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Welcome to another Heaven Burns Thread, where unisons are our butter and bread.

5.3 hit like a hurricane and left behind so many tears. All the NanaTezu art is a true testament to that too.

Having the Commander as a SS unit after all this time was great too, but for the first time in a while we got a proper yuri unison style with MeguTama!

We got the extremely gay Amari Snap Event which was just a date between the two, full stop. We got Escort Ruka who has all the gay homsecreen lines. We got an endless flood of KareTsuka art.
It's truly a good time for HBR yuri.

>>4536424
Kinda depressing that all the NanaSaki art only started after 5.3...

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>>4536883
wrong thread o_o

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M-LyFJI0Pzo
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7htU9q1OZ1U
Oh more 31X food styles. I guess they are making it the gimmick of this wave of styles. Having an entire wave of buffer styles is really weird though.

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Gelato, eh?

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Of course it is BBQ meat...

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Hisamecchi... lol

>>4537655
Why did they give Carole another lightning style...? This is her third one.

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Caught in a trap of love

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lol

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One day KareTsuka will surpass RukaYukki in popularity. Just you wait.

>>4538105
Maybe it's a joke about how single-minded she is? The fire style is the only one that focuses on maskless Carole, so it's intentionally an exception.

>>4539747
Why are you randomly posting the YukkiRuka unison art?

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God I love KareTsuka.

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Someone actually made a prototype for a MeguTsuka ship comic. Apparently with Awakened-chan. I can't fathom how this would work.

>Bungo Unison in Global
Huh. And if Chapter 5, Part 2, Act 2 is next, Unison Karerin/Karen-chan is next. That's a lot of Unisons.

>>4540358
Just wait for WakkiBungo unison after that. And then MeguTama.

>>4540413
>WakkiBungo
Thought all the other Demon King Henchwomen styles were first. BungoWakki was the first, WakkiBungo the last.

Woah... i didnt realize you get a free SS style for beating the current Wakki event! That's crazy!

>3 gig update
But nothing was added?

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>>4541030
Sometimes they just preload a bunch of assets for an update early.

>>4541029
Calling that a proper SS style is generous. I honestly have no idea what the point of it is. It just gives the Yamawaki's Servant buff...

>>4538105
These 31X food styles only exist for a specific niche, which is dungeon/Arts Battle/Wave battle runs. Generic buffs and post-battle recovery effects. And each one is only compatible with a specific element. These are not particularly good, but at least they have a purpose unlike some truly awaful styles like Inori3.

I agree that it was dumb to give Carole the lightning buffer style, because you want to use her white suit style in lightning already. She could have been given another element.
At least Maria makes some sense. For some reason they turned light elemental styles into token drains, so Maria's buff given tokens to the whole party is good for that element and Maria herself is a token reliant character, so it synergizes.

>>4541101
>It just gives the Yamawaki's Servant buff...
That's plenty. BungoWakki only gives the buff to the reserves, which means BungoWakki herself can't ever get the buff, which means her ult will never have the 6th effect.

>>4541119
But the WakkiBungo style also has that skill. Those two unisons literally complement each other. That was kinda the point. So this completely bare "SS" style here is literally just a dead slot reserved for people who didn't get both unisons to have a crutch? It's not like BungoWakki was desperately lacking more broken traits.

>>4541101
It also raises the max level of all your Wakkis to 180 if it wasn't already. That's a way bigger reward in my book.

>>4541124
If you don't have a LB4 Wakki by now, you're really doing something wrong anon.

>>4541126
Unfortunately, some of us are F2P players. Can't afford to only roll on the Wakki banners

>>4541126
I only have very few LB4s. I'm the kind of player who only uses those SS pieces if I really need to or if I really like the style. So far I've been doing fine in all elements with mostly LB2s.

>>4541129
Anon... this is JP. Even assuming you only started a year ago, you got a million SS1 ticket gacha tickets by now. I have almost all SS1s at LB3-4 just because the game hands them out like candy.
I'm not telling you to get her SS2-4 to LB4 without some weird pull luck, but it's really not like you need that for the sheer level cap raise. Might as well complain that you have to beat story chapters to get the free cap raises.

>>4541131
LB2 is plenty in general. I'm talking about natural accumulation here. And the JP server of course.

>>4541132
>this is JP
Oh. Well, then ignore me, for I'm a retard.

>you got a million SS1 ticket gacha tickets by now
I do have a lot of those for doing all the Operation Perseus missions. Guess there's no reason to keep them.

