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So, my friend posted in here about the movie kinda got ignored, but it just makes me think, what could Hanayo's emergency be about? She only gets flustered over idol stuff, but it can't be a Love Live, because Eli, Nico, and Nozomi can't participate, since the Love Live is specifically school idols, and well, they graduate at the end of the 2nd season (that's obvious enough to not warrant a spoiler tag, right?)

Depends on where you live. Just going off Google's "define feature", it says animation from Japan, going off Wikipedia, it says the same thing, but specifically mentions what you said above (so use it as you will, if you're not Japanese, it's Japanese animation only, if you're Japanese, you're free to call it anime)

Sorry that more than 90% of people here aren't living in Japan, considering if they were, they wouldn't really need an English translation to read visual novels.


*Sorry for coming off rude, I just hate the argument that anime can refer to non-Japanese animation*

It's animation from Machinima (sp) and isn't considered anime since it doesn't originate from Japan.

Oh my... I just listened to the whole song of KiRa MiRa Sensation reading all the lyrics... It destroyed me, so many tears. Typing this 5 min later I'm still letting off a few tears. I don't know why the meaning never clicked with me before.





http://love-live.wikia.com/wiki/KiRa-KiRa_Sensation!

Greetings stranger, you still need to finish Rewrite.


Guuess I'll post your favorite girl from my obsession called Love Live



 
Yeah, I've known him for about 2 years now, but he won't listen to me when I talk about Love Live

I guess I haven't done a fact in a while, I planned one then forgot to post about it.
 
 
Despite them never coming up with the idea of having subunits, in the anime, the subunits were referenced. In S2E2, when they broke into groups to get their preliminary performance stuff done, they broke into their subunits (Kotori's costume design team was Kotori, Hanayo, Honoka) (Maki's Song writing team was Maki, Eli, Nico) (Umi's lyrics team was Umi, Rin, Nozomi). Adding on to that, the performance they were preparing for, Yume no Tobira, has a dance formation that mirrors the subunits.
 

Just translated those 2 new chapters from the same author of Osoroi
 
This new story is called Christmas Nya
 

Just used my last 5 token things...
 
Mizugi Team Increase!
 

Sorry, didn't even cross my mind xD It WAS in Japanese though.
 
Dedication. Those top 2 so far have played more than I did if you put my best 4 days together in the Rin event. (Maybe I'm downplaying myself a little, I kinda spread my grinding out and had done ~4-6 hours a day, 8 hours on day 1, and 12 on the last) 
"For hours" isn't a good enough phrase. Day 1, they grinded for nearly 18 hours straight (Well, Cryza had a 30min break from what he told me) 
I don't think we'll get a vote in the EN version. KLab EN was too lazy to get our newest UR and SR card descriptions right, I doubt they'll take the time to make us a brand new card. If there IS a vote, I expect Maki to win, with Nico in 2nd, with Rin in dead last judging by event turnouts  
Expect the end cutoff to be ~65,000-70,000.

11hours 34min xD

I'm probably going to skip my fact of the day unless someone wants me to throw up a crappy one real quick lol

Stuff always happens when I sleep, and it was only 4 hours
 
First off, unrelated to discussion
 

 

10 day event means they aren't releasing the initial UR Nozomi yet. Guess we're waiting longer.
 
Funny how  the game can do that. Originally I just thought "Hanayo's pretty cute" but after playing the game and listening to her solo songs (yes, I consider that adding to her character), she's my favorite up with Rin (Of course, Rin has a huge lead). There's just a bunch of traits I find extremely adorable about our Kayo-chin. I would say she was the only drastic change in my favorite rankings since the beginning besides Rin just shooting up to the top.
 
And this thread has almost become my passion since how much I'm obsessed with Love Live. I'm a frequent poster over at the /r/schoolidolfestival (I check multiple times a day, it's my 2nd most visited site on my phone after Fuwa). I am super happy to have a dedicated place to talk about Love Live. I have two friends who like the anime, one whom gets annooyed when I bring it up now, and the other, well, not sure about him, but I do know he seems genuinely interested if I bring up facts and stuff, since he loves the series (gave it a 10/10) and Nico is his  favorite anime character.
 
I don't think I've posted my order in a while.

