A thread about all things Heaven Burns Red!
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Previous thread >>4403549

It's time for another Heaven Burns Thread, where we can't keep up with EN's release schedule as usual.

The EN server had a huge update, finally releasing the completely irrelevant AB collab, adding random features from the current JP build and burning through events and content at a rapid pace as usual. Both Yanagi's event Niina's event have come and gone, providing EN players with some fan favorite minor pairings like YanaShiki and Niinasami!
Next is Hisame's event.

JP meanwhile has released its newest Unison: WakkiBungo. Which is debatable far less yuri than the prior ones, but it's still a popular ship.
Maria's event was emotional and strengthened the already established IreMari ship even further.
Tenne's event was great and heavily focused on the game's yuri ships. It finally feels like management is confident in its yuri roots again!

How I long for an AU like this.

>>4423700 (OP)
I'm still shocked at how well the writers turned me around on IreMari. I used to find their interactions mostly annoying. But they have developed such a genuine core that it really grew on me. There was a glimpse of that depth in Sharo's event, but then Niina's event flanderized them HARD. So when Irene's event and Maria's event came out and completed each other like a puzzle that really made my heart swell.

Played Yotsuha's new memory episode. Been a while since I felt the power of the sister harem. Yottsun always acts like she is the least obssessed, but she is downright soul bound to Ichiko's thighs.
Just that simple "daisuki" melts hearts...

PS: I genuinely expected the episode to end with a pan to Ichigo trying to aloofly tell Sumomo to rest her head on her lap. Missed opportunity!

>>4423706
I’m hoping we get an event for these two before we get to 5.3. Maybe as a 3.5th anniversary event, I really wanna see how their dynamic is after everything that happened in 5.2

>>4424096
I am certain we will get a Karen related Interlude before 5.3, but whether it will focus on KareTsuka in general, I dunno.
I'm also very excited to see how they changed. Karerin has to be more assertive and unhinged now, because she is trying to embrace Karen-chan traits. And Tsukasa... I'm pretty sure she will be awakened more often than she was pre-5.2. But now that Karen-chan is gone, a major factor changed. No more awakened jumping in to counter Karen-chan shouting and no more afraid Dumbkasa.

This really is a major status quo change in general. I can't imagine how they will do SiL concerts in the story chapters now, unless Maeda will unilaterally remove the screamo.

Sumomo/Jasmine art in 2025? Miraculous!

Is this a Jojo reference?! .... I actually want to die for doing that.

EN renamed Skullfeather to Skullplume... just why? You can't even say it's to sound less Engrish at this point. Is there some goddamn rule to rename bosses or something?

>>4424744
Nowhere near as bad as renaming Rotary Mole to Medusa when there is another enemy named Medusa.

>>4424748
Also they called Rotary Mole "Charybdis" in Yuina's event, so they couldn't even be consistent about it...
But the point isn't that this is the worst, just that I don't see the point for any of these changes. They don't need to do legally distinct names ffs.

>play the Muua and Ichiko events
>think the Ohshimas can't be any more precious
>play the Niina event
I was very wrong.

>>4425437
Ohshima events are always great.

https://x.com/heavenburnsred/status/1927681258601025536
>no mention of a normal event
Oh, so these snap events actually take the place of the normal one for this month's slot. I hope that results in an earlier story chapter release or something. Otherwise, it doesn't look good.

>>4426009
Yeah we already established that after the last stream. I guess we will have to see how this affects progress in the long run. I certainly think monthly events were a huge drain on ressources. Although a good one.

>>4426009
>white suit character
I've seen a lot of people saying it will be Aoi because they can't really give her another normal event, but giving her a snap event like the memory stories would be an easy loophole.

>>4426126
>Aoi
Not again... Admiral wasn't that long ago. Meanwhile Yanagi hasn't gotten an SS in nearly 2 years. I'm also way more interested in seeing Yanagi's full outfit.

>>4426033
To be honest, I've been getting sick of the typical event formula where no development is allowed to happen anymore. I dunno why. We got Adel Mari from it, Yunyun Sharo, Hisame Inori and whatnot. Plenty of older events were allowed to actually do stuff. But this hasn't been going for a while now. It's just some past + drama sob story that gets boring considering it feels like it's always the same.

Meanwhile the main story progresses so slowly, people don't even bother playing it, as nothing much happens anyways other than another year of wait till the next little part stretched to full length.

Trying something else is a good idea. A very good idea. But it can't be the only thing.

>>4426009
It's more like they are running out of idea for actual events since they originally planned the game for 5 years thinking the main story would be complete by then, but now it's very not much the case (in the best case it will end in year 8) so they have to find new ways to fill the gap in-between.

>>4426183
>It's more like they are running out of idea for actual events
You're so fucking retarded, it's insane.

>>4426204
And yet I'm right

>>4426268
If you think a group of Key writers wouldn't be able to come up with a few event stories for each character, you're mentally disabled.

>>4426282
Not what I said though.
I said that they're running out of planned content aka characters backstory to explore since more than 3/4 already got theirs.
Snap events exist to space out actual events because non-backstory events don't really need to be long.

>>4426177
>no development is allowed to happen anymore
You are still full of shit every time you lie about this. It's infuriating how many times you were corrected and you still lie.
>it's always the same
No seriously, shit the fuck up I'm tired of you making shit up to satisfy your personal biases.
>the main stoty is so slow people dont play it!
You are once again making shit uip. This is a gacha game! Gacha have the worst story completion rates out of any game genre and that's saying something because most games have a below 10% completion rate in general. People who finish stories are RARE. You are an idiot who thinks your ignorance equals reality.

I despise your idiotic empty claims of nothing happening in the story. You are just so damn stupid you can barely string together a cohedrent argument for this in the first place. Every single story chapter majorly advances characters, the macro goal of the war and the mysteries. It's like you are not playing it at all or something and intentionally lying about it. It gets on my nerves.

>>4426361
Maybe that anon for some reason skipped everything. We had one of those in these threads, might be that one

>>4426369
I remember. Some idiot who just skipped through any events that weren't about girls he thought were hot like some kind of waifufag retard. Or that one guy who skipped through the entire story chapters and then was confused about the context of everything and just claimed it made no sense.
Why are these mouthbreathers always plaguing fandoms of well written stories instead of some vapid nonsense like Nikke?

Hot diggity damn, the changes to SS2 Tama and Swimsuit Tsukasa's ults made my fire 31-A team into monsters.

>>4426372
Reading is hard for some people. Still, I for one wish there were yuri vapid T&A nonsense games.

>>4426373
>I for one wish there were yuri vapid T&A nonsense games
That is literally just male gaze/male-self-insert into lesbian relationshops garbage. Every single time lesbians are just treated like a fetish for guys to jerk off to it's the worst. Games like that have no value.

>>4426387
because no real women would feel desire

>>4426389
This is the deflection of horny dudes everywhere. You would look at two women on top of each other presenting their pussies to the audience and looking at the reader and say "this is totally yuri!" like a common retard, wouldn't you?
It doesn't matter if a couple of lesbian would find it hot too, this shit is aimed at straight men. Self-insert garbage does NOT belong into yuri in general. It is never about (You) the irrelevant fucker in front of the screen. Yuri is about relationships between girls. The fact that you freaks want to self-insert into it is anathema to the entire idea of yuri.

It's Yanagi+Chiroru banner. Snap event is about Yuki because ???

>>4426449
>Yanagi
Called it.
>Snap for Yukki... why?
Because Yukki gets fairly little focus most of the time actually.

>>4426449
Yanagi is the second Admiral.

People who are Admirals
>a girl with a strong shield
>a servant

People who aren't Admirals
>the actual ship captain

>>4426460
Tama was a mere captain. We cannot allow her to inflate her ego.

>>4426452
They really don't give a fuck anymore.

>>4426465
Long gone are the times where ults were simple. Now they're a dictionary of buffs, debuffs and monumental damage on top of it.

Yanagi

Chiroru

>>4426477
The white suit styles were the best idea they ever had. Fucking sick.

>>4426478
This is way more in line with her image than the random as hell SS2. This is good.

>>4426477
Whoever came up with the white suits idea needs a raise and a promotion.

>>4426391
there's a different between self insert bait and outfits that just show a lot of skin. I'm advocating for the second only

>>4426528
And why do you? Because you are a horny dude who wants to jerk off to women. You don't care about yuri. There would be no difference between some hetshit slutfest or a yuri game. You just want to be titilated and lesbians happen to be a fetish of yours.
This garbage is bad no matter where it happens, het or yuri, but it's especially egregious here, because you expect hetshitters to have no standards. Yuri should not be as pathetic as that.

And don't use your goddamn "women like sexual stuff too" strawman. Tasteful sexuality and horny fanservice are not even close to similar things. Why do you think most yuri porn isn't retardedly over the top garbage?

>>4426532
Sigh. Anon, I don't want to ruin your crusade, but can you click on the catalog button, scroll through it and realize where we currently are? A thread like ours are the guests there, not the other way around.

>>4426533
Typical tourist. Your understanding of /u/ is just so damn shallow. Image dump threads are the actual tourist threads. The of actual people who post there is extremely low. It's just a couple of retards who spam images for tourists. It's literal filler. The only threads that actually make up the core of /u/ are discussion threads. You know, those threads that have anons posting all the time and which aren't up for months or years at a time?

This incredibly bad misreading of the board is just another of your many misinterpretations of the yuri community. Shameful.

>>4426537
The general discussion thread is just as horny and filled with lewds, you delusional clown. One day, you and danbooru bot will be the only posters left in this thread because only a bot can tolerate your constant speging sessions.

>>4426539
The general discussion thread is a trash dump, but it is way more varied than that you dolt.

Also this has nothing to do with this thread? I've been telling off retards like you in every thread where you appear.

>>4426477
wow... my jaw dropped... beautiful

>>4426477
This, Misarin’s white suit and Shiki SS2 are styles I’d get solely for the drip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfvyUqvvzI4
Stream is starting.

>>4426553
Yukki's Snap Event is like a mini choice based RPG? That's kinda neat.

New normal event is on 6/27, so no unison for sure there.

>>4426566
Bringing trannies up out of nowhere is a surefire indicator of a crossboarder.

>>4426553
Everything about that Yanagi reveal was so good. But what the heck does the tree in her ult have to do with anything? lol

Why is this admiral in a forest? Why did they call this class in such a dumb way?

