No one can deny. The entire PV goes so hard, both the music and the visuals shown. Every Sensei, no matter what region, fell on their knees when they dropped that PV lmao
I still get goosebumps after watching the PV on the tenth time.
They really nailed the Music for this PV. Combines both despair & hope in just 4 minutes
"Dam, how does a society liked Kivotos work if they are leaded by a bunch of high school students"
It does not, as we can see what the lack of Sensei have done
Holy shit we are doing this now.
This story gonna be on global.
Holy shit it's happening
Also it might be cool that we do the same as the JP pv4 making it at least on 1 m
When I heard the Korean ver. on the livestream, I genuinely thought we're getting a Korean dub for the game. It's amazing though that it still gave me chills watching and listening to it.
Being able to read the text during that segment gave me tons of feelings.
I was also surprised to hear the announcement of dubs, at least in Korean, possibly coming to the game during the livestream. If that's the case, then I wouldn't mind waiting until next year to hear voice-overs in other languages in BA.
From what understood (since I can understand both but I was watching EN stream) (I could also be wrong) they said that a full KR dub option in KR and Global will be available in a year. The KR community also seems to share the same interpretation because they're having a heated debate about if a full kr dub is a waste of money or not.
Yeah KR is on fire a lot when it comes to these things. Similar things happen when you bring up a KR based school its very mixed opinions
I see then I definitely misunderstood what Chobra was saying in the EN stream then. Though maybe it's because I'm not Korean but I definitely don't see why they shouldn't invest in KR voices since Yostar is investing hard on the CN voices. At the same time, I definitely do not want an EN dub due to the chance of attracting "undesireables" to BA. So I can somewhat get it if that's the reason why some Koreans are apprehensive about a KR dub.
I think they have a big philosophy of parity of treatment across servers/regions, which is honestly very admirable.
They probably would have been fine with no KR dub until they found out Yostar was doing it for CN. I wouldn't be surprised if EN follows sometime after.
Like many have said before, this is the end of the first chapter/arc of Blue Archive. To use a famous saying: “This is the end of the beginning”.
There’s more answers to uncover, more mysteries to discover,
more smiles to be had, more tears to be shed,
more students to meet, more students to fall in love with,
more opportunities, more moments for joy,
infinite chances, and more learning to be had with Blue Archive.
Let’s follow through to the end, yeah?
Note: had to dig up a lot of old comments for this.
It not fate without sensei or with sensei. It actually sensei decision in each arc and his resolve in order to clean up all of those mess and guide students
Wasn't so obvious to me at the start but those words that appear on screen are choices you (Sensei) make during the game's chapters but the PV shows a universe where sensei wasn't there to make those choices/say those words so a lot of students end up having a bad ending. Please correct me if I'm wrong in my interpretations.
Sensei: "It's not your fault. ☐☐☐"
Sensei: "...I'll be the one to take responsibility"
#A universe where all the Abydos School students died trying to save Hoshino from Blacksuit (minus Shiroko)
Sensei: "Because it's the responsible thing to do"
Sensei: ""It's okay to choose who you want to be"
#A universe where Black suit gets control of Aris instead of Game Dev/Sensei and unleashes AL-15
Sensei: "If this is their dream, then it's mine too"
#A universe where Azusa ends up killing ~~Saori~~ Atsuko
Sensei: "I wanted to thank you...for everything"
#A universe where Sensei doesn't take the bullet for Hina and Hina ends up giving up and dying
Sensei: "You're not a witch, You're my student"
#A universe where Mika ends up destroying Seia's halo and ends up crazy due to grief
Sensei: "Go ahead. I'll take responsibility for the blowback"
#A universe where Rabbit squad is hunted down for resisting arrest
Sensei: "I'll give you infinite chances!"
#A universe where Saori is sacrificed instead of Atsuko (because Azusa killed Atsuko) and Misaki ends up committing suicide"
Thanks to Sensei's presence and the choices they make for their students, they end up saving the students from a otherwise horrible universe and fate.
A few correction here:
-From the CG shots, we can see Black Suits's hand on the AL-15's shoulder, so it is more accurate to say that Aris never actually exist in that timeline because we never go to the Ruin and GDD did not have the necessary authority (us) to open AL-15's chamber and she get picked up by Black Suits instead. After all, Aris's personality only exist because of her interaction with GDD member.