Rin
Hanayo
Honoka
Maki
Nico
Umi
Kotori
Eli
Nozomi

As I said above, my list hasn't changed much since I started besides Rin and Hanayo being at the top. I've always liked Honoka (besides that dark moment recently), and Maki because I love tsunderes, but her dere side is just too strong, making her used to be my 2nd rank before Rin showed up, making her 3rd for the longest time. I... can't say anything about Nico because Nosebleed's post will completely wreck anything I say. Seriously, that post is amazing, his posts always makes mine look terrible.

Next is Umi, who is pretty close to Kotori in ranking, Umi just comes a little ahead because I like some of her major traits, while Kotori's more of a combination of little things. Lastly Eli and Nozomi. I have always been annoyed how she handled u's in S1, then her seeming personality swap after joining, and don't care for the way they try to make the "beauty" be that cutesy girl. Just not my type of character. Lastly Nozomi... I went through a period where I hated her, legit. Over time, I've come to appreciate her a ton more, but she's still my least favorite.
 
That last line doesn't apply to me, I love idol anime. I like making my favorites list 15 titles long for anime, and I have Idolmaster and AKB0048 in my top list too (I didn't like Wake Up, Girls and Locodol was just a little above average)
The amount of hype I had for an entire week was unbelievable, knowing Snow Halation was coming. That performance was amazing. When they won the preliminaries, and Tsubasa asks Honoka how they won, I always say "Because they performed Snow Halation, duh"

Speaking of Snow Halation, I got revenge on it. Because my old shit phone, I couldn't FC it, but got it 2nd try in the score match, 1st time my game's timing was off and I needed to calibrate






 
A lot of people have that one member they don't like (and often enough, it's usually Hanayo ). Every time Nozomi appears, I quickly change screen to get my leader back. I always apologize to Nozomi fans, I just can't seem to like her.'
I need to stop making these longs posts...


Oh, I made a Rin vs Honoka comparison (maybe that's what started the whole negative Honoka in my mind, Rin had to be better...) a while ago, here. I have this, Nosebleed's, and now my Honoka post saved away somewhere so I can link them whenever

Stuff always happens when I sleep, and it was only 4 hours
 
First off, unrelated to discussion
 

 

10 day event means they aren't releasing the initial UR Nozomi yet. Guess we're waiting longer.
 
Funny how  the game can do that. Originally I just thought "Hanayo's pretty cute" but after playing the game and listening to her solo songs (yes, I consider that adding to her character), she's my favorite up with Rin (Of course, Rin has a huge lead). There's just a bunch of traits I find extremely adorable about our Kayo-chin. I would say she was the only drastic change in my favorite rankings since the beginning besides Rin just shooting up to the top.
 
And this thread has almost become my passion since how much I'm obsessed with Love Live. I'm a frequent poster over at the /r/schoolidolfestival (I check multiple times a day, it's my 2nd most visited site on my phone after Fuwa). I am super happy to have a dedicated place to talk about Love Live. I have two friends who like the anime, one whom gets annooyed when I bring it up now, and the other, well, not sure about him, but I do know he seems genuinely interested if I bring up facts and stuff, since he loves the series (gave it a 10/10) and Nico is his  favorite anime character.
 
I don't think I've posted my order in a while.

Rin
Hanayo
Honoka
Maki
Nico
Umi
Kotori
Eli
Nozomi

As I said above, my list hasn't changed much since I started besides Rin and Hanayo being at the top. I've always liked Honoka (besides that dark moment recently), and Maki because I love tsunderes, but her dere side is just too strong, making her used to be my 2nd rank before Rin showed up, making her 3rd for the longest time. I... can't say anything about Nico because Nosebleed's post will completely wreck anything I say. Seriously, that post is amazing, his posts always makes mine look terrible.

Next is Umi, who is pretty close to Kotori in ranking, Umi just comes a little ahead because I like some of her major traits, while Kotori's more of a combination of little things. Lastly Eli and Nozomi. I have always been annoyed how she handled u's in S1, then her seeming personality swap after joining, and don't care for the way they try to make the "beauty" be that cutesy girl. Just not my type of character. Lastly Nozomi... I went through a period where I hated her, legit. Over time, I've come to appreciate her a ton more, but she's still my least favorite.
 
