December 2026 issue
>>291942679Ass too fat
Next month's pinups:Toaru Anbu no ItemShiotaiou no Satou-san ga Ore ni dake AmaiBanG Dream! Ave Mujica - prima aurora -Tsuihou sareta Cheat Fuyo Majutsushi wa Kimama na Second Life wo Ouka suru. Ore wa Buki dake ja Naku, Arayuru Mono ni "Kyouka Point" wo Fuyo Dekiru shi, Ore no Ishi de Itsudemo Kouka wo Kaijo Dekiru kedo, Nokotta Hitotachi Daijoubu?VERTEX FORCETantei wa Mou, Shindeiru. Season2Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita IITETSURYO! meet with Tetsudou MusumeRAKUEN TSUIHO Kokoro no ResonanceJyu-Oh Mujin DANDIVINEMahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku restartGirls und Panzer: Saishuushou
>>291942669I didn't know gambling gives you such PHAT thighs>>291942679Damn her body's made like 50% out of ass
>>291943379>Cheat Fuyotime for SEXY>no revo baraiawww, I wanted that jew fairy to get one
>>291942669Can't wait to buy her services
>>291942679New Ballsack?
>>291942669STONKS, lines no the only thing going up, etc
>>291942698Kind of ruined really
>>291948129looks the same to me
>>291942974>>291942718yay Vertex Force
Is there an archive of Megami somewhere? I can see some individual issues on torrents with zero seeds and a sporadic number of direct downloads, but no groups unfortunately. I'm more interested in the interviews than the pin-ups, if anyone asks.
>>291942698ToT
>>291942679Holy shit
>>291942698JC SEX
>>291948716I've looked and found the same problem.The boorus have a decent archive of image sets of the pinups, but the interviews are not included.
>>291942929They have a Black Prince? And they are only using it now?
>>291948716>>291949882try sad panda
>>291942629It's such a shame what happened to Honkai 3rd.
>>291950629Ok, what happened to Honkai 3rd?
>>291951648Long story short, the game has undergone its own identity crisis after the first arc concluded. They released a part 2 set on a completely different planet back in 2024 and people didn't like it to say the least. It was radically different compared to part 1, like a completely different game within an existing game. It just doesn't fit to 3rd at all, though it wouldn't be out of place if it was a game mode within Genshin curiously enough.
>>291942629Seele!
>>291950629Part 2 was such a shitshow the devs had to backpedal on a lot of things but the damage has been done and a massive amount of players just stopped playing, revenue is an all time low and Hoyo stopped caring. Maintenance mode soon.
>>291952427The fact that they didn't even bother releasing pin-ups for the part 1 girls in the magazine says a lot.
>>291942679lerolero
>>291942638>>291942875bump for GuP fans
>>291942629How much did mihomo pay for advertisements for a dead game for this issue? It is likely negligible compared to the monthly revenue generated by HSR and Genshin
>>291954995Nothing
>>291942661I hope we get blonde fat tits next>>291942669Build for prostitution >>291943422Frenda impregnation
>>291954995bout tree fiddy
>>291942704Are they… you know?
>>291957670Sucking my cock?Yes.
>>291957670Gay?Yes.
>>291957670About to ride my cock? Yep.
>>291957670I made one of them pregnant. Sorry.
>>291958215Based
>>291942629
>>291951648It survived because of Genshin and everyone was happy because there were male characters, profits increased because censorship brings more audience, and the male characters complete with a harem for a male self insert pleased everyone. Then they had to inject coomerslop yuri and remove Genshin. This angered everyone because nobody wanted yuri and everyone wanted to self insert.
>>291952427Female characters are the reason. They threatened the self insertion everyone loves and wants. Yuri doesn't sell.
>>291942629Nice threesome OP!
>>291942649>>291942661>>291942669>>291942679>White background pin-ups Man... They were much more effort put into pin-ups in mid-2010's and they were already very boring. I have 5 Megami from 2014, and they all had backgrounds
>>29195164899% of players were genshin turists who left.
Is Nyan-Type still published? Or the lack of moe and ecchi anime nowadays is this massive?
