Good luck to everyone scouting for Aya and/or Chisato and tiering for Eve! Even if you weren't able to get Eve or scout for the new cards, that doesn't make you any less of a fan and you have no reason to be sad about it. Smile and go on! There's still many chances in the future! Fight on and good luck! Lots of love!!

Why I love Hina Hikawa. An Essay.

No, I’ll actually try to keep this short and sweet. I could wax poetic about my best girls forever but honestly that takes forever and I just wanna show some love already. So~ my best girl! My list tends to shuffle around for a variety of reasons but my first and long-standing best girl is the lovely mint chocolate chip colored sweetie: Hina Hikawa!

Hina Hina Hina, my lovely autistic child.

And no. I don’t mean that as an insult. Bare with me! When I was little, I was…strange, to say the least. I didn’t really speak or react too much. I just wanted to be alone with a book that probably should have been for kids triple my age. I couldn’t handle a lot of stimuli, couldn’t read people properly. It was a mess. Autism was (and mostly still is) uncharted territory, so when I was smacked with the label, no one around knew what to do. Life for awhile was constant classes in social etiquette, devouring so many new things, trying this whole “fitting in” thing, failing and getting back up in time to pretend to do it all again the “right” way with the kids my age.

Hina to me is that side of me that I tried to leave behind all those years ago. The me that I tried to forget about for awhile, but still is a big part of me: a person who doesn’t quite understands social cues even after “training” but finds people fascinating, the person who picks up new hobbies, accidentally turns into a savant and then becoming bored by a lot of them. I could go on but I think you get the point. When I first started reading Hina’s interactions I immediately saw myself, and I really wanted to hate her like the other players I knew about…but I immediately fell in love. It gave me a little bubble of happiness to see someone like I was (although I doubt it’ll be explicitly said), one of the many MANY forms of Autism.

Especially her interactions with Aya (who is up there as the best girl too) in the main Pastel Palettes story! It took me back to some- looking back on it- cringey conversations with “normal” or “neurotypical” people. Especially when I finally got the hang of just talking to people, but not the hang of understanding what not to say to do things like: cheer people up. Usually, characters that seem to be autistic coded (think like Sheldon from Big Bang theory, Newt Scamander from the Fantastic beast, etc.) can come across as more abrasive than they really mean to, more oddballs who just refuse to conform as opposed to people who are just hardwired differently. But Hina hits this sweet spot of having “quirks” but still being shown to have a good heart. She loves her band, and doesn’t want to see it fall apart! Hina admires Aya for her combat-ness (is that a word? I can’t think of another word for her), Chisato for her attitude, Maya for her intelligence and Eve…well I still don’t get Eve but Hina and I love her too!

I love that we share a serious sweet tooth, and hate flavorless foods! And tofu! Like I said, I know it’s not Canon, but I like that that part of autism is shown: the texture/flavor thing. Usually, people with autism are extremely sensitive to such things and I just don’t see that used in character that much. I might be reading way too much into these things but autistic girls are usually left to the wayside, and seeing even little traits like having texture issues or even the Boppity thing and such just makes my little heart sing! I know it’s a weirdly translated onomatopoeia, but I know so many autistic friends that do things like that~ I remember when I was younger I would talk just like Hina! I might do it now, but if I do, I have no flipping idea. Hehe~ I don’t even know if this is coherent anymore~ but long story short: I love this babe so much! My first 4-star, speaker of some of my favorite lines, wearer of some of my fav outfits…I think Hina will always hold a special space in my heart, even if I become a traitor and switch around my list.

EDIT: Also freaking~look at her cute face and tell me to MY face that this little blueberry isn't cute af? I want more cards of her!

-Also: She supports her sister no matter what?!?? Like, she watches all of Roselia's proformances~ in disguise! Which we all know is Hina in sunglasses and a sick hat.

