This literally took years. I'm not 100% happy with it... It's my first video, after all. Little bit of information overload and zoomer editing aside... But I might have a couple ideas for future content that will be better. Still, hope you all get something out of it!
its absolutely fine for something that you want to compress down to an hour long, unlike the other AL story recap that is 3 HOURS long and doesnt include anything beyond, i believe 2020 or 2021, bcs the video is released ages ago at this point. and honestly the only thing i'd change is that you encourage people that cares for it to pause a lot and turning on and off CC constantly, if they used it
Excuse me for asking but in the beginning like in 0:30 where did you get the documents or something like that i really wanted to read it bruh but i don't know where to find them
@@themarky2714 stolen is correct bcs its far more fitting for a META to do so rather than anyone else, prob 2nd only to straight up Antiochus and also Saratoga just got shafted after HelMeta appears. the only way rn for Saratoga to have an impact is to pull absolute bs and magics. while im not going to be surprised if that will be the case in the future or even near future, i would still call it bs
Lord have mercy on your soul for not only having interest in the lore but actual dedication to even make the video in the first place, massive respect. I'll definitely watch this at some point while I'm farming cause I've always wanted to know whats up with the games lore (I'm a sucker when it comes to time travel, multiple realities, predestined paths, trying to save a timeline, anything related with the idea of time manipulation is stuff I love), its my first gacha and still my fav to this day but I just can't handle lore in gacha games since I'm not that keen on reading. I've been hoping manjuu would make an anime that actually focused on the battles and major plot threads instead of the slice of life stuff they've been doing lately but this video shall suffice. Thank you very much dear sir!!!!
Man seriously thank you for this fantastic recap, i consider myself an "AL Lore Nerd" but this made everything fit together and make much more sense even for me. Fantastic video which i will now link wherever anyone asks about AL's Story.
They have nothing else to offer other than some nonsensical lore dumps I suppose. Stories about the source material for the kansen will always be infinitely more worthy of our time. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll for example.
The most scary superimposition so far is the anime slowly superimposing on the main story, clearly /s. Also happy or not. I think this video came out great. This is a one-of-a-kind. You managed to concisely explain the entire story as a singular "whole" rather than listing it off by events without making them naturally flow into one another and overfilling with dialogue filler. Which is honestly quite great since AL's story is a bit of a puzzle piece strewn all over the place. This saves me so much effort trying to explain things to newbie friends who want to comprehend it. Edit: The absolutely massive amount of visual aids (And memes) are extremely appreciated as well and probably make a good majority of the high points of the video.
I’m a day 1 SKK and play for the unique lore more than anything, but with so much they’ve thrown at us, I’m sure I’m have to refer back to this one day instead of replaying all event Memories for hours, so thank you 😭🙏
Amazing effort being made here, although most players would skip the story, I think it is nice to have a video like this going through the events' story so far. Visual ques are on point too. You did a great job formatting the different event stories into a complete storyline here too and I can feel the passion put into this.
It took me a couple of years to figure out that we play as commander in two different time lines. The main timeline and the "slow ahead" time line that is basically peaceful except when the sirens dump cossover characters into azur lane and give them rigging, just to test new designs. I also think the TB daughter stuff will turn out to be important. We know she (or some version of her) becomes Observer Zero, and is already connected to the sirens in some way. It makes sense that if we raise her to love humanity and us, when she becomes a siren, hopefully she'll stay on our side. If that sci-fi reality could manage to work with their own sirens, we might too. Playable sirens eventually?
Amazing video its by far one of the most comprehensive videos about the Azur Lane lore I have ever seen it’s just wow so we’ll made from it being I “think”understandable to players who don’t follow the convoluted events and trying to make heads or tails from said events, to it still being a great watch to people like me who know whats going on but the enjoyable editing and memes makes it worth a watch and a re watch to catch all the references truly outstanding, anyways keep up the great work can’t wait to see more and for what little it’s worth you just got a new sub.
Thanks! This was more or less born out of the fact that the lore community really needed something easy like this. Hawk had his 3hr video, but that's now years out of date and a lot of it hasn't aged well... So it was "I'll just do it myself, how hard can it be?" Two years later and that was very silly of me, lol. I think I'll be focusing on event-by-event coverage going forward. It should age better and allow me to go into theories and translation issues. Rather then blowing them off for the sake of time. Still considering how I'll handle it, though.
Great to hear you plan on continuing and focusing in event by event coverage especially the translation part as though I do keep up whit the lore it’s mostly trough reading the events in the global server so I’m to the point I completely ignore when they mention “re-enactments” and “naval hq” put really important info gets lost, example still to this day I don’t 100% understand what happened in Unzen’s event “other than the riss being in the other foot” , or why they didn’t originally help out Renown and Repulse Meta in Vanguard’s event, or even recently I didn’t knew the hull boosting crystal where fake, I know theres answers in CN or JP but I think it’s isn’t the most accessible thing out there especially compared to a YT video or reading the in game logs.