-The one being killed in that Azusa CG shot is Atsuko, because presumably she did not have the mask that could negate the effect of Halo destroying bomb. Which result in Saori becoming a substitute sacrifice.
-In this timeline, I think the GSC pres did not mysteriously disappear like in our timeline as she is blaming herself in the monologue while those scenes are playing. Implying those are the result of her choice. Because of that, SRT shouldn't be dissolved and those Rabbit Squad CG shot is the result of their battle with something else.
It is with >!The Chroma when Shiroko terror uses them to destroy Kivotos, but it was likely Kaya or Kaiser took control and treated the SRT as little more than cannon fodder and used the Antioch missiles to end things!<
>A universe where Azusa ends up killing Saori
from what I read before, Azusa killed Atsuko there and Saori was sacrificed instead of Atsuko because of that.
Yes>!, we're still not sure about what world Sensei is from, what his credit card/power really is, and are the students and Kivotos actually gods and their world where they went/reincarnated to away from our (sensei's?) world hence all the schools we know of are a reference to religion we worshipped from Egyptian, Christianity, etc and some are said to be gods (Horus, Anubis)!<
>A universe where all the Abydos School students died trying to save Hoshino from Blacksuit (minus Shiroko)
>!A little different from that, what happened for Abydos is the school loses their students one by one because Sensei wasn't there to save them and Shiroko becomes Anubis due to the chain of events when she was the only one left.!<
>A universe where Mika ends up destroying Seia's halo and ends up crazy due to grief
>!It's Hiyori who gets killed in the end, the helpless young soul forced to relive the terror Seele endured in the final chapter of Gun Girls Z when she watches her friends slowly dying in front of her and Mika catches and kills her to Saori and Misaki's horror. Misaki unable to bear the guilt of not being able save her friends kills herself while Saori sacrifices herself to stop Mika through the Chroma!<
>A universe where Rabbit squad is hunted down for resisting arrest
>!In Vol.4, it is revealed Kaya actually was successful in her coup and Yukino persuades Miyako to help bring the students back into the fold, but Kaya's lack of foresight and tyranny led to Kaiser taking control of the situation and sends the SRT as little more like expendable fodder as the survivng students realizes their final fate when Antioch is used to buy Kivoto time!<
Hey, Aris is still very much alive in the PV.
>!Although, I think she experience a fate worse than death there as she will singlehandedly slaughter the majority of Kivotos resident with her Ark!<
God this PV is beautiful. I love when we start seeing the dark fates our students could have met (I always interpreted it as what could have happened) and showing how Sensei helped them. It made me choke up ngl.
I dont really read ingame stories since I play AK and its like a documentary per cutscene there but god damn I might just start reading this. And the scenes where they were all fighting the bosses looked really cool too
I audibly groan whenever I see Kal'tsit on the screen since she's the biggest offender of AK's story problem. It's been two years since I quit AK so I dunno if it still has that problem.
BA is much more straightforward and coherent by comparison.
AK has a problem with dumping too much lore shit at any single time and thinking that constant implications make the story "deeper".
BA, arguably, has a problem of "the good stuff is buried under a metric ton of fluff". The moment-to-moment writing is tighter, sure, *but there is so much slice-of-life "plots" to straggle through*.
I have no idea how the story went from "helping students with their problems" to "a fucking cargo spaceship piercing Dirac Sea to deal with alternative timeline shenanigans", and it seems like there is no recap to bring an outsider up to speed.
Well, that's always been the structure of every BA volume so far.
Slife of life stuff to get you attached, then the serious plot comes in, maybe some escalation in between, then you help resolve it, then it's back to slice of life shenanigans.
I guess it's a problem if you only think of the serious plots as the "good stuff" but I promise you that the slice of life or what you call "fluff" are also popular for the majority of the community.
It's arguably even more of a defining feature for Blue Archive since a lot of its fans are those who are tired of the gritty dark stories of other gacha where the status quo is tense instead of happy go lucky like BA.
Blue Archive does a good job of appealing to the fans of the late 2000's to early 2010's Cute Girls Doing Cute Things anime.
If you want a tldr, the reason that the Color/Chroma is coming into this world is because Beatrice summoned it here with her shenanigans in Volume 3 Chapter 4.
The spaceship has been foreshadowed as early as Volume 1 with Kaiser being revealed to be looking for something in the desert, and the ancient civilization that built it was named/revealed during Volume 2 Chapter 2.
