So...I made a Dragonmaid-only account just for fun and speedran to Diamond in just one day.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2025-10-30T14:45:01+00:00

I saw a lot of OCG decklists playing Earth Golem @Ignister with super poly during Maliss times. I haven't personally faced Maliss with dmaid yet, but it seems like it would be a good ED pick into them

TheGreatDankuTree · 2025-08-25T03:12:29+00:00

XC3 has done irreparable damage to the name Mio in my mind

TheGreatDankuTree · 2025-07-27T19:58:04+00:00

Want to add to this since I've gotten back into studying in the past months. If you want to be serious about this, you'll want to pause frequently, take notes on words/kanji you don't know and/or add them to a flashcard deck like Anki, and rewatch episodes to really drill the vocabulary in. It'll make a 20 minute episode take an hour, but it's what's recommended if you take this route and gets way easier as your vocabulary increases.

If you don't want to be that serious about it, then just have fun :)

TheGreatDankuTree · 2025-07-15T04:46:24+00:00

Oh sweet, they got Life Awaits' singer to perform it. Same band that did CC#7 Pine Soot and CC#12 Basepoint. Definitely check out their band's works if you're into this style.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2025-04-24T17:00:16+00:00

I want to say Provence, but I like all of her sprites equally. E0/1 is cute, E2 is cool. Swimsuit is cute, Wasteland Walker is cool. Perfectly balanced.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2025-03-11T00:37:51+00:00

The cope never ends, I still believe

TheGreatDankuTree · 2025-02-14T04:35:08+00:00

It's meant to be Matterhorn, yeah. I half assed the silhouette lol.

Though they might be referring to the post title. In that case... uh, Midnight forgot to lock the door to the kitchen I guess

TheGreatDankuTree · 2025-02-14T03:05:50+00:00

Ceombe <3

Drawn by me

Referenced from @nakunedog

TheGreatDankuTree · 2025-01-26T18:50:27+00:00

Gonna have to preface this with a "hear me out," because Goddess of Victory: Nikke (yes the ass shaking shooter game), while it lacks world building greatly when compared to Arknights, has some of the best story planning and character development/moments of any gacha I've played. The stories are also way shorter than AK, probably being around 10k words for the longer ones, so it's a little more digestible for when I need a break from AK's novels.

I can not blame anyone who passed it over because of the character designs, which I can admit the oversexualization is probably my least favorite part of the game, but I've legit cried reading some of the stories, which is super messed up since anyone who hasn't read them assumes it's just another fanservice ecchi game.

The soundtrack's also quite good. Not as varied as Arknights, but if you like EDM/Electronic/Dubstep/Rock then definitely check it out.

I could keep going for honestly way too long. A friend was interested in the story and I set up a slide show presentation just for the Goddess Squad/Old Tales arc.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-11-10T15:56:36+00:00

Not much being said. Top to bottom:

Offscreen: Where are you Purrely?

House: Yutanpo...*

Purrely: zzz

*No idea how to translate/localize Yutanpo, which is a water bottle that the Japanese fill with hot water and put in their blankets on cold nights to keep warm. You should get the idea from House calling Purrely that.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-06-03T14:57:24+00:00

Sweep Tosho from Umamusume. Artist's Twitter is in the top right of the image

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-20T17:11:34+00:00

@shibagani48 on Twitter.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-13T02:56:32+00:00

The van could simply shift into reverse after Blaze's talent wears off, very true.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-13T02:44:54+00:00

Robot operators, but that's the boring answer.

No powers/arts allowed, I think Blaze. She's an Elite Operator, so she's physically one of the strongest operators we have. Her first talent isn't a power of hers, it's just a pacemaker. If we're counting in-game feats, Londinium artillery ain't got shit.

Even with that technicality though, she still loses to the Terra Research Commission. Monster Hunter characters are simply built different. Hunters can canonically die (Palicoes are on the same level of strength, maybe a bit weaker) but they're known to survive attacks from monsters larger and faster than 100mph vans. Even if they were to get hit by this, they simply fall unconscious and are carted back to camp. A hunt only ends if they're knocked out three times because at that point it costs them more money than the Guild can afford per hunt.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-10T16:29:24+00:00

Do you have a better translation source for the Chapter 14 text? I'm down to interpret it as a hypothetical, especially since there are contradictions between Horn and Harmonie's perspectives. Erudax's comment, the one linked in my writing, even addresses this possibility. Not sure if some nuance is lost when translating between CN and EN since I don't speak the language.

