For the Jing Yuan and Jingliu short, Becoming Mara Struck doesn't turn them evil it's a form of insanity that strikes the people of the Xianzhou due to their longevity
Yeah, I also think that it's the accumulation of centuries/millenia of memories with various complex emotions, happiness and joy but also grief, anger and other negative ones contained in their mind. The Xianzhou people's lifespan may have been expanded, but their brain capacity, so to speak, have not. So their mind starts to break down from the overload.
About "Rondo across couness kalpas". Black Swan(who asks to dance) is a memo keeper and wanted to read Acheron(over lady) past and gets traumatized by what she saw there
Not exactly traumatized by memories. Archeron is a Self-Annihilator so her memories are inordelry and constantly get destroyed which almost killed Black Swan. That's what left her I this state.
Jingliu and jing Yuan In that short, the monster is infected with the Mara, It is a disease caused by a "blessing" from Yaoshi, the Aeon of abundance, is a consequence of giving eternal life to the people of Xianzhou, the lore behind this is interesting, so it is explored in its respective moment. In Dahn Heng's short, it is part of a mission in the game, where his past and his relationship with Xianzhou are explained more. The history of that relationship is explored in some of Loufu's secondary missions. In the Black Swan short, what happens is that she wants to collect memories, which is the job of her faction "the garden of memories", she on her own wants to enter the mind of Acheron is the most broken character in lore so far, when you see that thread he draws it is because he is trying to enter his mind and directs it until Acheron relaxes, that's why Black Swan tells him about The Annihilation Gang. E The Firefly short is simply Cinema, I love FireFly, I'm sure you'll want to see it again soon. See you, use Google translator, so sorry for any mistakes, I understand English but Writing and speaking I am a disaster
It's just a shame, some of them, if not ALL of them, are pretty heckin' confusing if you just watch them with no context. They're certainly worth seeing because they're all so good, but it's like coming into episode 9 of any anime and trying to figure out the plot. Like you get /the idea/ of them all. Like for the Firefly one, yeah they're all fighting "bugs", but it makes more sense why it's so serious when you know what the bugs are. There's like 1 key bit of info that isn't disclosed in all the animations.(since all the animations come after you'd learn the info from a previous reveal)
Ohhhh I see I see! I thought that these were similar to like ZZZ character trailers where it shows some of their personal past/current life and it wouldn’t be too much to watch them now but thank you for letting me know! Maybe I might just rewatch some of them once I get to their stories in game 👀👍
@@Kuma_VT i recommend honkai impact 3rd PV /version trailer/animation and character trailer when you do have the time to do so and if anyone rude to you dont pay them any mind
5:33 that fox Girl is Baiheng, shes a NPC at this time, but there is a "lookalike" teased for i think 2.5 If you pay close attention what is going on in the New Year one, you notice that they explain the entire Loufu Story Quest what we played the Dance Short, well when you peer into a black hole you just get consumed, Black swan tried to get infos out of Acheron but looked to deep into her mind and well the hunter became the prey thats why you see a featherless swan and the snake, or the other visuals Firefly and the SAMs are fighting even without glamoth because they are programmed to elimiate the swarm i dont know if you heard from Honkai Impact but these Animation shorts go even harder (at least for me) but these are a bit complicated to understand because there is story between them And Honkai Impact has the only "Anime" of sorts , which is nothing like the animation shorts because they a Cozy funny version Its called "Cooking with Valkyries" I would recommend that you watch the Concert too, i know its 2hours long but they do a lot of OSTs, Boss fight musics and trailer musics, but i understand if you are not interested
If you liked this, I highly recommend reacting to the animated shorts from Honkai Impact 3rd, one of Hoyoverse's previous games, and I dare say a favorite of the developers and mine as well.
You can actually get the derpy profile pic you saw in the chat with Kafka by finding all seven wanted posters in the Belobog city area ("50 Credits?" Achievement). Fun fact: Gepard canonicaly drew the derpy ones ( ￣▽￣)
agreed, and probably in the top 5 strongest playable characters lore-wise, i mean, she busted a planet or moon (unless that was the plant from her tears but still it did come from her)!
