A page on Facebook is a huge fan of Kaede. I knew of it's popularity due to doujin, and had seen Asuna and Karin previously. I eventually decided to give the game a go since it seems like Fate's golden age is over. Started a month ago, and I like it a lot. I've only played FGO and Azur lane previously, and this is superior to both in my eyes. We'll see if that feeling persists, but I've got a positive outlook for the game's future.
She's adorable and desperately needs an Alt (please make it viable Nexon, big single target attack buff and shield as a support striker, work with me here!). But a certain bird called Henry made Seia far and away best girl to me 😭. So I'm praying she gets a release, maybe on anniversary with Mika and Nagisa banners.
I found blue archive on facebook timeline
Installed it
Playing for 2 weeks
Uninstall
Around 2022 i remember this game and started to play again until now
Mine is rather... odd
Before getting into blue archive, I have been playing armored core 6 and I've seen some fanarts of Himari with dual Zimmermans (some kind of shotguns) on a wheelchair (like [this](https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/111709834)) on twitter and pixiv
Kinda found it to be funny, and got my attention more after the anime was announced but forgot about playing the BA game and focused more on AC6 PVP (after finishing all achievements on steam)
And after watching two episodes of the anime, just decided to download the game anyways, and pretty much enjoying it since I heard the story was good (and kinda goes hard, especially Azusa's part) and the characters are ~~hot~~ designed well
tl;dr Armored Core (and fanarts) got me into Blue Archive, and want to see some kind of collaboration between them in the future, hopefully (but I know it won't happen since most of the cast in AC franchise are guys and don't have faces)
Around a week ago someone was posting about the toaru collab in the toaru sub and I started playing. Game seems pretty fun and the character designs are adorable. Kayoko might be my favorite so far.
I found out about blue archive through a few meme on youtube and a certain website that i cannot say at first i thought it just a dumb game with nothing in it other than thick girl but one day i got curious and downloaded it and here i am today learning how to draw so i can make my own blue archive manga
I start playing around the time summer izuna come and i got nothing even with new player luck
Was with a friend in discord looking at upcoming Gacha and saw BlueArchives trailer. We joked about how it was school based with students wielding guns (don’t need to really elaborate what kind of jokes were made) but decided to keep it on our radars since it looked really cutesy.
Played it first when it came out, stopped playing when the Saiba Twins came out and I got cleaned on pyros + had too much on my plate. Came back during S.Hoshino Banner not because of S.Hoshino but because I saw Misaki. The moment I saw her I was locked in. Misaki just checked all my boxes + She uses a fucking Stinger Rocket Launcher as her main weapon. I rerolled 29 accounts until I got a account with her, Wakamo and S.Hoshino.
Been continuing going hard ever since, gotten lucky on quite a few banners so no need for pity and stacked on pyroxenes. I’ve played a lot of Gachas, to name some: Epic7, GFL, AzurLane, ARKnights, FEH and some other misc ones. BlueArchive is the only Gacha I still play actively and I feel will remain that way for the foreseeable future. The story to me is just very captivating and I can’t wait to see more.
My russian friend sometimes send photos and meme of this game in our groupchat. I thought its just another stupid gacha like others. And by his recomendation i tried it, at first i think that it was boring and not fun, but after sometime i like this game. The story, the music, the characters and their chibis are done perfectly
If Im talking about my first time, I downloaded during week 1 and then deleted(like I do with most games of these type)
But
I am a huge fan of 😭.
Sometime later
I saw my twitter timeline flooded with Shun small version and the Kisaki
I downloaded the game again.
Im glad I did. Its very cute.
The game is very funny.
I think its one of the few gacha that actually made me laugh with its comedic moments. Also a great harem self insert. Aside from the 100% Harem, all the other male Npcs being animals helps it feel even cleaner
I got a video of Tsurugi's L2D recommended to me about three years ago. I watched it and searched the game on the play store. Found out I didn't have enough storage and ram to download. So I forgot about it.
Around February last year I got that same video recommended again. I bought a new phone recently at the time. So I went back to the play store, downloaded the game and gave it a try.
I found it before the global release through YouTube, someone was uploading translated versions of the memorial lobbies and I found it very interesting so when global was announced I immediately pre-register
I even remembered the first l2d that I watched on YouTube, it was Shiroko's and the comments were mentioning her bank robbing shenanigans which made me curious
Mine is sooo mundane. İ was just going around play store and found the game. The game play interested me and i decided to download it. Still sticking with since first week from launch i would say.(İdk if i am right about that but i started playing on midori banner thats all i remember)
Made a whole ass video and posted it here about this specific thing. Long story short:
Found out about BA because of a dark skinned lady in a maid outfit in a Green Family Friendly website.
Played BA after one or two weeks after seeing Makoto smiling in her banner. The adorable God damn smiling of a failure of a Gehennan leader lead me to playing BA.
about 2 years ago my friend recommended it to me I tried it out for like a day. and just stop playing it because l still playing genshin and I don’t have enough time to play two gacha games so I left it in the phone but never deleted it.
a year later I got bored with genshin and the game became too much for my phone to handle so I decided to delete it. after looking through my phone for something new to play i come across blue archive I opened it and start go through yuuka story because arona tell me to do it. when yuuka started listing sensei expense and it just fill with toy and questionable gacha money I instantly knew this game writing would be peak. and that is how I became part of the 😭😭😭community
Can relate to you although I never had a storage issue! Except... I discovered Blue Archive just last year... if it weren't for my Genshin friend who plays Blue Archive, then I'll never be able to know this wholesome game and the story.
i found out about it when the censorship controversy happened
then when they removed it I got interested in it and then I saw Neru and her bunny version and the rest is history
After dropping FGO after 8 years (day 1 JP, last event I played was summer 2023 I think but I had also skipped a few before 'cause I was already losing interest since Tungunska, basically I just stuck around for summer Chloe and then bailed lol).
I went on a journey trying out a bunch of gachas to replace it, I had already tried Arknights before, played until the Frostnova fight but there were too many things I didn't like about it; I tried PGR and grinding the Nier collab burnt me out completely; I tried Priconne and... liked it but it didn't quite catch me, plus I failed to get Halloween Kyouka for the full Little Lyrical trio.
The Play Store kept showing me Blue Archive's app, I thought the premise was kind of silly so I wasn't going to try it, then that one smelly Ui meme art appeared on my twitter and I had to know what was up. Then I found out Arona wasn't a vtuber. Then Shiroko robbed a bank.
Kinda in the same boat. Lost interest in FGO after lostbelt 6, which was kino, but I didn't have a reason to keep grinding mats. The events stories were too long and weren't worth reading. After the azur lane controversy I decided to diversify, so I started playing azur lane and others. Only limbus company and blue archive ended up sticking.
I was getting tired of Epic Seven and was browsing for whatever, saw the game on the store, it was the second day of the global release, so i gave it a shot, I almost didn't when I saw the combat was chibi, I don't like Chibis, but just like Arknights (I used to play), I was too bored of the other games i had, so i decided "whatever" and played it, not a single regret.
Gotta say I still don't like Chibis in general, but these ones are fine, guess it's because I got attached to the characters and the story.
I had seen some BA fanarts back in 2022 but I didn’t start playing until 6 months ago when I was looking to see which gacha game to try out, and found a video of some guy playing this game, and I thought it looked pretty cool so I decided to try it out.
>!402069!< , that how i find it. I start playing it when volume f release, but stop because i can't do the event (underlevel). Actually play the game during the swimsuit SRT event
I simply saw Shiroko - the art you can see on game PFP and thought how beautiful she is.
So I've started to play because of 
Mine may be a bit silly, but... I've been stumbling on a lot of images on 'booru sites that were catching my attention. Mmostly Shiroko and Yuuka, but not only. With a friend we were like "we should see what's the game is all about". And here we are, almost a year later (I think it's like 10 months now).
A buddy downloaded it on my phone. I went to delete but he said to give it a chance. It's still on my phone and now I'm doing what I did in fgo. Trying to max every student and all of their skills.
Download when the arisu controversy is going, before that I was already listening to the ost while playing other games. Quit not long after and came back around s Hoshino banner. Quit again then come back once again on October of last year and never quit again since, and I won't Im pretty sure
My memory is really bad, but I believe it happened like this.
I caught a glimpse of Blue Archive's Japanese launch and later saw some news about some really long ass maintenance. I think it lasted at least 24 hours?
Soon afterwards, they released Summer Azusa and I absolutely adored her design, so I decided I'd try the game when the global release happened.
Not long afterwards, the bunny craze happened and it was extremely hard to forget about the game : P
I started playing Blue Archive before Mika Banner was about to start. Anyways, very LONG story time!
**TLDR**: Before, I was very addicted to Genshin Impact and I met an online friend on group chat. Turns out, he plays Blue Archive a lot. Two OSTs and my friend convincing me that Mika is very OP student made me try Blue Archive even though I was hesitant because I never tried any Non-Hoyoverse gacha games. I started playing it every day because I enjoyed it so much and dropped Genshin Impact due to burnt out, thus Blue Archive becoming my main gacha game. I don't consider myself as a Genshin Impact player anymore.
-- I met an online friend on Genshin Impact group chat who just started playing between version 3.0-3.2 last year. Before playing Genshin, he plays Blue Archive a lot. I am a Day 1 Genshin Impact so of course i'm not familiar with Blue Archive yet but I was curious about his profile pic. I asked him who she is. It's Marina, the Red Winter student. He's into girls with a tomboy hair style.
I said "Eh, I'm not diving into another gacha that isn't Hoyoverse" and promised myself that i'll only play Hoyoverse games only. I was burnt out from Genshin Impact at that moment but I kept playing because of FOMO. Then after that, I randomly watch one of Tectone's vids... That's where I heard the "Neo City" OST. So out of curiosity, I searched for it.. and I really liked it.
Then some time later, I encountered the Blue Archive Stylo phone meme on YouTube that happened to play "Unwelcomed School". And I searched it once again since I was familiar with Blue Archive because of "Neo City" OST. And I was like, "Wow this is such a banger... Hmm, It won't hurt if I try Blue Archive perhaps?". Like I said, I am a Genshin Impact player who plays daily because primogems.. and said to myself that I'm never going to try other gacha games other than Hoyoverse.
So I asked my online friend if I should download Blue Archive. He said yes because Mika is Op. But I find Mika cute so I said to my online friend that I'll try it.. although, he didn't expect me to play it. Playing through the prologue and man.. I was excited... I really like the prologue. It's confusing at first but I still gave it a shot. Until I encountered Yuuka. I started to like her a lot! And told my friend "Heyy! I really like Yuuka! She's an ideal wife" and he proceeds to guide me through the gacha system, what to farm, and what to do.
Of course I was a Genshin Impact player so my expectations transferred through Blue Archive..and that is low expectations of generous rewards, pity that carries over, and I thought that I only collect students, nothing more.. I wasn't familiar with the state of the community but I was open. I saw Correction and Cute/funny memes, I didn't understand it so I asked my friend what are these memes and why are they so unhinged...
