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I also don't have an appetite for anime or much of anything these days (well Dark Souls/Elden ring was an exception) but when I do start something I tend to follow through until I'm done. And like I said the new game story did put me in a bit of a Blue Archive mood.
Not sure I have too much more to say. The visuals were decent enough with the fights being only passable. Could have been better of course but could have also been way worse so I'm not overly complaining. Of course I didn't get to see many of my favorite girls but I do like the Abydos students and didn't mind revisiting their story. It was nice seeing them animated and this was a decent adaptation of their first arc. I would have definitely liked to see more lighthearted/fanservice moments including the bonding scenes with sensei but I guess you just have to play the game for that. Hoshino's probably the character with the most "feelz" points for me right now and at least top 5 overall. Sensei was fine but felt like he didn't really contribute too much. Even the presentation of the show was mostly focused on the girls, starting the show with them instead of Sensei's perspective. Overall I gave it an 8/10 with the entire game probably being a 9/10 if I was gonna rate it. So it could have been better but definitely a passable adaptation all things considered.

Well I watched the BA anime. It was fine as just an adaptation of the first Abydos story arc but there were lots of other things I would have liked to see including bonding events. I think they could have done a lot more with 24 episodes.
Btw nice SRT banner on your profile. Hope we get some more Fox squad in the game soon. Whenever they're complaining about being low on manpower I always think they should just let them out of prison and I'm sure they would help rescue Nonomi or whoever. Literally the strongest group of students in the game (so far) and all they want is to rebuild their academy. Surely a compromise could be reached there.

Oh I'm definitely gonna watch it. Probably gonna start later today. Just read the new in game story and that definitely put me in a Blue Archive mood. Especially for the Abydos students which I assume are gonna get 90% of the anime screentime.

Hard disagree on both Chainsaw man and Mushoku Tensei. I think both Makima and Kobeni are S tier and I added Roxy to my favorites list so you can guess how much I like her.
I decided to roll for the Midori/Momoi maid banners because I do like them and I was hoarding so many gems so figured why not. Got Midori before pity so I was able to get both from 1 round of pity. Decent result overall. Next is Fubuki swimsuit, fest banners and then Kisaki. Should have no trouble getting all 4 of those. Afterwards I'll have to see what I'm sitting at but Kikyou is a potential option.

Miku is a limited character so you physically can't get her. I meant in terms of thinking you'll get a non limited character like Atsuko for free so there's no point pulling on her banner. But then a year and a half goes by and you still don't have a single copy. So that's why I stopped thinking in those terms. If I really want a girl I'll just pull. Like right now these maids weren't limited but I pulled for them anyway. I do have Miku in case you didn't know. Pretty garbage character gameplay wise but if you're a fan of course you'll want her just to have anyway. Speaking of there is a Hatsune Miku movie coming out soon: https://myanimelist.net/anime/59419/Project_Sekai_Movie__Kowareta_Sekai_to_Utaenai_Miku

After finishing Dark Souls I started playing Elden Ring and got pretty into it. Took me 150 hours to beat the game including DLC. A lot of people are saying it's the best game ever made and I'd definitely say it's a contender. Not sure how interested you are in non anime waifus but I loved this girl from it: https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Melina
Now that I'm done with that I should probably catch up on some anime. Actually still haven't seen Blue Archive even though I've been playing the game practically since launch. And then maybe my Monogatari rewatch.

By "this decade" you mean 2020 and after? I guess there was Chainsaw man so we saw a bunch of girls from that everywhere. Mushoku Tensei was 2021 although I'm not sure how big that got in the mainstream. Frieren obviously. So there's at least a few I guess. On the gaming side it's been completely dominated by gacha games though.

I got my Kirara at 30 pulls so pretty happy with that. She's also grown on me a lot from the story. At least A tier at this point. Maybe could go even higher. I like her friendly lack of boundaries nature even though she's probably very innocent at heart. Leans to some pretty interesting interactions with sensei. And her live2D is hot af of course.
From her skills it looks like she just does a self buff and then deals sonic damage? Sounds like exactly what you're looking for if you're low on Sonic units. I got her only with my free 10 roll tickets so I'm still sitting very comfortable on gems but it's up to you what you want to prioritize for yourself.
Pretty sure 90 is the final level cap at least for the foreseeable future. When they were gradually increasing it in the past the exp bar would still fill up after reaching max level and then stay at 1 exp from lvl up. But since it was increased to 90 it juts says "lvl max" when you reach it.

