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I like that Anna is on the list at all. Behold the power of the meme! Our classmates wanna be the girl that slept with bread-chan! ...or had a deep and meaningful relationship, either one.
 
I object!

Showing him up just before the tournament arc is poor narrative. Right now he should either be developing and perfecting a technique in secret, training with some wise First Gen, or finding a rival, developing a strong urge to beat said rival (Due to a bet, or a desire to prove them wrong, or because the only way to help them is to beat them--I don't know), and despairing over how he's going to lose and the futility of the situation, only to have his confidence renewed by some event/haremette accompanying a power-up.
We don't want to be doing too much on screen badassery. We've now established for the sake of the audience that we are combat gods. There's no need to rub their faces in it.

For the tournament arc I want Kouji to go into each round expecting that he's going to run into an Anna-level opponent and get wrecked. Then he wins the tournament...
 


Hand holding is to much sempai.

We don't want to be doing too much on screen badassery. We've now established for the sake of the audience that we are combat gods. There's no need to rub their faces in it.

For the tournament arc I want Kouji to go into each round expecting that he's going to run into an Anna-level opponent and get wrecked. Then he wins the tournament...

I really wish that the audience could see just how absolutely naive Anna is to the idea of romance.

They expected a Rei but she's a cinnamon roll.
 
I really wish that the audience could see just how absolutely naive Anna is to the idea of romance.

They expected a Rei but she's a cinnamon roll.
There'll be scenes for that, once it's Anna's turn to get in Harem Shenanigans, which will probably happen at the same time as Shuri's turn so we can see the contrast and how even the traumatized ex-soldier is better at social stuff than Anna.

I expect FauxChan to be filled with Memes about High Density and how that means that Anna is the real Harem Protagonist instead of Koujiro.
 
Okay, this is going to be kind of random, but...

This bit from a recent update:

Koujirou ambles over to the food tables, giving you a distracted wave and looking somewhat chagrined as he argues with Setsuna. Setsuna, on the other hand, held her nose in the air, a wide grin splitting her face as she interjected with short rebuttals, leaving Koujirou more flustered with every retort. Keeping pace behind them, Yukari walks and smiles, a slight bounce to her steps that had not been there previously. The three of them moved around each other with a familiarity that seemed almost choreographed as they select their breakfast.

Family.

… You swallow a lump in your throat.
It occurs to me that, at some point in the near future, Flight One will start to become Anna's surrogate family--though I doubt she'll actually realize it until later on, where she has some kind of problem/breakdown/visible emotional pain that the others actually notice, and they both help her and explicitly affirm the idea. Granted, that second part may not happen until after Anna's history (or at least the fact that she's an orphan) is revealed, but still.
 
There'll be scenes for that, once it's Anna's turn to get in Harem Shenanigans, which will probably happen at the same time as Shuri's turn so we can see the contrast and how even the traumatized ex-soldier is better at social stuff than Anna.

Have you forgotten that this is a quest? We don't have to be confined to genre tropes. Or even to the genre.

In other news, I'm working on an omake. It may remind some people of a very, very old video.

Edit: In fact, it's a direct parody of said video.
 
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Have you forgotten that this is a quest? We don't have to be confined to genre tropes. Or even to the genre.

In other news, I'm working on an omake. It may remind some people of a very, very old video.

Yes, I know this is a Quest, but we are controlling a side character from an Anime and one of our Win Conditions for the Quest is to make the "audience" so interested in our character that the studio makes a Spin-off starring us as the main character.

We aren't actually constrained by Harem Anime Tropes, but they are still expected to happen to one degree or another because of the very idea behind the Quest.
 
Yes, I know this is a Quest, but we are controlling a side character from an Anime and one of our Win Conditions for the Quest is to make the "audience" so interested in our character that the studio makes a Spin-off starring us as the main character.

We aren't actually constrained by Harem Anime Tropes, but they are still expected to happen to one degree or another because of the very idea behind the Quest.
For better or for worse, a fair number of people I've seen talking don't... really care about that premise anymore. Avalanche's writing has far surpassed the basic conceit of the quest; I know I personally am reading because I like Anna and care about her as a character, not because I'm invested in the "get a spinoff" idea.
 
For better or for worse, a fair number of people I've seen talking don't... really care about that premise anymore. Avalanche's writing has far surpassed the basic conceit of the quest; I know I personally am reading because I like Anna and care about her as a character, not because I'm invested in the "get a spinoff" idea.

Even if we don't particularly care about the "Control a Side-Character, try to get a Spin-off" part of the premise, it is still part of the Quest. We still see it in the FauxChan snippets, the Character relevance stat in our character sheet and in the more humorous and Meta omakes. Most of us players may not really care about it, but it's still there and very much part of the experience.
 
Apocalyptic Fish - How to Kill a Type Zero
Yes, I know this is a Quest, but we are controlling a side character from an Anime and one of our Win Conditions for the Quest is to make the "audience" so interested in our character that the studio makes a Spin-off starring us as the main character.

We aren't actually constrained by Harem Anime Tropes, but they are still expected to happen to one degree or another because of the very idea behind the Quest.
Ah. Sorry about that, then. I've just been getting kind of annoyed at seeing people say things like that like they're certain.

Moving on...

And now, ladies and gentlemen and others, behold; the thing you've all some of you none of you have been waiting for!