That last line doesn't apply to me, I love idol anime. I like making my favorites list 15 titles long for anime, and I have Idolmaster and AKB0048 in my top list too (I didn't like Wake Up, Girls and Locodol was just a little above average)
The amount of hype I had for an entire week was unbelievable, knowing Snow Halation was coming. That performance was amazing. When they won the preliminaries, and Tsubasa asks Honoka how they won, I always say "Because they performed Snow Halation, duh"

Speaking of Snow Halation, I got revenge on it. Because my old shit phone, I couldn't FC it, but got it 2nd try in the score match, 1st time my game's timing was off and I needed to calibrate






 
A lot of people have that one member they don't like (and often enough, it's usually Hanayo ). Every time Nozomi appears, I quickly change screen to get my leader back. I always apologize to Nozomi fans, I just can't seem to like her.'
I need to stop making these longs posts...


Oh, I made a Rin vs Honoka comparison (maybe that's what started the whole negative Honoka in my mind, Rin had to be better...) a while ago, here. I have this, Nosebleed's, and now my Honoka post saved away somewhere so I can link them whenever

Well, I've had my starting EN and JP, and have used them since I made them. The thing is, JP is easier to level, and Maki~chan made a new JP account and drew an UR Rin (the new super cute one), so I decided to start a new JP account to see if I can draw an UR Rin on it and use that one as my main JP instead. My old account was only ~rank 70, which isn't hard to reach in JP since you only need half EXP per level. So on the new account, I got 150 gems and waited for the special "1st Years Only" draw, to raise my chances on getting URs I wanted, but ended up with SRs only, so I haven't even logged on to that account since then.
Now, I made a new EN account just for fun because I was waiting for LP to recharge. Ended up drawing an UR Kotori on it by rank 22 and haven't touched THAT account since out of frustration. I'm giving it away because I'm never going to use it. I'm pretty sure that happened a little after I got my UR Honoka on my main EN, so it was kinda a slap in the face after doing 6 10+s on one account, then just get an UR off 1 10+1 on a new one.



On a side note, I found this

Well this sure came earlier than expected. Curse that mod appreciation thread for rushing me into this, now I have to think of something before going to bed to meet everyone's expectations.
 
But then Ren had to make a thread about the biggest thing that's happened in my life recently so I'd just be repeating myself here if I just talked about that.
 
This is troublesome.
 
But I guess I could go a little deeper into what's been going on in the past months. I didn't want to make a thread until things stabilized in my life and I had a clear mind about things, but now I feel like I've reached that stage and I can write something like this, if you're interested do proceed, if not that's okay, this is a rather self centered post after all.
 
Rather than just making this thread as a celebration for 6000 posts, I also wanted to use it to celebrate the fact that I've been on fuwa over a year now (was a year on the 26th of September but I forgot about it), and because of that I wanted to analyze how much I've grown since I've been here.
 
So ever since I made my 3000th post a lot of stuff has been going on. I made that post back in May this year and at the time, without trying to repeat too much, I was studying for a geography exam to try and apply for college. I mentioned how Fuwa gave my life a direction and how it helped giving me the will to do something for myself.
 
Well if you want a quick summary of what happened after. I did manage to pass the exam which was very fortunate, but not everything is sunshines and rainbows and unfortunately despite passing the exam, the grade just wasn't high enough to go into Asian Studies in college. This was a pretty hard time for both me and my family, living in a house of 4 where only 2 people provide monthly income (and a low income for the matter) can get tough, I know I couldn't just sit around for another year, I had to look for something productive to do, and that is when I applied for the army.
 
Yes that's right, I went from trying to apply for college to applying for the army, a person who sat around for a whole year tried to do this. I signed up for gym and everything. The main reason was of course the income and the fact I could also study while being in the army. I spent 1 month training for the army's physical exams (entrance exams if you will) and while I did felt my overall physique was improving (and i did lose a couple Kgs), when it came down to it I was asking for too much, the exams were too rough for someone not acostumated with regular physical exercise and strict regimes and I was kicked out pretty early (much shame).
 
Well I knew this didn't mean the end of my life, it mostly meant that, for the time being, I was left with the option of trying to get a job in retail or something. It wasn't very encouraging but what can you do, I wasn't just going to laze around for another year and leech off my family. But before trying to go out there and look for jobs I figured why not try to re-apply for college. In Portugal you can apply 3 times (during pre determined periods). But I knew I couldn't get into Asian Studies so what was the point.
 
