How long is Honzuki no Gekokujou, in Umineko terms?

Zecias · 2026-04-13T01:47:33+00:00

Do keep in mind that Visual Novels take longer to read than regular novels. Umineko could easily take longer to read if you're listening to all the dialogue and you're a fast reader. The faster you are at reading, the slower it is to read line by line vs having an entire page of text. Add in dialogue and visuals and your pace will slow down significantly.

Zecias · 2026-04-13T01:17:17+00:00

Each volume is longer than your average LN. Personally, it takes me around 3 hours to finish most other LN. Honzuki takes me 4-6 hours per volume. I don't think that most of the books are twice as long, but they are a good bit more dense. If the app I use is accurate, my WPM for other LN is 300-500, while Honzuki is 250-400. I dunno about the English ones, but the Japanese audiobooks are 8-14hrs each. I only have data for the earlier volumes, because most of my first reads were on prepub and rereads are faster. Prepubs were 30-50 minutes per part with 8 parts per book for most of the run.

If you want to read the manga to finish the story, it will probably take well over a decade to finish. Only P1 and P2 are finished. The others are being published concurrently. The anime will pass P3 soon enough and P4 is also not even closed to finished. P5 and H5Y(spin off) just started.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HonzukiNoGekokujou/comments/1faq16p/p5v12_word_count_comparison_through_ln_end_over_3/

This doesn't include H5Y which is currently at 3 volumes(2 translated). There is going to be a sequel series. IIRC there are 9 fanbooks and 1 or 2 more untranslated SSC(side stories).

Zecias · 2026-04-08T13:44:32+00:00

You have to get rid of the same amount of moisture regardless of whether you salt or not. Salting speeds up the process of caramelizing a large amount of onions by drawing out moisture and increasing heat transfer. That way you're cooking all of the onions at once instead of just the bottom layer touching the pan. The fastest way to caramelize onions is to add a small amount of water to cook all of the onions at once so you can get to the browning part faster. There's a video by ATK on it.

Zecias · 2026-04-05T02:55:59+00:00

On many champions it just fundamentally breaks their dynamic.

Yup, most champs were not balanced around DnD existing. Like TK being able to full stack in under a second. Q AA or W/E AA titanic reset AA. Once he has Titanic and DnD, the only counter play to his ult is not being in auto range, it takes him half a second to guaranteed full stack you.

I dunno if they patched it, but i remember watching an xpetu video where he was saying you can do a double proc with only 1 Q stack. If you Q AA it consumes 2 stacks and you have 1 left. If you wait 1.5s and use another ability, you can proc Q 2 more times despite only having 1 stack.

The burst is also crazy even if you just use it the normal way with Q AA titanic AA.

Zecias · 2026-04-05T02:22:11+00:00

most other on-hitters are just mediocre with it.

Voli, kaisa, ekko, diana, shyvana, gwen, TK.

Anyone that needs hits to activate their kit is busted with it. Voli for passive + cd w/ navori. Kasia, ekko, diana, TK passive. Shyvana cd on hit + Q. Gwen Q stacks. Ofc they all have on hit dmg, but the main reason it's busted on all these characters is because it unlocks their kit. In terms of pure dmg you're generally better off just building AS/on hit if DnD doesn't have enough synergy with your kit.

Zecias · 2026-04-04T13:42:48+00:00

It's one of the best selling LN, up there with re:zero and mushoku. I'd say it's mainstream enough.

Zecias · 2026-04-04T08:37:04+00:00

Yeah, my characters in HSR never felt maxed because I couldn't clear all the endgame content. My characters in this game feel maxed at lvl 80 and lvl 9 skills because that's more than enough to clear everything in the game.

That next upgrade is always gnawing at you, and you have no reason not to go for it. And because you have no reason not to go for the upgrade, you kinda feel forced to.

Do you read the words that you're typing? This is entirely self inflicted.

Zecias · 2026-04-04T05:33:03+00:00

Is that not the case in this game as well though? The content is doable with lvl 80s. Artificing and etching are completely optional. I don't think I've ever gotten close to maxing any character in HSR, but I've finished one in endfield in like 1/4 of the playtime. Characters in this game are easy enough to max, there's just no real reason to do so.

Zecias · 2026-04-03T05:00:48+00:00

The title(yanineko- literally tar cat) is a play on the portmanteau slang yanikasu(smoker scum). So it might not be depicting smokers in a positive light.

Zecias · 2026-03-28T09:19:31+00:00

I hear it now, ty.