@@FullFlow4610 I joined AL pretty late (HMS Vanguard's event) and thanks to Hawk2zer0 3hrs vid, I learnt a lot + managed to catch up on the lore. In my opinion, the plot started to get super interesting from Clemenceue's event, but unfortunately, it seems that Hawk is kinda busy and won't make a sequel to that 3hrs vid anytime soon. Your vid is concise, informative and the way you tell story makes it really enjoyable to watch I hope after ~3 more years you will make a sequel to this vid. Thanks a lot for your hard work!
This video has honestly rekindled my interest in the lore of AL. Especially with this new event, being able to understand everything and all the complex names and topics the characters say makes events much more enjoyable. Fantastic video sir!
As someone who knows nothing about the lore, I appreciate this, as well as the various references: 1:15 HEY SHIKIKAN KENTO DAYO 2:18 Drake meme but it's HMS Drake 8:55 Bismarck watches the IB navy being a trainwreck 9:26 Roasting Sardegna (they had a capable navy tbh, leadership let them down irl) 10:23 what doesn't kill you gives you your own UR event (also applies to Zweimarck xD) 11:05 WH40k Khorne reference 12:18 the Royal Navy ruining Iron Blood's day 14:10 reference to many IB ships never actually being constructed irl 19:22 Gneisenau META plz adopt me + headpats 21:23 FdG spawns KENTO DAYO 22:03 Siren gaming PC 23:00 RN's rescue team for rescue team (Revenge's design is peak) 25:41 damn, TIL Anchorage talks like a child because she has an intellectual disability. I wonder if Unicorn has the same problem. What about some of the DDs? So many questions... ...and so on. Great video, thank you! I hope to see more videos about the lore in the future as I don't have time to read the stories in-game.
What I have learned: - X is the Honkai. (The more you know, the stronger and harder to deal with they become.) - Bismarck is the Gru Meme. - What the heck Watatsumi is so that I can shake off the Genshin ideas. - New Jersey is SKK's Childhood Friend. - Marco Polo is a cultist. - Amagi is buried in a tree. - Helena META is doing a lot. - CONCEPTS!
God damn, this was pretty well done, no wonder it took literally years to make. Amazing work, thanks for making this more understandeable, i only read the NP event stories as they seemed the most Lore focused, but this helped a lot.
Man this was one hell of a video. Ive been hanging around AL for little over three years and have always loved lore and backstory to everything. This was a really great video and I look forward to what else you have to say on the lore of AL. I would love a longer even more in depth video as i love those types of long form video essays.
You are one insane fellow I appreciate it though, never really knew what was going on I’ll watch this when I’m farming, thanks Edit: wait this is your first video?!? Jesus Christ, what a way to start making videos lol. Good job thought you were like a veteran at editing and making videos for a minute
Thanks so much for all the effort! Just visualizing the events laid out in a timeline already does so much in piecing together relevance and context of what they were even trying to tell us.
As someone who has played this game and never left, and finished all storylines, I still appreciate this because it really helps figure out how the timeline actually works, because it is not at all cohesive in the game itself, at least until Rondo at Rainbow's End, where the serialized occurrences have better reference points onward.
I played the game since global launch (now a lvl 150 skk) and used to be pretty invested in the lore at the start, reading everything each event had to offer. I have skipped most of the dialogue nowadays but I'm glad this video exists since the AL just seems insane wtf. Thanks for this amazing video. Only criticism I have is the pacing, since there's a lot of onscreen text to read that just zooms through without being given enough time..
Holy shit, I just saw this video after finishing what I think is the first part of the *entire* Pacific Situation that sheds light to "Amagi". I started playing in the Yorkie 2 event but started properly reading lore after Khovorod of Dawn's Rime, so I am glad that I get to see what happened in previous events that have not reran yet or I have never witnessed. I REALLY like digging into lore of games, and AL has taken me by quite a surprise so it's good to hear that other people are also as enthusiastic to the game's lore as I am (that lore bomb in the Martyrium was fucking insane). I am definitely looking forward for more lore in the future. As for the video itself, I think you did a pretty good job condensing...uh......7 years worth of event stories. I do hope you continue doing stuff like this in the future! You just earned yourself a sub.
Scapa Flow/Rondo At Rainbow's End really was the turning point for the story. I am glad though that the Sirens didn't stay the main antagonists after that, and the real villains we're finally dealing with are the Leviathans (aka X) and Bonne Homme
Halfway through the video, and I've already given my like and my subscription. You have done what i thought was impossible due to this game's lore being mostly confined to events and facing translation issues. Amazing job, man.
Amazing video! I cannot even imagine how much work this took, superb job! I just wish it was a bit slower, even knowing all the info, I feel my head spinning on how fast-paced it was.
