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Shining Like the Setting Sun

Obtainability: Limited for the “Sayonara Storage” event shop. This is event bonus memoria and it should be kept in case of a rerun.

MLB Effect: Defense Down [10%] & Defense Down Further [15%] (One / 1 Turn)

Effect Definitions:

Defense Down decreases the target’s base defense.

Defense Down Further is similar to Defense Down, as it decreases the target’s base defense.

TLDR: “Shining Like the Setting Sun” is surprisingly helpful, particularly as it let you wipe out Anti-Debuff on the enemy team (especially concerning the 100 Evils).

Review: “Shining Like the Setting Sun” isn’t a groundbreaking memoria, but it’s also not too bad for anyone new to the game or to some free-to-play players. It offers a collective total of 25% Defense Down towards an enemy target-- initially this might seem pretty mediocre considering a single copy of “The Way Home after the Rain (Mito)” gives 40% Defense Down... to all targets, with a lower cooldown to boot.

However it’s never a bad thing to have multiple copies of Defense Down. Additionally, there is another benefit to “Shining Like the Setting Sun:” the fact that it has two debuff effects instead of one means that you can use it to clear off pesky Anti-Debuff off of enemies. 

Now, clearing off Anti-Debuff tends to be more important for Mirrors Ranking given that annoying units like Madoka & Iroha exist, who will give their entire team 2 stacks of Anti-Debuff from the start of the fight. “Shining Like the Setting Sun” has a cooldown that is slightly too long to be useful in Ranking for this purpose. However, Anti-Debuff can be found outside of Ranking too-- one notable example includes the recent horrifyingly difficult Anniversary 100 evils from Stardust Mirage. The last battle gave the entire team stacks of Anti-Debuff, making it difficult to Mito Rain away their Attack and Defense.

However, “Shining Like the Setting Sun” means you can use this memoria as Anti-Anti-Debuff fodder to wipe out two stacks of it, letting you use better and more powerful Debuff memoria afterwards.

One last thing important to note is that “Shining Like the Setting Sun” isn’t actually the best memoria in the game for this-- no, it actually belongs to what was considered before a pretty pathetic and useless memoria:

(4*) “An Uncrossable Gap” Magia Damage Down [35%] & Accele MP Gain Down [27.5%] (All / 1 Turn)

This memoria has a low cooldown (good for Mirrors!) and will apply two debuffs to the entire enemy team, making it extremely useful.

That doesn’t mean that “Shining Like the Setting Sun” is useless of course-- who knows what horrible team you’ll be fighting in the future. If you’ve unlucky enough that you’ve never gotten a Mito Rain, then this memoria should be helpful with increasing your damage a little bit at least.

Overall a good memoria, especially for Free-to-Play.

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Resound, Horn of the End

Obtainability: Limited to the “Magia Clash” event.

Effect: Defense Down [25%] (All foes for one turn) / Magia Damage Up [20%] (Self for one turn)

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The Me I Might Have Been

Obtainability: Limited for the “The Mirror That Reflects My True Self” event shop. This is event bonus memoria and it should be kept in case of a rerun.  

MLB Effect: Defense Down [10%] & Defense Down Further [15%] (One / 1 Turn)

Effect Definitions:

Defense Down decreases the target’s base defense.

Defense Down Further is similar to Defense Down, as it decreases the target’s base defense.  

TLDR: “The Me I Might Have Been” is surprisingly helpful, particularly as it let you wipe out Anti-Debuff on the enemy team (especially concerning the 100 Evils).

Review: “The Me I Might Have Been” is nearly identical to the memoria “Shining Like the Setting Sun.” Because this reviewer is lazy, this review will be copy + pasted.

“The Me I Might Have Been” isn’t a groundbreaking memoria, but it’s also not too bad for anyone new to the game or to some free-to-play players. It offers a collective total of 25% Defense Down towards an enemy target-- initially this might seem pretty mediocre considering a single copy of “The Way Home after the Rain (Mito)” gives 40% Defense Down... to all targets, with a lower cooldown to boot.

However it’s never a bad thing to have multiple copies of Defense Down. Additionally, there is another benefit to “The Me I Might Have Been:” the fact that it has two debuff effects instead of one means that you can use it to clear off pesky Anti-Debuff off of enemies.

