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Sex

>>531016084
>Volume 3 only works so well because it's heavily frontloaded with CGDCT
People say this with Higurashi, too.
But I actually agree.
(Although maybe less with Higurashi because holy fuck some of those batsu geimu SoL segments could really drag on)

>>531016613
LADS would have a word. Males can make tons of money.

>>531016617
She's too young for that

Chise doodle for Chise birthday. Happy birthday, cheese.

remember when muvluv had two CGDCT games before it went starship troopers mecha edgy?

>>531012740
I'm here until eos

>>531016875
Kino

Sensei is noticing again. This requires punishment.

would hasumi be a good mom and wife?

>JP 4.5 anniversary stream in a week
What can be realistically expected from this?

>>531014908
>>531015189
Huh.

As far as I'm aware, Iroha has never been shown with her ears revealed in any "definitely official, definitely canon" artwork. Am I missing something?
It's possible there's something in an anthology, or in an artbook.

>>531017015
statistically speaking, she has at least 3 parfaits

Am I the only one who likes Neru? Why are there so many posts about how she is the least popular student and how someone else should've gotten the fes alt

How do I fix the bug where the free rolls don’t give me Seia

>>531016671
well I mean, that is how to do things properly, it shouldn't be a controversial opinion

"get people invested and interested in your characters, and then fuck with them"

Even Attack on Titan did that, though I'd say AoT had problems down the road.

https://magma.com/d/4c9Rag6y9i
https://magma.com/d/4c9Rag6y9i
https://magma.com/d/4c9Rag6y9i
There's a lot of room, come draw in the aggie /bag/

>>531016734
They are catered to self denial fujo females who can't say they like gay men. Not straight men who have outgrown such manchild fantasies and understand the real world is much more cutthroat and competitive than we thought.

>>531017039
>Other summer students
>4.5 anniversary student(s)

>>531017079
Hmm. So you're saying it's possible she may be an elf?

>>531016609
>Forgot about Iroha
>Forgot about Himari
>Forgot about Sakurako
WAKE UP SHEEPLIE

>>531017143
Don't listen to morons. They're stupid and Neru is fucking cool.

>>531016926
I guess they're going back?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIRkEjodiZo

>>531017251
Yes, I am saying that.

lads
we gotta shave iroha

>>531017143
>Am I the only one who likes Neru?
i'm sorry to be the one to tell you but yes, we hate neru around here

>>531016608
QRD on the significance of crows in biblical lore?

>>531017224
Yeah obviously, but which ones?

>>531016895
I laughed

Neru Ur a meshi

>>531017252
>>Forgot about Iroha
Unknown
>>Forgot about Himari
Himari isn't a school leader, she isn't a member of Seminar. In fact, she's the president of a group that directly opposes the student government of her school (Veritas)
>>Forgot about Sakurako
Not an elf, and also not a member of Tea Party

>>531017321
In the Bible crows are a symbol of God's judgement, often appearing before or after God passes judgement on someone.

>>531017039
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2loyvavYx8
Take a guess.

>>531017143
I like her, but then again I like that archetype of character. Wish she was taller though.

>>531017195
>Check aggide
>My drawing earned itself a tiny Seia
I'm an artist now. Suck my ass niggers.

>>531017079
Damn, thats such an erotic ibuki! Look at that seamless transition between her thighs and tummy!!

She's super cute

>>531017143
People hate her? Really? I mean, not everybody love tomboys, but she seems like a nice character for this setting.

>>531016734
>Bro we gotta cater to the male market and put males in our game and ship all the girls with them, literally 100% of other games already do Omni pandering and it always fails, and blue archive is like the one game that doesn't do omnipandering and we're dominating the doujinshi market for the last four years straight, but surely this time surely omnipandering work out for the best. Imagine how much more money we'll make appealing to wider demographics, that's what this game should be about
No

>>531016875
The rad chise

>>531017263
yo thats cool

>>531017161
Have you try buying pakeji Sensei

I still don't understand what the actual difference is between Nameless Priests and Nameless Gods and Forgotten Gods.
What's with this game throwing all this wacky terminology around, it gets even worse with them throwing names like Utnapishtim or Naram-Sin or Atrahaxis or what not.

Does any of this have any actual lore significance or is it just setpiece dressing meant to sound cool? Kinda like how Eva uses christian imagery but it doesn't actually mean anything

>>531017143
You're literally reading posts from a fucking weirdo who's been complaining about Neru for actual years. Literally since the game's first year launch.
A load of people like her a lot and want to fuck her, myself included.
I'm pretty sure she's one of the moshttps://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/text/neru%20ugly/order/asc/t popular characters.

>>531017675

It may not seem like it but this is a Hasumi general.

>>531016861
I hope the reveal is fun when Kokona learns that her big sister deliberately turns herself into a little girl when the opportunity presents itself

>>531017694
>Does any of this have any actual lore significance or is it just setpiece dressing meant to sound cool? Kinda like how Eva uses christian imagery but it doesn't actually mean anything
That's exactly what it is

>>531017321
During the final days god told the crows to feed upon the kings of the earth

>>531016734
Tch.
You were talking to the very reason there conveniently are neither NPC not students that are human male-shaped. Let's be real, NEXON is just avoiding Kim In Cel kermitting Allahu Akbar on their HQ.

>>531017487
Yeah yeah we know the format, smartass, but what about the actual reveals? Game modes? Anything?
Do any of you even give a shit about the stream

I had a dream where I was watching a BA anime dubbed by 4kids.

Rate this Chise shrine.

531017143
You guys always fall for low level bait

I like Neru's ugly gremlin face. It's the kind of face you want to cum all over.

>>531017694
>Nameless Priests
Mystery niggas who praise the nameless gods
>Nameless Gods
Think of this like primordial unknown entities of supreme power--the representations of nature so strong and awesome that they defy naming. They're almost like "the titans" of greek myth. The "Chroma" is not a nameless god, but instead a weird being that the Priests rely on because it's useful. The Nameless Gods are dead, gone, and have been replaced by the Forgotten Gods
>Forgotten Gods
think of this as "gods and mythical beings that you know". Angels, gods like Odin, demons, youkai and so on. These are...the students.

>>531017251
She’s 100 percent a pure semen demon

>>531017873
Isn't that just the CN version of Blue Archive?

>>531017905
bing

>>531017694
All justification for how all playables are girls.
Conveniently.

>>531017905
bing

>>531017905
Bing/10

>>531017812
Well that's retarded because I don't see what it even adds other than making the reading experience less smooth via obfuscation
I looked these terms up and I get they're related to near-east bronze age belief systems and what not, but none of that theming is making any coherent sense to me and doesn't appear to me to leave its mark on the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atra-Hasis
like what the hell does any of this have to do with some fuckhuge spaceship colony thing that you invade in Volume F?

>>531017712
>>531017143
inserted that link weirdly, oops
>I'm pretty sure [Neru is] one of the most popular characters.
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/text/neru%20ugly/order/asc/

>>531017905
bing

>>531017957
True. It would be incredibly hot if she begrudgingly let you do that.

>>531016734
Yes and there's no shipping in that game, it's literally just the FeMC with the boys.
It's just gender-reversed BA, but with 3D Males.
If they suddenly add playable female into that game then those would flop too.

>>531018045
the name is just a name in that case, like you can name a ship "Athena" or something but Athena was not a ship

>>531017694
>Nameless Priests
Those who serve the Nameless Gods
>Nameless Gods
Suppose to be Lovecraftian Outer Gods
>Forgotten Gods
Various Gods from mythology and our students themselves

>>531016734
For women? Yeah? Duh?

Stop saying it.

>>531017905
There is no cheese on that shrine

>>531018201
bing

>>531018201
congrats

>>531017115
umm, how does that correlate the good wife/mom scale

>>531018090
Oh there it is... What exactly THOSE people don't like.

>>531017582
Kaya's just an idiot kid and that's why I love her

Cheese hole

Reminder, all specific student "hate" posts are schizos.

>>531018260
5 parfaits on the scale

I have a question if we’re talking about lore: where did the decagrammaton lolis come from? Like were they also AIs he inspired or were they created or something

bingo

>>531017143
ignore the weak penis crowd

>>531018181
Why doesn't this pink thing have an alt yet?

The weak should fear the strong

>>531012740
high quality chibis, very cute girls, only takes a bit of my time per day, I like that the story / events are usually pretty lighthearted
outside of that... I do of course like that we get so much fanart and also how comfy this general is, despite being a pretty fast + gacha general

>>531017694
>Everything is meaningless, right??
>Instantly replies to yourself saying "yes that's right there is no lore, nothing matters this game is meaningless and no one should read anything I hate it so much"
Okay I guess you got exactly the answer you wanted then

forgotten gods are the students, which is why volume 3 has the chapter "Kyrie for the forgotten gods". They are gods who have forgotten their own names and identities, living out Kivotos in peace under new identities. Remembering their true selves is actually seen as a bad thing when it happens, it's better that they let go and become someone new rather than holding onto the past.