While college looked Grim for me at this point since I couldn't do what I want which was learn japanese, I did have a talk with some people, and those people are the lurkers of Ren's TS. After a lot of things with my education kind of failed and I was a little down in the dumps (I won't say depressed but you get the point). We mostly talked about career choices and what can you do when certain things don't work out and while I don't want to expand too much on this, let's just say that it made me look at college in a somewhat different light.
 
After this obviously I also had a talk with my family (I can't say that the internet led 100% of my life after all) and after some thinking I decided to apply for other things. I decided that it's okay if i don't go into asian studies right now, I can still enter college through other courses, and who knows I might even like those courses, and maybe those courses can even let me learn japanese later down the road. I'm still 19, I have enough time to change later on, I'm still young enough to do things like this.
 
And thus, on a whim, I got online and applied for 6 different courses in the college I wanted to go to. Naturally I still applied to Asian Studies (wouldn't hurt), but I put lots of other things in there. And the end result was that I didn't go into Asian Studies as expected, but there was some hope, I got accepted into European Studies. You might say it's the total opposite of what I wanted and ask what's the point. And you know what? I totally agree with you, it's completely unrelated.
 
But, now I managed to enter college, and the college I initially wanted for the matter. And you know what? Classes aren't that bad, I'm actually enjoying most of them. Learning language and communication was extremly fun. Europe Geography brought light down some stuff I had no clue about (I discovered a part of Portugal is in Africa this thursday) And Europe Culture can be quite fascinating as well. Am I learning japanese? No, I am not. But you know what? I still can, I still have years left, I can still apply to transfer courses, I can do lots of different things.
 
My main point, and where I'm trying to go with this, is that despite not being able to enter the road I was initially aiming for, I discovered that there's many detours I can still take, and who knows if those detours aren't even more fun than the initial trip I wanted, the yellow brick road isn't the only road available. And now that I've entered college I realized that my future is still quite open and I still have chances to pursue what I want, even if it's not right here in this present time, but good things come to those who work hard and wait. And as such I shall work hard and try harder next year or whenever I can in order to pursue the stuff I want, hence why I named this thread the way I did, I'm sorry for the cheesyness but it's just for today so please bear with it. And if by any chance anyone is in any kind of similar situation to this, I hope this testimony might have helped you in some form.
 
I think this is enough by now, I'm feeling a bit feverish today so I apologize if this wasn't up to the hype of some people, but I write this out of gratitude, to those who heard me out whenever I needed, to those who made my days more fun, to those who gave me some direction and held me up when I was falling down, to the Love Live thread who's pretty much become my homebase and my addiction, to all the people of Fuwanovel. Once again, I couldn't be more grateful to be part of, and work hard for this community. Thank you for being here and for being who you are.
 
 
And thus I end my 6000th post, may we have many more posts and hopefully a 10,000th one
I bid you farewell from this post and ask that you join me together and wholeheartedly shouting
 
Nico Nico Nii

 
 
 
~Nosebleed

I love fall I am so into fall now And cannot wait for new SR, URs cooking version  
I love this picture of Nico
 

 
lol

I use my thumbs for everything, I'm tons better with them, I've yet to have a situation recently where my index fingers did better. I only use my index fingers when I have my phone charger and headphones in at the same time, or when I feel like it for fun.

And you passed my beloved Rin's episode, I love that episode so muuuuch <3 Rin has been my favorite idol for a little over a year now, but that episode made her more than that, as she toppled my previous favorite anime character with ease. That might have been the "no turning back" for me with this franchise.



I got tears just from watching that (that video is like a remix of scenes with the song in the background). Oh, and pretty cool, when I went to youtube to fetch the link, it was actually the first video in my "watch it again" section.



Oh, and @episode 6

Being a super regular visitor to the /r/SIF, I saw that image.　RinNico (what symbol is that child's name, I don't know it/ I can't find it when I looked up hirigana) is super cute, みに is pretty cute two, would have to go with those two for my favorites.

Hmm, most songs were relatively easy for me, though I started off not FCing stuff. My old phone has a really small screen and really bad lag issues (notes move really choppy) and I suffered because of it. I was instantly halving my greats when I got my new super improved phone. I FC'd everything but Soldier Game and some Experts on my old phone though.

