#sakurako mikage

[misschimotosuwa-blog]

Sakurako is such a prime character 👌 she's fire she deserves more love

[intoevernightfanfic]

I updated At Your Service (Rated MA) late yesterday! Have a little peek at the drama from chapter 10 :D

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“Now, now, I cannot say what my duties will permit,” Tomoe pointed out, although his tone was light, a smile playing on his lips. “I find myself quite busy these days. My hands are full with my god.”

Nanami’s blood ran cold. His duties? What they’d permit? He had his hands full? Her breaths came shaky and shallow, and she wondered — why did he act like that was all it was to him? He’d spoken such candied words to her only days before; he’d promised her it was serious to him. And now those same actions that he’d insisted were born from the deepest connection possible were nothing more than duties. He’d lied, a voice in her head announced. A lump closed off her throat.

“That’s right, Sakurako,” another tanuki chided, a pout playing on her lips. “He has an obligation to his goddess now.”

“Oh, I do hope you won’t fall in love,” the tanuki named Sakurako moaned. “Mikage kept you from us long enough!”

A huff left Tomoe, his fur all but bristling. “I did not fall in love with Mikage. What we shared physically was purely contractual.” He shut his eyes, fluffing the ends of his hair. “Make no mistake — I wish that he had not left. But we were not in love.”

“But what about your goddess? If she falls in love with you, she won’t let you be free, will she?”

At this question, Nanami felt like her soul was being sucked out of her body. But she wouldn’t do that to Tomoe, she wanted to cry out, her chin quivering. Surely, after what they’d gone through with Narukami, Tomoe saw that. What did it matter if she was in love anyway? The thought flew through her mind before she could censor herself, and hot, frustrated tears stung the corners of her eyes.

[puellamagifashion]

Character Masterpost

Original series: Madoka Kaname Ultimate Madoka Homura Akemi Homura Akemi (glasses/plaits)/Moemura Devil Homura Mami Tomoe Sayaka Miki Kyoko Sakura Hitomi Shizuki Nagisa Momoe

Kazumi Magica: Kazumi Subaru Kaoru Maki Umika Misaki Saki Asami Mirai Wakaba Satomi Usagi Niko Kanna Kanna Hijiri Airi Anri ‘Yuuri’/Yuuri Asuka Ayase/Luca Souju Akane Sumire

Oriko Magica: Oriko Mikuni Kirika Kure Yuma Chitose Sasa Yuuki Komaki Asako Lina Hitomi Mio Miyako Saki Mai Akane Erika Mamiya Koito Asako Akira Namekata Miyuki Nagatsuki Futaba Chihana Masumi

Suzune Magica: Suzune Amano Arisa Narumi Chisato Shion Haruka Kanade Matsuri Hinata Kagari Hinata Tsubaki Mikoto Kanami Honoka

Tart Magica: Tart/Jeanne d’Arc Riz Hawkwood Melissa de Vignolles Eliza Celjska Corbeau Lapin Minou Isabeau Pernelle Fleche Lame

Magia Record: Iroha Tamaki Yachiyo Nanami Tsuruno Yui Sana Futaba Felicia Mitsuki Mifuyu Azusa Touka Satomi Alina Gray Nemu Hiiragi Ui Tamaki Rena Minami Momoko Togame Kaede Akino Karin Misono Kanagi Izumi Mitama Yakumo Tsukuyo Amane Tsukasa Amane Kuroe

Kagome Satori Yuna Kureha Hikaru Kirari Ao Kasane Juri Oba Shizuka Tokime Chiharu Hiroe Sunao Toki Himena Aika Shigure Miyabi Hagumu Azumi San Kagura Miyuri Yukari Lavi/Rabi Himuro Asahi Miura Alexandra Kurusu Urara/Ulala Yume Nayuta Satomi Mikage Yakumo Sudachi Sawa Yozuru Sasame Livia Medeiros Mikoto Sena Tsuyu Mizuna Chizuru

