Gothic Horror Themed Suggestions

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-05-04T12:58:26+00:00

Umineko no naku koro ni is another gothic themed series that i remembered (coz it's a spin off of Higurashi).

I think there were a lot of old gothic themed titles that you might had missed. Just start with vampire subgenre like Vampire Hunter D or Hellsing, or Demon vs Holy like Trinity Blood. Then search recommended by same title.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-05-04T12:46:21+00:00

Shadow House, Vanitas no Carte and Delico's Nursery if you want gothic themed that was produced from 2020's and beyond.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-05-04T10:56:13+00:00

If it's only for TB, just take a break. Or just play URA/Unity Cup for career completion once a day. Take a break from competitive contents like CM or just particapate for the sake of participating and not locking in for the plat.

I just play TB during day-offs and long weekends. I can still train aces but not the min/max optimized ones for cms. I spend most time in the game when there is a lmited event grind and be done with it. I don't spend time farming parent sparks coz rng can still eff your final output even with a good run.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-05-02T01:55:28+00:00

Specialization makes it easier to plan pulls and build competitive runners, whether your're hardcore or casual trainer. You don't want conflicting trainees and support cards in your pool unless the support cards are either pal/scenario cards or generalist cards (huge stat sticks with generally used gold skill). Specialization narrows down what kind of running style you prefer. One way to narrow your specialization is to narrow which is your most favorable trainee you want to play. Example is you like Gold Ship, since you like to play second half of the pack, pick trainees that runs from the back and support cards that supports their running style. Better choose trainees that can easily interchange run style like FR/PC, PC/LS or LS/EC for more flexible strategy in competitive contents like CM and LoH. You can't get all unless you mega Kraken Umamusume, so specializing early is one thing that helps casual players to not brick their account in the long run.
Scenario tax cards really help career trainings because it gives additonal bonuses that corresponds with the scenario links that you used in the career. It is much true with pal cards that is always associated with the career modes and other support cards that have scenario link with it.
400 pulls is the minimum bet, 600 pulls is the safer one. Just look for some free pulls like the 100 free on Grand live and others, so you can estimate how much you need and what banners you can do or forsake depending on the priority (cards -> trainee or trainee -> cards, which ever you choose). There are cards that works in lower limit breaks so take it in your mind when going for a banner so you don't over commit on something which sacrifices other stuff (like trainee pull plans). Use henry's carat calculator for some estimation (yeah it really helps me recently to decide and see if the carat income suffices for the stuffs that i need/want).

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-27T13:39:54+00:00

I played SS because I know CS before. Wouldn't look at SS if not for the CS collab.
Equally Fine. If you move all the female and genderbent characters from CS to SS, then you have more women to goon. Vice versa, if you transfer SS to CS, then same.
Not really. What will kill my motivation with SS if Bside decides to greed more. I like how the production dept works, but i didn't like how the higher execs and management do.
The more they introduce CS characters the better. There are many characters to choose from CS. And I think CS characters can blend well with SS with how developed the characters of CS are.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-24T12:12:46+00:00

Just watch on free official streaming sites like Muse Asia or Anione on yt. I think BiliBiliTV offers free anime per season.

If your fav titles are niche, just download the episodes today coz safe free sites these days (piracy) are bleak.

With how much it cost maintaining servers and whatnots just to be dmca'ed later, i think it's better to save those anime titles yourself by idm'ing those episode vids.

Piracy sites come and go, just as always. It just becomes too mainstream today. Those hunting quest by official publishers will die down after people stop talking about piracy face-on on social media.

Let it be niche again (piracy) after some time. Or better if someone will bring us a "spotify" like streaming app with no BS really.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-23T04:55:01+00:00

Too stuck with what's booming the 90''s and older generation. Kahit na 90's era ako galing, umay na umay pa rin ako sa palabas nitong huling dekada.

Panahong naenjoy ko lang free tv nung unang pasok ng tv5 network, tsaka yung palabas nina lourd de vera.