I also find the Fuuka getting kidnapped joke annoying at this point but it was a very minor part of the new year event. Yes they kidnap her at the start but then she agrees to help the restaurant owner out of her own volition and the rest of the event is about that. They never actually forced her to do it. And her stories with sensei are about her being overworked so he takes her out on her day off to do all sorts of stuff like go to an amusement park. It was pretty cute imo. Actually even for her regular version scenes she goes to senseis house to cook him a meal. Nothing to do with the Gourmet research society. Other girls don't really appear in those unless there's some exception.

Well as far as Gehena clubs go at least Kirara and Erika are relatively normal all things considered so there's one more for you. There's also Iroha but her club is a mess. And school lunch club that we just discussed. Yea Juri constantly makes those monsters instead of food but she's not doing it on purpose so in theory they're above board. Maybe emergency medicine too although Sena is the only member. But yea I will say the Trinity vibes agree with me way more. Although I guess either SRT or Abydos would be my favorite at the end of the day.

Btw I played Dark souls 1 for the first time and beat the final boss yesterday. Although there's still some DLC content so I'm playing NG+ now. I know we talked about BLACKSOULS before but not sure if you've ever played the actual Dark souls games.

Nah, Genshin on Switch is a myth. Considering how big the game has become (as in file size) and its required specs, it's prolly not even possible anymore now. Maybe if Nintendo made the rumored Switch 2, it might be possible.

As for me, I've played Genshin for 2 years, got a burnout and never happened to look back at it anymore. I thought myself the burnout would be just for a while and I might play again later so I'm surprised myself I actually could cut it off completely. From that point on, I haven't touched a single Hoyoverse game because they look too similar to each other, and also demanding in file size and specs. ZZZ is the least interesting for me cuz I don't like its cyberpunk aesthetics at all.

I also tried Wuthering Waves for like, 3 hours and just dropped it fast because it's just too similar to Genshin. Currently waiting for Azur Promilia from Azur Lane devs to give one more chance at open-world gacha because I like its girls' designs. Hope it won't be another Genshin.

The KV drama did make me think things objectively and I could forgive them a little after that (at first, I was blaming the anime) but I'm also salty that they are pretending Seia, or the entire Tea Party doesn't exist. The Seia slander memes that you see whenever a new character became playable aren't helping either. (e.g. It's now Kisaki.) It's about time these 3 should have a light-hearted event or a side-story. I'm barely hanging in the game with the copium that they are saving them for something big. Without that, I would've quitted the game already.

Akemi I guess? That bulky shemale who appeared in summer Arius event. And I also know that Professor Niyaniya loli who's said to be the mastermind behind the 7 prisoners' escape. You don't need to beat around the bushes about spoilers like this because I'm still playing the game (only skipped texts) and I'm very active in one of BA Discord server so I know key info like that. The only things I don't know are details like story flow or who did what.

This point raised my eyebrows:
"Saya also had some recontextualization, the immortality potion gag she always wanted to create was the cure for Kisaki's condition all along."
Because it's a retcon of a character's gag characteristics into story, also seems forcibly so. The rest are all... how should I put it... very 'BA-like' writing so I don't mind I guess? Also, you said this event hinted a Shanhaijing volume but I think the opposite. Normally, events are just light-hearted stuff that doesn't touch much on lore except for some new character introductions but this event digs deeper into SHJ lore, which I think they're doing this because they have no intention to give SHJ a separate main story volume, at least for now. Of course I might be wrong but I'm more convinced on this when I see another new SHJ event coming, which seems sequel to this event. See SHJ will disappear from the game for a while after this new event, as always their modus operandi.

If you don't have anything to reply after this, you can tell me what other gacha games you're playing now, or which ones you're waiting. If you have none, tell me about your opinion on Hoyoverse games (Genshin, HSR, ZZZ) that are basically dominating the gacha market now. I'm kinda in a chatty mood.

Yea I got D.Hina at like 100 pulls or something then stopped rolling. Of course it's way different when you're playing catch up and there are 50 great girls you don't have while new ones are still being released. That's been my experience with FGO and it's even worse since they're way more stingy regarding currency/pity. I focused on getting a lot of the older girls first because I really liked them and then for the new ones I get them like a year after everyone else when there's a rerun.

I also have some 10 roll tickets so I probably have enough for 3 sparks already. I still want Kirara and Fubuki so I guess technically if I have to spark each of them I might be short for Kisaki. In that case I'd probably have to skip Hoshino just because of placement. Otherwise I do want her. But 6 months might also be enough to get a bunch of gems. I don't know the exact math.
You shouldn't use that mentality on non limited characters because of how many there already are. I skipped Atsuko on her first banner, it took them a year and a half to rerun her, and I didn't get a single copy in that entire time. I got 10+ Hina's and Hoshino's but that's just how it goes sometimes. So yea for me it's completely irrelevant if they're limited or not at this point. I assume if I don't pull on a girl's banner I'm never getting her.