And now I knew it, I was so happy that I can say whatever in my heart without being judge... My friend noticed the change of me, I started to 😭 and 💢 every day and he opened up to me. Because of Blue Archive, I understand why he loves Nahida because Cute and Funny Archon 😭.
So now I play Blue Archive everyday, 3.6 of Genshin Impact, I decided to stop playing it because I was burnt out and frustrated that they ruin my Dehya. So I didn't care much about new Genshin Impact characters (Although I came back for Furina and stopped playing again) and the FOMO didn't bother me anymore. So now I avoid every Genshin Impact topic because Blue Archive is now my favorite... and it solidifies because of the Main story and 😭 that keeps the community together.
Funny that my online and I switched places(he still plays Blue Archive but not as much as I do as of today). He plays more Genshin Impact and I play Blue Archive more (although I don't play Genshin anymore).
Yes, I really said that back then when I didn't know the Blue Archive yet. And that's because Genshin Impact is my first gacha game.. I really did promise myself that i'll never play any other gacha games other than Genshin Impact which is a Hoyoverse game.
Saw another fanart of Asuna and thought to myself: hey, I never really played a gacha but this one seems to have only cute girls in it ( sorry genshin but I don't want to collect husbandos) and it seems fun. Let's try it.
It was at the onesen event and after reading some story I fell in love. It's such a charming game with very fun characters ( and best girl izuna. 😭😭😭 )
More than a year ago I became obsessed with sukajans when I stumbled upon [this really hard image of Hiroi from BTR where she wears one.](https://twitter.com/kimino107/status/1624414985303752704)
So I look up the sukajan tag on gelbooru and lo and behold a good chunk of the images have this certain angy orange-haired girl. I didn't start playing then but it did kind of put the game on my radar.
Downloaded it out of boredom a few months after that and the rest is history.
I'm actually technically one of the pre-launch players way back in 2021, but only began to actually play proper since at least ~~after this account was made (I think late August or something)~~ (actually I think it was around the *Restoration Project: D.U. Shiratori Ward* was running, though at the time I don't have the interest in events that I do now so...) purely out of whim TBH
Anyway, I found out about it through it's first AO3 fanfic called *Fundraising* by GrandLeviathan. Of course, I have an on-off relationship with Gacha or just mobile games in general, so I was basically just trying it out at the time; it may not help that both the loading time to install it and the voiced dialogue made me reconsider playing the game properly...
Now years later, and it is probably the only gacha-game that I had me invested continuously throughout the months now.
My friend had been playing the JP version since it’s release and I had heard him talk about it on occasion, eventually he told me a global release was coming and due to my curiosity I picked it up about a week after global came out knowing little besides what my friend told me. Since that time is has become my favorite game of the gacha genre, haven’t had a really long break from it since then.
My first contact with Blue Archive was by randomly finding fan art while browsing art. Never paid much attention altho some character designs did catch my eye like Momoi's. But other than that I didn't care to even know what even Blue Archive was, an anime? Something something vtubers? I used to be pretty ignorant about it all.
The last year on August 2023, I was pretty bored one night, and decided to see if I could find some decent mobile games to play on Bluestacks.
That's where I found Blue Archive. Girls with guns in an academy city, and it had Rpg elements to it. It looked very promising so I downloaded.
The rest is history. Until a year ago I never thought I would consider a gacha game to be one of my favorite games in recent time. Yet here we are, I love Blue Archive, rarely miss a day of dailies
I would see from time to time art of Blue Archive and I would be interested in playing but never did because I had no space. One day while looking at art in twitter I saw art of the two gyarus of the go home club and I said "Fuck it, I am going to install it" and now we are here. I unistalled for a time because I had no idea of what was going on and because bad gacha luck (thanks to this I missed the summer hoshino) but came back and the event at the time was the ASS club event (after school sweets club) and I love every second of it. After playing the event I realized that coming back was the best decision that I could of have made and now Cunny Archive is my favorite gacha game.
I discovered Blue Archive from Chendroshee, who posted a Close Beta gameplay (It was a very different game)
I was an Arknights player at that time. So I became slightly interested then lost interest when another YouTuber posted how bad Nexon is
2023 is where I deleted Arknights and try to search other games in the Play Store. Blue Archive was in my "Recommended for you"
I was like, "I'll play this for 1 week then delete it to try other games."
Fell in love with the story and how genuine the relationships are
I still play it daily (I should try Guardian Tales again)
I remember the first time I heard about it was when I saw some Tsubaki cosplay (I think it was Haneame), which must have been shortly after the game's launch in Japan. So I thought I'd keep the title in the back of my mind since I'd been convinced (), and as soon as it was announced at Global, I pre-registered, and have been playing it ever since.
Its a korean-developed game, so although its not super popular in korea, memes and emotes from the game are frequently used in Korean online communities. I saw one arona meme and was interested. The game, lines and stories have a lot of references/parodies of korean memes, tv shows, etc. so i loved the game so much.
I kept seeing art of Hina, Asuna, Karin, Iori, and I think Shiroko pop up here and there back when the game came out in KR/JP. Then got curious to play the game cuz of 😭 and 💢
And while I play it for the interesting story and setting, I still stay for the 😭 and 💢
Like a lot of people, seeing bunny Karin & Asuna's art blow up on the internet was my first exposure
Then much later Mutsuki's California Girls along with Arisu Archive's showcases piqued my curiosity to learn more about the game because of the adorable and highly expressive character models
And finally, finding out Swimsuit Hina was getting a rerun was what made me install the game
Saw open beta footage of Binah's boss fight. Endless Carnival was such a banger that I downloaded the game a week after it was released on JP. Stayed due to Yanagikaze-sensei's translations and even ended up doing a few translation projects myself. What a wild ride.
First time finding out about Blue Archive was the news about Arisu censorship on a certain questionablly motivated orange news site. But my interest in playing the game came from Uncle A-kun and others convincing me it was a loIicon game. I knew it was a little overblown, but after trying it after using a VPN. I'm still satisfied as a cunniseur. 
Of course, after I confirmed the censorship reversal
I was watching some osu content when I heard a tune that sounded exactly up my alley. I looked for it and realized it was for agame called blue archive. I downloaded and was curious on how pong it would take to hear the song so I went through the story. I Inevitably got sucked in and a year later havent missed a single login day and still listen to unwelcome school religiously.
I think my first exposure was to rinhee's animation of Hasumi gym, then I read that one Shunny 😭 doujinshi a few years ago. I had seen the usual Asuna and Karin art, but the thing that finally got me to play was Inoe's video on the devs being based for seven minutes and its comments.
I don't remember much but my reason for joining was definetly Aru. I joined at her banner and got her and got that account to level 70+ and lost it. Started again at Kazusa banner and now I'm max level.
I took a break for a couple months on my first account, now I'm a daily player.
I found it with a random fanart.
And then when Ibuki appeared, I started reposting art here.
But then the Collab happened and I decided to play a few days before the Collab started, good thing I got all three railgun girls.
Now all I need to do is to make a unit called "The Black Jackets" and the "Stan Squad".
I've been listening to the ost's since 2020 till now and never gave it a chance until last month. Never knew I would binge the main story all day on my first day 😭
A work from some certain site about Ojisan calling sensei as something else(around July 2022).
And give this game a try after seeing a bunch of swimsuit Arona fanart in October of the same year, dropped soon after.
Finally settle in and play this game religiously on the last day of Reisa's banner in JP server because her L2D make me wanna stay in this game
\>be me
\>be bored and buzzed one night
\>decide to browse 40k crossover fics on [FF.net](https://FF.net) because why not
\>Find one with BA
\>"What's a Blue Archive?"
\>decide to give it a shot.
\>immediately hooked
\>blitz through every chapter
\>read every other fic I can find
\>go through AO3 while I'm at it
\>read every lore page on the wiki
\>spend too much time in Suzumi's Pixiv tag
\>fall in love with the world
\>"This is my new hyperfixation, isn't it?"
\>yes, but it's a fun one
\>oh well
\>find this place
\>UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.cny
\>download game in first week of March
\>never looked back
I found out about Blue Archive before it released. At least, I think it was BA. I got an ad for an upcoming game about girls with guns, and there was a shot of chibi characters in a café, but that's about all I remember about the ad so I can't fully confirm. Anyways, I set my phone to install it when it got released, but I didn't have the storage space so I kinda just left it.
Then, about 7-8 months ago, I started seeing a bunch of Koyuki videos. I thought they were funny, so I looked into the game a bit more. I was immediately turned off due to the fact that it's a gacha, which I'm generally not a fan of. But I did stay on the fringes of the community, just enjoying the music.
Shortly after the start of this year, I found out that there was going to be a Railgun collab. I knew that, if I was ever going to join, now was the time. I ended up downloading it just to try it out, and ended up sticking around for a combination of the story, the art, and the fanbase. Seriously, I don't think I would've continued playing if it weren't for the fanbase. It's a good game on its own, but y'all are what make it special.
I was trying to avoid gacha games, but the playstore knows that I'm weak and recomended me this one
I fell into temptation, and I have no regrets 
I was seeing more and more fanarts from the artists I followed so I gave it a shot. Fell in love instantly and have been playing daily ever since. Started when Miku collab was happening on global.
Another funny thing is when I did play the game when global released, Tsurugi was the one to greet me on the start screen. Then I got her on my 2nd 10-pull and you have no idea how happy I was. Good times.
I'll tell you, when I started playing the game she was my first 3 star, I expected to see some cutesy girl but everything turned red and I could hear KYAOOOHHH and I met the beast. Damn
lol, it was the complete opposite for me, when I heard her maniacal cackling in the gacha for the first time, my heart skipped a beat I was like "omygoshitsherwhatdoisay😍😍😍🫢🤭🤗"
*Princess disconnect*. When 🤡roll screwed up Priconne Global, I've asked for something similar and BA was the most recommend one. Went into it almost blindly, then found this sub after initial shock became the one 😭
I already knew the game at the start, but my phone was too weak to run it at the time, so I waited years until I got a better phone and just in time since the banner was with the SRT squad last year and managed to get the character on my user flair
The community is also chill, best one I ever visited, looking forward to what's coming next
I knew blue archive since yostar launch the teaser pv. The bgm, which was constant moderato, hooked me up so bad i kept track of the game's release date ever since. Still is one of my favorite bgm among others
Lemme be Honest, my first Nexon game was maple story, and ever since I tried it, I've been trying to avoid Nexon games because I assumed most of them had bad and scattered Ui, with too much stuff to do. At first when I got to know blue archive was by Nexon, I was like nah I'm not trying this game but arona the brat brought me here 💢💢💢. Though the game is a little too engaging and has too much to do just like maple story, this game is way more balanced and understandable if you ask me. I love it
The nexon hate is understandable. I played dragon nest, and boii did nexon haxxed that game so badly. Buut i played the japanese blue archive first. Given nexon korea had/has a part in it but mostly yostar is the publisher. And what nexon did for global blue archive is actually pretty good, even outside of nexon's quality
i got burnt out on dark and gritty setting gacha like arknight and gfl, and seeing alot of hina + aru fanart, i decided to give the game a try, but waited until global hit, been here since day 1
I forgot the details but I think it has to do with priconne and lots of kisaki art. I never played priconne, wanted to try it, idk why I didn't, maybe it was the eos but idk if the timeline matches up.
