#another gacha game added to the list

[jacquiarno]

Parisa's unlockable outfit is stunning!

[clownjail]

oooooooo u wanna play path to nowhere so bad oooooooooooo 👁👁 come join us we have so many momm— hot and gorgeous women here who may or may not obliterate u 😁

SKSKSKSKSJSJ THIS IS SO FUNNY TO ME ANON 😭😭

you know I really do love hot and gorgeous woman who can step on me,, and path to nowhere is filled with gorgeous women who are more than happy to do so,,

oh fuck it,, you know what the promo got to me, I hope you’re happy anon 😭🫶🏼

[karmicrespite]

Just saw an ad and I know these have been a thing for a while and youtube ad for a mobile game rather than ad in a mobile game, but I just gotta share this:

there needs to be so much more legislation when it comes to advertising, especially mobile adverts which are 99% lies and often predatory.

[juvnvalen]

a yandere profile for dikke maybe? i think it would be interesting! :)

Fixiating on my silly gacha games again. Adding some of the new characters to my list :3 It's been a while since i've written, spoiler alert I haven't gotten better. This is a super ooc but we ball. (Not proof read) Pairing: Dikke x Gender Neutral S/O TW: Noncon, Yandere Themes, Kidnapping, physical abuse, NSFW, and unhealthy behavior.

♡What are they generally like? Lucid, aware? Obsessive? How do they behave? Dikke has never been the romantic type, nor been one to express herself gently. Once she's realized her feelings for you, which takes her time, Dikke is swift to take action. While she isn’t secretive about her interest in you, she never directly confesses to you, instead expecting you to pick up on her feelings and reciprocate. In Dikke’s mind her constant vying for your attention and her eagerness to grace your skin with her touch should be enough for you to pick up on her adoration for you.

♡How likely are they to kidnap their darling? How quickly will they do so? She’s eager to hide you away, Dikke has seen how cruel the world and the people in it can be. She won’t let you end up the victim of some criminal scum. Dikke’s time consuming work makes it hard to get time alone with you, though she won’t admit it, it’s a large factor into why she takes you. 

♡How difficult is it to escape from them? How do they keep you restrained? How do they deal with attempted escape? The chance of escaping Dikke is miniscule, she keeps you locked away and your limbs shackled. She won’t risk you getting away while she’s busy with work, and she’s learned not to be lenient with imprisonment. You may not be a criminal, but the way you’re locked away makes it feel like you’re being punished for something. Escape attempts are treated with violent harshness, she’ll let the wounds she inflicts scar. Dikke wants her punishments to be memorable, of course she hates marking your pretty skin up with bruises and scars, she needs to make sure the punishment has an impact. 

♡How easy are they to trick, deceive, or manipulate? Dikke can read you like a book, she sees through lies for a living. Any attempts at twisting the trust to Dikke’s face are swiftly met with punishment. She won’t fall for lies, but she can sometimes be swayed by pitiful whimpers and tears during punishments, of course she won’t forgo them all together but she might go a little easier on you. 

♡How lenient are they? What privileges can you have, and what will you be denied? Dikke? Lenient? What a joke. Dikke is strict, controlling, and unrelenting. If she decides you can’t have something, you won’t. No amount of pleading will get through to her, while it may persuade her to be a bit more gentle it won’t get you very far. Requests like access to the outside world, or space from her is harshly rejected, but she’s not against providing you with meaningless leasures like books or clothing you fancy.

♡What kind of rules do they have? What kind of punishment would they use? Her rules are relatively simple, and she keeps them easy to follow. You’re forbidden from any contact with the outside world, she says it’s for your own safety but you both know she has her own selfish reasons. Any affections she has to give are to be received with no rough play or backtalk, you can weep and whine as much as you’d like but anything more than that will be met with punishment. Dikke’s punishments are violent and cruel, she’ll beat you until she’s sure you won’t forget. Almost no method of punishment is off the table for her, it’s whatever gets her point across best. 

♡How do they deal with rivals, or perceived rivals? Will they get rid of them? Will they kill them themselves, or find another way? Rivals are easily and quickly done away with, she won’t stand for anyone showing interest in her darling. It’s simple work to make sure any individuals interested in you just so happen to end up accused of crime with Dikke as their judge. 

♡How easy is it to make them mad? What does their anger look like? Dikke’s wrath is easily evoked, but not outwardly shown. She’s good at keeping her cool in front of people, and this includes you. The closest she gets to outwardly showing her anger is her touches growing rougher, and her tone wavering on harshness. 

♡Do they see you as above them, beneath them, or equal to them? You may not be treated like it, but Dikke sees you as an equal. Of course her treatment may be harsh, but she deems it necessary to keep you safe and inline. 

♡How determined are they for you to love them? How hard will they try to make it happen? Or are they content just having you? She does yearn for her love to be reciprocated, and she hopes for the day when it will be, but until then she’s content on playing pretend. ♡!NSFW!♡

♡General perverseness: how sexual of a person are they? What’s their drive like? How touchy do they get? Do they have any reservations about sexuality? Dikke hasn’t considered sex much, she’d been far too consumed by her work to think about it until you. She knows how intimacy can help couples bond, and it’s never off the table for her. At first she may be hesitant to touch you, but as time goes on she gets more confident in her skinship. Dikke will be allowed her fill of hand holding and cuddling, whether you like it or not, and overtime it may progress to her desire more. 

♡How forceful are they? Do they care about your willingness? Your willingness is desired, but not necessary. She decides it to be a required experience for your bonding as a couple, she dislikes the whining in struggling but won’t be deterred by it. Any struggling is shut down with undeterred roughness, she has no issue with binding your limbs if it gets to be too much. Dikke knows this must be tough, but she is desperate for closeness to you. ♡What sort of kinks or fetishes do they have, or would they fill? She loves to hear you plead, it gives her a sense of superiority over you, whether it be in a sexual context or something mundane it affects her all the same.  ♡♡

[phanpacrackboba]

JJK Phantom Parade STARTING GUIDE - Timeline of JP release (Events, SSR Characters)

(self-made timeline, reblog and credit are appreciated, don't claim as yours)

Saving your Crystal-Cubes for your Favourite Character :

This timeline does not cover all banners (you can check the fandom wikia for all banners). The other characters (who you can see in the game tab) will all have their SSR released within a year except for the Headmasters. Several of them even had reruns already, such as Green!Gojo, Toji, Yellow!Nanami.

The Curse Users such as Hanami do not need Crystal-Cubes as you can trade for them in exchange for medals from Domain Investigation (the silver Phantom Medals). In JP server, Mahito was added in April and since then no one new joined the ranks, despite many players eagerly awaiting Sukuna. If you want to save your medals for now, you can, as it takes around 3 months of highest level Investigation (+ Event Rewards) to get the 1500 medals necessary to exchange for 1 copy of the character.

