#kirin r yato

[burstfoot]

[gaemms-chamois]

Arknights Blorbissimo Series

#271 – #280

[sleepyinclusion]

Didn't deploy + too broken + K + ratio + optimized out + Kafka's cuter

[sargehev]

some sketch commissions I did!

[exoticalmonde]

Around getting my new laptop and studying for a final exam for this semester, I haven't had as much time to go through the Monster Hunter event ://

Today's update is more about how I got 200K LMD and managed to spend it all almost in one go.

First off, though, we will see this scene.... 15 bajillion times and it will always be so hauntingly beautiful to me. The entire setup of leaves, water and moon are so peaceful. If only someone wasn't struggling to exist right in the corner.

My guy the forest will BREAK YOUR knees.

I ALSO GOT THE YUKIBARE SKIN FOR SUZURAN I DONT EVEN HAVE HER BUT THIS IS THE SECOND SKIN I GOT FOR HER IN COPES THAT SHE'LLBE HOME EVENTUALLY.

Anyways, I got these three scruncles and a lot of headache over the idea that if I don't farm the stages hard enough this RNG is going to kick my butt. All I have been getting are Module stuff. Please cease. Be kind to me, I've had a rough time. I don't trust this thing called 'fate' anymore.

Also got Qanipalaat after saving up red credits for 2 months (Farming them is a scam and a loss of time and sanity unless you need catalysts and I still think you can find them better elsewhere).

I LOVE HIM HE IS SO ADORABLE AND THAT IS SO ME-CENTRID I'D BE RAVING MAD ABOUT READING TO MY OPERSTORS I NEED ACTUAL BOOK BUDDIES HELLO PLEASE AND THANK YOU

'Which has a lot of fun pictures in it' - boy I will kiss you on the forehead, smack middle so my lip stain stays forever.

He... He... H-he-him he defends her............. So cute my heart is going to melt away

They're so cute. What do you mean crush crush? They're holding hands? They're married under those gloves.

(I also love the baba fox kids so much, little floof balls of cuteness. Specifically this one.)

I'm one lucky bastard for someone with only 30 pulls. I am also someone very poor and will be working on them later because I have 0 exp cards to my name, only hopes and dreams of getting any from the RNGSHOP

[autumnnnsun]

Still thinking about the monhunt event. That boss was so fun man.

[nyantodamax145]

WE WIN THEEEEEEEESE

[whatevsman16]

Took about 3 pulls, but we’re officially in there. Happy huntin, y’all

[zer0-dxm]

A collaboration event between Monster Hunter and Arknights has begun in Japan!

I love both games, so I'm honestly happy about this collaboration.

I immediately started scouting, and immediately the limited-time operators of Kirin R Yato and Rathalos S Noil Corne came to me.

Both of them were originally low rarity operators, but after wearing equipment that actually appears in Monster Hunter, their rarity became quite high.

In addition, the two of them were wearing masks, so I couldn't really see their true faces, but after removing the masks, I was able to see that they had a well-groomed face at this event.

I hope that both of you will do your best as reliable operators. And please fight with me.

[strikerjoshy]

Look at her. (*‿*✿)

[darkaac]

i'm not late, shush

[wistfulvulpine]

the next AK update might be monster hunter collab??? bc there's no recruitment update (chapter 12), and as a client update, it usually means there's a new event (side story/main theme)

whether reclamation algorithm comes with it is its own mystery (tho it lasts like 5 weeks so it could run concurrently)

[huixing]

E2 YATO FINALLY!!

But I don’t even have all of the materials to M6 her 🥲

[kindauglypikachuicon]

Chongyue my babygirl’s third skill is m3! ✨ Those salt from the Monster Hunter event was just enough to finally max it out! >:3

[cerastes]

If Arknights ever managed to land the fabled FromSoft collab somehow, we could get some pretty good alt skins for characters, I think! Such as:

Mudrock -> Havel the Rock skin, complete with Dragon Tooth for extra heavy bonking.

Hellagur -> The Owl skin, they are both Old Men With Massive Odachi, it writes itself.

Kirin R Yato -> Lady Butterfly skin, and also it'd be hilarious to grab what's basically an outfit crossover character and give it another outfit altogether.

Specter/Laurentina -> Valtr, Master of the League skin, to bring things back full circle since Specter is literally a reference to Valtr in the first place.

Gladiia -> Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower skin, same as Specter.

Gravel -> Dancer of the Boreal Valley skin, because you know she'd rock that outfit and the dual blades.

Kirin R Yato -> Skeleton Wheel skin, for that S3.

Reed the Flame Shadow -> Firekeeper skin. But this Firekeeper keeps the fire in people's burning corpses.

Ch'en -> Gaping Dragon skin. Self-explanatory.

Ifrit -> Ceaseless Discharge skin, but it's hilariously shoddily made and it looks cute, clearly made by Ifrit with her own hands and some duct tape.

Kazemaru -> Flexile Sentry skin, the puppet is literally her just turning around and letting her "other body" face to the front.

Typhon -> Starscourge Radahn skin, what with the greatbow mastery and techniques such as shooting multiple greatarrows at once and shooting a rain of pinpoint orbital greatarrows on enemies.

Rosa -> Greatbow Silver Knight skin. You know exactly which one. That one. Yeah.

