A Change of Schedule

Hello fellow Megucas! Welcome to Grief Seeds: your weekly update on all things Magia Record! It was a rough launch last week for the game’s English server, but with a reasonably quick response to bugs from the development team, as well as a slew of new events, things are looking up. The English server seems to be already defying expectations by significantly changing the event schedule followed by its predecessor. Do Aniplex and developer F4Samurai plan to bridge the gap between EN and JP? Hopefully, we can find out more from their upcoming panel at Anime Expo this weekend, but until then let’s take a look at what’s on the schedule for the near future.

Kamihama Public Service Announcements

As most players are painfully aware, there were a few prominent bugs in the game following last week’s launch. Thankfully, a good portion of these bugs have been addressed, and subsequently resolved. Two separate issues involving the friend system were addressed, and at the time of writing the system is fully functional. Any players who have completed Chapter 1 Episode 2 Battle 2 prior to July 2nd should have received 100 Magia Stones as compensation on Tuesday morning. A somewhat more serious issue that had locked players out of playing in Mirror Battles after surpassing 1000 Mirror Points was also addressed in a recent patch. All players are currently capped at 1000 points in order to stop this issue from spreading. Any players’ accounts who were affected by this issue have been fixed, and those players have been sent 2 Days Worth of Daily Missions (10,000 Curse Chips, 2 Master ++ Gems, and 2 Magia Chips), 10 BP Potions, and 50 Magia Stones” as compensation. In addition to bug fixes, this week also saw the reset of Mitama’s stock for the Magia Stones, Mirror Coins, and Support Points shops, so be sure to take advantage of that if you’re planning to do any gacha pulls in the immediate future!

Ongoing Events

The event schedule has been jam-packed since launch, so there’s quite a lot to go over here.

Continuing from last week, The Release Celebration event is still going strong, with login rewards lasting until Tuesday the 9th. If you want Iroha’s swimsuit outfit (why wouldn’t you?), that should be a priority, after which the remaining medals can be used for Fate Weave Tickets or AP Potions. Though login rewards will end on the 9th, the shop will remain open until the 11th at 3:00AM PST reset.

July 2nd also saw the end of the Mitama Special Training: Madoka event, but if you still have Madoka Potions in your inventory you can access the shop until this Friday at 3:00AM PST.

July 2nd also marks the beginning of the Mitama Special Training: Mami event. This event is almost identical to the previous one, allowing players to earn bonus XP for Mami and a friend, as well as earning Mami Potions to spend in an event specific shop. Much like Madoka’s event, I recommend first buying the Fate Weave Tickets and Rainbow Orbs from Mami’s shop, and then using additional potions as you see fit. If you have a Mami and can work towards her awakening materials this is a great time to do so. Mami’s training will only run until Friday the 5th, with the shop closing shortly after the 9th, so this event should be prioritized if possible.

Mitama’s monopoly on in-game events isn’t over yet, as an announcement has been made: immediately following the end of Mami’s training event on the 5th a new event ‘Mitama Special Training: Kyoko’ will begin. Kyoko’s event will be exactly the same as the previous ones and will run from the 5th until the 9th, with the shop closing on the 12th. The priority items for this event should be treated the same as Mami’s listed above.

This schedule of events completely defies the predicted JP schedule. The most notable change being Kyoko’s Fate Weave banner being pushed ahead almost an entire month, as well as her training event, which in JP was shared with a currently unreleased character.

Fate Weave

As mentioned above, much to the surprise of the player base, Kyoko Sakura’s Fate Weave banner has arrived early! Unlike her companions, Kyoko’s banner will have a much smaller time-frame of availability, beginning on July 2nd and ending on Tuesday, July 9th.

Kyoko is a much sought after Magical Girl within the community for her high attack stat, 3 blast discs, a powerful Magia attack that deals double damage on weakness, and obviously her adorable fang. Kyoko will be a mainstay in top PvP teams for a while, and with the utility of her Magia attack against bosses, she can also be a force to be reckoned with in certain PvE maps. However, with Kyoko hitting much earlier than expected, be careful with your Magia Stone usage. Your favorite Magical Girl may be coming sooner than you think…

Mokyu~!

After a worrying start, Magia Record is off to the races! The accelerated schedule leaves a glimmer of hope that we may not remain two full years behind our sister server forever, but only time will tell if this rapid pace continues. As previously mentioned, Aniplex will be hosting a panel at Anime Expo this weekend about Magia Record, and MGNN will have staff on scene to bring you any news that breaks! Hopefully, there we can get some concrete details on the future of the English server, but 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