My first ever Hard FC was Mogyutto, but everything before Mermaid Festa Vol 1 took less than 5 attempts probably (don't remember really struggling).

Mermaid Festa was that first "I won't FC this for a looong time" song, and it took 20+ attempts. My first attempt of Wonderful Rush didn't go to well, and thought that would take a while, but I got it my 2nd try

Pretty sure Love&Peace took like 10 attempts, and Bokura wa Ima like 10 as well.

Wild Stars... That song took like 30 attempts, was the hardest FC by far for me. Kitto Seishun was next with ~25 attempts. Kaguya no Shiro was about 10.

Lastly, Korekara no Someday took me ~10 attempts because I kept misreading the end. And Start Dash was 6 (stupid mistakes).

Well, that covers all the normal songs, the rest are past event songs, so I'll cover those next.

When I started the game, the Kotori event was going on, with the song "Sweet & Sweet Holiday". I honestly FAILED the song like 20 times during the event, and only passed it like 3 by the end. When it got rereleased recently though, I got a 1st try FC.

Next was the Umi event song, Shiranai Love * Oshiete Love. While I never failed this, I also never FC'd it during the event. Again, another 1st try FC when it was rereleased (By the time these two are being released, I was already passing daily Experts on the JP version).

All other event songs were easy for me.



Lastly, the daily songs were released when I was still relatively new to the game, and was still struggling with Wild Stars. My first FC was Otomeshiki, after ~40 attempts (helds very hard on old phone). I got Kokuhaku after ~60 despite getting 1 combo break like 20 times prior. Mermaid Festa took ~90 attempts on the EN version, not including few attempts I made on the JP for practice.

Lastly... Soldier Game... My first FC was attempt #82 (EN version), but was done with Perfect Lock cards in my team, and only FC'd because Honoka carried me. That was during the Nozomi event 24 days ago (I got that number from when I posted my reddit thread). I started the Rin event with ~100 plays on Soldier Game but never changed my team, so I always had those perfect locks. A couple times, my perfect locks didn't activate during the 2nd part of the chorus and I kept my combo, which I considered more legit FCs since I can 100% consistently FC the first half of the chorus. I played Soldier Game 100 times during that event, which was a ton of practice.


Lastly, I wanted to mention what I'm best at. In all games (guitar hero, osu!, this), my mind works best when notes are spaced out, my fingers can react to a beat combined with eyesight only. Soldier Game is just a cluster fuck of notes so I couldn't rely on that. My next weakness is the Ladder/steps notes, that just go along 1 at a time, my fingers Just don't work like that. Everything else I'm fine on, but one thing I'm good at fast random changing back and forth notes, like ASN expert, which I FC'd 2nd try.

We aren't getting Expert for another month, this first score match is Easy-Hard only. When the time comes and we do have expert, if you can't S rank Experts, you should NEVER play them if you want to get the most event point per LP spent.

Hard: 10.87 pts/LP
Expert: 10.88 pts/LP

You get a multiplier of 1.2 for S rank and 1.25 for 1st place.

Assuming you get S rank and 1st every time for 75 LP (3 Experts or 5 Hards)

10.87 x 1.20 x 1.25 x 5 = 1220 points
10.88 x 1.20 x 1.25 x 3 = 1224

This was taken shamelessly from here


Literally the only reward for playing Expert is 4 tokens per full recharge for a rank 100, and spending LP ~7 minutes faster.

Anything below 30k event points should feel much like a grind, when I got top 200 once before, I did an 8 hour grind day 1, that left me a little tired. But this one x.x I felt like I was going to collapse yesterday. Way too much mental fatigue.
 
 
It's hard, just getting my 100k is taxing, those 4 above me are ridiculous, especially kb_z.
Don't underestimate the rares! You got the best pure rare in the game there, Kayochin I still use 3 of her idolized.
 

Hello everybody,
 
As some of you know, I've been extremely sick lately. It's been more a dangerous-sick than just I-hate-life-sick, and so my absence on the site was unavoidable. I'm getting better, I've had solid medical care, and I'm putting my life back together. Thank you for your patience. This couldn't have come at a worse time (for my personal life and for Fuwa!)
 
I know that many of us were starting to get really jazzed for upcoming site changes. I want to spell out a timeline for everybody so we all know what's coming and what to expect. I also hope it'll help assuage any anxieties about stagnation.
 