>>4541119
Doesn't BungoWakki start with the buff? It'd really only be a benefit on a team without them or if you absolutely needed all 6 to have it on turn 2

>>4541136
I mean we are talking about the free Wakki SS style from the most recent JP event, so...

Did MEGAnon stopped updating the sprites folder?

>>4541146
No, I still check every update for new ones. Do you think I missed any?

>>4541149
I was just surprised that there hadn't been any new ones in the last two months

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https://x.com/heavenburnsred/status/2037130780334526849
Miya Snap event and Hisame Easter SS. At least it's not a goddamn bunny suit.

>>4542723
Uhm... that is a dating sim, with Miya as the protagonist. The romance options are Yuina, Ruka and... Karen-chan?

>>4542910
>grown Bungo
Oh no she's hot!

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I feel like 1500 days anniversary is kind of a stupid reason to celebrate, especially after we just had the 4th anni, but whatever. It gets artists in a festive mood.

>still in maintenance
What gives?

>>4544763
They extended the maintenance, as stated in xitter. Probably because they can't find a way to fix that weird bug with the monthly rewards.

Was there any significance on the Osprey being armed in 5.2?

>>4544820
The hell is an Osprey?

>>4544823
The helicopter.

>>4544830
I don't remember it having that kind of name... Do you mean the standard helicopter they use to go to missions or the one used in the finale? The latter should be obvious, so it must be about the former.
They've been arming these since 5.1.

>>4544831
>I don't remember it having that kind of name...
They don't call it as such in-game, but it exists IRL and has that name.

Oh boy, EN starts with the old version of Wave Battle? The shitty version. That's unfortunate.

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OH my GOD I need this doujin so bad!!

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I still need to play Vri-chan's event...

I really don't understand how Dark Yotsuha works. I have tried using her in the backrow, but she never activates her ult. What gives?

>Castaway featuring Wakki
It's... somewhat less bad than I thought it would be.

>>4545827
It was blown out of proportion, but the parts with the guy are extremely unnecessary and annoying. The whole thing in general feels like filler that barely does anything but character assassinate Wakki by the end of the chapter.

>>4545827 (Me)
Disregard this. It's as bad as I thought it would be.

>>4545828
Is right, but "character assassinate Wakki" doesn't quite describe what they did to her. I sure hope they retcon this, because I hate this person she's become.

>>4545907
It was definitely a character assassination. Wakki is a character who already knew hardship. She already suffered plenty and knew how cruel the world was. She literally lost her childhood friend, the only one she ever cared about as a kid, to a Cancer attack. Her entire focus is thus on helping her friends and protecting them. She will push herself to her limit because she cares.
So this entire stupid scenario Maeda made for her where she forgets everything to make her a "normal girl" so she can be retraumatized by the world and harden her heart is extremely dumb. Steeled Wakki is pointless and does nothing or her character arc. Realizing that the world is cruel is completely pointless for a character like Wakki who cries every night as her dearest friend loses all memories of their time together because of the head injury she received when she protected her.

And what is the actual point of having a steeled Wakki? To talk sense into Karerin and push her into a corner. That's literally the only reason all of this shit was pushed on Wakki. So she can be harsh enough to push Karerin into action. This could have been achieved without the pointless filler and making Wakki rant about how she could have been some dude's girlfriend if she had kept having amnesia. We literally have a dozen characters who could have filled that role. Maeda has 31B and 30G in his hands. Ichigo and Sumomo are literally killers who had to harden their hearts all their lives. Their hands are just as bloodstained as Karerin's! Tsukishiro lost Kura and still perserveres despite feeling responsible for the deaths of the two people that meant most to her.
How could these people who directly went through something similar as Asakura Karen not be a better choice than making Wakki into someone she is not? 5.2 was almost my favorite chapter, but the Wakki parts drag it down severely.

>>4546070
>It was definitely a character assassination
I agree with this, 100%. By "doesn't describe what they did to her" I meant "doesn't begin to describe what they did to her". It's disastrous.

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Did something YotsuVri related happen lately? There are suddenly so many artworks for them...

>>4546189
>>4546190
I miss electrocution fetish Tama. Why did Maeda forget about this?

>>4545826
You need to equip the passive that triggers it. It's a bit unintuitive. And really awkward to use, because using any dark skill at all forces the follow up.

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Hint for the next SS style... I guess the band aid makes it likely Akarin? Is she gonna get a proper Tennis outfit?