>>4426569
>But what the heck does the tree in her ult have to do with anything? lol
Most likely a reused animation from something else. Maybe from whatever style she was supposed to have before they went for these suits.

>>4426553
The styles are so OP now that they show off the skills against Hard Mode bosses. Wow.

I think the next unison is Tama, this Yanagi kills whatever last bits of relevance her suit had.

>>4426578
I would prefer a lot of other unisons over MeguTama, but it's still better than WakkiBungo.

>>4426570
Because the forest has trees. What are trees made of? Wood. Wood floats in water. What are other things that float in water? Ducks. If Miko weighs more than a duck she's not a witch. I am a genius.

>>4426567
That's extremely rich coming from you, considering your usual antics.

>>4426577
Honestly, Bungo + friends is much more OP than this Yanagi could ever hope to be.
Her damage ceiling is high, but she slows the game down, which isn't needed because you don't need more damage.

HBR did a good job at making the game graduate from "skipping turns via auto attacks because you need more SP/OD", and Yanagi leads you right back there. Not worth it, in my opinion. Even if every single SA high score show off will feature her from now on, the team will play much worse than if you just play without her.

>>4426703
>Not worth it, in my opinion
Nonsense. The drip alone is worth the pulls.

>>4426722
Correct. Only fools pull for gameplay reasons.

It's funny how they had to make a style with 180% damage boost passive, 100% damage boost LB 3 passive, and AOE 5 turns mind's eye to maybe discourage players from using admiral Aoi when her 3rd ani costume style eventually releases.

>>4426703
It's hard to say if she's good or not when we have SP generators like Yotsuha. Debuffers definitely suffer the most with this Yanagi - until they release double stack or actually competent perma debuffers. Though if I have to be honest, SA has been a joke ever since we got tier 0 buffers and you can use pretty much anyone with enough investment. In terms of modes, this Yanagi is
>SA
Fine, but SAs are trivialized by now. We only really need modern AOE dps styles, but AOE SAs are a once a blue moon thing anyway
>Arts
Terrible, but arts battle only cares about having a really good stat manipulator at this point like unison Yuki, but preferably better
>High Difficulty
Pretty bad if you want to want to fight them honestly because the SP increase hurts stalling a lot. Probably good if you want to cheese them with how many steroids she gives, but the SP increase makes it iffy
>Wave
This is the mode that she probably has the most potential in. Ever since they tweaked the formula to favor high damage each wave over min turning waves, having a big steroid over multiple turns is quite strong. I think it more than makes up for the SP increase. But at the end of the day, trying to climb the ladder in wave is meaningless unless you want to whale out for LB 3 and 4 passives. And there's still the absurd rng of trying to find 5 non run-ruining red cards in a row.

I would say Matsuoka is the more applicable style on this rate-up with her being the first good elec buffer and all, but 15 SP is kinda a lot and she can't self charge herself for her 0 SP heal

>>4426732
My mistake the Matsuoka can charge herself with her passive. You can open with her generalized ex skill to generate OD then become a heal bot + def bot until the killing turn. That's probably good enough to slot into most elec teams

L-lewd

The greatest wingwoman in the lolitaverse!

wtf is that ending. Guess this is another 3rd ani Yuina deal

>>4426930
The yuribot returns?!

>>4426930
you have to read chapter 5.1 first...

>>4426936
Did they seriously put 5.1 spoilers into this Snap thing that clearly has no chapter restrictions...?

I just noticed Yanagi wears a ring on her ring finger! Who did she marry? Kanata or Shiki?

>>4426971
200IQ move if the wedding style next month is Shiki.

>>4426973
>200IQ move
It would flop like fucking crazy. Like genuinely one of the lowest selling banners ever level.

>>4426975
No it wouldn't. There is literally no difference between Christmas Shiki or wedding Shiki in terms of selling. That banner wasn't the lowest ever, so neither would this be. Sounds to me like you are that retardesd troll who got deleted several times, back for more. Don't try too hard.

>>4426976
You are the most insufferable person I have ever encountered on this website. I'm not whoever you were thinking about while typing this, but I think I will stop posting in this thread just so I don't see your retarded posts ever again.

>>4426977
>instinctively shitposts about any yuri thing failing despite ample evidence to the contrary
>on /u/
>gets obviously countered
>"waaaah you are mean to meeee! I hate youuu!!"
And nothing of value was lost.

>>4426973
>Shiki in a wedding dress
On one hand, it doesn't really fit her character. She's a "prince". If anything, it'd be a wedding suit, but it's too close to the white suit styles.
On the other hand, her harem would go ballistic.

>>4427056
I do think the gap effect with her wearing a wedding dress (while Yanagi wears a white suit hint hint) would be kind of good. But it might seem like they're trying to appeal too much to the standard.

>>4426971
Kanata forever

>>4427060
That makes sense too. Yanagi is the head of the Maruyama family by force, but may as well marry into it properly. Too bad Kanata can never grow up.

Speaking of YanaShiki, I completely forgot about this moment in Tenne's event. It was so good!
Shiki choosing to protect Yanagi over saving Kanata is a real strong moment. Of course it was irrational to try and save Kanata when they were all poisoned, but the weakness Yanagi showed in this moment clearly affected Shiki intensely and she didn't budge on her decision to drag her away from the battlefield.

This is what I like about YanaShiki. Because they pairing is a bit more mature, their moments tend to be more subdued and in the background, but they always feel heavier than the high-school level crushes some of the other pairings display.

>MC is looking for the reason of her mother death.
>Last scene is her using her superpower in order to talk to her one last time.
BRAVO MAEDA

>>4427114
There's a Steven Spielberg movie about that.
Also, Kayamori mom doesn't look much like Ruka.
Also, spoilers.

>>4427114
>her superpower
How dare you claim Megumin's superpowers for Ruka? She only has 200 other ones left up her sleeve!

>>4427116
Ruka has her mother's eyes and beauty. Her hair color comes from her dad.
And spoilers? We are at 5.2 in these threads. Keep up.

>>4427118
>We are at 5.2 in these threads. Keep up
Won't somebody please think of the EOP Global players?

>>4427121
I'm thinking of them and how they should be trying harder. Translation software has carried several anons to catch-up.

>>4427116
Left pic is from Maeda's first VN.
The song that plays at the end is also a reference to the only song Maeda made for it.

>>4427248
Irene top is about as realistic as Muua becoming a sadist.

Finished the Snap event. This was a lot of fun. Reminds me of the old days of Key VNs where they would have a lot of random stuff in there that would completely go off the rails the more weird choices you made.

So basically you should try to do every option at least twice to get all the dialogue. I think you can technically ace the entire Adventure in one try, but then you would miss a lot of fun stuff! And some choices needed to win are really out there anyway.

I love how there are several variations/reactions of Yukki in a swimsuit or her uniform for encounters even though it makes no difference for outcomes.
One of the best gags only happens if you go through a sequence THREE times. When Yukki gets affection points from Ruka for liking the food she added to the game and then rewards her with a boss song she sings personally... but if you die and have to redo that section Yukki's reaction to the food isnt genuine enough and Ruka denies her affection points, which bums Yukki out. So if you do a third run, Yukki will imitate her original reaction and celebrate when Ruka sings for her again. Absolutely glorious.

The ending was... confusing because it doesnt make sense that Yukki would have had that dream.
So in my opinion that's the original Yukki who actually went into a exhaustion coma from doing missions for Orchid. Full diving into cyberspace turned other members into vegetables linked to their computer, so basically the same thing almost happened to Yukki. But thanks to Ruka's music she was pulled out of her coma and woke up. For some reason it caused this unrelated 31A adventure game dream to happen, which is just something you have to roll with I guess. I think that was quite sweet actually... Ruka is her savior in all ways.

Because of this I do think it's best to play this after 5.1, but it might not be entirely necessary. KareTsuka dynamic and Megumi personality change at the very least requires 4.2.

>>4427321
Having "ojou-chan" Megumin swoon over ikemen Yukki was not something I knew I needed... MeguYukki is still alive? That entire section felt like straight out of a yuri 18+ doujin. Why is awakaned Tsukasa so perfect for the sadistic top in such a book?
I love how she turned back to dumbkasa the moment she was about to get zapped. A!Tsukasa can't allow herself to look weak even in a fictional story.

>>4423700 (OP)
So alongside adding a new "Snap Events Conditions" section to the Content guide, I also overhauled some of the formatting to be hopefully better. I wish I knew how to do a second table of contents that doesn't overlap with the contents of the first one...

I'm not even surprised that Megumi pulls the power of psychic virtual reality outta her ass

>>4427373
Honestly, it's a lower-level power compared to what the spiritual dive was originally supposed to be. So it's not very surprising. As always, I'm more interested in the applications Maeda will never touch on. For example, can she create mind-fuck hallucinations with it? Also, there was a really funny pic in /vg/, pic related.

>>4427382
Truly the mad scientist can make whatever plot MacGuffin they want, but psychic.

>>4427373
I don't know. Megumin seems to have the power to create and control electricity. Maybe she's manipulating the electric signal in other people's neurons to create this psychic VR.

>>4427382
>can she create mind-fuck hallucinations with it?
Assuming the aforementioned is true, and were Megumin inclined to do this, the answer to this is most likely yes.

Is it ethical to imprison (or, as the case may be, execute) Karerin over Karen-chan's actions?

>>4427413
They are the same person, so yeah. At best she would go to an asylum to be treated for her mental illness. Good thing this futuristic society has developed pills to just cure DID now... However the fuck that works.

>>4427418
>They are the same person, so yeah
Are they? Karerin only knows what Karen-chan did because she tells her. In theory, Karen-chan could keep secrets from Karerin.

>pills to just cure DID
Haven't gotten to that part yet, but I'm sure the story is set up so that killing Karen-chan was necessary, or in Karerin's best interest.

>>4427321
That makes way more sense. Though it was like in the anniversary event fake reality stuff.
She got saved from a coma just to die soon after... fuck heavenburn really loves putting super heavy stuff at the end of joke content

>summer events locations
Is she able to access their overwritten memories?

>>4427447
It is based on places Megumin knows, which in this case probably just implies that she is aware of generic theme parks and beach resorts.
I honestly found it a bit dubious that she doesn't know what a castle looks like, but cut those poor CG artists some slack.

>>4427454
She said 'saw', not 'knows', which is why it caught my eye. I don't think Maeda put much thought into it, though.

