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icharchivist · 4 months

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@haru-desune submitted:

Hello my semi annual "wth is gbf" ask But in all seriousness y'all look you're having fun 😁

DFKJDFMLFD HEY!!! Tee hee!

we are having a tone of fun over here yeah!! this year is the 10th anniversary of the game with new Triple A game coming out, so it's going to be a busy year and we've all been buzzing quite a bit. Though the way i ended up attracting a hive of anons discussing gbf is a mystery -- in the end the main game itself remains pretty niche -- but we're having a lot of fun bouncing out of each others.

Though to answer "what is gbf".... *looks at my blog* you will have to be more specific about what you want to know, because we don't even talk about the main story on here all that much---

Ok so for the fast crash course:

Granblue Fantasy is a browser game which can be played on any Chromium based browser at http://game.granbluefantasy.jp/ . It has a Japanese and an English version, running at the same time (it's not different servers, we get content at the same time as the Japanese fandom does)

It also has a Fighting Game called Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, and will soon have a Action RPG coming out in February called Granblue Fantasy Relink. Those games are set in the lore of Granblue, though gbvs is slightly in another timeline/universe -- still those stories are stand alones meant to be different steps on the characters journeys

The gameplay is mostly Turn-by-turn RPG for the gameplay, and Visual Novel for the story -- and gacha to get the characters you get to use and meet. (note that today we just got 200 free pulls, and the opportunity to use those pulls will disappear in less than 2 hours, so if you want to play the game today is a good day for that)

For a crashcourse on the basic lore to know about + some vague Main Story Characters and spoilers information, you can go there to learn more about it!

but the long story short is that the world of gbf is a world of floating islands and magic, ruled by the absent God of Rebirth and Destruction known as Bahamut. (all the homies hate Bahamut.) Once upon a time Bahamut split into two, splitting the world as we know, and overseeing two types of people: The People of the Skies (The Skydwellers) who are mortals, and the People of the Stars (the Astrals) who are immortal. The Astrals tried to invade the Skyrealms centuries ago, but where pushed back -- but behind them they left Primal Beasts, immortal creatures who works as semi gods, dedicated to a purpose programed inside of them.

Our Protagonist, Gran if you play as a guy, Djeeta as a girl (you can switch gender anytime tho), was abandonned by their father when they were young as he went on a quest to find Eustalucia, the island of the Astrals -- and after years of radio silence, MC finally gets a letter about their father's whereabouts, and decides to go on a journey to find back their fathers -- travelling the skies and all of its perils.

accompanying them are Vyrn, the red dragon who raised us, who's memories have mysteriously been locked away, and Lyria, the Girl in Blue (well, with blue hair, but shh), a young girl who was held prisoner by the local Empire for her power to be able to control the Primal Beasts. As she attempted to escape thanks to Katalina, an ex soldier of the Empire who was so saddened by Lyria's situation she freed her and swore loyalty to her instead, she met our MC... and near death circumstances brought Lyria to connect her life to our own, connecting us together.

Both Lyria and Vyrn end up accompanying MC out of devotion and love, but also out of seeking answers about their own existence as well.

And on their way to Eustalucia, our MC becomes the Captain of a Crew, going from island to island, adding more and more people to their crew as it goes.

The Main Story follows mainly their struggle to go to Eustalucia, facing the Empire at the time, Primal Beasts going Bersek, and much more others problems.

But every months the game unleash an event story, which will pretty much be "a story on another island that isn't related to the main plot". Those events then disappear for a time before being added to the side stories.

And those events have their own casts. The overall lore builds to the main lore, of course, but each event stories will follow their own themes for instance. Sometimes the casts of those events crossover and spend time together.

On here we talk a lot about What Makes The Sky Blue: A Three Parter story about the first primal beast of creations and their quests to reexamine their purpose, their free will, and their connection with Bahamut as their creators turns out to be heavily linked to him.

wmtsb is also the doomed love story of Sandalphon and Lucifer, as Sandalphon was driven to madness and unleashed his anger on Lucifer, leading to strife when Lucifer tried to make things right no matter what. They're. so much.

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(longer version with translation)

it's also the story that has Belial as a secondary antagonist, and it's the guy we talk about soooo fucking much on here because we're so unwise about him. the polar opposite of Lucifer, who yet was so dedicated to his creator he triggered various apocalypses and brought various issues to our protagonists to selfishly reunite with the man he loved.