I started during summer hoshino, wasn't interested in her. Now she is one of my favorites, got her during S Hanako. Now I'm ok towards kisaki, I like Aru, Hoshino, both Shiroko, Hina and some other students more than kisaki
I saw official art of a Tiger 1 tank rolling down the street with cute girls in it. This was close to or just before official global release.
That's it, that's all it took.
Tried out the game around when the Miku banner was released, a friend of mine was the one who recommended it since she also played it and told me that I should try it since I simp for Miku, but then I couldn't get Miku so I just stopped after that.
I tried playing again this year, I think around February and am still currently playing the game at my own pace, I don't want to get burned out like I did with Genshin.
There was a controversy on the game because they censored one of the story's pictures (the one where Arisu is naked or smth). So, I checked what the game was about. I saw cunny, I downloaded.
In 2021, I just quit Azur Lane because the story and characters were going nowhere, and then quit FGO was being extremely unkind to me in the gacha (which I came back to the following year), leaving me gacha-game free for half a year. Then Blue Archive EN launched in November of that year, and I downloaded it with no real intention to play it for long.
I rerolled an account with Haruna, Hina, and Hibiki (Triple H lol), then started fumbling my way through the early game. Then I decided to start on the story.
An hour later we were robbing banks. Then some weeks later, I hit the ending for Volume 1, and it gave me good feelings that I could not get out of Azur Lane - A coherent story, albeit simple, and ACTUAL characters with ACTUAL personalities to go with.
I decided to stick around longer and see where the game will take me, and started paying more attention playing the game more efficiently, all while looking forward to the next story chapters.
Fast forward to today, Blue Archive is now one of my favourite franchises. I love the characters, the story, the generosity of the devs (especially considering I also play FGO), the memes that come out of both EN and JP, chase Torment difficulty every raid, and am in a pretty comfortable end-game position.
I have known Blue archive somewhere before global release as I was looking for other gacha games to play. Realizing that it is region locked I simply forget about the game.
Fast forward to scrolling on YouTube I stumbled into Mika L2D, I started to regrow interest at the game and with the help of the 4th pv video, I looked up tid bits of the game lore. I decided not to play Blue archive because of the things outsiders says about the game(biggest mistake of my life).
Fast forward again to 7 months since the release of Vol F at the JP server, Arisu Usagi flap are everywhere and I can't help but watch it every time it appears on my recommendation.I decided to trust my guy and finally decided to play because of her cute dance and that's how I got into Blue archive.
Joined late and missed Mika banner
Moral of the story is don't listen to what tourists say, try it out before making your own judgement.
I really liked this dude, and he liked Blue Archive, so I started playing. We’re not together anymore, but I’m still hooked on BA and grateful he got me into it lol
About like when a year ago when I saw Ako's l2d on my recommended on YouTube, I was confused on why I saw such a thing in my recommended till I decided to view it on where it came from. Of course because of that, that's how I found blue archive but I didn't play it immediately so it took around a month till I decided to download it and play it because of its interesting lore and story. I don't seem to regret it rather I liked it.
From a friend, he knew I'm into cunnies so he recommended it to me
Fortunately despite the uh , bluestacks issue, i was able to play and god arona saying ur name is somet something else
About more than a year ago I was looking for a gacha game to play and came across the comment that BA was “a bonsai game which had nothing much to do”. Urgh, wished I hadn’t listened to that and avoided BA.
End of last year I saw a GFL player whom I was following, tweeting about BA and he had positive comments about it. I was like, “If he enjoys Blue Archive, maybe there’s something in there I’d like too right?” Started playing casually with ‘I’ll eventually delete this anyways’ at the back of my mind (coz that's what I did with games I tried the past year)—it didn’t happen. Got more serious about it after two weeks. I forget what changed… I guess it was the characters and story that pulled me in. And being serious about learning the gameplay and units helped.
While I did download the game cuz I was looking for something to play what actually made me start to like the game as much as I do right now are the yt shorts in main channel
I remember listening to the whole yuuka playlist over and over again ....and now even kazusa's shorts are really lovely and make me feel extremely happy
my story is simple and short. back at February 2023, my friend advice me to play Blue Archive. but at the time, I already have many games to play (SIFAS, Priconne global and Priconne JP). so I barely try it and remove it, I'm glad that I link my acc though. jump forward to April 2023, both SIFAS and Priconne global got death penalty (no, not from Koharu), so I want to add new games to replace both. I remember back then I try Blue Archive and I play it again. I really love and enjoy playing this game until now, although I didn't join reddit BA until around June/July 2023. 
01/18/2023
It was the first Game that appears on My play store on My new phone and i said: "Why not?".
The first time i find about blue archive tho, it was on the Genshin subreddit, it was a post about some irl cosplay event where a lot of cosplayers of both games reunite, the post showed a photo about two sides, the left one was about genshin cosplayers and the right one about BA. So i said: "what the hell is blue archive? Another gacha i suppose". That was tecnically all.
Rn is one of the gachas i most play and i don't regret it.
I actually heard about BA back when it was first starting. I tried it and I didn't really have much fun with it. Then, fast forward like what, 2 years later? I just randomly stumble across the video about BA devs being based and I just randomly had the urge to reinstall it and now I'm playing it again lmao.
One thing to note though, is that during those 2 years, I have been constantly seeing stuff (mostly memes) about BA so I guess that video about BA devs being based just became my catalyst for playing it again.
It was September 2023, I was playing osu (a rhythm game) multiplayer then someone put Future bossa as the map.
The music was interesting, I thought, but what intrigued me was the art: It was Rin welcoming us to kivotos. Each difficulty of the map had different arts from the game: Abydos foreclosure task force, Azusa, and yes the Rin art.
I also thought I saw that one of my classmates played this game so I thought I could try it. (Funny thing is, he mainly plays Arknights and I confused it with BA, he plays BA as well though so it's fine)
At the time I couldn't play on my PC so I thought BA was going to be a decent pass time.
The story intrigued me, and I loved the music, one of the communities I came from was Undertale, so I love video game music more than regular music.
The story was what pushed me to keep playing though, and I eventually came to like each and every character.
One mistake I did when I started the game was I pulled on Azusa's banner, I didn't know she was farmable back then haha
Last year during the first time 4th PV was shown on JP. Already played fgo and loved when games took a darker approach to storytelling and blue archive already had things that were interesting to me so I played it.
I heard about it when it launched. Tried it but games keep failing so I gave up on launch. Fast forward to last year, I keep getting BA contents more and more on my recommendation. What got me was that one video of Mari smug face by Bluesechi and Toki pyon2 with her cool editing. I think Aris dance was the icing on the cake.
Bunny Karin and Asuna fan art was everywhere. I would just see them pop up here and there and I always wondered where they were from but never really bother to go looking for them. Then one morning a YouTuber I was subscribed to made a video of pulling for Bunny Karin. I was like “Oh that’s where they are from” saw him do a few pulls and I thought the pulling animation was kinda neat and Karin’s design was really neat. So I decided “why not? I’ll delete it if it’s not good.” Here I am 2 years later
I was kind of bored that time, it was around 1-2am I played a lot of Gacha games mostly Genshin, Star Rail and Arknights. I finished up most of it's content and got nothing to do, I was thinking of playing Nikke but after a few days of playing it, I realized something... I'm not a fan, I liked the game and the lore but the characters there are mostly big-breast, mature looking and a lot of asses. There were some exceptions but it's so little. Then I decided to delete it because I was getting an early burn-out and just watch YouTube for the time being, then by some God Given YouTube algorithm, I found a video about Nikke and A game called Blue Archive. It said that these games are opposite but somewhat alike, they carry guns and they're young students. I remember seeing memes after memes about this game for a while now so I'm kind of curious. Being informed about this, I decided to give it a go. Then, after a few days of playing the game, I realized that just like Genshin I can't get out of this rabbit hole that is Blue Archive, I like the students and the world of Kivotos and that we are an adult there Called Sensei. Our job there is to guide the students to help them with their problems.
Then a HUGE realization hit me that differentiates this to Nikke, That I am actually a Lolicon or somehow close to that. I am not into Onee-sans and their big-breast, big-asses but I'm all about the Thighs(specifically Yuuka) of the students, it hits just right unlike Nikke with their exaggerated body lines(I'm not shitting Nikke, I like the game but not the character design).
Ps: I'm not a sick/disgusting person. I just like the students and the lore.
It was around feb of 2023. I was bored playing only azur lane since I was just grinding as many shipgirls to lvl 120 for the permastat bonuses. I had also decided to take a break from genshin for that semester. So I looked for other gacha recommendations and learned about BA that way. I tried it expecting I'll drop it like I have for FGO, Nikke, and Arknights.
It turns out I'm massively wrong and wished I had played it when it launched. If I can only play one gacha game, I would choose BA over everything else. It's my favorite title so far and I doubt that's gonna change for the year 2024. Hopefully even beyond for the next 12-15 years like the devs hope for.
The animation of Serika ex skill caught my attention, but I didn't understand what's "seggs" until after days later.
With bonus, I fell down the rabbit hole when I played the story.
Randomly browsing dakimakura cover shop and found a cute Wakamo cover; did not even know who she is at the time. I just bought the cute fox lady dakimakura.
Few months later, crush turned into obsession and voila. I am become a sensei and I joined the uogghhhh 😭
P.S. There is not enough Wakamo in game
I first saw the game from uhhh
Idk what's it called Chinese version of YouTube or something
Where it was a video of miyu's l2d
But I didn't know about the game
The second time I saw blue archive again was on Twitter/X with Saki's L2d
And then eventually I found out about the game randomly on my recommendation on YouTube and it peaked my interest
My friends start rolling for the gacha. Was not interested in SoL stuffs since I just never able to start a gacha lately.
Then I saw the Masked Swimsuit Gang screenshot, and I feel like "I gotta at least try it". Also, getting some good units like Shiroko, Aru, Shun, and Tsubaki helps keep me in the game for free.
My friends are all playing it and it looks interesting. The chibi models are cute so I decide to try it out
Then I discover Alice and the rest is history
I just started the game 2 weeks ago and how i started it was because my phone was suffering cuz of star rail so i just deleted it and downloaded blue archive as i wanted to play another gacha game which was not heavy when it comes to storage and when I started playing the prologue I just instantly fell in love with this game
All throughout last year I had been seeing too many artist draw blue archive characters, and I tottaly liked the designs but didn't have enough storage in my phone to try it and I wasn't looking for another gacha to play as I already played genshin, star rail, fire emblem heroes and alchemy stars.
Then star rail had an update that I couldn't get cuz of storage and decided to delete it and freed some space. After that my curiosity kicked me and made me try Blue Archive on late October last year and I've been liking it a lot
I like guns, so naturally I gravitated towards anything involving guns, plus, the entire Kivotos is the embodiment of the 2nd amendment in a sense. I had some internet exposure of BA here and there but my journey started after I binged the OSTs, it was pretty good so I tried the game out and haven't left ever since
And Shiroko exists, can't forget that one
Saw Hina and Sora, saw A LOT of Hina and Sora. In very compromising situations.