Besides the Angel Beats girls and maybe Nanamin, which units are well and truly time sensitive limited?

>>4427482
Unison units are also limited.

>>4427482
All time limited styles except Nanamin have already had reruns, so you will probably get more chances generally.
But ultimately right now it's AB collab styles, Nanami and Unison styles. They are all not part of the base style pool. Unisons are the only ones that actually matter though, because they are (generally) extremely yuri and pretty useful.

>>4427607
>>4427688
When will those unisons hit Global? Not any time soon, or it's best to start saving now?

>>4427692
How should we know? EN's release schedule is retarded and erratic. If we go by very general terms, it will still take a couple of months to get to the first unison. Vampire Sharo and MeguTama suit styles should come first. But the idiots are gonna release 5.1 alongside Interlude 2 at the same time for sure, so who the fuck knows? These styles might all come out at once soon.

>>4427696
>Vampire Sharo and MeguTama suit styles should come first.
Karen-chan and Megumin swimsuits, too.

>>4427718
Uh... no. Those came out a year later.

>>4427720
That's a long gap.

>>4427872
Swimsuit events are supposed to be yearly, so...

>>4427692
July

>>4427878
Your mom works at WFS?

>>4427880
>WFS
Global is Yostar retard

>>4427883
Teheperinko~

Is there a chance we might get scans of the doujins from the key island event? I’m not too optimistic about the artists releasing digital versions

>>4428163
There are plenty of fans at such a big event who would be willing to scan them. But whether we find those files is a different matter.

Zombielita! Just how many way will they find the make Suganyan a feral beast?

These are honestly so cute. Glad Yostar is commissioning art at least.

Ttotally forgot about this because of all the other stuff, but the new Arts Battle season has started.

They added a 31X deck, which I have been waiting for forever. But they use a really weird SP based gimmick.I cant wait to find out how broken this will be.

>>4428490
imo the only cards worth using are the sharo ones for giving you more Ace enemy searchers and I'm not even sure if her A is worth it. 18SP is way too much of an ask for their gimmick especially when it can make you go into the negatives. The S and A SP generators also don't remove themselves from the game so you end up with a lot of dead cards when you've reached the max stacks. They want to sell you on the idea of a SP drainer into Irene, but you can't guarantee that. Better versions of all their cards also exist already. SS Yuki is better SS Carole. S Karen doubled is good enough to not run SS Yunyun. SS Megumi and SS Ruka is better SS Maria. And you can use charge gaming to reach max atk so there's no point in using A and S Yunyun.

>>4428550
With the absolute insanity of SP recovering styles we got lately I think this doesn't really have as much consequences as you might think. Arts battle also always depends on your squad. The 31X cards are most likely more useful to high SP generation teams. Lets you basically double some good other cards with high SP drain counterparts.

But I doubt this will be meta.

>>4428553
That would be the case if SP generators didn't have to use SP to generate SP. The X cards brick your entire team and they're banking on you using SP generators with a max cap that don't remove themselves like Vritika, A Irene, and Muua. It's something fun you can try out in 31X hard, but yeah the meta demands for a tight deck where counterparts and dead cards lowers the consistency considerably.
You want to double all your once-per-game stat boosting cards asap to reach 999 power, then stay in each area for as long as possible to farm all its ace enemies. You also want the best kill cards for areas 10, 11, and 12 where 999 power isn't enough to kill basic enemies. There's the Summer Karen combo you have to pull off in area 5 too. Having too many unnecessary cards makes it pretty unfeasible.

>>4428560
Ichiko can generate SP by sacrificing OD. But the current Arts Battle season is lightning and pierce focused, so there is no real reason to use her. Unless you wanna use her weakness creation to fight only a couple of times with your team's main element or just use unison Bungo for everything and don't have to care about synergy.

Anyway, this level of numberfagging is autistic and probably irrelevant to 99% of people who play the game. I just play Arts Battle to test out fun combos and grind some rewards.

This Snap Event's ending did more for making me appreciate RukaYukki than 99% of their other interaction does.

>>4428592
Forgot the pic

>>4428592
Even Yukki's third memoria interaction, where she sleeps with Ruka and has textbook gay panic?

Tons of sprites got updated on the mega folder with the last update, and I'm pretty sure this is a new pose for Tezuka's sprite, which would mean they're already adding chapter 5.3 stuff.

>>4428738
That's not a new one at all. In fact, I there weren't any new poses or expressions, but I still uploaded them to the mega just in case something in them did change.

>>4428669
I'm not really interested in fangirl-in-denial mode Yukki or shouting tsukkomi Yukki. Her best moments tend to be when she acts cool or believes in Ruka. One of the most understated RukaYukki moments was in Koju's event, where even though she doesnt believe in the occult, she still sided with Ruka and accepted her mission because she trusts her and can tell when she is serious.

I also really enjoy when she more honestly appreciates Ruka's good parts or when she shows her desire openly. 5 q almost had me during her little suicidal breakdown. It did put their relationship into perspective. Too bad they didnt move forward at all in 5.2.

That's why this Snap event was good. It showed both openly happy fangirl Yukki and more importantly proves how important Ruka's music was to her when she was still human.

Well well we are getting close. Last chance to make your bets on what the bridal styles this year will be. Fingers crossed we will avoid waifufagging as much as possible.

I still cant get over how Yukki had to defeat Higumin in a sumo wrestling match.

>>4429498
Fubuki, for the laughs if anything.

>>4429498
Don't know why you're so obsessed with some outfits unless you're a waifufag yourself. Who knows maybe they'll actually have a brain for once and release styles related to the snap event. There's really no point in speculation

>>4429674
Can't imagine anything more depressing than becoming waifubait after all.

>>4429682
You arent the brightest, are you? You gotta brace for this yearly dark ritual. And it's best to hope for something yuri.

>wedding dress
What if it's Miya, wearing a traditional japanese wedding kimono? The "shiromuku" variant.

>>4429696
Only if she autistically screeches about marrying Yuina.

>>4429696
She will wear a suit.

>>4429682
Because characters don't matter. Just have all gray blocks

Does Megumi ever bring up Rumi? Does Tama get jealous?

>>4429767
Oh sweet summer child. You have no idea the kinds of places those three will go.

>>4429837
Well now they can all go fishing together. Megumi with the rod with a girl on each knee

>>4429842
Fishing is the only thing they don't do.

>>4429837
Thought Seraph members weren't allowed to mingle with dome inhabitants.

>>4429863
They are also not supposed to break time and space and yet Mari keeps selling magic swimsuits.

>5 part 2
>final dungeon
>story accurate is 4 squadmates
This is actually diabolical. Now I have a reason to run.

So they finally did a banner on the weakness creation units. Sweet.

Yuugen released a new Ruka art and people didnt even take 10 seconds to point out how obviously it pairs up with Yukki lol

I just had a crazy idea... what if the original Bungo was cryogenically frozen? It would explain why Wakki kept aging and yet they were hito-narby'd together. Assuming the hito-narby-have-implanted-souls theory is correct it could be that they extracted it from the comatose frozen Bungo and that's why she has memory issues. Her hito-narby body can't support her under these conditions.
I just imagine Wakki finding her cryopod in the future and getting absolutely mindbroken.

>>4430423
>Bungo was frozen after the attack
>Wakki stood watch over the cryopod for years
>Cancers attacked (again?) and Wakki and the frozen Bungo both died
Plausible.

Wow the bot didnt fuck up and actually posted the whole series of images. But I bet the dumbass doesnt have the second set.

>>4430679

>>4430680

>>4430682

The official 4koma is losing its mind.

Wait wait wait... I didn't realize that the CG from the Snap event can be used for the title screen. And it even has voicelines.

What's the difference between Hackers and Crackers anyway...?

>>4430762
A cracker has malicious intention, a hacker may or may not

>>4430803
Hm, far as I know cracking is perfectly legal if you don't do it to someone else's computer or software. Don't video-gamers use cracks all the time too for piracy? I wouldn't say those are always bad intentions.

>>4430979
>cracking is perfectly legal if you don't do it to someone else's computer or software
Why would you crack your own computer?

>Don't video-gamers use cracks all the time too for piracy?
I think those are different times of 'cracking'. Also, remember that these terms were coined by corporations, like the ones that make video games. So to them, cracking a game they might've made for piracy is inevitably a bad intention.

>>4430983
There are actually cracking competitions just for the skill of it. Also it helps cyber security to practice and counteract malicious attacks.
>companies think cracking games is bad
That only makes it sound more alright to me. All actual data on video-game piracy has proven that it doesnt harm sales and instead spreads awareness of games or preserves them long past the death of a company/studio. The villification of something used to make games accessible to the poor or those who are doomed to be inaccessible due to bad services has never made sense.

One day HBR will hit EOS, like all gacha and how much do you bet that WFS will not make an offline version for people to buy? It will be up to pirates to preserve it, as usual.

I just realized that you can only have one Admiral per squad. That is... actually a good limitation.

>>4427321
I played it again just for some clean up and I realized that at the end when Burn My Soul plays on the music player, they edited out all Karerin segments. It is just Ruka singing. That's so genius, a detail literally nobody would pay attention to.

>>4427321
Also even though most scenes only change if you do them twice, some actually have different variations by doing them more. Obvioulsy the affection point thing needs 3, but if you select the Henshin-belt 3 times Yukki will even remark how she just wants to believe in her heart that she can eventually transform and is mad at Ruka for breaking her pure heart lol

RukaYui artists are fighting back now lmao

TamaTop? More likely than you'd think.

Of the girls that have events left, which one would be the most interesting?
My vote is for Yunyun. 31X events have never let me down, but I also think she dearly needs a bit more serious content after being the punching bag for 6 events.

The other ones that remain are Vritika, Sakuraba, Higumin, Chiroru, Shiki, Monaka, Minori, Yotsuha, Fubuki.
Technically there is also still room for a Tezuka, Yukki, Karerin and Tsukasa event respectively, if you wanna count those. I don't think Snap Events matter as to whether a character gets a proper story event.

>>4431945
It kinda stopped working for a while now. Maria's stuff already felt REALLY forced with how they tried to make her "die!" thing into something more.