>>4546551
Getting tied up in a net shows her unlucky side, so I would use that as a hint too.

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>>4546551

>>4546157
I know the Vritika Garden event where she cooks kari with Yotsuha was recent in Global. Maybe that

>>4546551
Background doesn't really look like a tennis pitch.

>>4546808
I dunno, could be a general sports park or something. The net definitely looks like either tennis or volleyball though. Risa-mama also has band-aids, so it might be her. But she isn't known for being clumsy. In fact she is superhumans only when playing volleyball.

>>4546760
These artworks are made by Japs tho.

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The second style's hint... Big tits and black hair? There is actually not a lot to pick from here. Like... we got only a handful of blackl haired girls and none of them are busty except for Yunyun. So a cheerleader Yunyun style.

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>>4546876

>>4546876
>we got only a handful of black haired girls and none of them are busty
I dunno, Karerin holds her own on the bust department.

>>4546892
She is modest at best. Maybe B cup. Nothing special. Some of the SS arts (the horny ones) exaggerate her a lot.

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Well we got half of it right. It certainly is Akarin. Although this doesnt seem to be tennis.

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But THIS. This is bullshit. Misaring was NEVER this stacked. What a random lift up!

At least her cheerleading for Akari makes this sort of another pair style.

>>4546968
>Misarin was NEVER this stacked
The Christmas style hints that she is. It's more hidden because her default outfit hides her chest and even then she still strains it.

>>4546968
To be fair, they vacuum sealed her tits in the most unnatural and uncomfortable way possible to make it seem like they are big.

>>4546968
Her default outfit hid them a lot, she's stacked enough in the christmas style for sure. Even then this is a cherry picked still
I'm very happy about more pairings but they are different element aren't they? That's a bit silly

>>4547133
Thanks to Irocchi, 31D in particular is trying for a multi-elemental thing, which they never really managed to work out though.

The new Akari is just straight up power creeping Magician Isuzu... that's kinda sad for me. Now I hope I wont roll her so I have an excuse to keep using Isuzu.

>check en.hbr.quest
>references to many styles that aren't actually in global right now
Odd things are happening.

>>4547598
Isn't Suit Tsukasa a more useful light field than Magician Isuzu?

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>>4547604
...field? Who cares about field? Magician Isuzu is a debuffer. She does AoE light def + general def down for 2 turns. She also has a 8SP fragile debuff move. But the new athlete Akarin can create light weakness + perma light defense down + fragile in one ult for just 14 SP. It's cheaper and does almost everything better than Magician Isuzu. And she still got another move with a unique status effect on top of that. It's just straight up powercreep.
Now you could say it has been more than a year since Magician Isuzu came out, so it might not be fair game. I just dont wanna replace her lol

Akarin needed the win though. She hasn't been meta since her ice style OD loop days. Once upon a time she had the best Dark style with her SS1, but Adel usurped that not that long after.

I heard that global almost caught up with jp now. Can someone post what some current good jp teams look like so i know what styles to focus on?

>struggle against the second Flat Hand Anachrony for months
>assemble a team to finally beat it; the team needs a DP attacker
>I have Unison Bungo, use her
Jesus Christ she ate the Flat Hand alive.

>>4547844
You were told that she is broken beyond belief. The game was never quite the same after unison Bungo.

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I beat Miya's Snap Even for now.
So this was not really as good or funny as Yukki's choose your own adventure Snap, but it still had a lot of fun stuff going on. As a concept I love Miya having to choose between her long time crush Class Rep Yuina and the new transfer student Ruka. Classic dating sim set up and both are crushes hinted at in the main story.
Karen-chan seems like a really random option, but over the course of the game you realize she isn't really here as a romance option, but rather as a self-aware piece of code telling Miya to get her shit together.

Despite being a dating sim, there aren't actually that many romantic moments. It's mostly build up and wacky stuff. I did almost die when Miya tried to lick food from Ruka's lips mouth to mouth, but of course Yuina interrupted them (by asking whether they were going to kiss).

For the life of me I don't know if there is a secret Ruka ending if you pick everything perfectly, because the only real endings you get are
1. Failed to raise all stats (loop)
2. Karen-chan kills you
3. Riase all stats, meet Yuina and pick her (loop)
4. True Ending
Feels like Ruka should have her own weird ending, considering she is treated kinda like the main heroine? But she will always be busy with clubs no matter what.