When will the highest-tier Characters drop :

Disclaimer : Character Tier-List are from the JP server, with manual battle and highly optimized teams in mind. They are tested against Enemies Event to measure up end-game damage. Do not assume that other Characters are not good enough to carry you thru the Story and Events, they are plenty sufficient for that.

Nonetheless, battles will become a lot easier if you get a hold of Yuta, Green!Gojo, Yellow!Nanami and the Headmasters as Support.

Going with that calendar in mind, you need to prioritize, because the game does not give you enough Crystal-Cubes to pull for 1 character per month, even less 2 of them in the same month.

Also, pulling the Limited-Edition Character on the Banner is not guaranteed. The only guaranteed way is to trade them for 250 gacha points.

At the moment, you can NOT gather gacha points from old banners and all your gacha points will be converted to Curse Energy Currency.

In the future, same as JP server, you will be able to use the orange Gacha Point Ticket to trade 20 gacha points into 10 reusable points for the future > it's a tradeable item to keep and reuse on other Banners, so only Gacha pulls done AFTER this feature is rolled-on will work.

If you have not yet spent the 16'000 Crystal-Cubes from the Game Launch, SAVE THEM NOW !

About Gacha Tickets & the Standard Banner :

You can NOT save Tickets and keep them for another banner, as most of them are only for the current Event. Check the little logo on them and spend them on the corresponding banner, or you will lose them.

The Tickets for the Standard Banner can be kept, so wait until you have 10 of them to pull together and get a guaranteed SR. On the Standard Banner, you can trade 200 gacha points for a SSR Ticket at the Shop.

About Characters Soul Shards / Duplicates :

You can trade for duplicates of Characters you already have at the Shop.

It starts by listing the Regular Banner SSR, then in JP server it extended to more regular story characters such as Green!Gojo and Yellow!Nanami for the 300-days anniversary. Since Soul Shards don't expire, you can save them until your preferred SSR is added to the Shop.

I recommend you do NOT use the universal Soul Gem (see item on the left of the screenshot) on characters who have their own nominative Soul Gems, because it's the only way to Awaken Limited-Edition Characters such as Yuta, Toji, the Headmasters, etc.

Hope it helps, good luck to all in getting the characters you want ~

[paradise-in-k4]

Bunbunmaru Lost Word Report - 11/8/24

Ayayayayayayaya! This is our special report for 3 and a half years after the Lost Word Incidents started up here, and it all culminates from a special Dev Letter livestream. Missed it? Here’s the YouTube link! Server maintenance for the update will take place on November 10th, 11 PM EST.

Say “Ayayaya!” For Hourai Hobbies!

(11/11 - 12/5)

Did you wanna see more of my beautiful face? Now you can with this Say “Ayayaya!” Epic Prayer for C3< Aya Shameimaru and a 5 Star Story Card, “Phantom Photo” to remember her by too! Rated A by the community for “AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA”

On a similar note, a second Epic Prayer for C3< Alice Margatroid titled Hourai Hobbies is also available with another matching 5 Star Story Card, “100th Black Market” based on that same game! Rated D by the community for “Dud Dolls Despite Her Best Effort” but at least she’s on the tier list.

As a special bonus, the Faded Divine Spirit Pure Prayer featuring L0g Kanako Yasaka is here too! This is the 2nd Pure Friend that’s being added to the game, so just a reminder. There Are No Dolls To Substitute. The only way to Limit Break her is with a duplicate, which adds up to pulling her 5 times to unlock and max out. This banner is only for God Crystals only, so the Yorigamis might be harping over your bad financial decisions here… just like the Pure Exchange Emas that are for sale in the shop in step-down bundles. The first one goes for $79.99 USD immediately. Yikes! These bundles stay until December 12th.

Doesn’t matter which way you roll, all three banners also have a chance to reveal either L0g Kanako Yasaka or Sanae Kochiya as a rerun! According to the community, they’re both rated SS on their community tier list, so with just a bit of Tewi’s luck and a lot of financial support, you could meet them yourself! The odds aren’t increased for them outside of their own banners, which means they’re just as likely to drop as an unfeatured character. All 3 new characters also have trial quests, where you can get to play with them as Guest Characters assumingly at max level.

Take it Icy!

Yukkuri Cirno is coming. I repeat, Yukkuri Cirno is coming! Meet her in the new story, “Take it Icy!” Find it in: Explore -> Yukkuri -> Yukkuri-Verse

AA Cirno will now appear in the Yukkuri Prayer, changing the drop rates for each Yukkuri character to 33.333… ongoing forever percent.

All three Yukkuri characters will have English voices added to their voiceover selections. Yep, that’s audible English! Talk about Easy!

A Yukkuri Campaign for the 3.5th Anniversary comes in full of tasks is incoming following maintenance through the end of the year (12/31). Clear them for Spirit Points and Yukkuri Prayer Tickets!

Lossy’s Title

You can now put a title on your profile for everyone else to see! These are basically achievements that you can win for doing stuff in the game after you meet the goals for it. Longtime players can win a number of titles retroactively because of stuff they already completed a while back, while other titles start counting after maintenance ends. The latter’s probably numbers.

Anniversary Campaigns

Super EXP Quest - Play and play until you drop! This quick and easy stage awards lots of EXP and has no daily limit! (- 12/5)

Login Bonus - 15 days full of bonuses including 45 Seal Crystals and 15 Fortune Dust! (11/12 - 12/31)

Daily Presents - Free stuff just for logging in, sent right to your mailbox!

Special Ritual Campaign - Tasks for an all-encompassing gacha banner containing a lot of characters, including Festival and Ultra Festival! (- 12/31)

Hifuu LostWord Clear Campaign - Finished the 3rd chapter of the Hifuu story? No? Clear stages in Universe L? to get materials and Lucky Mirrors! (- 12/31)

Everyone Wins! Campaign - Log on for 30 days between the end of maintenance and January 16, 2025 to qualify for a payout of 600 God Crystals and 50 Seal Crystals for FREE! You’ll also be qualified for a chance to win a Yukkuri Cushion! Crystal payouts will be distributed between (2/20/25 - 3/31/25)

Comeback Login Bonus - Players that haven’t logged in for 2 weeks or more can win special rewards including a 3.5th Anniversary COMEBACK Ultra Festival Exchange Ema (character details unknown, ends 12/31)

Anniversary Packs - See Nitori in the shop about those. (- 12/31)

Limited Time Costumes - Multiple limited-time costumes are returning for the anniversary, including two new ones for Kasen Ibaraki and Lily White! (- 12/31)

Other Stuff

New Lunar Capital Expo

Extra Stages are being added with 6 daily attempts. See it after finishing the main event storyline! (- 11/19)

