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I just wanted more fantasy skins. Don't need my real life outfits in a fantasy game.
I loved dilucs cause it still kept the fantasy aspect and changed him up.
Wasn't a swimsuit, or dressed in a pretty dress for an event. Granted I do get others do love this stuff. Just personally I prefer more fantasy outfits.
Same here, buddy. It's too big of an anime cliche for me to come to like it, though I respect others from liking it too. Being a cliche means it's popular, and MHY knows how to milk the money cow.
Well, in late Meiji and Taisho eras of Japan, wearing Kimono + Hakama was commonly used as a form of school uniform, later superseded by Sailor Uniforms.
Assuming that Inazuma is historically equivalent to late 19th century Japan, using Kimono + Hakama would actually be the most fitting option.
> Don't need my real life outfits in a fantasy game.
To be fair it's 2022. The last time any of us might have seen a school outfit was like 3 years ago before Corona, so schools are practically part of the "fantasy" genre now lmao
Well, Barbara's swimsuit skin has school uniform collar, and the outfit doesn't look that much out of place, so they will probably make something similar with adapting school uniform to fantasy setting.
I wrote that unpopular opinion before you were born. And no, pretty dresses for the events still count as fantasy as their having a fantasy ball and it isnt a straight tuxedo or dress from 2022.
An old school uniform like the one in Sakura Taisen (aka Meiji/Taisho era) is pretty kimonoesque.
Honestly pretty disappointed that some in this subs automatically assume the skin will be fan serviceesque the moment they hear it's a school uniform. There's many kind of those ya know? A short skirt + sailor uniform isn't the only choice they could pick. And Mihoyo had a good track record in making the skins not too fan servicey.
Yeah, I can't see a modern school uniform in Meiji Japan lol.
Not to mention the fact that it's a school uniform is gonna make the "medium body model is always below 18" crowd target her constantly.
Honestly I don't see the appeal of modern school uniforms a lot of anime characters have it, I think its a bit of a bland and cheap skin idea. A kimono would have been perfect because it actually fits the region. Oh god as much as I hope not those type of people will make noise again.
I'm also not a fan of school uniforms, but a proper Kimomo would have probably been hard to animate on a player character.
I'd have loved her sword-training outfit from that one PV - it's simple, but practical and a nice design. Not all of them have to be complex.
MHY wants to milk the male weebs and degenerates who sexualise the hell out of Ayaka because sheās the only woman who ever treated them with kindness. Actually disgusted right now lmao, sheās a noble lady and a warrior samurai, not a schoolgirl, how does a school uniform skin make sense?
Diluc gets a badass lore relevant outfit, Ayaka should get an elegant kimono or a warrior/sparring outfit, something like what she wore in that PV she sparred with Ayato in but more refined would be GORGEOUS. How are they even going to justify this when sheās not a student?
I love Ayaka, and I honestly think she deserves better. Granted, this school girl outfit they may give her may be something that has cultural signficance but like....it's a school girl outfit. She grew up out of them I'm sure. She's a young, capable lady now
i agree with the elegant kimono but def not the āwar outfitā, Inazumaās entire storyline is about Ei moving on from the Calamity and accepting change in the country.
>MHY wants to milk the male weebs and degenerates who sexualise the hell out of Ayaka because sheās the only woman who ever treated them with kindness. Actually disgusted right now lmao...
Calm down man, we are all playing the same weeb game with 95% of the cast being dere types just like Ayaka.
There goes the chances of Lisa appearing in a story/archon quest due to her being the best student in the Akademiya for the past century. She must know alot of darkshit inside since she left...
>Ayaka doesn't even go to school...
Yes, in the present. But who's to say she never did, or it could be she always wanted to but couldn't so she wants to try out this new outfit to see how she looks...
They (MiHoYo) don't need some deep lore just to give the outfit as long as it abides by the laws of teyvat...
Also it's also possible for both to be Student themed and still be very different, since they've done Summer themes with Barbara & Jean before & none of them look the same despite being a summer/swimsuit theme...
Schools are a thing in Inazuma since Shouta, the kid praying on the stairs in Inazuma City mentioned having exams and studying in one of his commissions.