@@Yuki_Ika7powerscaling is weird in hsr but personally I see Topaz, Aventurine, Herta, Jade, Welt, Argenti, Jingliu Dan Heng and Jing Yuan being stronger while im uncertain of like Luocha and Seele.
There is a few that get forgotten about since they aren't in that specific playlist unfortunately. I highly recommend checking them out as well. Huohuo's myriad celestia (it's short like the other myriad celestias that are in the playlist. It's my favorite one because it's so cute) Penacony travel promotional video: come dream with us (an in universe ad advertising the 4th planet in the game, penacony. It's really unique with high production value) Clockie cartoon (an in universe cartoon episode about Clockie, a mascot character for penacony. Basically a homege to old American cartoons like Tom and Jerry and the original mickey mouse. Also really high production value)
Additional Lore to add to the trailers. A Flash: You can see at the beginning, Jing Yuan draws his sword up to Jing Liu, signifying that he still is below her when it comes to martial abilites. Obvious from the fight as well and that she will always be his master. The tree in the flashbacks is much bigger when when see YangYang. YangYang gives the same promise, unknowingly, to Yuan when he says "I won't hold back." The same promise Yuan had to make. Can also see the Lightning Lord sweeping his sword down at Jing Liu possibly signifying that Yuan has surpassed his master though not by martial capabilities. Jing Liu ends up smiling during the attack of the LL, though she might have gone mad, to be released from it and be beaten seems to fill her with joy and snap her back to reality for a quick second. Tale of Two Dragons: The Fox Girl is Bailu. It's complicated but the sin that Blade and Dan Feng commited was, I might be hazy on this, but they were the cause of Bailu's life and they tried to bring her back? That is why she is a dragon. Also, there is a story, not sure where, but Jing Liu had to destroy a monster that I believe was Bailu before Bailu was reincarnated. Could be wrong but I think thats the jist of it. Rondo: Black Swan is a memokeeper, an entity, that collects memories and reads them. She is trying to read Acherons past not know she is an Emenator of Nihility. Black Swan came VERY CLOSE to not existing anymore, being swallowed up by the void and only by Acherons mercy she was allowed to exist. Rondo exemplifies the saying, "Stare at the void long enough and it will stare back." Embers of Glamoth: Firefly was apart of the Iron Calvary. They are clones, from the DNA of the "Empress" but the empress really doesn't exist in that capacity. They are taught a lie to give them something to live for. All the clones are young, they have a built in destruction button that after a certain time period they will fall apart basically. This to keep them from starting an uprising. The Glamoth war against the Swarm happened thousands of years ago so Firefly has been floating in space for an untold amount of time.
You should also do the Honkai Impact animation shorts and operation center shorts too since its really cool lore that gets referenced in Honkai Star Rail and some of the references actually make some story arcs way deeper than it is, you don't need to know any Honkai Impact lore to enjoy Star Rail since it is it's own game just that Hoyoverse throws in crumbs for the Honkai Impact players. Honkai Impact was basically Hoyoverse's golden child and basically is the father of Genshin and Star Rail, Honaki Impact will share more similarities as Star Rail since I believe it's one of the alternate verses created from Honkai Impact.
Once you cought up with the penacony story (most recent planet), and only then, I highly recommend you to check out the star rail live concert if you haven't already. It went pretty hard. Reason why you should do it after the story, is because it contains spoilers for some really cool stuff.
Great thanks for the reaction, I dont know if you have watched it Kuma, but please react to Honkai Impact animations shorts and maybe you will find some familiar faces, these are great even if some are really old
MiHoYo is /very/ good at telling a story in a short-format. Honkai Impact 3rd did it. Each of the 'capstone' animations that act as the finales for the various arcs, can be watched stand-alone, and you'll get most of what's going on from context inside the animation itself. If you get the surrounding context from playing/watching others play the story around the animations, it only ADDS to it. The same goes for Star Rail so far. As for them just making animes, they have done a few, mostly surrounding HI3rd. Cooking with Valkyries, and ELF Academy, which are very cutesy and slice-of-life ones that are semi-to-non-canon.
i havent seen it mentioned but the one with the lion and dragon dance shows the friendship between dan heng and ying yuan. it shows the beginning being happy and carefree until the previous iteration of imbitor lunae betrayed the loufu. The end being the forgiveness and reignited friendship of both of them. Dan heng representing the dragon and Ying Yuan representing the lion.
