#<-- i am usually not wholly unironic so i think i will use this tag when i am serious

[sicdicitnequamdeus]

anyway, i think it's wild to immediately start whining the minute i make a blog but i don't have any friends in this fandom anymore and i think i forgot how to get into most of my accounts everywhere, so, ahem. we missing magia record tonight.

it's been about a year since i lost my third and final account when my computer caught on fire and even with exedra on the horizon i'm just kinda.... bummed. i miss it. it's been a staple of my daily routine since day 1 of NA five and a half fucking years ago now and i still can't unlearn "oh shit it's 11 AM, better go check out server reset". i miss coming in to see momoko talking about the DVD she may or may not have lended rena and lazily sweeping through my five mirrors battles with my maxed mokyu. i miss jumping on at 3 AM every other night praying to god the announcement won't be the promised peak alt i've been hoping for because i keep spending all my rolls on stupid shit and ikumi won't leave me the hell alone. and i miss the time before the second half of the anime existed because holy shimmy and a shake was it ass.

it's made me really (REALLY) happy to see the kamihama girls all over exedra alongside the quintet so far-- i'm glad they're not going to pretend magia record never happened. but man it's just not going to be the same.

having played a lot of gacha games over the span of a decade or so, magia record always struck me as different because it never felt like it only existed to be a cashgrab. like yeah, it totally was a cashgrab at the end of the day, but it felt to me like there was so much heart in it despite that and i can only hope exedra can replicate that.