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Depends on your taste, but from my experience with tea drinking family members, with milk.

The real question is if you add the milk first or tea first, because that DOES change the flavor in a significant way.
I tend to do milk first, but I'll do tea first if it's most convenient at the time.
 
Serenade Promenade is being reduced to one week in length for its global rerun. You may think "what's the issue?", but this means you only have one week to farm Idol Mine's elephs. And she's a really fucking good tank at that too despite being a free character, so this has caused some concern amongst people who want to clear Lunatic Goz or Gregorious.

For me? I don't care. I only need her for Geburah anyway and gladly he hasn't come back yet even in JP. But this does set a precedent that Nexon can and will shorten events that provide welfare students because they wanted to. Let's just hope this doesn't spread to Fest events as well.
 
The real question is if you add the milk first or tea first, because that DOES change the flavor in a significant way.
You microwave the water to be lukewarm and then add the mildly used teabag from your coat pocket to the water like Konoka?
Nexon can and will shorten events that provide welfare students because they wanted to.
Nexon is really trying to get us to the 3 month gap by any means necessary. We're now exactly 4 months behind JP due to this.
 
But this does set a precedent that Nexon can and will shorten events that provide welfare students because they wanted to. Let's just hope this doesn't spread to Fest events as well.
but they're also willing to compensate players for doing so, the most recent tweet elaborated on what's going to be

Sensei, the roar of the Trinity Carnival live performance rings out once more!
In celebration of the 'Serenade Promenade' rerun, log in to the game every day to receive special gifts~Make sure to log in within each day's reward period and claim them all!
Details:

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It's really fucked what they're doing but also if they merged the dead week banners that were supposed to be after Serenade Promenade people would probably be complaining too. Unlike the other dead week banners that they've been merging with the preceeding event recently, in JP the dead week after Serenade Promenade introduced the Fest Archive Recollection banners, where they retired S.Hosh, Wakamo and Mika so you can't get them from the regular Fest anymore but you can pull them during that one week and in the future you'll still be able to pull them whenever they rerun that particular banner (along with any characters that they'll add to it).
 
FOX squad is gonna be playable!
further explanation, beyond the onslaught of new merch on the newest JP stream there's a new PV (around the -30 min mark, stream is ongoing atm) which introduces the 2nd part of the prologue, and by extension the liberation of the FOX squad from the NPC jail (but erika is still in there)

and the tweet that talks about the new story chapter
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【New Information ②】The story turns to a new page...After maintenance on April 21st (Tue), the opening of Part 2 Main Story Prologue has been confirmed!!
 
Main Story Part 2 Prologue
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As part of it - Vol 0 Chapter 1, FSC story volume
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New EX Story
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FOX Squad implementation except Yukino, who is likely in NPC jail until the rerun. Both 3 star units limited.
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7th PV
Odyssey Maritime School first look after Millennium bunny girl event
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New FSC chair revealed to NOT be Pina
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Fire department
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Niyaniya Professor and Akira/Miria whatever the fuck she is
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Game features
Mock boss fights are now always available
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View a student's favorite presents
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New "All-around Equipment"
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UI-UX improvements
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NO ERIKA. Erikafags are still going home with NADA. RIP.
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Game features
Mock boss fights are now always available
Fucking finally, there's so many times I spooked a student that's good for a raid boss that won't be on for months so I completely forget about them or I wanted to test out whether a certain team setup is better than another one for an upcoming boss, I can finally do it now. Another thing I've seen is that they're making the drops for Commissions better.

Since we get QoL features much faster than new content I wouldn't be surprised if we get all the new QoL stuff during our next Fest rather than in 3 months.
 
Main Story Part 2 Prologue
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As part of it - Vol 0 Chapter 1, FSC story volume
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FOX Squad implementation except Yukino, who is likely in NPC jail until the rerun. Both 3 star units limited.
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7th PV
Odyssey Maritime School first look after Millennium bunny girl event
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New FSC chair revealed to NOT be Pina
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Fire department
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Niyaniya Professor and Akira/Miria whatever the fuck she is
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Game features
Mock boss fights are now always available
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View a student's favorite presents
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New "All-around Equipment"
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UI-UX improvements
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NO ERIKA. Erikafags are still going home with NADA. RIP.
/SPOILER]
Some more highlights of the PV which I noticed. Less relevant but they added info nonetheless.