Asuka Tatsuki Kanoko Yayoi Natsuki Utsuho Hinano Miyako Sasara Minagi Nanaka Tokiwa Emiri Kisaki Shizuku Hozumi Akira Shinobu Manaka Kurumi Ria Ami Kako Natsume Meiyui Chun Leila Ibuki Seika Kumi

Mito Aino Kokoro Awane Yukika Nanase Hanna Sarasa Ayaka Mariko Himika Mao Sakuya Suzuka Aimi Eri Tsumugi Wakana Ren Isuzu Konoha Shizumi Hazuki Yusa Ayame Mikuri Masara Kagami Konomi Haruna

Rika Ayano Mayu Kozue Sayuki Fumino Moka Megumi Riko Chiaki Maria Yuki Mel Anna Mikura Komachi Seira Mihono Temari Kira Hotori Yuzuki Meguru Hibiki Eternal Sakura/Sakurako Ranka Chizu Rion Yuzuki

Ryo Midori Chika Aoba Hotaru Yura Kanae Yukino Yuuna Kaharu Jun Kazari Ashley Taylor Ikumi Makino Mitsune Miwa Sae Kirino Rui Mizuki Akari Mai Ryoko Natsu Kushu Irina Kuro Mabayu Aki

Other: Pia Undo Overall other characters

[kon-kon-kon-kon]

[my-anime-goods]

Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru (When Will Ayumu Make His Move?) - New goods by Hobby Stock with new illustrations (Cafe Uniform ver.). Release: November 2022

[tetrix-anime]

Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru (When Will Ayumu Make His Move?) - Blu-ray/DVD Bonus Illustrations

[smerdulos]

Today's Headcanon

Sakurako Mikage from Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru is autistic

Or she's just "shy"

[mahou-furbies]

Meguca tournament comments, part 7/11

Ranka

Outfit that doesn't make her look like a gamer completely. Me likes it!

I really love Ranka's color scheme.

Remi

I wanna learn more about Remi in Magireco, won't happen but I can dream, All the Kazumi girls are special to meee

Ren

I love Ren’s voice acting!

Ren is my depressed lesbian daughter.

Rena

Rena feels so real in her characterization and interactions with others

I like renas design

It was hard to choose between Sakurako and Rena. But I went with Rena because she’s one of my favorite main characters.

She has a cool hairstyle and her music note Soul Gem matches the outfit well

Favourite card

It's Not Like I Was Waiting. It's really cute and express well Rena's personality

Rika

Normally I would have voted for Iroha, but as a fellow lesbian, I need to support my girl Rika.

I want to see rika in mikage's colors now.....

Rika is my all time favorite magical girl, but these are all strong contenders. Madoka character design is good

I'm sorry my dearest Sana, but I had to vote for the cannon lesbian

Gotta support my fellow canon lesbians.

Rika is the canonical lesbian magical girl we deserve.

Sakura

Sakura Is best girl

I like that sakuras hair looks like a squid

Sakura's hair is sparkly.

SAKURA SUPREMACY

The colors on Sakura look amazing, the blues are almost glowing

I love Sakura's hair.

How does Sakurako’s skirt stay together?

Gooo sakuraaa

Space pretty

Gooooo sakuraaa gooo

Sakura's card isn't an option on here, but I think her swimsuit alt's card is the prettiest!

[jer-tan]

I went in with the idea this anni that all 4 stars are good 4 stars and I'm walking away feeling satisfied this time.

Infinite Iroha, 2 slots for 100 (3rd came from bag)

Unlimited gacha:

Tsukuyo, last slot

Mito, second

Ao, second

Mifuyu, spooked

Unlimited memoria:

Mikage: last slot

Iroha's bday ticket:

Mami, last slot

4 star tickets:

Rena, second slot

Mikura: second slot

Silver bag:

Mayu, who is new

Gold bag:

Kuroe, last slot

Platinum bag

Holy Mami anime version: 2nd and 3rd

Limited gacha: (I went for units I like and not intend on using

Azeleas, new to me

Sakurako: new to me

Kyouko Doppel version: last slot with Mitama coins

Limited memoria:

Ryouko, 2nd slot

Hanna, 2nd slot

San, new for me.