The priests worship the nameless gods, because they are the nameless priests. They are the previous civilization that used to live here, they created Alice and all the other evil technology scattered around Kivotos. The ruins are the result of the priests. They're seething about the forgotten gods living on their planet, even though theyre already dead..we don't have a huge amount of lore on the nameless gods just yet

Utnaptism is a Mesopotamian figure that's seen as a precursor to Noah
Arthesis is the story of Utnaptism
Every word you don't understand in the story is most likely a biblical reference or a Mesopotamia reference since everything in Blue Archive is about the Bible
Each of the schools are different mythologies
The Shittim chest is the ark of the covenant that brought down the walls of Jericho. Which is why when sensei activated it he calls upon the wails of Jericho
Everything that you think is absolutely meaningless in this game, actually has an explanation most likely, and about 90% of it can be explained. But there will always be people that scream and cry "everything is meaningless stop thinking stop thinking" if you ever try to explain or explore any of it in these threads

>>531017958
>>531018165
Thank you, this cleared things up somewhat, at least on that front. Do Nameless Gods and Forgotten Gods not really have any stated connection in the game's story? Also it's weird to me Nameless Gods are called as such when really they seem to be more forgotten than the Forgotten Gods themselves, feels like the names should be switched.
>>531018129
I get that but it's a bit much when every other word is some abstraction that's referencing something else except not really. Maybe I'm still just kind of annoyed at Volume F throwing a bunch of terminology at you about how you have to escape the Chroma by launching the Ark ship from the District of Utnapishtim so that you can break through the multidimensional barrier using DiviSion'sAtrahasis protocol and reach the throne of Naram Sin deep within the Ark of Atrahasis.

Fuck.

all me

>>531018451
They are literally tech-priest who worship Deca

>>531018493
John Nexon hates Koyuki fans.

>>531018451
>where did the decagrammaton lolis come from? Like were they also AIs he inspired or were they created or something
It is EXTREMELY unclear. As far as I can tell, similar to how Decagrammaton simply came to be, the 3 lolis also "simply came to be", they just exist now and no, Decagrammaton did not create them. Their names are based on concepts of "light" or something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Sof
>This is the origin of the Ohr Ein Sof or "Infinite Light" of paradoxical divine self-knowledge, nullified within the Ein Sof before creation.
Yeah uhhh
"paradox entities" I guess. They came to exist at the same time as "god" and worship god. Nobody made them.

>>531018476
This is one of my favorite artists

I am quite fond of Chisefan

What did Black Suit mean by being careful about using our credit card else we end up like him?

>>531018507
Noom would never bully Yume senpai (2.0)

>>531012740
It's fantastic and hasn't slipped in any significant way in 4+ years

I'm a day 1 JP player

>>531018451
Decagammon created them to hatch Malkuth

>>531018568
> Do Nameless Gods and Forgotten Gods not really have any stated connection in the game's story?
They are enemies

Our game is getting dunked on by normies at /r/games and /r/gaming

>>531018741
But either aren't aware of each other's existence, are they? I mean none of the students at least seem to be aware, or at least i don't recall any of them mentioning the forgotten gods at all or any past memories involving them. they just do... regular schoolgirl stuff

>>531018702
The card sacrifices your humanity each time you use it

>>531018816
SHUT THE FUCK UP AKO

>>531017694
A lot of Eva's Christian/Kabbalist/Gnostic imagery actually IS meaningful but not in a literal sense. Adam/Lilith, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Magi, the Sefirot in EoE, etc all have plot-relevant connections to their original theological concepts. People heard (correctly) that NGE isn't about real word religion and it bloomed into this misconception that ALL of the religious references in NGE are purely for stylistic flair, like a game of telephone.

This isn't the case for BA, you may be able to draw some tenuous connections here and there but if you hear reference to any Sumerian or Semitic concept in the story it's probably just to sound cool.

>>531018702
Black Suit looks like that because he got into so much credit card debt they took his face as collateral

>>531018867

can you retards shut up and post some sex

>>531018045
Every single terminology in this game has a meaning. Anyone who says otherwise is a tourist.

>Atra-Hasis (Akkadian: 𒀜𒊏𒄩𒋀, romanized: Atra-ḫasīs) is an 18th-century BC Akkadian epic, recorded in various versions on clay tablets[1] and named for one of its protagonists, the priest Atra-Hasis ('exceedingly wise').[2] The narrative has four focal points: An organisation of allied gods shaping Mesopotamia agriculturally; a political conflict between them, pacified by creating the first human couples; the mass reproduction of these humans; and a great deluge, as has been handed down many times in the different flood myths of mankind. Perhaps the relic of a natural catastrophe in Mesopotamia caused by rising sea level at the end of the last glacial period,[3][better source needed] the epic links this flood with the intention of the upper gods to eliminate their artificial creatures.

>The name "Atra-Hasis" also appears, as a king of Shuruppak on the Euphrates in the times before that flood, on one of the Sumerian King Lists.[4] The oldest known copy of the epic tradition concerning Atrahasis[i] can be dated by colophon (scribal identification) to the reign of Hammurabi’s great-grandson, Ammi-Saduqa (1646–1626 BC). However, various Old Babylonian dialect fragments exist, and the epic continued to be copied into the first millennium BC.[5]:8–15

>The story of Atrahasis also exists in a later Assyrian dialect version, first rediscovered in the Library of Ashurbanipal, though its translations have been uncertain due to the artifact being in fragmentary condition and containing ambiguous words. Nonetheless, its fragments were first assembled and translated by George Smith as The Chaldean Account of Genesis, the hero of which had his name corrected to Atra-Hasis by Heinrich Zimmern in 1899.

Names are power

>>531018705
My daughter is so cute. I'm gonna rape her

>>531018836
The Forgotten Gods unironically forget about them

>>531018428
okay...

>>531019102
Its not rape if its your property.

>>531018556
So does this mean when a student goes into terror form it’s them like I guess reawakening as their old identity? That would actually make a lot of sense

>>531018568
>Do Nameless Gods and Forgotten Gods not really have any stated connection in the game's story?
We don't know much about it, but basically "yes", though you could say from how things are worded that "the forgotten gods overtook the nameless gods". Perhaps it was a fight, perhaps there was an apocalypse, but we don't really know. The "age" of the Nameless Gods and Priests still lingers. Aris is an invention of the Priests for example, and the intended princess of those old gods, which grants her some truly freakish power (even more than you've seen so far, she is in fact very similar to your true understanding of "a god"). The priests themselves are obviously "gone", but also not. They seem to come in and out of time, and we have no idea why.

I can kinda get what you mean, but the forgotten gods are kinda like...are you familiar with Touhou? Touhou's Gensokyo exists because myth has been "forgotten", however they are not unnamed. An amanojaku is still an amanojaku, but in modern day the fear of an amanojaku has been forgotten. It isn't "real". BA (which definitely knows and references Touhou Project) is similar. Take Mika for instance, who is representative in several ways of the Angel Michael. She has that name, and many characters also have "names" they're associated with, but the "truth" is forgotten (such as with Shiroko, who "is" Anubis and also possibly Wepwawet)

What was the trigger warning before the sex box event? I accidently closed it out before I could read it.

Kill Nerushit

>>531019229
spoilers

>>531018836
Clockman implies this isn't the first version of Kivotos, the world maybe resets occasionally and the rules change each time
Of course we don't know what he means since he's quite schizophrenic being locked in his tiny dimension for thousands of years

>>531018556
>The priests worship the nameless gods, because they are the nameless priests
Very tautological but alright, I'll buy that for now. Guessing their origin isn't exactly explained and there's more that can be said there
I guess my main gripe is that, going through Volume 3, a lot of the biblical references made perfect sense to me, why they'd include it in the story and how it ties to the overall message.
I don't get any of that same feeling of integration with, say, the Mesopotamian references.

I'm obviously not as familiar with those as I am the Christian ones but even after doing online research it still isn't clear to me what significance they have beyond the mere surface level. I find it wanting compared to they handled Christianity and even potentially its split with Arianism (the name 'Arius' was definitely not lost on me)

does kaho know what sex is

>>531019046
Oh yeah well what does bing mean?

you guys can't control your spending
you guys aren't financially responsible
you guys weigh more than she does
you guys have a receding hairline
yuuka did nothing wrong

>>531018938
well the shittim chest does seem to be the ark of the covenant, tho

>>531017079
Pandemonium is one of the best clubs for how good all five of them are, good lord.

