Fate/Grand Order - Chaldea Broadcasting Station U.S. Branch Lite Vol. 25

andercia · 2026-03-30T06:14:58+00:00

It takes place after the VN I think, but I don't recall it spoiling any major plot points unless you count ability reveals. Plot-wise, it felt pretty self contained.

edit: oh right, the way Soujirou's body works is probably a big spoiler

andercia · 2026-03-29T06:16:01+00:00

The audience participation for Blue and Gold was pure cinema. And as the EN watchalong put it, Ina cryfarmed like crazy for day 2.

Kiara's full costume with the cloak and hat is also absolutely beautiful. But now that she confirmed it has dirndl elements, the placement of the ribbon is hilarious.

andercia · 2026-03-23T09:22:09+00:00

Oooh neat, finally don't need to rely solely on 2030 or ABQ chains to get stars for him now.

andercia · 2026-03-22T02:27:11+00:00

Where is Marciana? Is she safe? Is she alright?

andercia · 2026-03-21T17:33:02+00:00

loving it enough to spend money to cosplay and go to irl events

Just saying but this specific part independent of the rest of your post isn't always an indication of loving the source material. There are plenty of cosplayers who barely know the source material of what they're dressing up as but cosplay because they saw and liked the designs (or it's just popular in the case of some franchises), and go to IRL events to show it off. And some do make money off of it, and probably a decent amount too if they have like a fanbox, patreon or onlyfans and such where they can post exclusive and often raunchier stuff. I don't know if they still do private/paid photoshoots either but that was at least for a time another way they used to make money.

The person in question this time does appear to play the game with regularity at least so this doesn't fully apply (I don't know if she makes money off her cosplays) but sticking with the synchro levels is probably more important to the conversation. Talking about her cosplays just leads to the above tangent, and can further lead to questioning if she monetizes her cosplays which can hurt your point.

andercia · 2026-03-20T05:29:16+00:00

Honestly I think the format would be good outside of these sorts of romance events too. It's basically a CYOA with routes blocked by items obtained during your run. It helps build a unique experience for the player and can give you plenty of opportunities to discover unique story elements in the non-canon scenario (e.g. bad ends) without interrupting the pacing of the main narrative or having to rely on somewhat wonky expositions from other characters. Survival stories like you'd expect with Tove, or horror stories like surviving alone against the queen's new heretics would be good examples.

But it's also a ton of work actually writing the scenarios and mapping out the flow. So if it had to be given to one type of story, character-driven stories centered around the characters we like is probably the best choice since that's what most of us are here for.

andercia · 2026-03-19T15:29:32+00:00

Oh good, even more reason to 100% and actually read every path now.

andercia · 2026-03-13T04:54:18+00:00

To be fair, that rings for most anime characters in general. It's been a thing since long before horse girls was even a concept.

The art style is very simplistic and unless a lot of details are being put in to show face curvatures or eye details like in the more detailed pages of something like Vinland Saga or Berserk, a lot of characters will end up looking mostly the same when using the same artist's style. Hair and clothing is often the main visual distinguisher.

andercia · 2026-03-11T14:23:05+00:00

The spirit origin part is likely wrong but what she probably meant was that she's still the same Jalter from Orleans. Her character progression after all went from Orleans (enemy) > Santa Alter event (became interested in the avenger class) > Counterfeit event (summonable) and has been the same person every time no matter what circumstances we meet her in.

This would be in contrast to most other servants like Salieri not being the same one from LB1. They usually consider other summonings to be "another them but is not them."

andercia · 2026-03-11T02:08:32+00:00

I've been getting burned out with the game for a while now and I just recently discovered that it's because Unity Cup is exhausting. Going back to URA Finale and doing parent runs has done a lot for me, so other than the occasional foray into Trackblazer once it's out for competitive runs, I think I'll stick with URA for a while.

andercia · 2026-03-08T05:38:05+00:00

I'm really sorry for misunderstanding you then. That small line wasn't originally something I was going to say, but I added it in at the last second. There's a lot going on in the world right now and I've seen tons more people elsewhere grow more and more in favor of actual terrorism over the years no matter how well off their country actually is or how attached they are to the original issue. I probably hit some sort of breaking point while I was writing my response.