I think it was good I got the final slots for 4 characters.

[misschimotosuwa-blog]

*INTERNAL SCREAMING*

[neptunemagia]

top 5 by @luna-di-fuoco!

💖 - top 5 magical girls - Mitama, Kanagi, Sana, Mel, Nagisa, Homura (that’s six ikik)

💙 - top 5 aqua units - Yachiyo, Rena, Sunao, Hotaru, Riko

❤️ - top 5 fire units - Tsuruno, Juri, Momoko, Ranka, Karin

💚 - top 5 forest units - Sana, Mito, Mel, Chiharu, Alina

💛 - top 5 light units - Kanagi, Yuna, Sakurako, Sayuki, Masara

💜- top 5 dark units - Homura, Mikage, Ikumi, Nagisa, Felicia

🖤 - top 5 void units - Mitama, Mikoto, Sudachi, Yozuru, Livia (there’s only so many :,))

👗 - top 5 character designs - Alina, Mikoto, Darkness Mitama, Juri, Riko

🧥 - top 5 costumes (halloween, winter, etc.) - Halloween Mel, Valentines Mel, Maid Nagitan, Ikumi casual outfit, Daito uniform Mitama

🪞 - top 5 alt versions - Mitama (Eternal Darkness ver.), Mifuyu (fairytale ver.), Yachiyo (fairytale ver.), Kanagi (vampire ver.), Nagisa (valentines ver.)

👭🏻 - top 5 dual units - Momoko • Mitama (mermaid ver.), Yachiyo • Mifuyu (beginnings ver.), Karin • Alina (Halloween ver.), Nayuta • Mikage (Christmas ver.), Konoha • Hazuki

⭐ - top 5 guest / spinoff characters - Oriko, Yuma, Yu, Akuma Homura-chan, Rena-chan (idol ver.)

[muffinrecord]

Who to Roll For?

Here’s a dumb post if you’re wondering who to roll for in the upcoming banner. Please do further research too!! Don’t just base it on my half-assed crap ;_;

Also please feel free to correct me if I get something wrong!

First off, make a decision on if you want to choose a character for gameplay or because you love them. BOTH ARE EQUALLY VALID. I don’t think I need to help a person pick a favorite character, so I’m going to give advice based on gameplay.

Available characters:

Madoka Kaname

Madoka (Haregi ver)

Mami Tomoe

Mami (Holy ver)

Mami (Swimsuit ver)

Kyoko Sakura

Kyoko (Swimsuit ver)

Sayaka Miki

Sayaka (Haregi ver)

Cool Homura

Homura (Swimsuit)

Generic advice: 

Look at who you have already. Getting more slots for a character is always a good thing! If you want to fill in missing gaps, look at your elemental lineups and see what you’re missing. Not enough Flame? Pick a Kyoko, ect. Also, look at your lineups for strategy and see what you’re missing too. Madoka will be great for Magia teams, Mami is good for Bind cheese, Kyoko is good for blastin’, ect! If you don’t have everyone, consider your future plans with saving. Will you be trying to get one of these limited girls later? If not, then choose an unlimited, so that if you get spooked you can at least increase the girl’s slots. If you are considering rolling for someone in the future, then go ahead and get a copy of them ahead of time to make it easier on yourself!

Specific Character Advice:

Madoka Kaname: Extremely good for Magia teams. She’s still one of the best (I think?) for getting people to 100 MP and beyond and her light status makes her really versatile. I still think that Madoka is one of the best choices for new players. She’s not going to carry you in damage though, so keep that in mind! Additionally, personally, I find that Double Doka cheese isn’t really needed as much as it was on NA due to SE on other characters making other options easier to work through. Additionally, I don’t think Madoka is as necessary these days as she was in NA either-- characters like Mikage and the easily accessible Kako have filled Madoka’s niche a bit.