Now, clearing off Anti-Debuff tends to be more important for Mirrors Ranking given that annoying units like Madoka & Iroha exist, who will give their entire team 2 stacks of Anti-Debuff from the start of the fight. “The Me I Might Have Been” has a cooldown that is slightly too long to be useful in Ranking for this purpose. However, Anti-Debuff can be found outside of Ranking too-- one notable example includes the recent horrifyingly difficult Anniversary 100 evils from Stardust Mirage. The last battle gave the entire team stacks of Anti-Debuff, making it difficult to Mito Rain away their Attack and Defense.

However, “The Me I Might Have Been” means you can use this memoria as Anti-Anti-Debuff fodder to wipe out two stacks of it, letting you use better and more powerful Debuff memoria afterwards.

One last thing important to note is that “The Me I Might Have Been” isn’t actually the best memoria in the game for wiping away Anti-Debuff-- no, it actually belongs to what was considered before a pretty pathetic and useless memoria:

(4*) “An Uncrossable Gap” Magia Damage Down [35%] & Accele MP Gain Down [27.5%] (All / 1 Turn)

This memoria has a low cooldown (good for Mirrors!) and will apply two debuffs to the entire enemy team, making it extremely useful.

That doesn’t mean that “The Me I Might Have Been” is useless of course-- who knows what horrible team you’ll be fighting in the future. If you’ve unlucky enough that you’ve never gotten a Mito Rain, then this memoria should be helpful with increasing your damage a little bit at least.

Overall a good memoria, especially for Free-to-Play.

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Intruding on Our Daily Life

Single Effect: Defense Down [15%] (All / 1 Turn) & Magia Damage Up [10%] (All / 1 Turn)

MLB Effect: Defense Down [15%] (All / 1 Turn) & Magia Damage Up [17.5%] (All / 1 Turn)

Effect Definitions:

Defense Down will decrease the target’s base defense. 

Magia Damage Up increases the damage done by a Magia or a Doppel. 

TLDR: “Intruding on Our Daily Life” is one of the best memoria in the game for Kimochi fights. This is due to the caps for Attack Up, Damage Up, and Damage Increase; and also with how easy (or hard) it is to get the effect of Magia Damage Up. It’s a very supportive memoria that doesn’t need to be equipped on your main Attacker to deal powerful damage. This memoria is a limited gacha memoria for the 4th Anniversary event: “The Great Banquet that Transcends Time.”

Review: “Intruding on Our Daily Life” is similar to several memoria in the game. This ranges from the Magia Damage Up + Defense Down combo found on these memoria:

(Limited 4*) “The Light of Hope Without Despair” Defense Down [30%] (One / 1 Turn) & Magia Damage Up [22.5%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “Resound, Horn of the End” Defense Down [25%] (All / 1 turn) & Magia Damage Up [20%] (Self / 1 turn)

(4*) “Popular from the Start” Defense Down [30%] (One / 1 turn) & Magia Damage Up [20%] (Self / 1 turn)

Of these, “Intruding on Our Daily Life” offers the least in terms of effect percentages. However, it has one significant difference-- it affects all members of the party, meaning it doesn’t buff one Magia/Doppel but potentially three. 

In that regard, it’s similar to the following memoria:

(4*) “Peace to this Battered, Dead Land” Magia Damage Up [12.5%] (All / 1 Turn)

(Personal Memoria) “That Which Links Emotion” Magia Damage Up [15%] (All / 1 Turn)

However, befitting a limited Event memoria, “Intruding on Our Daily Life” outclasses them in terms of its effects and even its DEF stats (please note that some of the following sections were copy+pasted).

Now, these memoria might seem a little too niche at first, but they are in fact actually massive damage boosts for Kimochi battles.

In Kimochi, you want to squeeze out as much extra damage as possible using any buff at your disposal. However, a few things might stand in your way, such as Attack Up having a 100% cap, or Damage Up/Damage Increase collectively (effectively) capping at 300%. But what do you do if you want more damage than that? Simple-- use memoria like this.

Another thing to consider is how easy it is to get some buffs in comparison to other ones. Attack Up and Damage Up/Damage Increase can be found on several connects-- Magia Damage Up can’t be. Magia Damage Up can be found in Magia/Doppels on three characters (as of writing this review), so realistically, if you are going to get it, you’ll need to use it through a memoria of some sort.

