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 In a recent interview with Happy Elements for the Game Gift monthly campaign, Happy Elements announced their plans for Ensemble Stars 2016.

 The translation may be off, and the information is tentative. What's written here may not come to action in 2016, these are just plans.

 Starting April 2016 (Ensemble Stars' initial release), the entire story will be "looped", probably not meaning that you will have another chance at getting old limited cards, but having a peek at what other units or clubs were doing during the past events.

 Every friendship, interaction and relationship between characters will be reset in the story. Through this, we may find out more about characters as we'll get insights as to what they were up to during past events.

 The sometimes mentioned two missing oddballs will be announced and (possibly?) added as new characters in the looping year, not the same as Leo's event.

 More characters are planned for release in the looping year, stories from their past and the "war" will be shown, whether this means characters recollecting it or actual playthrough stories is undeterminable.

 As for game mechanics, collaborations and merch goes, Ensemble Stars is planned to have a collaboration with Ensemble Girls, release new unit albums as the first ones sold very successfully, and planning to construct a new system for DreamFes. An Ensemble Stars anime is also mentioned being worked on, but whether it will happen or not is still tentative. 

 That's all we can determine for now, we hope the announcement on niconico on Sunday will reveal more info and confirm any of these. Translation credits go to  User:Keitohasumi, their original translation post found here. The original Game Gift post in Japanese can be found here.  