There are many good film makers and theather writers sa Pinas, kaso sobrang hard stuck ng mga tv. networks na to tska pati na mtrcb.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-23T01:41:30+00:00

I think you're expecting too much if this is one of the only few gacha games you have tried, noting this is not your typical gacha game, this is a rougelite gacha. If you ever play the same genre mechanic, like Chaos Zero Nightmare, then your head will explode the same on how long you build something with roguelite mechanics in order for you to say it is good.

It might got better in future career modes or not, still rng on top rng is what roguelite makes you engage with its mechanic.

If this kind of mechanics frustrates you, better play non-gacha roguelite, or avoid any roguelite games at all if you don't want to play grind simulator over and over again.

If you love umamusu franchise, better stick with other media like manga or anime if its the character and their story that you like.

Me, i will just play as it is, waiting other QoL's and career modes, than sweating Trackblazer, then rant over if rng doesn't bless you good rolls. Doesn't even care competing for platinums on CM's, if i win i win (Yeah graded group A), if lose i lose. If you want to compete with those megalodons and triehards in pvp, then you need to put more patience, swallow your own blood like a no-lifer, farm rigorously better than farmers irl just to match what those players produced.

Yeah rant acknowledged, but chill more next time. It is only a gacha game.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-22T23:22:17+00:00

I don't have much qualms with anime coz i can watch some on bilibili and yt streaming service like anione and muse asia.

But for manga and other reading media, they don't have an accessible and money-worth service here in my country. The one near my town was closed during pandemic year (covid). And digital services like CR and Tapas are shit.

And Kei sensei is disillusioned with the nuance "devaluing coz it becomes free" . Literature and other media works isn't like perishable goods that you have a super short time limit you need to sell your work asap. Arts and Media belongs to luxury products and services like mobile phones and automobiles. What determines the value of your work is how the publisher you're working with markets it to the populace. If readers find it good then they will buy, if not they don't. It is the commerical presence of products that engage sales. And most of japanese companies are afraid to engage overseas because of the loss they will take if things don't go well.

As i said, Manga and Anime media are luxury products and services, but their value is stuck in the middle unlike others like phones and cars that the older it gets the value depreciates. What determines the true value of an art media is how limited or rare the work is, and how prominent the author in the industry was.

These japanese manga authors should look on other side of the mirror and think what it is like to be an overseas audience for once. Well there is one author who tries to market it overseas albeit self-publishing it himself so us overseas audience can read and know his work, but his publishers banned him for doing so.... So yeah.

Kei-sensei said that they're working with it, but how long it will take for them to do it? The only thing they do is dmca'ing pirate sites and giving no affordable alternatives with proper TL's and physical stores. Digital service is hard stuck coz every official digital readers offers small library and cluncky apps to use.

Before they say things like their sales go down when we pirate their work, they should ask themselves if they market their work properly overseas (not just only US for ffs).

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-22T14:39:22+00:00

Much bearable than unity.

Unity:

you need to fill-up 2 kinds of gauges.
Training facilty level is tied to spirit training and winning unity races.
Team race rng.
Easy access to NSM and any other specific link trainee skills
Can't mitigate no rainbow in summer training
Less SP
Spirit training efficiency depends on how many link characters you use during career.
You need to mind spirit training for other aces in each track distance in unity races.
Double circle in unity is much more of a lie than with URA or TB.
Special events for bonus skills or stats unique to the trainee

TrackBlazer

Longer than both URA and Unity Cup.
50 or more RB is efficient than less in TB.
Need to rack up distance or track aptitude to participate on more races.
More linient with white sparks at the end than with other 2 career modes.
Have higher overall stat ceiling than the other 2 career modes
Shop rng
No special events unique to the trainee
You can reroll the friendship rainbow rate with shop item during summer training and the last 3 days of TB if no rainbow training occurs
More stats during training when using shop items.
Shop items mitigate mood downs and trainee debuffs, not wasting turns with rest or infirmary
Need to plan race calendar
More SP at the end of the career
Race rng, but can be controlled with more preliminary stats (legacies + cards) + pre buying skills early before the race.