I really appreciate this, I swear right after I quit(like 2-3 years in) they finally started dropping the lore bombs... It seemed like just random disconnected event stories with no visible overarching plot when I played. The writing of the events itself was honestly pretty solid but I needed some kind of (preferably chronological) plot progression. Perhaps my brain was just too smooth to get it. But ever since quitting I occasionally seeing people talk about the new lore and it looked insanely interesting. Bruh, 13:13 is seriously my most hated anime trope of all time "lets keep vital information secret because the writers said so!" Gacha games love this trick. I swear they could have come up with a more logical dialogue while still keeping us in the dark without any extra effort. After finishing the video, the lore is what I would call "fun to know, probably wouldn't have been fun for me to learn". A bit messy for my taste. I will probably wait for AL to finish before seeking out new info
What a mad lad. Love your video. I like how Azur Lane's initial story was just following the WW2 IRL to just more sci-fi stuffs which I liked it. Any plan for a collab with Hawkzer0 for more lore stuffs? (wink, wink). 😆
Nothing atm. Hawk was one of the people I sent this to for feedback, but real life hit him hard. So I just pushed it out. For now, I usually provide translation checking and theories in his AL streams. I don't believe he's up-to-date on lore past Martyrium, so I know what I'm going to be doing tomorrow. And yeah! Rereading a lot of old events, you can see they had a general idea of what they wanted at least as far back as Fallen Wings. We slowly deviate from irl history as the Siren's script stops being absolute. So there's even a reason for the shift which I think is neat.
@@hassathunter2464 Only the English localization was fixed. CN was not affected whatsoever. EN back then was machine translated from Chinese, resulting in a lot of mistakes and missed context. Heck, Zero even got called "Ling." "Ling" = "zero" in Chinese. Directly translating names (Or not at all) is a common error of mtl programs. My favorite is how Sakawa's name sometimes translates to "the drunkard" in Google Translate. Likewise, Aoste's EN name, "The Magister," wasn't settled upon until after Ashen Simulacrum. EN has called him several different names, including "Master Arbiter." The "Inquistor" mentioned in the old version is another rough translation of his name in CN. Which directly translates as the "Judge". The entire point of the rewrite was to bring it up to current standards. Not change the story.
Bro this was so good, you spared me the time of re reading the entire events and making my own timeline with all of the stuff, I hope you make little follow up videos for each new event so that we can keep up. I am hoping for new Videos!
Very, very cool of you to spend as much time as you did putting this all together, it's very amazing; There's a lot of high concept stuff going on within Azur Lane, and it makes it really hard to follow along when I started as the Martyrium event began. Very late in the story, and if I had to have any gripes with the game, it's that there's no real easy way to get ingratiated with the story from the game itself, which is a big shame. You've helped greatly in piecing things together, even making me aware of something I was puzzled on (Renown and Repulse being confusing in the Pledge event). What a messy localisation @_@. I even get to understand the answers that the current event (Windborne Steel Wings) has given out thanks to your video.
Thank god finally someone decided to make a full lore video about azur lane. I was so confused with the main campaign storyline, event storyline, secretary storyline and the anime storyline
You can safely count the anime storyline out, it seems..while the event storylines are series of actual main story so far in the game, to which the prelude of all things begins at the Operation Siren (hinting that we SKK and shipgirls we command are strong enough to break the cycle of perpetual war and see the real world out there). And for "main campaign", that's nothing but reenactments staged by the Antiochus, gauging shipgirls' strengths left and right lol
@@Morgru I like to think that the "event storyline" Is like the second season to the "main campaign" storyline. That way is easier for me to understand.
Thank you for the love of all things good in the world you somehow managed to keep this within an hour! Got a friend of mine into the lore... Since it can be a lot to digest. I'd say Cross wave is worth a play as it is interesting and seemingly the girls are still mostly in character. Just not a large roaster.
Thanks for such an informative and fun vid. Been played for a while but had trouble straightening out the stories so this was super helpful. Loved the animations and the little joke, like getting Kent from the Cubes lol.
This 1 hour explanation is more complicated than a dude explaining explaining CoD Zombie for 6 hours💀💀 You deserve a like and a sub for this explanation
You know I cannot begin to say how Impressed I am by you, not only do you explain all the BS of the AL story quite well the fact this is your first vid is even more amazing, than you for you service and helping those of us not as dedicated as you catch up story-wise and be able to finally understand it
I’m glad you made this. I could never keep up with Azur Lane’s story with how many stories/side events there are, so I gave up reading/understanding it lol Would love to see another video like this, but for Punishing Gray Raven and Path to Nowhere ^^
Very well done! Pretty much condensed everything for the past 6 years. I know Scharnhorst META said they could never find Aoste or Anzeel in any timeline, but is there still a possibility of them being in Test Site Beta? Or maybe even Silver Fox ends up there?
You gave us a "flashback of of dread" when the name Orochi was dropped, but in Sakura Empire "4-way" battle Kaga apparently showed anime-esq power by summoning a fox? I feel like there was "flashback of of dread" opportunity there.
Damn, what a quality content. I like the format and really enjoy the video. This must took a lot of time and effort to make. Respect and keep up the goodwork man.
As an og since beta I can confirm you nailed it out of the park. The amount of event archives you had to go through to get the info must have been a b****. You sir are a legend.
I know it is good work and that it was definitely a very hard task to resume all of this in one hour as a lore enjoyer myself, but I still wait for the mandatory "Hawk Seal of Approval".
I'm not sure if I'm more informed or more confused now, but thank you for this video, this is exactly what I needed after deciding that I finally want to actually start reading the events instead of just skipping everything.