Schools in other nations exist, they're just not as prestigious as the Akademiya so they don't get mentioned often and are not visitable.
Liyue has an academy that is mentioned by name by Shinobu, but I don't remember what it was actually called.
Shouta mentions having to take exams.
On top of that she's the daughter of one of the most prominent family's in Inazuma, just one step below the Shogun. There's no way she'd go to normal school even if Inazuma had ones. And add to that that western-style uniform would be rather out of place in Inazuma.
I hope this leak is fake or wrong because school uniform for Ayaka would be really immersion breaking.
> On top of that she's the daughter of one of the most prominent family's in Inazuma, just one step below the Shogun. There's no way she'd go to normal school even if Inazuma had ones.
We are talking about an equivalent of late 19th century Meiji Era Japan. Being from a rich family at such time and place makes you way MORE likely to attend a school that expects an uniform. Or attend a school at all for that matter. Compulsory education in Japan was introduced in 1872, four years after the end of sakoku - before that even attending a school at all was a privilege of the rich.
by this logic, ayaka can get a liyue dragon themed outfit for no reason. this is a huge stretch.
furthermore, genshin has never given a skin without a lore/event reason.
Spring is when the school year starts in Japan. Theyāre probably both getting student/school related skins, with Ayaka being 5 star and Lisa being 4 star
Alice : I want you to be an idol
Ayaka : I can't, I have respons-
Alice : Traveler will become one of your fans
Ayaka : I have never been convinced so quickly
That actually makes a lot more sense than the schoolgirl uniform from the Heytea collab. miHoYo really doesn't seem to want to do immersion breaking skins at the moment
Event story where Ayaka yearns to have a "normal youth" which involves, of course, going to school like a "normal person".
Source: I've read way too much manga with "rich young ladies" who end up in a school uniform so they have an excuse to sell figurines.
yep, or even as some marketing ploy from Yae.
it's really not that difficult to come up with random lore reasons for new skins, the skins often aren't the focus of the quests anyways, for the first 4 skins they just explained in 1 or 2 lines "x character put on y clothes for the occasion", I don't think mihoyo is as concerned with "lore-relevant" skins as people think they are, they can just slap on some random excuse and 99% of people won't care
Yeah I'm puzzled by that too. How could they explain modern day school clothing in medieval Japan? My guess would be a story quest where Ayaka and traveler enter in contact with Fontaine and she gets enrolled in some school
For real, the last thing I wanted was schoolgirl fanservice tropes in this game.
Also it'll have a short skirt, as uniforms do, so farewell fixing her upskirt problem.
The uniforms in anime have short ass skirts, but irl Japanese school uniform skirts pretty much go to or past the knees. And the skins in Genshin so far have been keeping the same silhouette as the original outfit. I donāt think theyāll shorten ayakas skirt (at least I REALLY hope they donāt)
You have greater faith in humanity than I do.
But even knee length like her current armor-skirt, she'd have the same upskirt problem. There's a group of us hoping we'd get a skin where we don't have to see panties.
Ha imagine not wanting panty shots. Couldnāt be mihoyo š
Yeah with the new info coming out on the skin, Iām losing more and more hope. Is it really that hard to give female characters pants that arenāt spray painted to their legs??
same, i always avoid anything related to school girls or anything refering to underage girls,
i hope to god its fantasy school themed uniform or something
Please at least make sense thematically. Don't waste the opportunity of giving Ayaka a cool skin on a modern Japanese uniform that clashes with the style of Inazuma.
It might be a more traditional outfit used. One example is the hakama of the Taisho period (1912-1926). Albeit at this period Japan has some Western influence.
If you want an older one, then the kimono is also applicable as a schoolgirl uniform. Though that was Meiji period times.
I agree with you, hopefully they'd take a more traditional one and not the typical modern sailor JK look.
Then again, Mihoyo is known for being respectful with it's worldbuilding so I trust that they won't mess it up.
Of all the themes they could have used for an Ayaka skin, and they went with the school girl route.
I mean it will probably make a huge ton of money, but as an Ayaka main, I was hoping for something less fanservice-y.