>>531017694
BA's lore is basically the whole "Mystery Box" idea of story telling and half the things they thrown out don't even have an answer yet and will be figured out later at best or are just meant to bait the 2deep4u lore autists into writing the story for the writers and giving the illusion of depth which doesn't actually exist.

Make no mistake, there actually is some real world building and lore with a degree of structure to it, vague and not in focus as most of this is. However, the world building is also a disjointed mess that relies on building mystery with little intent of ever answering it. Especially with a huge chunk of the original creative team, particularly the former lead writer for the setting, having left to do Red Archive and are on record wanting to sabatoge the game. If they didn't keep the real answers, if they ever had any, to themselves before passing things over I'd be incredibly surprised.

If they ever do start trying to seriously answer this stuff get worried that EoS in imminent.

>>531019405
bing is sex

>>531019417
Aoi is better

>>531019173
Their original self would be more like The Sublime

The terror is a broken awakening brought about through despair and darkness.
Students are mystics, the other side of the mystic is the terror
While the sublime is the most mysterious of all.

>>531019417
False
False
True
True
True

>>531019405

>>531018045
>none of that is making any sense
then you're just retarded. the entire world of kivotos is made out of reincarnation of gods, spiritual deities, and other supernatural/mythical beings that unironically got isekai'd into a containment zone. all of the students have connection to said gods and have formed their own society from their original self and connections they had with others in their "previous life." this is why the nameless priests were so livid when shiroko converted because her true nature was the god of death anubis. also when hoshino converted to horus, set appeared seemingly out of nowhere just to kill horus. all the sumerian, judeo-christian, western european, egyptian, shinto related mythology all play a role in their respective schools.

>>531017772
That artist's Tsurugi is cute.

>>531017039
PLEASE

>>531019046
>Every single terminology in this game has a meaning
Oh shit anon WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

>>531019629
>the entire world of kivotos is made out of reincarnation of gods, spiritual deities, and other supernatural/mythical beings that unironically got isekai'd into a containment zone. all of the students have connection to said gods and have formed their own society from their original self and connections they had with others in their "previous life."
Finally, a simple straightforward explanation for a new players.

>>531019229
volume F spoilers

>>531019545
Something I've said for awhile, if you don't read the Intros before the various raid bosses then you're never going to understand the deep lore in this game
For some reason that's the place where Gematria actually explains all this shit

guns dont bing

>>531019681
Those are general pool designs at best, being very generous in that estimation

Why can't Blue Archive have nice stuff like this?

>>531019213
>Aris is an invention of the Priests for example, and the intended princess of those old gods, which grants her some truly freakish power
why would they do this and make their Supreme Being look like some naked 12 year old girl

>>531019808
it's a bing gun

>>531019845
The characters are almost all underage so they can't go that hard on coomer stuff.

>>531019756
So would mystic be closer to their original self then? This is so interesting to me

>>531019756
Gematria could comprehend the terror, perhaps even the mystic
The sublime of Kivotos was far too much for them to comprehend

>>531018568
It's because you're speedreading. All of the terms and their connections have been thoroughly researched by the community from the small hints the devs threw at us for many years. They just expected you to be able to have figured out the lore on your own. They don't explain SHIT directly other than extremely obvious hints. Also everything you just said, you should know what they mean and how they apply to this game's fictional world if you studied in school for a little bit.

Nagi summer alt will sell billions

>>531019864
If you were going to make a supreme being wouldn't you want to make it a naked 12 year old girl?

>>531019832
Not my Niko

>>531019629
>hyakkiyako is shitty low powerwank yokai which is why they don't have any powerhouses
deepest lore

>>531019845
That’s not nice at all. At least post Sky if you’re trying to make it look comparable to blue archive.

>>531019213
>>531019629
>the entire world of kivotos is made out of reincarnation of gods, spiritual deities, and other supernatural/mythical beings that unironically got isekai'd into a containment zone. all of the students have connection to said gods and have formed their own society from their original self and connections they had with others in their "previous life."
....wait a minute, it's all gensokyo?

>>531019845
These l2d animations look so jank

What do newfags think of Mutsuki?

>>531019845
Shitty tweening?

>>531019756
>Skipfag will think Gematria are there to unveil their sinister plot
>Turn out they are nerd who just there to loredump their bro, (You)

so why didn't the game icon change

>>531019845
ugly, gauche, and not what blue archive is about

>>531019934
The sublime

>>531019995
Is BA… some sort of arg?

>>531019128
i want to have sex with cosplayers

>>531019845
God those animations are so bad

>>531019679
That is because Roogi is cute

Is there a list of what students have associated gods/demons/mythology with them or whatever? Like Shiroko/Anubis, Hoshino/Horus, etc

>>531020120
Was it supposed to?

>>531019959
Gematria just didn't try hard enough. Ganbare bros!

okay but what reincarnated god, deity, or supernatural entity is momoi supposed to represent

>>531019372
she certainly seems to imply she's ready to be relentlessly fucked when she offers herself to you for failing
>>531019864
It's genuinely really simply especially if you consider "Key", the aspect of Aris meant to guide her, that Aris was completely without knowledge, and that Sensei is specifically the one to open the door for Aris.

She's a sleeper agent. She's meant to infiltrate the new world, become seeded within it, and destroy it from there. She's devious, is the idea. She is meant to learn and grow and be happy, and then Key will drive her to her true purpose of destruction.

This is why in her "bad ending", you can see that Aris is fucking absolutely delighted while she heralds the apocalypse.

>>531020027
What about Waka

>>531019417
i can
i am
i dont
i dont
bitch

>>531019845
BA isn't trashy like that

>>531020080
always has been

>>531019845
If I wanted AIslop for coomers I can easily say Brown dust 2 is better.

>>531020120
Nexon forgot to change it, as a joke.
>>531020221
JP had the app icon change to pic related

>>531017039
The most generic summer beach slop imaginable

Blue Archive

>>531020027
Michiru is their Hina

>>531019845
Look, your game is about sexdoll, our is about underage girl

Gematria tried to replicate the sublime only once(twice technically)

What they created was a holy abomination, an artificial angel

Almost all the raid bosses in the game (except the Decagammon raid bosses) are basically Gematria fucking around with the terror or sublime trying to comprehend it or replicate it. Although the terror can sometimes come into existence on its own, like Goz. Rumors circulate creating something like a manmade horror created from legends and rumors, a being created from people's fears.

DELETE ARONA

>>531020102
They're hardly dedicated antagonists really. They made ambrosius, gregorius, and barbara solely out of scientific curiosity. The whole kidnapping and potentially killing a student thing along with the general trouble they cause is just necessary groundwork for the practical application of their research

>>531020080
>>531020367
Touhou also has the "new form vs old form of terror" aspect btw. Always has.

>>531020554

>>531020186
Already posted a few ago

So after decagrammaton what is next.
Nothing feels like a threat now. Is volume F really just gonna be volume F forever?

Would you let your daughter do this?

>>531020102
Black Suit makes it quite clear quite quickly that Gematria is not your enemy. He even helps you in your first meeting although he literally has no obligation to.

>>531019995
>All of the terms and their connections have been thoroughly researched by the community from the small hints the devs threw at us for many years
OK let's not be too hasty here, I definitely don't recall stuff like naram-sin even being mentioned or hinted at before volume F.
The literal jewish hebrew stuff sure, you've got your classic tree of life for that.

>>531020518
>Almost
Only Hiero and Greg are created by Gematria

COME THE FUCK ONNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Why is Miyako the cutest girl around?

>>531020674
She's allowed to send me as many nudes as she want.

i can't wait for all the newfags to not complain about all the "random terms" in hyakka 2 just because the words are in japanese

>>531020674
yes (for me only)

>>531020568
Gematria were always just scientists, not villains(except Beatrice)

When they discovered she wasn't a true nerd they rejected her from the club

>>531020186
I don't think there's ever been one gigantic list if that's what you're looking for, especially because quite a few can't be clearly associated with a known mythological figure. Take Valkyrie, for instance. REALLY distinct name of course, but all the Valkyrie students we know cannot be clearly associated with known figures from Norse mythology.

>>531020482
Michiru smells good? You sure?

>>531020776
in fairness even the story TL'ers were wondering wtf was up with some of the kanji names for the books

>>531020240
Millennium is weird and the only character who has been implied to have strange and supernatural abilities is...
not kidding, and I don't get it, but it's only Koyuki actually. No not Himari, only Himari claims she's so special

>>531020953
>>531020240
oh right, sorry, I forgot one more. There's TWO
Fortuna: Asuna

>>531020953
Asuna

>>531020568
>>531020856
This is why I miss Gematria and wish they would bring them back. Having Kaiser as your go-to villain for the next 1-2 years is lame as fuck compared to Gematria doing their thing in the background while also being framed as a neutral party that is yet also a foil to sensei thematically.