I'm also not sure if they should even care about making events about every single character. This can turn quickly into "what are we even doing" territory. Again.. Maria's event is a good example. Not everyone needs a forced sob story. Some characters are created with it in mind.. others clearly not so much.
This is likely also why Snap events are a thing, so they can try out how people think about events that maybe don't go full drama for the second half. It does get stale, especially when you run out of things to do.
I still am for events to become a serialized story about multiple characters doing something at the side of the main-story. At least once in a while. To break the mold.

>>4431971
>Maria's stuff already felt REALLY forced
That's a (You) thing. Nobody agrees. Maria's event was highly praised on JP. Maria's event was really good. Just because you didnt vibe with it doesn't mean you are actually right about some perceived issue.

Also most of the backstories for characters were clearly already in the notes before they ever got an event. Maria's backstory being tragic was hinted at since her earliest bond episode. The fact that she is obssessed with killing Cancer to the point of suicidalness and has such a volatile personality don't come out of nowhere, obviously... If you really want to say someone shouldnt have had a tragic backstroy it would have been Aina or Risa or something. And those events worked too.

You wanting story tie-ins has little to do with anything too. I guess that could be good or it could not really serve any purpose and feel like actual filler. Do you really care what 31F did during the Skullfeather battle?

>A x3 rate up step up, a SS 1.5 rate pick up, and a wish list gacha all in the span of 2 weeks. Not to mention the admiral gacha and element weakening gacha we have now
They really want you to spend before 1.5 anni. Judging by the names of the wishlist and 1.5 times gacha it seems like the next event late this month will be the swimsuit event too.

They really should just stop this bride nonsense. I don't know how to properly describe it, but the new styles feel like they did it for the checkmark in their plan for the year. It's so generic, you can find stuff like that in any gacha game ever. I don't think they themselves believe at this point that it will have any special effect on sales or attract waifushitters, or whatever it was even supposed to do. So why are you doing it? Either go yuri with them, or just stop, it's pointless.

>>4432659
its because they get away with more and more het shittery so they learning now more into it because of it

>>4432661
Literally nothing in this incoherent ESL post makes any sense.

>Yunyun and Iroha
Honestly quite the out there picks. Yunyun is sort of popular, I guess. More for gameplay than anything though. I'm happy for Irocchi to get any attention, but why did it have to be wedding dress shit? Oh well.

>>4432659
I really cant see either of these having much yuri going on in a wedding style. YunSharo is sort of a rising pairing, but I Sharo's wedding style was 100% Ruka-centric (which was good). At best I expect a homescreen line about how Sharo tried to steal the wedding dress because it would look better on Ruka.

Irocchi doesnt even have a real pairing.

>>4432697
I didn't mean that these specific characters should have yuri bride styles. I think in general, they should either go for something like Sharo or just retire the theme.
You said it yourself, Iroha. She's not the kind of character who appeals to the part of the player base that these styles are supposed to appeal to. And it's not like they played with her theme in a creative way like they did with her previous style. Why does it exist? I don't see how this achieves anything that they added the bride crap for in the first place. It's as if their superiors asked them to have brides this year, and they did it, but no one actually cared. If the developers don't care, then they should retire the theme instead of wasting character styles on this nonsense.

>>4432695
"It's because they [other gachas can] get away with more and more hetshittery so they [WFS/Key] (either 'learned to get more into it' or 'are leaning more into it') because of it [presumably the practice of adding waifufaggotry like wedding dress outfits into gachas]"
t. professional retard, fluent in retardese.

>>4432711
That translation makes little sense too. Why would you assume the ESL was saying other gacha get away with more and more hetshit, when hetshit is the norm to begin with?
Obviously WFS was copying popular gacha with the unimaginative wedding and swimsuit themes, but the retard you are trying to translate for is just a troll who always comes here to claim the game is becoming more het, despite not playing it and knowing nothing about it.

This entire construct of stupidity collapses when you remember wedding styles have been in the game since year 1, so there has been not growth in hetshittery as a reason for these styles coming out now. And the opposite is true, styles have become more explicitely yuri over time. Year 1 had literally nothing that was obviously yuri. Now we get super gay unisons and pair styles and wedding Sharo.

>>4432711
Your retardese is awful, you're giving this idiot too much credit. It's the same autist constantly trying to make shitposting about Wakki's nothingburger from 5.2 a thing. He regularly sees random posts that he doesn't understand., then he complains that the game is going hetshit based on his interpretation of these posts. I remember posting something about Maria's event PV and receiving a similar reply because this retard didn't understand what I was talking about.

>>4432719
Oh I remember. You said you werent happy about the random kids in the event and the moron started rambling about how he can barely hold back from posting shit that would get him banned because the game makes him so angry with its "hetshit". Utterly embarrassing.

>>4432719
Could be worse. Could be the retard that skipped the whole story and every event for... some reason? I don't remember if he had a justification for that.

>>4432719
>>4432714
Esl kun here.
No what im saying is that you people let them get away with inserting het shittery into this game because you cope its still yuri so they are getting bolder.

>>4432725
I mean hey we could be getting more yuri but you people are wlling to lie down and take more males i just dont have stomach for this,

Here's an idea: Go to any other board to troll. You have the ability to pick any other game or community that is stupid enough to actually fall for your ragebait. Move on from HBR already you clown.

Will Yotsuha and Hisame thump on Bungo's helmet? Everyone else in the loli squad did.

>>4432760
That's too much effort for Yotsuha. Hisame already did.

https://x.com/heavenburnsred/status/1933122428156473374
Ohh... they are doing another Snap event already? So they do two per month instead of one big story event. That is actually better than expected.

>>4432896
Sis have you not been following the news for the past two weeks...

>>4432897
Nope. I played Yukki's snap event, but I had very little time to do more.

>>4432896
I just realized that both Snap events are for characters who dont have proper events... dont let these be replacements for that.

Honestly, if you ignore the wedding tag, Yunyun's style could just be interpreted as a ball gown and her ult is a beautiful dance. It's very pretty and unproblematic.

This banner is ranking really low compared to average. The brides theme is dead. It doesn't provide any boost whatsoever.

>>4433016
Good.

Yeah, now I see how these wedding dress styles are bad.

>Akari's event
>a window appears, telling me I have to play Misato's event before that
Ok, that's useful.

>do that, then play Akari's event
>references something that happened between Adel and Akari, where Akari learned the camouflage jutsu
>the window didn't mention that
Ok, that's completely useless.

>>4433153
Sigh... how are there still anons who don't know about the cointent guide in the OP? The absolute uselessness of the game's spoiler warnings is why it was made in the first place.

Akari's event requires you to play Akari's first memory episode. And also Adelheid's event in case you somehow missed that too.

>>4433153
There's a chain button on top of every event windows. While it's not 100% accurate because they're lazy to cover everything sometimes, in general it gives you a better outline of what you need to play first.

>>4433016
Past Bungo they'll generally struggle with revenue. Too much of a swiss knife that once you obtain it as a dolphin+ (+Seira, Miku with her passive and A-Aoi + Kura), you can 3 turn kill basically anything in this game that doesn't have 3 dp bars (4 turns), has friends (still way too fast and comfy there) or the one counter existing that is hit count shields (needs real weakness).

Other elements all take significantly longer to get possibly a higher score.. but who cares? Vs. 300 DR you get over 100m damage. That's well above the "all rewards" mark. Considering a Bungo kill only ever sees the very first turn of the enemy attacks, and is so fast you can even get around rules like "-5sp every 5 turns" without them ever mattering.. extremely harsh. They went way too far with her, and then they HAD to release two more SS that start with her passive, breaking the concept completely. Doesn't help that Seira is also extremely good with Bungo.

Until something changes, they only have non gameplay related ways to get dolphins to spend, and even some whales might just reconsider if they don't care about the highest numbers possible, and considering everyone already has versions of characters they like.. tough job. Bungo really was a mistake. Do not underestimate what it actually does to a gacha releasing something like this. Especially also for global. You know she's coming and destroys the entire damn game.

This is based on a Japanese meme.

>>4433464
Some commercial I think.

Yunyun got a wedding style... after Sharo.
She dances in a vaguely castle setting...
Did Yunyun try to marry Sharo, but got cucked b Sharo's insane delusions about being married to King Ruka?

>>4423700 (OP)
Monthly reminder that MingShiba's Sugoi Toolkit translator is free for the 15/16th of each month. The current version has an unfathomable list of features. It definitely makes playing HBR JP viable for most people.

Beat Yunyun's Snap Event. That was quite fun!
Not a lot of variation between the two "routes", so I guess the writers just had two different ideas of how the game should play out and made it a branch. But both routes keep intact the main emotional beads.

So it's mostly just for fun, but the yare retreading Yunyun wanting 31X to follow her orders again, because of their lack of coordination. It's interesting that she acknowledges they got a LITTLE more coordinated, which means its not the complete status quo return, but it's still pretty baseline for Yunyun. I do like the message that strategy isnt about defeating the enemy most efficiently, but rather about keeping the squad alive. Yunyun even acknowledges that this isnt how her great ancestor would have done it, but thinks this surpasses him. Real cool.
...that fact thse seems to be getting off on commanding people does make slightly less wholesome, but we all know Yunyun is a total bottom, so she will never top anyway.

>>4434276
That CG was probably cheap to make considering only Yunyun is a new sprite and the rest are just the cut-in sprites...

Miscalaneous things I liked:
-I love how they added a twist for absolutely no reason other than having Irene get her detective moment.
-Maria and Irene banter that acknowledges they still go on Arcade dates. It's hilarious how Irene's first "I'm sorry!" wasnt actually giving any leeway at all and she still repated that Maria isnt improving. And she was absolutely clueless on how to make Maria look good to appease her. That is genuinely hilarious.
-Sharo is developing an exhibitionist fetish.... she seems to enjoy the idea of people seeing her be intimate with Ruka a little too much...
-Sharo nearly fainting when Ruka sang. Too cute.
-Vritika instantly understanding she has no chance in a game where you have to shout louder and louder and resenting Ruka for it lmao
-Yotsuha being able to tell that Vritika was shouting her lungs out despite being so quiet. These two have an insanely understated bond!
-Ichigo of course being happy about her wife Maria trying her best
-Carole nerfing herself on purpose by going Carole-tan like she actually cannot possibly lose on purpose in her masked state lol

So about the new styles. YunYun has a freaking revival field?? How the heck does that work. You just get revived on turn start every time? It lasts as long as any other field? That's actually pretty strong and unique. Makes you also reconsider activing elemental fields depending on the situation.