Do you like Fuuka? She really grew on me during this exact event when it first came out but I didn't pull at the time. This time I still wasn't sure if I wanted to but considering I got her early and how nice her bond events were I'm obviously glad I did. Also seems to be decent meta wise.

Haven't played any Senren Kagura games but I do know about the series and from first impressions this girl would be my favorite: https://myanimelist.net/character/67733/Hikage
I know there's an anime too but it could be shit so not sure I'd want that to be my first introduction to the series. Haven't heard of the other 2 games. I do know about Nobeta but haven't played it.

Like yea It's so sad all the best character designs these days are from gacha games or Vtubers. I guess that's where all the money is at even if the fans get a worse experience out of it. But I'm sure there's some decent looking girl in a visual novel somewhere that I could play. Just remembered that Date a Live game I've been putting off for years now. It has this cute Kana Hanazawa girl: https://vndb.org/c14344
That could work.

As for anime I want to watch the 3rd season of Kimi ni Todoke and then rewatch Monogatari before the new season. Also still haven't seen Blue Archive anime. And I guess this Spice and Wolf remake is almost done airing too: https://myanimelist.net/anime/51122/Ookami_to_Koushinryou__Merchant_Meets_the_Wise_Wolf
Wonder if they'll immediately announce season 2 or if they'll just leave the story unfinished again.

Well that's great news. I was obviously expecting it eventually and was planning to be pretty frugal with my gems past Shiroko Terror already. I did roll for Fuuka New year and got her in some 40 pulls which was amazing. I've still got 71K gems for 3 characters plus whatever in accumulate in the next 6 months so I should be good for all of them even with the worst possible luck.
But yea after Shiroko Terror probably the character I was most hyped for. Fox squad is close but Kisaki might be better. At least than any individual member. If there was a story with all of them plus Rabbit squad I might be more hyped for that overall.

Have you been doing anything interesting recently? I've been playing this shitty SAO game for the past month and think I'm finally almost done now. After that I've got some anime to catch up on and then I kinda want to get back into visual novels so I might try to find something good and just immediately play it. I need some actual payoff instead of all these gacha games that just tease you for 5 years and then go end of service.

From meta standpoint, I doubt they'll skip an opportunity to make money by letting a NPC stay unplayable. And technically, Vol 1 still didn't end completely and many plot points left (Yume's notebook's whereabouts, Suou's identity, etc) so I won't be surprised if Yume is somehow 'revived' or a plot twist like she's actually not dead. Then Hoshino will go bonkers for the third time.

Speaking of which, there was a scene where Sensei kinda 'met' Yume in V1C3. But just like the train scene with General Student Council Prez in Vol F, it was not clear whether it's a dream/illusion/flashback/future vision or whatever. V1C3 had a lot of scenes like this.

Nope. I stopped reading events starting from that Gehenna x Hyakki tourism event (the one I told you it had translation issues if you remember) cuz when I tried reading it, its Japanese was so weird it's basically unreadable. They did fix it later but that was also around the time my love for BA started fading so I didn't give it another chance and from that point on, I haven't read a single event. I probably won't read new main story either depending on who take the center stage. I'll only read Mika-related content from now on while waiting for her alt. She's the only thread left that's still connecting me to BA. The franchise already became whatever to me. I stopped spending in-game too.

I did hear "Kisaki has cancer" or something like that from my Discord friends. You can spoil me all you want. It's your turn.

I don't want to give you false hope so take this with a grain of salt but according to datamine, Yume's character code starts with CH which means playable. (Non-playable characters' code start with NP.) So she might be playable one day although I don't know how either. But if she really did become playable, it'd be another hilarious writing backpedaling cuz the entire message of V1C3 is "dead can't be brought back to life".

Pretty much. But I'd argue the 'sudden' part because they did build up how close Hoshi and Yume were with flashbacks, and as every drama goes, they had a fight before Yume disappears next day (and found dead later) which explains Hoshino's heavy guilt and regret towards Yume. But that still doesn't give an excuse for all of those character assassination imo. It makes you ask what's even the point of earlier chapters.

Haha, yeah. I dropped JJK at episode 17 so I don't know the details but there are a lot of memes about this in BA community.