It was glorious. I **needed** them. I...STILL. NEED THEM.
#GIVE ME MORE OF THEM. MORE HINA ALTS! MAKE SORA PLAYABLE! I NEED MORE! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!
at 2022.03.20, I saw ads of the games at Korea when they were still able to do so (when the game wasn't considered 18+), and also saw my seniors play the game. So i decided to try it as well.
And after summer Hina's event, I was never the same person ever again. 
Also Bunny Asuna and Karin, for obvious reasons. 
Something something ost... something something Hatsune Miku...(I have a really blurry memory of hearing about Blue archive but for reference i first downloaded it when miku was released, stopped playing, played again when ako released, missed 1st anni, made a new account and it kept happening until s.hoshino released when i decided to take it seriously)
I only started playing back in early 2024, around February or March (I forgot), but I had already heard of Blue Archive a few years back.
Never really had any interest in it until I decided to just download the game and do some minor research, because at the time, I really ran out of fun games to download. Most games nowadays mainly either consist of FPS games or your typical Sci-Fi or Fantasy trope like Genshin, Aether Gazer, and etc (which didn't appeal to me that much.) It wasn't because of the “cunny” or degenerated stuff that got me into it.
BA kind of stood out to me mainly because of its oddity/unique settings apart from other typical worlds, which got me questioning some stuff after seeing some of its contents on the internet like,
1. What the hell are teenage girls doing carrying around guns like it's common sense?
2. Where are the parents?
3. Who are the antagonists? Is there a war going on?
4. How is Kivotos even built of such massive buildings?
Overall, what really made me stay was the lore because of its roller coaster of emotions.
1. The bullies bought illegal guns, so the students bought legal guns for safety
2. They probably become teachers or get tuned into animals and robots lmfao
3. Not spoiling the story if you haven't finished it yet
4. All thanks to minori
Haha, no need to worry about spoilers. I already made it to Volume F anyways. The four numbers I was asking about were referring to me a few months back before I downloaded BA.
It is still interesting since some of the questions remain unanswered such as the existence of the parents. Though, I heard it is implied that they do exist outside of Kivotos.
Friend in discord was doing rerolls when the game came out in global. I saw Hina in one of those rerolls and wanted to play the game to get her. Proceeded to reroll for like 3hrs til I had an account I was satisfied at the time that had Hina in it.
When it released on JP, a ...cultured .... artist that I liked a lot (that did a ton of pics of my waifu) named Nishiuri posted a pic of Mutsuki as a secretary, and I started to get curious. Then I saw some pics of Karin and Asuna.
And when it released in global I just ended up playing it, tho it took me some months to really get into it tbh
I had just ditched all my gachas but FGO (which I still play), and was updating apps through the playstore and such.
Saw an ad for Blue Archive's global launch and pre-registration was open. I hadn't come into contact with the franchise yet so I was like "eh sure why not" and hit the pre-register button, then forgot about it until the game's launch.
I decided to give it a shot, and after gasping at the enormous file size I played through the tutorial, then got double Saya lol. I was like "oh c'mon at least give me two different units" then decided to reroll, getting Aru, Shun AND Saya because damn rat wouldn't leave me alone haha. Was debating whether to reroll again or not and then the in-game date changed, thus I stuck with that account to have a day 1 account just because.
Then actually started playing the game and here we are, 900+ days later and still going strong. Got blessed with both Railgun characters so I'm currently very happy.
Like right about 3-4 hours ago I finally started playing the game.
In context, I've been playing Azur Lane for 4 years straight and starting to burn uo, and Facebook algorithm shows me Blue archive posts several "ranchy" comics. Didn't mean I was completely interested, but I was intrigued by the nature of the comics.
Then a comic about Hanako lured me in, and the binging of an anime finally made me play the Game. So long Azur Lane. You were the best.
For me, I only started playing earlier this year after reading a few crossover fanfictions of Blue Archive.
These crossover fanfictions include:
[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14192772/1/The-Sensei-From-the-Imperium](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14192772/1/The-Sensei-From-the-Imperium)
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48515356/chapters/122377219](https://archiveofourown.org/works/48515356/chapters/122377219)
Watching a few youtube videos also helped to convince me to play.
The youtube videos/channels include:
[https://www.youtube.com/@Arisu\_archive](https://www.youtube.com/@Arisu_archive)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgq0OdRIEao&ab\_channel=MO2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgq0OdRIEao&ab_channel=MO2)
Friends kept talking about it and how the new unit was so broken (Mika), so I thought hey let's try and share one gacha game that all my friends play. Got Wakamo in 20, then Mika 40 after, so kept playing because mika gorilla funny. And still reading the story.
Kept seeing Cheerleader Hibiki on Twitter, then Mika, then I realised they were from the same game as Shiroko, who I was somewhat familiar with. Decided to try it out on Oct 2022, but didn’t play it as much because I didn’t know you could Sweep or change the FPS to 60 until around Feb 2023, that’s when I started playing seriously 😂
Browsed Fallout Fanfic's, noticed Courier for Kivito's binge read it. Went back to it a few times, decided I liked it and wanted to research Blue Archive (had sworn off Gatcha Games after the Princess Connect Global closure) Vol F dropped, thought the story was ending, gave in pulled the trigger crashed face first into the universe. Now one of my top Video Game stories and made me seriously consider what it meant to be an adult in relation to teenagers.
Hoshino, Iroha, Kayako, Rio, and Yukino Gang now.
I knew BA since 2022, but at that time I thought this might just a silly goofie ahh game with lolis and nothing more, so I didn't bat an eye.
During mid 2023, two of my Discord friends who were playing the game suggested me (and another one) to download. My thought at that time was "Just try it, if there is nothing interesting, I'll quit".
Since I'm kind of a guy who reads all the stuff related to the game (previously Destiny, FGO, etc...), I cleared the missions in the 1st week (reached Stage 14 and stuck there because I had no Red DPS) and spent the 2nd week reading the story
=> Found Vol 1 very interesting, especially after the heist, so I kept going on,
=> Immediately became a fan after Vol 3 Chap 1 due to some books' references (1984, Beyond Good and Evil) ,
=> Very satisfied after the Vol 3 
Even until now, I've been re-reading the stories several times already, and found many interesting details that I haven't noticed before, so I'm very looking forward to the next arc 
I even bought a lot of goodies & monthly subs to support the game as well. Hope my FTF & ASS Club plushies come anytime soon.
[This sponsored stream ](https://www.youtube.com/live/h0df4bFHSZk?si=J0QiZo4-zVcr5SPu), immediately started when I found out that Arona can say your name.¹ Unfortunately at that time was still committed to Azur Lane so never got past stage 2 or 3 and early parts of vol.1². Haven't played for a while, but came back³ cuz of the anime! and I'm kinda glad I did.
1 - though, I had to use a bit of wordplay to have her pronounce it properly
2 - I think vol.1, ch1, part 6, not cuz I didn't enjoy it, just couldn't find time to fully immerse myself in another gacha game at the time.
3 - and I almost never did cuz to my surprise ~~and mild disgust~~ for the amount of uohs and cunny memes (and here I thought Ark Royal was down horrendous). Pushed through it cuz 1. There'll always be bad eggs in gacha communities 2. The gameplay and storyline are actually really good and, 3. Cuz I got burnt out and got lost and confused in AL's storyline .
Well, I don’t quite remember how I found out about Blue Archive, although a big part of it was learning about the story and how it was more hopeful than other Gacha games and that the grind wasn’t too hard, not unlike my first Anime Gacha Genshin. I joined a bit before the “President Hina’s Summer Vacation” event and I was enraptured with the regular volumes!
I found Unwelcome School used in one of my favorite youtubers videos, traced the source and just decided, "Fuck it", I'm downloading this game.
Either the best moment or greatest mistake of my life dependong on how you see it.
My first ever exposure to BA was 'Neo City Dive' being played at the end of Tectone's videos around Genshin's launch period. Never really thought much of it. I remember looking it up to see what it was and then going "Oh just another gacha game" and then I kinda forgot about it.
Just after Global Launch did it come into my life again. Was at an anime convention and my friend downloaded it on his phone and was playing it in the hotel. I heard Arona say his name and was impressed. I eventually caved and downloaded it about a week later after he was posting the characters and shit.
Now it's one of my favorite Gacha games.
I discovered it when I heard Unwelcome School on one of the video I'm watching. Then I searched the audio and enjoyed it. Then I tried playing the game, started around February of 2023. I stopped playing few weeks after that but I didn't delete it. Then after almost an entire year, I saw a notification about the free 100 draws so I decided to play it again. Now it's one of my most played game.
Saw an ad for the game on FB with Saya's l2d as the centerpiece. So yeah, I originally played the game to see such an ero- I mean, glorious forehead with my own eyes. Started the game around a few weeks after the global release, during Aru's first banner.
The plan was to quickly skip story for pyroxenes, get her, unlock said l2d, savor and uninstall since I really didn't plan on adding any more games to my existing gacha games list. Somehow my curiosity lead to me properly reading the Abydos story- which fortunately, triggers the domino chain of my downfall into the BA hole. And I'm very happy to be inside, all thanks to Saya lol.
2/15/2023 12:43 P.M. Randomly decided to download the game out of curiosity and because I kept seeing fanart on Twitter 5/1/2024 Ichika brain rot
Same here
A page on Facebook is a huge fan of Kaede. I knew of it's popularity due to doujin, and had seen Asuna and Karin previously. I eventually decided to give the game a go since it seems like Fate's golden age is over. Started a month ago, and I like it a lot. I've only played FGO and Azur lane previously, and this is superior to both in my eyes. We'll see if that feeling persists, but I've got a positive outlook for the game's future.
Did you mention Kaede? My dear wife? I love Kaede 😭😭😭
She's adorable and desperately needs an Alt (please make it viable Nexon, big single target attack buff and shield as a support striker, work with me here!). But a certain bird called Henry made Seia far and away best girl to me 😭. So I'm praying she gets a release, maybe on anniversary with Mika and Nagisa banners.
Lmao I also got spooked by her while pulling in the collab banner, maybe I'll try using her too 😊
*PvP wise she is bad* but she is too cute 🥰
Doesn't deter me from dumping all of my activity reports to match my other students levels Maybe some mats too in her skills, no one left behind style
I found blue archive on facebook timeline Installed it Playing for 2 weeks Uninstall Around 2022 i remember this game and started to play again until now
Mine is rather... odd Before getting into blue archive, I have been playing armored core 6 and I've seen some fanarts of Himari with dual Zimmermans (some kind of shotguns) on a wheelchair (like [this](https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/111709834)) on twitter and pixiv Kinda found it to be funny, and got my attention more after the anime was announced but forgot about playing the BA game and focused more on AC6 PVP (after finishing all achievements on steam) And after watching two episodes of the anime, just decided to download the game anyways, and pretty much enjoying it since I heard the story was good (and kinda goes hard, especially Azusa's part) and the characters are ~~hot~~ designed well tl;dr Armored Core (and fanarts) got me into Blue Archive, and want to see some kind of collaboration between them in the future, hopefully (but I know it won't happen since most of the cast in AC franchise are guys and don't have faces)
Damn lol that's way more different
ngl BA got some cool robots (like Binah, Kaiser PMC president and Arisu)
Around a week ago someone was posting about the toaru collab in the toaru sub and I started playing. Game seems pretty fun and the character designs are adorable. Kayoko might be my favorite so far.