From what I read Iroha just straight up replaces swimsuit Megumin as the better lightning buffer. She even has a field.

From what I read Iroha just straight up replaces swimsuit Megumin as the better lightning buffer. She even has a field.

>>4434283
The revival "field" sucks. It's not a normal field (it's called something differently), thus can coexist, and disappears the moment it actually triggers. And breaking in this game is really damn hard, until they bring forced breaking shilling again. They had this before. But seeing how this SA didn't bring that, I'd say it wasn't well received.

In other words Yunyun is absolutely terrible, and while Iroha is good.. thunder isn't. She's also worse than Tsukasa for ice which is interesting to say the least.

>>4434289
So it disappears if even one forntline unit's DP is broken? Does it actually revive all three if they all break in the same turn? A back-up revive is still good, although kind pointless if you got Risa-mama.
>it's really damn hard to break in this game
It's not at all. Stop pretending everyone is an autistic numberfag.
>thunder isnt good!
Christmas Fubuki disagrees. Lightning squads can do well enough. You're probably thinking of some meaningless difference between 1000 times overkill vs. 10000 times overkill.

Mozarella cheeeese~

If only...

>>4434289
>She's also worse than Tsukasa for ice which is interesting to say the least.
I also don't like what they did with her. That effect split is a forced synergy, it only benefits dark, thunder they just gets a worse Tsukasa for no additional benefits. And dark field works better with her previous style, so it was pointless anyway.

>>4434370
Literally futa this time. Delete it.

>>4434373
????
It's not tagged as futa anywhere.

>>4434473
Why are you so stupid that you need tags? If you actually looked at the fucking artist source on xitter you would know that the continuation of this image series shows Wakki has a dick.

Carole's VA is so underrated. She is an absolute hype machine and so versatile.

Fans do what WFS cant.

This is apparently a My Hero Academia reference. Not that I would know. it's just funny.

>>4432898
>dont let these be replacements for that
That would really depend on the writers I guess. I can see definitely see 31A getting snapped because they already got their backstories and development in the main story

For Yunyun idk. All she really does is brag about being chiki chiki ban ban's descendant. What happened in Sharo's event impacted her character more than anything else. I can see them giving her a more fleshed out backstory, but this snap event felt pretty conclusive to her role as 31X's strategist. So unless they pull out another werewolf Chie and reveal something entirely unforeseen, this could just be her event. Or who knows she may play a big role in the main story

As for the rest of the characters without events yet
>Higuchi
I can see her getting snapped after her back story and development in chapter 5.1
>Waki
Maybe, but doubtful. We don't know what happened between Bungo's injury and now. And they might do some interlude event for 5.2
>Seira
Definitely not. Her cult backstory has a lot to explore
>Fubuki
Doubtful. There's very specific anecdotes from her past and Maeda loves his music characters
>Monaka
Maybe. We can see more of her past with her old team, but 30G and Kura is her core now. Though she does have 30G privilege
>Yotsuha and Minori
Yotsuha might get snapped, but Minori still hasn't answered why she got into deliveries. The Ooshima past arc isn't over yet either
>Matsuoka
She might get snapped. There's nothing to explore as far as we know except her camera shyness
>Shiki
Also might be snapped unless the harem of women has an interesting story behind it. But she has music character privilege
>Vritika
Doubt it when it was said her math skills were exploited by adults

>>4436032
>All she really does is brag about being chiki chiki ban ban's descendant
I think they fleshed out Yunyun more than THAT by now. Here are a few things she has going for her:
-strategist who is an actual strategist and can do large scale operation support, which they for some reason dont let her do
-has an avid interest in astrology/astronomy and her actual dream was to study the stars
-is declared the number 1 most sexual person at the base (this would lead to bad content, but alas)
-is Sharo's Yaya and keeps getting bullied by her (out of love). Literally the only other Sharo ship and a rather popular one
-part of the sword group with Inori who is trying to actually improve her swordplay

I am sure you can do SOMETHING with that. Not to mention we don't know her obviously tragic backstory yet (of thinking cosplay is real Chinese attire because her mom tragically died on a cosplay convention).

>>4436032
>Shiki
I 100% think she needs an event. There is so much mystery on how she became the way she did.
But I can also imagine them doing a Snap event for her that is about trying to hit on various girls at the base, in a similar way to Yukki's CYOA.

She sees her wife everywhere

Marriage matching

How yuri is this game? I'm looking at discussions in other places online and opinions seem mixed. I want to ask here too.

>>4436952
You need to read every single thread before posting here.

>>4436952
This question gets asked so much that I should probably add it to the FAQ. Sheesh.
Canon lesbians level. Protagonist is a lesbian. Some characters openly are in love with girls in the cast. No confirmed relationships yet due to slowburn, but very obvios endgame pairings.
Basically this is a super gay game, that for various reasons hasn't gotten to any actual kisses yet. But it's only a matter of time.
On the upside there is a character who has an actual harem that she regularly fucks off-screen.

PS: Ignore the troll that replied to you first by the way. Just some bored loser.

Still can't believe Maeda of all people made yuri. He's like the king of galge.

Is YotsuVri oneeloli?

>>4436966
It's nothing new. The author of Adachi to Shimamura, Iruma, used to write het romance novels. Now he exclusively writes yuri and hasnt stopped for over 10 years.
Many typically het romance authors (male or female) have done yuri on the side too.

Hell the bastard who wrote in those disgusting, abhorrent, vomit-inducing, women hating rapist KuroInu eroges... actually wrote a yuri VN recently. And it is really good and positive. It's fucking weird.

>>4436968
No. They are at most 4 years apart. And Yotsuha is probably only like 16. Not to mention that OneeLoli is more about an aesthetic and clearly they are drawn too similar in age for Yotsuha to be considered an onee-san.

>>4436964
Oh, exciting! Thank you. Adding it to the FAQ would be a good idea.

>>4436974
Alright I added a short section in the FAQ about the game's yuri level. That ought to make things easier on everyone in the future.

APOPHIS?? The Egyptian snake god? What the actual fuck does the desert dendron have to do with this?
Seriously, are the translators just throwing darts at random mythological names?

>>4436997
Well, this one fits. It's a snake, and, like the mythological Apophis, it's creating sandstorms.

>SS0 Ruka and SS1 Karerin
Oh man, you're really up shit creek without a paddle.

>>4437001
Not a snake. A dune worm.
>SS0 Ruka
Nah, I just equipped story accurate costuimes where I could. I just didn't have enough dupes for Tsukasa and Tama S styles to change their outfits.
That's SS2 Ruka with her SS1 ult transfered and tower upgraded. And Yukki is actually SS2 Yukki too with her SS1 ult transfered and tower upgraded.
....it is actually SS1 Karen-chan though. She is a Blaster, she raises destruction rate as she should. It's fine.

I won this fight first try.

>>4436037
I can't believe this anicnet Shiki art will finally become a reality. Can you imagine if Shiki's Snap event starts and this list of every girls at the base just pops up?

>>4436969
At first nothing much was known about the game. A key visual with Ruka and couple of songs. Then the first trailer was released and I got excited. It seemed like the poster girl was the actual mc and I'd always wanted Key yuri.

What's the song that plays during the last stage of the Skullplume fight? It goes hard.

>>4437367
The final Skullfeather phase plays the song Shiva.

I love awakened Tsukasa and her dynamic with 31A. I wish she was the default instead of dumbkasa. I will actually cry more tears if she gets Karen-chan'd next chapter...

Really wish we got to see more of this Carole, the kind-hearted one. The jealousy stuff is fun, but this is where it's at. She is way more thoughtfil behind the scenes than it appears. Like in Sharo's event where immediately after meeting that cannon Cancer she went to the arena to double down on her training without telling anyone.

Also this is the rarest cut-in in the entire game, right? Carole without her mask being excited? It's so impossible to happened because even when she takes her mask off, she is always embarrassed and shy, so she wouldn't make an excited face shout.

The second rarest one is probably Maria's shocked face. The third being Yunyun's smile with the fang.
It could have been Wakki without the eye-patch, but in 5.2 that happened a lot.

>>4437966
I don't get Miya's reaction. Ruka isnt hugging Yuina or anything.

>>4438011
Miya likes ruka

>>4438013
Eh.... she might be slightly seduced by Ruka's looks, but she has never acted jealous over her. She is only territorial about Yuina and will still get mad at Ruka for flirting with her.

So we are getting a new proper story event this week, right?

Wow, replaying 4.2, I just realize that IreMari probably began in this 31X bond episode... Wild.

>>4437618
I feel as though dumbkasa might get Karen-chan’d considering awakened is her actual personality or the personalities properly merge

>>4438049
What will Maria do when she finds Irene's stash of stolen panties?

>>4438083
The same thing she did when she found Jamie's nest of stolen panties. Force Irene to return them and repent. Amen.

>>4438070
The thing is Tsukasa's garden of memories line implies that dumbkasa is her ideal and that she wants to keep living like that. It's similar to how Karerin says she will one day have to part with Karen-chan in hers. The flags are all set.

Of course it could still be that she will retain her memories and intelligence, but with dumbkasa's personality. Truly a loss.

https://x.com/heavenburnsred/status/1937465739230793966
Maybe I'm wrong, but the way they presented this, it doesn't feel like there will be a 2nd swimsuit this year.

>>4438210
Swimsuit events can also happen in August. And nothing about this teaser refutes swimsuits? in fact that looks a lot like a swimsuit sleeve and it focuses on the ocean...

>>4438218
A """""2nd"""""" event. Can you read before starting arguing.

>>4438237
I just thought you were stupid and just called the next swimsuit event "2nd".
But you are still stupid for even considering they would do two again. What a silly puppy.

>>4438241
Can you ever stop being an insufferable cunt? I'm sorry I tried to talk about something, it was indeed very stupid of me.

>>4438249
Maybe it's your overly serious reactions to everything that are the most insufferable.

>>4438210
Real answer: nobody knows. I pretty much stopped making speculations because even if there is a "pattern", there is no pattern.

Schizo answer: That really depends on when they want to do the 3.5 ani. Because we know the swimsuit event is happening on 6/26. We've known that ever since the pre-summer campaign was datamined on 6/12. If the swimsuit event starts on 6/26, there'll most likely be 2 banners in July. Probably on 7/10 and 7/24. One of them will have to be the 3.5 ani banner. 2.5 ani last year was on 7/20 so this year will presumably be around the same time. If that's the case, what will be the prior banner? Could be swimsuits part II or a limited unison/ nanamin/ collab to squeeze quartz before ani or maybe just something normal.