Ooof. i kinda feel like some of the later ones like Firefly and Danny boi should've waited till you got to their specific planets. But if you're cool with spoilers, then it's all good.
This is where all my money went, I guess. Worth it. I love the Acheron one. Black Swan thought Acheron was some naive girl out of her depth, and made the mistake of looking in her head and finding out she was trying to rizz one of the most powerful being in the galaxy.
I hope you were warned about the countless spoilers in those and are ok with getting things spoiled that would be so much more impactful when experienced at the right time.
Coming from someone who stopped playing right before Penacony......spoilers dont really mean anything without context 🤷♂️ive seen these and i still dont really know whats going on
@@basilisk..they mean something as soon as you reach specific parts in the story. The ones about Dan Heng, Jingliu and Firefly completely spoil their character's introductions and plot twists.
@@fleup3870 Jingliu's one explicitly does not. It was released before HSR so it was expected to be experienced beforehand. That is in fact why it is by far the easiest to understand and feel deeply moved by without any context, since it is the only one which assumes no context. The rest, as you note, have a certain amount of spoilers.
@@rowanmales3430 it's also at least minor spoilers for Jingliu, because you then already somewhat know who she is and what she is capable of when you first meet her. I have seen it again recently and knowing who she is clearly changes how you experience that scene.
@@fleup3870 I have the opposite impression though. We get to see barely any Jingliu in the story, so the introduction/mystery has to be done much faster in the story. This is accomplished well. It makes the opening scene with Yanqing much more obviously tension filled as you already know she is the previous sword master when Yanqing hasn't made that connection. It also makes understanding Jingliu's condition, her blindfold, and the difficulty/tenuousness of her remaining mentally stable all the more potent as you are questioning how she is even still alive or sane. There is simply a lot of subtext seeing this short can provide to her introduction on the Luofu. Seeing any of the other ones in advance might have some negative drawbacks (with the possible exception of the Annihilation Gang introduction video), but not this one.
For the Jing Yuan and Jingliu short, Becoming Mara Struck doesn't turn them evil it's a form of insanity that strikes the people of the Xianzhou due to their longevity
Sadge
Or in simpler term having mental breakdowns, stress and depression all at the same time
I especially like her smile at the end
so just like going hollow in dark souls
Yeah, I also think that it's the accumulation of centuries/millenia of memories with various complex emotions, happiness and joy but also grief, anger and other negative ones contained in their mind. The Xianzhou people's lifespan may have been expanded, but their brain capacity, so to speak, have not. So their mind starts to break down from the overload.
About "Rondo across couness kalpas". Black Swan(who asks to dance) is a memo keeper and wanted to read Acheron(over lady) past and gets traumatized by what she saw there
Not exactly traumatized by memories. Archeron is a Self-Annihilator so her memories are inordelry and constantly get destroyed which almost killed Black Swan. That's what left her I this state.
@@faresty7279
It's less about disorder and her memories being destroyed. It's more about who is destroying Acheron's memories that almost got BS.
@@johnbao444 “DISORDERLY NOISE!” 🗣️🗣️
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@@IX09513 lore accurate IX response
Now react to the Myraid celestias
Yea😂😂
Jingliu and jing Yuan In that short, the monster is infected with the Mara, It is a disease caused by a "blessing" from Yaoshi, the Aeon of abundance, is a consequence of giving eternal life to the people of Xianzhou, the lore behind this is interesting, so it is explored in its respective moment.
In Dahn Heng's short, it is part of a mission in the game, where his past and his relationship with Xianzhou are explained more. The history of that relationship is explored in some of Loufu's secondary missions.
In the Black Swan short, what happens is that she wants to collect memories, which is the job of her faction "the garden of memories", she on her own wants to enter the mind of Acheron is the most broken character in lore so far, when you see that thread he draws it is because he is trying to enter his mind and directs it until Acheron relaxes, that's why Black Swan tells him about The Annihilation Gang.