VS: Divergent Spirits - 2 New Challengers (- 11/28)

L1 Minoriko Aki with a chance to win the 5 Star Story Card “Expo Photographer”

L1 Keiki Haniyasushin with the chance to win the 5 Star Story Card “The Model Maker”

Both can award the Luck Story Card “It’s Just Like I Heard”

3x drop rates in the main story, Hifuu, and Yukkuri stages (- 11/28)

Advanced Challenge Ongoing (- 11/19)

Event Pick Up Prayer for Son Biten, Enoko Mitsugashiram and Chiyari Tenkajin Ongoing (- 11/19)

Kourindou Slot Login Bonus and Aya Assistance Ongoing (- 11/30)

“Foxindigo” Home BGM Giveaway Ongoing (- 12/31) and a hint that this might be L80 Ran’s song

[sinful-lanterns]

I have downloaded the game but haven't opened it because i want to play it during free time. Now your blog makes me wanna start it now so i know some context of the characters 😭😭

Bcause i heard you can get free character if you play for whole 2 week straight? 🤔

Yep, that’s true! There is a daily list of things you need to do when you first start your account. If you manage to finish all of the things before the time limit is up (which is like 12 days I think) then you can get a free S-Class Sinner, which is NOX. NOX is a very useful sinner to have, as she makes the game so much easier once you get her, so I recommend logging in everyday once you activate your account! (Keep in mind you have to do this from day 1. Once you make an account, immediately begin working on the checklist so you have time)

Also, as for the characters and context of PTN, a lot of the more unique sinners have their stories locked behind limited events. But don’t worry, unlike Genshin, PTN will rerun limited events, so you get to play the events you’ve missed if you’re a later fan. (Ex. PTN recently rerunned the Dreamy Bubble event, so I got to play it for the first time as I missed it on its first run!)

Another thing is that all sinners who get released will also get reruns from time to time (with the exception of 2 limited, exclusive sinners). Whenever a new sinner is dropped, they have a banner where it increases your chances of getting them, and once that banner is up, the sinner(s) get added to the standard banner. Where you can roll for them anytime, but the chances of getting them are harder, as there’s so many S-Class sinners in the standard.

Hope this helps! PTN is one of my favorite gacha games ever, because it’s very easy to get the characters you roll for!

[p5x-theories]

Other information from the preview stream:

Joker will have another gacha banner, running at the same time as Chord's banner for Version 2.0

Kichijoji is also being added in Version 2.0; this will add new shops, new items, two new sets of gachapon figurines, and new part-time jobs for Wonder. They also mention "a very famous karaoke" place, a jazz bar where Chizuko often hangs out (presumably Jazz Jin), and the temple

At least one new side quest (possibly related to Kichijoji?) is coming as well

"Brand new commissioning gameplay from another world: The client is Miss Marthym, whom we are familiar with. As a businesswoman in another world, Marthym sometimes encounters some difficult difficulties in the process of doing business, such as insufficient goods, or business being affected by other more aggressive shadows, etc. The protagonist can complete these commissions in his spare time and obtain generous rewards."

It sounds like Version 2.1.3 (after the summer event) will be a gameplay version. Things listed after this information, which appear to be coming in Version 2.1.3?:

Puppet's Confidant (or at least, this is "about to be implemented"

"Challenge activities with new rules are online. You can manually select any number of entries to enter the battle, and customize the experience according to the actual training level."

"The Walkman function has been implemented, and various music collected in the game can be played in urban scenes."

"We are already developing the Monopoly card gameplay that has been highly requested by captains, and P5X will also welcome its own card player."

Kotone Montagne (Mont)'s Confidant is mentioned to still be in production, as well.

[infrared135-36]

This is something I honestly want to ask FGO fans if they’re still playing - what would it take (if anything) for you to stop playing the game? Like what would be your absolute line in the sand. Or will you keep playing until EoS? I’m not asking this to proselytize, I’m genuinely curious. These are some recent events: There’s the addition of Wandjina as a character you can gamble for in the gacha, which you can see people discussing here in the FGO tag. Right before this there was yet another little girl added with a highly sexualized outfit, chloe (summer). In the summer event they even took the time to draw a giant version of her stomping through town so the fans could look up her microbikini bottoms. She was preceded by Nero-Draco whose second ascension is a little girl in another tiny micro-bikini. The designers and animators made sure the first ascension dress had huge slits in it so you can see those tiny strips of fabric covering her body when she makes any type of movement. Her third, adult ascension is completely locked behind the completion of a limited time event. Anyone who plays that missed it and don’t have her will default see her on their friends list in the second ascension. This is also the one that is advertised in the gacha banners. These two characters join multiple other little girls in fetishwear the game had added over time, to say nothing of the many pandering craft essences as well.

Before Nero Draco, the game advertised its newest Ordeal Call chapter with an animated commercial that included a scene created with AI. In the chapter itself they gave us a whitewashed Rani.

Before AI Ordeal Call, there was Lostbelt 7. The 3 summonable servants on the “Latin American Lostbelt” were all white: Tezcatlipoca, Kukulkan and Tenochitlan. There were 2 NPCs with darker skin (tbh optics are not great labeling the darkest skinned npc a “Beast” when you think about it), and every single other NPC in the chapter was a dinosaur or an “Ocelomeh” - ape-men wearing jaguar masks that the player cannot understand.

For the anniversary, the game’s “QoL update” was a brand new way to give them money- another paid gacha banner. The “secret” update the NA server got was also another paid gacha banner.

Again these are just recent things I’ve seen people stop playing over, of course in the game’s older events there’s things like the emiya alter design & tamamocat line for him in seraph, agartha chapter, Boudicca interlude etc. This isn’t a callout or anything, the descriptions above are because I wanted to add context with what’s happened in the game recently. I’m just genuinely curious if you’re still playing after the type of content they’ve put out, is there anything FGO could do to legitimately make you stop?

[odysseys-blood]

This is literally the first time ever ill do one of these after being tagged in ig bc i always forgot! anyways got tagged by @taketheringtolohac for a "9 people you want to get to know better" game!

Last Song: Sway - A Trak & AJ Christou ft. Duckwrth

i luv duckwrth and this song is super wavy someone come dance to it with me

Favorite color: Idk what to call it like a wine purple? this thang and similar shades

i also rly like deep reds too. if u ever notice i accidentally tend to use mainly the red-blue portion of the color wheel in art and its not a concious decision either it just kinda happens and i try to steer away from it every once in a while and it never sticks.

