3:47 As far as I know only a handful of them (Calli, Kiara, IRyS, Baelz, Fuwawa, and Mococo) actually speak Japanese fluently. The rest are probably reading it in Romanji, which is Japanese written with the English alphabet.

For a good Soul Link video I would recommend Jaiden Animations video she did with Alpharad. It is a randomizer as well. Love watching pokemon videos so looking forward to your nuzlocke

A pipe organ. That's the instrument. And we're living the good ending.

9:15 OK the hand toggle is so adorable it cought me off guard I'd love a whole stream with this toggle on

You've GOTTA see the video after this one, it's just absurd. It takes the amount of shenaniganry in this video and more than triples it.

Wow, someone watching Myth's Bad End after so long. Nice. OK, extremely long explanation/rant/easter egg incoming: The Myth girls: Mori Calliope: Death's Apprentice, immortal Kiara Takanashi: Phoenix, eternally reborn Gawr Gura: Atlantean shark/girl Ninomae Ina'nis: Human priestess of the Ancient Ones (turned into something non-human, hence the elf ears, hair, and tentacles) Amelia Watson: British investigator/time traveler Ina has been taken over by the Ancient Ones (AO), due to...something. The Ancient Ones are eldritch gods, if you know who H.P. Lovecraft is, and his Ctulhu mythos, it's that. Once Calli starts fighting, the BGM is from Calli's song "RIP". When Kiara saves Calli, the BGM is from her song "Hinotori". AO imprisons Calli and Kiara and Gura steps up. Gura's song "Reflect" starts playing when Gura imprisons (ineffectively) AO in the water bubble. Gura realizes there's no going back, and uses a special trigger to turn into "Red Gura" or "Gawr", a wild, primal version of herself (that's first referenced in her song Reflect) to fight Ina. That trigger is a homage to Dante from Devil May Cry. Gura splatters AO, but the black goo reforms back into possessed Ina form (maybe a homage to the T1000 from Terminator 2?). When Ina fights back against AO and AO unpossesses her, the BGM is from Ina's song "Violet". Ame completes the calculations for the time travel and warps away. The first scene while time traveling is of a gigantic Smol Ame in an age of dinosaurs, as the meteor that ends the dinos. The third scene is Watoto, Ame's character from a D&D RPG the girls played. Fourth is a whole lot of Bee Ames, originally debuted when she watched the Bee Movie. The entire sequence is a homage to Dr Strange traveling through dimensions. Ame eventually ends up in a movie theater, and the big screen displays a gigantic number. It's the age of the universe, approximately 13.7 billion years. Ame sees 5 icons above the projector, referencing Hololive Council, the second English generation. Nanashi Mumei, Guardian of Civilization. Ceres Fauna, Keeper of Nature. Ouro Kronii, Warden of Time, and Tsukumo Sana, Speaker of Space. They are something akin to gods or concepts, like Mother Nature or Father Time. Ame's ability to time travel through her pocketwatch is because the watch belongs to Ouro Kronii. Ame stole it. Sana's icon (the ringed planet) is glitching, referencing several things. In lore, Sana is the Apostle of the Ancient Ones, and Ina is the Priestess. Personally, I think this connection was made because Sana and Ina are friends IRL. Here, because the Ancient Ones are rampaging, something has happened to Sana as well, hence the glitching. It can also be because Sana graduated from Hololive due to health problems back then. A bit of a layered meaning to the glitching. Once Ame says "You are ME after all", the BGM is an orchestral rendition of Ame's stream BGM "Papaya". She pulls out the tape of the projector, like all of her previous incarnations have done, and time reverses itself. When the screen pans up from the world, you can see a glowing something in the clouds, going down towards the world. That is IRyS's icon, wings. She is the embodiment of Hope, and presumably, she is given form because Ame (all the Ames) never gave up, they kept hoping. There's another short video (on Gura's channel I think) where Gura goes onto land for the first time, and a ghostly someone (IRyS) whispers something into her ear, and Gura notices a poster for Hololive auditions, starting her career (and probably of the other Myth girls as well) in Hololive. Ina has said that her fans, the "Takodachi" are some sort of energy drain/regulation for the Ancient Ones. Back to the Myth Bad End, this is presumably how the Bad End doesn't happen. In the new timeline, Gura goes on land, IRyS whispers into her ear about Hololive, all the Myth girls start their career, and Ina's fans keep AO from taking control/going wild. At the very end, the Big Bang starts up, and in the theater, time starts running again as the universe is remade. The text says that on September 13th, 2022, the world was wiped out. As the date of the video of Myth Bad End is on 30th of October 2022, it's past the date the world would be destroyed. We live in the Good Ending, confirmed by Mazumaro.