E The Firefly short is simply Cinema, I love FireFly, I'm sure you'll want to see it again soon.
See you, use Google translator, so sorry for any mistakes, I understand English but Writing and speaking I am a disaster
Nw we all kinda got sweaty on the black swan and acheron short as well. Oof
It's just a shame, some of them, if not ALL of them, are pretty heckin' confusing if you just watch them with no context. They're certainly worth seeing because they're all so good, but it's like coming into episode 9 of any anime and trying to figure out the plot.
Like you get /the idea/ of them all. Like for the Firefly one, yeah they're all fighting "bugs", but it makes more sense why it's so serious when you know what the bugs are. There's like 1 key bit of info that isn't disclosed in all the animations.(since all the animations come after you'd learn the info from a previous reveal)
Especially Rondo Across Countless Kalpas
Ohhhh I see I see! I thought that these were similar to like ZZZ character trailers where it shows some of their personal past/current life and it wouldn’t be too much to watch them now but thank you for letting me know! Maybe I might just rewatch some of them once I get to their stories in game 👀👍
@@Kuma_VT i recommend honkai impact 3rd PV /version trailer/animation and character trailer when you do have the time to do so
and if anyone rude to you dont pay them any mind
That second of silence in the Jing Yuan animation hits right in the soul.
5:33 that fox Girl is Baiheng, shes a NPC at this time, but there is a "lookalike" teased for i think 2.5
If you pay close attention what is going on in the New Year one, you notice that they explain the entire Loufu Story Quest what we played
the Dance Short, well when you peer into a black hole you just get consumed, Black swan tried to get infos out of Acheron but looked to deep into her mind and well the hunter became the prey
thats why you see a featherless swan and the snake, or the other visuals
Firefly and the SAMs are fighting even without glamoth because they are programmed to elimiate the swarm
i dont know if you heard from Honkai Impact but these Animation shorts go even harder (at least for me) but these are a bit complicated to understand because there is story between them
And Honkai Impact has the only "Anime" of sorts , which is nothing like the animation shorts because they a Cozy funny version
Its called "Cooking with Valkyries"
I would recommend that you watch the Concert too, i know its 2hours long but they do a lot of OSTs, Boss fight musics and trailer musics, but i understand if you are not interested
FINALLY WHAT WE BEEN WAITING FOR! THE DANCE VIDEO OF ACHESWAN!!!
If you liked this, I highly recommend reacting to the animated shorts from Honkai Impact 3rd, one of Hoyoverse's previous games, and I dare say a favorite of the developers and mine as well.
You should watch HI3 animated short..
Theyre soo good bro.
The animated shorts originated from honkai impact 3rd tradition.
You will prop.. Like it.
You can actually get the derpy profile pic you saw in the chat with Kafka by finding all seven wanted posters in the Belobog city area ("50 Credits?" Achievement). Fun fact: Gepard canonicaly drew the derpy ones ( ￣▽￣)
Firefly is the goat
agreed, and probably in the top 5 strongest playable characters lore-wise, i mean, she busted a planet or moon (unless that was the plant from her tears but still it did come from her)!
@@Yuki_Ika7 You are right👍
@@Yuki_Ika7powerscaling is weird in hsr but personally I see Topaz, Aventurine, Herta, Jade, Welt, Argenti, Jingliu Dan Heng and Jing Yuan being stronger while im uncertain of like Luocha and Seele.
@@Yuki_Ika7It’s most likely a dream sequence, and the planet got busted by the orbital strike.
Closer to a reaction to Honka impact 3rd, I can't wait!!!! i have a playlist of the animations tho, i think it is kinda worthy
There is a few that get forgotten about since they aren't in that specific playlist unfortunately. I highly recommend checking them out as well.
Huohuo's myriad celestia (it's short like the other myriad celestias that are in the playlist. It's my favorite one because it's so cute)
Penacony travel promotional video: come dream with us (an in universe ad advertising the 4th planet in the game, penacony. It's really unique with high production value)
Clockie cartoon (an in universe cartoon episode about Clockie, a mascot character for penacony. Basically a homege to old American cartoons like Tom and Jerry and the original mickey mouse. Also really high production value)
Additional Lore to add to the trailers.