Excellent Video! Very detailed and throughout. So excited to see someone tackle the lore of this game after so long. I hope this videos success motivates you to keep up make content. Can't wait to see more in the future!
Been playing for like 5 years and yet there are events I definitely skipped or missed, so this is a huge help for me to catch up and understand the lore more!
Thanks for this, I started playing last year and quickly gave up on trying to follow the story, it always felt like I was missing info to understand the context of pretty much any event and nothing made sense to me. Your video gave me a rough idea of whats going on I appreciate it.
You are God's gift to man. I've always wanted to understand Azur Lane's lore (started right after 4th anniversary) and this was just what I needed. thanks a lot
as someone who played azur lane pretty early, disappeared and returned this year with zero clue what the fuck is going on so i just skip the story, this is very helpful and also extremely quality, thanks man
Even though I have read every event of this game for the past 4 years I still can't wrap my head around the lore of this game, I understand it yet I find it kinda hard to grasp... So thanks for the recap...
This video is incredible, fitting together gacha game lore, especially one that has time travel, is an amazing feat and this video deserves 10x the views it has.
They need to try to divorce the banner characters from the main story in a way that will leave the main plot available for players who either missed the events or are returning, and streamline the already existing war archives into the main campaign. AZ is like arknights, you need a chart to figure it out if you haven't been playing for a while.
Insane work must have gone to this and congrats on this great video. I have stopped reading the story right around when New Jersey dropped so I haven't been keeping up to date. I think this can help with understanding past and new events much better. Thank you!
Azur Lane is wild and tougher among all gacha storyline. It like you against eldrich being super super super computer with experience kill timelines successful.
"Reeanacment" is also my most hated word/term. Hope one day they'll fix that. Anyway, great job with this 1-hour video summary. Can't even start to imagine how difficult was it to put it all together. But it was well spent 1-hour of life~
heh, honestly id love an updated and/or extended version of this in the future, one where more small details and future plot updates are gone over. cant wait to see where you go in the future!
Thank god someone explained the “reenactment” thing to me, i was starting to feel stupid, but now i know that Localization wants to make dialogue more complex than they actually are
I just started last week to read all the event memories since I skipped some the first time. I'm up to Parallel Superimposition and will watch this when I'm finished to see what I missed. I'ts pretts crazy how some of the later lore gets mentioned in the very first events like Akagi talking about the Creator in Visitors dyed in Red. Also fuck keeping track of the Watatsumi getting shuffled around like its a pea in a shell game.
Awesome video. I love these videos to get like a sum up of all the story since it's kinda hard to keep track. I love how you used the girls as kind of puppets on a stick to visuallize everything. I subed so I'm interested to future videos :)
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This literally took years.
I'm not 100% happy with it... It's my first video, after all. Little bit of information overload and zoomer editing aside...
But I might have a couple ideas for future content that will be better.
Still, hope you all get something out of it!
First video, damn good job
It was alright Flow. Despite being kinda clunky, it was still digestible for us viewers.
its absolutely fine for something that you want to compress down to an hour long, unlike the other AL story recap that is 3 HOURS long and doesnt include anything beyond, i believe 2020 or 2021, bcs the video is released ages ago at this point. and honestly the only thing i'd change is that you encourage people that cares for it to pause a lot and turning on and off CC constantly, if they used it
atleast this probably the best recap of azur lane in short form so far dude you did a great job
Excuse me for asking but in the beginning like in 0:30 where did you get the documents or something like that i really wanted to read it bruh but i don't know where to find them
Garnt creating the FATE timeline lecture: "this Gacha lore is very complicated"
Full Flow: "hold my beer"
Truly respec for full flow who enter this conveluted lore of azurlane 😂
>first video
>absolute banger
ong
Helena Meta is solo carrying the entire plot, it seems
HelMet stole it from Saratoga, or passed the torch since they first met in Mirror Involution (Souryuu my beloved 😢)
@@themarky2714 stolen is correct bcs its far more fitting for a META to do so rather than anyone else, prob 2nd only to straight up Antiochus and also Saratoga just got shafted after HelMeta appears. the only way rn for Saratoga to have an impact is to pull absolute bs and magics. while im not going to be surprised if that will be the case in the future or even near future, i would still call it bs
Lord have mercy on your soul for not only having interest in the lore but actual dedication to even make the video in the first place, massive respect. I'll definitely watch this at some point while I'm farming cause I've always wanted to know whats up with the games lore (I'm a sucker when it comes to time travel, multiple realities, predestined paths, trying to save a timeline, anything related with the idea of time manipulation is stuff I love), its my first gacha and still my fav to this day but I just can't handle lore in gacha games since I'm not that keen on reading. I've been hoping manjuu would make an anime that actually focused on the battles and major plot threads instead of the slice of life stuff they've been doing lately but this video shall suffice. Thank you very much dear sir!!!!
If you’ve watched the AL promo anime, the plot is kind of covering it which I think is really cool. Took a few years but it’s cool😂😂
Do you believe in Fate?
Now the current event: "Somehow Amagi returned..."