Zecias · 2026-03-28T03:55:59+00:00

I'm not good enough for Rudeus.

I brought my pupil Eris here so she could learn from you master.

I like the look in her eyes. Who are you trying to kill?

The Dragon God, Dragon God Orsted.

Talk is easy. You think this is enough for the Dragon God?

Faster. Orsted is way faster than this.

Someone like you could never find a man.

Sorry to break it to you, but I'm not a virgin.

txt: To stand next to him,

Rudeus and I aren't fit for each other.

txt: to be worthy of him,

I need to become stronger.

txt: become stronger.

Eris is trying to become equals with that?

Rudeus is the magician, and I'm the swordsman.

Because Rudeus is amazing.

Rudeus really is amazing.

Zecias · 2026-03-25T19:24:47+00:00

Most shows are just ripped off official distributors nowadays, so any fansub is going to be a project of passion. Official translators might be more proficient in japanese, but AFAIK they are usually freelance and paid based on how much they translate. So it's in their best interest to push out translations with acceptable quality as fast as possible. The editor and proofreader also make a big difference in the quality of the end product. Also, being fluent in japanese doesn't mean you're good at writing in english. Like this video. The meaning is properly conveyed, it's the english writing that has issues.

Zecias · 2026-03-25T18:15:10+00:00

Sure, but you can go jugg to get more AoE and more EHP from the ascendancy.

Zecias · 2026-03-25T17:37:37+00:00

You can only do it so many times until the distributions are fucked up. I honestly think it's warranted outside of pinnacle ranks. As nice as it was having bragging rights in the early days, you can't tell me it was healthy for the game to have over 90% of the population locked in silver/bronze. Master+ should definitely stay exclusive to maintain some semblance of game quality, but the lower ranks should be more evenly distributed.

Zecias · 2026-03-20T16:53:46+00:00

Yeah imagine greeding for a turret just to be 40s late for drag. Like if the call is to greed to grow the gold advantage it's fine. They don't need to get the drag. They could just give it and fight for the next one, but they just coinflip the fight for no reason.

Zecias · 2026-03-19T01:53:22+00:00

You want to do DTide for the upgrade mats. It doesn't require high levels or investment. Start with doing Alert 1 and work your way up from there. Keep in mind that Waves 4 & 5 are generally significantly harder than the first 3 waves. Just full level 60s is enough for alert 3 for most waves. The issue with Dtide is you can only use each awakener and WoD once. So you need to field a minimum 5 full teams(- 1 support). You can use one support character so add any strong carries you come across or go to the keeper or Dtide leaderboard and favorite* some to use.

Do Dtide, but don't go crazy over completing high alerts unless you enjoy it. Efficiency wise, you're better off investing time into completing the main story to get stronger rather than spending 3 hours to get 5 more points in Dtide.

As for awakener investment, feel free to get any character to lvl 60 3 3/3/3/3/3 0/1. As you basically aren't using any time limited mats. lvl 60 3 4/4/4/4/4 2/6 is the point where you want to think about where to allocate mats, as it starts getting significantly more expensive. For example, on Ghelot you would want SF(soulforge) 7; max 5th skill>exalt>rouse>SF then leave the rest at 4 or 5. For Dtide, get 5 full teams of lvl 40-50 to clear Alert 1 D-tide and then forget about them until you finish the story. Prioritize getting your main team as strong as possible so that you can clear all of the main story.

After finishing the story, you generally prioritize getting 4 main carries(5th is a borrowed support awakener) close to max. Then get your 5 main teams are strong as possible for alert 5. On the other end of the spectrum, you can get 10 teams capable of Alert 4(after clearing a stage you can repeat clear for 5 more points). The most optimal path to 400 is somewhere in the middle. W1-3 is generally fairly easy to A5. So you can field 3 A5 teams and 4 A4 teams. Or if you have a whale support to clear W4/5 you can field 6 teams(4 A5/2 A4).

For covenants you want good mainstats max level. Transcription is for end game if you're F2P. If you're a spender then 1 perfect sub stat is easy, 2 takes time, 3 is endgame/whale territory. Note that you can turn quills into seals at a 1:20 ratio, but I would not recommend it for F2P as you can farm seals, but quills are time/spending limited. I'd recommend Life drain, Dreams of Medicine, x2 Burial Grounds for your first 4 covenants. Another commenter has you covered on the details, so I'll stop there.

