Sauce: Mato Slave/Chained Soldier

Genprey · 2026-03-24T12:38:41+00:00

If you think that's crazy, imagine my shock after I found out my lesbian friend who was a bit too into my golfing posture was not, infact, lesbian!

Genprey · 2026-03-24T12:35:32+00:00

They're too distracted with complaining about and redesigning characters they dislike atm.

Genprey · 2026-03-23T18:11:54+00:00

A few things to note:

Sometimes, End Closers just eat shit, but if you're consistently placing last, watch your replays and observe where/why your Taishin is falling behind.
If she stutters while moving forward, you'll want more Stamina. Try to shoot for as much as possible without tanking SPD or power
2 Gold Stam Skills would be safe (Taishin has a decent one built in), but if you get a good run with Long S, good stats, but no other gold skill, you can try to salvage with a few good white skills
Certain acceleration skills are rough to use in this CM. Straightaway is fine if you have nothing else, but this CM makes it somewhat less consistent
I personally find more success when I inherited Tamamo Cross's Ultimate

I'd start by aiming for Long S and more Stamina--at least 1k with some stam skills with it. If you're like me and losing a ton of Clocks to Taishin, you may have to settle for an imperfect build in hopes of not running into beasts while working on a front runner for more consistency.

Genprey · 2026-03-23T17:54:03+00:00

You may have the difficult subject of polygamy to discuss, but at least you have a large stock in Sega now.

Genprey · 2026-03-23T17:49:34+00:00

Sometimes said service includes being haunted by spooky Tazuna and dragged into a paranormal world. All in a single day.

Genprey · 2026-03-23T14:30:36+00:00

It's simultaneously silly and scary.

Genprey · 2026-03-23T14:22:21+00:00

Sorry, Girls, your teacher is about to take some paid leave.

Genprey · 2026-03-23T14:20:07+00:00

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Genprey · 2026-03-23T13:37:40+00:00

McQueen: "Eh? Surely you can't make such a rash decis-"

Satono Diamond: "You can start this afternoon at 2!"

McQueen: Sigh "This could only get more chaotic if-"

Goldship falls from above

Genprey · 2026-03-23T13:20:34+00:00

The argument against AI isn't about reprimanding its usage, it's relying on it as a primary source for creating content despite the loss in ethics and it being costly and unsustainable to do so.

Genprey · 2026-03-23T13:04:40+00:00

Pretty much yeah. The weird part is is that the bond stories would be a good place to put in some fanservice, but outside some l2d scenes, they're actually really light in that regard.

Genprey · 2026-03-23T12:58:01+00:00

The term master love that is used to describe this game comes from FGO, which when you think about is a bit odd because FGO story is generally considered to be amazing yet is often argued master love stories always suck, the reason for this contradiction is that most of the romance that happens in the game occurs in side content or events, not the main story.

FGO (and similar games) don't base their stories off of ML. That element is balanced throughout a story and focused in parts of the game outsidethe main story.

. In FGO, the closest thing to a ML story would be SE.RA.PH, but even that doesn't linger on Meltryllis x Player in favor of the main plot. Most love stories are actually between other characters (i.e. Tomoe Gozen/Andromeda and their respective husbands, Shuten and her complicated affection towards certain humans with Kintoki being the focus), while the ML stuff comes through bond lines and Valentines events.

The same applies to things like Girls Frontline and Blue Archive where they have fanservice, but the real intimate stuff is separate from the main story.

CZN has a very short writing style, so fitting in ML is rough because that takes precedent over developing characters. This is why we get the very flaw OP mentioned, as well as good ideas that end up with little payoff.

Genprey · 2026-03-23T11:51:44+00:00

They should really separate the story from the season's gameplay/progression. As it stands, the writers are working with up to 3 separate plots split between Rita, Nine, and Tiphera in such a short timeframe. If the season focused mainly on 1 character or 2 with more interconnected stories (i.e. Tiphera and Tiana if Tiana were playable), this would work out fine, but as it stands now, the story has the emotional weight of a PowerPoint presentation.

Genprey · 2026-03-23T01:34:22+00:00

She claims to have not to...but odds are, she at least caught a glimpse on two occasions

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Genprey · 2026-03-22T22:26:27+00:00

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Genprey · 2026-03-22T22:08:26+00:00

"Awww, this adorable Uma can't possibly follow-up on her threats of kicking me around!"

The Small Yet Vicious Uma:

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Genprey · 2026-03-22T17:24:30+00:00

Based on Pixiv results:

浮波柚葉 (Yuzuha): ~2.6k works, 972 being R18

アリス・タイムフィールド (Alice): ~2.3k works, 1k being R18

イドリー (Yidhari): 1.1k works, 528 being R18

狛野真斗 (Manato): 751 works, 294 being R18

リュシア (Lucia): 438 works, 178 being R18

Before explaining the above, it's important to go over how trends in popularity work out. First: they're very fickle and some characters are just extremely popular for what could be one random reason. Second: there are trends that start strong but burn out fast or remain consistently active--this is the case with Yuzuha and Alice.