Speaking as someone who played briefly, left for awhile, and came back after like five years of story events missed... VERY helpful. =P
Man seriously thank you for this fantastic recap, i consider myself an "AL Lore Nerd" but this made everything fit together and make much more sense even for me.
Fantastic video which i will now link wherever anyone asks about AL's Story.
Bro sad news just came in:
Atsuko Tanaka, Tirpitz's & Hood's VA passed away
serious????????????
why do every booba gacha game lore always goes deep
Ah yes, Chinese Gacha games story goes deep and well written for no fucking reason whatsoever but I am not complaining
NIKKE too
@@Hexenjagd1837"well written" might be overstatement. Over written would be more accurate
@@gho5trun3r68 Care to elaborate ?
They have nothing else to offer other than some nonsensical lore dumps I suppose. Stories about the source material for the kansen will always be infinitely more worthy of our time. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll for example.
The most scary superimposition so far is the anime slowly superimposing on the main story, clearly /s.
Also happy or not. I think this video came out great. This is a one-of-a-kind. You managed to concisely explain the entire story as a singular "whole" rather than listing it off by events without making them naturally flow into one another and overfilling with dialogue filler. Which is honestly quite great since AL's story is a bit of a puzzle piece strewn all over the place.
This saves me so much effort trying to explain things to newbie friends who want to comprehend it.
Edit: The absolutely massive amount of visual aids (And memes) are extremely appreciated as well and probably make a good majority of the high points of the video.
69th!
The rest of azur lane: WAR IS HELL
TB: I must win the sports day!
I’m a day 1 SKK and play for the unique lore more than anything, but with so much they’ve thrown at us, I’m sure I’m have to refer back to this one day instead of replaying all event Memories for hours, so thank you 😭🙏
Welcome aboard!
Amazing effort being made here, although most players would skip the story, I think it is nice to have a video like this going through the events' story so far. Visual ques are on point too.
You did a great job formatting the different event stories into a complete storyline here too and I can feel the passion put into this.
The community needed this, King
Thanks for your summary, now i'm able to understand AL world after 5 years playing
It took me a couple of years to figure out that we play as commander in two different time lines. The main timeline and the "slow ahead" time line that is basically peaceful except when the sirens dump cossover characters into azur lane and give them rigging, just to test new designs.
I also think the TB daughter stuff will turn out to be important. We know she (or some version of her) becomes Observer Zero, and is already connected to the sirens in some way. It makes sense that if we raise her to love humanity and us, when she becomes a siren, hopefully she'll stay on our side. If that sci-fi reality could manage to work with their own sirens, we might too. Playable sirens eventually?
Amazing video its by far one of the most comprehensive videos about the Azur Lane lore I have ever seen it’s just wow so we’ll made from it being I “think”understandable to players who don’t follow the convoluted events and trying to make heads or tails from said events, to it still being a great watch to people like me who know whats going on but the enjoyable editing and memes makes it worth a watch and a re watch to catch all the references truly outstanding, anyways keep up the great work can’t wait to see more and for what little it’s worth you just got a new sub.
Thanks! This was more or less born out of the fact that the lore community really needed something easy like this. Hawk had his 3hr video, but that's now years out of date and a lot of it hasn't aged well... So it was "I'll just do it myself, how hard can it be?"
Two years later and that was very silly of me, lol.
I think I'll be focusing on event-by-event coverage going forward. It should age better and allow me to go into theories and translation issues. Rather then blowing them off for the sake of time. Still considering how I'll handle it, though.
Great to hear you plan on continuing and focusing in event by event coverage especially the translation part as though I do keep up whit the lore it’s mostly trough reading the events in the global server so I’m to the point I completely ignore when they mention “re-enactments” and “naval hq” put really important info gets lost, example still to this day I don’t 100% understand what happened in Unzen’s event “other than the riss being in the other foot” , or why they didn’t originally help out Renown and Repulse Meta in Vanguard’s event, or even recently I didn’t knew the hull boosting crystal where fake, I know theres answers in CN or JP but I think it’s isn’t the most accessible thing out there especially compared to a YT video or reading the in game logs.
@@FullFlow4610 I joined AL pretty late (HMS Vanguard's event) and thanks to Hawk2zer0 3hrs vid, I learnt a lot + managed to catch up on the lore. In my opinion, the plot started to get super interesting from Clemenceue's event, but unfortunately, it seems that Hawk is kinda busy and won't make a sequel to that 3hrs vid anytime soon.
Your vid is concise, informative and the way you tell story makes it really enjoyable to watch
I hope after ~3 more years you will make a sequel to this vid. Thanks a lot for your hard work!
This video has honestly rekindled my interest in the lore of AL. Especially with this new event, being able to understand everything and all the complex names and topics the characters say makes events much more enjoyable. Fantastic video sir!