A Flash:
You can see at the beginning, Jing Yuan draws his sword up to Jing Liu, signifying that he still is below her when it comes to martial abilites. Obvious from the fight as well and that she will always be his master.
The tree in the flashbacks is much bigger when when see YangYang.
YangYang gives the same promise, unknowingly, to Yuan when he says "I won't hold back." The same promise Yuan had to make.
Can also see the Lightning Lord sweeping his sword down at Jing Liu possibly signifying that Yuan has surpassed his master though not by martial capabilities.
Jing Liu ends up smiling during the attack of the LL, though she might have gone mad, to be released from it and be beaten seems to fill her with joy and snap her back to reality for a quick second.
Tale of Two Dragons:
The Fox Girl is Bailu. It's complicated but the sin that Blade and Dan Feng commited was, I might be hazy on this, but they were the cause of Bailu's life and they tried to bring her back? That is why she is a dragon. Also, there is a story, not sure where, but Jing Liu had to destroy a monster that I believe was Bailu before Bailu was reincarnated. Could be wrong but I think thats the jist of it.
Rondo: Black Swan is a memokeeper, an entity, that collects memories and reads them. She is trying to read Acherons past not know she is an Emenator of Nihility.
Black Swan came VERY CLOSE to not existing anymore, being swallowed up by the void and only by Acherons mercy she was allowed to exist. Rondo exemplifies the saying, "Stare at the void long enough and it will stare back."
Embers of Glamoth:
Firefly was apart of the Iron Calvary. They are clones, from the DNA of the "Empress" but the empress really doesn't exist in that capacity. They are taught a lie to give them something to live for.
All the clones are young, they have a built in destruction button that after a certain time period they will fall apart basically. This to keep them from starting an uprising.
The Glamoth war against the Swarm happened thousands of years ago so Firefly has been floating in space for an untold amount of time.
Now react to the Myraid celestias !
yeah +1
You should also do the Honkai Impact animation shorts and operation center shorts too since its really cool lore that gets referenced in Honkai Star Rail and some of the references actually make some story arcs way deeper than it is, you don't need to know any Honkai Impact lore to enjoy Star Rail since it is it's own game just that Hoyoverse throws in crumbs for the Honkai Impact players. Honkai Impact was basically Hoyoverse's golden child and basically is the father of Genshin and Star Rail, Honaki Impact will share more similarities as Star Rail since I believe it's one of the alternate verses created from Honkai Impact.
So about the end of the firefly one, its belived due to things I wont mention. That kafka is talking to the MC pre start of the game
Once you cought up with the penacony story (most recent planet), and only then, I highly recommend you to check out the star rail live concert if you haven't already.
It went pretty hard.
Reason why you should do it after the story, is because it contains spoilers for some really cool stuff.
you are actually great streamer
Great thanks for the reaction, I dont know if you have watched it Kuma, but please react to Honkai Impact animations shorts and maybe you will find some familiar faces, these are great even if some are really old
17:30 you are watching Sesbians Dance >:)
Now we need the Myriad Celestia trailers
Kuma nearly died of yuri
MiHoYo is /very/ good at telling a story in a short-format.
Honkai Impact 3rd did it. Each of the 'capstone' animations that act as the finales for the various arcs, can be watched stand-alone, and you'll get most of what's going on from context inside the animation itself.
If you get the surrounding context from playing/watching others play the story around the animations, it only ADDS to it.
The same goes for Star Rail so far.