>>291951648See below>>291952427This. Part 2 hates the Genshin aspects that were the sole reason for success. Weeabo means profiting from the West. Ecchi means no sex, at best minor teasing, and never yuri, and very often with tons of censorship and male MCs. Genshin and HSR have both of these and profit. Hi3 has abandoned Genshin and success. HI3 died because it failed to have a male MC with his own harem and failed to incorporate beloved features like 50/50s in. They follow the HI3 route of unprofitable yuri instead of playable males harems and profitable censorship. Moreover HI3 neglects vital and beloved profit features like 50/50s, halving (from 11 to 6) the number of copies you need to sss a gacha character so whales have less to spend on, and instead puts too much effort into making skins that would've been more efficient if they were low effort recolors and don't even require separate purchases but can be earned through luck or spending events that count crystals, even tickets, instead of needing $300 separately. The game is doomed by a lack of male characters, a lack of censorship which leads to a minimum of 15% increase in sales, a lack of highly important powercreep they removed in Part 2, and giving hated skins like bunny suits or swimsuits.A big reason is that the Gacha system has been changed and it's way cheaper than part 1. They also halved (from 11 to 6) the number of copies you need to sss a gacha character so whales have less to spend too. These are bad things because characters like Vita who made 3.2 million could've made 7-8 million from whales. Add 50/50s, a widely beloved feature that other Hoyo has, and it would go even higher. HI3 needs to learn from successor games and have lower rates and 50/50s instead of all these guarantees and letting you craft stigmatas with cubes. That prevents rolling. All of this bleeds money because HI3 decided to hyperfocus on censorless unprofitable yuri instead of male MC harems that never have sex.
>>291951648What >>291961508 said about not doing more greedy monetization. Payppigs that would've been squeezed for their life savings only got a light hug because of how easy it is to max out. They also had powercreep nowhere as bad so there's less need to always roll. Some new chars weren't filler but optional compared to other game mandatory rolls or else you can't complete the story, let alone side content.
>>291942629>December 2026B-But it's not even november!!!!
>>291951648As much as I don't want to admit, >>291961218 & >>291961464 are accurate. I'll explain. The most successful time during the game was entirely due to a collaboration with Genshin Impact. The characters that debuted there became popular more because of good timing & tourists having no connection with past characters (including old fan favorites that became sidelined because of them) than quality writing or any quality of their own. This picture is of the Welkin Moon Lady from Genshin and a nun character that vaguely resembled her named Aponia received high sales because there were all these fan theories over connections to a background Genshin figure. Aponia herself is far from significant in the grand scheme of the plot but a cryptic resemblance to a Genshin figure was enough to boost sales. There are many in the same time period who have similar stories of good timing without the character themselves being well written or otherwise more appealing than lower sellers. The arc they debut in was criticized even on /vg/ for stylistically being far more alike Genshin Impact in gameplay & character handling. The developers must've known what they were aiming for. But like all tourists, they don't stay & they never had any investment beyond the arc they debut in.
>>291961377it's because most animators no longer do backgrounds>>291961503nyan-type died years ago
>>291951648CN felt threatened because they self-inserted into Captain and felt threatened by other male players. For real.
>>291951648Don't listen to all the retards blaming Genshin, the most popular HI3 character (Elysia) has nothing to do with Genshin and she still isn't even in Genshin but she's in the other 2 major Hoyoslop right now (ZZZ is arguable). HI3 was never that popular and the massive fall off has nothing to do with Genshin collab helping it (which it did).>>291952348Is mostly right. They finished up the main story arc for part 1 and started part 2, but it was completely different from part 1, introduced a male PC nobody used, sidelined the old cast entirely and was just poorly received. They started to try and course correct by adding new versions of older characters, but it was too little too late. The game now is in a state where the amount of characters is reduced while the time between patches and content per patch are increased, and part 2's ending was rushed. The game only had 4 new characters released this entire year which is less than half of most previous years.
>>291951648>>291962821Cont'd:Hoyo recently admitted they fucked up with HI3 and part 2 was a failure on many parts but they don't want to kill the game, however it seems like development is going to slow down or end entirely...or at least they're going to take a new break before going at it again and trying to revive it.The actual gameplay in Part 2 is OK, it's a major revamp of the previous gameplay, but the story, characters, etc are all failures. They had to remove the male MC not because it made the chinks mad (which it did), but because so few people used him that it was a waste of dev resources for them to have to make 2 versions of the out-of-engine cutscenes using him, so they just deleted him from the story entirely instead.There are lots of other complaints past this depending on who you ask; APHO was abandoned, Captainverse was abandoned (until recently), etc. The number of fumbles after part 1 ended is gigantic.