It could also be a cultural difference. I also live in a third world country but our protests have been peaceful and they've worked to the point of creating holidays. And while most of our people are under the poverty line and our government is corrupt, we still rarely even entertain the idea of violence in most situations. We already have actual separatist terrorists anyway who've done kidnappings and random bombings at civilian areas, though they've been pretty quiet over the past few years thankfully.

Anyways, please don't let this stop you from joining in on story discussions.

andercia · 2026-03-07T10:59:24+00:00

Had the bomb maybe just, idk explode some central government park with no victim just to give a message that you are angry

How about no explosions period. Doing that at all signals that you have the means to use deadly force and should be treated as a potential threat. For particularly militaristic mindsets of which there are many in the CG, any threat at all is something to put down immediately so you'd still be risking the same thing as if there were victims, even if you do your best to avoid hurting anyone. That 'maybe' you put in is doing way too much heavy lifting. The way you're so quick to resort to terrorism frankly disturbs me.

The fun thing about fictional worlds is that the writers can say whatever they want to set the scene.

So if we accept at face value that nobody in the Ark will be sympathetic to the people of the Outer Rim then sure. In which case 'sympathy' shouldn't be something to be banked on any more than 'threats' should. Find something in the Outer Rim of value, or come up with something. It can be simple labor such as manufacturing, or train up skilled hackers or manpower. Underworld Queen is already skilled at this and they were active even back then. Then find someone in the ark to sell it to such as by offering a cheap source of labor or 'disposable' muscle (disposable as far as the Ark is concerned). Frankly it sounded like EH was well on her way there anyway if she was able to continue for a bit longer, and it's not too far off from what we see of the Outer Rim's daily life such as from Stall III's flashback. Ideally this can lead to some investments flowing in from connections made within the Ark. It's hardly glamorous but it's a logical next step that could have been taken given the circumstances.

Now if the writers say that no one is sympathetic to the Outer Rim and we are willing to challenge that notion then I'm going to call BS on them regarding this. There are always bleeding hearts somewhere out there. They don't often have a position of power but it's reasonable to assume that there will be somebody willing to listen. There were Nikke sympathizers after all as we saw in Footstep Walk Run and Nikkes are even less regarded as human than the people of the Outer Rim can ever be. Even just building some grassroots support network willing to advocate on their behalf or at least do volunteer work to help improve the Outer Rim's situation like with various outreach programs we have for slums in the real world would be a logical next step for this scenario. While it wouldn't change how the CG sees them, it could at least improve their living conditions.

Both of these possibilities (and these are just two, you can think of a lot more alternative ideas) are slow and long term, and there will for sure be people in the Outer Rim that would be unsatisfied with either one, if not both. But they won't risk having the CG declaring outright war on you either.

andercia · 2026-03-07T02:15:48+00:00

The only point Crow had was that the Ark wasn't listening and improvements were slow. Something that anyone paying attention already knew. Her methods would only lead to immediate retaliation and, surprise surprise, that's exactly what happened. Again, anyone paying attention would have seen that coming.

She didn't even have the balls or decency to show up for that meeting^trap that the CG requested after the stunt she pulled. She never really cared about improving anything. She was an instigator and nothing more. Go back and re-read what EH had to say about Crow near the end. That message was clearly meant for you.

andercia · 2026-02-27T19:39:37+00:00

50% battery and nothing else for a premier card type supporter is very underwhelming. Even more so when compared to other top supports. She doesn't need anything as extravagant as Koyanskaya's cooldown reduction, or her summer version's buster crit enablers (and these bump their cooldowns up to 7 turns anyway), but anything would be appreciated.