Then we have to ask which characters will the swimsuit event on 6/26 feature? We know it 100% isn't Ruka when they confirmed she wasn't getting a style 2 streams ago. The only lead we have is that Sumomo and Swimsuit Sumomo's sprites got updated on 6/12. So maybe it's 31B? I can see Aoi, Byakko, Ichigo, and Hiiragi getting something, but can't say the same for Higuchi. Between the gacha and welfare it is possible for 31B to take up two banners, but not likely. So if you ask me, I don't think the first banner in July is swimsuits part II. 3.5 ani might have a very slight chance of being swimsuits like last year, but that's really hard to say. That's assuming we get a 3.5 interlude event like last year and this year it'll feature Ruka and 5.1. Ruka and Yuki are the only 31A members without an SS swimsuit so maybe it's possible, but I think it's more likely that we get Ruka's 3rd ani suit for 3.5 along with a Tama and again that's assuming we get a 3.5 event and the 3.5 event will feature Ruka.

>>4438301
Holy Overthinking Batman!
It's an interesting situation though as this is the first year where we dont need a new 31A swimsuit.

With Sumomo, Yuina and Amari it's actually impossible to predict who gets one next time. Potentially one of the characters lacking a story event right now. That wa they can hit two birds with one stone.

Yesterday was Ruka's birthday. The absolute flood of art can't be contained at all. Always good to see the protag being popular~

All the Rukas...

Sharo counter!

>>4438465

>>4438617
I will never understand deleting the pic but not the post.

>>4438748
So it doesn't show up in the archives as deleted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7F-jFJP_Qs
Stream starts in 2 hours. Get your butts ready.

>Seika and Kozue holding hands
Oh baby.

>check the hbr.quest site
>updated on 27/6
>it's 26
Looks like those guys are also wearing time traveling swimsuits

I hope that Hiiragi isn't a nu-age blaster that does no damage because being forced to use Murofushi to meet the morale gimmick is pretty sus as is

>>4439351
Risa-mama is always viable!

>>4439351
>using the creepy girl that sees ghosts as morale booster
What's next? Fubuki as morale boost?

Can't fucking believe HiguKoju was memed into reality. Really happy for kjhg1108. I ever considering going back. Although rerolling for the two of them would be a pain in the ass. Probably should wait for unison I'd care about

>>4439357
Higumin is a total slut, huh? She's got Yukki and Ichigo already and gets even greedier.
This meme ship has really nothing going for it, but hey, I can always be surprised. And Koju was lacking an actual ship.

It's just... 3.5 years in and they suddenly pull this when no 31B content supports this is wild. But I guess you could say that Higumin before 5.1 was not really in any state to care about someone romantically.

>>4439354
Did you just forget about diner Koju? She already had a morale boost skill.

>>4439399
Yukki is for Ruka and HiguIchi is annoying. Though HiguYuki is still nice. HiguKoju has always been an obvious ship. On one hand it's Scientist who study death + Psychic who can speak with dead people, on the other sociopathic introvert + sociophobic introvert. It checks out so many boxes. Just don't understand why Maeda never did anything with that.
>Higumin before 5.1 was not really in any state to care about someone romantically
And she is probably still in that state. It's her karma as she said. But yeah, pulling this ship in that state must be hard. Only wonder if wfs manage to make good story. But hey, AMari grew from even more barren soil than that in one event.

>>4439318
>Higuchi
Definitely something good to have in the era of turn based buffs. She also has that great passive at LB 0. I wouldn't say she's a must-have since swimsuit Adelhide and Yotsuha are still usable.
>Koju
She is just stronger swimsuit Karen, but when would you need swimsuit Karen in most cases. You are forced to use her with dark Higuchi or Murofushi to realize her full potential, which does mean forgoing the turn based buffs from Yotsuha. Ultimately she is meant to be used in AOE fights and in wave, which she might be quite good in, but AOE score attacks and high difficult content come once in a blue moon. Also with turn based buffs, single target DPS styles might perform even better than AOE ones in those scenarios. As for wave, it's hard to tell without knowing the enemy lineup and the new score attack seems to last for a whole 3 weeks so who knows when the next wave event will be. Sadly she really is the swimsuit Karen / swimsuit Yuina upgrade / sidegrade that isn't needed right now. There's also the argument to be made that Kura is the best dark AOE blaster anyway since she's a blaster and gives you a field, so you'd just use her instead of Iroha.

>>4439421
That supposed "no brainer" ship is 100% made up and actually makes less sense the more you understand the characters. Koju is into the occult, Higumin is 100% only into science and actively denies the existence of ghosts and astral projection etc. She like death and what happens around it on a scientific basis and would never accept Koju's nonsense. They also have like... no chemistry. Like at all. 99% of their interactions are Higumin saying something unhinged to someone else and Koju screeching. You think HiguIchi is annoying? HiguKoju is way worse. HiguIchi at least had great build up and you can tell Higumin genuinely enjoys being with Ichigo and messing with her. She also grows a lot thanks to Ichigo, as a person (also partially due to Yukki of course).

This event would have to pull heavy duty to do anything that will remotely shift perception from the pair the spares BS that is HiguKoju into an actual competent ship.
>And she is probably still in that state.
Actually no, she has shown tremendous development, both socially and in enjoying things (which according to her karma thing should not be possible). Play Wakki's latest memory episode. Higumin has become an apostle of lesbian love and seems to take a keen interest in it now. She even admits she has someone dancing in the palm of her hand and how it excites her (clearly Ichigo).
In my opinion Higumin is surprisingly very pliable after getting over her self-imposed karma block. Her researcher soul is spreading towards social topics and feelings.

>>4439428
>Koju is into the occult, Higumin is 100% only into science
And that's exactly what gives this ship some potential. Two "scientists" won't make a ship, at least on that basis. Just as two "occultist". Seika and Kozue have one focus "death" but two different approaches - a contrast. Something to clash on and be a catalyst for chemistry. Besides science is not denial of everything "unscientific" but finding explanation to real phenomenons, and Koju's stuff is real, you have to take it into account if it comes to that. Not to mention the setting is far from grounded with aliens, ninjas, multiple psychics and whatnot.
>99% of their interactions are Higumin saying something unhinged to someone else and Koju screeching
Well, yeah, that's how writers used them till now. Doesn't mean it's the only way. And I also remember a scene in some event in which Seika spoke of Koju as the only competent teammate. Can't say what event exactly, but after ch2, before ch5.
>Higumin has become an apostle of lesbian love and seems to take a keen interest in it now. She even admits she has someone dancing in the palm of her hand and how it excites her
Hmm, I clearly missed a lot. But in that case it really complicates things.

>>4439479
It doesn''t matter that Koju's stuff is real when the topic itself is not something Higumin finds worth investigating. Basically you are saying Megumin/Koju would be a good pairing, because they approach esp from different directions and Megumin actively shuts out all occult stuff from her mind to the point where her psychics blind her to it. I doubt you actually think MeguKoju is a good pairing though. It's really just proximity and pairing the spares for HiguKoju.

>It was actually a Koju and Aoi event
Really nice event. It's always good to see interactions between characters that never happened in the main story. From the looks of it, the event does take place before 5.1 and Higuchi's development

I gotta say though, despite how often she shows back up, this felt pretty definitive in tying up all the loose ends, but that's how it felt last time too. It's even established that Aoi left behind some evil horcruxes spread across the world (hyperbole) so she can always come back hahaha

>>4439725
Should have predicted that the moment they played a remix of Goodbye Innocence in the trailer.

>>4426477
I, for one, relish the fact she's not wearing heels.

>>4439877
Yeah that was always the biggest flaw of her design. Same with Ichigo. Some stupid "but they are secretly still feminine" shit.

>>4439877
Same.

Unfortunately this year's swimsuit are all on the horny side. At least in the prior years there were always at least one cute/pretty swimsuit, but now its all fetish/horny. Sad.

Ichigo here is probably the tamest. But that bikini top barely exists, she is just having her tits flop out at this point. Also this design has like no references to anything, whether its her character or some pair appeal with other characters. This doesn't have snyergy with Sumomo's swimsuit and it doesn't reference Aoi either. Just kinda lame.

Higuchi's is actually worse outside the artwork. The 3D model shows off how truly hornybait this swimsuit is. The jacket seems to add some flair, but then you realise the back of the jacket is just completely open. And that bikini bottom is pure trash. Reminds me of Ruka's double bottoms that somehow still expose her ass crack.

This also is just not an outfit Higumin would ever wear. Which for cosplay costumes is not an issue, but swimsuits feel like they should be something the characters would actually pick. This doesn't feel like Higumin at all. We are now 2:2 on Higumin styles that actually fit her or are completely random.

The worst offender. "school swimsuits" are just fetish wear now, especially when they are designed like this. They almost couldnt fit her ass on screen with how much they zoomed in on it. Swimsuit also dont have boob pouches. And of course it's a size too small so it can really dig into her crotch.
The towel is almost like some kind of veil to shield us from how bland this design is outside the horny. The ghost also doesnt feel different in any way. I actually really loved how Diner Koju's ghost is soda colored or how it's purple glowing in her chuuni goth lolita outfit. This one looks the same as normal, because just blue...

Do better next year WFS.

Clearly they put all the effort into best girl's swimsuit!

Speaking of Byakko, how is her Tower/dark matter upgrade? I saw it in the event shop.

Monoka got tons of new expressions this last update, so it's easy to guess what the 3.5 anniversary event is going to be about (more KuraMona tragedy fuel).

>>4440205
>3.5 anniversary
>2 events about the release month stories
Get me out

>>4440206
That's not what this swimsuit event is. And there is literally no proof anon is right about a KuraMona event.
Also aren't you the same bitch who complains about any event that actually advances the characters disconnected from the story? You are literally impossible to please.

>>4440206
I mean, Monaka got snubbed pretty hard after chapter 3, so I'm happy she's finally getting some spotlight.
I just hope it's not the exact same thing as the 1.5 anniversary event (Yuina).

>>4440207
Yes, let's make this franchise about Aoi and ch.3 until the end of the fucking thing, keep slurping on it.