One slot isn’t great, but it’s enough for her to use her Accele Draw personal memoria at least, so that’s nice.

Haregi Madoka: She’s been powercrept by other characters in the game. She’s a support and will deal more damage than Regular Madoka, but she also doesn’t deal as much damage as an actual attacker. A lot of her support is based around preventing damage (Attack Down, Darkness) which can be pretty nice-- healing is good, but preventing damage is also great. But otherwise, I feel like regular Madoka is better than Haregi Madoka.

With regard to slots, Supports are kinda similar to tanks in that you want them ideally to have more than one slot. This is because they can load up on active memoria and really take advantage of that skill quicken passive from spirit enhancement they can get. 

Mami Tomoe: She’s good imo, but she’s not as much a must-have like she was on NA, because a lot of characters can bind/charm/stun the enemy now through connects. As a Forest type she does a lot of good magia damage and she has a great amount of Attack. Her disks can work for or against her-- on Magia teams she’s good, but for general attacking maybe not so much. Don’t forget her magia will debuff herself! 

She’s... fine at one slot, but more is always better. She’s really squishy though so keep that in mind-- if bind doesn’t work, then she’s fragile.

Holy Mami: Her disks make her sort of charge team/blast team oriented. She does have a lot of MP gain up nodes + mp regen (at 12mp per turn??), so she can magia, although that sort of focus on her SE is a little weird. Her magia itself is really confusing?? IMO Swimsuit Mami is a better forest unit if you have to pick a limited.

She’s fine at one slot, but still-- more is better.

Swimsuit Mami: One of the best Forest units in the game, and she’s going to be really good for the upcoming Kimochi too. Her Spirit Enhancement, Magia, and Connect are all pretty good. She has the highest attack of the three Mamis available, and she has MP Regen per turn, letting her get to magia quickly-- which is good, because she gives herself Magia Damage Up when she does so.

One slot isn’t great, but I don’t think she suffers as much as other characters do on this list for it. Keep in mind that she’ll probably be a lot better if you could get her to two slots at least.

Kyoko Sakura: One of the OG Blast gorillas, Kyoko is great for any sort of blasting business. Interestingly, she’s kind of more tanky than Swimsuit Kyoko? Regular Kyoko gives Damage Cut on her connect, while Swim Kyoko gives Attack Up, and regular Kyoko has more Defense too. She’s going to be excellent for farming stuff if you want to use Blast, though blast is sort of out of the meta when it comes to hard content.

It’s always good to have more memo slots, but Kyoko is pretty good for farming even at one. If you have Ranka and are really pressed for options here, you can skip her if you like.

Swimsuit Kyoko: Kyoko and Swim Kyoko both have very similar SE-- in fact, it’s the same with some different percentages. Swim Kyoko has a higher evade chance at 20%, while regular Kyoko has a higher Anti-Evade at 45%. Swim Kyoko has a weaker active SE in my opinion (it gives lower blast damage up but also magia damage up?); however swim kyoko has a much better connect and waaaay better attack stats. She’s very fragile though! Like regular Kyoko, she’s going to be excellent for farming stuff with blast but not as good for actual hard content.

I’d say Swim Kyoko is prob the best to have here at one memo slot. She just has super high attack and can make up for the lack of second passive slot.

Sayaka Miki: Unless you have Sayaka at a slot or two already, I’d skip her for consideration. She’s sort of... eh? Some folks have made good tactics of using Attack Up when max health memoria + Sayaka’s HP Regen, but that depends on you having good Attack Up when max health memoria in the first place. As a tank she’s great, but as a damage dealer... meh.

She suffers the most here from having one slot. She’s a tank, and I still think tanks benefit from having three slots, even considering Spirit Enhancement. It’s true that SE will make up for a lack of memoria slots, but you also have to consider that the content you’re facing is going to be harder in antipcation of SE too.