>>531021029
Noa is as well.

>>531020674
Is she using a fat filter or something, no way Reisa has hips like that

>>531020953
You forgot Asuna. Her luck is just as supernatural as Koyuker's answer talker.

>The only true antagonist in Blue Archive is a late stage capitalism corpo
Really make you think

>>531020776
I got one random "ninkyo" in Pina's momotalk today. Is that relevant?

>>531020856
>Gematria were always just scientists, not villains
Like hell they aren't. They're willing to do all sorts of fucked up stuff to the girls purely for the name of science. They're bad people that're borderline amoral at best and the fanbase treats them like they're not simply because (You)'re a special exception to them.

>>531020518
an Urban Legend, one might say

crazy how aris just obliterated some helmet gangsters

>>531020865
I honestly would not be surprised if every single student is designed with some god/legend/mythological figure in mind, even if they're only attached in the loosest sense. Like the donuts Fubuki likes are circular and so is a snake eating its own tail so whoops she's a really fucking weird Jormungandr expy

>>531020856
What about the basement dude

>>531019480
>If they ever do start trying to seriously answer this stuff get worried that EoS in imminent.
I know Arknights will probably never EoS and just shamble on like GBF but this is kinda what burned me out on it
In the span of like a year we went from fighting the mafia and trying to save Vichy London to ripping open an artificial sky and fighting interdimensional demons and trying to find a way to cheat the heat death of the universe
It feels like they're trying to wrap the game up for Endfield and I hate it because Endfield looks like shiiiiiiit

Asuna mentioned

What should I be buying from the events
and also how far can I realistically push the quest as someone rank 40 im hard stopped at Quest 8

>>531021147
Blacksuit laughs at you considering those things students, or girls. That's the difference between you. Sensei sees them as children, Blacksuit merely sees them as mystics, things to be dissected or understood, they are just mysteries given form.

>>531021070
Eh, nah, in fairness photographic memory is a real thing people can just have in reality.

>>531020674
You dont have a say in it.

>>531020661
Thunder Emperor, maybe?
Outside of that, there isn't really any, at least in terms of what we know publicly.
Makes me wonder if they got the remaining lead writers doing extensive brainstorming sessions on the overall lore and direction of BA's writing.
just to spend time refocusing on where they want to take the main story, cause after decagrammaton the leads are starting to run out.

>>531021193
So, Aris just murdered six of my precious students in cold blood without feeling any remorse... and she's supposed to be a hero?

>>531021278
Yes, that's kind of the point? They're still sentient, alive, and self-aware individuals with their own thoughts and feelings. Which Gematria absolutely does not give two shits about. They are solidly into the amoral scientist kind of villain archetype.

>>531021087
>Answer Talker
Haven't heard that in a long time...

>>531021367
It's just a random battle bro they're there to be grinded into XP

>>531021276
Just bee yourself

>>531021367
Dont worry, student can handle ap round

>>531021193
Arisu's LV. increased**
**LV = Level of Violence

>>531020757
Buy the pakeji, sensei

>>531021216
What godly figure is Cherino inspired by?

When are our gematria bros coming back i miss them

>>531021526
Tsar Stalin

>>531019417
>you guys can't control your spending
just make more money
>you guys aren't financially responsible
see point 1
>you guys weigh more than she does
naturally as a guy
>you guys have a receding hairline
if I'm bald, then I don't have a hairline therefore it can't recede

>>531021415
It basically is just answer talker
She has no idea how things work, but if she sees a problem, the answer just instantly pops into her head. It's not super intelligence, the answer instantly pops into her head even if it's something impossible for her to ever know, like the combination to a safe she's never seen before, she's instantly just given the answer.

>>531021252
>Endfield looks like shiiiiiiit
You didn't like what you saw?
Surprising, it seems really anticipated from what I've seen. Although I haven't really touched the series so I can't honestly comment much on it beyond that.

>>531020092
Absolute spank and plap material

>>531020661
>>531021068
spoilers for newfags don't touch
Assuming they've been paying attention to post-F goings on, they've got new observable magics to study and replicate. The twilight and manipulating the halos in the sky like malkuth is doing, specifically. Not to mention artificial students if they can get their hands on malkuths cultivation jar
The mad scientist antagonist can work but they need sufficient ground forces and monsters to command. Think the major from Hellsing. It can work, and they can totally be a volumeF-tier threat

>>531021526
Lenin

what's the deal with ako dog walk?

>>531021350
Costco hotdogs... forgotten by bag...

>>531021526
Chernobog

>>531021723
get ako, read her momotalks

>>531016734
>>531017834
This. I'm not normally the type of retard to seethe over male characters, but BA is Korean and I've seen what happens when ricecels see their waifu even acknowledge the presence of a man. You can get away with it in Japan and China, but South Korea is home to a level of mental illness you can't even fathom.

>>531021526
I've heard her name in Japanese is meant to sound like Chernobyl
Although she's probably Stalin

>>531021732
She doesn't seems to be actively malicious, though?

>>531021686
I want to believe but I'll believe it when I see it. It's been so long, too long, even...

>>531018836
At some point in the old world someone stood up and said: "enough of this edgy bullshit, you are just breaking shit and damaging each other for the sake of it"

And then THAT entity changed the narrative and the rules of the world to be from chuunige to moege full of cute girls where the most urgent thing a girl has to worry is about if she's good enough with the piano to play together with her friends

>>531021873
>She doesn't seems to be actively malicious

>>531021723
What's to understand? She's a masochistic bitch with a stick up her ass who gets off on the idea of sensei correcting or humiliating her. It's the closest she ever feels to "relief"

>>531021512
no tranny shit please

>>531021772
Already, I know one certain BA related incident about "other males".

Mahjong Soul collab. (Explosive gaki was also part of the collab btw)

>>531021985
Majsoul has males? Besides the Akagi/Code Geass collabs I haven't heard of any but I also don't play it

>>531021968
Post that pic of Ako violently kissing Sensei

>>531017039
jp client

>>531022057
The possibility of BA girls almost interacting with other males caused billions in damage to Nexon, and Chinese vans circling the building for weeks

>>531021526
Koschei the Immortal is an evil monarch who was "betrayed by his comrades" (coups)
Baba Yaga gives out talismans (medals)
if it's ONE THING then who fucking knows, the Stalin theme is just unrelated character design

>>531022057
It was with the player character.

Nevermind that that is literally you.

Here’s the ultimate question: where did Sensei come from

>>531022129
>>531022158

>>531021970
Tch... no fun allowed.

>>531022190
him are

I don't like Mirai's faces.

>>531022057
Funnily enough, no, other than their Sensei equivalent. (Read: self insert)

>>531022190
Earth, retard. He's the only one from earth.

so does the line... you know...

>>531022136
>unrelated
bro she is 100% stalin including the absurd rages, the purges, the secret police, the information manipulation, etc

>>531022190
Here.

>>531017143
It's just one weird guy that does that

>>531021063
What math problem is Neru based on?

>>531022190

>>531022245

>>531022264
He doesn't act like he is from earth. He accepts this crazy setting without any questions.

>>531022285
I have no beef w Neru. She's one of the non-existent boys

>>531017143
neru is fine it's just that everyone in her club is more interesting and (almost) everyone in her club is cuter

>>531022336
could you stop it with the blasphemy

>>531022281
>Cherino goes terror
>Black Suit: The Forgotten God... Joseph Stalin...

>>531022301
uhhhh absolute 0
>>531022362
That's what a good teacher does: he rolls with what's going on.

>>531020305
Some shintos aren't weak, so maybe she's amaterasu or something. I don't know the lore
Shizuko is probably some sort of wallet tsukumogami

>>531022190
Where does a circle begin?

Aru's license literally says she's a demon

And Nagusa recently called herself a Yuki onna, so it's not like they're really subtle about it

Which is one reason I think the localization really fucked up whenever it refers to the girls as humans, when I know that's not the word used in the original script

>>531022402
Like for example, her second.

>>531022121
>jp client
Good joke, assuming you mean jp PC client.

>>531022417

>>531022281
Stalin is not a god or mythical creature, just a dude.

>>531019845
why isn't the rapi in my game this muv

>>531020305
>>531022440
she's tamamo you goofs
Same title and everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae

>>531022190
The Bronx

Kirino has a cute singing voice

>>531022560
Next you'll tell me Cherino is "just a student".

What the fuck is the deal with Shiroko*Terror?
Why does she have her own version of the UI that comes up when I use her skill?
What does her skill even DO?

>>531022459
time is a flat circle
so deep

>>531022264
How did he get to kivotos then?

