hello, would you look at that, it's almost ryuumiko's half anniversary! there'll be a livestream (5/21, 8pm jst) talking about it!
seiyuus that will be in the livestream:
- toya kikunosuke (kiyomori)
- masuyama takeaki (kenshin)
- kijima ryuuichi (masamune)
- suzuki yuuto (katsura)
there will also be a countdown login bonus and a RERUN banner!
the login bonus will start from 5/21 00:00 until 5/27 23:59
and the rerun banner will start from 5/21 00:00 until 6/25 23:59. that's like more than a month???? there's no announcement of which cards will be in the rerun banner yet, but judging from the pic below, i think it's safe to assume that this set of lim SSRs would be in it
so uhh, prepare your crystals, i guess? and good luck to all of us!
so hinoe's update is live and i just hdhsjskskknd cryingggggg 😭😭😭😭😭 hinoe isnt even that high on my list but seeing him move and talk in the year 2026?????? just makes me emotional 😭😭 AND THE MUSICCCCC THEYRE USING HARUKA3 BGM IM SOBBING 😭😭😭😭😭
ryuumiko is up for pre-download! koei also updated their contents guidelines, and while it specifically stated for videos/streams, i'd still like to follow the rules (you know, just in case).
koei prohibited video/image sharing for chara story beyond chapter 36 and card stories beyond chapter 2. written thoughts/reviews are fine beyond those chapters as long as it doesn't include images/videos. there's no mention of the main story (the one that takes place in the dragon palace), so i'm guessing that's okay to share?
on another note: there's more than 36 chapters for the character story (i'm assuming they mean route)??? can i be hopeful that the romance here will be as good/fleshed out as the mainline games???????????
next im either going to do a recap of the pre-release stream (maybe just the important bits bcs its uhh sort of impossible for me to do it in less than a day w) or the compatibility quiz
okay, so, while waiting for the agf stage to start, i might as well write my thoughts about the ryuumiko charas. (EDIT: watched the stream, nothing new other than preview for 神気注入 and 添い寝 feature. there will be another livestream at 11/25)
writing this as someone who completed 2-7 and played a bit of 1. feel free to write what you thought about the game/charas/series too, i'd love to have more people talk about it gdhdjsjsksk
next post would probably the intro for world(s?) and system?
thoughts under the cut!
maybe i should start from the character?
- yoritomo: i have so much thought about him idk where to start dhjsjsjsks
as someone who already played haruka3, the image of yoritomo is already so ingrained in my brain i cant really imagine a "softer" one. though imo he does look, read, and feel like a ten no seiryuu. probably the more reserved ones, like yorihisa/yoritada. compared to the other 平安末期 otomege (genroh & birushana), he leans more towards the latter, though i think not as kuu as that. also wondered what would happen to masako. would she just not be there?
- kiyomori: poster boy! rare, but happened before for chi no seiryuu (kurou from haruka3). i don't really have that much thought about him tbh, but i did get him in the 相性診断 so maybe ill end up liking him? somewhat flirty, so maybe a mix between asvin, ryouma, and darius?
- kenshin: ALSO LOTS OF THOUGHTS bcs he does not (to me, at least) read or feel like a ten no seiryuu. or just a seiryuu in general. he's giving genbu, leaning more towards chi than ten. maybe a little bit chi no byakko? not too familiar with sengoku era so idk much about him BUT ID LOVE TO BE PROVEN WRONGGGG very excited for his route!!
(the 診断 result is correct in that i *do* very much want to know the real him lol)
- IF we ever get to romance other hachiyou in the heian world, i'd lowkey love another yoshitsune (hoping as chi no genbu bcs i love me some tragic man HAHAH). maybe kagetoki too? and kiso yoshinaka. since kiyomori is still young, tomomori and shigehira would probably be out of the question.