Haregi Sayaka: She’s not in the meta, and suffers from a few flaws but she’s also very cool. Tanks generally want AACCB (especially these days) so that they can get to magia quickly and help support their team-- Haregi Sayaka has ABBCC though, which is more attack-ish focused. Despite being a defense type she actually has decent enough ATK stats. Her connect gives Defense Pierce along with other stuff, which makes her a bit rare and REALLY helpful for some hard challenges. As a tank she does kind of suffer a bit when it comes to drawing aggro, but she’s also very sturdy, especially with her 100% Regen HP SE Active.

The number of slots here depends-- if you just want a good attacker, then she’s better than regular Sayaka and can work with one slot. However, as a tank you’d want more slots because her magia/doppel/active SE does not give her a provoke/guardian. 

Cool Homura: She’s a decent blast gorilla. She’s not as good as Ashley, but she’s cool Homura, so I mean, she’s still pretty cool, right? If you don’t have any elemental neutral blast gorillas (aka light, dark, void), then Cool Homu is a good choice. Her Spirit Enhancement kind of lets her down though compared to other characters-- why does she only have one blast damage up node??? Also, her magia damages all enemies while her doppel damages random ones, for some reason. But overall, I mean-- it’s cool homura. Blast isn’t meta atm, but she should be good for farming and maybe Mirrors?

Like Kyoko and Swim Kyoko, she’s probably one of the better options to have at one slot due to her blast nature.

Swimsuit Homura: IMO Swimsuit Homura is a much better version of Moemura. She has EXCELLENT attack at 11k (cool homura has 400 more attack than her at 11.4k to put it in perspective), a better type than moemura (Support versus Magia), and her active SE skill is better too. Honestly so is her connect-- it feels like a better improvement over the old one because she gives Attack Up + Skill Seal with the evade (instead of Magia Damage Up). She basically feels like an updated, more powerful-version with much better disks. However, when compared to other limited light characters, she falls a bit short (Sakurako Hiiragi is a much better unit than SwimHomura is).

She’s not great at one slot, but she’s not as bad as some people on this list. 

[saltylords]

Alright! Let’s do a unit review! Just for funsies!

(These are just my opinions that I made while looking at usability with the wiki’s information. Do not kill me if it’s not what you’d like to hear.)

Let’s start with Rena•Kaede!

Connect: Damage Up (40%), Chance to Crit (70%), Regen HP (8%/3 Turns)

Magia: Attribute Strengthened Damage to All, Attack Up (Allies/3 Turns/27.5%), MP Restore (Self/16 MP), Damage Cut (Self/1 Turn/20%)

Magia 2: Attribute Strengthened Damage to All, Attack Up (Allies/3 Turns/42.5%), MP Restore (Allies/20%*), Damage Cut (Self/1 Turn/40%)

*The wiki said 20% MP gain, so I’m not sure if it meant 20% of MP or just 20 MP total.

All in all, she’s a magia unit, so her defense and hp aren’t the best (wet paper pre SE), but they’re workable. Her attack is excellent and her disk spread, while not that of an accel gorilla, is still excellent for magia building like Vampire Kanagi.

Now let’s look at her SE spread. We’ll ignore the MP Boosts and Doppel Adepts and focus on the others. For starters, she’s got a passive anti magia seal which is important for her as a magia unit. It’s not a problem that comes up much, with the exception of some high level challenge battles.

She has two nodes that take advantage of her two charge disks, charged disk damage up (10%) and charged attack damage up (10%). Charged disk damage up gives charge disks extra damage when used while charged attack give extra damage when using up a charge count with an accel or blast dick. Pretty good. Add the passive damage up node (10%) and they’re doing some pretty good damage!

She’s also got two nodes of Magia damage up that add up to an extra 15% damage up to the doppel adept and an accel MP up (12.5%), which you’d expect from a Magia unit. That’s good.

But her active SE is really meh. Damage up (10%) and Magia damage up (12.5%) for one turn. With an 8 turn cooldown, it’s really a wimpy active, but it does synergize well with the unit.