Wait, the public safety bureau was the most soughted after?

>>531021873
She is very malicious, just incompetent.

>>531019845
man

I'm really and genuinely quite a degenerate, but gooner shit like this utterly repels me

Is there such a thing as having too many of the same plushie? Is this already too much?

>>531022431
>absolute 0
But she has two 0s

>>531022408
Sensei is literally based on the Messiash, he wreck the merchant (Kaiser), raised from the dead (v3c3) and cause miracles to happened

>>531017039
UE60

>>530938545
>>531017834
Go back.

>>531022637
>Kirino [...] cute [...]
Yes...

>>531022593
>TARDmamo
you know what, everything now makes sense.

>>531018702
Gematria are adults, I thought that was obvious.

>>531022362
>In an interview with the scenario writer, Isakusan, it's revealed that a "teacher" is a being that has completed their growth, or a complete being. What this fully entails is still unknown, but this contrasts Sensei with their "incomplete" students.

They say he's isekai'd from earth at the start
They hint a few times that he might have military knowledge or training early on, saying his tactics are impressive
The reason he never panics and simply accepts things is because he's a completed person. Chances are he was recruited by GSC president for his good character or morals to guide the students to the good ending.

if you post the megu bubu again im gonna

>fall asleep right before reset and thus miss 330 AP
It's all over for me.

>>531022503
Do you know what word they used in the original script?

>>531022749
that's why it's absolute

>>531022245
>>531022361
I like that she's silly

>The doujinshi was written nicely
>It's anal
I hate it!

>>531020305
>Literally called fox of calamity
>Wakamo
>Tamamo
>Tamamo escapes from her rock one day and causes destruction
>Wakamo Escapes from prison and causes destruction

Are you serious? Hyakki are all famous yokai

>>531022751
>UE60
This would legitimately kill the game.

>>531022837

>>531022503
>>531022845
they usually say "human" in japanese
It's not that confusing. Things like "angel", "demon", those are races but they're all "humans"

>>531022804
>use grenade on group
>don't run in front of each others guns
>don't use your nukes on trash mobs
Such command, much tactical acumen, so military. Don't be stupid

>>531022804
So BA is a military propaganda, promising isekai with a divine harem?

>>531022671
GSC president's magic train

>>531022851

I love the great eastern kot so much, it's unreal.

>>531022931
I wouldn't say "famous" for all of them, but only because most youkai aren't 1 youkai. Like Michiru is a tanuki because there are loads of youkai tanuki, Niya is an only because there are many oni (I don't THINK she's based on one of the famous ones, especially because she doesn't drink or do poetry or have a missing arm or anything like that)

Suzumi spotted randomly in my recommended.

>>531019845
>>531022715
reminder that this video was posted as an advertisement by the official Nikke FB group and seamonkeys got so mad over it that they had to issue a formal apology

The devs missed their chance like, 3 years ago to implement UE60.
There's no fucking way they could implement UE60 now without pissing off at least a giant portion of their playerbase.

>>531023036
If you didn't know, Korea has forced military enrollment during your youth. BA creators talk about their experience with it, and guns.

>>531023106
Proofs?

>>531022669
Lorewise you are quite literally increasing her power through pyros
Gamewise it's pretty clear. She casts a buff on herself that increases her crit chance, crit damage, autoattack damage, and makes her do a bigass hit from time to time

>>531023234
slower, actually.
you could power your living space off of the energy generated from this.

>>531023186
When Unique Weapons were implemented, was it in stages or all at once?

>>531023253
It's a reference to Phren, look closer next time it activates

You must be over the age of 18 to be posting here

>>531023180
Kek I forgot about that commercial

>>531023358
That is what I said, thank you.

>finally beat the story boss by throwing a tank at it
>had 9 seconds left
I won, but I don't feel like I won.

>>531022804
>it's revealed that a "teacher" is a being that has completed their growth, or a complete being
this sounds more like some bodhisattva/maitreya shit than anything else

>>531023253
Imagine a skill that actually drains your premium currency. That would be ultimate paypig powerup.

>>531023186
No, I don't think that's a problem. I don't imagine anyone would care about it being implemented, as a player.

But as devs...
UE60+ is probably just like, next to impossible to implement gracefully. Baring in mind each big UE jump HUGELY improves a student's effectiveness, it's kinda like making the game easy mode the instant you add it, probably. I do think, at this point, that it's fairly likely they'll scrap it and do something else with student fragments.

I do wish we could give 1 and 2 star students fancy sunglasses, though. Kinda lame that that's only for 3* students.

>>531019417
>you guys can't control your spending
Never spent a cent on this game.
>you guys aren't financially responsible
I'm still living, and I have enough in my savings.
>you guys weigh more than she does
75kg, probably heavier but I'm still a men's small meaning it's all muscle mass
>you guys have a receding hairline
My high hairline is natural actually, my mom also has it
>yuuka did nothing wrong
The one thing she did wrong is not confessing when she had the chance.
Yuuka love!

>>531023429
Cheringles in battle
What a blessed day

>>531022110
that sleepy one is very cute

>>531023352
all 3 stars

>>531023429
Did you play a gloriously patriotic song during the deployment?

>>531023429
Well you have until November for when he comes back to get ready to beat his ass for real

>>531023352
The system was implemented all at once. Every single available character at the time got an unlockable, unique weapon that required elephs / ligmas, that you could upgrade up to level 50 (UE50).
For whatever reason, they got cold feet on implementing UE60 and UE70.
They still exist in the UI as visible levels you COULD reach when implemented, but they just have never been touched since then. So they're just some vestigial part of the unique weapon UI that's been ignored for years.

>>531023180
Where did you get this picture of me?

>>531023428
No, the tablet you're seeing things through is Phren, not sensei. You're not understanding it.

>>531023450
>No, I don't think that's a problem. I don't imagine anyone would care about it being implemented, as a player.
Remember the huge gap between day 1 players and year2 players? It would get twice as big if UE60 costs elephs, because day1fags have so many elephs stored up in the inventory.

>>531023429
Glory to Red Winter

>>531023180
To be fair having a commercial where a dude jerks off where he can be seen in public is a pretty weird way to advertise.

>>531016871
No, she is not.

>>531023180
Hit too close to home

Don't forget to pat your students, bag

When does Fes start? Right after the Seia banner?

Soon

>>531022756
https://x.com/oberon211866713/status/1944242164667756923
This you?

>>531023827
>3 mins late
they should be patting me

>>531023648
That is wrong. You can see P's animation in VF. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJlqCLkHidc&t=20s

>>531023450
It probably doesn't help that they made the jump in effectiveness basically be UE40, because that's when you unlock an extra ability that potentially makes it all worth it.
It's great for players but not great for milking whales for $$$.
If they really wanted to do some hardcore milking, they would've expanded the system to UE70 but make the jumps in effectiveness more gradual.
Rather than UE40 being immediately feasible to achieve as long as you have a stockpile of ligmas at the ready.

>>531023180
Openly clowning on your playerbase like that is funny as shit.

>>531023830
Monday evening. 10pm if you're EST

Why did they pump Nozomi full of wife energy?

>>531023072
your BA image, sir.

>>531022728
One is too many.

>>531023698
Whales also wouldn't need to roll again for much of the general pool since they're already sitting on a hoard to shame smaug
It's going to be new currency if it ever happens

>>531023698
I don't think this is actually a big deal. Worst case for that is they just make platting easier again (they've done so before)

>>531023180
>You now know where these pics come from.

>>531023940
>I have 2 days left to read everything
FUCK

>>531022750
oh
in what part of the Bible did jesus fight nega-jesus from not-earth?

>>531024110
You have another week though

What god is miyu?

Every single word you don't understand in this game is likely a reference to something, it's not meaningless

Phenephrates in Latin means deceiver

>>531023180
>SEAmonkeys

Tch, it never is Kim In Cel's not Mighty Whitey's fault, is it? It always is SEAmonkeys' fault!

I hurt myself today by watching the majority of SGDQ

>>531023896
I prefer to post the reminder a bit later since most people don't pat at :00

>>531023961
we have too many kusogaki students already

>>531024110
The same event keeps going
fes just means that it's time to roll

>>531023993
thanks!!

>>531024139
Revelation, dumbo

>>531023517
>>531023575
>>531023702
I'm going to offer all my pudding to Cherino. I didn't know what to think when I pulled her but that tank is amazing.
>>531023592
I'm dreading it but also looking forward to it. I want a rematch (just not in the story)

>>531024175
all 4 rabbits are based on this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Caerbannog

and all those fuckin' weird ass killer rabbit pictures from medieval times

>>531023827
It's okay that you're late, I was off by two hours on the last petting anyways...