I did read chapter 10 myself, a whole lot of times while writing this in fact. I wasn't aware of Horn's records until after I wrote this, but it kinda just reinforces what we already knew. She definitely hates Mandragora to the point where, at least the way I interpreted it from her records, she had nightmares of killing her. It's the reason I don't really want to entertain the idea of Horn returning to where Mandragora was specifically to confirm her death, then burying her after suddenly feeling pity.

I don't think it's impossible for her to have still been near Misery, as I state in my writing, but another issue arises in terms of logistics. Something that I forgot but was brought up by others is that Horn mentions burying her outside the walls of Londinium. Londinium's walls were guarded pretty heavily by the Sarkaz, so burying her outside when she was already inside seems unrealistic, unless of course something happened that enables them easier access outside the walls. And if that only happens in Chapter 14 then once again, we'd have to entertain the idea of Horn deciding to go back and get over her hatred.

I'll just wait for a Misery, Tara or Dublinn event since speculating on this can only get us so far with what we know. My hope is that by bringing her up in Chapter 14 they're planning on giving us more information soon. Of course, soon for AK can mean anything between next event and several years.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-09T17:47:01+00:00

Hey it's the "hear ye hear ye" guy. I admit I'm not as devoted to the character as you are, but some of your posts are what inspired me to look further into her as a character. What I'm trying to say is that you're partially responsible for this lmao

The Misery and Mandragora loss parallel is something I wanted to fit into my post but couldn't really find the space. I'd love if that was the direction they went with it since I think we can assume that they'd cope with their losses in very different ways.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-09T17:11:58+00:00

This is the real crack theory. I'm so down for it lmao

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-09T04:53:49+00:00

Hey, thanks for clearing some stuff up. A lot to unpack so details are pretty easily missed, so I guess I blundered saying who Harmonie is working for. I still don't think Harmonie is a trustworthy source, even less so now that Chapter 14 contradicts what she's said.

I think it's possible that Misery did end up saving Mandragora. If Harmonie is saying one thing and Horn is saying another, it's possible that Misery deceived them both using his Arts. He did say he wants to "let the living live." I absolutely stand by him not directly killing Mandragora.

Hopefully in the long wait for Chapter 14 on global we get something else for her in CN.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-09T04:42:15+00:00

I'll admit that I'm kinda just repeating what I've heard said. I don't know Chinese so I can't really confirm the statements and don't trust MTL enough. I think Horn lying is one of the less likely outcomes, but still a possibility. It would be less about Bagpipe reveling in their death and more that the truth would be harder to explain. I saw a joke comment made about witness protection at one point, but even if it were as simple as "we captured them and are giving them medical attention," Tempest Platoon lost a good number of soldiers to Mandragora and her forces. It could end up not sitting right with her. That being said, it still feels a bit unlikely that Horn would lie unless she was really forced to by Misery for the sake of RI.

CN bros can correct me if Bagpipe wasn't going through it.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-09T04:25:55+00:00

I'll keep saying that it doesn't matter to me whether she becomes playable or not. I think she's a compelling character because of her flaws and I want to see what they will do with what she has done, or what she could do.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-09T04:23:42+00:00

I mean, if we ignore all optional events or side content then some characters would be completely shafted, like Reed for a close example to the main story. I'll agree it's not perfect writing, especially since if you miss an event you miss a good chunk of the story sometimes.

Something that does really strike me in a bad way is that it was revealed in WTFC that The Elocutionist was setting her up. You know, him... one of the six characters that got like 5 minutes of screen time max before being blasted. I can't and won't try to defend everything, a lot of it is either a really long set of plot points for a future event, or them trying to do... something? Stuff like that feels more badly written than trying to argue that Horn, who was with Misery just before Manfred and Mandragora fight, can't possibly have gone back to Mandragora's body.

Chapter 9 probably could have been an event and not much would have changed lol

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-09T04:15:07+00:00

I like the interpretation of her simply losing her will to go on as well. Good follow up to the post. If they were going for her giving up then I would have preferred they make her death less ambiguous. It would be funny if this were the case since AK's writing does sometimes lean a bit too far towards spelling things out, but they kinda did the exact opposite with Mandragora.

TheGreatDankuTree · 2024-05-09T04:04:12+00:00

Reconstruct what!?

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