Her magia and Doppel do looots of damage with attribute strengthened damage and to add to that, she gives the team attack up and MP restore to all with her doppel. Plus a nice defense boost with damage cut. Very good effects on a unit that will reach magia easily.

Her connect is fine, I guess. Damage up is good because not many girls have this with their connect and it helps if you max out the attack cap. Critical hit chance (70%) is meh. Good, but has its chance to fail. And finally HP regen (8%) for three turns. Which if you’re stacking on top of other HP regens is alright, but underwhelming. This connect is a bit all over the place, but in a good way.

All in all, a unit that does as advertised of her type with some nice bonuses with her magia and doppel.

Armored Swimsuit Mami

Connect: Attack Up (40%), Guaranteed Fog, Guaranteed Skill Seal, Chance to Bind (60%)

Magia: Attribute Strengthened Damage to All, Burn (All/3 Turns), Magia Damage Up (20%/5 Turns)

Doppel: Attribute Strengthened Damage to All, Burn (All/3 Turns), Magia Damage Up (35%/5 Turns)

Look at all that metal... I would not want to clean off the rust after a day at the beach, that’s for sure!

Anyway, swimsuit Mami suffers, not from rust (that too probably), but from lack of MP building effects like MP gain up or accel MP up. Her SE mitigates that a little by having a passive MP regen (9 MP), but aside from that, she could use some memoria to help out!

She’s also an attack type, so she suffers from wet paper defense and subpar HP. Her SE helps a little, but not all that much.

Having an AABBC spread makes her very flexible on either helping magia teams or blast teams, especially since she has two blast up nodes (33% total) that help her do good damage on blast. And of course a small single magia node (7.5%) that helps boost her attribute strengthened damage magia and doppel!

So her magia... it’s not the worst! Attribute strengthened damage for both magia and doppel is excellent and burn is a good second level status ailment! And a five turn magia damage up is pretty good (20% at magia and 35% at doppel)! But that’s pretty much all. No healing, no team buffs, just burn and magia damage up to self. It’s a bit underwhelming.

Let’s move on to her connect! It’s actually pretty nice! Attack up, guaranteed fog, guaranteed skill seal, and a chance bind (60%)! So if the bind chance fails, the guaranteed fog helps to keep enemies from hitting you! Well, mostly! And skill seal helps with challenge enemies like AI who buff themselves with things like critical hit and defense pierce to knock your girls every three turns. It’s very helpful, if a little situational.

Since she’s an attack type, she has attack type SE nodes like chance to critical hit (15%), anti evade (35%), and evade (15%) which are meh, since all attack types have these nodes at these values and are nothing special. She also has a bind chance (15%) which is good occasionally, but not very high. So it also ends up being kinda meh.

Her SE active is actually pretty good! Attack up (20%) and guaranteed burn for one turn! And the cooldown isn’t all that terrible at seven turns! Just to remind people, burn is a second level status ailment that does 10% HP damage up to 10,000 HP per turn and afflicts the target with 80% more damage taken from the element it’s weak against. So she can hit extra hard on water enemies!

Aquagirl Sakurako

Connect: Damage Up (40%), Remove Status Ailments

Magia: Damage to All, Damage Up (Allies/3 Turns/32.5%), Charged Damage Up (Allies/3 Turns/25%), Remove Status Ailments (Allies)

Magia 2: Damage to All, Damage Up (Allies/3 Turns/47.5%), Charged Damage Up (Allies/3 Turns/40%), Remove Status Ailments (Allies)

Aquagirl Sakurako, while having the drawbacks of support type stats, still manages be a somewhat good unit. Not because of her SE, no that’s pretty bad. Mostly because of her magia and doppel.

Her magia and doppel give her allies damage up and charged damage up for three turns. She would actually pair up nicely with Swimsuit Rena/Kaede, since they both have a good amount of charge and accel disks and Rena/Kaede give team attack up with their magia. Not to mention other charge girls like Jun that add extra charge disks with charge combos. With her magia, she makes a pretty good charge support!