>>291962821>>291962870Content per patch is decreased*.Basically, Part 2 of HI3 is a big show of doing everything wrong they possibly can. They even tried to collab with a popular HSR character to help the game (which she didn't) and HSR is actually in the same setting as HI3 with at least 1 character shared (Welt) and another who is in the universe but hasn't shown up (Void Archives).All of the "Genshin Tourists' had quit HI3 long before part 1 even ended. I am sure a good chunk of HI3 players just swapped over to HSR entirely after the story ended since HSR has more HI3 characters now than part 2 of HI3 does, which shows how much they fucked up with it.
>>291951648Ignore the illiterate who doesn't know the character limit for /a/ is way greater than Twitter. He doesn't give sources because he has none. Chinks were actually threatened by any new male protags because they're lonely spineless pussies who get threatened by other self insert slop jus like the Nips do. They're batshit crazy enough that when Honkai Impact 3rd Global uploaded a video of Honkai girls in Bunny suit costumes then CN side had a melty calling Hoyo cuckolding them with Foreigner Captains (Captain is the self-insert of (You) in the game that has no actual role outside menus). They came to the conclusion bunny girls represents prostitutes and one of the Honkai girls named Fu Hua is the embodiment of China so they felt extremely insulted saying Hoyo is kneeling down for Westerners.https://sea.ign.com/genshin-impact-iphone/171332/news/man-arrested-after-making-attempt-on-mihoyo-founders-livesIt's literally>REEEEEEEEEEE THEY GET SOMETHING? REEEEEand CN consistently gets extra bonuses and attention too so it's basically pic. CN already made countless decisions hated by other servers and the developers listen to CN more than any other. The (cont) poster doesn't know shit like that and any other replier to your post is more worth listening to.I'm not kidding when CN are a bunch of pussies who felt insulted anything could replace their self insert who doesn't even exist in the plot. This happened before with APHO.
why is the anon replying to himself and his own earlier post unaware the other replies aren't blaming genshin, they're saying the peak of the game was because of genshin attention and every other moment is the normal with the attention died down? they're not blaming it, they're saying there was a small influx that went away and everything's back to normal
>291962931>All of the "Genshin Tourists' had quit HI3 long before part 1 even ended. IWhat. This guy even pay attention to any community involving this game? They were far from gone even by the end of part 1 because they kept on influencing and voting for decisions everyone else were sick of. These were the captainversefags and elysiafags who kept on posting all over forums like twitter to the official hoyo forums and voting in polls, They kept on giving support to late introduced characters even when characters long fans liked got no attention.
>>291964207China should get everything. Fuck you.
>>291962821>the most popular HI3 character (Elysia) has nothing to do with GenshinBullshit. Everything about her is GI. Her weapon was a crossover weapon from the time Fischl got added, her fans are almost always newbies who came at that time, and many of these new players arrived right as the Elysian Realm story arc was happening, Most of newer players came to Honkai during the GI collab, and at the time Elysian Realm was still going, so most of them started playing from her narrative arc instead of going trough all the story. And even though Elysian Realm issued tons of retcons, people still like it bc, since they skipped all the story before so those retcons and plotholes are impossible to see, and since they started with that arc, it became their basis for the Honkai story. Even today lot's of players are convinced that the Flame Chasers from Elysian Realm are the most important part of Honkai while they just appeared for one arc, with zero previous hint about them in the story. Tourists didn't feel any tonal shift from them because they have no past experience to shift from.
Oh great the /vg/ AI schizophrenic is here.