Rin seems to have been relieved of her position?
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New storyline seems to be horror-themed.
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The club members are enjoying their time together.
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Someone unexpected makes an appearance in Kivotos towards the end.
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A cherry blossom tree has appeared inside the Shittim Chest world. Might be looking to deep into it without much info, but the tree being associated with Japan makes me believe it has something to do with Kuzunoha.
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Rin seems to have been relieved of her position?
Yeah she was the FSC acting president after all. The in-universe social media suggests that the blonde girl is the new full FSC president, which does imply Rin only held the position for a short time after she was reinstated after Kaya's arrest. But we don't know anything yet until the update comes out on the 21st and we get more details
 
The theory that I have right now (by the way the PV is out now) is that that Skibidi Toilet TV head guy from the main story part 2 teaser is fudging around with Kivotos and is either trying to merge the timeline together or re-writing it.

This can be schizo theory but the evidence we got is that for whatever reason the acting president is using a brand new patch while the president we know uses the standard GSC logo, which kind of odd.
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And also a split second frame with Rin in casual outfit posted above also shows the same photo Rin took with the President. Except the President is gone? Compare that from the last one we see in PV4.
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There's also a split second image of Kivotos message board (lmao they even have 4chan) where anons are spamming about "The president is a fake". I mean yeah it's a message board post so it's not true, but still worth pointing it out.
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This sounded really schizo but honestly considering how gematria has been following the rules/concept of meta narratives, the idea of someone retconning/merging plot and making a fake kivotos that looks similar yet isn't seems not to far fetched.

Also they have this shot of a watch
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It says "Jer 1:11". Maybe it's related to one of them bible passages?

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I checked the stream again for the character PV for the new Fox girls and event PV and discovers this (this was discussed by other twitter users finding it out)
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FUCKING 1984. THAT TV GUY IS FUCKING ORWELL
 
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It says "Jer 1:11". Maybe it's related to one of them bible passages?
Wow way to reveal yourself as a tourist. It's OBVIOUSLY them referencing the current Quartering drama.

Seriously tho, Jer 1:11 is most likely a reference to Jeremiah 1:11 which goes:
"Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree."
The almond tree symbolizes God's vigilance, as the almond tree is the first which bears fruit and heralds the arrival of Spring. The meaning of it, looked within the wider context, is that God always fulfills his promises and he does so swiftly, he is the watcher of his own word.
 
if there's going to be a retcon of something then please God let it be V1C3 abydos deserves to be unfucked and sucessful

we even got a waitress kuroko even man
 
fudging around with Kivotos and is either trying to merge the timeline together or re-writing it.
I like this theory. It could be that Skibidi TV is trying to overwrite the current reality of Kivotos. It would fit the themes 1984, always being watched by Big Brother & that the "past" is constantly being rewritten by the party.

Also I just realized that almond trees also have pink flowers, so the tree shown at the end of the PV is not a cherry, but an almond tree.

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“You have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled.” -Jeremiah 1:12
 
I was going to sperg that substituting an almond tree with a cherry tree is fine because 'Tree of the knowledge of good and evil' was very unlikely to originally be an apple tree, Northern parts of Europe had apple as the main/only fruit available. Bible doesn't specify what kind of fruit it actually was, but apples are an unlikely candidate since they aren't native to the Middle East region.

But yea, while I'm not a botanist, it very least doesn't look like a stereotypical cherry tree. They tend have have long, straight trunk. Cursory Google Images search corroborates this, while almond trees shown seem to branch outwards early.
 
okay new bits to enjoy, it's a "part 2" of the main story now
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【New Information③】And furthermore...!!
Starting the same day, Part 2 Main Story Vol.0 "Federal Student Council" Arc Chapter 1 "On a Spring Day When Almond Blossoms Bloom" will also commence!
and also a new pv has been released

【Event Anime PV Released】Teacher!The anime PV for the new event has been released!The FOX Squad finally makes its appearance!
It seems they will uncover the truth behind Kivotos' urban legend "Kune Kune"...!Animation Production: Yostar Pictures

▼High-quality version herehttps://youtu.be/dI1Z3jM9gq4



e: and the 7th pv has been released as well

【7th PV Released】 The new PV for "Blue Archive" that you just saw on #BlueArchiveLiveFeverSP has been released!
It feels like students you haven't met yet, along with academies, are making an appearance! Huh? This person is...?

▼High-quality version here https://youtu.be/U6Wlb18KLrI

and second e: the ex skills of every available member


 
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