Nah, my personal rating is V3 10/10, VF 9/10 and the rest of Vols are like roughly 6/10 or 7/10 which means whatever in my book.

Vol 5 is just "Vol 3 at home" with similar story structure, but weaker and rushed cuz there were no time to connect with the new cast. Vol 3 dedicated two entire chapters to let you know Hifumi gang so when the disaster strikes, you actually feel sorry for them. In V5, you literally just knew Nagusa and the school is already burning. They should've took at least one chapter to introduce the new cast and get to know them better before shit hits the fan.

Vol 4 is actually weakest for me, especially Chap 1 because I barely remember anything other than Rabbits being edgy and like "We don't trust adults like you" but turned 180 later and became "we'll do anything Sensei says". For Chap 2, the only gripe for me was Kaya's rise and fall came too quickly that she looked like a joke, that's it. I understand what you said about FOX squad tho.

Short version: Hoshino did the exact same thing again from V1C2, which is going off alone to save the situation cuz of her savior complex "only I can do this".

Long version:
Since you've watched the anime, I guess you already knew about Yume, Hoshino's dead girlfriend senpai and late Abydos Student Council President. V1C3 focused on the 'legacy' kind of thing Yume left and how Hoshino can't let go of her death, to the point that she'll even antagonize her current kouhais.

So here's a short summary of V1C3 to see how Hoshino backpedaled all of her development from V1C2 and went back to a blank slate.

Yume was a naive little girl who got roped into buying a very dangerous weapon called "Shemata Railway Cannon" that was secretly built by Gehenna in the Abydos Desert, and found by newly introduced school "Highlander Railway Academy". So the messengers from this new school, namely "Suou", came to meet with the current Abydos cast, and asked them what they are going to do about this. Then Hoshino thought "If Yume senpai is alive, she'll definitely destroy this dangerous weapon" and despite the other girls advising her to not rush, she went alone. She even beat up Shiroko, Ayane and Serika who tried to stop her. Later they found out this weapon will blow up if it's destroyed carelessly, so Sensei and the rest of Abydos followed Hoshino to stop her. Hoshino was glazed nonstop as "strongest mystic that no one can beat her" throughout the entire chapter to the point you get sick of it so Sensei called Hina to stop Hoshino. So Hina somehow teleported to Abydos and fought Hoshi, and won. Then Hoshi went depresso mode thinking "I couldn't do what Yume-senpai wanted me to do" and turned 99% Terror but Shiroko Terror conveniently appeared and stopped her. Then Sensei used his adult card and showed Hoshi some kind of illusion where Hoshi met Yume again so Hoshi turned back normal and they came back home. The Shemata was taken care by Hina offscreen. The end.

That's the general flow of how V1C3 went but that's because I skipped too much details. In actuality, the introduction of Shemata cannon was dragged on too long with complicated political infodumps like Abydos' debt, some private funders who wanted to buy the weapon (just random mobs), Nephthys company (Nonomi's group)'s interference, Kaiser corporation also appeared for a brief period and jobbed like usual, Suou was revealed she's a spy from Nepthys, and revealed again that she's a double-spy from Kaiser, and revealed AGAIN that she's neither and she backstabbed Kaiser and tried to fight Hoshino, then disappeared. I don't even know what they wanted to do with this character. In the end, she's hinted she's related to Yume but never explained how and the chapter just ended. There were also random subplots like Nonomi kidnapped by her own group, Ayane becoming Abydos prez for like 5 minutes, etc. These are the plots I said that didn't reach anywhere.

[Stuff happening for the sake of happening]
- Hina shoehorned into the story just to create hype about Hina vs Hoshino, two characters glazed as strongest lore-wise.
- Shiroko Terror arrived to save 99%-terrorfied Hoshi because there was a mini-chroma black hole (like in Vol F) appeared in front of normal Shiroko. But why did it appear? Not explained. In Vol F, the Chroma stuff happened because Beatrice tried to summon it by sacrificing Atsuko in Vol 3. There shouldn't be any more Chroma in post-Vol F.
- Set (the 10-person raid boss in gameplay which I'm not sure it's implemented already in global or not) appearing for unknown reason and then easily defeated, without having any effect on story whatsoever.