Because of this, you can prioritize using Magia/Doppels to buff the easier-to-find effects like Attack Up, Damage Increase, and then use the memoria to further buff your units.

Another thing that sets “Intruding on Our Daily Life” apart from the aforementioned Magia Damage Up (on All) is its Defense Down. This makes it excellent for piercing the defense of tough enemies, though it can also add a small boost in damage to generic ones too. 

One thing you might notice is that these two effects can be used on anyone in the team as long as they have the slots-- this mean that you can buff your main attacker while keeping their own active slots free for other powerful offensive memoria. This makes “Intruding on Our Daily Life” very supportive.

The last positive to mention (and least important benefit) is that this memoria can serve as a Stat Stick. Stat Sticks are a term used for Active memoria that beef up a character’s defense through the passive stats, not through its effects. These kind of memoria are very helpful in Mirrors, where some actives serve little more than, well, “stat sticks.” A Stat Stick can be useful in some PVE as well, although not quite as good as it is for Mirrors. If a character has low DEF/HP but you don’t want to use up a passive memoria slot to increase their defense through outright effects, then a memoria like this can give the character a little more padding while keeping their passive slots free for extra damage. This blog considers anything about 2200 DEF a stat stick.

Please keep in mind though, that as good as this memoria is for Kimochi, it is only good if you intend on using more than one Magia/Doppel and will benefit from that Defense Down. If not, then use a higher Magia Damage Up active instead. For example, consider these:

(Limited 4*) “The Three of Us, Forward” Magia Damage Up [27.5%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(4*) “When You Look Up It's Blue” Magia Damage Up [22.5%] & Skill Quicken [100%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “That Day, at the Sword Willow Manor” Magia Damage Up [20%] & Accele MP Gain Up [22.5%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(4*) “Melancholy with Daybreak” Magia Damage Up [20%] & Doppel Damage Up [30%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(4*) “Night Buzz Time” Magia Damage Up [20%] (Self / 1 Turn) & Status Ailment Resistance Down [17.5%] (All / 1 Turn)

(4*) “Obtaining Power From Nature” Magia Damage Up [20%] (Self / 1 Turn) Bind [37.5%] (All / 1 turn)

(4*) “Popular from the Start” Magia Damage Up [20%] (Self / 1 turn) Defense Down [30%] (One / 1 turn)

You can also considering using an Attack Up/Damage Up/Damage Increase memoria if overcapping isn’t an issue. Don’t lose out on potential damage! Many memoria are excellent in one way and terrible in another. What makes this one good is combining many different factors, so don’t read that it’s Great and then think it’s applicable to any fight.

With all of this in mind, “Intruding on Our Daily Life” is absolutely Whale-tier class. Its uses are highly specialized, and if you need to pump up your numbers on a Magia-weak Kimochi fight then this memoria is an incredible boon. 

This can be used on Support.

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Keep Promises in the Heart

Single Effect: Attack Down [25%] & Defense Down [25%] (One / 1 Turn)

MLB Effect: Attack Down [30%] & Defense Down [30%] (One / 1 Turn)

TLDR: "Keep Promises in the Heart” is a worse version of Mito Rain, but it’s by no means terrible. In fact, this is still an extremely good memoria for a three-star, and will be helpful for the more difficult challenges in the game. This memoria is exclusive to Bittersweet AI Memory gacha. 

Review: "Keep Promises in the Heart” is the three-star version of the memoria:

(4*) “The Way Home After Rain (Mito)” Attack Down [50%] & Defense Down [45%] (All / 1 Turn)

Notably, "Keep Promises in the Heart” has less Attack Down and Defense Down along with a longer cooldown (seven versus five); and it’s also only single-target. However, this memoria is by no means terrible. Attack Down will decrease the target’s base attack, making it useful for helping a character survive the enemy’s turn. Defense Down will decrease the target’s base defense. It’s an excellent debuff that has the additional bonus that you don’t need a character to have disks for it to be useful– since it effects the enemy, any character can utilize it on the team.

Memoria with Attack Down and/or Defense Down are memoria you want multiple copies of because this lets you layer an enemy each turn with debuffs, meaning that you can deal more damage and take less damage in turn.