Currently Watching: nothing rly!

it takes me forever to start watching things and get through them. The last series i finished I think were Witchblade and Link Click abt a month or so ago. I was also planning to watch yuri kuma sometime soon bc i remembered ppl posting about it but i never watched it while it was airing, as well as a rewatch of banana fish bc my brother brought it up bc he was using it as a topic for his paper recently????? i dont even know why he knows it but oh. well i guess. was also gonna watch mignon but the art style is getting me and my city hunter plans have been dashed by the sheer volume of episodes scaring me for now

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: i like them all!

not sure i rly prefer one over the others but i like to bake so maybe sweet. did you know my baking enemy is cookies idk what it is but if im making my own from scratch somehow they always turn out wrong. fav thing to bake is cinnamon rolls i just havent done any in a while bc they take so long (also bc i wanna do peach cobbler style cinnamon rolls which ive done before! but that takes extra long bc of the extra toppings you have to make)

Relationship Status: who want me

Current Obsession: ok prefacing this with these r not good games and im gonna censor the names so they dont show up in tags

i got into some eroge gacha named wh*t in hell is bad back in october and it has not let up since. i filled an entire sketchbook almost w/ doodles of my mc. also replayed through nu c*rnival recently bc they added voice overs for almost the entire game for the second anniversary (ive been playing since maybe 3 months after its release). everything is on the backburner to me rn besides these games and maybe the everyday maintenance of shinozaki bc im thinking abt finishing it bc i love it. anyways forget abt those last two and look at shinozaki

Last Thing You Searched: list of mythical weapons

this was not for anything important except that i rly wanna get a black cat and name it excalibur (nicknamed cali for short). however excalibur is exclusively for if i get the litte black kitty of my dreams but if i get a cat w/ another coat eventually i have to pick a different name so i was brainstorming.

i didnt think this was so long (///￣ ￣///)

anyways ill tag @meicheesecake @feluka @beepiiboop @nil-number @theunstablejester @luminousrabbittt @scamoosh @tilapiamafia and im forgetting names but if u wanna do one then tag ur it ☆〜（ゝ。∂ )

[koinotame]

nana should i play twst in order to be able to read all your fics yes or no (•_•)

help it's not available in europe so i haven't actually played it myself

but tbh for a game where the main premise is essentially bishounen high-school-aged disney villains the story is actually pretty decent. so if the rest of the premise sounds interesting to you and you don't mind adding another gacha game to your list, feel free to play it!!! tho from what i've heard the official eng translation made some. interesting choices. so if you're just interested in the story, you can find translations of the main story + the vignettes/side stories online. here's a link to a youtube translation up to & including book/episode/chapter 5! ← good starting place for the rest of the game, since it introduces almost all characters. though if you just want a general idea/basic context to more or less understand what's going on in my writing and don't care for the rest then just reading through their wiki pages should probably be fine

[jacquiarno]

I got lured in by one of those mobile game ads on Instagram due to the pretty art design. I know, I am weak, haha. Another gacha game on my list as well (Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail...) but an idle type, which I haven't played before, so it's kind of a different experience.

Things I like about it:

The art design, this is the type of look I like in my fantasy games. The characters are unique looking with a variety of different kinds instead of just super skinny women with massive melon breasts (they are there but their body proportions look more realistic). Even the npcs have a nice design to them, everything looks so whimsical.

There is sex appeal but it it isn't so in your face like other gacha games, and at least the clothing looks like clothing and isn't doing that sock boob look. The outfits are different from each other and don't have that clone as well *coughsgenshincoughs*.

We get to change the appearance of the main protagonist! Look at how good my character looks! This is what I crave from Hoyoverse games so much.

Combat seems straight forward and very easy so far, plus receiving upgrades while not playing is a nice change. Also that every character of the same class share their gear, ugh, what a life saver!

I originally played this on my mobile because I wasn't aware of it having a PC version, and although the graphics are gorgeous on PC, the mobile version does a great job at making the graphics not look bland while still performing fine.

There's not too much I dislike about the game, of course you hit those gacha walls with enemies being too strong and having to wait (that battle screenshot is a loss and from my last fight). Because it is an idle game, you do become stronger by waiting it out, so that means waiting a day or 2 to be able to progress.

The story isn't too bad, generic fantasy story that has a Disney feel to it, which I find okay, but the dialogue is what brings it down. I'm not sure if this game had voice directing, but some voices sound great while others sound flat and don't match the mood of the scene. You could always mute the voices, haha, but to people who like games being voiced, you will have a bit of a rough time with this one.

[pjsekaiupdates]

Proseka Update News 📝

We're back with Update News!

First, with the game's 3rd Anniversary coming up in a few months, the devs wanted players to focus more on the story aspect of the game--A new feature called "Story Recommend" will be added to the game in the future!

This feature will recommend you which stories to read next after you've done reading an Event or Main Story!

Another new feature is called "Favorite Stories". This will be shown in your Profile, where you'll be able to show off your favorite Event/Main Stories!

You can even add comments (to list off the story's good points, etc.) and mark whether your comments contain spoilers or not.

Next is the "Bookmark" feature! This feature lets you add a bookmark in any parts of stories, in case you wish to reread that part, or in case you wish to continue reading later!

(Apparently, Adachi-san jokingly said you could use this if you got called for dinner while reading lol)

Other story feature-related updates:

・Filter settings to list down Key Stories/Bookmarked stories ・Ascending/Descending option ・Make it easier to scroll down through the event banners ・You'll be able to read event story synopsis

In the next update, requirements to unlock Main Stories through Unit Ranks will be removed!

Meaning new players will be able to read through all the Unit Main Stories without having to level up their Unit Ranks!

If you have unread Event Stories, or those that you've skipped/fast-forwarded in the past, be sure to ACTUALLY read them because you'll earn 50 Crystals for every past event stories that you've COMPLETELY read without skipping/fast-forwarding the chapters!

For players who have already done so, you don't need to do it anymore as the rewards will be automatically be sent to you at a later date after the update. Remember: No skipping or fast-forwarding!

(Whether or not they'll add this for all events at once is unknown, but if they do, you should receive a total of around 4,400+ Crystals from all of them! That's like! 10 pulls!)

🌟 Operation: Welcome to Sekai!🌟

If you have friends who haven't played Project Sekai, you can invite them where both you and your friends will then be able to receive rewards!

[For players who invite]

1. Tell your friend(s) your "Invitation Code"! 2. Have your friend(s) input the code, and when your friend(s) cleared the missions, you will receive rewards!

Rewards per number of people you invite:

・1 Person: 4★ Gacha Ticket ・2~10 People: 50 Fragments of Feelings per person

[For new players]

1. Input the "Invitation Code" you got from your friend! 2. Read the Main Stories WITHOUT skipping or fast-forwarding the chapters!