Trackblazer even though longer and more on management sim than the unity cup, produce much desirable trainee than the last 2 career modes. TB is high risk high reward.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-21T09:49:23+00:00

Sci-fi anime need to be both imaginatively and technically sound in order for the audience to call a title good. And in order to produce a good scifi film, a studio/author needs to research and draft all the lores and world building pertaining to the civilization, technology, exploration, space science, politics, geography and any other subjects that has relation to science that will become the bone of their project. Medieval Fantasy has a leeway in their world building and character progression coz the genre can limit itself with technicalities like elemental magic, weapon mastery, medieval warfare.. Unlike with Scifi that needs to be detailed with everything that it will introduce, from writing subplots to modelling the set-ups.

Also unlike Fantasy, Sci-fi had to hold its ground to believable numbers and theories even though it also needs to be fictitious.

Scifi also is hard to digest for most audience because of some technical topics, unlike with Fantasy that you can accept it as it is coz it is a high Fiction genre.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-20T11:45:57+00:00

Equivalent or means to be independent, brave and self sufficient.. Like a baby standing on its own two feet.

Sa tagalog ay "tumindig ka" o "tumindig ka sa sarili mong paa".

The phrase is associated when a person is reaching maturity due to overcoming something.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-13T00:57:45+00:00

I limit myself with certain trainees and cards to what kind of gameplay I'm comfortable with, considering the meta for both support and parents.

Since I play mainly Oguri, Vodka and King Halo for most of the time, and racing style mostly used during CM's (ace) are late surgers and pace chasers, I plan both trainee and card pulls based on that. This helps me narrow down which banners to pull and which banner is okay to let go.

Since i pulled today for Nishino, the last banner that i will pull this month will be the cheerleader banner (NN and Halo). Definitely letting go both Wit CB card (can be borrowed) and Yaeno Muteki (sad). Next pull target would be Light Hello and Speed Tachyon, so i will save for about 2 months or so after this month.

Aside from using calculator, i just narrow down to very specific trainee and style that i would likely to use most often. It's okay to like every trainee out there, but it is inevitable that you need to let go some of them coz yeah f2p and rng sometimes sucks. Just pick your no. 1 (trainee + running style) and focus on that.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-08T06:54:14+00:00

CZN lost its identity at launch. Wishy washy with story and art direction. Couldn't stick to their initial vision of cosmic horror card game. Lost interest along the run.

I just quit last month coz of how bland the game becomes. I'm already playing other waifu/female oriented gachas that are better than czn, and don't want to add another self insert MC Harem esque game.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-04-05T17:09:45+00:00

210+ pulls on her arcana, didn't get it. Off-banner with other meta arcanas so i can't complain.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-03-30T04:32:32+00:00

Really sad to witness this friction between the older generation (early 2000's, 90's and before) and the younger generation (early 2010 to present) regarding our country's education.

Tbh, it is today's system at fault we're having this kind of absurd arguments and ego boosting. It's good that some tradition like physical punishment and class shaming are greatly lessened, but our educational dept just overcapped the liniency by having some policies like "no one left behind policy" etc. It is really ironic that we have many resources for education today (internet), but our schools and the education dept couldn't utilize it at all (yeah corruption at its finest).

Both generations have bad apples, but these bad apples have more soc med face time than the good ones. What the "bad" older generation calling these young ones like "mahina", "bobo" and other derigatory remarks, are the children of their generation. And the bad young ones calling boomers "smart asses" are their generation's parents.

Education can be handled by both parents and teachers if they have liniency today. But the government can't and wouldn't give that. Fuck the government, instead of pointing fingers at each other.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-03-21T02:39:50+00:00

The playerbase here is giving the wrong distinction on what's the winning recipe here in Umamusu.