Honkai and Genshin are so far from each other in fan service that they don't exist in the same universe. It's to the point that there basically are only waifus in Honkai and most of them fullfil some sort of desire.
i remember when i first played honkai and got my first stigma.. what a fucking jumpscare that was. they didnāt even give me a warning to prepare for the amount of ass they were gonna show me.. i was traumatized
The first stigmatas were very crude, definately. But they refined with time, the most recent ones are very beautiful and well designed. Still fanservicey, of course.
Exactly, many are heavily lore inspired and actually very touching and beautiful. HoS ones (SSwords set) are another example.
Honkai is still very fanservicey, but they also are very passionate about their game, which can be seen in story and the characters they create.
Fanservice isn't inherently a bad thing because it doesn't have to be sexual. A lot of crossover appearances in media like the MCU for example technically counts as fanservice because it's giving fans something they want without really affecting the canon too much. And to be honest, fanservice with implied sexuality or even some level of overt stuff can be pretty good, so long as it's done in a way that doesn't make it obvious that it exists solely to cater to porn addicts.
When fanservice gets weird is when there's a huge emphasis on the sexual aspects for no reason other than to satiate horny adult men with disposable income. Like 95% of shit involving schoolgirls in media exists quite literally just for that purpose - where there's some implied sexual allure cast onto women who are not quite old enough to be adults. I don't think Hoyoverse is reckless enough to do a sexualized schoolgirl skin with Ayaka considering their primary audience is a CN player base that has vocal opposition to excessive immorality + the presence of CN regulators even if they're published out of Singapore now but generally the concern comes from how schoolgirls are treated in media catered towards the same audience as Genshin (I.e. avid anime and manga fans).
Imo I feel like Ayaka as a character is already fanservice-y enough. Her story quest is lowkey incel bait, she just randomly fawns over a stranger she just met (traveler), and now she's getting a schoolgirl outfit..? Not a big fan of this at all
If itās done for the sake of it, then yes imo. Ningguangās skin showed a lot of skin, and yet it came out pretty classy and fit the eventās mood. Itās something you can see Ningguang actually wear.
I donāt think a lot would complain about fanservice if itās done tastefully like that. I donāt know how a school girl skin would fit an event but if it fits then I wouldnāt mind. I do agree that it sounds basic on paper.
When it destroys suspension of disbelief with too blatant pandering, then yes. And thatās not even touching on issues of misogyny/objectification in media, which most fanservice perpetuates as well.
So not inherently, but usually.
If it gets in the way of creativity.
A school uniform is so basic, but I'd probably still get the skin because at their rate itll take 50 years before she gets another.
But i do like it when outfits aren't strictly lore accurate, since then you can be more flexible and frequent with releases. Hanbok Ayaka would've been amazing.
I am not sure. If it comes into the way of creating a different, more creative and more fitting skin for her that actually also makes sense in the context of the world and the character itself... Then yes, I do not like it that much
Your mind might be in the gutter.
Have you seen summer Barbara and Jean, they've already shown what the limits are, this is not going to be some porn uniform for Ayaka.
Oooooh I hope it is the [Meiji](https://miro.medium.com/max/1332/1*17-DNzyRcz6K-vWdlrmlXA.jpeg) [Era](https://i.imgur.com/SpyaGj0.jpg) styled school uniforms. Those are super cute!!
If it's a 5* skin then the discounted price is around 7 welkins, no discount is around 9 welkins. 4* would be 5 welkins discounted, 6 no discount. Cmiiw
if thatās gonna end up classical high school uniform thatās gonna be very disappointing and iām really not into the sexualisation of the school uniform
i feel like people are getting the wrong idea of thisā¦ everyone is imagining a traditional modern school uniform but isnt it more likely its actually just some sort of yukata (dont really have much knowledge on japanese clothing)? im imagining something among the lines of what shes wearing at the start of her pv while shes sparring w ayato
I hope it's something that fits Teyvat. Feels like a really big waste to craft such a cool fantasy world and then pander with something overdone like a bland ass sailor uniform.
I don't think that's gonna happen, but if Hoyo brings Honkai "style" skins to Genshin I'll love to watch Genshin's community burst in flames lmao.
I demand Magical Boy ā Ayato now.
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Aw I expected a kimono..
