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Looking at my collection of Kokona’s cards like “I don’t know how I will live without you” 🥲

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…also, the synopsis for Stella Generalprobe. Why does it mention Kokona and Shizuka going to attend a performance, when that is not what they are actually doing at all? By the 3rd anni, the multiverse has seeped even into the story descriptions.

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Iʼm also curious about Koyomi playing Poseidon... It was easy enough to guess from Irohaʼs recent story, and it suits her in a number of ways, but I do wonder where the devs intend to take it.

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By the way, Thus Spoke the War God ends with Apollo and Ares offering nectar to Ganymede (not on the stage, but somewhere down the line)... I donʼt want to overthink that, given the finale will be out tomorrow, but.

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Going over even the tiny part of the story makes you feel once again that all the characters carry so much emotional baggage... Canʼt help but think that the game would have probably collapsed under its weight had it kept going.

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Kathrinaʼs episode made me finally realize that the reason Noa took her to the place where she could hear the impressions of the audience was that Kathrina may not seem like it, but sheʼs strongly affected by what others think of her...

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By the way, so much respect to the devs for staying true to themselves till the very end. Theyʼve launched the missions that require you to revisit specific parts of the story, so that you come to the finale prepared... But of course itʼs not as easy as it may sound.

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Checked it, and itʼs indeed the very same scene they were performing with Kokona, when her concentration got disrupted, and they ended up skipping a page...

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Edeltraud @wdsramblings.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Wait, what do you mean they released Chisaʼs song, but never released Kathrinaʼs, although it was added to the game a month earlier?!

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She didnʼt, and after looking at the lyrics, I see why she didnʼt.

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Edeltraud @wdsramblings.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I somehow missed the release of Floating Tasty on the streaming services, and itʼs genuinely so great... Encapsulates all of Chisaʼs worldview perfectly... There are such tasty metaphors, thank you, Yohei Matsui, for writing something like that for her final solo song.

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Edeltraud @wdsramblings.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thank you for the one final gift 💔

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Canʼt help but think how funny it would be if Hatsumi used her Negative Sense at the festival and undid all the illusions created via Sense at once... Thereʼs no way sheʼd do something like that, though (unless she is really pissed off, but even in that case thatʼs not very likely).

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I wonder what happens then, though... Now itʼs pretty clear that Noa has grown to long for the stage again, but unless Shamo changes the company rules, sheʼll have to leave Sirius to continue being an actress (Therese said sheʼd be waiting for her, so sheʼll probably join Thereseʼs troupe).

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So Iʼve read the cards, and for some reason the devs made the play assigned to Eden Hatsumi mentions reference Irohaʼs card, and the play assigned to Gingaza, I guess, Koyomi and Iroha practice for, reference Hatsumiʼs card?

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TFW the last time I checked Denki story, it was about Chiho manipulating Mito into scoring more points for herself which brought her closer to becoming a Dai Star (that she has now become). I basically only read Sirius and occasionally Eden and now I need to catch up on a lot of stuff.

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I wonder if those two events imply that the girls will stage some play based on Greek mythology for Dai Star Festival?

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But wait. If Iroha is Cronus, does that make Hatsumi Zeus, since it’s Zeus who overthrows Cronus, and Hatsumi is definitely on her way to do something of sorts?

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If time starts moving again, it will be so over for Kath… Just WHAT are the devs going to drop at Sirius Ch. 5??? I’m getting more excited and terrified by the day.

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By the way. What’s with the grand reveal that it’s Iroha who is Saturn/Cronus/Chronus (there’s a whole discussion on the conflation of the two, but WDS obviously implies they are interchangeable) and thus rules over time? I mean… If that’s really how it is, that makes a lot of things make sense.

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For the record, I do think that Kokona genuinely wants to be supportive, because sheʼs a kind girl. But itʼs also true that she suppresses her negative emotions so hard that it may seem as if she never experiences them at all (apart from a few times she actually showed she was feeling down).

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By the way, how do we feel about the fact that in Stella Kokona let it slip that she was jealous of Yae, meaning she admitted to experience a negative emotion towards another person for the first time in forever?

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On an unrelated note, Peter Pan arc gave me an impression that whatever bad thing Panda did to Chisa in childhood was about her causing some physical harm… But now I’m thinking, what if that was something else.

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Overall, on one hand, it does seem like the story has resolved some of the major issues the characters were dealing with prior to this point, but on the other, it also seems like things are getting ever more tangled.

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Also, what’s with the fairytale Kokona mentioned about a cat who fell asleep and within a dream traveled across the sea?

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Maybe that’s why Shizuka plays Misao who promises Kaguya to protect her and not let the moon messenger to take her away.

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Technically, in Stella she does appear briefly, and Yae and Kokona do mention her, but her most significant scene happens in Shizuka’s card. And it’s her reading Kaguya’s lines from the scene where she tells Misao that she has regained her memories and will have to return to the Moon of all things.

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Edeltraud @wdsramblings.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Stella Generalprobe be like: Kokona: “Kathrina-chan also had something to do...” Me: “Like vanishing from existence...” Kokona: “Kathrina-chan has gone off somewhere too...” Me: “Yeah, like, off of this world.”

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Still thinking about that. I wonder if Salome just happens in one of the possible timelines that never actually came into being, and if thatʼs somehow related to how Iruruʼs Sense works...

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Edeltraud @wdsramblings.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Itʼs always, “I love WDS because of how it is, but also it constantly makes me cry because of how it is.”

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Edeltraud @wdsramblings.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Making a Kokona and Shizuka joint focus event that is most entirely focused on Yae is some of the most unsettling things WDS has ever pulled...

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Will Ri-chan tell Kaoru-san that Spring is her favorite season one day?..

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…and somehow that does make Kokona’s Sun be complementary to Chisa’s Moon, too.

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Congrats on us finally having Orion and Sirius Sun&Moon.

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Remember good old 2023 when I thought the anime alluding to TPoNR was the wildest thing I would see in WDS.

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