#(and that's why we're salty people dump on him so much com'on guys it's not like we have a lot of content to start with)

[icharchivist]

Why has Kniroun been such a bloodbath? I’ve admittedly also been participating in said bloodbath, but I don’t really understand why the event was so anticipated?

Ahah, the biggest reason is just that, Itaru is the most popular character in the game, hands down, and everyone wants a piece of him. Really. That’s it.

Into the Night, where Itaru was also the SSR, was also suuuper hard (tho i didn’t participate there, i was in Denial about how much i cared and just grabbed the Azuma SR lmao) but it’s to consider too that there are significantly more players now than there were when Into the Night was on.

Or the Cheer event. The Cheer event was the other bloodbath event (and rightfully so since the prizes were “get a token to chose a SSR/SR/R from a previous event from this list”) and i dug back my screenshots the other day and it’s not nearly as bad as kniroun is being. Really. So i blame 100% the fact that there are far more players now. probably because of the anime? man the game used to be niche lmao.

on top of that, it’s a play event. play events are even bigger events in general because they are the ones with major character’s arc, either backstory exposition or development. Itaru is popular but he’s also extremely popular because a lot of things about him are relatable, so the fact the plot is as it is makes people more engaged to rank up. 

And, because of the fact we have people who played the JPN server/read the stories, we have vague ideas of some plotlines (or downright know them) which gives us more reasons to push for them. + we have the song, people love the song, so people want to see it again.

And because of this anticipation and knowing Itaru was coming, i know a looooot of people took it very easy on previous events to be ready to grind for kniroun, so a lot of people have more energy or diamonds for the bloodbath in general than others previous seasonal events.

(oh right and the fact Winter isn’t nearly as popular helps too because people don’t rank up or invest in their events nearly as much, and they’re before spring in general. Hell just now since Valentine’s day we had a lot of Winter SSR rank up - Hisoka’s valentine, Tsumugi’s White Days, Tasuku’s Camp Leader, Homare’s wedding... springled with either not that popular in En server (Masumi’s camp card) or Summer cards people are chill about (Muku’s camp card and Tenma’s wedding SSR). Summer is super popular but i think people like the group dynamic more than they’re shooting for one character in particular when an event is on, and if an individual, i wouldn’t put Muku or Tenma on top of the popular list.)(i mean i can and wish to be wrong because they are on my top and i worked hard for them but well. They’re not at Misumi’s level that’s for certain.)

On that note, i’d bet that it’d be necessary to stay on the look out when Juza’s lead play will come along. Juza has systematically broken the servers so far and i think he’s one of the chara with the biggest popularity in the EN server. 

(Misumi would have been one of my guess too but so far his events have gone smoothly. he has a very dedicated fanbase but i don’t think they amount the number Itaru has. Then again, there’s been a looot more players since his events. I’m not really taking his lead play into account bc of that (it was easy to rank up for, but it was sooo early on) but more his Christmas SSR since it was more recent, but yeah)

Autumn in general has more frenzie and they’re super competitive (really fitting for the troupe itself ahah) so there IS that to take into account, but they’ve been consistant about it. 

As far as Spring goes, even if there is a dedicated fanbase for some of those characters like Tsuzuru, people have been more lowkey about the full troupe. Itaru is the one with the biggest fanbase out of there even from people who prefers other troupes. If some player dedicated themselves to some troupes in particular (i used to dedicate myself to Summer and Winter and now i’m just suffering) they still make an exception for Itaru. 

so yeah long post but it’s really that popularity is a super important element to take into account when it comes to a3. I know personally i avoided some events (i legit didn’t even work for Clockwork after unlocking the story and i’m still mad about that lmao but i had a burn out and seeing people rank up made me go no p e) because i knew it’d be too much work just popularitywise. The amount of new player makes it all more bloodbath-y

If you don’t want the popularity answer, i’d say it’s also just that people like the plot of the play itself. It’s pretty neat and i know there was anticipation for some events also for the plot of their plays (though not at the same extend, re: Clockwork Heart & Nocturnality). So there’s that. 

But yeah for a gacha with those mechanisms you want to be on the lookout for popularity, and personally i tend to pay attention to see which characters are popular or not. So i have a lot of thoughts about how the popularity works in the fandom lmao 

take care and try to go easy on yourself for the ranking. Last day!