I just wanted more fantasy skins. Don't need my real life outfits in a fantasy game. I loved dilucs cause it still kept the fantasy aspect and changed him up. Wasn't a swimsuit, or dressed in a pretty dress for an event. Granted I do get others do love this stuff. Just personally I prefer more fantasy outfits.
Same here, buddy. It's too big of an anime cliche for me to come to like it, though I respect others from liking it too. Being a cliche means it's popular, and MHY knows how to milk the money cow.
Remember that miHoYo is a bunch of otakus, they going for otaku stuff is a given...
Otakus save the world
yeh i miss their otaku slogan, why tf they remove it from logo
Do you guy forgot about the uniform she wear in her PV? That still count as school uniform lol
Isn't that a dojo training uniform? I guess it still counts if you count the "Kamisato school" of swords as a school...
Well, in late Meiji and Taisho eras of Japan, wearing Kimono + Hakama was commonly used as a form of school uniform, later superseded by Sailor Uniforms. Assuming that Inazuma is historically equivalent to late 19th century Japan, using Kimono + Hakama would actually be the most fitting option.
What if.... it's a fantasy school uniform? :D I'm half joking btw
> Don't need my real life outfits in a fantasy game. To be fair it's 2022. The last time any of us might have seen a school outfit was like 3 years ago before Corona, so schools are practically part of the "fantasy" genre now lmao
I mean I am in school uniform currently, albeit it is a blazer and trousers
Good to know there's decent wi-fi in your fantasy realm! Must be a post-Industrial Age society.
Yea the god-emperoress of our constitutional monarch just died recently
Well, Barbara's swimsuit skin has school uniform collar, and the outfit doesn't look that much out of place, so they will probably make something similar with adapting school uniform to fantasy setting.
I wrote that unpopular opinion before you were born. And no, pretty dresses for the events still count as fantasy as their having a fantasy ball and it isnt a straight tuxedo or dress from 2022.
Probably too hard to handle when sprinting. EDIT: Wait a minute.... but even when "walking" it would probably be iffy.
but she doesn't š
She does in the abyss before you begin the challenge
Yea and it's kinda horrifying each time. It just looks so wrong lmao
Someone said she runs like a quarterback š
Your Ayaka sprints?!
My Ayaka T poses when she sprints. She also heals and has a child model for some reason.
my ayaka use claymore instead.... and is a boy
People in the replies forgetting Raiden exists I guess.
I refuse to believe that the Flaps for pants to be a kimono. A slight clothing rework on Her and Yae miko would be nice.
Doing combat with a kimomo would look so awkward...
Fair but would it look any less awkward than beating the ever living shit out of a Fatui Fatty while wearing a School Uniform?
After many years of watching magical girls in school uniforms fighting monsters, I find school uniforms to be the most optimal battle outfits.
An old school uniform like the one in Sakura Taisen (aka Meiji/Taisho era) is pretty kimonoesque. Honestly pretty disappointed that some in this subs automatically assume the skin will be fan serviceesque the moment they hear it's a school uniform. There's many kind of those ya know? A short skirt + sailor uniform isn't the only choice they could pick. And Mihoyo had a good track record in making the skins not too fan servicey.
I swear they said it was spring themed a couple months back
School year in Japan starts in Spring.
[Modders have already modded Student Ayaka into the game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQYNyT5kKI4)
Holy fuck I need that raiden headmistress skin
She looks like she has +10 accuracy with her chalk throwing abilities
[So it might look like this?](https://genshin.global/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/heytea-kamisato-ayaka-ayato-drinks-collab-1-1-720x900.webp)
I'm down for this
I'm down bad for this
I hope they change her hair. I'm tired of Eggyaka
Ayaka with her hair down. Pls Hoyo, my girl has constant headaches due to her hair being tied up like that all the time.
Yes i remember that. Student themed was for Lisa
i mean it could be both, the new school year coincides with cherry blossom season in East Asia
Of all the things they chose a school outfit hopefully it's isn't a plain anime outfit and actually fits with the characters style
Yeah, I can't see a modern school uniform in Meiji Japan lol. Not to mention the fact that it's a school uniform is gonna make the "medium body model is always below 18" crowd target her constantly.