I don't know if I really like or understand the true ending that well. I guess Yukki did program all of Miya's feelings and most important memories into the game, so the fact that the true ending is Miya rejecting the dating sim and wanting to dream about Miyu, her sister, could be the point? I just don't like the stupid line "I want to be with the only person I have ever loved in my life" when refering to Miyu. Almost like the writers are rejecting the very idea that Miya has romantic feelings for Yuina or Ruka, which is stupid.

>>4547604
Fields haven't mattered since the nerf
>>4547607
JP is going through a lot of changes at the moment with the element admirals and element marks and such, so its anyones guess depending on the element.

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>>4547907
Kura being the mom was super wholesome and I especially love the option to hug her immediately. Really felt like Miya's feelings were shown off there as well. She even thanks her for being able to meet her again on the true ending path.

That aside, this was chock full of secret details again.
On the very first loop Miya will comment about how she should raise all her stats before restarting the game, but afterwards she will never repeat this scene again. So it's actually ultra rare to get a different reaction. You have to get killed by Karen-chan on the very first playthrough, so Miya will then comment on how insane it is that a dating sim has a dead end!

If you pick all the options where Miya eats way too much food in one day, she will nearly throw up when Kura serves her dinner.

If you pick the hug Kura option two playthroughs in a row, Kura's reaction will be much softer than the first time.

If you go to eat yakiniku with Karen-chan on the first day and then try to go home with her again on the second day, Karen-chan will have a unique pep talk for Miya, telling her not to try to go for all the routes and just aim at the true ending path (Miyu). She also will kill you again if you pick her again on the third day, because Miya will say that she really did want to go for Asakura-san though.
If you pick Karen-chan only on the second and third day she will straight up tell you that you wasted a playthrough and go home alone.

>>4547907
>>4547909
How is it that a snap event has more VN content than most actual VNs?

>>4547911
Visual Novels are Key's bread and butter, so you would expect them to know how to do those well. But to be fair, Snap Events are really short. I wouldn't say this has more content than most VNs, with the exception of those really short Game Jam ones that last like 20 minutes. Took me about an hour to get all the content (I assume it's all, but that elusive Ruka ending may still exist...).

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>>4547607
Can't say whether my teams are truly well constructed or balanced (not including dark because it's honestly a mess), but this is what works for me right now. A lot of these are on EN already.
Looking at it right now, I gotta say, aside from a clear Yuina bias, WFS really managed to make me do some very varied teams now. Who would ever have thought Maru-chan and Irocchi could be a core shell in a lightning team? I've also been experimenting with bartender Minori lately and she is shockingly solid! I can't really decide who to use in Sharo's slot for fire. She is kind of just a placeholder who has a field and can heal when Carole isn't enough. I need a fire buffer, but I really don't want to keep using Yotsuha from year 1 or the super awkward swimsuit Adel...

>>4547908
element marks?

>>4547927
thats a fuckton on daphne. arent that rare anymore eh?

>>4547927
Is Idol Ichigo really that strong as an attacker? I have Unison Ruka doing that.

>I need a fire buffer
Swimsuit Tsukasa?

>>4547934
>daphne arent that rare anymore eh?
Apparently, same with bells

>>4547937
>idol Ichigo
Was pretty much the strongest fire attacker for ages. I'd say she is still up there on JP. Unison Ruka is decent, especially because of the integrated debuff, but Ichigo's multihit buff easily outdamages her. Also most fire teams prefer using Diva Ruka for buffs and damage. I just found her redundant, because Ichigo can multihit buff herself and Admiral Yuina is overall more useful. I guess switching Sharo for Diva Ruka would be smarter for a meta team though.
>swimsuit Tsukasa
Pure trash, even after the buff. I'd rather use Yotsuha or fire Adel then.
>bells
I do keep running out of them, mostly because I'm trying to get everyone to +10.

>>4547938
>[Idol] Ichigo's multihit buff easily outdamages [Unison Ruka]
Go figure. I'll start using her.

>>4547986
Fucking retard
>>4547605

>>4548033
>4chan filename
>smaller version of an existing picture
Just a spammer, ignore him

>>4547944
Just remember that she guzzles SP like a car does fuel. Better to have some SP battery unit or orb with you.

>>4547934
The issue with Daphne is that they only work on singular styles unlike reversions. So you should pick styles you are certain to use for a long time.
Also I only got so many from diligently doing all content in the game for years. This is not what a casual or new player would have.