- masamune: definitely ten no suzaku. he's practically sazaki 2.0. hoping for some angst too since sazaki have some (those 2 bad endings live rent free in my head), but also because his va said he (paraphrased) 闇を抱えて and would only show his weak side to the miko
- katsura: so initially i wasnt too interested in him since happy go lucky, kawaii type charas arent exactly my type BUT yesterday my twt feed was going crazy over him bcs of the newly announced acrylic merch
LOOK AT HIM????? HIS EXPRESSION?????? his va was also said that he has more than just his cute side to him and im just?? ok bet lets goooooooo. chi no byakko is also more varied personality wise, so like, he's not that out of the box. i mean, we have ouchi and kagetoki too, so.
- hijikata: okay he's hijikata, he's tragic, he's chi no genbu. though i have to say, the purple color palette is an odd choice for chi no genbu, they're usually more on the (dark) green side. will they switch the color palette with ten?
recap under the cut! you can also watch the livestream archive on koei's youtube
so, recap! we have suzuki yuuto (katsura's va), kijima ryuuichi (date's va) as host and takahashi naozumi (va in 1-5) as special guest. i personally love having suzuki yuuto as part of the seiyuu cast/host bcs i knew he was a neoroma fan and you can tell how excited he was talking about ryuumiko. naochan is always welcomed in my book, and while this was my first time seeing/hearing about kijima, he looked like a pretty fun guy.
but anyway. let's go back to the livestream. it was 1 hour long, and this was what they talked about
- ryuumiko game intro
- new info about ryuumiko
- ryuumiko playthrough
- comment pick up corner (where they read ppl's comment abt ryuumiko on twt)
- message for the priestess (same thing as 愛のメッセージ they do during live events)
ryuumiko game intro
mc: yuikawa akari cv. seto asami
(proper intro will be in a different post)
mc is a college student. on her way to dan-no-ura, she encountered a storm where suddenly mosters started to show up. the one who saved her was taira no kiyomori. he then brought her to the dragon palace (located beneath the sea) where the dragon god was. chosen as the miko, the mc went on a journey to save the spacetime along with the hachiyous (famous heroes from history.
usually in haruka, mc got summoned to a different world. this time, both the mc and the hachiyous got summoned to the dragon palace instead. from there, they'll go on a trip together to different worlds. each world (that resembles certain era from jp history) has their own hachiyous.
- in the dragon palace, the conversations changes depending on the time & season.
- there's a main story section called "the story of the dragon palace"
- there are 3 worlds/eras that the mc & hachiyous can go to: heian, sengoku, bakumatsu.
- this is where the romance is happening. if you're not up for romance, there's also a friendship end for the character.
- the cg on the right is yoritomo's cg where he's attending to mc's wound
we currently have 6 lis:
(proper intro will be in a different post)
heian era (桜霞の世界):
- minamoto no yoritomo: ten no seiryuu, cv miura katsuyuki
- taira no kiyomori: chi no seiryuu, cv toya kikunosuke
sengoku era (燎炎の世界):
- uesugi kenshin: ten no seiryuu, cv masuyama takeaki
- date masamune: ten no suzaku, cv kijima ryuuichi
bakumatsu era (朝幕の世界):
- katsura kogorou: chi no byakko, cv. suzuki yuuto
- hijikata toshizou: chi no genbu, cv. suzuki ryouta
even though some charas have the same name as the ones in the mainline games, the ones in ryuumiko came from a DIFFERENT world. they ARE NOT THE SAME characters as the one in the mainline games. think of them as counterparts from a parallel world.
- battle system will be card battles, where you have to think about the card's element and placement in the team
- but there's also auto (for team comp & battle) & skip feature to make your life easier
- you can also use the card's skill with deadly attacks and pretty cg
- when you leave the game, the lis will do tasks and give you mats/equipments
- interactive feature! in the dragon palace, you can talk with the lis
- sometimes they'll even invite you out on a date!
