Honkai: Star Rail's Amphoreus Arc Broke Japanese Players: Their Reactions — "Wait, Does Literally EVERYONE Die?!"
崩壊スターレイル オンパロスの絶望展開に対する日本のプレイヤーの反応
“A perfect 10/10 reaction lol”
100点満点の反応で草
Honkai: Star Rail's Amphoreus arc left Japanese players reeling, and the comment section under one screaming reaction Short reads like a group grief-counseling session. The most-liked replies aren't analysis — they're survivors. One player describes shrieking "wait, does the story really kill EVERYONE??" while ugly-crying; another calls the quiet phrase "see you tomorrow" (また明日) "the trauma of every single Star Rail player." Death after death lands — Mydei, Tribbie, Cyrene — until people stop processing it as tragedy and start laughing just to stay upright. That's where the very-Japanese coping instinct takes over: an abrupt "BEETLE!" outburst that the whole thread quotes back at each other, multiple players swearing the Trailblazer's scream sounds exactly like Present Mic from My Hero Academia, and a running joke that the writer (nicknamed "Yakitori") promised "a story full of sunlight" — to which everyone replies, "WHERE." The thread keeps circling one honest admission: "if you don't crack jokes like this, you genuinely can't get through this story." It closes on the bittersweet truth underneath all the memes — that the joking is how they survive being gutted, and they wouldn't trade the pain.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 100)
- @mito-w3g👍 426
Amphoreus… I was screaming "can a story really kill EVERYONE??" while ugly-crying my eyes out…
オンパロス…ストーリーで全員死ぬことある？？？って叫んで号泣してた…
- @ELVIS-up3fi👍 25
Hold on, this is literally everyone dying.
これ全員死ぬじゃないか
- @ガバリアス人間のジャンク👍 4
At this point the only ones left are Phainon and Lygus, c'mooon 💦💦
もう残ってるのファイノンとライコスだけやないか〜い💦💦
- @かなたろう-f9o👍 117
I genuinely never thought Mydei would die back then… I mean, he was the kind of guy who wouldn't die even if you killed him, right…? And yet… when he went, it was almost shockingly quick…
まさかモーディスが死ぬなんて当時思ってなかったよ…だってアイツ死んでも死なないような奴だったじゃん…？なのにさ…死ぬ時は案外アッサリとね…
- @yuyanarumi1303👍 269
Tribbie's death scene — it took this video for me to even notice the Gate of the Hundred Realms is open in it.
トリビーの死亡シーン、百界門が開かれてることにこの動画で気付いた
- @猫月黒👍 100
The trauma of every single Star Rail player: "see you tomorrow."
全スタレ民のトラウマ「また明日」
- @s3qxx__nyan👍 0
""""""see you tomorrow"""""" This one hurts every last one of us.
「「「「「「「また明日」」」」」」」 これは全員が苦しみます
- @たっつー-h9q👍 0
That back-to-back rush of goodbyes here was just,,, unbearable.
ここの別れラッシュはもう、、、耐えられませんでした
- @noir8108👍 4
Honestly I was already at my limit around when Mydei died — so why do I have to feel my heart breaking AGAIN next season too?
ほんとモーディス死んだあたりで流石に耐えれんくなってきたのになんで次のシーズンでも心が壊れそうにならなきゃいけないんだ
- @user-ql7sg1nk9v👍 31
I figured us Honkai 3rd vets would be watching from the back with our arms folded — turns out we were dying right alongside everyone else.
3rd民は後方で腕組みながら見守ってると思ったら一緒になって死んでたね
- @一般通過ワンオウガ👍 4
Doing this live, in real time, was the most despair I've ever felt — they make me cry every single patch, spare a thought for us players crying
これをリアタイでやった時が1番絶望感あった毎バージョン泣かされるこっちの身にもなって泣
- @ELVIS-up3fi👍 297
Oh right — the writer at the time, "Yakitori-sensei," told us: "this is a story full of sunlight." Me: WHERE.
