Kinda wish I found it out beforehand but with the Waffle event you can have pretty nice gem and Exp gain because on a full (120 AP) sweep you gain 42 spins, with the recharge cost of 30 gems (total 168 spins) you will get the 150 gems so it's a clear plus. Sadly the cost of refilling increases so no infinite loops.
Kinda wish I found it out beforehand but with the Waffle event you can have pretty nice gem and Exp gain because on a full (120 AP) sweep you gain 42 spins, with the recharge cost of 30 gems (total 168 spins) you will get the 150 gems so it's a clear plus. Sadly the cost of refilling increases so no infinite loops.
Worth a note: spending recharged AP means additional EXP and Balancing Books event tokens. Can be useful, but you also need to be able to sweep a stage with recommended level of 80. (I was able to do it around lvl 50.)
He chose your world on purpose because he saw what you'd been doing up to this point and he knows without a shadow of a doubt that he'll lose against you. He is you and you are him, so he knows what choices you'd make in your situation because he'd make those same exact choices. His world is doomed and he has no qualms about keeping it completely doomed as there are only two things left that he wants to safeguard, which are his own version of Arona and Shiroko. Because of that he asks you to take care of the 2 students he has left alive from his world, and he knows you'll do it because he is you, so he'd do the same for you if the roles were reversed. Obviously, you end up doing what he wanted in the same manner he'd do it.
Close but you missed a key major difference between Phrenapates world and Sensei's world. As Phrenapates was prevented at every turn from doing the same things Sensei did. Leading his world becoming doomed and him almost dead before making his decision to sacrifice himself to save his Shiroko from becoming Phrenapates.
Waste of time as Mika is canonically the strongest student in Kivotos. With Aris potentially being stronger due to what she is. As is Aris and Shiroko Terror completing for 2nd and 3rd spots.
The game makes you forget sometimes that Mika punches through stone walls will sheer physical strength, but she's holding back because Sensei told her to. She could have escaped at any moment and neither the Tea Party or Trinity wouldn't have been able to stop her.
Yeah, the F chapter really reinforces the importance of choices, for Phrenapates it's not just his choice to sacrifice himself, but also his reason for attacking YOUR dimension in particular.
He chose your world on purpose because he saw what you'd been doing up to this point and he knows without a shadow of a doubt that he'll lose against you. He is you and you are him, so he knows what choices you'd make in your situation because he'd make those same exact choices. His world is doomed and he has no qualms about keeping it completely doomed as there are only two things left that he wants to safeguard, which are his own version of Arona and Shiroko. Because of that he asks you to take care of the 2 students he has left alive from his world, and he knows you'll do it because he is you, so he'd do the same for you if the roles were reversed. Obviously, you end up doing what he wanted in the same manner he'd do it.
I read it as Sensei being a literal zombie animated by Chroma and sheer brass balls protecting the last two students left alive after getting the bad ends. They just lucked out to get to a parallel reality where the President sacrificed herself to create Arona which revertes potential bad ends (seemingly being the Trinity pack going catastrophically bad, with the other routes maybe being future routes since we do know there are some future events slated to happen before the end of the world that were averted when TShiroko Ack'd Gemetria.
Waste of time as Mika is canonically the strongest student in Kivotos. With Aris potentially being stronger due to what she is. As is Aris and Shiroko Terror completing for 2nd and 3rd spots.
Boo, also wasn't Hoshino slated to have the strongest mystic? Anyways there is always the matter of skill since Mika's only strategy seems to be walking in a straight line towards the problem's source (admittedly it works quite well).
Boo, also wasn't Hoshino slated to have the strongest mystic? Anyways there is always the matter of skill since Mika's only strategy seems to be walking in a straight line towards the problem's source (admittedly it works quite well).
Mika may be the strongest physically but you need more then physical strength to be "the strongest" Hoshino for example is a high contender because shes not just physically active, she is skilled with a arrange of weapons, tactical, knows how to bring out the most of her arsenal and probably better trained. Even with all that She still loses to Hina because of terrain disadvantage and Hina being a monster in her own right (i also suspect Hina gets alot of wank from the writers for being the "favorite" character in the serise.).
Speaking of final Chapter from what @wtfNeedSignUp is saying, The scene were normal Shiroko shows up at the club room saying "Im back" with the same sound effects playing, was the same as TShiroko but with everyone of course still being alive in our timeline. Just something i notice which i thought was cool
So, here's the highlight from Blue Archive's JP stream that happened today:
1. There will be a new halloween themed mini-story event (well, I kinda felt its halloween-like, but it's still august, bear with me) that also introducing you to a brand new school that was first only mentioned in passing during the game's story, the Wild Hunt Academy of Arts.
