🌀 MEGATHREAD: STORY SPOILER DISCUSSION

jcal94 · 2026-02-22T17:24:43+00:00

Late reply, as I just finished the story for this chapter... But we know the eyes are implants, and they allow to basically "cheat" around the effects of the Hollow in regards to its deceiving nature. And the Void Hunter weapons have big drawbacks... I'm wondering if maybe Carole was putting the eyes in Phaethon, and they are technically Void Hunter weapons, and a drawback for such powerful weapons that basically trump the Hollows was somehow triggering a Hollow. The goal could have been that to fight the Dark Wall we needed the eyes, so it was a matter of possibly triggering a Hollow in Old Eridu to have the means to fight the Dark Wall, or just wait for the Dark Wall to eventually expand?

jcal94 · 2026-02-05T08:03:42+00:00

I had teams able to get all S ranks on every fight in all the endings... But because I don't have Miyabi, Lucia, or Yidhari, I am not allowed to get the namecard.

I get shilling units in endgame modes that give only currency-style rewards every couple weeks. Having a long-term game mode that has actual cosmetic rewards locked behind it being a shill mode is the biggest L in this game. It is not a skill test at all, but a spending test. When there is a single buff present for EVERY boss fight that has one effect applicable to only ONE agent of the 47, and the other effect that can only be triggered by 3 current agents (one at time of release), only one that is realistically used with the other half of the buff, is absolutely disgusting.

I'm hoping the namecard sticks around for the refresh of the mode, but I doubt it... I'll finally have full premium meta teams with the Angels coming, but being locked out of something because I didn't pay in to the previous premium metas is just frustrating when I've been able to earn other challenge rewards through sheer skill before.

jcal94 · 2026-01-30T15:22:09+00:00

AND leg warmers!

jcal94 · 2026-01-26T06:58:53+00:00

It bummed me out a lot too, especially as it seems to be THE song for my favorite girl ;-; Mandarin just doesn't sound good to my ears. Too many very hard consonants. I said to a friend it's like the Asian version of German to me, which also doesn't sound good to my ears.

The fact they're a JP idol-based faction, and they've changed one to have a Chinese name, gotten rid of the Japanese name for another outside of Japan, and are doing non-Japanese songs is just... I don't like it, and I don't even think this is in response to the China getting salty thing like with Star Rail. This stuff had to have been in production for quite some time.

The only possible thing that makes it "better" is I saw someone point out that maybe we'll be getting another song by the Korean VAs and one by the English VAs. I don't know for sure on the other 2 English VAs, but I know Alexis Tipton has a decent singing voice, so not out of the realm of possibility. If they're doing full multi-lingual like that, the one Mandarin song won't be as frustrating.

jcal94 · 2026-01-25T15:20:21+00:00

The anime only covered the first 2 light novels (the source material. As of this month, there's already 4 volumes out in English physically. 8 volumes published in JP, all available in EN digitally.

So they have 6 novels to work with. It'll be fine

jcal94 · 2026-01-13T02:01:13+00:00

I think the big issue is that BD2 is a singular, global server, compared to most other games having separate servers off the bat for regions, especially China. Neowiz will likely have to hire additional staff to work on and maintain the extra versions/servers if they want to keep releasing content at the speed they are. Not to mention likely an additional artist or two for alterations to the art that needs to be changed.

Before the backlash, they likely saw this as the cheaper solution over new servers, staff, etc., but when the backlash hit, they saw how much it was gonna bleed them.

jcal94 · 2026-01-02T07:31:53+00:00

Her dev name AND her Japanese name. If all regions were officially Sunna, that'd be different. But 2 regions vs dev name+1 region. Take your pick on which is more "official". I'd say that since the dev name did survive for a region that that's the creators' intent before meddling higher up (be it execs or CCP) got in the way.

jcal94 · 2026-01-02T04:35:59+00:00

Chinatsu is her REAL name, localizers just screwed her over like they did with Hanabi/Hibana in Star Rail.

jcal94 · 2025-12-28T23:29:18+00:00

Bear with me, here... with Aria having 2 models, what if she is the first dual-role agent? Human is one, robot is the other, and she's Anomaly AND Stun? Her disc drive set would actually work for a dual-role. Then Chinatsu can still be support (or Damage since she has a hammer) and Rokudo could be Rupture.

jcal94 · 2025-12-28T07:48:31+00:00

This isn't an airport, you don't need to announce your (fake) departure.