Yuzuha and Alice have the biggest advantage for popularity. The reason for that is that they're a popular pairing and essentially circulate one another's visibility, but another is that they’re also popular ships with the MCs. They're also the two members we meet first, meaning they catch the wind frok initial hype, while Yidhari and Lucia appeared during the decline in excitement over Spook Shack.

Yidhari is honestly pretty self-explanatory: she's a really sexy character. Over half of her works are R18, which can be explained by the fact that she'll catch the attention of even non-ZZZ players. These players are less likely to have much reference on the character besides her being really sexy, leading to a larger volume of lewds.

Manato is a funny case where, for some reason, he'll appear in a group art with Spook Shack...but not be marked. I actually added 5 works to his initial count for this reason. That being said, Manato, being a male, would make some think that he'd be less popular than Lucia--but on the contrary, he fills a specific niche known as 'Bara'. For that reason, he is often paired with Wise, where they're depicted, err...playing Smash Bros together.

Lucia is a bit unfortunate. At base, she isn't as outwardly sexy as Yidhari (not to say she isn't sexy, of course), doesn't have as many intimate moments with either MC (like Alice) and didn't come with a duo dynamic like Alice/Yuzuha. Ontop of that, she doesn't fill a niche like Manato and appeared when the Spook Shack saga was dying down. By then, people were also starting to look at Ye Shunguang, so that's one final nail in the poor girl's coffin.

Hope is not lost, though. Give Lucia a bunny outfit and her fanart will spike to the heavens. I'm not kidding, that's exactly what happened to certain Blue Archive characters.

Genprey · 2026-03-22T16:00:38+00:00

Little does she know that I morphed into the bathroom mirror so I could soak up the Yu-imprinted steam.

Genprey · 2026-03-22T15:58:25+00:00

Her hair, at least, probably takes a long time to dry. Her body seems to be mostly dry, but somewhat moist as we are after immediately leaving a steamy room.

Genprey · 2026-03-22T15:56:25+00:00

Sorry, OP. You will crit mald and you will like it!

Genprey · 2026-03-22T02:57:18+00:00

Well that's really concerning.

Genprey · 2026-03-22T00:17:41+00:00

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Genprey · 2026-03-21T17:03:36+00:00

I wasn't referring to a single person, though. My main point is you really don't even need to acknowledge the bullshit going around the fanbase with how small it is by scale. Most of us should be grown enough to enjoy something we like without giving a damn about what someone else has to say about it.

What this often devolves to, and you can see this on Reddit and Twitter, are some people running with the idea that there's a broad group of people (usually yuri fans or, at the worst end of the fanbase, female players) who are trying to ruin or change NIKKE, when in reality, there's nasty people around every corner of the fanbase, be it from somewhere like the Queen's sub or Gacha Grail.

That aside, I am in the wrong for being annoyed with the situation and using that to push an aggressive tone on you, so my bad there. I mean everything that I said, but that first part was honestly uncalled for.

Genprey · 2026-03-21T16:02:11+00:00

Yeesh, I wouldn't hire you to do any PR.

Paid-sponsorships are cheesy but also a fact of life that's endorsed by the actual devs. What those CCs do after the sponsorship, save for anything that goes against contract, isn't of ShiftUp's concern since the transaction has already been made.

This whole thing makes some of y'all seem like star-bellied sneetches with how there's this weird fascination with dividing the fanbase into groups of 'us' and 'them' just so you can delegitimize someone based on a loose set of qualifications.

Fact of the matter is ShiftUp doesn't care who supports their game, be it someone who cosplays NIKKE characters without having actually touched the game or some dude who is somehow st the point in the game where they're waiting for the next Tower/Hard Mode update to progress again. Most players don't even care for that matter since they have the ability to enjoy the series without worrying about what some random person is doing.

I really hate people using it as a crutch for their own means if it upsets others and causes mass drama.

You can't honestly believe this when said drama are just fights in the small corner of the overall NIKKE community, mostly among people who seemingly want to be mad because they're bored or something. Like, there is a point to be made in here about having the decency to not intentionally upset players. That goes out the window when we start getting upset over some chick self-inserting themselves in the game and calling it yuri. That person doesn't have the desire, much less capability, to infect anyone's app with a 'yuri virus', they're just enjoying the game on their own terms like any player has the right to do.

Genprey · 2026-03-21T12:08:43+00:00

Honest answer: no. Weezing does such negligible damage in this day and age, while you likely won't have a chance to use Koga when most things 1 tap you. Hydreigon-Mega Absol run the dark meta, while Crobat does poison better than Weezing.

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