As someone who knows nothing about the lore, I appreciate this, as well as the various references:
1:15 HEY SHIKIKAN KENTO DAYO
2:18 Drake meme but it's HMS Drake
8:55 Bismarck watches the IB navy being a trainwreck
9:26 Roasting Sardegna (they had a capable navy tbh, leadership let them down irl)
10:23 what doesn't kill you gives you your own UR event (also applies to Zweimarck xD)
11:05 WH40k Khorne reference
12:18 the Royal Navy ruining Iron Blood's day
14:10 reference to many IB ships never actually being constructed irl
19:22 Gneisenau META plz adopt me + headpats
21:23 FdG spawns KENTO DAYO
22:03 Siren gaming PC
23:00 RN's rescue team for rescue team (Revenge's design is peak)
25:41 damn, TIL Anchorage talks like a child because she has an intellectual disability. I wonder if Unicorn has the same problem. What about some of the DDs? So many questions...
...and so on. Great video, thank you! I hope to see more videos about the lore in the future as I don't have time to read the stories in-game.
why so low? up you go!
Mad respect my guy for a very amazing and dedicated video about the interesting mess that is AL Lore. Looking forward to what you can cook up next
This video is a godsend for anyone who has started playing in the last year. Thanks for the great work. Appreciate the detailed notes.
Awsome bro, as someone who played for a long time and have no clue where each lore belongs, this sure helps me understand more (Helpful/10)
What I have learned:
- X is the Honkai. (The more you know, the stronger and harder to deal with they become.)
- Bismarck is the Gru Meme.
- What the heck Watatsumi is so that I can shake off the Genshin ideas.
- New Jersey is SKK's Childhood Friend.
- Marco Polo is a cultist.
- Amagi is buried in a tree.
- Helena META is doing a lot.
- CONCEPTS!
...and now, Kaga IS a tree. Press F to pay respec.
New Jersey? I think you mean Jun’you
The algorithm has blessed me with a banger once more. Can't believe that this is your first vid. Subbed
God damn, this was pretty well done, no wonder it took literally years to make.
Amazing work, thanks for making this more understandeable, i only read the NP event stories as they seemed the most Lore focused, but this helped a lot.
Man this was one hell of a video. Ive been hanging around AL for little over three years and have always loved lore and backstory to everything. This was a really great video and I look forward to what else you have to say on the lore of AL. I would love a longer even more in depth video as i love those types of long form video essays.
Was looking for such a video for quite a while. Overall nice work, helped a lot.
You're an absolute madlad for doing this. Great job, shikikan.
You are one insane fellow
I appreciate it though, never really knew what was going on
I’ll watch this when I’m farming, thanks
Edit: wait this is your first video?!? Jesus Christ, what a way to start making videos lol. Good job thought you were like a veteran at editing and making videos for a minute
34:14
I silently put Memphis in a hug
Finally fixed... after a year
Thanks so much for all the effort! Just visualizing the events laid out in a timeline already does so much in piecing together relevance and context of what they were even trying to tell us.
As someone who has played this game and never left, and finished all storylines, I still appreciate this because it really helps figure out how the timeline actually works, because it is not at all cohesive in the game itself, at least until Rondo at Rainbow's End, where the serialized occurrences have better reference points onward.
I played the game since global launch (now a lvl 150 skk) and used to be pretty invested in the lore at the start, reading everything each event had to offer. I have skipped most of the dialogue nowadays but I'm glad this video exists since the AL just seems insane wtf. Thanks for this amazing video. Only criticism I have is the pacing, since there's a lot of onscreen text to read that just zooms through without being given enough time..
Holy shit, I just saw this video after finishing what I think is the first part of the *entire* Pacific Situation that sheds light to "Amagi". I started playing in the Yorkie 2 event but started properly reading lore after Khovorod of Dawn's Rime, so I am glad that I get to see what happened in previous events that have not reran yet or I have never witnessed.
I REALLY like digging into lore of games, and AL has taken me by quite a surprise so it's good to hear that other people are also as enthusiastic to the game's lore as I am (that lore bomb in the Martyrium was fucking insane).
I am definitely looking forward for more lore in the future.
As for the video itself, I think you did a pretty good job condensing...uh......7 years worth of event stories. I do hope you continue doing stuff like this in the future!
You just earned yourself a sub.
Scapa Flow/Rondo At Rainbow's End really was the turning point for the story. I am glad though that the Sirens didn't stay the main antagonists after that, and the real villains we're finally dealing with are the Leviathans (aka X) and Bonne Homme
Halfway through the video, and I've already given my like and my subscription. You have done what i thought was impossible due to this game's lore being mostly confined to events and facing translation issues. Amazing job, man.
Amazing video! I cannot even imagine how much work this took, superb job!
I just wish it was a bit slower, even knowing all the info, I feel my head spinning on how fast-paced it was.
As much as I love azur lane and play it alot, I had no clue about half this stuff more interesting than I thought.
I really appreciate this, I swear right after I quit(like 2-3 years in) they finally started dropping the lore bombs... It seemed like just random disconnected event stories with no visible overarching plot when I played. The writing of the events itself was honestly pretty solid but I needed some kind of (preferably chronological) plot progression. Perhaps my brain was just too smooth to get it.
But ever since quitting I occasionally seeing people talk about the new lore and it looked insanely interesting.