ER was the real cancer which made threads unusable and that was 2022.Mobius and Griseo were probably the only FCs that escaped the meltdown but then Elysia's success made her every single fan into such an insufferable schizo I've never seen before and I see that it continues up to this day.You just can't get along with them because if you like someone else more than Elysia then you are automatically their enemy and they will shit on you and your favourite girl because Ellie made more money, has more arts or they will just make some shit up that neither you or them can prove/disprove. Kiana especially really can't catch a break.They preach to you about "Elysia Church" but you can't find more shallow and toxic "people" around these parts. At least the nahida/dudu/hag/lolischizo are shitposting ironically.Elysia is most known to tourists and is extremely shilled by the writers but it's one of those characters that's popular for being popular and little else. If you're lucky, they'll say it's because she has big tits because most other reasons are even more shallow.Don't listen to Elysiafags. They say shit like how Elysia is the true MC of the game instead of Kiana and ignore she's a massively contentious character like how Broly from Dragon Ball has loud fans and backlash too.
>there are anons who lie that elysia is not genshin at allnice open world gameplay you have where the game throws new ppl at you without development who never stick for longer than their debut location. completely at odds with rest of game
>>291964690>Tourists didn't feel any tonal shift from them because they have no past experience to shift from.This needs more emphasis. Consider the tone of https://mangadex.org/title/c07234e0-1183-4bbe-9663-ed706cedb485/honkai-impact-3rd-secret-of-the-god-keys and how serious it is but it turns out those weapons were all made by https://youtu.be/9isHLaEeJeo?t=51this Steampunk magician with self inflicted MPD piloting a Wily Machine who was never mentioned before. I'd go further to say many older manga/manhua/comics are unreadable because core plot plots were retconned by that same game chapter.
>>291964207Cn's love of self insert slop payed a big deal. They keep trying because they know CN are mentally ill slurpers who eat up any self insert pandering but don't you dare remotely threaten their self insert slop or give communities besides cn any attention or they'll try and attack the fucking ceo.
Are you done replying to yourself?
>>291951648>Open world and gadget/upgrade meme (Kolosten included, part 2 of ER, and part 2 of the story). The story was also changed a lot in Kolosten (ye olde previewed plot changed)>New style of not having cinematics (I know we got one with Kiana, but there should have been one for Kevin losing)>Delay in part 2 coming out (I think open world meme contributed)>Moving out lots of the development team into other games>Terrible retcons for shit like APHO (how it ties into part 2 or hsr)>APHO itself was ass>Part 1 finale arc was very bad as were many arcs before it so many stuck along just to see it end and dropped
>>291962870>There are lots of other complaints past this depending on who you ask; APHO was abandoned, Captainverse was abandoned (until recently)Those were all good things. Fucking everyone was cheering for that. APHO even NOW in the community has loud outcry for it all to be retconned away let alone the outcry about a Boruto style post-story alien invasion attack.
game deserved to die after elysia and captainverse killed everything. apho was a failure which caused violent reactions, captainverse has always been just some whacky alt reality detached from the main story and honkai has always been yuri, no amount of elysia shilling and genshinfication aka elysia could change this.
>>291951648most famous honkai impact 3 dramas>before arknightsthe end of the touch system in CN"Mei's orange juice""the valkyries have their own lives, captain"one player censored the HoV summer skin and pose because the winter skin was expensive>after arknightshi3 lost the memechart wars against arknightsarknightfags censored all the lewd skins in hi3 and CN gachas in generalthe creation of APHO because of arknights winning the memechart wars (male MC only)APHO forced devs to make captainverse canon during the end of the nagazora arcthe bunny drama (the end of the wedding skins)durandal is the real kianathe eternal civil war between the church of elysia and kianafags in CNkallenxotto is canon in the regression song.the end of captainverse
>>291942629Will the next issue have Eva?
>>291942661For a moment I thought that was a Puru.
>>291951648Consider how the genshin community cheered when they heard they weren't getting any elysia after hsr did. She destroys games.
One sides has all the arguments and all the evidence. The other side has none. Captainverselysiagenshin has been decisively defeated.
>>291962821IDK how you think Elysia has nothing to do with Genshin. She had extremely aggressive marketing, which became even more aggressive in HSR, but in reality her popularity is the result of several factors coming together at the same time: a new game arc, a sharp influx of people into the game because of Genshin (many somehow forget this important fact; without it, HI3 would not have seen such player turnover), successful promotional videos, merchandise, and blah blah blah. Elysia is not so much an example of a super well-written character as she is an example of great marketing and another game introducing new consumers at the right moment.
you can tell that the Durandalfag on the writing team would have had apoplexy had Kolosten Dudu gone through 1/20th the trials and hell that Taixuan Fu Hua did because of her guilt and self inflicted pain. Although had the writers been in that kind of mood again they probably would have gone ahead and killed Theresa.
