 was 4.583 covers per month (55 in total, highest out of all years… which makes sense, it was literally the year of release LMAO)

year 2 was 38 overall covers, with an average of 3.167 per month

year 3 was 37 covers, with an average of 3.0833 per month

year 4 was 40 covers, with an average of 3.333 per month

year 5 was 38 covers again, so the same average as year 2 (honestly this one surprised me but i think most months besides that summer streak were actually okay-ish in counts. they were just. badly distributed for some reason. we also got 4 covers on september 2025 and septembers tend to have the lowest amount of songs announced? and we did have march 2025 with 6 covers so yeah. it really was just them badly spacing covers i think.

with what we have of year 6, though… we're at 20 songs divided by seven months (october, november, december, january, february, march & april), so an average of 2.857… it's close to 3 ig, but it's also like. noticeably lower than all the other averages.

honestly one of the things i noticed about this year was the noticeable lack of off-campaign covers. we had cat food during 4th anni's broadcast + henceforth and outburst during 2025's new years broadcast and many of the previous years had similar situations too. yet 5th anni and 2026 ny's didn't have those at all for some reason? kind of wild tbh

i honestly do hope they announce minimum three covers next month, but i'm with you that at this point two seems to be the least i should expect, unfortunately💀

jk. everyone gets a cover (except l/n for balancing purposes) affirm💜

jokes aside, i wonder how different the counts would be if i counted all vs only and instrumental songs, though. maybe counts would be more even within all years? but even so like. i think covers are kinda one of the things people expect the most of out a gacha rhythm game franchise like pjsk so it's just. puzzling to me. lol. lmao, even. 😭