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So 2 weeks ago i was debating other events and promised anon i'd re-read his favorite event, which turned out to be -ive aLIVE. I was sure there would be nothing of value to be learned there, it was easy to see MP was a band-aid to prevent a dead month, while aLIVE had actual effort and passion put into it, and went way harder than it had to. Then i got to the line in the first pic and everything just clicked.
The protagonist of the story. It was obviously Airi there, and it was so obvious the story was about her that i didn’t think about it before. But thinking about Juri’s event, what did Juri even do? She made the monster – that makes her the instigator, nothing more. She went after it – Sena did most of the investigative work, Juri provided no contribution there. She stopped it at the end – the scene was shared with prefect team political bickering. So why pretend the event is about her?
After that epiphany the re-reading the event it just felt wrong. I’m used to some character writing or story that doesn’t make sense, but it really feels like this one fundamentally doesn’t belong in the game. It’s less about being a bad event and more that it isn’t a Blue Archive event at all. It’s not about students, what they feel or think, just about a kaiju attack and reacting to it.
I went on a re-reading spree afterwards and it was great, really reminds me why i love my students and despite avoiding translated summaries since my meltdown, what little spoilers trickled down from fanart and conversations makes me look foward to the future. I wish they’d rewrite this one event before reruning, but that’s not up to me to decide, hope you had your fun with it and keep having fun with the following events anons.