Honkai: Star Rail: Castorice's Tragic Past Retold — Her Touch Always Brings Death

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 259)

• D-do you people not have a heart...? (crying)

  ひ…人の心とかないんか…(泣)

  — @お塩さん-g5n16 likes

• I genuinely cried here (for the nth time). Amphoreus is bad for your heart and your tear ducts...

  ここまじで泣いたなぁ(ｎ回目) オンパロスは心臓と涙腺に悪いよ…

  — @riaberrymilk149014 likes

• Castorice's past is just way too painful... if it'd make my girl Cas happy, I'd gladly touch her and die.

  キャスちゃんの過去辛過ぎるんだよなぁ.....推しのキャスちゃんを幸せに出来るなら喜んで触れて死ぬ

  — @どらやき-n7p128 likes

• If you touch her and die, that just makes Cas even sadder, dude.

  触れて死んだらキャスちゃんが余計に悲しむよ

  — @はせそだぉ33 likes

• In what scenario does someone like you dying right in front of her make Cas happy lol. If you actually love her, don't go giving her more trauma 😂

  お前ごときが目の前で死んでキャスが幸せになるシチュエーションってなんだよ笑 本当に好きならトラウマ残すようなことすんなよ😂

  — @すしちゃん-y3l10 likes

• Dropping this in the actual story instead of just an official trailer should be illegal. Thanks to that I almost broke down sobbing in public.

  これを公式動画で出すんじゃなくて、作中に出してくるのは反則やろって思ったわ お陰で外で号泣しかけたわ

  — @神代朧月161 likes

• It's not like it triggers when she touches you with all five fingers — it's ALWAYS on. That's too cruel.

  5本指で触れたら発動とかじゃなくて常時発動なの辛すぎる

  — @斑点2353,943 likes

• When you put it that way, pre-awakening Shigaraki being able to switch his on and off is a pretty convenient setup.

  そう思ったらオンオフ可能な覚醒前死柄木なかなかご都合設定

  — @ひいらぎ_oki.gin_mon434 likes

• The all-out "FLOWERRR!" got me. What is she, an awakened Stitch?

  渾身のお花ァァ！で笑った 覚醒したスティッチかよ

  — @bknuq8,631 likes

• LMAO the moment it clicked it absolutely killed me.

  クッソw理解した瞬間ツボった。

  — @SAHARASAN700201 likes

• Stop it I'm dying

  やめてくれ死ぬ

  — @solca-zk5dm512 likes

• "Now THAT'S a great idea ☆ (deadly serious)" — I love this one lol

  「それは名案☆（迫真）」　これ好きw

  — @朝ごはんはしっかり食べよう-o4j2,734 likes

• "Don't come near me!!!" followed immediately by the 180 into "now that's a great idea" — love it.

  近寄るなァ！！！からの手のひら返しそれは名案好き

  — @hille060028 likes

• "I wonder how many it killed" is so heartless I'm dying.

  ｢何キルしたんだろうなぁー｣は人の心無さすぎて死ぬ

  — @Rikkun25.2033,426 likes

• Such an achingly sad story and then suddenly "I wonder how many it killed~" — laughed way too hard.

  めちゃくちゃせつない物語なのに突然「なんキルしたんだろーなー」って度を超えて笑ったわ

  — @absolute049517 likes

• Saying "I'm about to cry" and then "I wonder how many it killed" in the same breath is too scary.

  涙出そうとか言いながら何キルしたんだろうって言うのは怖すぎ

  — @タマオグLOVE31 likes

• No heart whatsoever, but there's probably real demand for the Castorice-brand euthanasia.

  人の心ないけどキャストリス式安楽死需要ありそう

  — @Raaru-pk6jd8 likes

• This was supposed to be a serious video but the opening "FLOWER!!" and the closing "STOP LOOKING AT ME!!!" got me laughing.

  こんなシリアスな動画のはずなのに最初の「お花ー！！」と最後の「こっち見んなー！！！」で笑ってしまった

  — @たけ-q8h15 likes

• The "stop looking at me" at the end made me laugh (while crying)

  最後のこっちみんなで笑ったやん(泣)

  — @莉-f2b1,843 likes

• The dead-serious "STOP LOOKING AT ME!" is hilarious

  迫真のこっちみんなぁ！は草

  — @うぃど-428806 likes

• So basically... YOU DEER.

  つまり、YOU DEERってこと

  — @Mylo_マイロ837 likes

• That deer, seriously, what... WHAT is it...??

  あの鹿マジで何……何……？？

  — @物語消失対策本部79 likes

• The deer staring at us at the end — its antlers regrow, so it's the "symbol of death and rebirth," right?

  最後のこっち見てた鹿って角が生え変わる動物だから「死と再生の象徴」なんだっけ？

  — @SAN値直葬ダゴン1,290 likes

• In China the deer is often depicted as a symbol of life, so I think the deer here is that classical reference.

  中国だと鹿は生命の象徴として描かれることが多いから、ここの鹿はその古典的表現だと思うよ。

  — @梶間終63 likes

• Maybe the deer at the end ties into Abundance? What Cas governs is life and death too.

  最後の鹿は豊穣関連かな キャスが司るのも生と死だし

  — @康熙帝-y1e558 likes

• Early on I was shocked at how the mysterious deer's eyes resemble Ruan Mei's.

  最初の頃謎の鹿の目がルアンメイに似てるのびっくりした

  — @えーと-c1h2,032 likes

• So the deer looks at us at the end, right? I was thinking "stop looking at me" in my head, and then he literally says "STOP LOOKING AT ME" out loud — lost it lol

  最後鹿見てきましたやん？ 僕心の中で｢こっちみんな｣って思ってたら 最後に｢こっち見んな｣って言ってて笑ったww

  — @Neko-l15y217 likes

• After such a good scene, the 🦌 close-up into "STOP LOOKING AT ME~" made me laugh.

  良いシーンの後の🦌ドアップからの「こっち見んなぁー」で笑ってしまった

  — @サンコロで博士ボコシ隊75 likes

• I was so moved, and then the "STOP LOOKING AT MEEE!" at the deer at the end blew all the emotion away.

  感動したのに最後の鹿に「こっち見んなァァァ！」で感動吹き飛んだわ

  — @カピバラ王28 likes

• His Diavolo impression is honestly pretty decent lol

  ディアボロの真似まあまあ上手くて草

  — @イェレナ-y6j1 likes

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