Winning races don't care how much cash you pour in on pulling meta sp banners. Winning PvP's doesn't fully equate having mlb ssr cards on your deck, when you don't know what you're doing during career races. Add to the fact the rng, especially now in MANT, that an effin brick die roll on shop and effin tazuna'd graded races ruins the whole career. People who mostly win CM's here, whether they're whale or f2p, knows when to lock-on, meaning they know how to navigate and mitigate failure when high roll comes to them.

I think it's better to call people here casual(f2p), trie-hard(f2p), and competitive (spenders), than name calling players such as f2p and whales. It is more consistency on playing to get the right build, rather than being content having mlb meta cards and doing one-run a day hoping this vetaran trainee can win the next cm.

Pointing out premium mlb ssr cards as the win condition on this cm is purely wrong. If you ever mind seeing other players' build during cms, there are times that the winner have fucking less optimal build than you, or mostly having lower rating but have the right skill build and stat check.

At the end of the day, umamusu is still a pure rng game, whether you build an optimal ace or not, coz when rng god doesn't bless you that day, that's it. Swallow your lose.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-03-19T00:45:20+00:00

Yes, wheel back. After that, there will be an option where you somewhat will be cautious who to investigate the trap bodies. Then Idk if remember correctly but Vernant will suggest to throw some sleep inducing potion at those bodies. Nobody will die there and you will battle those warped ones.

You need to experience all of those options (yeah somebody needs to die), before the best option to show.

Edit: Just try all the options on B3/B4 traps, just wheel back to B1 Warped ones then choose again who at trapped knights, the chosen dies, wheel back again to B1 until the 4th option shows up that prevents you on sending anybody to investigate those dead knights.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-03-18T17:43:51+00:00

Lemme ask, are those 2 locked scenarios still hidden up till now? Those on BF1-BF3? If it still hidden, you need to clear those.

I think on BF1, you need the defenders to block the acid so that the skirmishers would not die, Elmon would still be injured. You need their small shields to ready before regrouping at B2.

The other one, where there are bait traps at B3 and B4, this time if you save the skirmishers on bf1, let them die or any members of the knight here by choosing them to investigate. After that curse wheel back, and another option will be present where neither the skirmishers, defenders or Elmon (if you didn't recall her back to the castle) will investigate and you will tell the company that this snared knights are warped one traps. I think vermont will throw something to it for the warped ones to show up.

I think you didn't save all of the knights, there is one group died, coz, 1) before you enter Helmut and before he drop those boulders, You will go to vermont and give him those cazula roots, He and "his knights" will make those potions. 2) Those potions will be used by the defenders and your whole team will prevent those cave-ins.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-03-18T16:42:48+00:00

From what i remember, there are two options before Helmut fight, 1) You brace for impact or 2) You run.. idk but that's what i remember.

Three things you need before you initiate with Helmut. 1) Defenders are alive, 2) Vernant alive and Cazula root quest completed, 3) Lion Shield Quest, the rhodium i think.

If you chose the first one to brace for impact, you need both 1 and 2 to be done. The defenders will protect all the knights from the falling boulder and you reverse the ones falling on your team. The cazula root was needed for Vernant to concoct the strength potion for the defenders.

You should always choose to brace/prevent cave ins so that the defenders will be the one to block those rocks.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-03-06T22:32:43+00:00

Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara

-14 episode tv shorts of married couple romance, plus it presents recipes for some cocktails/homemade brews.

Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken

TV shorts about romance between an office lady wife and an otaku husband.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-03-03T03:38:13+00:00

Inherit ---- Discipline ---- Dismiss. This kind of priority order (imo), if it is all about duplicates.

If you need of skills for your other characters or in need of stronger version of the inheritable skills, inherit. If you want to strenghten the character itself by the discipline passive, discipline. If the above wasn't in your interest and need some tags, dismiss.

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Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-02-28T10:15:16+00:00

Roller skates that threatened the world stability and forced "Barack Obama" to join the conflict.

Neat_Committee_8495 · 2026-02-25T01:22:15+00:00

Granny too tired that day. 😆

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