You’ve Got A Friend In Me

Hello fellow Megucas! Welcome to Grief Seeds: your weekly update on all things Magia Record! Following closely after My Diary With You, this week features our second story event And So, The Azaleas Bloom! The event hosts a new trio of Magical Girls to meet, and over 35 quests in the first part alone. If that isn’t enough to keep you occupied, the latter half of Main Story Chapter 4 is also now available! There’s never a dull week in Kamihama!

Kamihama Public Service Announcements

This week’s server maintenance saw a slight misstep Tuesday morning, ending an hour later than scheduled. Though most players didn’t see this as much more than a slight inconvenience, all players have been given 50 Magia Stones as an apology!

The timed exclusive Memoria Clear Summer Colors is still available in the mirror shop until August, 6th for players who are still interested in picking up a copy or two. Additionally, the monthly shop reset is scheduled to happen next Wednesday, replenishing the Magia Shop bundles, as well as the Fate Weave Tickets available in the Mirror Coin Shop.

Ongoing Events

The beginning of the new story event also marks the end of Mitama’s Special Training: Felicia Mitsuki, which was mentioned briefly in last week’s Grief Seeds. Felicia’s shop will remain open until next Tuesday, July 30th for players who still are carrying Felicia Potions in their inventory.

Our second story event And So, The Azaleas Bloom begins this week staring three new Magical Girls in a branching narrative event! Players will follow Ayame, Konoha, and Hazuki’s story, making choices along the way that will ultimately lead to one of several distinct endings. This event will be split into two parts, the first of which will run from Tuesday, July 23rd until Tuesday, July 30th, thereafter the second part will begin, and run until the event is completed on August, 6th. Part 1 quests will continue to be available after the start of Part 2.

As players complete event quests this week, they will earn Red Azaleas as a reward. These Red Azaleas can be exchanged in the event shop for various items. It is important to note that Part 2 will have its own separate currency, and shop, so players don’t need to worry about saving currency for the next leg of the event. The part 1 shop contains the usual stock of coveted items like Fate Weave Tickets, and Rainbow Orbs, as well as Ayame Mikuri, one of the new Magical Girls! Once Ayame is purchased, 10 of her Destiny Gems will also appear in the shop. As with each new event, there is also an event Memoria available for purchase, granting additional event currency when equipped. After acquiring your preferred number of event Memoria, I recommend prioritizing purchasing Ayame and her Destiny Gems, followed by Fate Weave Tickets and Rainbow Orbs. Other useful items like AP potions are also available for purchase.

This week also brings the conclusion of Main Story Chapter 4! Unlike last week’s New Chapter Celebration, these new Main Story quests don’t have time sensitive missions associated with them, so they can be completed at your leisure.

Fate Weave

A new event means new Magical Girls! The Azaleas event welcomes a new 4-star, Konoha Shizumi, and a new 3-star, Hazuki Yusa!

Konoha is a Water type Magical Girl, who functions as a jack-of-all-trades. She boasts reasonably high stats, as well as two blast discs allowing her to deal some serious damage, but her support oriented connect means she isn’t always relegated to pure DPS. Her Connect provides a sizable heal, as well as Accele Up, and Attack Up making her a good fit with Accele based characters like Rena or Madoka. If you need a versatile character to round out your team, Konoha is your girl!

With a smile worth protecting, Hazuki is a Light type Magical Girl, ready to dish out some damage. Though Hazuki doesn’t shine in PvP modes, she can be a major asset in weakening enemies in PvE. Her Connect provides a reasonable boost to Attack in addition to a 100% chance to inflict Curse. Her Magia attack functions similarly, as it damages all enemies, with a small chance to inflict Attack Down, and a 100% chance to inflict Curse. Unfortunately, Hazuki only having a single Accele disc means charging her Magia attack will be difficult without help from her party. When paired with other strong DPS Magical Girls, the inclusion of Hazuki can swing battles in your favor!

The And So, The Azaleas Bloom Fate Weave banner will run until Tuesday, August, 6th at server reset.

Perhaps more important than Konoha, and Hazuki, this banner also features what is considered one of the best Memoria in the game I Made Friends. Widely regarded as one of the strongest passive Memoria ever released, I Made Friends provides Attack Up III (15%), and Chance To Critical Hit III (20%), both further enhanced once fully ascended. This Memoria is so powerful that many players opt to roll on this banner solely for it. If you don’t plan to spend any Magia Stones on this banner, it is highly recommended that you spend any Support Points in excess of 2000 on the Support Point Fate Weave in order to hopefully pull I Made Friends while the Memoria Pool is still small.

Mokyu~!

And So, The Azaleas Bloom is a personal favorite event of mine, so I’m excited to finally see it localized! Though sometimes not as strong as the source material, the narrative, and character plots of Magia Record are what keep me invested. I hope that through reading this event new players can get a taste of what Magia Record has in store, because we’re only getting started! Until then… That’s all your Grief Seeds for the week! Remember to keep those Soul Gems clean!

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All photos in this article were taken directly from Magia Record on my own personal device and account.