I downloaded the non-T, 16+ rating version of the game but I still would like to know if the ages are censored because I can't believe that girls like Seia and Neru are 17 with the beautiful Kayoko being 18. What is that? Where are my 9-14 year old girls? They look younger than most girls in other gachas while also being older than them? Something must be wrong here...

Was it a missed opportunity that raid scores are entirely dependent on clear time?
Feels like having other stuff factored into the score calculation would've encouraged other playstyles beyond hypercarry DPS.

>>531024208
GDQ used to be a very fun watch.
I'd say it started going downhill after 2018. Last couple years have been intolerable.

>>531024406
Middle schoolers don't have problems in Kivotos. Except for poverty.

>>531023517
>>531023575
>>531023702
>>531024335

>>531024406
a lot of the 15 year olds in this game have fat chests
a lot of the 17 year olds in this game have flat chests

>>531024510
Kill all left handed people

>>531024510
Need that Cherino upskirt.

>>531024309
Why didn't she just ask?

>>531024510
>>531023517
>>531023575
>>531023702
>>531024335

>>531023186
I want UE60 because I have like 500 Mika elephs

>>531020240
I've seen many theories as to what Millennium represents, but in general they seem to be a group of "modern gods", beings who represent scientific, mathematical and technological aspects of modern society that have become so interwoven into daily life that many treat them like we did the gods of old.

Which is why most of them aren't really "supernatural" in their essence, because none of them are anything supernatural in the first place, unless you count things like Koyuki's unpredictability or Asuna's super luck. The only students whose identities are basically confirmed are Koyuki (Chaos Theory) and Yuuka (The mathematical concept of Pi). If I had to hazard a guess at Momoi and the rest of the GDD's mystics it'd probably be either representations of specific game development studios themselves (given they're all named after famous eroge creators) or maybe more abstract concepts regarding gaming, like the concept of high-skill gaming (Yuzu), game art design (Midori), game story design (Momoi) and the general gaming fanbase (Alice). Who knows though.

This does put Rei and Sumire in a funny position though, since it implies they're representative of fitness nuts and baseball nerds respectively.

Why do you have this imperialist propaganda saved on your computer, comrade?

>>531024510
>>531024717
Well that's just rude.

sex with aru

>>531022773
babu

>>531023186
why would it be a problem now retard

>had to spark S.Izuna because classic no pick up drop in 200 rolls
>didn't get S.Chise with expiring 10-roll
I just wanted to read her swimsuit momotalks...

>>531024195
Considering the Facebook group in question was literally Indonesian, yes it is in fact SEAmonkeys

>>531024828
describe and provide visual imagery

wifey yuuka-chan!

How do you get 4 headpats per cycle if it's 3hr cd within 12 hours? Aren't you short like by a minute?

Will battle Hoshino be available during the bluefes?

>>531023429

Yes they're the personification of eroge companies

>>531025067
reset, +3, +6, +9, another reset

>>531024795
The GDD are all based on famous JP porn game developer

Mari is a lewd girl

Wew

>>531025075
would nagi even eat food from gehenna?

Not a single day passes where I don't mourn the fact that regular Toki is limited

>>531025112
Yes and if you're unlucky, you can get her on 5th anni

>>531025276
Read the story Sensei. For real this time.

>>531024982
No

>>531023012
>babbies first ludonarrative dissonance
in Touhou, battles are supposed to be mutual dodgefests canonically, but in game they're "one person dodges, the other basically stands still and gets shot"

In BA the battles are simplified and unimpressive for the most part, but are said to be more complex. It's also like XCOM, which the game was oriignally inspired by, and which on its face is just turn based and dice rolls, but is outside of abstraction a representation of a complicated map of people running around and shooting.

Criminals everywhere in my cafe.

Which of her faces is your favorite, anons?

>>531024349
A fucking Monty Python reference?

>>531021326
was already destroyed/disarmed im sure.
No way hina and makoto wouldn't do something about it.
and makoto is not THAT retarded to fire that thing to other schools.

>>531025412
next weekend, I promise

>>531024926
if they implement it straight like the old system, it breaks status quo and massively favors whales
they could implement it using a different currency to make it fair, but then whales lose their edge
also there's like 150+ characters now in the game, having to playtest that shit is gonna be a nightmare not worth the effort.

>>531025380
gremlin

>>531022190
Sensei is literally Jesus/the Messiah. In addition to this >>531022750 we also have his undying support and forgiveness to all students no matter how hard they fall, is able to wield the Shittim Chest (the Ark of the Covenant AKA the literal power of God) and was pierced in his torso (a reference to Longinus).

Which poses an interesting question - Jesus is CANON to Blue Archive as a seperate individual. In addition to Christmas, he's also a part of Mika's Kyrie. Is Sensei supposed to be the Second Coming of Christ, an alternative Messiah, or something else entirely? With him being a messiah figure among gods and daemons in Kivotos it would seem like he may be completely different from Jesus despite being Messiah-like. The most interesting theory I've heard regarding this is that the student council president is Capital-G God, AKA God the Father and therefore sent you (the only begotten man of Earth) to save the lost spirits who've been forgotten.

>>531024349
Remember that the bomb in vol 4 was also named after antioch.

>>531024795
>Yuuka is Pi because it just never stops just like her nagging

>>531025476
none

>>531025431
why

>>531025632
There are many Messiash anon

>>531025440
>sensei is just some guy
>sensei is also an ex-military officer who commanded men in battle
Dissonance indeed. The gooks do not like their mandatory conscription, don't try to pretend it's actually impresive that they serve

>>531017747
holy bingus

Don't trust Hifumi. She is a dangero

>>531024795
>>531025234
Yuzu Soft
Saiba = Cyberworks (Tinkerbell (pink, Momoi) and Wendybell (green, Midori))
Aris = Alice Soft

>>531025518
Shemata was already taken apart inch by inch and destroyed by Makoto, who supervised every part of it. Destroying every vestige of the thunder emperor's legacy is the only thing Makoto acts serious about, she doesn't leave anything to chance, you don't understand her if you think she would even think of firing it. The second she heard it existed she made sure it was taken apart and destroyed bit by bit on the spot. She can't forgive anything surviving of that person.

>lore discussion on saturday night
Why are you not out drinking with your girlfriend right now?

>>531025867
shut the fuck up nagisa

>>531025825
I didn't even mention Korean military service or anything.

>>531025825
Yet every Gook i have evet met keep braging about it

>>531025448
Haruka looks a little different here

>>531023858
WAAHHHH

>>531025632
I really like that theory in the spoiler that’s interesting

>>531025932
I'm drinking coke with /bag/

>>531025932
what girlfriend?

would you be happy or sad if a student got a bab alt?

>>531025932
it's sunday

>>531024975
That's the mooslim in them.

>>531025932
I don't drink but I'm drinking coffee
I also don't have a partner

>>531025493

>>531025634
The holy hand grenade of antioch is in various places. Also, Koharu uses one in her ex skill.

oh fuck, Kaya in tears is cute.

Shun (big) is the kind of gal that ask you to do baby play then put the diaper on herself

>>531025634
>>531026194

>>531026132
Depends on the art style and personality. I like bab Nel more than older Nel.

>>531026006
The gooks are just like the yanks
Neat i guess

>>531025632
No you moron
Absolutely nothing nothing at all says GSC president is what you're claiming other than "well if sensei is ____ then that absolutely means GSC president is ____" that's just circular logic. You're using X to confirm Y when X was never proven, the entire thing is poor logic that would be offensive at best. It's jumping through hoops connecting things that aren't connected at all.
GSC president originally had the tablet, her halo is the cross, and she was stabbed in her left side and three days later came back to life as a computer program and somehow you can't make the far more obvious conclusion

>mesopotamian lore
>christian lore
>hebrew lore
>shinto lore
where's the islamic lore...

>>531025476

>>531026191
>partner

>>531025932
>your girlfriend
Good joke...

>>531026376
Typing "girlfriend" feels too dirty while posting Kayoko

>>531025632
And to add, based on what little footage of GSC president I got, is she somehow...

dead and have become Arona? The hair kinda suggests...

>>531026327
How good are the rewards for this? worth playing for or a solid meh, skip?

>>531026191
>>531026376
>>531026443
Aibo!

>>531026354
You just mentioned it twice

>>531025923
You type like a fag and seem to have headcanon. We don't know why Makoto destroys those things, we can only believe it is because they are dangerous as per Hina's description. When destryoing it, she does so without any emotion shown. It is completely unknown what Makoto's specific history is with the Thunder Emperor.

>>531025636
She's always present even when you don't expect her, she's always working, and her birthday is Pi day, but she's also always on your side to help you work through your problems and always hopes the best for people around her despite being a bit harsh.