My analysis and synopsis of the Valkyrie Core Movie.

This movie is one of the greatest things I've ever seen; some people call it a timeless tale of growing up, and dealing with opposition from your society, and I agree with those summations.

This movie is about a girl named Anna; she lives in the place formerly known as Alaska, and she has a sister. I would talk about her, but she's pretty much completely unimportant.

Anna has a cool shiny thing, Anna tells us; apparently, it's called a "Valkyrie Core", hence the movie's name.

We see her going around the village, and how she goes around, fixing stuff. And then, in the middle of doing so, a swarm of robots show up! They're called antagonists, apparently, and they are very evil and mysterious.

You can tell here that the movie is using various storytelling devices, such as foreshadowing, dramatic irony, and symbolism. This is why it won the Sufficiently Summer Users' Choice. Even though the author was just some guy on the internet.

The author's name is...well, we don't know their name, but they go by 'Avalanche', and they're probably really well-known on the forum they frequent, now.

Anyway, so getting back to the movie, Anna tells her mom and sister to "Stay back!" and let her do all the fighting. Then, a black thing covers her, and suddenly, she's a robot! She then proceeds to fight the antagonists, and they're like: "There's no way you can defeat us!" and Anna's like: "Oh really? Well, take this!" and then the battle's over. But Anna knows they'll be back...someday.

This is where things start getting a little more hazy.

The next morning, Anna decides to go out into the forest and look for treasure. But too late! An antagonist found it first; they say, "I'll be back, but first, I'm taking this treasure!" and Anna (a girl) yells, "Not so fast, antagonist!" and she becomes the black robot from before.

The antagonist replies, "Well, too bad, I'm keeping the treasure, and there's no way you'll be able to catch me on my flying narwhal!" and then, they jump on their flying narwhal, which is actually radioactive. But before they can get up off the ground with the treasure, a Type Zero swoops in and steals it!

The antagonist is like, "No way!" and flies up into the air, pulling out their particle projector. Wait...no, a laser gun. Well, actually, it's a particle projector laser sword...with guns on it. Oh, and it shot other swords.

Anyway, the antagonist flies all the way up to its airship, which has cannons, oars, guns, and other antagonists. The airship's logo glistened in the bright, morning sun. There was a lens flare, and motion blurs!

The Type-Zero is just like, "Yeah right, no one can kill a Type-Zero!"

Anna watches on with a skeptical look, and begins to formulate a plan, while the antagonists fight the Type-Zero.

The airship opened fire on the Type-Zero, and after minutes of awesomeness, the Type-Zero is completely enveloped by smoke. When it cleared, they were shocked to see that the Type-Zero was completely unharmed. And, it had even grown another head!

The extra head opened its mouth, as if to talk, but instead, it let out a tremendously loud and angry yell that could be heard from outer space!

The Type-Zero then shot giant lightsabers at the ship, and the antagonists yelled, "We're going to explode!"

And then they exploded, just as they predicted.

As the antagonists fell, they tried to land on their radioactive flying narwhals, but they missed. They fell a thousand feet to the ground, but somehow survived.

The antagonists approached Anna and asked for her assistance in killing the Type-Zero, and she said; "Nope. You stole my treasure."

But she went with them anyways. Only with Anna, was it possible to kill the Type-Zero; only she believed in herself.

Just then, Anna got a message from her Valkyrie Core; apparently, after analyzing the structure of the Type-Zero, it came to a conclusion: the only way to kill a Type-Zero, was to hit it.

With the moon.

She revealed this information to the group, and shocked everybody.

Now that they had a battle plan, they could begin their crusade against the Type-Zero. Now it was on...hardcore.

They got on their radioactive flying narwhals, except for Anna, who remembered that she could fly without a narwhal. They went up, and up, and up, eventually getting out of the Earth's atmosphere. They were surprised to find not one, not two, but an entire swarm of Type-Zeros.

This sets the stage for the climax.

The climax in a movie or a piece of literature, is generally preceded by a constant 'rising action', and continues until it reaches a sort of resolution. This is followed by denouement, which is French for "The End".

It's because of literary devices like these, that Avalanche won the Sufficiently Summer Users' Choice.

In any case, they needed to open a path through the armada, and it was decided that Anna would lead the way. She started gathering energy between her palms, and yelled, as the antagonists distracted the Type-Zeros.

"Ka...Me...Ha...Me...HA!"

An enormous hole appeared in the swarm of Type-Zeros, and the antagonists began to enact their plan.

They made a giant chain of titanium (which is really strong), which they connected to the moon. They then began pulling as hard as they could, trying to get it to smash into the Type-Zeros.

Anna was angry; she knew this plan wouldn't work. She knew that the only way to get the moon to hit the Type-Zeros was by using the Kamehameha wave a second time.

And so, she did.

KA-THOOOOM.

When the dust settled, almost everyone was dead. Except for Anna.

She learned a lot about friendship that day, and about growing up, and about how society sometimes oppresses us.

And that's why Avalanche won the Sufficiently Summer Users' Choice of 2015.

Oh, and Anna went on to live a peaceful life on the moon.

Thank you for listening to my synopsis of Valkyrie Core: The Movie, and have a good day/night/evening/whatever.
I know, I'm a terrible person. But I had to do it.

Edit: The joke. Because more people really need to watch this great piece of internet history.
 
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