Rewards:

・1 Main Story: 300 Fragments of Feelings ・2 Main Stories: 300 Crystals ・3 Main Stories: 4★ Gacha Ticket

[higumei-guidebook]

Higurashi Mei: Gacha Currency Overview

Since Higurashi Mei is a gacha game you are probably here to get pulling! This post is a quick compilation of all the ways you can collect Oni Stones and Gacha Tickets, which are the items you can exchange to pull new cards. I'll also briefly cover Fragments, another method of obtaining specific cards. (See the main Fragments post for more details).

Note: When creating your account, you'll get a free 10 Card pull. Some players like to re-roll; A process where you get your free pulls, transfer those cards to a new account and get more freebies, and repeat. I'll be adding a post on that soon, but for now you can find a video of the process here.

Here is a list of the various currencies you can exchange for cards.

Oni Stones: Rainbow orbs. A pull of ten is generally 3,000 Stones, and a single pull is 300.

Paid Oni Stones: Functionally the same as Oni Stones, but obtained through the real money shop. They are listed seperately on the gacha page, with Paid to the left and Free to the right. Singular pulls are discounted to 120 Stones when using paid.

Bronze Gacha Ticket: Can be exchanged for one pull.

Silver Gacha Ticket: Can be exchanged for 10 pulls.

Rainbow SSR Gacha Ticket: Exchanged for a pull of a guaranteed SSR card, the rarest/strongest variety.

Fragments: "Pieces" of a specific card. When you obtain 100 Fragments of a certain card, you can recieve that card. Note: These are different from the RED Fragments you may see. (See the full "Fragments" section of the guide for clarification.)

Gacha Points: Points accumulated through pulls that can then be exchanged for prizes, including Fragments of Cards.

Next, we'll look at all the ways to gather these items.

For the most part, I'll not be covering paid methods of gathering these, because that method is pretty self explanitory. However I will mention that every week there are special packs availible on the shop for ¥480 that give you some Oni Stones as well as other useful items. That's about $3.57USD, £2.87, or €2.39 at the time of writing this. The regular packs get a bit pricey, but these are a really good deal if you're in a pinch.

Gathering Oni Stones:

💮Log In Bonus: You'll be given a present for logging in each day, which can be often be Oni Stones. There's even different checklists for different special events. Note: The "Day" resets at 5am Japan Time.

💮Main Story Quests: Each story quest awards you 10 stones per achievement star, for a potential total of 30/quest if you get all three.

💮"Challenge" Missions: Each chapter has a second tab where you can find three bonus quests. These also have stars to gather. They also have the potential added bonus of awarding you Fragments of the card featured in the icon beside the quest.

💮Story Scenes: Every story scene concludes by awarding you 20 stones.

💮TIPS: Just like the visual novels, sometimes you'll unlock "TIPS" or bonus scenes after viewing a scene. You can view them in the Story tab for another 20 stones each.

💮Achievement Stars: Each chapter has 3 milestone goals for gathering stars on all the missions. You are awarded 10 stones for each milestone you reach, for another potential 30 per chapter.

💮Daily Gathering Quests: Like main quests these also award you 10 stones per star. The quest sets in the daily tab change day to day, but the stars are a one time thing.

💮Special Event Quests: Same deal, 10 per star.

💮Takano Battle Tower: About once a month for around a week, the tab under quests featuring Takano becomes availible. These quests award huge amounts of Oni Stones (and also blank notes, very useful!!).

💮Missions and Milestones: There is a list of "missions" to complete. Each award you with a different prize for completing them, some being Oni Stones! I recommend using a translator app like QooApp's "Servant" feature if you don't read enough japanese to understand what the missions are asking of you. (See the full page on the QooApp Translator for more details and help decoding the rough translations.)

Gathering Gacha Tickets

💮Log In Bonus Presents: Tickets are usually a login bonus or award for achievements.

💮Free Shop: There is a Silver Ticket for sale each month in the free shop. It costs Oni Stones to redeem.

💮Event Shop: Some special events allow you to exchange items for them in their event-specific shop.

Gathering Fragments

💮Challenge Missions: As pictured and mentioned above, each chapter of the story comes with three bonus missions. One of the potential drops for these missions will be a Fragment of the card shown.

💮Free Shop: Different types of coins and points can be exchanged in the free shop for Fragments, usually in sets of three. The Fragments availible may change when the shop updates. Note: Again, don't mistake the RED Fragments for the same thing as regular ones! (See the full "Fragments" section of the guide for clarification.)

Gathering Gacha Points

💮Each page of the Gacha is called a "Banner". Banners usually come in sets, each one in the set having the same general image or theme. For each set, you'll accumulate 1 point per card you pull. In the bottom left of the banner, you can tap the white button to redeem these-- The higher rewards are often large amounts of Fragments for a card on the banner! So if you spend a lot of stones trying for that one card, you can still end up earning it. Note: These points expire when the Banner event ends, so be sure to redeem them before the date above the white button!

General Tips for Gathering

💮Support Cards: As a beginner, the main story is your best friend. You can gather a lot of stones very quickly by running through the story, but you will eventually hit a wall where your party isn't strong enough to advance further. You might want to make use of Support Cards to help carry your team through! In a nutshell, you can borrow other player's Cards to help your team.

💮Healing Skills: Another way to advance the story when you've hit a skill wall is to make sure you have a healer (or multiple!) in your party. Look for a card that has a green capsule icon as one of their skills, and focus on leveling them and that skill up as much as you can. If you have a good enough healer, you can truck out difficult quests by chipping away, as long as you win before the time limit is up. Some cards also have healing Sub-Skills, so you can stack these effects for some really sturdy teams.

💮To make the most of your stones, definitely save up to do the larger x10 Card pulls. Event Banners will have present checklists, giving you a bonus each time you exchange for 10 cards. The first 10 are also usually 50% off, ten cards for 1,500 stones.

As always, additions and suggestions are very welcome! Share your tips for getting those pretty rares without breaking the bank. 🐳

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Songs I want in Project Sekai !!

Welp, you guys asked for it (not really) Here is the full (kinda) list of songs I really want in prosekai :)) I am so normal about this... there are 40 songs I have written down, along with the reasons and the vocals I want. Have fun reading this.

Virtual Singers

AaAaAaAAaAaAAa - Nashimoto Ui Miku Reason: I love this song, and the chart would be sooo cool. But I really don’t want anyone to cover it, it’d feel weird, even if N25 sang it.

SIU - Maretu Miku Reason: MARETU WHY AREN’T YOU IN PROSEKAI YET??? This song needs to be added, N25 could cover it but I prefer Miku.

Monster - Kira Gumi Reason: We need more Kira songs plspslspls,, this one’s his most viewed song?? I think?? Either way, emo gacha animation meme phase, but good nonetheless.

