#writing all this at ~7 hours to aadeath is doing a number on me

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AAside question thread

eos day 💀🎉

answering zevy's question thread here!

What was your first AAside 4*?

my beloved rio... i'd rerolled for hours trying to get a good starter account with him. this rio was THE card for me for the first half year; he was my unchanging oshi card that i always got to stare at while grinding anticlockwise <3 i didn't get to train him until the first 4 star select tickets were distributed, but even then i stuck to the untrained art because i was so in love with it 🥺

Which AAside 3* card art is your favorite? GIVE US A PIC

you will be hearing about him quite a bit in this thread

Which AAside 4* card art is your favorite? DROP THE PIC

hardest question of my fucken life but i'll show off the blazingly beautiful lrfes shu as ONE of my favorites:

there's so much happening!! the perspective, the pose, the expression, the lights, the stage, the scope and distance of the far background... it's a very ambitious and very successful piece of art and remains to be my favorite shu card =w=

What's your favorite AAside event story?

yume no ato, without question. not just because of the reiji (yes ok it was the reiji) but the story was so substantial for an event story to the point that my friend and i suspect it was originally intended to be a song story. i'd always wanted tadaomi to do something hurtful to reiji as a plot vehicle for us to learn more about reiji's past, and then that's exactly what happened!!! AND we got an adorable baby reiji art out of it!!! i could ask for nothing better (except to maybe make the event happen any later because tiering two events in a row was hell 👍)

Show us some of your favorite AAside costume combinations!

i like comboing the bday outfits with the wm flower brooch :)

What's your favorite AAside MV? Do you have any screenshots of your favorite scenes?

surprising no one, my fave mv is cynicaltic fakestar and i would post every single frame if i could. instead i'll just put this shot which is one of many that i feel perfectly normal about (yes reiji is smiling yes he is looking in shu's direction yes shu looks cute as hell)

Show us your AAside comfort team composition

my guys!

these've been my main dudes for most of the game's lifespan-- save for tadaomi, who used to be haruka until i splurged my savings after eos announcement and got a tada that was more powerful. it felt kind of fitting that i'd swapped out haruka around the time we learned he goes abroad... ^^'

yuto isn't anywhere near my top5, but i'd gotten his initial 4 star on my day one rerolls so he was a staple on my early-game team until promised diamond event, in which i got 3 copies of yuto while pulling for rio... the two of them have been invariably on my main team since then 😊

Do you have a favorite area convo?

gotta be ryo-reiji at the station. it's so fucking sad!!!!!! for no reason!!!!!!! and if you read kohei-reiji at the station first, it makes it seem like reiji's been waiting there for shu for hours... 😭 i'd once joked in poor taste to my friend that shu would finally arrive when eos is announced and That Sure Did Happen so congratulations on getting out of the rain, reiji

Who are some characters you wish would have little conversations in the next game?

i'm on my hands and knees please rio & shu Please. it was just a crack platonic pairing i wanted because they used to be my top2 fave boys but i still want it... and after all that's happened between argo and epsi i think it would just be incredibly funny

What's your favorite AAside character story?

hands down reiji cs5. still working on the translation with my dear vroom but i need you to know it's everything to me. tl;dr it's about mochi and shu puts a piece of mochi directly into reiji's mouth #Real #NotAHoax and i still haven't recovered

What's your favorite AAside card story?

prooobably gotta go with janus reiji; it just checks so many things on my list: the ruffled reiji, the mask theme, the shurei, the kanata pointing out the shurei, the comparisons between shurei and kanaharu, the tadaomi just bein' there, it's everything. it's also the first card story i ever tried translating by myself! thank u vroomie for helping me clean it up for public posting~

honorable mention to tadaomi's in the rain 3 star for having an absolutely adorable moment of peace between tada and reiji... can't understate how rare and fleeting it feels with the gentle music (which i could swear isn't used in any other epsi appearance in the entire game) and each of the boy's smiles... it's just lovely :)

You rolled one last time on the free banners on EOS day. The last character you pulled will spend the day with you. How's your day going?

i got misaking! twice!! i think i'd get along with him pretty well... we're both smart but also stupid as hell <3 we'd probably go hang out and eat somewhere, then head back to the sharehouse to play games maybe? i bet i could crush him in ssbu ^w^

Interactive pets yes?

whoever says no to this i just wanna talk. literally even if the limit of our interaction with the pets is "you tap on them and they just bark/meow/wiggle/etc" i would put down cold hard cash for it

Your AAside comfort song?