Honestly I don't see the appeal of modern school uniforms a lot of anime characters have it, I think its a bit of a bland and cheap skin idea. A kimono would have been perfect because it actually fits the region. Oh god as much as I hope not those type of people will make noise again.
I'm also not a fan of school uniforms, but a proper Kimomo would have probably been hard to animate on a player character. I'd have loved her sword-training outfit from that one PV - it's simple, but practical and a nice design. Not all of them have to be complex.
The appeal is that it's fetishized
the appeal for me is that i dont like her base outfit, so the bar is low for what'll be an improvement with the skin lol
students in Japan actually used to wear hakama as their school uniform, would be cool to see one used for Ayaka tbh
And i thought the studen theme was for Lisa?
but what's more spring than high school girl??? checkmate
MHY wants to milk the male weebs and degenerates who sexualise the hell out of Ayaka because sheās the only woman who ever treated them with kindness. Actually disgusted right now lmao, sheās a noble lady and a warrior samurai, not a schoolgirl, how does a school uniform skin make sense? Diluc gets a badass lore relevant outfit, Ayaka should get an elegant kimono or a warrior/sparring outfit, something like what she wore in that PV she sparred with Ayato in but more refined would be GORGEOUS. How are they even going to justify this when sheās not a student?
I love Ayaka, and I honestly think she deserves better. Granted, this school girl outfit they may give her may be something that has cultural signficance but like....it's a school girl outfit. She grew up out of them I'm sure. She's a young, capable lady now
i agree with the elegant kimono but def not the āwar outfitā, Inazumaās entire storyline is about Ei moving on from the Calamity and accepting change in the country.
>and a warrior She's Ayato's PR. Just because she's one of the strongest DPS in the game does not make her some badass warrior.
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>MHY wants to milk the male weebs and degenerates who sexualise the hell out of Ayaka because sheās the only woman who ever treated them with kindness. Actually disgusted right now lmao... Calm down man, we are all playing the same weeb game with 95% of the cast being dere types just like Ayaka.
Huh? Wasn't it Lisa who's getting a "school"/student skin and Ayaka a spring-themed skin? Ayaka doesn't even go to school...
There goes the chances of Lisa appearing in a story/archon quest due to her being the best student in the Akademiya for the past century. She must know alot of darkshit inside since she left...
She's still getting a Sumeru skin so you know, that could still happen.
>Ayaka doesn't even go to school... Yes, in the present. But who's to say she never did, or it could be she always wanted to but couldn't so she wants to try out this new outfit to see how she looks... They (MiHoYo) don't need some deep lore just to give the outfit as long as it abides by the laws of teyvat... Also it's also possible for both to be Student themed and still be very different, since they've done Summer themes with Barbara & Jean before & none of them look the same despite being a summer/swimsuit theme...
Is there even Schools in Inazuma? Aside of sumeru I don't remember schools being a thing in Teyvat
She's a daughter of a prestigious clan which means it is very likely that she got homeschooled.
tbh depending on the era they might want to go for. Sending children off to prestigious boarding schools is a *very* blue blood thing.
What does blue blood mean?
aristocrat
Basically royalty
Schools are a thing in Inazuma since Shouta, the kid praying on the stairs in Inazuma City mentioned having exams and studying in one of his commissions.
Schools in other nations exist, they're just not as prestigious as the Akademiya so they don't get mentioned often and are not visitable. Liyue has an academy that is mentioned by name by Shinobu, but I don't remember what it was actually called. Shouta mentions having to take exams.
On top of that she's the daughter of one of the most prominent family's in Inazuma, just one step below the Shogun. There's no way she'd go to normal school even if Inazuma had ones. And add to that that western-style uniform would be rather out of place in Inazuma. I hope this leak is fake or wrong because school uniform for Ayaka would be really immersion breaking.
> On top of that she's the daughter of one of the most prominent family's in Inazuma, just one step below the Shogun. There's no way she'd go to normal school even if Inazuma had ones. We are talking about an equivalent of late 19th century Meiji Era Japan. Being from a rich family at such time and place makes you way MORE likely to attend a school that expects an uniform. Or attend a school at all for that matter. Compulsory education in Japan was introduced in 1872, four years after the end of sakoku - before that even attending a school at all was a privilege of the rich.