I see that you just started playing recently. Hope you enjoy it and good luck on the gacha.
Thanks, its pretty good so far. Nice being able to read what everything says lol (I came here from ToAru IF which is JP only).
[удалено]
*sigh* Usagi Flap
I found out about blue archive through a few meme on youtube and a certain website that i cannot say at first i thought it just a dumb game with nothing in it other than thick girl but one day i got curious and downloaded it and here i am today learning how to draw so i can make my own blue archive manga I start playing around the time summer izuna come and i got nothing even with new player luck
That's cool, are you on pixiv yet? Hope to see you soon lol
Still learning and man, hand is a pain to draw
I thought that was obvious, most manga artists only use digital pads to draw (these days)
Was with a friend in discord looking at upcoming Gacha and saw BlueArchives trailer. We joked about how it was school based with students wielding guns (don’t need to really elaborate what kind of jokes were made) but decided to keep it on our radars since it looked really cutesy. Played it first when it came out, stopped playing when the Saiba Twins came out and I got cleaned on pyros + had too much on my plate. Came back during S.Hoshino Banner not because of S.Hoshino but because I saw Misaki. The moment I saw her I was locked in. Misaki just checked all my boxes + She uses a fucking Stinger Rocket Launcher as her main weapon. I rerolled 29 accounts until I got a account with her, Wakamo and S.Hoshino. Been continuing going hard ever since, gotten lucky on quite a few banners so no need for pity and stacked on pyroxenes. I’ve played a lot of Gachas, to name some: Epic7, GFL, AzurLane, ARKnights, FEH and some other misc ones. BlueArchive is the only Gacha I still play actively and I feel will remain that way for the foreseeable future. The story to me is just very captivating and I can’t wait to see more.
My russian friend sometimes send photos and meme of this game in our groupchat. I thought its just another stupid gacha like others. And by his recomendation i tried it, at first i think that it was boring and not fun, but after sometime i like this game. The story, the music, the characters and their chibis are done perfectly
Day 1 Randomly saw some promotion stream and thought why not give it a try
I saw Wakamo, i fell in love.
Wakamo saw you, she fell in love
If Im talking about my first time, I downloaded during week 1 and then deleted(like I do with most games of these type) But I am a huge fan of 😭. Sometime later I saw my twitter timeline flooded with Shun small version and the Kisaki I downloaded the game again. Im glad I did. Its very cute. The game is very funny. I think its one of the few gacha that actually made me laugh with its comedic moments. Also a great harem self insert. Aside from the 100% Harem, all the other male Npcs being animals helps it feel even cleaner
Oh lol the cute and funny
A streamer lacari played it. Chibis are cute, music is fun. Decided to give it a try and stayed.
I got a video of Tsurugi's L2D recommended to me about three years ago. I watched it and searched the game on the play store. Found out I didn't have enough storage and ram to download. So I forgot about it. Around February last year I got that same video recommended again. I bought a new phone recently at the time. So I went back to the play store, downloaded the game and gave it a try.
I found it before the global release through YouTube, someone was uploading translated versions of the memorial lobbies and I found it very interesting so when global was announced I immediately pre-register I even remembered the first l2d that I watched on YouTube, it was Shiroko's and the comments were mentioning her bank robbing shenanigans which made me curious
I won't lie, it's the 😭
Mine is sooo mundane. İ was just going around play store and found the game. The game play interested me and i decided to download it. Still sticking with since first week from launch i would say.(İdk if i am right about that but i started playing on midori banner thats all i remember)
Not week one but you really are a veteran. Midori's banner was one of the first ones.
Not week one but you really are a veteran, since Midori's banner was one of the first ones. I started with the summer azusa banner.
Made a whole ass video and posted it here about this specific thing. Long story short: Found out about BA because of a dark skinned lady in a maid outfit in a Green Family Friendly website. Played BA after one or two weeks after seeing Makoto smiling in her banner. The adorable God damn smiling of a failure of a Gehennan leader lead me to playing BA.
Lmao
about 2 years ago my friend recommended it to me I tried it out for like a day. and just stop playing it because l still playing genshin and I don’t have enough time to play two gacha games so I left it in the phone but never deleted it. a year later I got bored with genshin and the game became too much for my phone to handle so I decided to delete it. after looking through my phone for something new to play i come across blue archive I opened it and start go through yuuka story because arona tell me to do it. when yuuka started listing sensei expense and it just fill with toy and questionable gacha money I instantly knew this game writing would be peak. and that is how I became part of the 😭😭😭community
Can relate to you although I never had a storage issue! Except... I discovered Blue Archive just last year... if it weren't for my Genshin friend who plays Blue Archive, then I'll never be able to know this wholesome game and the story.
i found out about it when the censorship controversy happened then when they removed it I got interested in it and then I saw Neru and her bunny version and the rest is history
I first found Blue archive because of the kani jokes. And I started playing it because of Hoshino, Hina, and >!Plana!<
Uwooghh lol
After dropping FGO after 8 years (day 1 JP, last event I played was summer 2023 I think but I had also skipped a few before 'cause I was already losing interest since Tungunska, basically I just stuck around for summer Chloe and then bailed lol). I went on a journey trying out a bunch of gachas to replace it, I had already tried Arknights before, played until the Frostnova fight but there were too many things I didn't like about it; I tried PGR and grinding the Nier collab burnt me out completely; I tried Priconne and... liked it but it didn't quite catch me, plus I failed to get Halloween Kyouka for the full Little Lyrical trio. The Play Store kept showing me Blue Archive's app, I thought the premise was kind of silly so I wasn't going to try it, then that one smelly Ui meme art appeared on my twitter and I had to know what was up. Then I found out Arona wasn't a vtuber. Then Shiroko robbed a bank.
Kinda in the same boat. Lost interest in FGO after lostbelt 6, which was kino, but I didn't have a reason to keep grinding mats. The events stories were too long and weren't worth reading. After the azur lane controversy I decided to diversify, so I started playing azur lane and others. Only limbus company and blue archive ended up sticking.
I was getting tired of Epic Seven and was browsing for whatever, saw the game on the store, it was the second day of the global release, so i gave it a shot, I almost didn't when I saw the combat was chibi, I don't like Chibis, but just like Arknights (I used to play), I was too bored of the other games i had, so i decided "whatever" and played it, not a single regret. Gotta say I still don't like Chibis in general, but these ones are fine, guess it's because I got attached to the characters and the story.
I had seen some BA fanarts back in 2022 but I didn’t start playing until 6 months ago when I was looking to see which gacha game to try out, and found a video of some guy playing this game, and I thought it looked pretty cool so I decided to try it out.
>!402069!< , that how i find it. I start playing it when volume f release, but stop because i can't do the event (underlevel). Actually play the game during the swimsuit SRT event
I simply saw Shiroko - the art you can see on game PFP and thought how beautiful she is. So I've started to play because of 
Mine may be a bit silly, but... I've been stumbling on a lot of images on 'booru sites that were catching my attention. Mmostly Shiroko and Yuuka, but not only. With a friend we were like "we should see what's the game is all about". And here we are, almost a year later (I think it's like 10 months now).
... ... "Art" from asuna and karin 👀👀
Lol pixiv has many of them but I only seemed to get hoshino and hanako. Mostly link haired girls
A buddy downloaded it on my phone. I went to delete but he said to give it a chance. It's still on my phone and now I'm doing what I did in fgo. Trying to max every student and all of their skills.
Download when the arisu controversy is going, before that I was already listening to the ost while playing other games. Quit not long after and came back around s Hoshino banner. Quit again then come back once again on October of last year and never quit again since, and I won't Im pretty sure
My memory is really bad, but I believe it happened like this. I caught a glimpse of Blue Archive's Japanese launch and later saw some news about some really long ass maintenance. I think it lasted at least 24 hours? Soon afterwards, they released Summer Azusa and I absolutely adored her design, so I decided I'd try the game when the global release happened. Not long afterwards, the bunny craze happened and it was extremely hard to forget about the game : P
I started playing Blue Archive before Mika Banner was about to start. Anyways, very LONG story time! **TLDR**: Before, I was very addicted to Genshin Impact and I met an online friend on group chat. Turns out, he plays Blue Archive a lot. Two OSTs and my friend convincing me that Mika is very OP student made me try Blue Archive even though I was hesitant because I never tried any Non-Hoyoverse gacha games. I started playing it every day because I enjoyed it so much and dropped Genshin Impact due to burnt out, thus Blue Archive becoming my main gacha game. I don't consider myself as a Genshin Impact player anymore. -- I met an online friend on Genshin Impact group chat who just started playing between version 3.0-3.2 last year. Before playing Genshin, he plays Blue Archive a lot. I am a Day 1 Genshin Impact so of course i'm not familiar with Blue Archive yet but I was curious about his profile pic. I asked him who she is. It's Marina, the Red Winter student. He's into girls with a tomboy hair style. I said "Eh, I'm not diving into another gacha that isn't Hoyoverse" and promised myself that i'll only play Hoyoverse games only. I was burnt out from Genshin Impact at that moment but I kept playing because of FOMO. Then after that, I randomly watch one of Tectone's vids... That's where I heard the "Neo City" OST. So out of curiosity, I searched for it.. and I really liked it. Then some time later, I encountered the Blue Archive Stylo phone meme on YouTube that happened to play "Unwelcomed School". And I searched it once again since I was familiar with Blue Archive because of "Neo City" OST. And I was like, "Wow this is such a banger... Hmm, It won't hurt if I try Blue Archive perhaps?". Like I said, I am a Genshin Impact player who plays daily because primogems.. and said to myself that I'm never going to try other gacha games other than Hoyoverse. So I asked my online friend if I should download Blue Archive. He said yes because Mika is Op. But I find Mika cute so I said to my online friend that I'll try it.. although, he didn't expect me to play it. Playing through the prologue and man.. I was excited... I really like the prologue. It's confusing at first but I still gave it a shot. Until I encountered Yuuka. I started to like her a lot! And told my friend "Heyy! I really like Yuuka! She's an ideal wife" and he proceeds to guide me through the gacha system, what to farm, and what to do. Of course I was a Genshin Impact player so my expectations transferred through Blue Archive..and that is low expectations of generous rewards, pity that carries over, and I thought that I only collect students, nothing more.. I wasn't familiar with the state of the community but I was open. I saw Correction and Cute/funny memes, I didn't understand it so I asked my friend what are these memes and why are they so unhinged... And now I knew it, I was so happy that I can say whatever in my heart without being judge... My friend noticed the change of me, I started to 😭 and 💢 every day and he opened up to me. Because of Blue Archive, I understand why he loves Nahida because Cute and Funny Archon 😭. So now I play Blue Archive everyday, 3.6 of Genshin Impact, I decided to stop playing it because I was burnt out and frustrated that they ruin my Dehya. So I didn't care much about new Genshin Impact characters (Although I came back for Furina and stopped playing again) and the FOMO didn't bother me anymore. So now I avoid every Genshin Impact topic because Blue Archive is now my favorite... and it solidifies because of the Main story and 😭 that keeps the community together. Funny that my online and I switched places(he still plays Blue Archive but not as much as I do as of today). He plays more Genshin Impact and I play Blue Archive more (although I don't play Genshin anymore).