Oh and, like, i'm not actually like, any type of hyperbolism about the LGBT+ stuff btw. Belial's feelings are explicitly romantic, and later Lucifer mirrors Belial's explicit words to address his feelings for Sandalphon for instance.

We also have various Trans rep (Ladiva and Cagliostro are openly trans women, Balurga is a trans man, Orologia is a genderfluid dragon who literally shift gender from one screen to the next and who use they/them, and the characters who, as a group, are named the 6 dragons, are openly nonbinary. There's also two others characters (Morilynn and Morgan) who use they/them pronouns. And also i'll include him but Lamorak who said he refused to be limitated to gender.)

We also have a lot of wlw and mlm, including a canon wlw kiss (but for that i direct you to my current pinned post, i love them so much they're so unwell) and a wlw engagement party. We're doing fine here.

Another story i'm particuliarly found of personally is the Dragon Knights saga, but it's a 10 parters so it's like. A Lot. But it's basically about four knights who once served the country of Feendrache together, working together to uncover the sins of Feendrache's past and make sure the current country is willing to atone for their crimes, as they're trying to rebuild a proper future, while avoiding the threat of Merlin, a victim of one of said crimes who have been planning Feendrache's destruction ever since.

Or the story Marionette Stars, about people suddenly getting wrapped into a conspiracy as they are being led to connect with powerful weapons connected to the Horoscope, leading them in the web of an organization who is making sure conditions are met for them to awaken their weapons to lead to nefarious intentions.... it's where the kissing lesbians are from for instance, but also fair warning this is the gorest of the saga so far and it has a lot of unsettling stuff going on in it.

And there's so much more characters and stories and anything for the eyes to see. All with gorgeous arts, and a lot of recent stories have very deep themes which really are interesting to sit through, though keeping in mind that the game has a lot of disturbing content and doesn't hesitate to have you sit through extremely disturbing and gore scenes. #SurvivorOfTikohFE

here's some arts samples of various saga to give you an overview of some goodies here and there

and if you want to get into it because of Seiyuu? you're in luck! there's so many characters in granblue that your favorite seiyuu can POSSIBLY be in it!

like i did a list of a3 seiyuus in it for example:

and some of them have songs! as pictured above with Sandalphon's (Suzumura Ken'ichi) song, but also like, the Dragon Knights (Seiyuu: Eguchi Takuya, Ono Yuuki, Ryota Osaka, Kazuhiko Inoue) or Grimnir's song (by legendary seiyuu Megumi Ogata)

or also absolutely bonkers songs as OST, like the infamous Parade's Lust, Paradise Lost, Zero, Existence, Peace and Quiet, The Watershed Moment, or a personal fav with For You.

So strap in, give it a shot, and if you want clarification on literally anything, don't hesitate ;D

#submitted #ichareply #submission #it sounds overwhelming. and it IS. but it's also so fucking good once you're in it #just focus on one saga or something and then you'll open up your mind #anyway there's a bnha collab in a week or so if you want to play for that??#it'll be a good introduction to the game #and the anniversary is in end February/begining March and it'll be the 10th anni so it'll be big #the more you know ;D #haru desune #ichafantalks gbf #ichablogging gbftips #Youtube

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kikeols · 6 months

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lucilius i miss you i havent seen you in so long... when are we pulling you out of the void :(

#kikeols art!!#gbf #theres some art i liked on twitter a while back that has him and the 6dragons collaborating to take out bahamut for real #i really hope they do that for 10th anniversary. lets kill god together

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merinsanity · 2 months

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(1 day late post) happy birthday naobou!! and happy 10th anniversary, gbf!! 💙☁️

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#fanart #granblue fantasy #seiyuu #東山奈央 #nao toyama #artists on tumblr #merinsanity #lyria

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maguneedsalife · 2 months

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granblue did a cute little thing for their 10th anniversary wherein they aggregated a bunch of data from your skyfaring journey and made a little page to show you your stats

i know posting On Here feels really bleak rn but i wanted to contribute this to the gbf log tag i have going anyway

perhaps unsurprisingly, Ian is my longest granblue friend (he's the one who got me playing). No idea whose crew that is, though - the crew I made when I started was named Mikazuki Fanclub. I guess whoever took it over renamed it?