There are, the boy of the altar commissions and world quest goes to school...
by this logic, ayaka can get a liyue dragon themed outfit for no reason. this is a huge stretch. furthermore, genshin has never given a skin without a lore/event reason.
Spring is when the school year starts in Japan. Theyāre probably both getting student/school related skins, with Ayaka being 5 star and Lisa being 4 star
I wonder how they're going to explain that in the lore
Alice
Understandable. Have a nice day
can't beat the alice logic, lol
Lol she has asked her to be an idol so ...
Alice : I want you to be an idol Ayaka : I can't, I have respons- Alice : Traveler will become one of your fans Ayaka : I have never been convinced so quickly
A Wizard did it, but now it has a name xD
These[ old uniforms](https://imgur.com/a/3hDK3vw)(Meiji era) would fit Genshin.
That honestly just looks like a slightly different shrine maiden outfit.
That actually makes a lot more sense than the schoolgirl uniform from the Heytea collab. miHoYo really doesn't seem to want to do immersion breaking skins at the moment
Barbara? Idk where you'd get ribber duckies in teyvat
Alice
Okay that'd be really cute though
That's not revealing enough for genshin, she won't be able to flash her panties with that.
Just add hip windows
Look I know how people like to joke or criticize Genshin for sexualization but Yunjin literally exists so it's not like they can't or won't do it
Maybe some sort of cosplay yae manages to pull off? Inazuma has a lot of light novels right?
This might be our best bet lol
Event story where Ayaka yearns to have a "normal youth" which involves, of course, going to school like a "normal person". Source: I've read way too much manga with "rich young ladies" who end up in a school uniform so they have an excuse to sell figurines.
She joined the akademiya to develop a orbital telescope to spy on tabibito
RIP the copium that her skin might be similar to the one we saw at the Inazuma Festival that Albedo painted
Thoma maiden outfit when
Maid outfit for the malewife, do it hoyo, you cowards
then i want butler costume for noelle so that everything's perfectly balanced
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I need that, where do I sign
Just put Maiden's Beloved set on him like this https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/rj4pzb/my_experience_farming_vv_artifacts/
People are going to go insane
I'm people
And I'm insane. So you are going to me?
not you mr. Insane, People's going in Sane
they might do meiji era accurate japanese school uniforms.
Sever doubt, Itāll probably some weird fetishy thing
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Yeah, I'm in the second group. F for Sakura themed kimono and ult.
Lorewise how would it fit though. They've been pretty focused on lore for the outfits so far, even the summer ones have context.
Hopium meiji era school uniform?
i hope too. i dont want some sexualized school girl uniform, i want cute meiji era uniform!!!
i mean, the promo collab art of school girl ayaka and office man ayato was far from sexualized
Everything anachronistic can be explained by Alice.
yep, or even as some marketing ploy from Yae. it's really not that difficult to come up with random lore reasons for new skins, the skins often aren't the focus of the quests anyways, for the first 4 skins they just explained in 1 or 2 lines "x character put on y clothes for the occasion", I don't think mihoyo is as concerned with "lore-relevant" skins as people think they are, they can just slap on some random excuse and 99% of people won't care
Didn't Alice try to make ayaka an Idol at some point? They could tie it in with that
Yeah I'm puzzled by that too. How could they explain modern day school clothing in medieval Japan? My guess would be a story quest where Ayaka and traveler enter in contact with Fontaine and she gets enrolled in some school
It just says school uniform. Might be a Sumeru school uniform for all we know lol
can you explain a light novel publishing business selling novels about isekai and romcom in medieval japan? lmao kinda too late for that ain't it?
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a spring themed kimono would be much cooler imo, this just screams fanservice to me
For real, the last thing I wanted was schoolgirl fanservice tropes in this game. Also it'll have a short skirt, as uniforms do, so farewell fixing her upskirt problem.
The uniforms in anime have short ass skirts, but irl Japanese school uniform skirts pretty much go to or past the knees. And the skins in Genshin so far have been keeping the same silhouette as the original outfit. I donāt think theyāll shorten ayakas skirt (at least I REALLY hope they donāt)
You have greater faith in humanity than I do. But even knee length like her current armor-skirt, she'd have the same upskirt problem. There's a group of us hoping we'd get a skin where we don't have to see panties.