>>4440208
A Monaka event is long overdue for real. Might be about her first "dear comrade" even, the one she wanted to find so bad.

>>4440209
You are a troll. I can tell from the fact that you intentionally ignored my point. Keep seething that nobody falls for it.

You cant tell me FubuRuka isnt at least a possibility with this bond episode. She even uses aishiteru!

>>4440193
It just gets rid of the debuff that her ult should never have had and adds a basic skill attack up for the frontline. It would have been decent 2 years ago. Now it's just kinda meh.

They detach?!

I'd be surprised if the 3.5 ani event is actually a Monaka event because that means we would have (three) 30G events in a single year. It would also mean that both the 3rd ani and 3.5 ani event this year was 30G. Not to mention Monaka getting another SS style this soon is quite early. It's definitely possible, but it just seems unlikely.

Imo the sprite update might be used for a snap event or more likely, a bond episode for Unison Kura. Meanwhile the 3.5 ani event will be for Ruka. If we go by past trends, the 0.5 ani event was for chapter 2, the 1.5 ani event was for chapter 3, and the 2.5 ani event for was 4.2. Sequentially it would only make sense that 3.5 will be about 5.1.

This is my schizo timeline
>7/10
3rd ani Carole & Vritika / 3rd ani Aoi gacha
Vritika got a sprite update too so she might be getting her SS3, but it could also just be for 3rd ani Carole's bond event

>7/17
The special stream guest is Kura's VA to promote Unison Kura before anniversary. We might get a snap event too, but most likely not when the exchange for the current event ends on 8/3

>7/24
They'll rerun some limited gacha. Maybe Unison Ruka or buff rider Nanami

>8/3
3rd ani Ruka and Tama for the 3.5 ani event. 3rd ani Aoi might appear here too if they want to delay Tama again

>8/21 (end of 3.5 anniversary and 3rd ani styles)
3rd ani Aoi and Byakko. Though this could completely be swapped with the gacha on 7/10 if they want to follow up the 31B event with Aoi and Byakko, which does make sense.

>>4440997
I certainly think they want to push out all the white suits before the year ends, so Carole, Aoi and Ruka are all likely picks.
Kura is crazy overdue, as js Tama so a potential unison could go either way.

>>4440997
This feels too logical. WFS don't usually do that, they like to spice it up somehow. Like, I never thought we could get Iroha as a bride, she's one of the last characters I would've predicted.

>>4440997
3rd anni was Yuina but it had literally nothing to do with 30G

Full power!

>>4441308
O h N o

>>4441442
The "I can't believe it's not selfcest!" series still thrives.

>>4440997
Speaking spirte updates etc. is there any place where someone collected the image files? I would love to have a folder of the reaction cut-ins. But I'm not really capable of data mining.

>>4441591
https://mega.nz/folder/FEJmyT7S#JuWVjfu62qrPPpmby46x8g

This folder was first posted in the /vmg/ thread and continues to be updated with new assets.

>>4441593
Oh cool. Thank you very much!
Maybe we should add that to this thread's OP too.

>>4441594
I don't mind, but as a heads-up I'm planning to move it to a different account to make space on my main one next month, so the link will probably change soon.

>>4441704

>>4441705
BIRI BIRI TIME!

>have trouble with the Skullfeather
>look up a video about it
>a madman kills it with story accurate 31-A and 30-G A teams
My goodness.

>>4442128
I also beat it story accurate. But doing it with A styles is nuts...

>>4442544
I swear I saw a version of this with karerin in the suit.

>>4442989
The HiguKoju artists finally returned from his grave, being revived with 200% more fuel.

>some unit upgrades reference floors higher than the last floor of the Clock Tower (28)
Huh. Talk about teasers.

>>4442991
>The HiguKoju artists finally returned from his grave, being revived with ∞% more fuel.
FTFY. Anything is infinitely more than nothing

>>4443072
I think you could generoulsly pretend that the JiguKoju interactions in Koju's original event were ever so slightly shippable.
That's 1%.

Really ironic how we will never see Niina in a suit, while we got Ichiko in one of the best looking ones in the game.

This is one of the cutest RukaYukki scenes in the whole game!

Lover's suicide is also totally yuri! Though it seems more appropiate for KareTsuka.

It's amazing that the generally heteronormative Megumin is the biggest apostle of homosexual marriage.

What the heck happened here Yostar? They couldn't decide on what to call Adel's event, so they just went for both in the gallery? How does something like this even happen? They have to literally split the CGs where they werent split before...

>>4443180
being heteronormative isn't the same as being anti-gay. It's just understanding that gays are a minority

>>4443198
No that is not what heteronormativity is. Heteronormativity is being so stupidly oblivious to sexual minorities that every tinstitution, media and thought automatically assumes everything is het and goes completely blind to gay people.

They are not anti-gay, they are basically too ignorant to even consider gays in any scenario unless they are directly told to.

>>4443203
As for why this applies to Megumin, just play 4.2. In the dome she is constantly acting weirdly heteronormative and can't understand why women flirting with other women would have any effect etc. It's really weird and inconsistent, because she almost never shows that side of herself at the military base.
That juxtaposition is even funnier if you consider that these dome ladies (and Lumi) are acting so casually gay despite living around men, so it's not even because domes are more "normal".

They really went the extra mile with the animations in this event. Like when else are they going to use the running animations, or the jumping, or the ballerina spin?
There's also the sprite animation where Yuina does something that blows Miya's mask right off. That's the kind of effort that separates the gold medal from the silver.

>>4443214
What event are you even talking about? YuiMiya aren't in either of the current events?
The Miya mask blown off animation has been in the game for ages. At least since Miya's first memory episode.

>>4443224
Sorry for not specifying. I mean the suits interlude between chapters 4 and 5.

>YuiMiya aren't in either of the current events
True, just remembering another example of an animation that so far I've only seen once.

>>4443238
Ah right. True interlude 2 had a lot of new 3D model animations. They don't get this ambitious again until some later events, but lately they are really having fun with the model posing and animations. Probably ever since 5.1 to be exact.
>that so far I've only seen once
It happens in several memory episodes (recollections in EN), the Byakko event and Miya's own event I think.

>>4443338
Danboorubot you goddamn retard... check the thread before lazily reposting >>4442989

Of course my disdain for the Slutkasa outfit doesn't just disappear, but this KareTsuka official 4koma is actually redeeming it a little.

>>4443424
I feel like the 4koma is selling Karerin x Dumbkasa better than the game sometimes. I guess I need more of those "That's my Tsukasa-san!" moments from karerin when Dumbkasa says something adorkably stupid.

Aoi's bday means IchiAo art!

But I also go leftover HiguIchi.

So I picked this up again from a long break and I'm finally doing ch 4 (still at part 1) but I have some questions.
I'm rushing through the main story to get up to speed before ch 5 releases so I haven't done almost any side events.
I've heard that Karen x Tojo only really becomes a thing during ch4 but I didn't expect it to happen this way.
In day 5 or whatever Karen explains how she developed twin personalities, triggering an outburst and Tojo manages to subdue her. The next day Karen is like "I know you'll keep me at bay as long as we're always together" and whatnot.
But I gotta say, it all felt too abrupt and out of place (with all the other stuff happening at the same time). It was more like they were just pairing the spares as quickly as possible or something.
Now here's my main question, is there a side-event or something I should've read before that made the moment more predictable or that "softened the blow"? If so, what should I have read?

>>4443859
I don’t recall any event that could have “soften the blow”. If anything, most of their development is background. Running around the base during free time you’ll see they hang out with each other a lot even before Chapter 4. Besides, awakened only became a thing near the end of Chapter 3, it’s undoubtedly what sparked their relationship so their development is slower than the other two 31-A pairs.

>>4443859
Please stop rushing and just play the content normally. You will gain absolutely nothing from that.

>>4443868
Agreed pre-chapter 3 there was just background build up of them getting along. But only after awakened Tsukasa enters the scene to be a counter to Karen-chan do things really start.
That being said one should absolutely do Tsukasa's and Karen's bond episodes in both parts of chapter 4 and at least some of their memory episodes to see their relationship get more attention.

>>4443868
I guess it makes sense that having something in familiar (dual personality) would make them closer, it just felt a bit rushed I guess.
But yeah, I noticed them being together most of the time but like I said, it looked more like they were together just because they were the spares.
>>4443870
I'm not "rushing" per se, I just meant to say I was doing the main story first before doing the side events.
>>4443871
I've done those whenever they're available during free time but Tsukasa's was just about her reading an isekai and Karen's was just Ruka taking her places to play games.
Oh, nevermind, while writing the rest of the reply I reread your post and noticed the "bond episodes in both parts of chapter 4" bit.

>>4443877
I would dearly recommend to at least take a look at the content order guide in the OP. There are story events that are considered very important and should not be skipped. It also tells you what requirements events and recollections have so you dont spoil yourself. >>4423700 (OP)

>>4443886
I was mostly doing it because I wanted enough crystals to get suit Tama, before her banner goes away.
I have suit Tsukasa, Karen, Yuki and Megumi already.

>>4443893
>>4443886
Actually, looking at the "Thematic Play Order" the only thing not tagged as (Optional*) that I haven't read in the correct order was the Swimsuit 1 event.

>>4443877
Well you weren’t the only one who thought that, Tsukasa’s VA also said they felt like spares. Though it’s likely because RukaYuki and MeguTama were established first so KareTsuka were the last ones remaining to seal the deal

>>4443902
I always thought of that as a joke. KareTsuka were clearly established pretty early on. They do have a good dynamic even in chapter 1-3, but yeah it takes some chsracter development for them to go further. 5.2 was really the turning point for them though. Now it's at least RukaYukki level.

>>4443893
Rushing for pulls rarely is worth it anon. There are also a lot of sources for quartz in the game. Beating events already gives you a lot in event shops, so I think doing more events and bond episodes would actually give you a better overall pay out. Assuming you are behind on the bonds/socialisations, I recommend doing all of those. 200 quartz per bond does add up.

>>4443859
Even the VAs joked about being the leftover couple lol

>>4443904
Again, "rushing" was a poor choice of word from my part, I'm just going through it normally.
But good point about the 200 quartz/bond thing.
>>4443902
>>4443905
I don't have a problem with that trope to be honest, I just found it jarring how they went about it. It all just felt way too sudden when there's the whole Flat Hand thing and Megumin's edgy arc going on at the same time.
And that's with me going into ch 4 knowing their relationship would develop, think it'd feel even stranger if I didn't. I kinda expected it to happen when things calmed down/during some down time.

