#goodbye storage

First off, it's another example of how Magia Record will choose the most convoluted explanation whenever possible instead of doing something far more simple and understandable and SOMEHOW making it work. Additionally, it'll have like... a lot of exposition that you just can't look at too hard.

Like Mikoto starts off the first ten minutes with a billion revelations on how her new parasite-powers/witchdom stuff works. How the fuck does she know any of that. How did she piece that together while she's in a dark void. How.

But you know what? Once you get past those three minutes, it's all good. Hanna and Mikoto have such a good god damn dynamic, wow. There are moments with surprising heart and clarity. Moments that make you think, "someone writing this really went through something." Hanna and Mikoto feel like real people-- they go back and forth on things. Sometimes Mikoto will feel one way and then completely backtrack and feel another, and it's not in a character-breaking way, but it feels more like someone who is standing on unsteady ground, who thinks one way and feels another.

Hanna does the anime trope thing of "I will be a villain to prove that heroism is right" which tbh I kind of hate because who the fuck does that irl. No one.

But it's okay, because honestly-- Hanna is not in a good state of mind here at all. Girl is clearly going through it. She had a horrible start to her life, still going through the horrors, she made her first friend then that friend BECAME A WITCH RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER IN A HORRID PAINFUL MANNER. THEN THAT FRIEND BECOMES A GHOST??? LIVING IN HANNA'S BRAIN??? LIKE. BRUH.

It doesn't surprise me that she's made her plan all convoluted. She's clearly not mentally well at the moment. I don't mean that in a diagnosis kind of way, but like the girl is traumatized and not thinking straight.

There's also all sorts of ways that you can dig into the event. It's straightforward on some stuff so you have a place to latch on to but it's ambiguous enough on other things so that you have enough wiggle room to have interesting interpretations and variances. Like;

Is Mikoto's presence making Hanna do things that she wouldn't normally want to do? Hanna wants heroism to win out. She wants to lose. Is that because, deep down, she's doing something she doesn't want to do?

I mean, Hanna has never been the nicest person either. It's possible she would have done this anyways-- but it's also possible that Mikoto's presence made Hanna even more extreme than she was before, or pushed her more than she ever would have gone.

There's just a lot of good stuff in it.

If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it. It does have weak writing moments sometimes but it also has really really strong ones. I think it's def up there as one of my favorites now.

It's kind of a shame that both of them are dead, cause I really digged their dynamic. It felt very... earnest. Sometimes they yell at each other, sometimes they disagree and misread one another. They both want to make the other one happy, but they go about it in selfish ways that the other one doesn't want. But that's not a bad thing. It feels like it's because they're young. Like they need to make mistakes to learn how to love the way they want to be loved and to love another.

But that's the whole problem, isn't it? Mikoto is dead. Hanna will be dead soon too. They're not going to have a future where those mistakes build a foundation for them. This is it for them.

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.

You know-- I’m of two minds for these kind of events.

On one hand, events where you farm Event AP and then spend that Event AP on the event are great for farming support points for my main account.

On the other hand, events where you just use AP on the event with nothing else are a lot easier to farm for my alt accounts.