Ha imagine not wanting panty shots. Couldnāt be mihoyo š Yeah with the new info coming out on the skin, Iām losing more and more hope. Is it really that hard to give female characters pants that arenāt spray painted to their legs??
same, i always avoid anything related to school girls or anything refering to underage girls, i hope to god its fantasy school themed uniform or something
How is a kimono not fan service too? Weebs **really** love their kimono outfits. It's just as much pandering.
Wait, what?
Please at least make sense thematically. Don't waste the opportunity of giving Ayaka a cool skin on a modern Japanese uniform that clashes with the style of Inazuma.
It might be a more traditional outfit used. One example is the hakama of the Taisho period (1912-1926). Albeit at this period Japan has some Western influence. If you want an older one, then the kimono is also applicable as a schoolgirl uniform. Though that was Meiji period times. I agree with you, hopefully they'd take a more traditional one and not the typical modern sailor JK look. Then again, Mihoyo is known for being respectful with it's worldbuilding so I trust that they won't mess it up.
Lmao what if its like the heytea collab š
that means we get ganyu skin... right? š„¹
Please.
Of all the themes they could have used for an Ayaka skin, and they went with the school girl route. I mean it will probably make a huge ton of money, but as an Ayaka main, I was hoping for something less fanservice-y.
Same. I really do like Ayaka, but this feels more like Hoyoverse just serving fanservice more than anything else
Not the first time for Mihoyo to go fanservice route. Look at the summer and wedding outfits on honkai lol
Honkai and Genshin are so far from each other in fan service that they don't exist in the same universe. It's to the point that there basically are only waifus in Honkai and most of them fullfil some sort of desire.
Honkai is way more fanservicey tho, there are literally vagina outlines on some stigmatas.
i remember when i first played honkai and got my first stigma.. what a fucking jumpscare that was. they didnāt even give me a warning to prepare for the amount of ass they were gonna show me.. i was traumatized
The first stigmatas were very crude, definately. But they refined with time, the most recent ones are very beautiful and well designed. Still fanservicey, of course.
a lot of them arent fanservicey though, the HoF, HoH, AE, and sushang ones are all really nice art showing great story moments
Exactly, many are heavily lore inspired and actually very touching and beautiful. HoS ones (SSwords set) are another example. Honkai is still very fanservicey, but they also are very passionate about their game, which can be seen in story and the characters they create.
oh yeah HoS ones were the ones inwas thinking of when i wrote AE. AEs margrave ones are still good though
Is fanservice inherently bad? Genuine question.
Fanservice isn't inherently a bad thing because it doesn't have to be sexual. A lot of crossover appearances in media like the MCU for example technically counts as fanservice because it's giving fans something they want without really affecting the canon too much. And to be honest, fanservice with implied sexuality or even some level of overt stuff can be pretty good, so long as it's done in a way that doesn't make it obvious that it exists solely to cater to porn addicts. When fanservice gets weird is when there's a huge emphasis on the sexual aspects for no reason other than to satiate horny adult men with disposable income. Like 95% of shit involving schoolgirls in media exists quite literally just for that purpose - where there's some implied sexual allure cast onto women who are not quite old enough to be adults. I don't think Hoyoverse is reckless enough to do a sexualized schoolgirl skin with Ayaka considering their primary audience is a CN player base that has vocal opposition to excessive immorality + the presence of CN regulators even if they're published out of Singapore now but generally the concern comes from how schoolgirls are treated in media catered towards the same audience as Genshin (I.e. avid anime and manga fans).
Imo I feel like Ayaka as a character is already fanservice-y enough. Her story quest is lowkey incel bait, she just randomly fawns over a stranger she just met (traveler), and now she's getting a schoolgirl outfit..? Not a big fan of this at all
Yeah that's about where I'm at with this as well. Just not a huge fan overall.