>>4547927
What I dont get about lightning Kanata is that she has no lightning moves, so why is she an elemental unit at all? She would be useful in any team. Though obviously dark more than anything due to her SS1 ult. Now she benefits from moves that specifically give SP or buffs to lightning units, but that is a very niche benefit...

That one skill from Wedding Dress Sharo should give Ruka extra buffs

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Relatable. Except if I rolled red dress Yukki I would just be disappointed at my wasted ticket.

There's a target of importance in Kozue's event and another in Miya's event. I more or less know where Miya's is but Kozue's event is bugged, it won't let me jump.

>replay the Miya event to pick the dialogue options I didn't pick in my first playthrough and to kill the extra boss
>Yuina gets tired of being trolled and tells Miya to "pick the top two options", the correct ones to advance the story, then says the thought of the two options just entered her mind
Huh.

>replay the Kozue event to kill the extra boss
>a bug renders it unplayable on phone
I'll have to play on PC

>>4548452
Wow, an anon who didn't pick all the wrong dialogue options as was clearly intended... I wonder how someone could miss the entire point of the event.

>>4548878
Why are their cheeks stretched like that?

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>>4548898
That's just this artist's style. They can draw regular ground faces, but choose not to.

>solraker front
Huh, the background didn't update like it does for solraker fronts.
Also, the instakill enemies were really tricky.

>>4549327
I reall like the instakill/immortal enemy challenges too. Makes you use all those unusual combos lile block/shadow clones/DP revival for maximum survival.

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Dont tell me it wouldnt be epic

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Huge improvement on both desu

>>4549918
Let’s agree to disagree.

>>4549717
Would suck so hard

>>4549941
>>4549949
Wow, impressive how seethrough you are....

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New official 4koma

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>>4550100

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>>4549717
Full version. Yukki as Anthy makes so much sense with the dumb giant glasses.

Chinese dress Maki and Inori? Those are some pretty fine designs at least, even if a bit horny for Maki.

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No cap, this might be the most gorgeous style art in the entire game. This is legitimately beautiful and a huge achievement for this game of already plenty of very good looking styles. It's nice to see Inori get something that leans more into the dancer and parade side of swordsmanship for sure.

As a style, well, she is an ice attacker... who is also a buffer. They knew she could not compete with ice Adel, as probably nobody ever will, so they had to give her something. If there werent already half a dozen great ice buffers by now, it'd be easier to recommend her. But I mean, if you don't have ice Tsukasa she is probably great.

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I guess sexualizing the girl who runs around with a bare midriff and without a top and just bandages around her chest wasn't that farfetched... but I don't really think this leans too much into Maki's strong suits. You might say her scholar side is being played into here, but eh. It still looks pretty good though and gambling is sort of biker gang related?

Either way she is the lightning element mark user, just like Aoi is the ice mark user. Seems these mark users are all gonna represent one playstyle. Aoi is the ultimate defender, Maki is the ultimate debuffer. I don't think she is outright better than demon Mari, but a permanent debuff that can be infinitely spammed is sure something. You will be forced to exclusively use lightning styles in your party to use her though, so I guess lucky that Maru-chan got a lightning style despite having nothing lightning related in her kit. This was probably the true reason.

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Shiki getting anything at all is a win. But as usual she lost the fight for last place in 31F's SS style distribution. Last to get her SS2 and she will be last to get her SS3... mark my words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT2CNXruQVs
The new event is... another Inori event!
A talking demonic sword and HisaIno focus. This is actually really good.

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>>4550623

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>>4551239
Choose wife or sword wife. Truly a conundrum

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>>4551248
sword wife doesn't have a pussy unless it ends up like the Zanpakuto Rebellion arc of Bleach

Which squad leader rocked the white suit style better? Who wore it worse?

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>>4551413
>best white suit
Misarin, it's not even close. Maximum dyke energy.
>worst
I used to think it was Ruka from the group art, because it looked really lame, but goddamn did her SS style art give her a glow-up. And finding out she is an escort for girls made it even better.
Nah, worst white suit style is either Wakki or Yuina. Theirs are so boring. I at least think Yuina's ult is cool, but this is just about looks, so it won't matter.

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>>4551248

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How far would she go for Chiroru's birthday...

>Karen-chan/Karerin Unison, Demon Lord set Tenne and Seira
Yes please.

>>4552962
They rushed to the Karen/Karen unison for no reason. It shouldnt be out for several months. It was made after the nerfs and is only supposed to counter those.