- the higher your affection, the more you can do with the lis (it said より深い交流, i'll leave it up to your imagination 😂). they did mention 添い寝(sleeping together) function and 神気注入 (giving the lis spiritual powers?) through touch actions.
ryuumiko new info
this is when they introduced naochan. as you can see, that has something to do with the new info
- theyll put the mainline game charas in limited time events. the first chara is hinoe from haruka3. if you log in during the event, you'll get hinoe's sr card for free.
- to match ryuumiko's aesthetics, they're currently working on hinoe's sprite
for the ssr card of the mainline charas (i assume gacha)
- story: epilogue with the miko (in hinoe's case nozomi)
- newly recorded voice
- cg drawn by mizuno tooko
other announcements are interview with 4gamer and ryuumiko showing up in animate's girl festival (agf). the rest are pre-register campaign, haruka 5-7 merchs, and switch games sale.
ryuumiko playthrough
this is ryuumiko's main menu ft. katsura.
imo the screen setup is looking a bit too old?
on katsura's left side, from top to bottom:
- menu
- mail
- story (this is where you read past stories/stories you've read)
- notification
- tasks/work
on the right side:
- event
- charge (maybe for currency top up?)
- general store
- mission
on the bottom of the screen:
- (gold cirle) to his world
- (question mark) talk to him
- home
- dragon palace
- other worlds
- allies
- training
- summon
this is the dragon palace menu. there are li's icons on the right side, if you click it you'll go straight to where the li is.
this is katsura's interaction page. you can talk to him and gift him stuffs. after you talk to him, his affection will increase. increasing his affection will also increase his hp & atk.
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this is other worlds menu, date's chapter. from the livestream we can see that it's fully voiced, except for mc. the buttons on the screen are:
- story
- chapter list
- setting
- (gold circle) move forward (will probably bring you to the latest chapter)
and that's it for the playthrough (& recap)! unfortunately they didn't show the battle, which is one of the thing im interested in. but it's nice to know we actually have romance routes!!!! if you're interested in the 愛のメッセージ i can add it later in a different post. next post would probably be intros?
so, before they revealed new info about the new haruka mobile game at tokyo game show, here's my hope? for the game:
- actual romance routes
the most important point, actually. will be very disappointed if they skip/butcher the romance. considering that the mc can move to different eras/worlds, haruka3/lbc system for storytelling would definitely work. if they want to separate the main story and the romance, i just hope they don't lock the romance behind card stories. staoke has affinity stories so at the very least they should do the same thing for ryuumiko
- battle system
i know not everyone likes traditional turn based battle, but personally im not the biggest fan of the semi auto battle system in 7. hoping akari (the mc) would be playable like in 3-6. i personally would love something like anaden, where aldo (mc) is actually one of the strongest "card", comparable to gacha units (or at least that was the case when i was playing it).
would be great if going out to battles will raise the lis' affection, but that would depend on how they'll do the romance part of the game
- gacha
still related to the previous point. idk how much koei would focus on gameplay meta, but i just hope at least the main story would be clearable with free units or not needing that much gacha units. i personally like the challenge of high difficulty stages, but that can be optional contents. hopefully the gacha rate wont be awful too.
just this for now, will update about this after tgs livestream. might also start translating stuffs too? (nope im not looking at my translation backlog)
i just reaaaaally want the game to be successful so we can get another chance at console games. i'm still waiting for my ports and haruka4 remaster koei!!!!!!!!!!!
just wanted to put a heads up that i'll also post some stuffs on my wordpress (daisannokagi.wordpress.com), since i'm also planning to make a text translation for aoi's route in toraware no palm. i've more or less finished translating the main story part in the prologue, and i'm planning to do the main story part first before touching the extra contents (monitoring quest, calls, meetings, etc)
for mizuho no kuni, i'm currently doing the 夢の都 track and will be posting it here soon (hopefully). i also bought haruka4 memorial book and some cds so i'm planning to post about it when it arrived