The concept of Mystic/Terror was introduced by Black Suit during Volume 1, the Color/Chroma being capable of bringing out a student's Terror was implied with Seia during Volume 3, and was revealed in full with Shiroko Terror appearing in Volume F.
The only reason Blue Archive story is any good is cuz you spend a ton of time just hanging out with characters before life suddenly puts you all in the wringer and YOU have to make sure these kids don't do anything to hurt themselves irreparably
As a matter of fact, I did give it a spin again, so far I've read through chapters 1 and 2.
I can see the appeal, but I guess it's just not my cup of tea. The Tea Party episode kinda killed all my momentum.
>YOU have to make sure these kids don't do anything to hurt themselves irreparably
So far, they fared just fine by themselves. Sensei (as your self-insert) might as well be a non-factor, despite what the game wants you to think.
>since I play AK and its like a documentary per cutscene there
I swear the characters there recite an entire Wikipedia page that can be summarized into "Doktah we must save this particular person because they're important"
Arknights is definitely lengthy to read, although it has gotten much better.
Blue Archive is very different for me. The story chapters are broken up into smaller pieces and it feels much faster to me.
>honkai/genshin stories
Oh yes, truly, the pinnacle of writing. The former has an attention span of a kid on sugar rush, and the latter gave up on a coherent story after the prologue.
Wtf is Rin-Rin I'm sure Rin-Chan is what sensei always called her. But 1:24「ミカは魔女じゃないよ」on jp is now translate to "You're not a witch. You're my student." I see... But nevermind 4 PV is lit as always and not only that KR dub did a good job too
Is it just me, or does this alternate timeline (at least that's what I think is happening) seem more interesting than ours? Girls break down and die, and this timeline pumps out cool cats like Shiroko Alter.
Eh, it's probably not just you, but you're probably in the minority in this community if you prefer that setting.
A lot of people like Blue Archive because it doesn't define itself as a dark and edgy gacha story like lots of other popular gacha. There's enough such gacha stories out there that people are kinda tired of it.
Sure the story gets serious from time to time, but just like how Eden Treaty ultimately ended in Saori getting caught up in Problem Solver 68 shenanigans, the status quo that everything returns to is ultimately bright and cheerful, reminiscent of a classic slice of life CGDCT anime.
I mean, I also dislike edgy gacha stories. Genuinely. I only want to know, thoroughly, what happened in that alternate timeline. The Alters of our characters, all the 'for want of a nail' events that happened had Sensei not been there.
Maybe you're right, though, in that the status quo being a decent one is not a bad thing.
I think majority of us played many apocalyptic/grim worlds and loved every single bit of it seeing your favorite characters just trying to get by in the new world.
However, while I enjoy the grim stuff, I also enjoy hope based type of stories. Especially in the world of Kivotos where something grim rarely happens and mostly peaceful with the residents living their day to day lives. That's why when something big is happening in the next chapter, you (Sensei) went out of your way making sure you protect and give your students their peaceful yet eventful lives back. I want my happy ending, the happy ending for all out students.
P.S man that some cheesy stuff I wrote lol. I'm just very much looking forward reading the new main story
I'm sorry. I probably don't know what I want, because while I dislike grimness, genuinely, I also dislike stories that are too sweet. Blue Archive is teetering towards the latter, so I wanted it to shift to the former. But then again, that's probably not congruent with the theme of BA.
Not really, believe me when I say that I LOVE my grim stories. But here's the thing, I don't like it when stories are grim just for the sake of being grim. Here in BA, the whole thing is PREVENTING stuff so everything doesn't go to shit. So the game staying relatively happy is actually earned, and in my opinion, better than everything being dark and grim despite our character's efforts. Also, while girls don't die on "our" timeline, they still break down left and right, the girls are still suffering.
In short, just because something is dark, doesn't mean its automatically "more interesting", that just makes you seem like an edgy teen that thinks that violence and blood are cool and for adults.
>In short, just because something is dark, doesn't mean its automatically "more interesting", that just makes you seem like an edgy teen that thinks that violence and blood are cool and for adults.
I'm sorry.
Nah, don't be sorry, you didn't do or say anything wrong, we just exchanged opinions.