Triple Baka - Lamaze-P Miku and Teto Reason: Baka baka baka

Dancing Samurai - Kanimiso-P Gakupo  Reason: I love Gakupo, the chart would be funny, this entire thing would be for the laughs the sillies and the hahas.

Proof Geometric Construction Can Solve All Love Affairs - ManboP Gumi Reason: HOW IS THIS NOT IN PROSEKAI YET IT’S SO REAL??? Amazing song.

Leo/Need

Tokyo Teddy Bear - Neru Honami, Saki, and Rin Reason: This song is incredibly requested but HOW IS IT STILL NOT IN THE GAME YET?? Anyways, I chose the vocals bc Ichiho sang Lost One’s Weeping, so pls let Honasaki sing this one. It’d be cool. We’d see a more powerful side to their voices. Yay!! 

Brain Revolution Girl - Maretu Ichika, Saki, Honami, Shiho, and Miku Reason: MARETU WHY AREN’T YOU IN PROSEKAI YET??? pt 2. This song is good idk man.

Overdose - natori Ichika, Shiho, and Kaito Reason: Not vocaloid, but this song has been stuck in my head. Kaito cover plsss. Don’t stop it music darling!!! OOoooo.

Life Reset Button - Kemu Shiho, Ichika, and Rin Reason: MMmm good song slap, Ichiho w.

Oeoeo - Nashimoto Ui Saki, Ichika, and Miku Reason: I actually really like Nashimoto-P, there’s not 1m+ views for this but whatever. OeOeO. Ik it’s about being drunk but it’s good. Okay. Plus being sick is Saki hahahahah I’m so sorry.

Ensei Rock - Hirose Aru Ichika and Miku Reason: GOD THIS SLAPS it’s so emo but as you can tell I really like l/n singing dark songs. Another Ichika and Miku duet lolz. Anyways.

More More Jump!

DARLING - MARETU Minori, Airi, Shizuku, and Haruka Reason: MARETU WHY AREN’T YOU IN PROSEKAI YET??? pt 3. This song is so pop please do this one at least pjsk. They would all sing this one fore sure.

Nee Nee Nee - PinocchioP Haruka and Shizuku Reason: Cute! Sillies. We need more Shizuharu songs fr.

Age Age Again - Mitchie M Airi, Minori, and Miku Reason: AGE AGE AGE AGE AGAIN!! Did you know that Mitchie M basically owns MMJ. Yeah guys. How has this not been added yet huh. Airi and Minori would fit this song fr.

Dance of Corpses - Kikuo Minori, Haruka, and Luka Reason: I think the Minoharu contrast of voices would be cool. Also ik Miku originally sings it, but guys please let Luka sing. For me.

Electric Angel (GIGA arrange) - Yasuo, Giga, Orebanana-P Shizuku, Airi, Rin, and Len Reason: How is this song NOT in yet?? It’s so cute. Shizuairi and the Kagamine twins would be so cute, this song makes me happy.

Ohedo Julia Night - Michie M Minori and Miku Reason: Kanade and Ichika both had duets with Miku, so let the other protagonists have them too! This would fit WxS too, but because I’m silly why not. Just give Minori a duet with Miku only. Yup.

Vivid Bad Squad

Cinderella - Deco27 (Giga First Night Remix) Kohane and Miku Reason: This fits Kohane, and she should only sing it with Miku. Giga owns VBS just like Mitchie M owns MMJ. Real.

Getcha! - Giga and Kira Kohane and An Reason: THIS SONG OMFG AABLDHSD THIS SONG NEEDS TO BE ADDED. LIKE ASAP. OKAY THEY BOTH SANG IN ENGLISH THEY WOULD SLAY THIS. N O TELLING ME OTHERWISE.

KANKAN☆DANCIN - Kira and Kuraiinu Akito, An, Rin, and Len Reason: Akian so funny. Don’t listen to this often, but yeah. Okay.

Mobius - Hiiragi Kirai Kohane, Toya, and Kaito Reason: We need more Hiiragi Kirai songs. Yeah, that’s it.

On My Seventh Birthday - MASA Akito, Kohane, Len, and Rin Reason: IMAGINE BRUH. Hi Masa fans. This would be weird and cool. It begs for a 3dmv. Another song that could be WxS, but might as well. NOT putting The Fox’s Wedding on this list because goh dayum no.

Star Lily Dance Performance (Remix) - MASA Akito and Toya Reason: I FUCKING NEED THIS. I’M FR. THIS SONG IS AMAZING. Actually yk what. This is the ONLY SONG I need in pjsk, and I need it to be Akitoya. Post canceled, top 5 reasons why this song should be added and it must be Akitoya. Number one, it’d be both a good 2dmv and a 3dmv. Number two, they would eat the song up. Number three, this song is *claps*. Number four, only normal onibi series song. Number five, gay people. Bonus: Hai hai hai azore! I am so normal about this song (lie).

Wonderlands X Showtime

Hate It! Hate It! Huge Ego! - Takeaki Wada Tsukasa and Miku Reason: I love this song. SO glad they added Trash and Trash, it’s my fav from Kurage-P/Takeaki Wada. This song fits Tsukasa before the main story,, and no one should sing it but him! And Miku. 

Close and Open, Demons and the Dead - HACHI Emu, Tsukasa, Rui, Nene, and Miku Reason: OKAY, I AM NORMAL ABOUT THIS. We need the Hachi song. Yes, we. They would all sing it. It would be amazing. This is my second wanted, first being Star Lily Dance Performance. It'd be soo funny and kinda dark, they would eat the 3dmv like always. !!! Yeah.

Hole Dwelling - Kikuo Emu, Tsukasa, Rui, and Nene Reason: This song is so dark and weird, it’s so WxS. I don’t want a virtual singer to sing with them, this would just be them.

The Chattering Lack of Common Sense - Ghost Rui and Nene  Reason: They fit the roles, and they both speak english!!! Unlike Tsukasa and Emu lolz. I love Ghost’s songs.

I’m Only Just Getting Started - Nashimoto Ui Rui, Tsukasa, and Len Reason: The vibes this song gives are REAL!! So WxS, and I want another Ruikasa cover. I want Len to sing this too because it’d be cool. Soooo ffksfa;fnfn yeah. YEAH!!!

Queen - Kanaria Emu and Nene Reason: Almost everyone asks for this cover, and there’s a good damn reason. It's called King 2.0

Nightcord at 25:00

Abnormality Dancin’ Girl - Gurichy Mafuyu, Ena, and Meiko Reason: AHHH THIS SONG FITS THEM BOTH??? Ena suffers because she’ll never be perfect, and Mafuyu suffers because she has no CHOICE but to be perfect. I love Guchiry's songs a lot, and this is one of the most popular. Plus we already got one (1) Meiko cover. We can do this folks.