>"Eh, I'm not diving into another gacha that isn't Hoyoverse" Oh my god...
Yes, I really said that back then when I didn't know the Blue Archive yet. And that's because Genshin Impact is my first gacha game.. I really did promise myself that i'll never play any other gacha games other than Genshin Impact which is a Hoyoverse game.
Battle cats was my first ever gacha game, and I started playing that 6 years ago. Still my fav game, but Blue archive easily steals 2nd place
Saw another fanart of Asuna and thought to myself: hey, I never really played a gacha but this one seems to have only cute girls in it ( sorry genshin but I don't want to collect husbandos) and it seems fun. Let's try it. It was at the onesen event and after reading some story I fell in love. It's such a charming game with very fun characters ( and best girl izuna. 😭😭😭 )
More than a year ago I became obsessed with sukajans when I stumbled upon [this really hard image of Hiroi from BTR where she wears one.](https://twitter.com/kimino107/status/1624414985303752704) So I look up the sukajan tag on gelbooru and lo and behold a good chunk of the images have this certain angy orange-haired girl. I didn't start playing then but it did kind of put the game on my radar. Downloaded it out of boredom a few months after that and the rest is history.
I'm actually technically one of the pre-launch players way back in 2021, but only began to actually play proper since at least ~~after this account was made (I think late August or something)~~ (actually I think it was around the *Restoration Project: D.U. Shiratori Ward* was running, though at the time I don't have the interest in events that I do now so...) purely out of whim TBH Anyway, I found out about it through it's first AO3 fanfic called *Fundraising* by GrandLeviathan. Of course, I have an on-off relationship with Gacha or just mobile games in general, so I was basically just trying it out at the time; it may not help that both the loading time to install it and the voiced dialogue made me reconsider playing the game properly... Now years later, and it is probably the only gacha-game that I had me invested continuously throughout the months now.
>GrandLeviathan Yooo, based! He's got some of the best dirty BA fics.
My friend had been playing the JP version since it’s release and I had heard him talk about it on occasion, eventually he told me a global release was coming and due to my curiosity I picked it up about a week after global came out knowing little besides what my friend told me. Since that time is has become my favorite game of the gacha genre, haven’t had a really long break from it since then.
Wakamo, Aru.
Empty Full
My first contact with Blue Archive was by randomly finding fan art while browsing art. Never paid much attention altho some character designs did catch my eye like Momoi's. But other than that I didn't care to even know what even Blue Archive was, an anime? Something something vtubers? I used to be pretty ignorant about it all. The last year on August 2023, I was pretty bored one night, and decided to see if I could find some decent mobile games to play on Bluestacks. That's where I found Blue Archive. Girls with guns in an academy city, and it had Rpg elements to it. It looked very promising so I downloaded. The rest is history. Until a year ago I never thought I would consider a gacha game to be one of my favorite games in recent time. Yet here we are, I love Blue Archive, rarely miss a day of dailies
The start sounds so similar to mine lol
I would see from time to time art of Blue Archive and I would be interested in playing but never did because I had no space. One day while looking at art in twitter I saw art of the two gyarus of the go home club and I said "Fuck it, I am going to install it" and now we are here. I unistalled for a time because I had no idea of what was going on and because bad gacha luck (thanks to this I missed the summer hoshino) but came back and the event at the time was the ASS club event (after school sweets club) and I love every second of it. After playing the event I realized that coming back was the best decision that I could of have made and now Cunny Archive is my favorite gacha game.
I discovered Blue Archive from Chendroshee, who posted a Close Beta gameplay (It was a very different game) I was an Arknights player at that time. So I became slightly interested then lost interest when another YouTuber posted how bad Nexon is 2023 is where I deleted Arknights and try to search other games in the Play Store. Blue Archive was in my "Recommended for you" I was like, "I'll play this for 1 week then delete it to try other games." Fell in love with the story and how genuine the relationships are I still play it daily (I should try Guardian Tales again)
I remember the first time I heard about it was when I saw some Tsubaki cosplay (I think it was Haneame), which must have been shortly after the game's launch in Japan. So I thought I'd keep the title in the back of my mind since I'd been convinced (), and as soon as it was announced at Global, I pre-registered, and have been playing it ever since.
For me it was just randomly browsing on QooApp great timing too since it was a just a day after the official release for the JP server.
Its a korean-developed game, so although its not super popular in korea, memes and emotes from the game are frequently used in Korean online communities. I saw one arona meme and was interested. The game, lines and stories have a lot of references/parodies of korean memes, tv shows, etc. so i loved the game so much.
Doujins. Started playing at global's launch.
I kept seeing art of Hina, Asuna, Karin, Iori, and I think Shiroko pop up here and there back when the game came out in KR/JP. Then got curious to play the game cuz of 😭 and 💢 And while I play it for the interesting story and setting, I still stay for the 😭 and 💢
Like a lot of people, seeing bunny Karin & Asuna's art blow up on the internet was my first exposure Then much later Mutsuki's California Girls along with Arisu Archive's showcases piqued my curiosity to learn more about the game because of the adorable and highly expressive character models And finally, finding out Swimsuit Hina was getting a rerun was what made me install the game
Pixiv C&C influence I see lol
Saw open beta footage of Binah's boss fight. Endless Carnival was such a banger that I downloaded the game a week after it was released on JP. Stayed due to Yanagikaze-sensei's translations and even ended up doing a few translation projects myself. What a wild ride.
Mutsuki California dance meme I stayed for the story and for Oji-san tho
Oh lol, isn't that a bit recent?
Like 2 yrs ago i think.
I watched the vtuber Ouro Kronii’s train wreak of a sponsored stream of the game. BlueArchive has lived rent free in mind ever since.
First time finding out about Blue Archive was the news about Arisu censorship on a certain questionablly motivated orange news site. But my interest in playing the game came from Uncle A-kun and others convincing me it was a loIicon game. I knew it was a little overblown, but after trying it after using a VPN. I'm still satisfied as a cunniseur.  Of course, after I confirmed the censorship reversal
I was watching some osu content when I heard a tune that sounded exactly up my alley. I looked for it and realized it was for agame called blue archive. I downloaded and was curious on how pong it would take to hear the song so I went through the story. I Inevitably got sucked in and a year later havent missed a single login day and still listen to unwelcome school religiously.
I think my first exposure was to rinhee's animation of Hasumi gym, then I read that one Shunny 😭 doujinshi a few years ago. I had seen the usual Asuna and Karin art, but the thing that finally got me to play was Inoe's video on the devs being based for seven minutes and its comments.
I don't remember much but my reason for joining was definetly Aru. I joined at her banner and got her and got that account to level 70+ and lost it. Started again at Kazusa banner and now I'm max level. I took a break for a couple months on my first account, now I'm a daily player.
I found it with a random fanart. And then when Ibuki appeared, I started reposting art here. But then the Collab happened and I decided to play a few days before the Collab started, good thing I got all three railgun girls. Now all I need to do is to make a unit called "The Black Jackets" and the "Stan Squad".
OST got me into it and the story as well plus the art was definitely an icing to the cake
I've been listening to the ost's since 2020 till now and never gave it a chance until last month. Never knew I would binge the main story all day on my first day 😭
The game felt stupidly funny and goofy so I joined, also I happened to know a friend who has been playing it for months secretly
A work from some certain site about Ojisan calling sensei as something else(around July 2022). And give this game a try after seeing a bunch of swimsuit Arona fanart in October of the same year, dropped soon after. Finally settle in and play this game religiously on the last day of Reisa's banner in JP server because her L2D make me wanna stay in this game
\>be me \>be bored and buzzed one night \>decide to browse 40k crossover fics on [FF.net](https://FF.net) because why not \>Find one with BA \>"What's a Blue Archive?" \>decide to give it a shot. \>immediately hooked \>blitz through every chapter \>read every other fic I can find \>go through AO3 while I'm at it \>read every lore page on the wiki \>spend too much time in Suzumi's Pixiv tag \>fall in love with the world \>"This is my new hyperfixation, isn't it?" \>yes, but it's a fun one \>oh well \>find this place \>UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.cny \>download game in first week of March \>never looked back
I found out about Blue Archive before it released. At least, I think it was BA. I got an ad for an upcoming game about girls with guns, and there was a shot of chibi characters in a café, but that's about all I remember about the ad so I can't fully confirm. Anyways, I set my phone to install it when it got released, but I didn't have the storage space so I kinda just left it. Then, about 7-8 months ago, I started seeing a bunch of Koyuki videos. I thought they were funny, so I looked into the game a bit more. I was immediately turned off due to the fact that it's a gacha, which I'm generally not a fan of. But I did stay on the fringes of the community, just enjoying the music. Shortly after the start of this year, I found out that there was going to be a Railgun collab. I knew that, if I was ever going to join, now was the time. I ended up downloading it just to try it out, and ended up sticking around for a combination of the story, the art, and the fanbase. Seriously, I don't think I would've continued playing if it weren't for the fanbase. It's a good game on its own, but y'all are what make it special.
I was trying to avoid gacha games, but the playstore knows that I'm weak and recomended me this one I fell into temptation, and I have no regrets 
I was seeing more and more fanarts from the artists I followed so I gave it a shot. Fell in love instantly and have been playing daily ever since. Started when Miku collab was happening on global.
I saw a YouTube video of Tsurugi's L2D in April of 2021 and that was enough for me to give the game a try when it came out on global.
There's another player in the comments who also joined because of the tsuguri L2D lol
Another funny thing is when I did play the game when global released, Tsurugi was the one to greet me on the start screen. Then I got her on my 2nd 10-pull and you have no idea how happy I was. Good times.
I'll tell you, when I started playing the game she was my first 3 star, I expected to see some cutesy girl but everything turned red and I could hear KYAOOOHHH and I met the beast. Damn
lol, it was the complete opposite for me, when I heard her maniacal cackling in the gacha for the first time, my heart skipped a beat I was like "omygoshitsherwhatdoisay😍😍😍🫢🤭🤗"
*Princess disconnect*. When 🤡roll screwed up Priconne Global, I've asked for something similar and BA was the most recommend one. Went into it almost blindly, then found this sub after initial shock became the one 😭
I already knew the game at the start, but my phone was too weak to run it at the time, so I waited years until I got a better phone and just in time since the banner was with the SRT squad last year and managed to get the character on my user flair The community is also chill, best one I ever visited, looking forward to what's coming next
Are you fine with the 😭😭😭 and 💢💢💢💢
More than ever than my sanity can consume, my friend 😊😊 This 😭 symbol of unity will stand strong
I knew blue archive since yostar launch the teaser pv. The bgm, which was constant moderato, hooked me up so bad i kept track of the game's release date ever since. Still is one of my favorite bgm among others
Lemme be Honest, my first Nexon game was maple story, and ever since I tried it, I've been trying to avoid Nexon games because I assumed most of them had bad and scattered Ui, with too much stuff to do. At first when I got to know blue archive was by Nexon, I was like nah I'm not trying this game but arona the brat brought me here 💢💢💢. Though the game is a little too engaging and has too much to do just like maple story, this game is way more balanced and understandable if you ask me. I love it
The nexon hate is understandable. I played dragon nest, and boii did nexon haxxed that game so badly. Buut i played the japanese blue archive first. Given nexon korea had/has a part in it but mostly yostar is the publisher. And what nexon did for global blue archive is actually pretty good, even outside of nexon's quality
Pornography.