Now, the fact that this memoria has a long cooldown coupled with single-target makes it not nearly as good as Mito Rain, but that’s mostly because Mito Rain is the best active in the entire game. As is, this is actually a nice three-star memoria and a good one to have on hand for difficult quests such as the EX-Challenges or the Hundred Calamities Challenges. Of course, if you have Mito Rain you should prioritize using that first, but the benefit of this memoria is that you can equip both Mito Rain and "Keep Promises in the Heart” on the same character.

Using cores to max awaken this memoria is nice but not a requirement. In fact, you might be better off keeping many single copies of this one as opposed to max awakening a single one, so that you can better apply the debuff layering.

This can go on support, but as always four-star memoria are preferred. 

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Magical Halloween Theater

Single Effect: Curse [100%] & Defense Down [40%] (One / 1 Turn)

MLB Effect: Curse [100%] & Defense Down [45%] (One / 1 Turn)

Effect Definitions:

Curse is a Status Ailment that will damage the afflicted target for 15% HP per turn, make the target take 80% more damage from its weak element, and prevent the target from recovering HP. It can be considered stronger than Poison and Burn. As a Status Ailment, Curse will negate Evade and can be used in combination with the effect “Damage Up Versus Enemies Affected with Status Ailments.” Curse chance can stack. Note that damaging Status Ailments have a stacked maximum of inflicting 10,000 HP done per turn. 

Defense Down will decrease the target’s base defense. This effect will allow you to increase your team’s damage without directly buffing a single character, meaning that since it affects the enemy, any character can take advantage of it and not just the one equipped with the memoria.

TLDR: This is one of the best memoria in the game and I can’t get it and I hate it. Also, curse and Defense Down are very powerful together. This memoria is exclusive to completing the “Magical Halloween Theater” event.

Review: “Magical Halloween Theater” is one of the best active memoria in the game, comparable to amazing memoria like “The Way Home After Rain (Mito),” “Everyday Overflowing with Pride,” “I Made Friends” and various other excellent Whale-Tier memoria... and “Magical Halloween Theater” was a free event reward.

Sadly to the ire of all NA Refugees, this memoria also isn’t possible to get right now. It was originally a reward for the “Magical Halloween Theater” event itself, and was briefly purchasable for 500 Magia Chips during the 2020 New Years event, but sadly it’s unknown when (or if) it’ll be available ever again. But for completion’s sake, let’s take a look at the effects of this incredible memoria and talk about what made it so incredibly powerful.

You can tell right away that it’s two effects synergize EXTREMELY well. This memoria acts as an instant “F*ck You” towards the target, hitting them with Curse and an additional Defense Down, making the afflicted target take an incredible amount of damage. It’s also versatile-- assuming the Curse takes effect, you can deny a target Evade or Healing, both of which can be extremely powerful measures all on it’s own.

But one of the true powers of “Magical Halloween Theater” is it’s extremely low cooldown at 4 turns. Four turns! My god, think of all the tomfoolery you can get up to-- in a long 20-round battle you could get this bad boy off five times! And let’s even consider this on a Support character with the possibility of Skill Quicken through Spirit Enhancement-- you could potentially get this off in three turns! It’s... powerful... too powerful...

We can all weep at not having this beautiful, incredible active memoria. Maybe we can collectively pray to Madokami and hope that “Magical Halloween Theater” will bless us in an Anniversary event in the future, but for now, when you see it on a friendly Support, pray to the stars and know that you have a powerful ally on your hands.

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Naked Heart

Effect: Burn [100%] & Defense Down [30%] (One / 3 Turns)

TLDR: "Naked Heart” is an extremely good memoria, and is is exclusive to completing the “Dependence Blue” event. You’ll want to complete the event (even though it can take a while) to get it, because this is on par with other excellent event-reward memoria such as Kyubey Knight or Halloween Theater. It allows you to raise your team’s damage for three turns and is on a short cooldown, making it useful for just about any scenario.

Review: "Naked Heart” is an excellent free event memoria, and you absolutely want to beat the event to get it. It’s (roughly) in the same ballpark as “Magical Halloween Theater” and “Kyubey Knight Breaking Through” in terms of usefulness from a free memoria, and it’ll be excellent for most kinds of combat.

But first, let’s go into its two effects and explain what they do. Then, we’ll talk about what makes “Naked Heart” so good. Burn is a Status Ailment that will damage the afflicted target for 10% HP per turn, and it will also make the target take 80% more damage from its weak element. Defense Down will decrease the target’s base defense. This effect will allow you to increase your team’s damage without directly buffing a single character, meaning that since it affects the enemy, any character can take advantage of it and not just the one equipped with the memoria.

