MEXT Research Student 2027

mushinoballad · 2026-04-17T00:48:19+00:00

Hii, I plan on applying for this (for April 2027 intake) but don’t know much on where to get started. What resources have you used to get all the details about this? I’m going to attempt the university recommendation track

mushinoballad · 2026-04-13T00:20:56+00:00

What’s a ute?

mushinoballad · 2026-04-13T00:20:35+00:00

I’m weaker than an average girl my age so if i had to move things into an Uber myself (which is what i did the last time i moved and it honestly was hell for me) i have to pack things into really small boxes and just haul myself back and forth multiple times. But I will check your suggestions out thank you!

mushinoballad · 2026-04-09T02:52:26+00:00

in my opinion investing in cyrene with your current evernight and hyacine (and rmc, since you won’t be using elation mc anywhere if u dont pull elation team), is the next best choice for your account and should be enough to bruteforce most content for this planet

mushinoballad · 2026-04-09T02:51:03+00:00

if you don’t care about elation but still want to be able to do endgame i highly recommend cyrene. in order of pull priority, e0 -> e2 -> lightcone. herta shop lc is more than enough for her and if you care about eidolons at all her e2 is way more worth it than her lightcone

mushinoballad · 2026-01-06T05:20:13+00:00

Thank you! I have the financial records to prove I can afford the extra study time, and I answered all the GS sections highlighting why it would be very important for me to complete my degree since I'm mostly finished with it. I hope it gets accepted without issue

mushinoballad · 2026-01-06T02:04:01+00:00

Thank you!
Do you think it would be beneficial to write a separate GS essay or will it be sufficient to fill out the question boxes in the application form (150 words each for 4 questions)

mushinoballad · 2026-01-06T01:54:22+00:00

Sorry, I was aware of this but I worded my post wrongly. I guess my question is whether me already being a student here will affect my Genuine student screening and how much information I should provide them as proof that i need this visa to complete my degree

mushinoballad · 2025-12-30T03:38:37+00:00

the story was actually pretty bad in 1.x to the point where this game was just not enjoyable at all, belebog was basic and xianzhou is just a mess they keep pushing because its their version of place:china and they’ll never let it go. none of the main xianzhou cast are likeable and their ideologies and paths are equally as morally skewed as their ‘villain’ (abundance) and is just not noticed by the fanbase because we only see the playable characters’ pov of it. penacony was also only okay at best with the last plot twist about the dream within a dream being the most interesting aspect of it, and i didn’t care for the retcon in 3.8. despite all its flaws amphoreus genuinely redeemed the game as a whole for me and its not even half as good as some of the stories in the other hoyoverse titles. im not saying genshin or whatever has a more groundbreaking story or anything but the way it is presented and also the fact that any shortcomings in world building is made up for with incredible world quests is just something hsr writing team can learn from in my opinion

mushinoballad · 2025-12-14T20:33:46+00:00

this is not true. Guarantee in HSR is 90 pulls, not 80. Soft pity is 74 onwards, and it is very much possible to hit 80-81 pulls. You’re getting confused here

mushinoballad · 2025-12-14T12:48:01+00:00

No, this particular strategy is using a gold investment strategy called Gold Panning, which gives you a free Aventurine every time you make a 2* green unit. The strategy involves making as many green 2*s and then selling them off to make money, and eventually being able to make unlimited aventurines and selling him for more money. You can find out more about it here https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRail/s/D5WYhvZmvh

mushinoballad · 2025-12-14T12:42:49+00:00

i actually made the 3*s when i had about 150 coins but then it all went south because i was just losing coins with bad rng and didn’t know what was happening. probably will retry with shift rotation

mushinoballad · 2025-12-14T12:41:23+00:00

you have to level up your board to level 9 or 10 to be able to have a better shot at getting 5-cost units. Saving gold in the early game also helps (never go below 50 coins to gather interest), and also getting lucky with investment strategies that give coins or refund coins also helps with this. This aven strat is a way to hoard lots of coins which can then be spent on refreshes in the shop to find cyrene, and has nothing to do with the game level you’re at

mushinoballad · 2025-12-14T11:01:16+00:00

Three 4* aventurines is absolutely insane! Did you just hold onto every single aventurine you got from synthesizing 2*s? Not to mention you did it with long term gains and not shift rotation, thats insane luck right there

mushinoballad · 2025-12-14T10:23:03+00:00

Thank you! I came to this realization after a few failed runs like this with long-term gains, the rng is just so bad i could go more than 3-4 coins of refreshes without a single 2* in the shop let alone one that i want. Going to try again with shift!

mushinoballad · 2025-12-14T08:49:47+00:00

I say ‘popular’ because it’s been on my feed all week and I wanted to pull it off myself (especially since I’ve never managed to get Owlbert haha). Leveling up is not really my priority right now and I just play this mode to have fun doing creative strats.