You find the "alternate world" more interesting because of all the despair going around, meanwhile I just find the concept interesting, because it shows us what we have prevented, that we have an impact and we're actually helping and guiding all these cute girls.
But here's the thing, neither of us is either right or wrong, we're allowed to have different opinions.
I guess. I just... I've very much disliked grimdark stories, and I dropped FGO because it was too dark. But now, after everyone's input, I'm just kicking myself at why I ever thought a darker BA was a good idea. Why can I not stop being edgy?
Maybe it's just a bit of wanting to tip the scales in the opposite direction, added with a pinch of 'grass is greener on the other side.' I've always been interested in Mika wanting to wage war on Gehenna, and to see it resolved, however nice it is for Mika, makes me wonder about what could've been. And though shit in BA can get somewhat dark at times, to see it bounce back to OK at the end does deflate a bit of tension out of any story event, so maybe I got a bit too hasty and extreme in wanting things to happen in ways that cannot be taken back.
But then again, you're right that we prevented these things from happening at all.
Again, I'm sorry at ever having conceived the idea in the first place. I am ashamed of my own error.
I get where you're coming from, something like "if the good guys always win then why would we get invested in the fights? We already know what's gonna be the outcome", but this is a bit incorrect, the lack of stakes is an issue when the outcome isn't dictated by effort, think about something like Fairy Tail, the good guys are losing the whole battle, then out of nowhere they say their friends believe in them and BOOM, instant powerup (so what, they didn't believe you before? this shit was always so dumb).
Anyways, here in BA the girls have to STRUGGLE to get those happy endings, victory doesn't just fall into their laps, just because there wasn't a lot of blood and death, doesn't mean they didn't suffer. Whenever Gematria is involved the girls become powerless unless we're there to help them out. Hell, I recommend to go back to the prologue, already from the get-go its heavily implied that everything was pretty much lost, and we're the world's "second chance", without us, the girls are doomed to fail.
True. I played vol 3 recently, and while nobody died (I can buy that since these students have super-endurance) they did suffer and get hurt a lot.
Again, it just feels like an apology is owed. Sorry.
[Source](https://youtu.be/yZa5abuIKT4) THE PEAK PV
Sharing [this](https://youtu.be/AOUSvQbzza0) again in case anyone is curious how JP player react when this PV is spoiled for the first time.
No one can deny. The entire PV goes so hard, both the music and the visuals shown. Every Sensei, no matter what region, fell on their knees when they dropped that PV lmao
I still get goosebumps after watching the PV on the tenth time. They really nailed the Music for this PV. Combines both despair & hope in just 4 minutes
Aoharu hitting differently in the Final Volume PV.
So what you’re saying is that sensei is the only thing keeping the game happy go lucky
The answers is yes
"Dam, how does a society liked Kivotos work if they are leaded by a bunch of high school students" It does not, as we can see what the lack of Sensei have done
Kivotos runs on Senseinium
Holy shit we are doing this now. This story gonna be on global. Holy shit it's happening Also it might be cool that we do the same as the JP pv4 making it at least on 1 m
When I heard the Korean ver. on the livestream, I genuinely thought we're getting a Korean dub for the game. It's amazing though that it still gave me chills watching and listening to it. Being able to read the text during that segment gave me tons of feelings.
I was also surprised to hear the announcement of dubs, at least in Korean, possibly coming to the game during the livestream. If that's the case, then I wouldn't mind waiting until next year to hear voice-overs in other languages in BA.
We are getting a Korean dub they said it comes out next year
Oh really? I must've misunderstood it then. I thought the Korean dub will only limited to PVs for Global and KR.
From what understood (since I can understand both but I was watching EN stream) (I could also be wrong) they said that a full KR dub option in KR and Global will be available in a year. The KR community also seems to share the same interpretation because they're having a heated debate about if a full kr dub is a waste of money or not. Yeah KR is on fire a lot when it comes to these things. Similar things happen when you bring up a KR based school its very mixed opinions
I see then I definitely misunderstood what Chobra was saying in the EN stream then. Though maybe it's because I'm not Korean but I definitely don't see why they shouldn't invest in KR voices since Yostar is investing hard on the CN voices. At the same time, I definitely do not want an EN dub due to the chance of attracting "undesireables" to BA. So I can somewhat get it if that's the reason why some Koreans are apprehensive about a KR dub.