Bruh, 13:13 is seriously my most hated anime trope of all time "lets keep vital information secret because the writers said so!" Gacha games love this trick. I swear they could have come up with a more logical dialogue while still keeping us in the dark without any extra effort.
After finishing the video, the lore is what I would call "fun to know, probably wouldn't have been fun for me to learn". A bit messy for my taste. I will probably wait for AL to finish before seeking out new info
What a mad lad. Love your video.
I like how Azur Lane's initial story was just following the WW2 IRL to just more sci-fi stuffs which I liked it.
Any plan for a collab with Hawkzer0 for more lore stuffs? (wink, wink). 😆
Nothing atm.
Hawk was one of the people I sent this to for feedback, but real life hit him hard. So I just pushed it out.
For now, I usually provide translation checking and theories in his AL streams. I don't believe he's up-to-date on lore past Martyrium, so I know what I'm going to be doing tomorrow.
And yeah! Rereading a lot of old events, you can see they had a general idea of what they wanted at least as far back as Fallen Wings. We slowly deviate from irl history as the Siren's script stops being absolute. So there's even a reason for the shift which I think is neat.
@@FullFlow4610 Fallen Wings got re-written last year though
@@hassathunter2464 Only the English localization was fixed. CN was not affected whatsoever. EN back then was machine translated from Chinese, resulting in a lot of mistakes and missed context.
Heck, Zero even got called "Ling." "Ling" = "zero" in Chinese. Directly translating names (Or not at all) is a common error of mtl programs. My favorite is how Sakawa's name sometimes translates to "the drunkard" in Google Translate.
Likewise, Aoste's EN name, "The Magister," wasn't settled upon until after Ashen Simulacrum. EN has called him several different names, including "Master Arbiter." The "Inquistor" mentioned in the old version is another rough translation of his name in CN. Which directly translates as the "Judge". The entire point of the rewrite was to bring it up to current standards. Not change the story.
Bro this was so good, you spared me the time of re reading the entire events and making my own timeline with all of the stuff, I hope you make little follow up videos for each new event so that we can keep up. I am hoping for new Videos!
this helps SO much with everything I've missed. Thanks so much!!
Very, very cool of you to spend as much time as you did putting this all together, it's very amazing; There's a lot of high concept stuff going on within Azur Lane, and it makes it really hard to follow along when I started as the Martyrium event began. Very late in the story, and if I had to have any gripes with the game, it's that there's no real easy way to get ingratiated with the story from the game itself, which is a big shame. You've helped greatly in piecing things together, even making me aware of something I was puzzled on (Renown and Repulse being confusing in the Pledge event). What a messy localisation @_@. I even get to understand the answers that the current event (Windborne Steel Wings) has given out thanks to your video.
Now this video is a certified banger. You've certainly earned yourself that sub and i'm curious to see your future content.
Dude, amazing work. loved the video.
Thank god finally someone decided to make a full lore video about azur lane. I was so confused with the main campaign storyline, event storyline, secretary storyline and the anime storyline
You can safely count the anime storyline out, it seems..while the event storylines are series of actual main story so far in the game, to which the prelude of all things begins at the Operation Siren (hinting that we SKK and shipgirls we command are strong enough to break the cycle of perpetual war and see the real world out there).
And for "main campaign", that's nothing but reenactments staged by the Antiochus, gauging shipgirls' strengths left and right lol
@@Morgru I like to think that the "event storyline" Is like the second season to the "main campaign" storyline. That way is easier for me to understand.
Thank you for the love of all things good in the world you somehow managed to keep this within an hour! Got a friend of mine into the lore... Since it can be a lot to digest.
I'd say Cross wave is worth a play as it is interesting and seemingly the girls are still mostly in character. Just not a large roaster.
Thanks for such an informative and fun vid. Been played for a while but had trouble straightening out the stories so this was super helpful. Loved the animations and the little joke, like getting Kent from the Cubes lol.
This 1 hour explanation is more complicated than a dude explaining explaining CoD Zombie for 6 hours💀💀
You deserve a like and a sub for this explanation
This guy went through this madness a put it in a undersandable resume under 1 hour... respect for that
You know I cannot begin to say how Impressed I am by you, not only do you explain all the BS of the AL story quite well the fact this is your first vid is even more amazing, than you for you service and helping those of us not as dedicated as you catch up story-wise and be able to finally understand it
I’m glad you made this. I could never keep up with Azur Lane’s story with how many stories/side events there are, so I gave up reading/understanding it lol
Would love to see another video like this, but for Punishing Gray Raven and Path to Nowhere ^^
Absolutely insane work, thanks for putting this together!
Man you deserve an award for this.
Impressive, really appreciate the translation stuff. Story has been getting very interesting lately!
Man love your video, it's great to have a timeline for this game
Also you did a pretty hard and extensive work have to appreciate that
Very well done! Pretty much condensed everything for the past 6 years.
I know Scharnhorst META said they could never find Aoste or Anzeel in any timeline, but is there still a possibility of them being in Test Site Beta? Or maybe even Silver Fox ends up there?