I'm curious, for those on the WW server, are you saving for a certain gacha? If so which one? I'm saving for nurse Ako (After a few somewhat irresponsible pulls from saved Stars) but July feels so far away... It's hard to stay strong and not trying a pull but I have to be strong for best girl

i just grinded for the 2500 stars in a few hours (my hands hurt seriously bad now lmao)

3 3 stars.

only one (1) new card.

initial kokoro.

this is not how i wanted you to come home baby please

PSA: Read the event stories while the event is active or you will not receive the rewards for them.

I found this on reddit and confirmed with my own backlog from the last handful of events.

I may just start skipping through them during the event and actually watching them later.

Y'all are SLEEPING on how gorgeous our girl Tomoe's lookin in this card

Kokoro has ascended, she is no longer on our platform anymore. She has become a higher being

SO!! SO!! I asked if people would be interested in reading my rant about kaoru and since I had a positive response, I decided to really do it! I have A LOT of things I like about her, so I don't know how long this post will be, sorry!

first of all, I don't exactly remember when I discovered bandori, but I DO remember that I thought kaoru was absolutely going to be my best girl (tsugumi too, but I am not going to talk about her this time...). I already was weak towards princely girls in anime, since I usually love all of them, even if I don't exactly like how said anime treat their characters. a lot of ikemen girls... either don't want to be "masculine" and want to become ~~ real women ~~ or they have a trauma involving men that made them like this, or other awful reasons that I couldn't relate to, and made me feel angry and disappointed because I actually am a masculine girl who likes girls, so everytime I saw that a character similar to me was just ""confused"" and/or traumatized... I felt really bad. like there was something wrong with me. at the same time, in real life, people were telling me that I needed to grow up and start becoming more feminine and beautiful and other... not great things, and even fiction couldn't help me feel good about myself. eventually, I decided to just ignore other people's opinions and just live my life however I wanted, but I was and still am a bit hesitant. and that's! where kaoru comes into play. because she isn't like any of those characters. when I first saw her, I was like "!!!!!!!" and searched everywhere information about her (the EN version wasn't even announced, so I only could rely on fan translations) and I... absolutely loved her, even though she was an absolute dumbass. and there wasn't any single card or story I saw that made me think she would get the same treatment as other ikemen girls. she was confident in herself, none of the girls ever thought she was a man or treated her like one... it was like... a dream. and this made me become a little more confident in myself, too.

but that's not all! when EN came out and I started seriously playing bandori, it made me discover just how much of a great character kaoru is!! yes, she's dramatic, gay and, as I already said, an idiot, and I absolutely love her for that... but... she's also very kind and a good person in general. for example, I just read her phantom thief card's episode so I'm going to talk about it; in it, she apologizes to kanon for kidnapping her even if she didn't know who the thief was (she was suspecting it, though), and when kanon says she feels bad for accepting her apologies since the phantom thief thing wasn't her idea, kaoru still takes responsibility of her actions and says that it doesn't change what she did; at the same time, she acknowledges kanon's feelings and tells her to think of her gift not as an apology, but as kaoru thanking her since if she got to perform in such a great stage, it's also because kanon and everyone else perfectly played their roles. I mean... she's just!!! amazing!!! I didn't even think she would apologize for that, but she actually put into account kanon's feelings and...! just. she's GREAT ? ? ? ? ? ????

I would like to say a lot more, but I saw how much I already wrote and... no, I would clog up the entire feed, so I'm going to stop here. sorry for being annoying, and thanks to everyone who actually took the time to read this post!

So there was this guy that I was sort of into.... Just sort of. He plays gacha games and osu, so we started talking about Bandori. Since he’s never played a rhythm game with gacha, I explained to him how cards and scoring works. Then he proceeded to comment that the girls existing in the game is just for fanservice and moe elements. And when I tried to explain that the stories actually have good plots and character development, he just went like, “uh-huh, sure” in that really sarcastic way.

Needless to say, any feelings I had for him flew away. I’m not dating any guys who can’t respect my girls.

ok so yall ive gotten moca's initial 3 star like 3-4 times from scouts and im about to lose it PLEASE pray for me that it doesn't happen again. i love u moca but please stop cursing me with dupes

I got curious