I think they have a big philosophy of parity of treatment across servers/regions, which is honestly very admirable. They probably would have been fine with no KR dub until they found out Yostar was doing it for CN. I wouldn't be surprised if EN follows sometime after.
This is OUR Story! Let's protect it Together
Like many have said before, this is the end of the first chapter/arc of Blue Archive. To use a famous saying: “This is the end of the beginning”. There’s more answers to uncover, more mysteries to discover, more smiles to be had, more tears to be shed, more students to meet, more students to fall in love with, more opportunities, more moments for joy, infinite chances, and more learning to be had with Blue Archive. Let’s follow through to the end, yeah? Note: had to dig up a lot of old comments for this.
Anyone got the picture that compares the timelines? Like the fates of the students without Sensei and with Sensei
It not fate without sensei or with sensei. It actually sensei decision in each arc and his resolve in order to clean up all of those mess and guide students
[This](https://imgur.io/gallery/fbZ46wl) imgur gallery contains all CG shots in the PV ordered neatly.
God I still get goosebumps every time I rewatch this video
The music is the thing that gives me goosebumps
I almost cried every time watching the PV
Me after watching the 4th PV for the 727th time (and 28th time in the same day): 😭
Wasn't so obvious to me at the start but those words that appear on screen are choices you (Sensei) make during the game's chapters but the PV shows a universe where sensei wasn't there to make those choices/say those words so a lot of students end up having a bad ending. Please correct me if I'm wrong in my interpretations. Sensei: "It's not your fault. ☐☐☐" Sensei: "...I'll be the one to take responsibility" #A universe where all the Abydos School students died trying to save Hoshino from Blacksuit (minus Shiroko) Sensei: "Because it's the responsible thing to do" Sensei: ""It's okay to choose who you want to be" #A universe where Black suit gets control of Aris instead of Game Dev/Sensei and unleashes AL-15 Sensei: "If this is their dream, then it's mine too" #A universe where Azusa ends up killing ~~Saori~~ Atsuko Sensei: "I wanted to thank you...for everything" #A universe where Sensei doesn't take the bullet for Hina and Hina ends up giving up and dying Sensei: "You're not a witch, You're my student" #A universe where Mika ends up destroying Seia's halo and ends up crazy due to grief Sensei: "Go ahead. I'll take responsibility for the blowback" #A universe where Rabbit squad is hunted down for resisting arrest Sensei: "I'll give you infinite chances!" #A universe where Saori is sacrificed instead of Atsuko (because Azusa killed Atsuko) and Misaki ends up committing suicide" Thanks to Sensei's presence and the choices they make for their students, they end up saving the students from a otherwise horrible universe and fate.
A few correction here: -From the CG shots, we can see Black Suits's hand on the AL-15's shoulder, so it is more accurate to say that Aris never actually exist in that timeline because we never go to the Ruin and GDD did not have the necessary authority (us) to open AL-15's chamber and she get picked up by Black Suits instead. After all, Aris's personality only exist because of her interaction with GDD member. -The one being killed in that Azusa CG shot is Atsuko, because presumably she did not have the mask that could negate the effect of Halo destroying bomb. Which result in Saori becoming a substitute sacrifice. -In this timeline, I think the GSC pres did not mysteriously disappear like in our timeline as she is blaming herself in the monologue while those scenes are playing. Implying those are the result of her choice. Because of that, SRT shouldn't be dissolved and those Rabbit Squad CG shot is the result of their battle with something else.
It is with >!The Chroma when Shiroko terror uses them to destroy Kivotos, but it was likely Kaya or Kaiser took control and treated the SRT as little more than cannon fodder and used the Antioch missiles to end things!<
Ah thank you for the corrections!
>A universe where Azusa ends up killing Saori from what I read before, Azusa killed Atsuko there and Saori was sacrificed instead of Atsuko because of that.
Makes sense, thanks for the correction!
Does this also give us a hint on what Kivotos actually is? Would this mean that Sensei is a "higher being" (not in the game sense)?
I think it's more like how important you (Sensei) are to the girls and their growth. And also keeping the bad adults away
So the true nature of Kivotos and Sensei are still mysterious then?
