Sweetness woven into a fairy tale ♪

AKATSUKI

I feel like they're setting them up for a win. Besides, this win is going to be a "redemption arc" for them after that idol royale in Main Story 1 (if I'm remembering right). The bees absolutely humiliated them over there, so them winning here would make sense

fine

Give a throwback for that one AKAfine event in ! era (I forgor the name) and bait us with KeiEichi again. I want fine to prove why they're in the Big 3 in the first place. Like, shit I feel like they're being thrown around lately.

Trickstar

OG PROTAG UNIT FOR THE WIN. They haven't been showing their presence too much and I feel like that needs to change. They've been sidelined for far too long as a unit. Also them advancing to Round 2 means they'll go against the bunnies which would be a really tasty since they were both the "underdog" units back in the day. (Then Trickyfine match up, another call back to ! era.) Trickstar winning the whole thing is our reminder that they were the og protags and half the reason why we're having what we have here in the first place.

UNDEAD

Akehoshi-senpai and Hidaka-senpai beating your unit's ass with metal pipes ASMR (joking, I love the bunnies please don't stone me).

Ra*bits

I don't want them to lose to Espri bro 😭 they're the Original Cute Unit. HAJIME BEAT THEM KIDS UP. Ra*bits winning would show us how much they've grown together. Also, I would love to see Hajime and Tomoya's reactions to them winning and then facing off against Trickstar!

IT HURTS ME. My own prediction hurts me. As much as I want Eden to take a win in a competition because for FUCKS SAKE ALL THEY'VE BEEN DOING IS TAKE L AFTER L. THEY'RE PART OF THE BIG 3 FOR FUCK'S SAKE LET THEM WIN SOMETHING— Ahem. They're in Boemica* which is Adonis' homeland and they're setting up an UNDEAD win for this one.

*It's a fictional place, but I'll get to talking about this at some point since some takes make me. Hm. Eyebrow twitch. Groan. Sigh.

2wink

Another one of my own predictions hurting me. If they're setting up a win for UNDEAD in Boemica, then it'd make sense for 2wink to go up against them knowing their history. As much as I would love a RyuseiEden match up, they're definitely going to go for 2wink/UNDEAD since that's a more obvious route. Also who even gives a shit about the unexplored potential of RyuseiEden anyways. A bunch of fucking flops. (sobbing, wailing, whimpering in sadness)

ALKALOID

Just feel like an Alka win would make sense tbh? They're kind of the protags for !! era so it'd make sense for them to advance. They were framed as this up coming underdog unit in Main Story 1, so it would be nice for them to show off how much they've truly grown since the start.

MDU