What you can see right away is that this is a very good memoria for increasing your damage output in a fight. "Naked Heart” gives Defense Down for three turns (at a somewhat low percentage, but with the tradeoff of it lasting longer than other comparable memoria), and the Burn not only does damage over time, but will increase the target’s weak element damage. This means you can weaken your enemy and do much more damage without needing to use a specific character-- in fact, using "Naked Heart” on a Support with the passive Spirit Enhancement of Skill Quicken might be a good idea to try and get more turns out of it, seeing as its cooldown lasts for six.

The most comparable memoria for "Naked Heart” would be the limited event memoria “Fire Drake Roars” which gives 100% Burn for one turn and 45% Defense Down for one turn. Note by limited here, I mean a memoria you would need to roll five times for to get max awakened-- compare that to “Naked Heart,” which you get max awakened and max leveled for free. The better positive comparisons don’t stop there. "Naked Heart” also has better passive Stats. While it doesn’t quite qualify as a Stat Stick, it still has an excellent 2132 DEF, which makes it better than average when compared to most memoria, and better than “Fire Drake Roars’” 2030 DEF. Where “Fire Drake Roars” has "Naked Heart” beat is its shorter cooldown at four turns, and having a higher Defense Down... But that Defense Down only lasts for one turn. In comparison, "Naked Heart” lasts for three. 

So-- “Fire Drake Roars” and “Magical Halloween Theater” are both going to be better for an immediate, instant need to weaken the enemy and make your characters stronger. However, "Naked Heart” is going to be better for a prolonged need to make an enemy take more damage. This will be good for fights such as the Kimochi, for possible EX-Challenges, and for drawn-out battles such as The Hundred Calamities. However, this will also be good for regular fights and Challenges-- particularly fights where you’re against one strong opponent rather than a few different weaker ones.

But overall, even without going into comparisons and the nitty gritty, "Naked Heart” is excellent. This will be true for any kind of player-- NA Refugees, Dolphins, Free-to-Play, and Whales alike are going to want to have this. Using this on your Supports is an excellent idea. 

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The Way Home after the Rain (Mito)

Single Effect: Attack Down [45%] & Defense Down [40%] (All / 1 Turn)

MLB Effect: Attack Down [50%] & Defense Down [45%] (All / 1 Turn)

TLDR: The best active memoria in the game, “The Way Home after the Rain (Mito)” is useful in any situation and practically a must-have for the hardest content in the game. It pairs two good effects with a low cooldown and a wide range for who it will hit, and it can work with every character. Lastly, this is event memoria for the Bye Bye, See You Tomorrow and should be kept in case of a rerun. 

Review: This is one of the best active memoria in the game, if not the best active memoria in the game. When max awakened, “The Way Home after the Rain (Mito)” (often abbreviated to “Mito Rain”) has a very low cooldown at 5, and has two excellent effects in Attack Down and Defense Down.

Attack Down will decrease the target’s base attack, making it useful for helping a character survive the enemy’s turn. Defense Down will decrease the target’s base defense. It’s an excellent debuff that has the additional bonus that you don’t need a character to have disks for it to be useful-- since it effects the enemy, any character can utilize it on the team.

Note that the Attack Down and Defense Down here will apply to all enemy targets, not just a single one. This makes “Mito Rain” useful in any situation. It can be used offensively, defensively, against many targets, against a single target-- and the cooldown is low enough that you can use it more than once in a fight.

This memoria is practically a requirement for difficult EX-Challenge quests and the Hundred Calamities Challenges. It has good passives stats and can be used as a stat stick in Mirrors, AND it has a low enough cooldown to be of use in Mirrors, AND its effects are also extremely good for Mirrors!

It’s just extremely good. 

This is one of the rare memoria where you don’t want to max ascend it right away, even if you have five separate copies-- having multiple “Mito Rains” means you can use the memoria once per turn, and keep the enemy from hitting you hard (and make sure you can keep hitting them for good damage in turn).

You’ll absolutely want to stick this on characters for Support, and luckily this is the kind of memoria that can go on just about anyone.

“Mito Rain” is Whale Tier.