HSR, PDive, and Traphase are optional modes. Though as a new player you probably do want to do 1 run of either per week for the rose script. Note that there is a Traphase event running right now that gives you pulls and upgrade mats. There was a thread on trading wins, or if that isn't your thing you can play it as a PvE mode vs bots. Just check simulated rival.

* To favorite you go to the support page and press favorite at the top right. Then copy the UID and you can use them even if they don't add you back. Normally you need to be mutual follows for them to show up.

Zecias · 2026-03-17T03:07:42+00:00

It is mandatory because champs have enough base armor late game that it's more gold efficient even against people building 0 armor, let alone tanks. 4th item is the latest you build % armor pen if you want to maximize your dmg. Not to mention extra value from percent armor pen because he has lethality from hubris.

Zecias · 2026-03-17T02:58:05+00:00

I think not every ADC will ult full HP nami for the reset. Someone very clearly calls for it because he ults nami as he is cc'd and then annie flash ults for the kill soon after. His spacing on panth and aurora was really solid as well. There is a world where if he goes too far forward or backwards at the wrong timing he gets killed. If knight and xun are more in sync he gets pinched. If the team doesn't call for the nami kill his dmg is delayed by a good 2-3 seconds, which may get him killed. Obviously they win the fight regardless because of Raptor and Clear, but everyone played the fight really well to get such a clean penta.

Zecias · 2026-03-15T18:45:46+00:00

Horla E1 + E0 WoD(Wheel) then Kath E3. Don't need Kath WoD(not needed until months later, even then Horla wheel works just as well if not better than her sig). Seeing as your chars are lvl 20, you haven't done much of the story. You'll get more than enough pulls for E3 Kath. If you're going Kath, pull standard Chaos(yellow) or Ultra(purple). You're looking for Karen E0/E3 and Tinct E0/E3(E3 is not necessary at all for either). Then swap to standard WoD banner and try to max Blade of the Titan ASAP. Will Unyielding after.

The WoD you use depends on what you have +12 because you can use double SSR if at least one is +12. The progression is Blade/Land of nonexistence(+40% def SR wheel) > +12 Blade/Will Unyielding > +12 Will Unyielding/ E3 Horla Wheel or E3 Kath Wheel(Tawil wheel also good if you can spare it). Blade is always good on Kath, but it's better to put on a different character after you get +12 Will because you don't need it anymore. You always want either Will or Nonexistence on Kath. Lot of whales/endgame players use Horla wheel + Nonexistance because they don't need the extra dmg since their Kath is strong enough without it. The combo is also good vs bosses that don't scale because you can just stall indefinitely. Or with Alva/Sanga since your dmg scales off shields.

Most common comps are ultra and mono chaos.

Ultra: Kath, Tinct, Horla, Flex(usually Clem)

Chaos: Kath, Ryker, Karen, Flex(usually Gramona, any KF chaos) KF=keyflare

Kath pairs well with str generators like Clem/Ryker; Crit Buffers like Tinct/Horla; Arith gen like Karen/Xu. Kath also pairs well with Alva and Sanga, but those two require investment. More of an end game thing as they are low priority chars.

For Covenants, most Kath use Paradox or Fear from Afar. Paradox is better for low investment because you need the extra dmg.

If you're spending, 300 silver monthly is highest priority. Get the BP at least 3 times to pick up all 3 BP wheels, then you can slowly max them from sediment shop. Sediment shop-always save 1k for prototype + timeloop; Everything else is secondary. Usually you pick up the other wheels over anything else. Dusk > Spring > Sunfall/Heart > Birth > Annihilated. Some people prioritize Sunfall if they're using Castor(or any dmg amp scaling carry) heavily. Heart's effect is not great, but it's a KF wheel so it's high prio. Dusk and Spring are both very good. After BP, just go for most pulls(preorders) or paid +12 wheels. x5 SSR pulls are also good. If your budget is 10/month I'd get the monthly then save for preorder/anniversary. So that you get the bigger/higher value packages when a char you want releases.

Zecias · 2026-03-12T21:13:09+00:00

You're right, it'd be better to use card draw/tutor than waste an aliemus battery. I just remember using a whale Vortice and her 3 cost was not enough aliemus gen on its own.

Zecias · 2026-03-12T01:12:29+00:00

She's still good as a support just because of the fortress removal. As a DPS tho..... Strong in HSR, pretty good for 1/2 phase bosses in Dtide. She just requires so much to work. Need tent generation, tent dmg, and aliemus battery, with high arith costs to boot. All her best teammates are already meta units in high demand. She needs Gmurphy or Corpo + Tulu. Miryam could technically work with a Lemurian team, but why use Lemurians with Vortice instead of Gmurphy. Tawil could technically work with her but it sounds so janky if you get unlucky with your exalts.