I was surprised to see Threo take the top spot from characters I actually care about, but since she's used for slime blasting I think she took a lot of people's #1 slot lmao...

Happy with the results by element though :D

and of course... seeing my first perpetuity ring recipient recorded also made me feel a way :') i remember when they first added the rings and I farmed my ass off to get one for him...

#granblue log

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yumejoshi147 · 3 years

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The 10th anniversary story in GBF got me good💔

#granblue fantasy #gbf

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kamadaeva · 5 years

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Theoretical question from a conversation with a friend I have. We both play gacha games and we talk about how each differ for their milestone anniversaries. Like FEH doing a random free grab at 5* for 2 years, SIF doing their normal 'have a free roll on us' and Girls Frontline essentially going 'Here have 1 free 5* of your choosing.' and it got us both pondering if or when FGO will get to that point where they let you pick a 5*? They think it'll be the 5th and I think more closer to 10th or 15th

i think theres a chance they’re do it for 4th but 5th is more likely if at all. rather than that i wish they’d just add an easier way to get saint graphs. they dont have to just hand them out but i’ll likely never see one in my FGO career compared to how GBF and basically every other big game has sparks.

#Anonymous

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rainbowdonkee · 2 months

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Granblue Fantasy is celebrating 10 years! I’m so grateful for this game and for the team that has put so much work and passion to GBF 💙🩷

I only started on Oct 4, 2018 and it was thanks to seeing photos of Sandalphon and Belial online that made me research and discover GBF which first led me to Rage of Bahamas anime and fell in love with Azazel and RoB Lucifer. This game means so much to me and for so many others it’s crazy that it’s been 10 years and I hope they continue giving us loving memories.

#Cygames #granblue fantasy #gbf #gbf 10th anniversary #gran #djeeta #vyrn #lyria #グラブル #グランブルーファンタジー

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rainbowdonkee · 2 months

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2ND GRAND SANDALPHON?!

Also Richard our first event character finally got a SSR version, this is 10 years in the making y’all!!

#gbf #Cygames #sandalphon #Richard #gbf sandalphon #gbf Richard #gbf Sabrina #gbf 10th anniversary #granblue fantasy

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goldenteaset · 3 months

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A Small List of Things I'd Like To See in GBF's 10th Anni Event

I highly doubt all of these will happen (especially when they sometimes contradict each other), but let me dream!

The casts of the previous anniversaries teaming up to take on Bahamut

Lucilius and Lu Woh bonding/brooding over their shared desire to destroy Bahamut

Sariel finding and entering "the rainbow" (Interdimensional Void) and reuniting with Belial again

Seofon having a mind battle with his Boundary self

For extra cheesy goodness, during said battle he manifests the Eternals to help him win ("It's not cheating if you need help, right~? I'll still win though.")

Belial and Lucifer leading the Primarchs one last time against the Moondwellers, with Sandalphon at the head and the 6 Dragons alongside them all

Ellis returning, and the "spare him" option in Home Sweet Moon finally gets paid off with him figuring out why that happened/defecting

Altima and Raybury also returning to turn the tide

Lucifer and Belial punching the Void open for Sariel, knowing exactly what to do without saying it aloud

Sandalphon, Orologia and Nehan all overworking and getting angry at each other for it ("He's being nonsensical!" said simultaneously)

A new look for Lucifer, officially retired and loving it

Danchou somehow falling through the Sky and Belial diving down to save them

Orologia interacts with everybody

The boss raid is Lyria and Vyrn's "original forms" as the Girl in Blue and Primordial Dragon, respectively

Fediel going gaga over all the possible dyads running around

And the most self-indulgent of them all:

Offering Belial to join our crew comes complete with an entire list of choices for how to do so, complete with pet names and possible threats

Belial has unique lines for each choice

Orologia and Vyrn have unique lines for each choice (since they're Danchou's parents)

#granblue fantasy #“I'm not excited” I say excitedly #Again: I doubt these will all happen (nor all at once) but if half of them made it in I'd be SO PLEASED #gran #djeeta #lucifer gbf #belial gbf #lyria gbf #vyrn #sandalphon gbf #sariel gbf #I think that's everyone

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goldenteaset · 4 months

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Me last month: Hmm, GBF's 10th anniversary could be related to that one line Lu Woh said about the Singularity "being able to ally with fallen angels and those descended from the stars (Astrals)", but just to be safe I'll assume not--

Dark Angel Olivia in January, dropping like a meteor:

#granblue fantasy #I don't have her yet but given how excited yet vague people have been...HMM #My pick ticket is in danger...which is unfortunate given Valentines is soon

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goldenteaset · 2 months

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10 days until GBF's 10th anniversary event.