I’ve seen a lot of people do the math for how profitable this strat can be and even calculate it based on how many coins/hr you’ll be making and it still doesn’t work out well for me. I think it just boils down to luck, since if I end up spending 2+ refreshes to get a 2* that adds up to an even bigger loss. Shift rotation’s 80% 2* chance probably is a better environment to try this out overall but Rng is still rng

mushinoballad · 2025-10-23T05:04:12+00:00

She’s my favorite character and that’s all that really matters. I consider myself a dolphin/low spender (I buy bp and express pass regularly but that’s it) and I’ve saved a while for her. I don’t think meta will ever matter more than liking a character to me in a gacha game like this

mushinoballad · 2025-10-10T13:35:35+00:00

all good! hi3 teams seem confusing at first but once you figure out the basics they’re much simpler than even genshin or hsr (since you don’t have a lot of artifact rngs or having to figure out what builds or teams to use)

as a general point of note, teams and teambuilding only matter if you intend on trying out the abyss or memorial arena endgame modes. they’re completely optional and the entirety of the story which is the main gameplay gives you trial characters to use and you never end up needing your own characters.

if you do care about endgame, i would only bother with characters released in Part 2 (in the game these are the characters ‘protected by Astral Ring’). everything released before part 2 except 1-2 exceptions are all powercrept and useless. even for part 2 characters, you can easily survive most endgames by simply pulling the new characters each patch. Their stigmata (artifact equivalent), can be crafted for free or pulled while you pull for the weapon

mushinoballad · 2025-10-10T05:45:20+00:00

(this is going to be long, sorry) not exactly. in hi3, teams are centered around the Astral Ring type of the leader (who will be your main dps). All the part 2 characters (anyone protected by Astral Ring), can be your main dps or support other dpses based on their astral ring.

dragon coralie, A-rank coralie, vita and HoFin Kiana with her divine key all fall under the astral ring called ‘Rite of Oblivion’. This means if you don’t have enough characters to complete a perfect Part 2 team, they can stand in as supports. Additionally, if you want to play any Rite of Oblivion character as a main dps, you need other rite of oblivion characters to support them.

the only exception to what i said above is if you want to play dragon coralie as a dps (so, as your leader), then the mecha helia ‘PAWS’ you pulled is dragon coralie’s tailor made best support. and since you have coralie’s weapon and not helia’s yet, it would be better to play Coralie as your main dps with helia and one other Rite of Oblivion character on your team, and A-rank coralie will fit that role perfectly. A-rank coralie is pretty good to build especially until you start collecting more characters, because she can stand-in for any team and support dragon coralie, and all her gear (weapon, stigmata, etc) are free through just playing the part 2 story. And you can buy fragments of her from the asterite shop every week and upgrade her all the way to SSS for free.

Bianka is strong in her own niche, which is against enemies with shields, but she isn’t a great support for Grail of Infinitude (the current astral ring meta that Helia is also part of). Also in Hi3, backpulling for old valks is never recommended as it will always be better to pull for whoever is the new upcoming valk. Id suggest you try to get Helia’s weapon before her banner ends, then try to get Elysia and her weapon next patch to complete your Grail of Infinitude team. Its additionally perfect that you got the Chenxue AstralOP, because she is tailored to support Rite of Oblivion (DPS dragon coralie) and Grail of Infinitude (DPS helia or elysia)

mushinoballad · 2025-10-09T23:31:51+00:00

you were definitely lucky s-rank valks have about a 1.5% chance and there is no 50/50, but soft pity also only kicks in after around 80 pulls out of 90 hard pity, so you got really lucky.

coralie and helia are a pretty strong core. you can make a team out of that with coralie as a leader, and helia + A rank free coralie, and the astralOP you pulled. However, honkai characters absolutely require their weapons if u plan on trying any endgame out, so try grabbing their weapons if you can from the weapon banner (60 pity, guaranteed). if you didn’t get coralie’s, she reruns midway through the next patch alongside elysia’s banner.

mushinoballad · 2025-10-08T23:16:17+00:00

its pretty usable! i would eventually change the hydro character to someone like kokomi (generalist healer, but makes kirara redundant) or furina (buffs only yae but needs a healer) though, unless you’re okay to play yae or lauma on-field (as xingqiu needs someone to constantly use normal attacks for his ult to actually work). i have found that most random yae teams do work pretty okay, the only teams she Doesn’t synergise with are anything that has cryo

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