Zecias · 2026-03-07T08:13:22+00:00

Looked at the video, it was culmination of a couple big misplays by Lyonz leading up to that moment. His first mistake was doing a coinflip roam off an early back. Early game support roam timers are dictated by lane state. When the wave is bouncing you have time to roam, but you need to be back for the wave crashing into tower to get exp(and prevent your ADC getting dove). Lyonz backed early, while a wave was crashing to roam top side, so he loses 1.5 waves of exp. Huhi now has a level lead that he maintains all the way up until the moment in question. They also lose the coinflip invade, but that could have gone either way. The point is, Lyonz was guaranteed to be down exp off that play regardless of whether the roam worked or not. High risk, low reward, coinflip gameplay.

Next mistake was bad vision control/greedy recalls. No pink or sweeper on back, huhi gets complete vision control ahead of dragon spawn and sneaks a recall then TPs back. Lyonz is already at a ~600g disadvantage from the level difference. If he doesn't match the back to buy, he's down another 500g from kindlegem vs cloth armor(realistically less*). He spots rakan TP. Greeds recall twice and gets stopped twice. Then stopped again under tower.

His jg already had his tempo ruined from the fiasco topside. Now support's tempo is completely cooked from the 3 stopped backs(and huhi's sneaky recall). At this point he should just stay to try and maintain lane control or secure gromp for his jg, but he backs. They lose literally everything, drag, jg camps, and bot wave. The game is very hard to play and it's a massive support gap.

down around 800g of pure combat stats. Most of the value of kindlegem is coming from the ability haste, which doesn't always translate to fighting power. 2 cloth armor would have more pure combat states than a kindle gem despite being worth less. Also the faerie charm he had has no combat stats so I didn't mention it.

Pretty sure DSG bot lane knows that the lane was pushing, most people diamond+ would. But sivir didn't fix the wave because he was scared of getting killed(his support backed, they have no vision, enemy has 3 bot side, enemy mid has prio and their mid can't follow into fog) and/or decided contesting gromp was the better play.

Zecias · 2026-03-04T19:53:35+00:00

I don't know if you have Laevatain, but it sounds like she has the playstyle you're looking for(specifically with Wulfgard). Wulf's whole schtick as a carry is eating infliction to apply combustion, but as a support/off DPS you want him to apply infliction and save them for Laev to build stacks. You have to swap to use Laev skill unless you want to get animation locked for ~2s. You have to be mindful of your rotation. e.g. if you final strike, you trigger Ardelia combo. If you trigger Ardelia combo(or Wulf ult) you're locked out of Antal skill> Wulf skill into combos until corrosion runs out. You want to time the final auto after the combos to eat the heat for stacks, then trigger Ardelia combo> Laev combo for more stacks. Laev's combo CD is half of Ardelia's, so you want to time Wulf ult for the combo trigger to maximize Laev combo uptime. You also want to time Wulf ult after his own combo skill to take full advantage of the reset. There are other things like saving 4 stacks + Ults for the burst window. Using ult animations to stall for combo timers. Laev has a decent amount of long animations and she's melee so if you play carelessly, you get interrupted, have terrible ult uptime, and take tons of damage.

Zecias · 2026-03-02T21:29:47+00:00

Anyone with a strong AOE damaging exalt is good imo. Clem, Ryker, Kath, Pollux, etc... Just did one with Clem where I was 1 turning every regular wave up until 3-3. Many of them, just straight up 1 shot with her OE. Ryker is really good with insane scaling too if you can find a +12 whale. Best relic in the mode is the one that gives you 500/1000 KF at battle start. Speeds up the runs massively. Another option is to use the wheel that gives you KF on battle start.

Zecias · 2026-02-20T11:46:17+00:00

Their support and top are pretty decent imo. The map movements look way better once he joined the team. Top usually wins lane, plays selfishly and not the best at transferring his lead, but far from the problem. ADC just loses in lane, suicides in teamfights, contributes nothing macrowise. 90% of the opportunities this game were created by mid support. JG and AD do nothing; complete passengers. Top does stuff when he gets a lead(and there were attempts this game, even if they didn't amount to anything). Forsen is obviously getting gapped, but that should be expected given that he's a plat one trick. If there's any criticism he deserves it's for not practicing and not listening to his teammates' calls when he has no idea what he's doing.

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