>>4441706
It continues

Aoi is actually strong enough to do this.

Recently started playing this game and I'm enjoying how gay it is. I saw someone post this while we were discussing the game and I have to ask is this true? Does the game have some het stories thrown in just for the sake of making some of the girls straight? That would suck if it's true.

>>4445068
They need to ban this anit-HBR retard already.
No, he is full of shit. I don't get how you could have seen that post and not the many responses calling the idiot out. Come on, use some common sense.

>>4445068
At worst there's some horny baiting. Beyond that not really. There is some currently JP only part involving Wakki people bitch is het but to what extent I don't know as I'm a globalfag. For all I know it could simply be "male talks to girl so they're fucking" concernbaiting that's common from /a/ invaders

>>4445077
It's below even subtext and the guy involved in that story is dead. It's absolutely irrelevant.
Really think about this for a moment: A single non-canon het imaginary pairing even being hinted at for a single moment is somehow undoing the 999% yuri of the rest of the game for this one retard? That is not real. He doesn't play the game as has been proven many times before. He is literally praisin g R1999 as the super yuri game, even though it has actual males in its gacha and real het couples (although minor).

To sum it up, this moron has a particular hateboner for Jun Maeda, the main writer of HBR. He is just projecting and trying to cause as much bad press for the game as possible, without even the basic knowledge of its contents. He just occasionally regurgitates ragebait from stuff he heard thirdhand.

Are we clear now?

>>4445079
Funniest thing is that there's literally a memory story that released with 5.2 about Higumi trying to concert Wakki to lesbianism, which show how self-aware Maeda was.

>>4445074
Relax anon. 1 the post wasn't even here and 2 I'm the only person they were talking to.

>>4445089
To be fair, we don't know who wrote the memory episode. I doubt Maeda is writing all of this minor side-content. But he is generally consulted on almost any writing in the game, so he would at least have known about it and approved of it.

One thing to note though is that memo stories are made long before the associated styles release, which means this was written alongside 5.2. That means from the beginning they had written this memo story in which Wakki shows clear and undeniable attraction to women.
So the idea that Wakki was ever even considered to be potentially straight is just laughable.

>>4445092
I already know that it's from the gacha thread or the like. We kicked the schizo out of this thread and he doesn't dare come back, because he got deleted and banned for his trolling.
I will relax when people stop even entertaining those half-assed misinformation failure posts.

>>4445068
Ching-chong ping-pong propaganda. Or trolling.

>>4445098
It was on the Hoyo thread. I posted that I was enjoying HBR and the bits of yuri in R1999 than the yuri in Hoyo games and people didn't take that too kindly. Anyways thank you for confirming things for me

>>4445068
Praising R1999 when it’s rumoured one of the new writers doesn’t like yuri is appalling. The chapter HBR even got hetshit in has more development for one of the main couples so it should be the least of our concerns

>>4445100
If it's any consolation, you are 100% right about Hoyoshit. I mean, there literally isn't any actual yuri in those games, because they can't add any without drawing the ire of the CCP.
Hoyoshit's "yuri" is solely carried by fan content. HBR yuri is actually supported by the writers.

>>4445101
I didnt really post that for it to turn into R1999 hate. I really just wanted confirmation on some things, which I got now

>>4445101
Just like Path to Nowhere and the anti-yuri writers getting the reins there. I think this is a concerted effort by the government to regulate media to be honest. They are probably requiring certain people with certain views to get into high positions at game companies. It's way too much of a coincidence that so many writers who "don't like yuri" get hired for social games that have yuri.

Is HBR Jun Maeda's first foray into yuri?

>>4445068
>male getting bettwen yuri novels
i don't remember maeda writing this?

>>4445104
With how the CN government has been adamant with arresting yaoi authors I won’t be surprised if they told off game companies to stop writing yuri beyond implications. HBR is produced in Japan but they do have a CN server, I very much hope they don’t bow down to CN censorship

>>4445141
No. When he was in his super suicidal depressive phase after the Charlotte anime debacle he wrote a super depressing and dark book about two lesbians. Not a fun read, but that was kind of his turning point. It's probably not an exaggeration to say yuri somewhat pulled him out of his rut. HBR was also the first project that seemed to spark his interest again and he has been very heavy on pushing for the yuri in it.
If you wanna be generous, lots of his famous VNs for Key and even Angel Beats had yuri subtext for certain girls. He even canonizes the AB pairing in the HBR collab event, which is says a lot in my opinion.

>>4445143
As keeps getting said whenever this retard appears, this never happened.

>>4445177
It has already been confirmed many times that JP/KR/EN are unaffected by whatever the CN server does. That's why it is seperate in the first place. If the CN server censors stuff (and I think it already did?) then it won't affect anyone else.
HBR is small enough to kinda fly under the radar right now in CN I think.

>>4445198

>release an OD focused character
>Absolutely gut the OD system
This is a next level type of retardedness. OD was never the issue with the gameplay. A huge part of the deeper complexity and fun of the game was building together teams to min turn fights. The problem with the shitty gameplay now is that crit pierce invalidates all elemental teams. I've literally been using the same team for every SA ever since admiral Yanagi came out. Admiral Yanagi, Sumono, Yui, Kura, Miya/Maki/Fubuki is so braindead and can get you 2 mil + on every single SA. It even gives you a free slot so you can farm the SA medal for every single character. I've never had to use any other element because there's literally no reason to. There's also the bs that killing the OD system like this nerfs a whole group of styles that were focused on building OD. There's so many different ways they could've went down to make the fights more interesting, but they chose the most backwards incompetent one

Pretty disappointed in the OD changes. It was obviously pretty overpowered in conjunction with certain styles, but just slapping a cooldown onto it with the only compensation being a damage buff basically feels like it takes so many older styles and guts them.

This is doubly insulting because newer styles gives a huge combination of extra turns in the form of doubling up buffs and being turn based over single use, extra SP/reduced SP usage either outright or because you have to cast fewer buffs, and extra OD. Imagine using Suit Tama in 2025 without the modern units and these OD changes. If you have no party turn based buffer and/or a buffer/debuffer to break, you need to spend 30 SP, taking up 3 turns and it "only" gives you 3 buffs. Compared to Yanagi, who does all this and more in 1 turn with less SP usage. Imagine even thinking about using 1 turn debuffers when you need to OD early because Yunyun needs 33 goddamn SP just to apply 2 buffs and 45 when you want her to apply the def down.

Not only are the best buffers such a joke, it seems like any modern blaster or attacker comes built in with reduced SP usage, no usage limits, huge self buffs, and party wide sp regen. I have no style from 2025, and prior to that the only styles I have were the AB units, Sumomo, and then Summer Karen. Sumomo is the only experience I have in the stupid bullshit department, but I didn't care about the powercreep because nothing is that difficult yet. Maybe it still won't be after the OD changes (I don't think I could have done the last 5 SAs without Aina looping), but even though it probably wasn't intentional, it feels like a huge middle finger to anyone who hasn't rolled the admirals/Bungo/Dress Ruka or like every other modern style if you still want to use elements and have the audacity to think they still deserve to clear content.

And this isn't even getting into why in the world they would put in a hard limit of 9.

Planned obsolescence is starting to kick in, I guess. Just wait until they start releasing enemies that more or less require these newer styles to reliably defeat.

>>4445347
Enough doomposting. They've been releasing cracked styles for years now and the content never made the rest of the pool obsolete.

I love how the gameplay has been the same repetitive snorefest ever since elemental overwriters and critical pierce and instead of implementing their gimmicks like multiple DP bars and E-shield into Score Attack, they decide to nerf an entire system because Unison Bungo was breaking Arts Battle, which only 300 or 200 players take seriously.

The game mechanics whining aside, the new styles are really nice. Actual tasteful summer/beach outfits! It seems despite everything they intend to keep giving Muua nice outfits instead of hornybait. I appreciate it.

Muua becoming a Defender just makes so much sense to be honest. She would love to take the hits for everyone! lol
Giving her tokens might even reference that thing about her building up to "sage mode" when she climaxes from being abused...

Niina is fucking gorgeous. Finally I see why she is supposed to be a model. Kidding, her onsen style already showed that off. Pretty outfits > cool outfits > cute outfits > cosplay > hiornyshit.

The self make-up passive is kinda cute as an idea. It won't do anything, but I love giving characters more unique status effects.

Niina being dark elemental unit confirms that dark styles are 31E's next rotation then. If Ichiko's SS2 hadnt been wasted on the fire wedding style she might have got a dark style already.

Now only Minori needs an SS3 for 31E to have a full set.

>>4445605
Also did they "buff" Niina's bust size...?

>idol Aoi event
>Wakki
Threatening to open a can of surstromming in an inhabited area should get you branded as a terrorist. Also, is nobody going to question why there are 100 Adels running around?

>Shiki
Couping the govt because you wanted a country wide harem. Gotta appreciate the hustle.

>>4445881
The best part is the IchiAo fuel to be honest. They kinda mirrored chapter 2, but gave Ichigo the opportunity to actually open up about her feelings.
If only the cowards at WFS didnt leave it open ended. It's an AU, make them a damn couple!

The hell Nanamin...

YotsuVri is getting a little intense now!

>>4446535
>Yotsuha
>doing anything as physically intensive as kissing

>>4446547
Who says Vri-chan isn't doing most of the work? Also Yottsun can actually do it when she puts her mind to it for someone she loves, like when she supports her sisters.

Could the Ohshimas, or at least Ichiko, resist Risa's mommy energy?
Also, babu

>>4446591
No.

>>4445598
>>4445605
If thisd becomes a new theme for 31E, then I can see them giving each sister a different flower like they did for Muua and Niina here.
But they didn't even finish the yukata theme with Ichiko yet...

>31-D hasn't had a dedicated team banner
>31-F has had only one
Damn. Those are the teams I need to reinforce most.

>>4446916
I mean the best 31-F member frequently has her events with a special squad and the other good team member is more tied to a member of 30-G when she does appear

>>4446938
You really think Maru-chan is the best 31F member?
True on Inori though, she is basically glued to Hisame. Ship > squad.

>>4446938
So to get those units from those squads, I'm going to have to risk pulling in the general gacha. I'll be damned, and a damned fool, to try that.

>>4447756
new thread