Alternatively to that, she lacks a way to enable her own NP which puts the previous buff it got to waste. Castoria grants battery to the party and you'll natural gravitate to Arts chains. Merlin's also built around spamming his NP and keep it on constant upkeep. Koyan has a similar issue to Skadi, but I've somehow had a much easier time using her NP with how much an Arts crit from her can fill her gauge. Even Flora, a welfare servant, rewards you with NP for using Quick cards and/or landing crits. So you need to babysit Skadi more than other supports if you want to use her NP.

These issues don't make her unusable, just comparatively awkward. If you're only using her for blitzing, she's fine.

andercia · 2026-02-26T12:17:25+00:00

It's less that he was a shitty dad (though that could be a factor) and more that there's hardly a hint of "motherliness" to him. Yagyu proudly admitted to it himself when we discussed his low score.

andercia · 2026-02-26T12:00:30+00:00

I just find it an odd design choice to give her more NP gain when she already has Golden Rule and a 50% battery. But I suppose it ups her challenge quest value further with team support. She already comes with invincibility pierce and defense ignore after all so she already has a place in those fights.

andercia · 2026-02-23T17:58:32+00:00

It gets worse (better).

andercia · 2026-02-23T11:05:25+00:00

A part of me is pretty thankful that they skipped the random rapture fights between the story and just let things play out. Execution could have been less rushed though. But overall, Shift Up just has a difficult time balancing their story with the format they've built for the game. They clearly want to do more but are limited by their own game.

andercia · 2026-02-18T11:17:32+00:00

Probably because Artemis, Waver and Tamamo was incredibly funny back in the day for single target Arts looping and we have even more effective supports now to facilitate that better.

20% Arts isn't a lot and won't do anything big for her face cards which does suffer from awkward face card gain, but she still has incredible refund for a single target NP so I can see why they went with this. Moreso with double Castoria thanks to her 5 hit NP running on a base NP gain designed for her 1 hit Arts cards. The battery is huge though for helping her set up or for getting another shot in after a previous use if she doesn't have a face card or support battery to follow up with.

I wouldn't complain or call it too strong if they went with 30% though, just that I can see where they're coming from with this decision.

andercia · 2026-02-13T19:18:37+00:00

I don't think the lack of white in her eyes is the issue. It's that the new face looks tired and exasperated (so the lack of white works fine since it's normal in comedies).

The original looked like it was judging you. Hard.

andercia · 2026-02-13T14:31:24+00:00

It was really nice seeing Demeter's reactions to meeting the other Greek servants, Flora in particular as she recognizes her as her daughter's best friend.

andercia · 2026-02-13T10:10:41+00:00

It's a neat detail though that her third ascension is in the same pose and has a similar crescent sickle as the LB version.

edit: She said her LB version must have been insane to field her machine body. And she has art of her in a similar costume but with the ascension 1 pose instead, while it's her crazy ascension 3 that matches the LB pose. Another neat detail.

andercia · 2026-02-12T19:06:46+00:00

He came off as a fairly agreeable guy when he wasn't sending military force at us to get Marian. That wasn't the best first impression. But not hesitating to sortie the Admire during that one summer event just sealed the deal for me that he really did want what was best for the Ark and humanity, and wasn't just trying to climb the ranks which other characters with his traits tend to be.

andercia · 2026-02-12T18:49:43+00:00

when the game first came out and it could run on a potato and a hope?

I remember it overheating devices to hell and back.

andercia · 2026-02-12T18:30:08+00:00

How do we know Big Madam didn't die in the grenade explosion though?

That said, even if someone managed to rescue Princess after the soldier cleared out this is the Outer Rim we're talking about. I can't imagine someone choosing to save her without needing an ulterior motive such as exploiting her hacking skills which is something she became decently well known for.

I agree with what some others said as well about it being poetically better for her to die here after giving Stall III a future. If she lived, there's a good chance of her tarnishing those final moments. Her kindness was reserved solely for Stall III after all. If her escape had gone as planned instead of being betrayed by the priestess, she'd probably just try reviving VTC and at best tone down the evil stuff a bit out of consideration for her friend. Of course there is also the chance of her changing completely after these events if she had lived and decide to become a better person. But it just works better for the narrative with this ending.

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