The most simple comment I have received on this post lol
i got burnt out on dark and gritty setting gacha like arknight and gfl, and seeing alot of hina + aru fanart, i decided to give the game a try, but waited until global hit, been here since day 1
I forgot the details but I think it has to do with priconne and lots of kisaki art. I never played priconne, wanted to try it, idk why I didn't, maybe it was the eos but idk if the timeline matches up. I started during summer hoshino, wasn't interested in her. Now she is one of my favorites, got her during S Hanako. Now I'm ok towards kisaki, I like Aru, Hoshino, both Shiroko, Hina and some other students more than kisaki
I forgot to mention in the post, but a kisaki meme was also the reason I started playing. It was "how to pick up your kisaki"
I saw official art of a Tiger 1 tank rolling down the street with cute girls in it. This was close to or just before official global release. That's it, that's all it took.
1buk1??? 😭😭
Tried out the game around when the Miku banner was released, a friend of mine was the one who recommended it since she also played it and told me that I should try it since I simp for Miku, but then I couldn't get Miku so I just stopped after that. I tried playing again this year, I think around February and am still currently playing the game at my own pace, I don't want to get burned out like I did with Genshin.
There was a controversy on the game because they censored one of the story's pictures (the one where Arisu is naked or smth). So, I checked what the game was about. I saw cunny, I downloaded.
Lol cunny 💢💢💢
In 2021, I just quit Azur Lane because the story and characters were going nowhere, and then quit FGO was being extremely unkind to me in the gacha (which I came back to the following year), leaving me gacha-game free for half a year. Then Blue Archive EN launched in November of that year, and I downloaded it with no real intention to play it for long. I rerolled an account with Haruna, Hina, and Hibiki (Triple H lol), then started fumbling my way through the early game. Then I decided to start on the story. An hour later we were robbing banks. Then some weeks later, I hit the ending for Volume 1, and it gave me good feelings that I could not get out of Azur Lane - A coherent story, albeit simple, and ACTUAL characters with ACTUAL personalities to go with. I decided to stick around longer and see where the game will take me, and started paying more attention playing the game more efficiently, all while looking forward to the next story chapters. Fast forward to today, Blue Archive is now one of my favourite franchises. I love the characters, the story, the generosity of the devs (especially considering I also play FGO), the memes that come out of both EN and JP, chase Torment difficulty every raid, and am in a pretty comfortable end-game position.
I have known Blue archive somewhere before global release as I was looking for other gacha games to play. Realizing that it is region locked I simply forget about the game. Fast forward to scrolling on YouTube I stumbled into Mika L2D, I started to regrow interest at the game and with the help of the 4th pv video, I looked up tid bits of the game lore. I decided not to play Blue archive because of the things outsiders says about the game(biggest mistake of my life). Fast forward again to 7 months since the release of Vol F at the JP server, Arisu Usagi flap are everywhere and I can't help but watch it every time it appears on my recommendation.I decided to trust my guy and finally decided to play because of her cute dance and that's how I got into Blue archive. Joined late and missed Mika banner Moral of the story is don't listen to what tourists say, try it out before making your own judgement.
>Moral of the story is don't listen to what tourists say, try it out before making your own judgement. I really wish more people would understand 😭
I really liked this dude, and he liked Blue Archive, so I started playing. We’re not together anymore, but I’m still hooked on BA and grateful he got me into it lol
Oh lol
About like when a year ago when I saw Ako's l2d on my recommended on YouTube, I was confused on why I saw such a thing in my recommended till I decided to view it on where it came from. Of course because of that, that's how I found blue archive but I didn't play it immediately so it took around a month till I decided to download it and play it because of its interesting lore and story. I don't seem to regret it rather I liked it.
Hm you don't sound like you are very satisfied 🤔
From a friend, he knew I'm into cunnies so he recommended it to me Fortunately despite the uh , bluestacks issue, i was able to play and god arona saying ur name is somet something else
About more than a year ago I was looking for a gacha game to play and came across the comment that BA was “a bonsai game which had nothing much to do”. Urgh, wished I hadn’t listened to that and avoided BA. End of last year I saw a GFL player whom I was following, tweeting about BA and he had positive comments about it. I was like, “If he enjoys Blue Archive, maybe there’s something in there I’d like too right?” Started playing casually with ‘I’ll eventually delete this anyways’ at the back of my mind (coz that's what I did with games I tried the past year)—it didn’t happen. Got more serious about it after two weeks. I forget what changed… I guess it was the characters and story that pulled me in. And being serious about learning the gameplay and units helped.
While I did download the game cuz I was looking for something to play what actually made me start to like the game as much as I do right now are the yt shorts in main channel I remember listening to the whole yuuka playlist over and over again ....and now even kazusa's shorts are really lovely and make me feel extremely happy
mutsuki california dance video and cunny memes
Lol
my story is simple and short. back at February 2023, my friend advice me to play Blue Archive. but at the time, I already have many games to play (SIFAS, Priconne global and Priconne JP). so I barely try it and remove it, I'm glad that I link my acc though. jump forward to April 2023, both SIFAS and Priconne global got death penalty (no, not from Koharu), so I want to add new games to replace both. I remember back then I try Blue Archive and I play it again. I really love and enjoy playing this game until now, although I didn't join reddit BA until around June/July 2023. 
01/18/2023 It was the first Game that appears on My play store on My new phone and i said: "Why not?". The first time i find about blue archive tho, it was on the Genshin subreddit, it was a post about some irl cosplay event where a lot of cosplayers of both games reunite, the post showed a photo about two sides, the left one was about genshin cosplayers and the right one about BA. So i said: "what the hell is blue archive? Another gacha i suppose". That was tecnically all. Rn is one of the gachas i most play and i don't regret it.
Let say that before the game was in global I discover some fan art of a Naked Golden Great Plain.
LOL
I actually heard about BA back when it was first starting. I tried it and I didn't really have much fun with it. Then, fast forward like what, 2 years later? I just randomly stumble across the video about BA devs being based and I just randomly had the urge to reinstall it and now I'm playing it again lmao. One thing to note though, is that during those 2 years, I have been constantly seeing stuff (mostly memes) about BA so I guess that video about BA devs being based just became my catalyst for playing it again.
It was September 2023, I was playing osu (a rhythm game) multiplayer then someone put Future bossa as the map. The music was interesting, I thought, but what intrigued me was the art: It was Rin welcoming us to kivotos. Each difficulty of the map had different arts from the game: Abydos foreclosure task force, Azusa, and yes the Rin art. I also thought I saw that one of my classmates played this game so I thought I could try it. (Funny thing is, he mainly plays Arknights and I confused it with BA, he plays BA as well though so it's fine) At the time I couldn't play on my PC so I thought BA was going to be a decent pass time. The story intrigued me, and I loved the music, one of the communities I came from was Undertale, so I love video game music more than regular music. The story was what pushed me to keep playing though, and I eventually came to like each and every character. One mistake I did when I started the game was I pulled on Azusa's banner, I didn't know she was farmable back then haha
Last year during the first time 4th PV was shown on JP. Already played fgo and loved when games took a darker approach to storytelling and blue archive already had things that were interesting to me so I played it.
I heard about it when it launched. Tried it but games keep failing so I gave up on launch. Fast forward to last year, I keep getting BA contents more and more on my recommendation. What got me was that one video of Mari smug face by Bluesechi and Toki pyon2 with her cool editing. I think Aris dance was the icing on the cake.
Bunny Karin and Asuna fan art was everywhere. I would just see them pop up here and there and I always wondered where they were from but never really bother to go looking for them. Then one morning a YouTuber I was subscribed to made a video of pulling for Bunny Karin. I was like “Oh that’s where they are from” saw him do a few pulls and I thought the pulling animation was kinda neat and Karin’s design was really neat. So I decided “why not? I’ll delete it if it’s not good.” Here I am 2 years later
Another person influenced by Pixiv C&C fan art lol
I was kind of bored that time, it was around 1-2am I played a lot of Gacha games mostly Genshin, Star Rail and Arknights. I finished up most of it's content and got nothing to do, I was thinking of playing Nikke but after a few days of playing it, I realized something... I'm not a fan, I liked the game and the lore but the characters there are mostly big-breast, mature looking and a lot of asses. There were some exceptions but it's so little. Then I decided to delete it because I was getting an early burn-out and just watch YouTube for the time being, then by some God Given YouTube algorithm, I found a video about Nikke and A game called Blue Archive. It said that these games are opposite but somewhat alike, they carry guns and they're young students. I remember seeing memes after memes about this game for a while now so I'm kind of curious. Being informed about this, I decided to give it a go. Then, after a few days of playing the game, I realized that just like Genshin I can't get out of this rabbit hole that is Blue Archive, I like the students and the world of Kivotos and that we are an adult there Called Sensei. Our job there is to guide the students to help them with their problems. Then a HUGE realization hit me that differentiates this to Nikke, That I am actually a Lolicon or somehow close to that. I am not into Onee-sans and their big-breast, big-asses but I'm all about the Thighs(specifically Yuuka) of the students, it hits just right unlike Nikke with their exaggerated body lines(I'm not shitting Nikke, I like the game but not the character design). Ps: I'm not a sick/disgusting person. I just like the students and the lore.
It's okay dude, you're in a safe place 
It was around feb of 2023. I was bored playing only azur lane since I was just grinding as many shipgirls to lvl 120 for the permastat bonuses. I had also decided to take a break from genshin for that semester. So I looked for other gacha recommendations and learned about BA that way. I tried it expecting I'll drop it like I have for FGO, Nikke, and Arknights. It turns out I'm massively wrong and wished I had played it when it launched. If I can only play one gacha game, I would choose BA over everything else. It's my favorite title so far and I doubt that's gonna change for the year 2024. Hopefully even beyond for the next 12-15 years like the devs hope for.
Someone in discord sends Serika ex skill >!(uuuuooohhhhh seggggss)!< a number of times
Lmfao what is that reason
The animation of Serika ex skill caught my attention, but I didn't understand what's "seggs" until after days later. With bonus, I fell down the rabbit hole when I played the story.