Lagtrain - inubakumori  Kanade, Ena, and Miku Reason: Good calm sad song. It’s quite popular. I like inubakumori.

Disappearance Addiction (MARETU remix) - Kairiki Bear Mizuki and Mafuyu Reason: I LOVE IT WHEN MIZUMAFU SINGS TOGETHER. THEY BOTH SOUND SO AMAZING. Venom was so real, now we must have DA, but the Maretu Remix is so yooo.

Therefore you and me - TadanoCo Mizuki and Ena Reason: It gives Charles vibes. That's it.

Yellow - Yoh Kamiyama Mafuyu, Kanade, and Miku Reason: Not a vocaloid song, but Kanamafu + Miku complaining about Mafuyu’s mom is so real. Oh, and they fit the voices.

The Snow White Princess Is - Noboru-P Kanade, Mafuyu, Ena, Mizuki, and Miku Reason: Yeah. They should all sing this! It’d be cool. So true.

Extra

Plus Boy - Giga, Reol Rui, Tsukasa, Akito, Toya, and Len Reason: I regret my life’s decisions, thanks a lot. They sang ifuudoudou, they can probably do this. Uh... Also let Tsukasa say fucking again for the third time now pls. That’d be so funny. I’m sorry. They shouldn’t sing this it’s so aaaaaaaaa but?? I thought it’d be funny to add.

My Time - Bo En Tsukasa, Kohane, and Minori Reason: OMORI REFERENCE???? Gasp. Tsukasa would NOT sing the english parts, but him saying oyasumi would be real!!

Confusion - Maretu Ichika, Kanade, and Miku Reason: My favorite Maretu song, it means a lot to me. It’s quite underrated, I never think it’ll be added. But I still love it.

I’m glad you’re evil too - PinocchioP Ichika, Minori, Kohane, Tsukasa, Kanade, and Miku Reason: This song… so… abfabdbfkasdfjaqadnlbladsd chefs kiss. This would make me break out into tears if they did a cover of this. They’re all glad Miku’s there, “evil too”. The reason they didn’t break? Miku, the Sekai, and their friends. And they’ll sing why to you about their life, their experiences that started because of a passion, and a little robot singer. Forever more.

...and, that's it! Thanks for reading all this way, I appreciate it :)

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Thoughts on Ben 10

I've seen that some people started doing reactions series of the original Ben 10 show on Youtube, and seeing their reactions got me kinda nostalgic and in the mood to talk about it a little since I honestly really, really like this show.

So I figured, why not just make a post about my feelings towards the franchise, characters, aliens, storylines, and overall just sharing what I liked about it?

Guess I should start with the obligatory "For those who never watched the show or know nothing about Ben 10..."

Basically, this series is about this one kid who has a watch that allows him to turn into a bunch of different aliens for a short period of time, and uses it to help people and fight bad guys while going on travels around the country with his grandpa and cousin.

At first he starts with only ten aliens (thus giving the show its name) but as time goes on he keeps adding more and more to his list trough different ways (thus completely invalidating the show's name). Sometimes he will unlock a new alien at random, sometimes he will meet someone that will use a code on the watch that will unlock it for him, and other times he will collect the DNA of other aliens he fights.

The aliens the kid turns into are the highlight of the show.

Each one has its own unique design, ability, voice, body behavior, way of moving and other little things that make all of them feel distinct and unique. (You can check out one of the official artist's DeviantArt page to see some of his comments on many of the designs and how hard they were to animate.)

What was cool about the show is that you never knew what alien Ben was going to use to save the day so it made the experience feel fresh and exciting as you kept wondering what was going to happen, kinda like when you play a gacha game and you don't know what you're gonna pull out.

It's like having an entire Justice League or Avengers team inside one person. You had all these great characters that you knew little to nothing about and you would just watch and wait to see what was cool about each of them, and the show always did the best it could to make each alien feel as cool as possible... Except for Ripjaws, it was clear that after a while they had no idea what to do with him.

Everyone had their favorite aliens who they hoped would get used in the episode, but it was also nice to see other aliens you might not think you would like also getting the spotlight and making you realize everyone can be useful if given the chance and used in the right way.

It promoted the idea of experimenting with new things and exploring untapped potential.

Aside from the alien roster, the show also had fun playing around with its premise. Usually Ben would do something that affected his normal human form and that would have some effect on his alien forms as well.

For example, one episode Ben got showered by the fountain of youth and turned into a kid, so all his aliens de-aged as well, other time he went inside a videogame so his aliens started to wear gaming clothes like Sora in Kingdom Hearts 2. Another episode had Ben get a cold so his fire alien turned into an ice alien, another had him be stuck for one alien form for the entire episode, another one had him break the watch and anytime he transformed it would randomly combine two aliens.

It felt like the writers were trying to do anything they could with the idea of a watch that turns you into different creatures, like they were trying to have fun with its own premise.

Like, you would see the episode where the aliens get younger or older and you would go "well, now I want to see what all of them younger or older look like!" and that would just make your imagination go crazy.

Same thing for the episode where they mix two aliens together, imagine the massive amount of fanart that this episode inspired!

There were also episodes where Ben would turn into Halloween creatures like a werewolf, a mummy, or a ghost, but each of them still had the "that's an alien not a monster" theme around them, so again you would go "What would a vampire alien look like? What would a demon alien look like? What would a dragon alien look like?"

It just kept building and building on top of different possibilities.

Ben 10 was so good because it made you feel rewarded for being a kid, rewarded for being curious, for having creativity, for enjoying weird and out-of-the-box ideas.

It rewarded you for wanting to have fun and wanting to play around with different ideas.

Even the villain. You could teel that the creators were trying to have fun with what they could come up for Ben to fight with.

They had a guy that was some sort of abomination that combined all of Ben's aliens, a dude with the head of a squid that could turn off Ben's powers with the touch of his finger, a mad scientist that always kept trying to steal the DNA from Ben's aliens and fusing it with animals, and even one of Ben's own aliens who managed to come to life and escape from the watch.

Watching this show was basically a game of "Okay, what idea are the writers gonna explore this time? What crazy thing will they do now?" Like, they later make it so his cousin can use magic spells, and they also later reveal his grandpa was a secret agent who happens to have a lot of high-tech, and they would mix all this stuff while fighting crime and saving the day.

It was just fun. This was just a really fun show.

But... It wasn't perfect...

The biggest problem of the series was that the sense of character development was non-existent.

This series had three main characters, Ben, his cousin, and his grandpa, and the relationship and chemistry between then is pretty much the same throughout the whole thing.

Ben is always immature and jumping into things without thinking, his cousin is always nagging and butting heads with him, and his grandpa always has a pretty good lesson to teach that everyone is just going to forget in the next episode.