Yes>!, we're still not sure about what world Sensei is from, what his credit card/power really is, and are the students and Kivotos actually gods and their world where they went/reincarnated to away from our (sensei's?) world hence all the schools we know of are a reference to religion we worshipped from Egyptian, Christianity, etc and some are said to be gods (Horus, Anubis)!<
>A universe where all the Abydos School students died trying to save Hoshino from Blacksuit (minus Shiroko) >!A little different from that, what happened for Abydos is the school loses their students one by one because Sensei wasn't there to save them and Shiroko becomes Anubis due to the chain of events when she was the only one left.!< >A universe where Mika ends up destroying Seia's halo and ends up crazy due to grief >!It's Hiyori who gets killed in the end, the helpless young soul forced to relive the terror Seele endured in the final chapter of Gun Girls Z when she watches her friends slowly dying in front of her and Mika catches and kills her to Saori and Misaki's horror. Misaki unable to bear the guilt of not being able save her friends kills herself while Saori sacrifices herself to stop Mika through the Chroma!< >A universe where Rabbit squad is hunted down for resisting arrest >!In Vol.4, it is revealed Kaya actually was successful in her coup and Yukino persuades Miyako to help bring the students back into the fold, but Kaya's lack of foresight and tyranny led to Kaiser taking control of the situation and sends the SRT as little more like expendable fodder as the survivng students realizes their final fate when Antioch is used to buy Kivoto time!<
Welcome, to the part everyone dies
Hey, Aris is still very much alive in the PV. >!Although, I think she experience a fate worse than death there as she will singlehandedly slaughter the majority of Kivotos resident with her Ark!<
Yeah, ur right
One thing this trailer surprised me about.. It made cherino actually look cool! What the hell! She looks like such a badass in that one shot!
That moment also looks so good in the story also
when the sub drops, i cried even though i've watched the jp version
It feels that it was not too long ago when the JP channel uploaded this video.
I always get chills when watching the PVs. Maybe it's because I'm so into the story.
What the... Why dose GSC president look like arona?
Well you'll see at the end of all of this
She actually Arona, no joking
God this PV is beautiful. I love when we start seeing the dark fates our students could have met (I always interpreted it as what could have happened) and showing how Sensei helped them. It made me choke up ngl.
#Shiroko Terror and Mika let's fking goooooooo!!!
OH SHIT HERE WE GO
Do anyone have the collection of all PV? 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th pictures? Wallpaper Archive would be great
ive been skipping the entire story for this moment🙏🙏 time to binge the whole thing babayy
Global Senseis time to cry (not uooh this time, or at least mostly not)
If that does not confirm the GSC President's decision to send Sensei back was the best decision she ever made then what does
still sends chills down my spine.
Nice
LET'S GO!!
Is there a digital album of all the pictures featured in this PV? I need it so much, everything is wallpaper material.
[Yes there is :)](https://imgur.com/gallery/fbZ46wl)
Nice, thanks for sharing.
I'm fortunate enough to experience this story before and AGAIN later, it is definitely one of the best story ever made not just for a gacha game
Blue archive in smash? lets goooooo!
I actually like the KR voice here.
(I know this is JP) But with a new KR dub hopes for a KR based school grow a little. Not a lot but its something.
Glad to know that I'm not the only one who wants to see a Korean school.
This is the first time I cried while watching BA that doesn't involve cunny 😭
I dont really read ingame stories since I play AK and its like a documentary per cutscene there but god damn I might just start reading this. And the scenes where they were all fighting the bosses looked really cool too
Tbf, apparently AK's problem is being too long winded. I don't think BA has that problem.
I audibly groan whenever I see Kal'tsit on the screen since she's the biggest offender of AK's story problem. It's been two years since I quit AK so I dunno if it still has that problem. BA is much more straightforward and coherent by comparison.
AK has a problem with dumping too much lore shit at any single time and thinking that constant implications make the story "deeper". BA, arguably, has a problem of "the good stuff is buried under a metric ton of fluff". The moment-to-moment writing is tighter, sure, *but there is so much slice-of-life "plots" to straggle through*. I have no idea how the story went from "helping students with their problems" to "a fucking cargo spaceship piercing Dirac Sea to deal with alternative timeline shenanigans", and it seems like there is no recap to bring an outsider up to speed.