Surprising No One, cynicaltic fakestar. i just can't understate how much i love this song. loved it on debut, loved it before i was a reiji oshi, loved it even more after all the narrative context, and love it to death today. it's gonna be real hard to top this one ngl

"but steady!" you cry, "what about aaside?" yes aaside is still my forever and always favorite song but it's hard to call it a "comfort song" after everything the aaside name has been through recently lol... there's just a little too much history in this one for me to enjoy it simply

Show us some of your favorite tiering accomplishments!

don't mind if i do!

in the rain - #65 keep out boyz - #45 yume no ato - #39

Do you have a favorite multi-live moment?

i've had so many good ones but the only one i can remember rn is the time during lrfes 1st round where a 5 omakase vote went to zakuro and THREE PEOPLE DISCONNECTED so it was just me and one other homie by the end and we sent each other the yamato いい演奏だった stamp. i'll never forget you, p3 💛

Your favorite AAside birthday card/s!!

unintentional kenryo but i genuinely think these are the two best bday card arts

What AAside card did you want a WHOLE HECKING LOT.... Only to never get it :')

FUCKING!!! LRFES SHU!!!!! i could smell a reiji on the horizon (and i was RIGHT) so i couldn't afford to try pulling for him... and then due to Imminent Circumstances this shu ended up being the only shu 4 star that i don't have lollll

honorable mention to janus reiji who i want to crush into dust because while i did have a miracle happen (went broke in the prior event, scraped up only 2 pulls, and got one janus reiji on each of them) i somehow came to own a collection of every single maxed reiji card, including every one of his 4 stars, EXCEPT JANUS REIJI. my album is literally two 3 stars off from being 100%. it's eos day and i am out of navistones. i am in despair

Give us some good ol' AAside bugs

in the first week or so the game gave me a miss on autoplay. would post proof but my screenshots folder is nearing 8k strong and 90% of that is aaside

Which band sharehouse music do you vibe the most?

argo's! it's just really relaxing and charming. epsi's actually stresses me out so much that i started playing with non-live music off 😭

When and how did you start playing AAside?

immediately. not sure what the "how" means here but i will share that due to us not knowing the exact hour that aaside's servers would open, i had a hell of a day in terms of sleep since i'd gotten up at some ridiculous hour like 5am for the starting live and then took naps on and off throughout the day to power through to the following 1am when the servers finally let us in

Which AAside song do you want to have a full version of?

JANUSSSSSSSS good lord i'm so glad we're getting the albums this summer. janus took my soul hostage and has not even entertained the thought of negotiations since the event. other ones i'm looking forward to are as is あるがままで and egoistic才Φ

The character you first liked when you started playing VS the character you like right now. Did it change?

the question 4 me... i was a rio oshi when i walked into this fandom (anime airing era), pretended epsi was my "secondary" interest through 2387438 fanarts, went through seven hells of denial until aaside's half-anni, and then finally submitted to karasuma reiji as i rightfully should

How ok are you after reading more about your oshi's history/before Tokyo info?

i had quite neatly predicted the topic of reiji's trauma barely a week prior to the drop and yet i was still a helpless little oshi tied to the traintracks as history entries #9-#12 hurtled towards me

What costume (aside from 4* and shop costumes) would you want to see them wear?

janus reiji :) AND! i want nirvana shu outfit, it's soooo pretty. if we had gotten either of these in aaside i don't think i'd have ever changed these two out of them

Which instrument designs and accessory rewards are your favorites from the events?

the 💋 mark for the cheek has got to be the funniest, cutest, most appropriate accessory you could ever put in a joseimuke game, whoever came up with it has my deepest gratitude

and that's it! thank you for the question thread, zevy~

i leave you all with this very important set of puchi shus