There are so many times that I'm watching this and going "Ben should know better than this" because he keeps making the same mistakes over and over again and it gets really tiresome after a while.

Same thing with his cousin, they keep writing scenes where her and Ben just keep bickering and arguing for no reason and it just makes them feel so annoying to watch.

I never got why animated shows think watching people bickering is fun, to me it's just obnoxious. My least favorite part of any Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle show is when Raph and Leo just start fighting because the plot says so. I guess you could say it's realistic that teens would argue but... Just because it's realistic doesn't make it enjoyable.

There is also the fact that I never felt the show truly dived into why we should root for Ben or why he wants to be a hero.

For instance, there is a scene where Ben sees a city getting attacked and he just starts smiling as if he's glad he gets a chance to be the hero and fight bad guys.

I never felt Ben wanted to help people because he cared about people, honestly it felt like he just wanted to feel the joy of being a superhero. Which, again, he's a kid, so probably it's realistic, but realistic doesn't instantly means good.

For a show about a kid that could turn into ten heroes, they never really sold why Ben had what it takes to be a hero.

That's not to say they didn't had episodes about Ben being humble, noble, or heroic, they actually had a lot of them. They had episodes about him facing his fears to save his cousin, learning the value of teamwork, learning to put others' needs before his, learning to let go of personal desires for the greater good... But these things just never stacked on.

I never got a sense that Ben was growing from his experiences, it felt like he was just learning some random lesson to get through the episode, which is a shame because a lot of those were some really good lessons, and good lessons for kids no less, but they would just be forgotten by the time the next episode started because... I don't know, I guess they just liked Ben being very flawed and immature.

But honestly, even with this tiny problem, it's still a really good show. It has a lot of creative action, some really inventive designs, and like I said, It just does a great job promoting the idea of having fun.

I particularly love the scene where they show Ben inventing "diamond surfing", like, how can anyone look at that and not think this is gonna be a fun show?

So yeah, small lack of character development aside, I still recommend this series.

I also want to talk about the other pieces of media that also take place in this series' timeline.

"Protector of Earth" is a licensed game that came out around the Ps2/Ps3 era and I remember being honestly a lot of fun. It was a beat-em-up where you could play as five aliens while having access to some honestly really creative attack combos. It was also how I, a non-English speaker, finally found out why the alien "XLR8" was named like that.

"Secret of the Omnitrix" was a movie that had a premise of the watch accidentally going into self-destruct mode and had Ben travel through space in order to find the inventor of the watch so he could ask him to turn it off. Really good movie overall, just wish they had tried to be a tiny bit more creative with the action scenes. There are way too many "laser shooting" fights and the final battle is basically Ben getting an "I win" button. It was kinda anticlimactic tbh.

"Destroy all Aliens" is another movie but this time done in 3D. I actually liked this one a lot. They had Ben be stuck with some sort of randomizer feature so he keeps shifting from alien to alien every couple of minutes while fighting a guy that can teleport, so we get some really creative action scenes with all the aliens as they keep going from one part of the globe to the other.

There is also a live-action movie called "Race against time" that... Surely is a movie that exists...

Honestly, the most I can say about it is that I'll never understand why they didn't give the title "Race Against Time" to the movie about the watch going into self-destruct mode, kinda feels like a no-brainer to me.

Then we have the sequels, Alien Force and Ultimate Alien...

And I'm going to sincerely apologize to all of its fans right now but I really don't like either of these shows.

I don't want to talk about them too much since my feelings towards them are mostly negative and I don't want to dunk on what could possibly be someone's favorite show... But they just did so little for me.

Now, I'm not saying they're bad, just saying that I myself didn't like either of them very much... But while I don't like these shows, I do like certain things in them.

Alien Force is about Ben, who's now five years older, teaming up with his cousin again, as well as one of his former enemies now turned ally, and getting a new set of ten aliens.

The idea of ten new aliens seemed cool at first. Honestly, when I first heard about the show I thought the new aliens were like fusions of the old aliens, like one looked like a fusion of an ice alien and a ghost alien, one looked like a fusion of a cloning alien and a small alien, and another looked like a plant and fire alien. They looked really cool and they had some really creative designs.

The plant/fire one and the ghost/ice one actually became some personal favorites of mine. They had some really fun and creative powers.

The ice one in particular apparently got really popular with fans due to the idea of being a moth that rested its wings in the shape of a cloak, kinda like they used to do in Gargoyles, and because they gave it an interesting episode where it gives birth to a ton of babies... That, as far as I know, we never see again. 🤔

As for the others aliens... They were there... I'm sure they all have their fans, I'm just not one of them.

Ultimate Alien was basically more Alien Force, except now some of the aliens could "Mega Evolve."

And again, a lot of the evolved forms didn't really do much for me, except for the ultimate form of the clone alien, which legit felt both really cool and really creative. I just loved that design.

Aside from that though, not really much positive I can say about these two shows. It just wasn't for me.

And finally, there was Ben 10 Omniverse, by far the most ambitious Ben 10 show.

They ditched the whole evolution thing but Ben now had access to basically every alien he ever had in the entire franchise, as well as every villain he ever had before, and they were a lot more open about the idea of exploring other planets and seeing different alien worlds. The world-building (universe-building?) took a major focus in here.

They also kept trying to push this odd gimmick of going back to the original 10-year-old Ben.

Sometimes Ben would travel back in time, or flashback to when he was a kid, sometimes he would switch brains with his body from the past, sometimes he would shrink into a kid, and other times he would visit another dimension from when he was still young and see how he would have turned out if he had no grandpa.

Basically, the name of the game changed from "how can we explore the idea of a person with access to ten aliens in a creative way?" to "how can we tie back to the original show?"

It seemed like they were trying to go back to its original focus of exploring the potential of its premise, but this time going a lot more out-of-the-box than ever before.

Getting to see every single past alien again was really cool but many of the new aliens added kinda felt like filler.

There is like one or two that I really liked, like this one alien that's like a living planet with its own gravity, but most of them just looked lame to me.

But, again, every alien from the past is here, so even if had an episode where you don't like one or two of the aliens used, you would still have five or six of the classic ones to enjoy, which was always refreshing.

The writing still didn't have that big of a sense of progression but I liked this Ben a lot more than the old Ben from the first show. I actually think this series had the best character writing out of all of them. Everyone here has great chemistry and is a lot more charming than before.

Sometimes the tone was also hit-and-miss. It would often try too hard to be humorous and end up losing a sense of stakes, making you feel like you were watching a cartoon instead of an animated show, but still had plenty of things to like.

They tried a lot of new things (sometimes way too many), most of them I liked, some of them I didn't, but I still appreciate them taking the risk to try.

Ben 10 is overall a very interesting franchise and I'm always curious to see what they try to do next with it.