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Damn, the official 4koma artist just spells it out when the game was being more roundabout lol

Nobody ever posted this, but there was a story scene played before the HBR concert last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuiFpxI290
It's actually quite interesting. The real Ruka interacting with her mom. Why is there more actual screentime here for the original Ruka than in all of 5.1???

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Oh god... the Persona 5 collab is right around the corner. They better have Irene in that collab or I swear to Yaldabaoth, there will be pain in Kaki's face.

>>4555123
Joker EOS speedrun is the only choice

>>4555133
Even that garbage Person 5 gacha itself isn't dead yet despite everyone hating it, so I doubt it.

>>4555123
Is it styles like the baseball collabs or new units like the Angel Beats collabs.
Also, odd that we don't have more Key collabs with other series.

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>>4555179
I highly doubt they will have Persona characters added as units. AB was a pretty special situation and Key actually has the rights to those characters. If I got my way Isuzu and Irene would get Phantom Thief styles. Irene already has one, so maybe they will just reuse hers. They are both decently popular, so it would work. But 31A always gets the most attention, so I expect at least one 31A style...

It's just a one-off collab that probably makes zero sense, just like the Pro Baseball one. I really have no idea how this crossover will actually work. Will they adapt a Person 5 like slick UI or will they just put sprites of the P5 cast into HBR? Even the existing P5 models would look really odd in HBR.

At the very least the turn based RPG stuff makes them quite compatible. Not to mention the dungeon style runs.

I also wonder how the power sets are gonna work. Are the Phantom Thieves just gonna get Seraphs that look exactly like their weapons in the Metaverse? Or will the HBR cast go to the Metaverse instead? It's at least more interesting than the AB and Baseball collabs.

I'm more annoyed about the possibility that male characters will be in the limelight. I doubt they are gonna do the AB thing where they only invite the girls over. Cant imagine not having Joker appear in the event. Mona would be fine, cause he is a cat at least, but eh.

Guess the PowerPro collab also had two males in it, but they are just funny masoct toy thingies, so it didn't really feel real. And PowerPro-kun literally slept through the entire event.

>>4555182
>I also wonder how the power sets are gonna work
I see Cancers appearing in the Metaverse and Phantom Thieves Metaverse weapons and Personas work against them. The HBR cast will appear in the Metaverse somehow, and through Mari-related shenanigans Ruka will be wearing a Joker (or Joker-esque) outfit, which will make the P5 girls believe she's Joker.
Yes, I know it's mostly a rehash of the first AB collab. Yes, I do hope whoever's actually writing this event is more creative while also not having any of the male P5 characters present in any way, shape or form. Miyuki's love for that one guy was already too much in the first AB collab.

>>4555252
>Miyuki's love for that one guy
I feel like that's a total misreading of that event. Dude was obsessed with her, but she literally never once showed any sign of reciprocating. He just kinda kept visiting her grave and her ghost was incapable of really doing anything except watch.
That's the irony of the event. This 40 year old virgin makes her death all about him and she has to suffer decades listening to this shit and somehow people think it's a love story, when there is none.

>>4555420
Also, he eventually got over it and she was happy for him that he moved on.

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I have to emphasize this again, but they seriously fixed Wave Battle so well. It's the mod I look most forward to returning every time now. Even the debuff enemy themed gauntlet this time around isnt annoying, but rather fun to play around. The fact that enemy debuff and ally buff countdowns stay intact between battles makes you really consider waiting out the turns or risking the stacks. And as mentioned before, the cards between each battle being exclsuively rewards that help you makes it way more satisfying.
This is legit the only mode in the whole game that I feel gives you real skill and comp expression beyond just bashing the biggest numbers into an enemy.
I usually play with the OD debuff when playing with my light party, because I have so many skills that increase OD or work around it in my light party.

It's just really nice to lolok forward to open HBR for something other than events or story sometimes. I hope EN gets the fixed version soon.

>>4555123
They had Ichigo in the baseball one so hopefully they don't just have 31-A for collabs in the future. At least give us something if giving us collabs

>>4556054
True, though I feel like they just added Hisame for cute/popular points even though she clearly didnt belong. Would have made more sense to aslo have Sumomo in the baseball event, considering she is also a huge baseball fan and would play off well with her sister.
Another one who is a big baseball fan and actually 31A relevant is Karen-chan. And Karerin is a gamer, so she would recognize PowerPro Baseball...
What I'm saying is that they didn't really fully utilize the cast there either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTvxP__kARU
The new official stream that will show off the P5 collab starts now.