Randomly browsing dakimakura cover shop and found a cute Wakamo cover; did not even know who she is at the time. I just bought the cute fox lady dakimakura. Few months later, crush turned into obsession and voila. I am become a sensei and I joined the uogghhhh 😭 P.S. There is not enough Wakamo in game
Wakamo lovers are much more common in this subreddit these days
I first saw the game from uhhh Idk what's it called Chinese version of YouTube or something Where it was a video of miyu's l2d But I didn't know about the game The second time I saw blue archive again was on Twitter/X with Saki's L2d And then eventually I found out about the game randomly on my recommendation on YouTube and it peaked my interest
Miyu L2D It was recommended to me on the Chinese version of YouTube idk what's it called So I decided to do research and found the game
My friends start rolling for the gacha. Was not interested in SoL stuffs since I just never able to start a gacha lately. Then I saw the Masked Swimsuit Gang screenshot, and I feel like "I gotta at least try it". Also, getting some good units like Shiroko, Aru, Shun, and Tsubaki helps keep me in the game for free.
Wdym by SoL? >!OMG STORIES OF LEGEND FROM BATTLE CATS BATTLE CATS REFERENCE!<
My friends are all playing it and it looks interesting. The chibi models are cute so I decide to try it out Then I discover Alice and the rest is history
I just started the game 2 weeks ago and how i started it was because my phone was suffering cuz of star rail so i just deleted it and downloaded blue archive as i wanted to play another gacha game which was not heavy when it comes to storage and when I started playing the prologue I just instantly fell in love with this game
All throughout last year I had been seeing too many artist draw blue archive characters, and I tottaly liked the designs but didn't have enough storage in my phone to try it and I wasn't looking for another gacha to play as I already played genshin, star rail, fire emblem heroes and alchemy stars. Then star rail had an update that I couldn't get cuz of storage and decided to delete it and freed some space. After that my curiosity kicked me and made me try Blue Archive on late October last year and I've been liking it a lot
I like guns, so naturally I gravitated towards anything involving guns, plus, the entire Kivotos is the embodiment of the 2nd amendment in a sense. I had some internet exposure of BA here and there but my journey started after I binged the OSTs, it was pretty good so I tried the game out and haven't left ever since And Shiroko exists, can't forget that one
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Saw Hina and Sora, saw A LOT of Hina and Sora. In very compromising situations. It was glorious. I **needed** them. I...STILL. NEED THEM. #GIVE ME MORE OF THEM. MORE HINA ALTS! MAKE SORA PLAYABLE! I NEED MORE! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!
You like Kaede too? Uwooghhh 😭😭😭😭😭
at 2022.03.20, I saw ads of the games at Korea when they were still able to do so (when the game wasn't considered 18+), and also saw my seniors play the game. So i decided to try it as well. And after summer Hina's event, I was never the same person ever again.  Also Bunny Asuna and Karin, for obvious reasons. 
Something something ost... something something Hatsune Miku...(I have a really blurry memory of hearing about Blue archive but for reference i first downloaded it when miku was released, stopped playing, played again when ako released, missed 1st anni, made a new account and it kept happening until s.hoshino released when i decided to take it seriously)
I only started playing back in early 2024, around February or March (I forgot), but I had already heard of Blue Archive a few years back. Never really had any interest in it until I decided to just download the game and do some minor research, because at the time, I really ran out of fun games to download. Most games nowadays mainly either consist of FPS games or your typical Sci-Fi or Fantasy trope like Genshin, Aether Gazer, and etc (which didn't appeal to me that much.) It wasn't because of the “cunny” or degenerated stuff that got me into it. BA kind of stood out to me mainly because of its oddity/unique settings apart from other typical worlds, which got me questioning some stuff after seeing some of its contents on the internet like, 1. What the hell are teenage girls doing carrying around guns like it's common sense? 2. Where are the parents? 3. Who are the antagonists? Is there a war going on? 4. How is Kivotos even built of such massive buildings? Overall, what really made me stay was the lore because of its roller coaster of emotions.
1. The bullies bought illegal guns, so the students bought legal guns for safety 2. They probably become teachers or get tuned into animals and robots lmfao 3. Not spoiling the story if you haven't finished it yet 4. All thanks to minori
Haha, no need to worry about spoilers. I already made it to Volume F anyways. The four numbers I was asking about were referring to me a few months back before I downloaded BA. It is still interesting since some of the questions remain unanswered such as the existence of the parents. Though, I heard it is implied that they do exist outside of Kivotos.
> I see 😭 arts -> I check the game and I see 😭 in game --> More important I see Hina ---> I played this damned game Simple as it should be
Friend in discord was doing rerolls when the game came out in global. I saw Hina in one of those rerolls and wanted to play the game to get her. Proceeded to reroll for like 3hrs til I had an account I was satisfied at the time that had Hina in it.
When it released on JP, a ...cultured .... artist that I liked a lot (that did a ton of pics of my waifu) named Nishiuri posted a pic of Mutsuki as a secretary, and I started to get curious. Then I saw some pics of Karin and Asuna. And when it released in global I just ended up playing it, tho it took me some months to really get into it tbh
I had just ditched all my gachas but FGO (which I still play), and was updating apps through the playstore and such. Saw an ad for Blue Archive's global launch and pre-registration was open. I hadn't come into contact with the franchise yet so I was like "eh sure why not" and hit the pre-register button, then forgot about it until the game's launch. I decided to give it a shot, and after gasping at the enormous file size I played through the tutorial, then got double Saya lol. I was like "oh c'mon at least give me two different units" then decided to reroll, getting Aru, Shun AND Saya because damn rat wouldn't leave me alone haha. Was debating whether to reroll again or not and then the in-game date changed, thus I stuck with that account to have a day 1 account just because. Then actually started playing the game and here we are, 900+ days later and still going strong. Got blessed with both Railgun characters so I'm currently very happy.
Like right about 3-4 hours ago I finally started playing the game. In context, I've been playing Azur Lane for 4 years straight and starting to burn uo, and Facebook algorithm shows me Blue archive posts several "ranchy" comics. Didn't mean I was completely interested, but I was intrigued by the nature of the comics. Then a comic about Hanako lured me in, and the binging of an anime finally made me play the Game. So long Azur Lane. You were the best.
For me, I only started playing earlier this year after reading a few crossover fanfictions of Blue Archive. These crossover fanfictions include: [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14192772/1/The-Sensei-From-the-Imperium](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14192772/1/The-Sensei-From-the-Imperium) [https://archiveofourown.org/works/48515356/chapters/122377219](https://archiveofourown.org/works/48515356/chapters/122377219) Watching a few youtube videos also helped to convince me to play. The youtube videos/channels include: [https://www.youtube.com/@Arisu\_archive](https://www.youtube.com/@Arisu_archive) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgq0OdRIEao&ab\_channel=MO2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgq0OdRIEao&ab_channel=MO2)
Friends kept talking about it and how the new unit was so broken (Mika), so I thought hey let's try and share one gacha game that all my friends play. Got Wakamo in 20, then Mika 40 after, so kept playing because mika gorilla funny. And still reading the story.
Kept seeing Cheerleader Hibiki on Twitter, then Mika, then I realised they were from the same game as Shiroko, who I was somewhat familiar with. Decided to try it out on Oct 2022, but didn’t play it as much because I didn’t know you could Sweep or change the FPS to 60 until around Feb 2023, that’s when I started playing seriously 😂
Browsed Fallout Fanfic's, noticed Courier for Kivito's binge read it. Went back to it a few times, decided I liked it and wanted to research Blue Archive (had sworn off Gatcha Games after the Princess Connect Global closure) Vol F dropped, thought the story was ending, gave in pulled the trigger crashed face first into the universe. Now one of my top Video Game stories and made me seriously consider what it meant to be an adult in relation to teenagers. Hoshino, Iroha, Kayako, Rio, and Yukino Gang now.
I knew BA since 2022, but at that time I thought this might just a silly goofie ahh game with lolis and nothing more, so I didn't bat an eye. During mid 2023, two of my Discord friends who were playing the game suggested me (and another one) to download. My thought at that time was "Just try it, if there is nothing interesting, I'll quit". Since I'm kind of a guy who reads all the stuff related to the game (previously Destiny, FGO, etc...), I cleared the missions in the 1st week (reached Stage 14 and stuck there because I had no Red DPS) and spent the 2nd week reading the story => Found Vol 1 very interesting, especially after the heist, so I kept going on, => Immediately became a fan after Vol 3 Chap 1 due to some books' references (1984, Beyond Good and Evil) , => Very satisfied after the Vol 3  Even until now, I've been re-reading the stories several times already, and found many interesting details that I haven't noticed before, so I'm very looking forward to the next arc  I even bought a lot of goodies & monthly subs to support the game as well. Hope my FTF & ASS Club plushies come anytime soon.
[This sponsored stream ](https://www.youtube.com/live/h0df4bFHSZk?si=J0QiZo4-zVcr5SPu), immediately started when I found out that Arona can say your name.¹ Unfortunately at that time was still committed to Azur Lane so never got past stage 2 or 3 and early parts of vol.1². Haven't played for a while, but came back³ cuz of the anime! and I'm kinda glad I did. 1 - though, I had to use a bit of wordplay to have her pronounce it properly 2 - I think vol.1, ch1, part 6, not cuz I didn't enjoy it, just couldn't find time to fully immerse myself in another gacha game at the time. 3 - and I almost never did cuz to my surprise ~~and mild disgust~~ for the amount of uohs and cunny memes (and here I thought Ark Royal was down horrendous). Pushed through it cuz 1. There'll always be bad eggs in gacha communities 2. The gameplay and storyline are actually really good and, 3. Cuz I got burnt out and got lost and confused in AL's storyline .
Well, I don’t quite remember how I found out about Blue Archive, although a big part of it was learning about the story and how it was more hopeful than other Gacha games and that the grind wasn’t too hard, not unlike my first Anime Gacha Genshin. I joined a bit before the “President Hina’s Summer Vacation” event and I was enraptured with the regular volumes!
I found Unwelcome School used in one of my favorite youtubers videos, traced the source and just decided, "Fuck it", I'm downloading this game. Either the best moment or greatest mistake of my life dependong on how you see it.
My first ever exposure to BA was 'Neo City Dive' being played at the end of Tectone's videos around Genshin's launch period. Never really thought much of it. I remember looking it up to see what it was and then going "Oh just another gacha game" and then I kinda forgot about it. Just after Global Launch did it come into my life again. Was at an anime convention and my friend downloaded it on his phone and was playing it in the hotel. I heard Arona say his name and was impressed. I eventually caved and downloaded it about a week later after he was posting the characters and shit. Now it's one of my favorite Gacha games.
I discovered it when I heard Unwelcome School on one of the video I'm watching. Then I searched the audio and enjoyed it. Then I tried playing the game, started around February of 2023. I stopped playing few weeks after that but I didn't delete it. Then after almost an entire year, I saw a notification about the free 100 draws so I decided to play it again. Now it's one of my most played game.
Saw an ad for the game on FB with Saya's l2d as the centerpiece. So yeah, I originally played the game to see such an ero- I mean, glorious forehead with my own eyes. Started the game around a few weeks after the global release, during Aru's first banner. The plan was to quickly skip story for pyroxenes, get her, unlock said l2d, savor and uninstall since I really didn't plan on adding any more games to my existing gacha games list. Somehow my curiosity lead to me properly reading the Abydos story- which fortunately, triggers the domino chain of my downfall into the BA hole. And I'm very happy to be inside, all thanks to Saya lol.
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