Her connect is not good. Damage up is nice, in case you hit the attack cap, but the only other thing she does is clear status ailments, which is very situational. Clearing status ailments seems to be this unit’s strong point, but without something like HP restore added to it, this connect comes up weak.

So like I said, her SE is nothing special. Regular things support types get, like Damage Cut (10%) and skill quicken (15%). But she does have anti magia seal and anti skill seal which are good things to have since she can reach magia easily. Not to mention her chance to fog (15%/3 turns) which, while not as good as darkness or dazzle, makes some attacks miss while lasting multiple turns! Good for avoiding damage!

Some extra things she has are a magia damage up (7.5%), accel MP up (12.5%), and charged disk damage up (10%). Much like Rena/Kaede, but not as good.

And then we have her active. It’s not particularly good, but it’s something. Defense down (15%) and light defense down (18%) for three turns. It’s basically the light version of Mikage’s SE active. Which isn’t terrible, but unremarkable. Especially with its 10 turn cooldown.

All in all, Sakurako’s strength lies in her magia, since her SE and connect have let her down. But that’s ok because she’s meant to be a team player, not a solo combatant!

[kon-kon-kon-kon]

[magiamemoriareview]

Popular in the Artisan Ward

Single Effect: Anti-Magia Seal [55%] 

MLB Effect: Anti-Magia Seal [100%] 

Effect Definitions:

Anti-Magia Seal will negate Magia Seal. Magia Seal is a Status Ailment that will prevent the target from using their Magia/Doppel from the number of turns shown. 

TLDR: “Popular in the Artisan Ward” is actually very good for most players, including even some unlucky Whales. The effect of Anti-Magia Seal is sparse in memoria, so having one or two max awakened copies of this memoria is a good idea. It is overshadowed by an unlimited four-star memoria, but this one will be easier to max awaken as a three-star.

Review: “Popular in the Artisan Ward” is a good memoria, even for Dolphins and perhaps some Whales. It has the effect Anti-Magia Seal, which is surprisingly sparse. 

The only other two memoria to offer this effect are an unlimited four-star memoria “The Invincible Snacks General” and a limited four-star memoria “New Product! Sakura Sweets!” (which NA Refugees are unlikely to have). This makes “Popular in the Artisan Ward” extremely useful to have on hand, because it will be the most accessible memoria for a vast majority of players.

This is because, as a four-star, “The Invincible Snacks General” might be hard to get, and even harder to max awaken. By contrast, “Popular in the Artisan Ward” can be awakened through memoria cores or just by drawing it several times in the Support Gacha. Additionally, while “The Invincible Snacks General” has a higher Anti-Magia Seal percentage when not awakened (at 65%), “Popular in the Artisan Ward” will be easier to max awaken and get to 100% Anti-Magia Seal.

Just make sure the character you’re using this on doesn’t have passive Anti-Magia Seal as part of their Spirit Enhancement. Characters with 100% Anti-Magia Seal include: the Amane Sisters (Swimsuit ver.), Mifuyu Azusa, Iroha & Ui (Miko ver.), Ao Kasane, Manaka Kurumi, Tsubaki Mikoto, Karin Misono, Rena & Kaede (Swimsuit ver.), Sakurako Hiiragi (Swimsuit ver.), Sunao Toki, Tsuruno & Felicia (Delivery ver.), Ultimate Madoka-Senpai, Mikage Yakumo, and Mitama Yakumo.

A number of other magical girls have 50% - 55% Anti-Magia Seal instead of a full 100% passive-- with these characters, equipping an unawakened “Popular in the Artisan Ward” will ensure full Anti-Magia Seal coverage, as the effect should stack.

Lastly: because this memoria only has one effect, make sure the fight actually has Magia Seal before you equip it. If Magia Seal isn’t a concern, then “Popular in the Artisan Ward” just serves as a bad stat stick.