そういえば、当時の脚本家焼き鳥先生は言っていました：これは陽光に満ちた物語です。 俺：どこか？
- @Riceball_jaro👍 32
A story full of "sunlight" — the dark-red, all-hope-severed kind…
赤黒い、望み絶たれたような陽光に満ちた物語…
- @Rikkun25.203👍 29
There, there… easy now… This person's psyche is starting to collapse… Are you happy now… Yakitori?
よしよし、よし… 精神が崩壊仕掛けているぞ… これでいいのか…焼き鳥
- @ハクボ-0418r👍 517
The out-of-nowhere "BEEEETLE!" got me lol
唐突な｢ｷｬﾌﾞﾄﾑｼｨ｣で笑った
- @もんもん-m5g👍 15
The "BEETLE!" delivery was too native-speaker-level lol
キャブトムシィがネイティブすぎて草
- @シグマ-d2d👍 12
His voice right here was basically identical to Present Mic from My Hero Academia w
ここの声ほぼヒロアカのプレゼントマイクと一緒やったw
- @4Ki-e9n👍 1
The voice during the "BEETLE" moment is way too Present Mic ww
キャブトムシの時の声プレゼントマイクすぎるww
- @サンズパピルス-d4t👍 89
Can't help laughing at the sudden "YESSS" outburst.
突然のやったーーに笑いを禁じ得ない
- @momo-AT1241👍 41
Yelling "YESSSSSS" at the Cyrene part — yeah, I get it.
カイニスで「やったぁぁぁぁぁ」はわかる
- @よるもの👍 9
Bouncing back for a split second at Cyrene's death lol
カイニスの死で一瞬持ち直してて草
- @美人アクシズ教徒👍 5
Taunting Cyrene at the exact moment every second counts lol. I did the same thing.
一刻を争うというときにカイニス煽てってるの笑 オレもやった
- @くれにゃい-ene👍 17
Love that war-cry — sounds like he's about to become the Last Saiyan.
最後のサイヤ人になれそうな雄叫び好こ
- @とどみん-r4e👍 75
Couldn't stop laughing at him regressing into a needy baby, craving motherly comfort.
過剰な母性を求め育児退行したのわろてしまった
- @セミファイナル-x8r👍 11
Maaan, when YOU play it it's nothing but pure despair, but watching someone ELSE play it is hilarious lol (pure schadenfreude)
いやぁ～、自分がやると絶望以外の何者でも無いけどやってるのを見てるとオモロイなぁ(^^)(愉悦)
- @にぇこ-g4o👍 4
I only started a month ago and just finished Amphoreus — it was so relentlessly bleak that I came full circle and started laughing.
私1か月前に始めたばっかでつい最近オンパロス終わったんだけどもうなんか絶望しかなくて1周回って笑えてきちゃった
- @ねこあぃ-l7t👍 142
You can't survive it without joking around this much — if the protagonist weren't the Trailblazer you'd be too crushed to even continue. That's Amphoreus for you…
このくらい茶化さないと耐えられない、主人公が開拓者じゃなかったら絶望して進めないそんなオンパロス…
- @kkrs_0715👍 0
It feels like he's goofing off in places, but honestly it's so painful that without this much goofing off you genuinely couldn't make it through.
所々ふざけてると感じるけど実際これくらいのふざけがないとやってけないくらいにしんどい
- @taim-i4n👍 4
This guy's literally resonating with the Trailblazer at this point.
開拓者と共鳴してるだろこれ
- @Aya-l1k5k👍 0
Thank you for speaking for every Trailblazer out there.
全開拓者の気持ちを代弁してくれてありがとう
- @スイ-v8x👍 0
Even with the uploader screaming his head off this much, watching the cutscene still brought me to tears.
投稿主がこんなに叫び散らかしてるのにムービー見て涙出てきた
- @Su_ddnn👍 0
No matter how many days pass, I just can't escape the "loss" of Amphoreus…
どんなに日が経とうともオンパ"ロス"から抜け出せないんだ…
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