Gummy -> Aldritch, Devourer of Gods skin. Self-explanatory.

FrostNova -> Ashen One skin. Self-explanatory.

Amiya -> Solaire of Astora skin. Because she's our friend and gives us hope! But watch out. On S3 activation, she gets the Sunlight Parasite.

W -> Unbreakable Patches skin. Because you know she'd rock that leather armor and have fun kicking people right into loot.

Ling -> Rom the Vacuous Spider skin, but also adorably shitty. Ifrit made it with spare materials, including little spiderling fits for Ling's dragons. She finds it funny and cute so she wears it.

[ouroborosorder]

what do you think the most stellar examples of arknights' vfx are?

Okay so there are a lot of examples, so I'm going to try to keep my description of each one short. Unsurprisingly, most of my favorite effects are on more recent, paid skins for fan-favorite/meta 6* operators, since those are the ones they put their whole ass into.

Executor the Ex Foedere. The way that it weaves blasts of light and the shapes of Sankta wings into his shotgun blasts is absurdly creative. Perfect for a saint of Laterano.

Passenger's Skin. Specifically his S3. Stellar lightning is a weird pitch, but it's so fucking beautiful that it works. This is the effect that convinced me that I might enjoy being a VFX artist after all, not fucking kidding.

Jessica Alter. Look. Her skills are underwhelming as fuck, they're all the same shot effects every time. But. Do you genuinely understand how amazing these gunshots look? Do you know how hard it is to make a stylized gunshot that doesn't just look like magic? These are breathtakingly good. The glass shattering on hit genuinely made my jaw drop when I first saw it.

Eyjafjalla the Hvit Aska. It's hard to make a healer that genuinely looks unique, but Eyjalter's dreamlike colors and flat effects manage to bring the visual style of So Long Adele into every map and make it look reasonable with the artstyle.

Kirin R Yato. Monster Hunter's effects are extremely distinct, and seeing them recreate MH's style in Arknights' is really lovely. My one sorrow is that I wish there was more lightning, since like. Kirin.

Lin. Glass is a legitamately hard thing to pull off because it so often just looks like crystal, but leaning more into glass dust and shards makes it work perfectly. Her skin is also quite pretty, but it loses the glass look that made me love Lin to begin with.

Reed the Flame Shadow. Holy fucking shit holy fucking shit holy fucking shit holy fucking shit fire made of flowers?? The way the fire looks secondary to the whole thing while being undeniably present is stunning. Her skin is nowhere near as good tho.

Penance. Penance has such a stunning aesthetic that it immediately endeared me to her. Her vibe of gilded thorny chains carries to her effects and it works.

Texas the Omertosa. Fucking. Duh. It's hard to make a normal sword swipe look unqiue but Texas nails it. Her skin's effects are even more stunning, even if the animations are awful.

Minimalist. It's hard to make effects that are minimalist and still look good.

Specter the Unchained + Skin. I need to specificially call out her skin. Her skin may be one of my favorite pieces of effects at all time. The colors, the aegirian poetry as part of the visuals, the stellar water, it's all practically perfect.

Kazemaru. A sleeper hit!! She's got a lot going on with the "paper-controlling ninja whose clone has a completely unique aesthetic" thing so it seems like she might be too busy, but it manages to pull it off. Shoutouts to her clone's spawn, which actually does the slash mesh slightly wrong intentionally because the ring look actually helps a lot.

Goldenglow. It's rare that I see a lightning character and say "I have never seen anything like that before in my life" and Goldenglow's pink and blue stylized lightning genuinely shocked me.

Ling (Does it Wash The Strings). If you want my choice for best VFX in the game, this would at least be in running for first. It's flashy as hell, but manages to not be overbearing. The S3 dragon attacking with mountains rising from the earth alone is stunning, but the normal attack impact is my favorite part of the entire thing. It's so simple and elegant and stylish.

Amiya Guard. Amiya's Guard form is the combination of Amiya's Arts, Sarkaz Arts, Ch'en's swordfighting, the normal AK Arts and sword design languages, and a tiny bit of weird space tech to represent the Precursors. And it manages to come together to something that feels really cohesive while still drawing attention to how incongruous these elements are. The effects actively tell the story of Amiya - a girl with big shoes to fill, carrying the legacy of so many.

Ceobe, and her Unfettered Freedom skin. At this point in Arknights' lifespan, they had a much more defined visual language for how Casters look compared to melee units. Ceobe, being a Caster who throws fucking enchanted melee weapons instead of casting spells? So she combines their languages, with the buildup and trails of Arts casters and impacts of melee units, it's subtle and I love it. Unfettered Freedom deserves a special shoutout because I love geometric magic so fucking much.

Conviction's Skin. Why is this so good they're a joke operator.

Dorothy's Skin. I may have mixed opinions on this skin, but the effects are objectively stunning. I am personally heartbroken that she doesn't have the sand anymore, but that's a personal thing. I also don't like that her S3's range is obfuscated by the explosion but again that's nitpicking.

There's probably WAY more that I've missed and even more I cut for time, but those are my favorites after browsing the list of operators and skins for like, two hours straight. If there are a few I missed... Look, this list is this long already.

Also note that I didn't really list enemies or anything other than playable operators. Their enemy effects are usually... servicable, with a few standout exceptions with Talulah and Frostnova.