The "cleaning house" period has been extended through October (since I've been out of action for almost all September!) Between now and next Wednesday I will be finalizing some behind-the-scenes changes among the staff and writing materials for the board moderator program By the end of next week I hope to have everything in place to roll out the board moderator program (members can be given moderator roles over particular "boards" on the forums and work under the guidance of a global moderator). I made a call for interested parties (https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/6292-are-you-interested-in-helping-moderate-a-corner-of-the-fuwanovel-forums/) and the initial roster will be selected from those who stepped forward in that post. If you're interested and fit the qualifications, speak up in that post! Again, at least the selection of board moderators should be done by next week, at which time I should have the training materials finished and in the hands of the global mods (and then we'll see how it goes) I'm working on getting an up-to-date picture on where our server move is and what front-site changes are ready to be made. Nothing to report yet, but I have submitted a 2-page list of high-priority changes to our web development team I finished my site analytics and I'm very pleased with the VN forums changes (traffic and participation are both up across the spectrum of user groups). I think the data also shows that the "Ongoing Projects" board has been very successful at driving traffic and attention to the projects featured within it. I can't say that for sure (I'm not awesome at the form of statistics my program is using), but if I'm reading the data right, then it's driven >3x as much traffic to each project than they were receiving before the ongoing projects board was made. I don't know about you, but I'd say that's exactly what we'd want for our fearless project leaders! Still waiting to hear the details on software changes before I commit to any tagging add-ons for the Development boards (it could take a while, but it's a high priority for me. Don't give up, developers!) The forums changes, like I said, have been very encouraging. The biggest (most important? controversial? fabulous?) issue to tackle, as we all know, will be the general discussion board with the G&C sub-board within it. Before I go into any details about the changes, I'l reemphasize that my priorities in changing up the organization will be: maintain a space for true general discussion, provide a separate space for Fuwanovel-centered projects and community work/discussion, give an out let for getting to know each other and having fun, and then filtering out the posts which are fluff or worthless and really just deserve to die (more on this in a minute ; )). (In summary: better differentiate between topical discussion, friendship building, Fuwanovel work, and "fluff" posts which deserve death) The details are yet to be finalized, but the current plans (written in a super secret notebook) are as follows:      A. To create a community hub (focused on Fuwanovel) which will be dedicated to community projects, the improvements board system, a leadership council, etc.      B. Restore the "general discussion" board to its true purpose (topically-based and focused discussion about stuff)      C. There will be a Lounge section which will be the spot for getting to know each other, having fun, a little goofing off, etc.      D. The newest addition will be something akin to an "Arena of Death" where pointless, fluff, and/or scum-and-villainy types of posts will be sent to die (or fight for survival). Details forthcoming. One really big thing that needs to be addressed is site media (blog and social media). There will be some long-overdue changes coming to the blog, and a better workflow for how all these services work together and how they're to be used There's more. I could talk about MOTM, for example, which has had a bumpy road due to my illness, or stances on games and translator groups and requests for takedowns. There's a lot more to discuss, but I don't have the energy atm to get it all down on paper. I ask for your patience as I recover. I'll put out as much info as I can on a regular basis. Within the next week I will be finalizing the list of torrents which will no longer be linked-to on our front site. The links will go "offline" the last week of October. The leadership structure of the community to which we're headed is going to be a leadership council structure with voting and non-voting members. I'm not going to say a lot more at this point (since it's still early, there's still too much to do, and because I need to maintain a tyrannical dictatorship power structure in order to accomplish everything listed above ), but I wanted to clearly state that nobody realizes better than I the logistical problems facing the site. I just wanted to assure everybody that soon enough we'll be in a position where responsibilities are better spread out and no life-threatening illness of any one of us puts all the forward momentum in jeopardy ; ). I want to apologize to the logo contest winners! I'm sorry that I haven't been rotating the banners as I promised. I will be appointing somebody to do this and giving them restricted ACP access so they can make the changes per schedule in the future.   
 