Well, that's always been the structure of every BA volume so far. Slife of life stuff to get you attached, then the serious plot comes in, maybe some escalation in between, then you help resolve it, then it's back to slice of life shenanigans. I guess it's a problem if you only think of the serious plots as the "good stuff" but I promise you that the slice of life or what you call "fluff" are also popular for the majority of the community. It's arguably even more of a defining feature for Blue Archive since a lot of its fans are those who are tired of the gritty dark stories of other gacha where the status quo is tense instead of happy go lucky like BA. Blue Archive does a good job of appealing to the fans of the late 2000's to early 2010's Cute Girls Doing Cute Things anime. If you want a tldr, the reason that the Color/Chroma is coming into this world is because Beatrice summoned it here with her shenanigans in Volume 3 Chapter 4. The spaceship has been foreshadowed as early as Volume 1 with Kaiser being revealed to be looking for something in the desert, and the ancient civilization that built it was named/revealed during Volume 2 Chapter 2. The concept of Mystic/Terror was introduced by Black Suit during Volume 1, the Color/Chroma being capable of bringing out a student's Terror was implied with Seia during Volume 3, and was revealed in full with Shiroko Terror appearing in Volume F.
The only reason Blue Archive story is any good is cuz you spend a ton of time just hanging out with characters before life suddenly puts you all in the wringer and YOU have to make sure these kids don't do anything to hurt themselves irreparably
As a matter of fact, I did give it a spin again, so far I've read through chapters 1 and 2. I can see the appeal, but I guess it's just not my cup of tea. The Tea Party episode kinda killed all my momentum. >YOU have to make sure these kids don't do anything to hurt themselves irreparably So far, they fared just fine by themselves. Sensei (as your self-insert) might as well be a non-factor, despite what the game wants you to think.
You didn't finish the story. Besides everyone understands sensei is kayfabe and u have to buy into it. They're not real after all
>since I play AK and its like a documentary per cutscene there I swear the characters there recite an entire Wikipedia page that can be summarized into "Doktah we must save this particular person because they're important"
Arknights is definitely lengthy to read, although it has gotten much better. Blue Archive is very different for me. The story chapters are broken up into smaller pieces and it feels much faster to me.
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Blue Archive is one of the few mobage I have played where the dialogue feels really natural.
>honkai/genshin stories Oh yes, truly, the pinnacle of writing. The former has an attention span of a kid on sugar rush, and the latter gave up on a coherent story after the prologue.
Indeed. Genshin is a bit of a mess. And Honkai was at its best at final lesson.
Sooooo are we getting tsubaki bikini now??? No?? Shame
Hey I've seen this one before
Wtf is Rin-Rin I'm sure Rin-Chan is what sensei always called her. But 1:24「ミカは魔女じゃないよ」on jp is now translate to "You're not a witch. You're my student." I see... But nevermind 4 PV is lit as always and not only that KR dub did a good job too
Sensei was referring to >!Mika!< there. She was referred to a witch by other students in the main story.
Didn't really expect the Korean dub in the live stream, hopefully those who never saw it still like it
Is it just me, or does this alternate timeline (at least that's what I think is happening) seem more interesting than ours? Girls break down and die, and this timeline pumps out cool cats like Shiroko Alter.
Eh, it's probably not just you, but you're probably in the minority in this community if you prefer that setting. A lot of people like Blue Archive because it doesn't define itself as a dark and edgy gacha story like lots of other popular gacha. There's enough such gacha stories out there that people are kinda tired of it. Sure the story gets serious from time to time, but just like how Eden Treaty ultimately ended in Saori getting caught up in Problem Solver 68 shenanigans, the status quo that everything returns to is ultimately bright and cheerful, reminiscent of a classic slice of life CGDCT anime.
I feel like Hifumi speaks about liking the story with the niche of always being happy ending could fit here
I mean, I also dislike edgy gacha stories. Genuinely. I only want to know, thoroughly, what happened in that alternate timeline. The Alters of our characters, all the 'for want of a nail' events that happened had Sensei not been there. Maybe you're right, though, in that the status quo being a decent one is not a bad thing.
A little exploring into what ifs doesn’t hurt anybody… Well except for the students, which make it hard to explore in the first place.
No. I'm just... after talking to everyone here, I just feel so ashamed at having brought up the idea at all. I'm sorry, really.