I love her so much.

>>531026478
game is too shrimple for that

>>531025932
That's for next year.

>>531026327
oh right, there was a game... forgot

>>531019173
It does explain why the change is irreversible. Once you remember something so significant you aren't going to easily forget it again.

>>531025150
pink wendy?

>>531023885
You barely played more than a week and you watch vtumors. Go back, tourist.

>>531026508
islam is not christianity is not judaism, even their respective follows will tell you as such.

>>531026334
Well, nothing says that the President and Sensei couldn't both be parts of or representations God/Christ, assuming the game is representing the doctrine of the Trinity. In fact, wouldn't it make sense that The Father, Christ, and The Holy Spirit are present in the game? The President, Sensei, and Arona.

I do appreciate the game for really trying to go deeper with its connections and references to the Bible though, as a Christian myself it's fun to theorize.

it was so funny seeing Tsubaki tanking all by herself for so long, she just wouldn't get knocked down

>>531026696
Wrong.
It's been about two weeks for me. Daily. I've been thru 3 banners now.

And don't you fucking use Mutsuki for your bs.

>>531025932
it's 96F (36C) where I live right now; I don't want to drink alcohol in that.

i bet mutsuki smells really good

When are the green haired girls going to rerun?

>>531026867
Perhaps. I mean, she does tease Sensei THAT way

kayoko should be my fling, then girlfriend, wife, and finally my children's mother

what is the thunder emperor even supposed to be

>>531026829
It was 87 here at 1am yesterday

save me

Lore talk might be getting a bit too heated

>>531026829
>he doesn't have refridgeration in his third-century shantytown
How are you playing BA at all?

>>531026910
They aren't out yet in global but sooooooon

>>531026563
Guess that'll be a skip, then.

I repeatedly tap event shop Seia to hear her talking

>>531026132
Happy, for the porn

If students can *technically* die, would a point blank shot in the back of the head of the Aris' railgun do the trick?

Do you think the president is Arona?

>roll the free 80 rolls
>no seia yet
but
>ako
>mashiro (she's cute)
>swimming shiroko
You win some, you lose some. It is what it is.

>>531027128
that railgun only looks scary

>>531026327
whats this

>>531026327
So bad

Reisa is the Thunder Emperor

Why does it feel like there's little hype for 4.5th anniversary?
It's coming in less than a week but I've barely heard anyone talk about it. I don't remember previous anniversary periods being like this.
The weeks leading up to 4th anni, there was a shit ton of speculation and discussion. Same with 3.5, 3rd, 2.5, 2nd, etc.
But 4.5? Nothing.

>>531027112
Anon... I get we joke about lolis all the time here, but you're not seriously... are you?

>>531027246
Stream hasnt been posted yet

Vol4Ch2
I might be heartless since I don't understand. Miyako doesn't like the comfy life in the fox camp but that's before she discovered the terrorism plot. But she is fine with showering in Sensei's shower?

>>531027246
We've just had a lot of very good events and story updates since the 4th Anni, I think it's just that people are still riding that high and don't need high expectations for what's to come.

>>531027037
It's mandatory by law to have air conditioning in buildings here, otherwise everyone would die.
>Why are you not out drinking
implies I'd have to go outside, and that I'm not willing to do in this heat.

Niya is a nigger

>>531026753
Fun fact: Trinity's Sisterhood are Catholic but they have forgot the name of the Lord and even Jesus himself. All their praying and ceremonies are done out of pure tradiition, even the so call "Ancient Scripts" during Ui's event is just a normal Bible

>>531027051
>They aren't out yet in global
Thanks for the answer but what the fuck?!

>>531027275
You have to understand, anon: all rabbits are whores.

>>531027080
thats very inefficient
if you go to the wiki you can listen to all of her lines

I feel like I'm so close that I can't stop trying this goddamn stage. Must've lost 100 AP from failures.

>>531027274
It's literally been already announced way in advanced since the last stream.
>2025年7月19日(土)
>開場 17:30
>開演 18:30
>終演 22:00(予定)

>>531027246
2nd was obvious
2.5th had leaks
3rd is actual anniversary
3.5th had story tie-in with V1C3 leading to an obvious finale
4th is another anniversary
4.5th has jack shit. V5C2 ended as quickly as it started, Deca chapter 3 hasn't even begun. Anything you say will sound like a crackpot theory.

Total ah-ru death

>>531027275
Sensei... you might wanna sit down for this.

>>531027430
Yeah
But nobody bothers actually talking about it until the stream is posted because then it actually feels like it's nearly here and not just some distant event on the horizon

>>531027378
I think they come out sometime in October

>>531027246
All the students that people care about have been released, now we're just left with the fodder

>>531019845
Maybe Hanako would do something like this and she already has a swinsuit alt

>>531027261
Possible, it is.
Try, you mustn't.

pf

>>531027369
Which would make sense, given Trinity is effectively all the Heavenly Host taken away from their God. In that sense it's kind of depressing to think about.

When is global gonna get the rest of deca part 2?

>>531027341
>We've just had a lot of very good events and story updates since the 4th Anni
Ehh, I'd say it's half-and-half.
The first half kind of sucked and was full of all kinds of filler, the second half starting with highlander event has been quite strong comparatively.
(Shame, cause I liked some of the designs in the first half...)

>>531027504
We need another Ako alt

>>531027553
If Sensei truly is the Jesus figure, they are not in a bad company.

>>531026992
Maybe a pagan god of thunder like Zeus or Thor. Makes some sense if you consider that most the students are based on Abrahamic lore.

>>531027403
That's the same mentality as
>I don't play the game, I just fap to porn
I think the Rio you've posted is significant in your autistic approach.

>>531027554
One release in a week
Last part in October

>>531027275
>I don't understand
You don't

>>531027690
>your naked

>>531027218
arona and plana are daughter
president is wife

>>531027675
Achshually, when you're talking about Seia, you will hear completely different lines on the wiki than in the game.

>>531027504
>All the students that people care about have been released, now we're just left with the fodder
Honestly I hate to admit this but you might be right.
Realistically there's only like, what, 2 or 3 more characters left in the NPC jail that people really care about?
After that you have like... what, FOX squad? Yakumo? Akemi? Mirai?

I like some of those characters don't get me wrong, but none of them feel very hype worthy, especially if it's anniversary we're talking about.

>>531025150
Powerful Gods in Japanese mythos

>>531027369
They mention the Messiah a few times in Trinity stories and events, they know about him.
They can't call him by his name for obvious reasons since it seems to be an off limit topic in gacha games

>>531027478
Bro I have been aware of them for months but I just started now thinking I missed them.
What is taking their train so long...? Thanks again for the info

>>531027676
Fuck seriously it’s broken into another 2 parts?

>>531027667
If nuns are the brides of Christ then does that make the Sisterhood sensei's most canonical wives?

>>531027778
Need the Kokuriko anniversary

>>531027821
Yes, now hurry and consummate your marriage with Mari.

>>531027606
>>531027504
You lost and the same will happen next week

>>531027474
>But nobody bothers actually talking about it until the stream is posted
people literally did do this though weeks before the stream link got posted. were you even here on /bag/ for any past anniversary streams?

>gallons and pounds
Yuuka is european if she considers imperial system to be old-fashioned
Sensei too, if he got confused by them

>>531027398
rabbits are pure and get mates for life

>>531027778
Fun fact
You can do alts of popular students

>>531024349
I don't use Wikipedia for video games and was surprised to see Blue Archive mentioned

>>531027802
Still, BA leans pretty hard on Christianity in a way that I haven't seen any series other than Shin Megami Tensei do.

>>531027778
None are hype material
They don't have other options but bring yet another terror alt

>>531027778
The deca stuff from pv6 will probably coincide with an anniversary and we’ll get battle aris and kei and ski suit rio and motorcycle himari

>>531027927
Yeah, and discussion always picks up the most when the stream is actually posted

>>531027927
I am very concerned about the lack of anniversary discussion.

>>531027956
She uses it because imperial units got us to the moon. Imperial are the units of winners.

is aru good for my dick? is rio better?

>>531027802
>They can't call him by his name for obvious reasons since it seems to be an off limit topic in gacha games
FGO namedrop him as the user of the First Magic

>>531027836
desu I don't think people care THAT much about kokuriko. I never really see artists drawing her, at any rate.
like, to me in terms of visibility for the vol5 cast from most visible to least, it's kikyou, then shuro, then nagusa, yukari, renge, kokuriko, ayame, and finally snake lady (I genuinely can't remember her name).

>>531027996
horns too big

>>531028118
Japanese were imperial and they got nuked twice.

>>531027778
I require Kai

what the fuck is her problem

>>531027219
> Ako
> S.Shiroko
Christ you won.