Immediate Timeline:
I still need some rest time, but I should be in a better position by Tuesday By Wednesday night I should have a fairly comprehensive proposal ready for my inexhaustible and ever-patient counselor and friend Rooke to examine. Details of above proposals will be discussed and refined for up to 2 weeks or until we're both happy. No later than that point I'll reach out for additional opinions and thoughts/further refinement Concurrently: I should have the staff worked out by Tuesday. The global mods (at least the ones who head board moderator teams) will be given several days to choose from a list of willing members to build their teams. I will also be selecting board moderators and assigning them to particular global mods/boards. While the global mods are working on their team (and, again, this is concurrent with Rooke and I working through proposed changes), I will be finalizing the staff handbooks which will contain rules, policies, important information, and workflows for typical tasks. Once that's done and the global mods have built their teams, the new board mods will be contacted, I'll set up their permissions, and the global mods will conduct training for their teams. Front site: This is an email-based workflow which I'll initiate tomorrow (Sunday). The upcoming forums changes will be enacted once we have  a set plan (on my end) and an army of board moderators willing to help us manage the transition. I estimate this'll go down within 1-1.5 weeks Some basic blog changes are going to be happening in the next week as well: integration with social media, aesthetic changes, and additional un-annouced changes should roll out.  
That's probably as much detail as is helpful right now. Please note: I have >40 PMs and emails to go through, so if you don't hear from me right away, don't think I'm ignoring you!
 
 
 
 
LAST POINT! The Bonus Twitter Challenge!
I'm not currently able to spend a lot of time up and about, meaning my time for working on Fuwa is somewhat limited. "Working on Fuwa" includes stuff like PMs, emails, reports, TL group sessions, and photo shoots. (<- one of those has yet to be requested. Wonder why...). SO! I'd like to suggest that anybody who urgently needs to contact me should do so through Twitter (at least for the next few days). 
 
My twitter handle is @ArchmageTay
 
I'll try to get up and be here on the site, but again, if you have a pressing concern or issue, send me a DM/Tweet. Also! The challenge part: my twitter avatar is pretty bland (but awesome! Yay HP!). If you're tweeting at me and get bored of my avatar, feel free to send me alternates you think I should use instead. If your submission is really awesome, you may just see it go up ; ).
 
That last bit was just for fun, but really -- it's difficult for me (at least in the short, short term) to get up and around, so if you need me, let me know through Twitter. (Unless you're batman. Then just send me a bat signal through Skype).
 
 
(read the post below- elevator music to accompany things, placed here by me, Kaguya)

 
 
 
If you read all of this... wow! Way to go! Thanks for your time, and I'll see you soon.

I sent a request since I just got another friend slot 1 level ago
Until you get a bunch of rares (you'll get a bunch doing the draw that takes friend points) you don't have to worry too much on formation. The best way is just to rely on Auto Formation for each attribute. My personal teams consist of
A: Smile Auto Formation (one change for a card with a good ability and close stats)
B: Pure Auto Formation (One change sacrificing about 200 stat for correct attribute)
C: Cool Auto Formation (I messed with this and changed 3 cards for abilities, should change back)
D: All smile Rares idolized
E: All cool Rare idolized.

When I first started, I had D for maxing bond points and E for stamina+stamina recovery, but I don't need them any more. On a new account I made, I just max bonds in the attribute teams since I wouldn't have a lot of rares.

And yep just idolize each card once. I kept them all and eventually one day long after starting (like,almost 3 months) max leveled them all for a challenge in the game. You won't be using them later on since the stats suck compared to rares, which you will get a good amount without too much problem.

So, what Histy is calling the tRinity (he's making a ton of Rin mixes on words), we did another thing as a trio.

First, Histy reached 35000 event points exactly, which is the final reward in the event




Then I followed along





And lastly, RINaBELL did it as well

I swear there wasn't any communication here




Histy had the initial smile Rare Rin, and I wanted to do the Pure, so I drew 12k FP worth of cards (I got 13 rares... no Rin of course), so I just changed to the Wonderful Rush Rin (which is my favorite of the 3 initials Idolized), then RINaBELL changed his to the Mogyutto to match me and Histy having regular Rares, lastly, Histy through up the idolized version instead to make the pattern.

Only if you get to the level where no matter where you are you can play the game. 
Like you go on the toilet to play it. You have to travel somewhere and you play it in the car.
You have to go to sleep but  you play it before and then wake up in the middle of the night to be efficient and you even wake up earlier than usual, mess up your sleep schedule just to play it.
You have a job meeting but your LP is full so right before you leave the house you still play it just for the sake of using your LP.
 
As long as you don't get to this stage, people won't look at you weird