[Retcons to Shiroko Terror's timeline]
In the earlier part of the story, there was a bombing incident on Schale by a new Gematria member that put Sensei into coma. But Sensei woke up quickly because Plana helped him. This coma incident is implied as the same one from Shiroko Terror's timeline in which Sensei never woke up again and all went to shit. In current timeline, Sensei is saved because there's an anomaly i.e. Plana. Okay, this made a lot of sense. But it's also implied that in the fucked-up timeline, Hina died fighting Hoshi because Hoshi went terror, hence the flashback of "Hina's death" scene CG from PV4. But if Sensei is in coma and never woke up again, then who the fuck called Hina to fight Hoshi? Abydos? And Shiroko Terror also said she once fought T.Hoshino and won. Wait a sec, girl. You're supposed to go terror BECAUSE all of your friends including Hoshi are dead. NOT because you turned terror first and killed them all. If you went terror first, then why did you turn terror in the first place???

And just like that, Shiroko Terror's timeline became an unexplainable mess of plot holes with this new info from V1C3. I'm still waiting how they'll unravel this.

[Copouts to buildups]
- At first, Yume's death is stated as unknown, mysterious death but later, it's just wrapped up as a mere 'dehydration' because she was lost in the desert and stayed there for too long. Almost felt like they planned something big for her death at first but changed it later.
- The reason why Yume went to the desert alone, which led to her death is still not explained. It said Yume wrote this reason in her notebook and left it in a place where only Hoshino can know. But Hoshino doesn't know any place like that. So this "where is Yume's notebook?" plot is built up layer by layer like AoT's basement reveal but it was never resolved in the end. The reason Hoshino turned 99%-terror is also because she couldn't find this notebook but Sensei said "You are the only one who knows Yume the best. So if you don't know where it is, then no one would know" and Hoshi accepted it just like that and it ended. Probably one of the worst build-ups and copouts I've seen in animanga media.

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You said "spoil me all you want" so I did and went overboard. Sorry, couldn't stop halfway. If you have stuff you didn't understand because it's too 'spoiler', I recommend to read it again after you've personally experienced the story on global.

Project KV is dead 💀

Yeah, I know pretty much everything about Project KV, and what all you said is true. Basically, Isakusan and some big names from BA left Nexon and started doing this project. Internal issues like 'why' they left BA or since when they started doing this project are all speculations and rumors so I won't talk about them but BA indeed suffered problems this year, whether they're related to Proj KV or not.

>I can see why some people would be tired with Hina as she gets a huge chunk of focus and content
Exactly this. I also liked Hina a little at first but this event is what made me starts disliking her. Not to mention the event is all about showing her superiority above other Gehenna students who are pretty much clowns at this point, especially Makoto. Even if it's Hina focus, it would be much better if it shows something like Hina fucked up and Makoto unwillingly helps her but god forbids the writers to write the bad side of Hina, as she must always be a perfect Mary Sue. In V1C3 too, Hoshino is glazed as the strongest mystic over and over, only to lose against Hina and be taken all credits, while the latter is shoehorned into the story to save the day. The 'writer bias' towards Hina is undeniable at this point.

>V1C3 is officially complete and it looks like the last portion was well received
The general opinion is indeed positive cuz it has some 'Demon Slayer' effect like animated chibi fights, anime cutscenes, emotional BGM etc but if you went elitist mode and analyze deeper like writing or story structure, it's a mess. Not sure you've read it personally but there are so many plot points scattered around that didn't reach anywhere or didn't solve anything, stuff happening for the sake of happening, retcons to Shiroko Terror's timeline and copouts to buildups, and the biggest of all, Hoshino's character assassination. Not to mention the entire chapter is dragged out with so many episodes that repeats the same stuff over and over. It's still good superficially as a gacha story but it's not good as a BA story imo.

>I haven't experienced the bad Hina fans that you're taking about but I do know that every popular character have their bad eggs
I guess. I do have some Hina-fan friends in my Discord chat group who're getting along with me just fine. Most of my salt came from Hina fans from BA subreddit, which is why I've left that platform. They have this some kind of 'Hina vs Mika' internal war going on and if you're a Hina fan, you're more or less a Mika hater there, or vice versa. So there's this weird comparison between these two characters and Hina fans can't praise her without shitting on Mika or the other way around so I got annoyed and tired of this, so I left.

>here is the PV of your are interested my favorite is the silver haired girl
Yeah, I've watched that too. Tbh, I don't dig any of the girls particularly but if I have to choose one, it'd be brown Hifumi Kohane. It's still not sure Project KV will be a gacha or not, as we don't even know what gameplay it'll have but if it's a gacha, I prolly won't play it. I'm already playing 4 gachas (BA, Priconne, Atelier Resna, Gakumas) and also waiting Azur Promilia and Heaven Burns Red so I have too much on my plate.

wdym by "recent events" and what's not necessary?