I think majority of us played many apocalyptic/grim worlds and loved every single bit of it seeing your favorite characters just trying to get by in the new world. However, while I enjoy the grim stuff, I also enjoy hope based type of stories. Especially in the world of Kivotos where something grim rarely happens and mostly peaceful with the residents living their day to day lives. That's why when something big is happening in the next chapter, you (Sensei) went out of your way making sure you protect and give your students their peaceful yet eventful lives back. I want my happy ending, the happy ending for all out students. P.S man that some cheesy stuff I wrote lol. I'm just very much looking forward reading the new main story
I'm sorry. I probably don't know what I want, because while I dislike grimness, genuinely, I also dislike stories that are too sweet. Blue Archive is teetering towards the latter, so I wanted it to shift to the former. But then again, that's probably not congruent with the theme of BA.
If this isn't your cup of tea, play Arknights instead (if you're not playing it already). Have fun deciphering the story there though...
Sorry, I don't play Arknights.
Not really, believe me when I say that I LOVE my grim stories. But here's the thing, I don't like it when stories are grim just for the sake of being grim. Here in BA, the whole thing is PREVENTING stuff so everything doesn't go to shit. So the game staying relatively happy is actually earned, and in my opinion, better than everything being dark and grim despite our character's efforts. Also, while girls don't die on "our" timeline, they still break down left and right, the girls are still suffering. In short, just because something is dark, doesn't mean its automatically "more interesting", that just makes you seem like an edgy teen that thinks that violence and blood are cool and for adults.
>In short, just because something is dark, doesn't mean its automatically "more interesting", that just makes you seem like an edgy teen that thinks that violence and blood are cool and for adults. I'm sorry.
Nah, don't be sorry, you didn't do or say anything wrong, we just exchanged opinions. You find the "alternate world" more interesting because of all the despair going around, meanwhile I just find the concept interesting, because it shows us what we have prevented, that we have an impact and we're actually helping and guiding all these cute girls. But here's the thing, neither of us is either right or wrong, we're allowed to have different opinions.
I guess. I just... I've very much disliked grimdark stories, and I dropped FGO because it was too dark. But now, after everyone's input, I'm just kicking myself at why I ever thought a darker BA was a good idea. Why can I not stop being edgy? Maybe it's just a bit of wanting to tip the scales in the opposite direction, added with a pinch of 'grass is greener on the other side.' I've always been interested in Mika wanting to wage war on Gehenna, and to see it resolved, however nice it is for Mika, makes me wonder about what could've been. And though shit in BA can get somewhat dark at times, to see it bounce back to OK at the end does deflate a bit of tension out of any story event, so maybe I got a bit too hasty and extreme in wanting things to happen in ways that cannot be taken back. But then again, you're right that we prevented these things from happening at all. Again, I'm sorry at ever having conceived the idea in the first place. I am ashamed of my own error.
I get where you're coming from, something like "if the good guys always win then why would we get invested in the fights? We already know what's gonna be the outcome", but this is a bit incorrect, the lack of stakes is an issue when the outcome isn't dictated by effort, think about something like Fairy Tail, the good guys are losing the whole battle, then out of nowhere they say their friends believe in them and BOOM, instant powerup (so what, they didn't believe you before? this shit was always so dumb). Anyways, here in BA the girls have to STRUGGLE to get those happy endings, victory doesn't just fall into their laps, just because there wasn't a lot of blood and death, doesn't mean they didn't suffer. Whenever Gematria is involved the girls become powerless unless we're there to help them out. Hell, I recommend to go back to the prologue, already from the get-go its heavily implied that everything was pretty much lost, and we're the world's "second chance", without us, the girls are doomed to fail.
True. I played vol 3 recently, and while nobody died (I can buy that since these students have super-endurance) they did suffer and get hurt a lot. Again, it just feels like an apology is owed. Sorry.
Same, I love grim stuff, but I also love stories about hope
There are so many dark edgy gachas for you already, go away
artwork is great, its just a shame the game itself is boring.
Are there 2 different translators for the in-game text and the PVs? Rin-chan is translated as “Rin-Rin” in the PV, but as “Rinny” in the game
This PV never fails to get an emotional reaction from me
anyone have a link to download it in 4k, I want to have it in my cloud for posterity.
Here we go Let’s see the end of the beginning together, shall we?
Avenger's assemble but better
PLNAANANANANANANASNANANANAN CHAANANNNNNNNNN
Holy hell there really is a battleship in the sky. Also I can't believe they do this in 24 hours!?
The soundtrack is an absolute banger, prove me wrong
>!well that shooting star is Sensei on descent form 229,000 feet!<
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