>>291942629Japanese Magazines aren't the same without Misaki Kurehito's art. At least they don't have a pink on the cover.
>>291962821wtf really? hi3 really push her marketing when her HoHe battlesuit released at the same time covid reach 2-3 years where genshin pretty much become mainstream and people start discovering hi3. so pretty much become the kanban musume for new mihoyo fans that find out about hi3 at the time. how you not know all this? were you not here then?
>>291942629I want to rape Reinhard.
>>291965204i just think never releasing timido as a battlesuit was fucking retarded, man.
>>291965615Elysia is what they wanted Durandal to be. They shilled both underdeveloped mary sues super hard and only one caught on.
>>291942851So much yuri
>>291965907tonal shift plus audience shift is a nightmare for marketing predictions. HSR (and Genshin) will never come close to grasping what made Major Himeko work, no matter how many scenes about how perfect and effortlessly charismatic "their" Himeko is (the critics can't say that! She's not flawless because she can't make coffee or act!)
>>291966046>the critics can't say that! She's not flawless because she can't make coffee or actJust like the usual Durandal or Elysia character flaw, something inconsequential to everything and never creates any actual conflict. Writing like that's very often done for Mary Sue characters because they tackle on flaws to avoid the accusation but never write them as meaningful.Also, they just plain never developed their Himekos. The audience is supposed to care for a character for meta reasons unrelated to the game itself.
>>291942629>mfe SEELELeave this one to me.
>>291942629GIVE ME PIC RIGHT NOW
>>291942629>that OPEvangelion has won
Almost all have no Elysia. >>291942841Bad. Remove her. The presence of Elysia is not good. Remove all traces of her.>>291950629It's a shame Elysia happen. >>291951648Elysia happened.
what on earth has this thread turned into
>>291967937One lying anon who replies to himself because others know what he doesn't. Elysia's fanboys are the exact same as Genshin players and are equally untrustworthy.
>>291968568shut the fuck up already, I do not fucking care about your chinkshit
Since when does /a/ have so many gachafags
>>291942629It's time to fuck ourselves.
>>291968690Since now
>>291942629I want to rape Reinhard Heydrich.
>>291942679nice
>>291968690It's just one schizo from /hig/. Don't mind him.
>>291942629This yuri
>>291942746>>291942763>>291942778>>291942829Honkai Impact 3rd anime soon? Part 1 ended a while ago and could work as a multi-season anime
>>291968690Listen to >>291971001 and ignore the elysiafaggot. He'll do anything but play the game or stop spreading lies.>>291971568You're better off doing entire seasons to pre-game story that are already comics. The ones elysian realm didn't retcon to oblivion.
>>291971735But everything got retconned by that arc.
>>291971781Then I don't know what to do.
Down with male characters. Down with shitty open world elysiafuckery. Down with kolosten forcing sidequests into main quests. Up with yuri.
>>291942629Don't animate HI3. Animate GGZ.
>>291971975Yep
>>291971975GGZ has already won. Look at how everything from HSR is a GGZ expy. Seele? Pic. Acheron? Her trailer references GGZ Mei. Phainon? His looped killing of his friends is copy and paste GGZ Kevin killing Mei and new loops while trying to save her. It's that or Genshin characters like Elysia. It's really sly how HSR's only HI3 characters are Firefly and Sparkle. They could use a HI3 expy like Welt Yang or Vita but with all this GGZ, it's inevitable they'd relegate them to a cameo or background character without any involvement or actions in the plot.
>>291942629>tfw how pic's anime turned outI get the feeling if they animate that game, they'll do some stupid shit like give Elysia or Durandal even more wank. Better off doing an original story set in the same universe like Edgerunners.
>>291942629>tfw part 2's finale was significantly less shit than part 1's and then they fucked up by having an elysia event after
>>291942679Good
>>291973158Why
>>291971458Openly yuri at the startThen they got reported to the CCP sometime around the Herrscher of the Void release, and miHoYo was forced to censor a lot of the older materials and reduce the yuri to subtext levels from that point forward