>>531028057
It's pretty much settled deca stuff is coming for 5th anniversary at the earliest.
I guess the question is what then after that

>>531028119
Rio is a dead fish and Aru is a very lively fish

>>531028237
this is too erotic even for Miy*ko

Nexon really pulled the 'break in case of emergency' button with seia and rio

>>531028043
Pretty sure "yet another" is referring to at least the third in sequence
Am i forgetting a second terror alt we got?

>>531028118
>[Deleted]
Janny, you dumb fuck, he was only joking

>>531028023
>You can do alts of popular students
They did that last year and everyone bitched for the entire year straight because of it.
Do you really not remember complaints over "Alt Archive"?

>>531028237
God I need that ass pressed up against my face

>>531027219
mash sex

My newfag account is getting Twin seeded...

>>531028118
Test

>>531028120
No they don't, like what you just said is a lie
People made a bunch of assumptions because Nasu said the true magic disappeared around 1 AD
Later Nasu corrected it that the user was a Japanese person called Yukina and it has nothing to do with the other thing that happened around that year

If you're trying to bullshit me that FGO mentions him by name when I've read FGO, you're barking up the wrong tree. Even Martha who knew him never once calls him by his name, instead always calling him the Messiah, she never once calls him directly. FGO goes out of its way to never once say his name exactly like I just said, they've never done it once because it's a taboo topic. They can allude to him, they can reference him, but not directly.

>>531028408
> 4*
Nigga the fuck.

>>531028147
What if Ibuki doesn't age normally and only her horns grow?

>>531028261
How long would that be for global then? I’m pretty hype for all that

Stop glowing /bag/

>>531028381
That was mx2js fault
Everyone likes alts when they're actually good unlike mx2j slop and Hoshino with a ponytail and a vest

>>531028337
I think they primarily got them out of the way to make way for newer students and just in general to allow V4, V5, and VEx some room to breathe after it's been so long since V3 and V2.

>>531028118
>janny had a melty over the trvke
kek

I want to FUCK Nonomi

>>531028408
Another gamer victory.

>>531028484
How are "we" glowing?

>>531025493
At some point Miyako tells her squad they'll be brave just like the rabbit who fought alone against a group of knights, Miyu tells her that the rabbit was blown to pieces by a hand grenade and worries they'll meet the same fate

for me, it's wolfseggs

>>531028447
I'm wondering why normal Momoi is the only one that is 3*

>>531028584
The many faces of Shiroko...

>>531026281
Do you think she counts to 5?

>>531028461
>How long would that be for global then?
By the time JP gets deca alts for 5th anniversary (again, at the earliest), that'll be around february 2026.
Meaning, global will get those alts about 5ish months after.
So July 2026, 1 full year from now. Again, at the earliest. They could just delay it again until 5.5th anniversary.

>>531028584
>4 ears
Still the only problem I have with this game

>>531028584
>cycling shiroko is on twice because she lasts the longest
bro...

>>531028714
exactly, not enough

>>531028118

>>531028663
Not necessarily remember we're accelerating to reduce the gap

>>531028681
If there can be four eyes, there can be four ears.

>>531028448
i would file them down

>Try to push the stage
>Get told to do the boring ass story every five minutes
Brilliant design

>>531028512
What was it?

>>531028448
>doesn't get bigger
>just gets horny
my god...

>>531028750
>we're accelerating to reduce the gap
Global only accelerated like 2 weeks in the span of 6 months, I wouldn't get your hopes up for that mattering much compared to the time gap of 1 full year.

>>531028858
Do you think demon girls can feel with their horns? Can real horned animals do that?

>>531028898
Drop Blue Archive

>>531026194
>vietnamese
Umm.. what the fuck?

God damn, how down bad is Hanako for sensei? Just saw the socks momo story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyRIeSqn6Wg

>>531028898

>>531029009
Reminder we're now in SEA hours

>>531028946
>Goats, cows, and other horned animals can feel touch in their horns because their horns are not just dead tissue. They have a bony core, blood vessels, and nerves, particularly in the base and inner portions. This means that touching or bumping their horns can be felt, similar to touching a fingernail or toe, but with more sensitivity closer to the base.

>>531028898
>What was it?
a joke about NASA winning space racing with imperial units
>>531029018
She likes to fuck with everyone, and that fucking is not really sex.
It was revealed to me in a dream.

>>531028946
Shes a strong girl. She can take a little bit of pain if its for my sake.

>>531028593
>Started two weeks or so ago.
>Despite not really having much of a goal besides the initial pulls, i used most of the free stuff and pulls i had access to on the Momoi (maid) and Midori (maid) banners.
>Most of the resutls were double 3* of the featured or literally Midori as the 3*
>Asuna caught my fancy in the current banner and as they are giving away the free rolls, i decided to try my luck for a few tenners.
>First 3* is Momoi (Maid)
I'm literally cursed.

Can someone post that nip PvP counter guide?

>>531028946
horns yes
antlers no

>>531029098
>Niya felt it when her horn was snapped off
ouch
i hope it was Wakamo

>>531028584
>all these wolfseggs
>only one I have is the swimming one
RNG is a fickle bastard.

>>531028898
Are you playing BA for gameplay, anon?

>>531029083
>getting yeeted over a joke
It was a funny joke too kek

>>531029098
I remember seeing some fanart about sawing off Aru's horns.
>>531029116
I regret not getting Asuna to complete my Asuna collection.

>>531029009
>>531029093
I live in Japan, search it yourself, not my fault it's one of the top results.

>>531029083
>>531029102
What the fuck is wrong with jannies

>>531029207
I am playing to understand what I am looking at when browsing hitomi

>>531029109
But why get rid of convenient handles on your personal cumdump?

>>531028305
>Aru is a very lively fish
a fish out of water that is

Is there a lore reason behind why Seia sounds like such a hag?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50p_ivdwQRY

>>531029271
>What the fuck is wrong with jannies
hormonal therapy is not an easy process, anon, be more forgiving

>>531027996
weird hands

>>531029116
Cursed for rare units sure is a curse.
Whatever you will need her soon anyway.

>>531029343
She's frieren
This event was actually full of frieren references that probably aren't obvious in the localization I'm guessing
Like Natsu and the Millenium mobs farewell scene

>>531029343
She's 17 and she's supposed to be sexy

i lost my images of ibuki her horns cut off with bolt cutters

>>531029271
Didn't you learn jannies are nothing but power tripping cucks when they got hacked

>>531029443
draw your own

>>531028492
>That was mx2js fault
It wasn't just him, although he was a giant part of it. People were also soured on alts from the other artists. maid gamers (kokosando) were criticized for being boring and simplified, dress Aru (dorem) got copy+paste sameface accusations, armed hoshino (9ml) was accused of being creatively bankrupt.
doesn't take a genius to see that people genuinely had alt fatigue.

>>531029343
I wasn't that into her voice too at first but it slowly grew on me. I like it a lot now

>>531029093
>>531029256
Anons... is Blue Archive... SEA coded?

I might have to go install umamusume or something, all my white girl vtubers are playing it

>>531029597
Why doesn’t she roll her sleeves up? Is she dumb?

>>531027956
>0.3 caliber cartridges
This triggers my autism like nothing else.

>>531029636
ok

lying in bed praying shiroko doesn't attack me at night

>>531029597
>reverse search image
>pic related shows up
damn, that actually fooled me.

Guys when does the story get interesting? I am forcing myself to go through one chapter a day and it's fucking torturous

Do people really think Seia isn't squeaky enough? Anime brainrot jesus christ
She sounds great

>>531029649
How else will she show off her pits

>>531029636
Blue Archive absolutely has a fanbase of obnoxious SEAmonkeys but as long as you just talk about it from noon to midnight EST you should be free of their grasp.

>>531029723
AI can imitate... slop fanart now?

It is so over for artfags

>>531029767
Nah, she is not Kasumi, voice fits small girl, she is just soft-spoken.

>>531029753
Depends on what you're reading.
If you're saying this for the event story, I kind of sympathize because my opinion is that it fell flat for me.
If you're saying this for the main story like Volume 3, BA is probably not for you.

In which case I'd recommend dropping BA and just enjoying the girls from a distance at best. Nothing wrong with that.

>>531029723
The flowers give it away. The microphone stand also has a couple of abnormalities.

>>531029256
Why would people get on the internet just to tell lies?

>>531029767
I only like squeakers if she's retarded and Seia is anything but retarded

>>531029832
What if I told you... I'm Australian and share most of the time zone?

>>531029965
You have my sympathies.

>>531029909
Looking more closely yeah I can see the tells.
The composition and the text really did fool me for a second.

>>531029723
you can easily tell by the stomach region of the clothing. step your game up senpai