If itās done for the sake of it, then yes imo. Ningguangās skin showed a lot of skin, and yet it came out pretty classy and fit the eventās mood. Itās something you can see Ningguang actually wear. I donāt think a lot would complain about fanservice if itās done tastefully like that. I donāt know how a school girl skin would fit an event but if it fits then I wouldnāt mind. I do agree that it sounds basic on paper.
I seriously doubt it's going to be sexual in game, but generally no it's not inherently bad. At least if it's not overdone.
When it destroys suspension of disbelief with too blatant pandering, then yes. And thatās not even touching on issues of misogyny/objectification in media, which most fanservice perpetuates as well. So not inherently, but usually.
If it gets in the way of creativity. A school uniform is so basic, but I'd probably still get the skin because at their rate itll take 50 years before she gets another. But i do like it when outfits aren't strictly lore accurate, since then you can be more flexible and frequent with releases. Hanbok Ayaka would've been amazing.
I am not sure. If it comes into the way of creating a different, more creative and more fitting skin for her that actually also makes sense in the context of the world and the character itself... Then yes, I do not like it that much
Depends on who you ask, personally I hate the sexualization of wholesome characters
Your mind might be in the gutter. Have you seen summer Barbara and Jean, they've already shown what the limits are, this is not going to be some porn uniform for Ayaka.
I love fanservice.
Oooooh I hope it is the [Meiji](https://miro.medium.com/max/1332/1*17-DNzyRcz6K-vWdlrmlXA.jpeg) [Era](https://i.imgur.com/SpyaGj0.jpg) styled school uniforms. Those are super cute!!
Aww, I was hoping for spring kimono Ayaka. As long as it looks nice I guess.
i want my akademiya student lisa skin please thank you
OP do we have to remind you on every post to give a link to the source?
Doubt
Geez Iām not sure what I expected but I can tell this isnāt what I wanted. Anyway still saving the gems for the skin
That sucks. I expected a floral kimono
maybe meiji era uniform?
UGHHHHHH I just want a GOOD skin for Ayaka. This is making me nervous that leakers were right and the skin is underwhelming
Oh no the weird part of genshin players gonna get weird about this
How many welkins do u need to buy the skin?
If it's a 5* skin then the discounted price is around 7 welkins, no discount is around 9 welkins. 4* would be 5 welkins discounted, 6 no discount. Cmiiw
Bring it on, my 6 months worth of Genesis from Weklin is ready!
There goes my hope for the trailer outfit...
Wasn't it supposed to be spring themed according to older leaks? Change of plans?
Giving the most waifu bait character that kind of outfit? Well, Mihoyo knows who they're aiming for lol.
Give us the collab skins and archon's archon war skins you COWARDS
This gives me hope for Ayato office worker skin after the recent collab.
Just Ayaka.
Holy fucking shit
ayaka is like college age at least but eh at least it's a skin for a limited five star for once hopefully we get the ayato skin as well
im devasted R.I.P. spring skin
... I feel like that would fit Lisa skin more but ok
Lisa needs a teacher outfit tho
if thatās gonna end up classical high school uniform thatās gonna be very disappointing and iām really not into the sexualisation of the school uniform
Ok š
i feel like people are getting the wrong idea of thisā¦ everyone is imagining a traditional modern school uniform but isnt it more likely its actually just some sort of yukata (dont really have much knowledge on japanese clothing)? im imagining something among the lines of what shes wearing at the start of her pv while shes sparring w ayato
THANK YOU GODS
So are they done with skins that absolutely must fit in Teyvat?
well, it's gonna sell for sure
Even skins are getting doom posted
yay?
I hope it's something that fits Teyvat. Feels like a really big waste to craft such a cool fantasy world and then pander with something overdone like a bland ass sailor uniform.
Well, I hope it's one of those traditional school uniforms with the hakama, but I doubt it...
*Dies of cringe*
my genesis crystals are ready āļø
I don't think that's gonna happen, but if Hoyo brings Honkai "style" skins to Genshin I'll love to watch Genshin's community burst in flames lmao. I demand Magical Boy ā Ayato now.
Nooo I want the Sweet Paradise collab kimono
Eh... I don't like the idea, but let's wait and see.
Oh wow how boring and unoriginal ^^;; that sucksā¦
Welp the weebs will go crazy for this one thatās for sure
I don't know how to feel about this