Yep, rest in peace, hbr. Elmao at retards in chief

>>4558080
Hah, Irene is in there. Called it.

>>4558080
Sumire getting a SS style in this collab when she doesnt even get to appear in actual P5 spin-offs is really funny. HBR always brings out the best, huh?
So we got Makoto, who is the de facto real leader of the Phantom Thieves if you ignore the cardboard self-insert Joker and Sumire for SS styles. Mona, the cat, gets a style too... he is technically male. But he is also a cat.
AND we are getting a Tsukasa style with the outfit of Ann, one of the female Phantom Thieves who doesnt appear in this event.

>>4558080
>Joker appears
Can they please stop shooting themselves in the foot?

>>4558089
He doesnt get a style, he is just a story character. This is pretty much expected for a crossover though... Why wouldnt the main character be in it? The existence of males is nothing new in HBR, but freaking out over a collab with the protagonist of another franchise is weird... are you afraid of random hetshit for no reason? Persona spin-offs have been entirely devoid of romantic implications between Joker and the girls from his game. And there is negative 100% chance that the HBR cast is gonna flirt with him.

>>4558089
Time to stop my subs, been paying for 3 years straight but no more.

>>4558096
Again, nobody believes you.

>>4558091
>are you afraid of random hetshit for no reason?
Honestly, yes. But you did explain why that is extremely unlikely to happen.
I was hoping for something like the Angel Beats collab, where the male MC didn't appear.

>>4558102
It's like how smokers quit smoking forever dozens of times

Stop bringing your hetshit into the /u/ thread kthx

>>4558108
>calls others trolls whilst literally trolling himself
I don't know why even bother.

>>4558103
Well I kinda get that, but that's not how Atlus usually does collabs. Unlike with AB, which was a Key property, this is a joint collab with a different company. I doubt they would not have Joker appear in it.
I wouldnt be so stressed about this though. HBR has never been gayer than in the last year and a half, so I expect if anything to get some ship fuel for the HBR pairings, using the shadow mechanic. The whole thing about going into people's psyche is pretty useful for that. Imagine Ruka seeing Yuki's inner world where she is a total fangirl.

>>4558080
Kind of a waste that Isuzu isnt in it. Irene and Tsukasa make sense though.

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>>4558080
Life will Lolita.

>Moragana is the first playable male memoria
congrats i guess

>>4558117
Well, it's a cat mascot voiced by a woman. Reminds me of the old times where people were confused why Morgana was even a male cat at all, when he is literally mistaken for female several times in-universe. Apparently it was to balance out the gender ratio in the Phantom Thieves... which is overwhelmingly female leaning.
Too bad we aren't getting Haru. Haru/Makoto is a pretty popular yuri ship in the P5 community.

>>4558120
I've never liked these mascot characters, I don't remember P3 having one either. Teddy might have started that horrible trend for the series.

>>4558122
Yeah there were none in P1-3. Unless you consider Elizabeth a mascot character lol
I would say Morgana is fine though, because he fulfills a utilitarian role for your cardboard cutout self-insert protag, by replacing your inner thoughts and actually reacting to stuff protag can't. Cats are also cute, unlike whatever clown abomination Teddy is.

I know the menu cat in HBR is never directly involved with anything, but I would find it really funny if that talking cat interacted with Mona somehow.

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Miya already wears a Persona style mask. They gotta make at least one gag about it.

>P5 collab
EoS soon.

On a brighter note you might join the Campione in Time for a Summer Run

>>4558136
What's dat?

Man, why Faglus of all things these motherfuckers fucking hate women.

>>4558179
This event will be the best treatment the P5 girls will get.

>>4558091
>>4558110
Why are we acting like persona games dont go for harems for their protags for the most part as fans find it amusing.

Sure male npcs also do firty dumb shit in this game but here we have joker the phantom thief stealer of hearts and we already have Ruka freaking out in the trailer over how cool they are.

Persona gams also hate female protags do you think they really would let this colllab slide if they didnt reduce Ruka to another girl just to prop up Joker ?