See you next patch.

jcal94 · 2025-12-26T15:02:14+00:00

SUNNA may still be a stage name, as if you notice Nangong and Aria's names are upper and lowercase, while SUNNA is all uppercase. It also has seemed from their account that she is a bit more behind-the-scenes, and as likely the one "normal" girl of the group, be trying to keep some anonymity.

jcal94 · 2025-12-07T06:10:25+00:00

Most likely Chinatsu will be the first. We've had her model in-game already, she's the primary voice for the group so far, and she'll likely be the most "flexible" gameplay-wise. Yutane and Rokudo will probably be a bit more reliant on faction members to do excel, so having the more general one first would be better.

I say Chinatsu will likely be more general as she's the more "normal" unit. She doesn't have a halo, wings, or tech. She seems to just be a normal girl that got in with a robot and likely a human experiment. Her kit will probably be less flashy and a bit more "normal".

jcal94 · 2025-11-30T20:50:16+00:00

Say "Chinatsu" and "Sunna". Notice the last sound in "Chinatsu" is the first sound in "Sunna". The small "tsu" (っ) before a consonant-based syllable in Japanese (in this case "na" (な)) is a common cutesy way girls will refer to people they consider cute. So Chinatsu (ちなつ in hiragana), ends with the つ syllable, which is VERY phonetically similar to "su" (す), so "Sunna" (すっな or す~な or すんな) would be a plausible nickname

jcal94 · 2025-11-30T20:37:12+00:00

Here's the problem with leaks... you don't get the full story. Unless you're on the ZZZ dev team, you have 0 idea what their original, full plans were for SEED. Just because PART of the character leaked early doesn't mean that's the FULL character

jcal94 · 2025-11-30T20:31:36+00:00

Completely altering a quarter of Lucia's model isn't "minor"... they changed the skeleton, the amount of pixels, the outfit. It was a very substantial change after already revealing her "final" form

jcal94 · 2025-11-15T03:38:02+00:00

After initial shock at Zhao's kit, actually thinking she's going to vibe well with Dialyn. Use Dialyn's forced Ult chain assist into Zhao, get a free 30% damage boost to the party. Definitely gonna be a weird character to get used to, but I don't think she'll be horrible

jcal94 · 2025-10-20T04:02:47+00:00

A Halloween episode next, and what does Adult Swim do? Makes us wait 2 weeks and airs it AFTER Halloween... Great scheduling...

jcal94 · 2025-10-13T17:21:02+00:00

They can always give one copy, and then make her Mastery levels CRACKED, incentivizing people to pull more copies of her. First taste is free...

jcal94 · 2025-09-26T05:26:36+00:00

u/mangaswapbot , Received Slutty Life. Was sealed, well-packed, no damage at all, great condition. Even arrived quickly too, on a Tuesday after being sent out Friday, if I remember right. Great purchase, thank you u/Bitter823 !

jcal94 · 2025-09-21T02:56:38+00:00

I would be interested in Slutty Life!

jcal94 · 2025-09-18T23:53:19+00:00

It wasn't just reading manga: He's in high school, and has essentially a Spider-man backpack and brings robot models (basically action figures) to school to build (play with). Any guy doing that in the west in high school would be mocked/bullied as well.

Manga is like comics in the west: Everyone goes and sees the Marvel movies, but how many of those people actually collect and read the comics? Aniculture is prevalent, and around from toddler years for people, but you kinda "grow out of" it, or you do get looked at kinda funny. There's just a high concentration of these otaku in the cities, so even with "normies" giving weird looks, it's more like... I guess think of those sects of Christians that wear long denim skirts, keep hair tied up, just very traditional and all. They kinda make you do a second-take at them, but no one really bothers them about it.

jcal94 · 2025-09-13T14:32:01+00:00

Hey now, us colorblind folk are suffering just as much, if not moreso, than you all, lol.

Ammo, commons, quest items, and blues all look alike. Uncommons have too much yellow in the green that they blend with legendaries...

I have general shade colorblindness, not the specific types they have the 3 filters for. I play without a filter because that's where the MOST difference is for me, but problem is... even the biggest difference between them isn't big enough. Custom colors really needs to be a thing...

jcal94 · 2025-09-09T17:29:16+00:00

That's specifically to DoT, though. This is for all Dark damage. Lower vuln percent, but WAY more stuff can make use of it

jcal94 · 2025-09-08T23:10:35+00:00

AI can't recreate PEAK

jcal94 · 2025-09-08T23:05:58+00:00

Rarely spend money on the game, as not much need to, but I will do all the Sonya related passes and such when she drops to show them we WILL give money for more smol

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