You gave us a "flashback of of dread" when the name Orochi was dropped, but in Sakura Empire "4-way" battle Kaga apparently showed anime-esq power by summoning a fox? I feel like there was "flashback of of dread" opportunity there.
absolute cinema 🔥
(eventhough i must repeat some part, cuz you explain it too fast lmao. but i still understand it)
Damn, what a quality content. I like the format and really enjoy the video. This must took a lot of time and effort to make. Respect and keep up the goodwork man.
the video is soo long and i need to stop every 2 secondes to read everything, but damn thats sooo interesting, thanks for the work man !!
As an og since beta I can confirm you nailed it out of the park. The amount of event archives you had to go through to get the info must have been a b****. You sir are a legend.
Thanks for doing this. I hope you'll cover future stories as they come out. I don't have time to read them as im playing multiple gachas
I know it is good work and that it was definitely a very hard task to resume all of this in one hour as a lore enjoyer myself, but I still wait for the mandatory "Hawk Seal of Approval".
I'm not sure if I'm more informed or more confused now, but thank you for this video, this is exactly what I needed after deciding that I finally want to actually start reading the events instead of just skipping everything.
Waiting for someone to come here and say "The Commander is a They, do not refer as He, the global translation is wrong".
Exactly the source are a select few from the discord.
Excellent Video! Very detailed and throughout. So excited to see someone tackle the lore of this game after so long. I hope this videos success motivates you to keep up make content. Can't wait to see more in the future!
Been playing for like 5 years and yet there are events I definitely skipped or missed, so this is a huge help for me to catch up and understand the lore more!
Thanks for this, I started playing last year and quickly gave up on trying to follow the story, it always felt like I was missing info to understand the context of pretty much any event and nothing made sense to me. Your video gave me a rough idea of whats going on I appreciate it.
You are God's gift to man. I've always wanted to understand Azur Lane's lore (started right after 4th anniversary) and this was just what I needed. thanks a lot
as someone who played azur lane pretty early, disappeared and returned this year with zero clue what the fuck is going on so i just skip the story, this is very helpful and also extremely quality, thanks man
Even though I have read every event of this game for the past 4 years I still can't wrap my head around the lore of this game, I understand it yet I find it kinda hard to grasp... So thanks for the recap...
This video is incredible, fitting together gacha game lore, especially one that has time travel, is an amazing feat and this video deserves 10x the views it has.
They need to try to divorce the banner characters from the main story in a way that will leave the main plot available for players who either missed the events or are returning, and streamline the already existing war archives into the main campaign. AZ is like arknights, you need a chart to figure it out if you haven't been playing for a while.
Nah dawg debuting the channel with a banger is next level
I'd like 20 or so more 1h videos going over all this in more detail, I like your exposition
Insane work must have gone to this and congrats on this great video. I have stopped reading the story right around when New Jersey dropped so I haven't been keeping up to date. I think this can help with understanding past and new events much better. Thank you!
Azur Lane is wild and tougher among all gacha storyline.
It like you against eldrich being super super super computer with experience kill timelines successful.
I dont really comment on videos but your video is really good thanks for making it now I can finally understand what's happing in the lore.
"Reeanacment" is also my most hated word/term. Hope one day they'll fix that.
Anyway, great job with this 1-hour video summary. Can't even start to imagine how difficult was it to put it all together. But it was well spent 1-hour of life~
heh, honestly id love an updated and/or extended version of this in the future, one where more small details and future plot updates are gone over. cant wait to see where you go in the future!
First video and its this good? Massive giga chad move. Very nice. Definitely earned a sub.
The editing is phenomenal
Amagi return dude 🔥
Great video man! Hope you do more Azur Lane content.
Thank god someone explained the “reenactment” thing to me, i was starting to feel stupid, but now i know that Localization wants to make dialogue more complex than they actually are
I just started last week to read all the event memories since I skipped some the first time. I'm up to Parallel Superimposition and will watch this when I'm finished to see what I missed.
I'ts pretts crazy how some of the later lore gets mentioned in the very first events like Akagi talking about the Creator in Visitors dyed in Red.
Also fuck keeping track of the Watatsumi getting shuffled around like its a pea in a shell game.
This was your first video?!?! Dam man! Hope you make it big!!
Since Hawk decide not to continue his "AL Story" So this might be next best video to watch.
Wow, have seen anyone try to sum the lore since Hawk did it when NJ came, thanks for this. :3
50:23 I'm still amazed that Rodney is so far above all the Meta's present in that event combined
Looking good, and helps put everything into order. Looking forward to part 2 eventually.
Damn, you're a legend for putting this video together. I always want to get all the stupid logs from OpSi but things never show up.
Absolute banger homie.
I would just recommend that you try to speak just slightly slower. Sometimes it's hard to understand you without subtitles
Great job for your first video. Would you also summarise future events?
Holy shit, the lore is *DEEP !*
For a first video, you did a great job! Great to see a new Azur Lane UA-camr!
YESS, I was looking for a vid like this, I'll finally be able to know what the heck is happening with ma boats
Awesome video. I love these videos to get like a sum up of all the story since it's kinda hard to keep track. I love how you used the girls as kind of puppets on a stick to visuallize everything.
I subed so I'm interested to future videos :)