Current status: I have found multiple finished fics in a single doc, most Belial/Djeeta (often with guests), E-rated and unposted. There are at least two in here I thought I'd accidentally deleted! I have no idea which one to start with... ^^;

(Oh and the Omegaverse WIP is in here too, but it's still unfinished. ;_;)

#granblue fantasy #writing #belial x djeeta #belidjeeta #Apparently all I needed to do was scroll down a bit ;;

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icharchivist · 10 months

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Do you hope/ think/ know if there's going to be another Marionette Stars or is the saga over?

oh there's definitely going to be more, and it's not just wishful thinking from someone who adored this event.

The whole event is supposed to extend the lore on the Vintage Weapons, which have been in the game for years at this point. (and now they're called Horoscopes! wild!) Just like we're now getting story events about the Eternals while for the longest time they were mostly confined to their weapon forging and some cameo here and there.

And the lore is truly just starting. They established that there should be at least 12 Accordants, ie, people who resonate with Horoscopes and can actually use them to their full potential, and when the event ended we were still missing a few of them?? (actually there's more than 12 but, )

Even since Marionette Stars ended we even had new Accordants being introduced in gacha (Manamel, who was introduced recently, is an Accordant).

Ferdinand is at large, he still needs to be dealt with. the event ended on the reveal Judah (Fiorito's father) was alive and part of Navis, which basically set him up to become a future villain. (Navis being the name of the secret organization which have been overlooking the development of the Horoscopes and Accordants and seem to have a greater plan ahead of them).

Ragazzo is still in the coma and i doubt they'll just leave it in it forever, else they would just have killed him. Fiorito's role as a double agent hasn't been unveiled yet, so it means it's going to be addressed again. Tikoh is not going to stop until her revenge is done. Kolulu and Troue barely had any focus this event and we know they'll become more relevant later, especially with Troue's amnesia being teased to become something that will cause problems later on/that Navis want to use.

The only story that had a "conclusion" in Marionette Stars was Cupitan realizing Trisette hated her, and while they could easily leave it at that, i doubt they will, because of how it was Cuptain's first event and i doubt they'll just leave her emotionally ruined like that, and that they still post arts of Cupitan and Trisette as friends which would imply there is / will be something more added to this hatred.

We still don't know what's the deal with the Priestess is - is she with Navis? they sure seem to act like she's on their side. what's her deal with the Horoscopes? Why does she look like a mortal version of Ca Ong?

Feather and Randall were elevated as characters and given more stakes, and as such so did their rivalry, but they both feel confused as to how they became Accordants, angry for what happened to Ragazzo, and in search for answers. I think i even remember them talking about how their world became a whole lot bigger than they ever expected when they left for their journey and they still don't know what that entails.

And we know the Accordants are all supposed to be part of a greater plan which is for now still being set in motion by triggering events in order to awaken their bonds with their respective Horoscopes.

And on top of that, the event was received extremely well by fans!! I saw a lot of people mention that they're really engaged with this plot and want to see more of it!! considering how many gbf events get lurkwarm receptions these days, the fact this event really had people go "we want more!!" probably would encourage gbf to do more with it.

So there's DEFINITELY going to be more Marionette Stars. The question is, when? would it be a plotline considered worthwhile event to happen regularly or are they going to space them out a lot?

I've also seen people mention how it could also easily become an anniversary event since it further stars lore and a major weapon line lore, and how it could easily justify an anni event giving away a Vintage weapon (just like we've had event giving away an Eternal or an Opus or an Evoker). Not the 10th anni for reasons i already mentioned, but down the line, who knows?

So yeah, there's definitely going to be more Marionette Stars down the line, and I, for one, am super excited about it. I adored this event and i'm so hyped to discover more about everything that's going to happen in it and to its characters.

So yes! definitely!

Marionette Stars 2 when i'm starving.

#ichareply #ichafantalks gbf #ichablogging vinweap #i just oghhh adored this event so much

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