As for them just making animes, they have done a few, mostly surrounding HI3rd. Cooking with Valkyries, and ELF Academy, which are very cutesy and slice-of-life ones that are semi-to-non-canon.
i havent seen it mentioned but the one with the lion and dragon dance shows the friendship between dan heng and ying yuan. it shows the beginning being happy and carefree until the previous iteration of imbitor lunae betrayed the loufu. The end being the forgiveness and reignited friendship of both of them. Dan heng representing the dragon and Ying Yuan representing the lion.
the gay panic is so real
I get it girl, we all get it
they fuckin'
25:03 the derpy icon is actrually gepard drawing of the the traiblazer
Myriad Celestial Trailers next please
You probably know by now which short is our favourite. And don't worry we were all sweating buckets while watching it 😂
Don’t cry Jingliu is alive 😂😂
So Myraid celesties trailer will show everythings of the truth. that's spoilers😂
Animated shorts and trailers done, now you just have to react to the myriad celestia trailers please!
Neuron activation on Rondo.
They continued to fight because the bugs would attack them regardless. It's a mindless swarm so they can't just sue for peace.
I suggest you watch myriad celestia, it's delve more deeper in the lore of the character, the place
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REACT TO MYRAID CELESTIAS THEYRE SO GOOD
Myriad Celestias next please!
She got spoiled noooooo
24:55 gepard's drawing xd
Ooof. i kinda feel like some of the later ones like Firefly and Danny boi should've waited till you got to their specific planets. But if you're cool with spoilers, then it's all good.
Do u plan to react to the HSR concert, Kuma? I think it would be good 😅
This is where all my money went, I guess.
Worth it.
I love the Acheron one. Black Swan thought Acheron was some naive girl out of her depth, and made the mistake of looking in her head and finding out she was trying to rizz one of the most powerful being in the galaxy.
Now HI3rd
White haired fox girl you ask at 5.48 must but the upcoming char (2.5) Feixiao.
Nope, different character
That's baiheng, she's the one who died and got reincarnated as bailu
The Black Swan and Acheron dance truly was made for the Girlies and The Gays huh?
💀
watch all myriad celestias trailers
25:29 u dont need context for this but i just clearly hear the screams of va's when this came up
Ok Reaction Honkai Impact 3 please 😍😍😍
I just met Aventurine in the game
he just so graciously "handed over his room" to me
...
he is pretty but annoyingly so
you miss a couple short animation, make part 2 please
pls, make the second reaction video on hsr animations
you should react to the hi3 animation too (or play the game for better experience)
I hope you were warned about the countless spoilers in those and are ok with getting things spoiled that would be so much more impactful when experienced at the right time.
Coming from someone who stopped playing right before Penacony......spoilers dont really mean anything without context 🤷♂️ive seen these and i still dont really know whats going on
@@basilisk..they mean something as soon as you reach specific parts in the story. The ones about Dan Heng, Jingliu and Firefly completely spoil their character's introductions and plot twists.
@@fleup3870 Jingliu's one explicitly does not. It was released before HSR so it was expected to be experienced beforehand. That is in fact why it is by far the easiest to understand and feel deeply moved by without any context, since it is the only one which assumes no context. The rest, as you note, have a certain amount of spoilers.
@@rowanmales3430 it's also at least minor spoilers for Jingliu, because you then already somewhat know who she is and what she is capable of when you first meet her. I have seen it again recently and knowing who she is clearly changes how you experience that scene.
@@fleup3870 I have the opposite impression though. We get to see barely any Jingliu in the story, so the introduction/mystery has to be done much faster in the story. This is accomplished well. It makes the opening scene with Yanqing much more obviously tension filled as you already know she is the previous sword master when Yanqing hasn't made that connection. It also makes understanding Jingliu's condition, her blindfold, and the difficulty/tenuousness of her remaining mentally stable all the more potent as you are questioning how she is even still alive or sane.
There is simply a lot of subtext seeing this short can provide to her introduction on the Luofu. Seeing any of the other ones in advance might have some negative drawbacks (with the possible exception of the Annihilation Gang introduction video), but not this one.
cool
react honkai impact 3rd animation shorts
Jade is like the devil
Kuma? 🤨
Why do his friends call him Imbibitor Lunae instead of Imbi or Bibi though? It's a bit weird they use his full name casually 😅
Imbibitor Lunae is a title, not a name lol
Imbibitor Lunae is a title, not his name.
@@diasui True, the name is Dan Feng but the point stands. Why do his closest friends call him that instead of Dan behind closed doors? xD