2. The focus on this event is on that academy's Occultism club, consisting of four new Wild Hunt academy student, one of which was already introduced during a past event involving the Trinity's After-Sweets Club (the school-band event). Not much I can get of the plot, but it's likely some sort of adventure that Sensei would probably had to take part in order to control these merry band of misfits.
3. Two new 3* students from this Occultism club will be playable. The two dorks in the middle with the big ass witch hat and the zombie-looking undead vibe.
Itagaki Kanoe from Wild Hunt Academy, armed with a blunderbuss musket (First student to use it, fun fact). She's a Shotgun type striker with Mystic/Blue attack type and is a Tank type striker. Her ult is her drinking a concoction that she brewed out of some sort of witch cauldron that heals her.
Shiraeo Eri from Wild Hunt Academy, armed with a bolt action rifle (identification pending) that she uses more like a magic wand than a gun. She's a Sniper Rifle type striker with Sonic/Purple attack type and likely to be DPS kind of backline striker. Her ult is chanting out some holy chuuni magic word and fired a big shot on one enemy.
4. Volume 6 of the main story has been revealed and will be released in September. It will focuses on the school that we kind of forgot since the end of Volume 3, aka the Arius school.
From what I get from the PV (right here), it seems that it will focuses on Saori (either with or without the rest of the Arius Squad) post Volume 3 as the plot focuses on remnants of the Arius students that seemingly still answers to Beatrice. The PV showcased two brand new Arius student that isn't part of the squad we know and tried to fix, though it seems that they still clings to their vanitas vani vani days.
(Incidentally, the girl in the front is the same one in the vol 6 teaser)
So despite the stream being more or less "small", somehow it gave us a new school + students and new main story. So that's pretty great, I guess.
The source for "Hoshino is the strongest mystic in Kivotos" is Black Suit - he's quite competent at whatever he's doing, but not omniscient. It's possible that other students may have "flown under his radar." Hoshino drew his attention by soloing entire gangs, whereas Mika didn't do much or outright pretended to be retarded, something that most of the Volume 3 revolves around.
Mika may be the strongest physically, but you need more then physical strength to be "the strongest" Hoshino for example is a high contender because shes not just physically active, she is skilled with a arrange of weapons, tactical, knows how to bring out the most of her arsenal and probably better trained. Even with all that She still loses to Hina because of terrain disadvantage and Hina being a monster in her own right (i also suspect Hina gets alot of wank from the writers for being the "favorite" character in the serise.).
I'm not 100% sure but very likely not. I think the Tyrant Emperor was the Kivotos stand-in for Hitler.
Btw it's kinda fucked up how in some gacha games you can't as much as reference Hitler or anything about the nazis and in some other gacha games you have an entire faction based on WW2 Germany with some slight changes.
Azur Lane had the reason of they couldn't use real country names (except New Zealand*) due to Japan. So they went with irl Otto Bismark's Blood and Iron speech for inspiration for the German faction name.
*Azur Lane Kiwi players haven't been happy about it as they too want either a cool, cute or even a derpy in game name for their country.
She is mentioned in the continuation of Volume 1 that unlocks after the "Final Chapter" - I will spoiler just in case. While not a full breakdown/synopsis, I recommend not opening if you plan to read the Chapter in question yourself.
Features a superweapon called "Train Cannon" that serves as a MacGuffin that different factions try to seize. It's basically the 'Schwerer Gustav' railway gun, except self-propelled and shoots plasma-based projectiles instead of 7 ton shells. (Funnily the weapon itself is described to weight a "ton" at one point but it's probably a typo or script error as the IRL version weighed more than a thousand tonnes (ie. million kilograms). It having the Gehenna emblem comes as a surprise that prompts a quick exposition dump about "Gehenna's Tyrant Emperor" who ruled with an iron fist and had several superweapon projects. She was apparently "overthrown by her subordinates" instead of a coalition including Trinity and Red Winter, which deducts at least some of the Hitler cred from her. What does draw a parallel between the two is the current-day Gehenna's treatment of the site where "Train Cannon" was stored. They basically go full Damnatio memoriae on the place, using explosives. Perhaps bit of a stretch, but it could be meant to invoke:
For what it's worth, there's also the specific mention that Hina and Makoto, two rivals who "never get along" are in complete agreement over this.
Hopefully not, she sounds like a fun character to bring back if we're ever going to get a Gehenna focused chapter and having her be an outright bad person would be a waste.
It also raises the question of what is Kivotos. It seems to be referred as both the city and the world, and graduating/being expelled removes you from it in some way, the latter seems especially brutal. We do have characters referring to their families (though not known if those are biologically related, as some characters just seemingly pop in into the setting).