Do you really trust Atlus that constantly makes fun of their female cast,do you trust them to have eanugh self control to nto rage bait with joker

>>4558197
You didn't read a single thing I said, huh? If you play any of the Persona 5 spin-offs like Strikers or Tactica or even that horrendous gacha P5X, you would know that they completely avoid any romantic implications in those. Mostly because they dont wanna mess with fan's preferences, so you can't give any girl preferential treatment. And in general the Phantom Thieves are more used as symbols in most crossover media. There are literally dozens of P5 collabs by now and none of them had Joker act like a harem protag.
And Ruka calling the Phantom Thieves cool is a problem, why exactly? They are cool. And Ruka has been very blatant about her disinterest in guys enough times already, so she is the least likely to swoon over any guys.

You clearly know nothing about HBR or P5. You are just shitposting. I won't dignify your Atlus schizoing with another reply.

>>4558199
Schizo posting is assuming that atlas has eanught self control to not shit on female protag focused games like this one.

Ruka is also most likely geting joined attack with Joker wich already breaks the mold by having her pair up with a male characterm trailer itselfs shows this.

Im legit not shiposting i played both games people behind persona legit just dont treat their female characters well.
Its just a known fact.

You say all that but did you read all persona 5 collabs ? there are countless it varies from series to series so there is no way to tell.

It dosnt matter how Ruka acts in game this is a collab they will msot likely write some bullshit to ruin Ruka i have zero faith

Also the ads will now just be just her and Joker so ggs

When will we finally be rid of these idiots who only come around to doompost about some nonsense, but will otherwise never talk about HBR because they dont actually play it? Insufferable.

>>4558204
It sure is good that Atlus isn't running HBR or this collab.

>joined attack
That one Persona mechanic will most likely be limited to the Persona characters. I can't imagine that attack not having a cost, or a limit, or something, because having an extra attack (and apparently a powerful one at that; the one seen did almost ult levels of damage) for free would break the game.

>>4558207
Do we have stats for the new units? That would be more interesting than this doomposting.

>>4558219
>stats
No, the collab only starts in a week, so the files aren't patched in yet.

>>4558091
>He doesnt get a style, he is just a story character
That's better than I thought it was when I first saw it anyway. Probably still avoid the /vg/ thread for a while as it seems like het tourists are shitposting about it

>>4558242
This is clearly a really benign collab that just tries to have fun with both franchises, but some idiots will always try to use the most superficial things for their agenda. There is no point to talking with these tourists.

I'm more interested in who is writing the collab. I assume it's WFS writers with some guidance from Atlus.
Also if PowerPro is anything to go by, they really put some effort into giving the collabs unique mechanics now. From the trailer it looks like breaking a Cancer's DP leads to an All Out Attack.

I really look forward to the SiL cover of Life Will Change. Though I'd love a rendition of Rivers in the Desert even more.

>Unison Yukki rerun in Global
It feels like bait.

>>4558723
Bait for what? Having reruns of limited time styles is a good thing.

>>4558748
Bait for really limited styles, like the Angel Beats units. I'm not saying AB3 is right around the corner, but it's best to prepare for when it is.

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>>4558915
I mean they have been doing reruns of Unisons a lot in the last months, so I don't think that's really any concerted effort at baiting people.
I don't really care about AB, so this wouldn't affect me anyway, but remember that they will give you like 50 free pulls for the event banner anyway.

>>4558124
Morgana was a creepy het perv, he was just as bad as Teddie.
>>4558179
Reminder that gacha games aren't trustworthy. They want to make money, they don't care about you.

>>4558990
Ah back from being banned? When will you learn your lesson?
Anyway, Morgana is a simp, that is not the same thing. He never actually does anything perverted. He is quite literally just a cat, so what are you afraid of? Ann never took him seriously even once.

>>4558990
>Reminder that gacha games aren't trustworthy
HBR hasn't failed us yet. Even the Wakki situation (and Wakki herself) got fixed.

>>4560465
Whoa, some insane person also ships Black Marketer and Novelist lady. Truly the ship of all time. Love it.

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New assets and poses for the P5 collab are in the mega folder. I recommend copying the "charnames_override.json" or just the new lines from it. I decided not to use the game's strange codenames for files like EmaA or EmaB this time but to give them their actual character names. Copying the lines from the json file will let you change the sorting for names in the GUI.

Also, I had to nix the Backgrounds folder. There just wasn't any space left.

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Makoto ignores basically all resistances and defenses. She can just beat E-shields regardless of element. Suits her piercing fighting style.

Tsukasa is a buffer/debuffer hybrid, which makes her an alrounder.

Mona can heal allies status debuffs and DP. He was always kinda used as a healer in P5 too, so it makes sense.

Looks like next event in Global will be Swimsuit Miya.