Mumei: Mumei is tied with Sana for having the lowest base ATK of 0.8 or -20% ATK. However, Mio is the one who has the lowest natural ATK stat of 0.85 or -15% ATK. Mumei’s natural ATK skyrockets mainly due to her Civilization skill, and Sana’s Speaker of Space skill bumps up her natural ATK to 1.4 or +40% ATK. For Mumei’s main weapon, the extra damage from the Growth upgrade is reduced to 75% as well as still being divided by the number of projectiles. Extra damage from Anvil boosts and the Growth Upgrade are not affected by the damage modifiers from Mumei’s Friend skill that reduce weapon damage to 50%/65%/80% for levels 1/2/3 of the skill. Friend has a base attack speed of about 5 seconds and this attack speed is affected by Haste. This means that weapons with slow attack speeds benefit the most from being duplicated by Friend. Friend does not share their attack speed limits of the weapons he duplicates. The Reverse Stamp only affects one feather when Mumei’s main weapon is used by Friend. Friend is not affected by attack speed increases from the Haste Up Stamp and Cooldown -10% enchantments. Mumei’s special does not affect the Yagoos past 30 minutes, due to them counting as mini-bosses. Mumei’s special can defeat invincible enemies. Snow Queen: The actual attacks of the Snow Queens do follow Friend when they are activated by him, but there are no visual effects for those Snow Queens.

Just something I want to point out, there is a rule in most nuzlocke where the nuzlocke doesn't officialy start untill you get some pokeballs. So his first try didn't actualy count since hedidn't have pokeball at that point.

Reaction suggestion: after you've played Holocure a few more times, ask people to submit clips that show the origin of the references in the game! Some items like Membership or Devil Hat (from Towa's outfit) is self-explanatory, but wouldn't you like to know why are there bandaids in this game? Or what on earth is a Asacoco?

fun fact: the artist made this through a whole year of work and it was like a bunch of parts that dropped every month or so like a series also this is the bad ending, we live in the good ending where they're chilling around doing their things

Alpharad is someone who I’ve been following for YEARS, so it’s neat seeing you react to this sort of thing. I have a lot of Pokemon knowlege since I like looking at the in depth stuff, so I’ll be available to help break stuff down (meaning LOTS of timestamps here, wall of friggin text incoming). 2:10 I’m not 100% sure on this, but I think the way you’re supposed to do nicknames in a soul link is to give the linked mons the same nickname, since they have the same soul across the two games (lore stuff, woo!) 3:33 The timing on this is kinda funny, because Nerissa just killed a KFP (Kiara fan) named Jeremy to cook as chicken in her 3D debut. 4:15 Pretty sure he didn’t at this point, but nowadays when he does stuff like this he often does name his mons after people in chat. 5:30 Specifics on crits: Crit chance changes between game but from gens 3-6 it’s 1/16, 1/24 onwards and just weird before then. Crits until gen 6 did double damage (1.5x gen 6 onwards), and bypass any stat drops to your attacking stat and any stat increases to the target’s defensive stat. 6:08 Scratch does not have increased crit. It seems like it might, seeming like a slashing move, but it doesn’t. 6:20 Notably this technically shouldn’t actually count as a loss, as officially Nuzlockes don’t start until you get pokeballs. It’s excusable bc this is Jacob’s first Nuzlocke, and it makes for good content. 6:43 Jacob doesn’t do the art himself, he has artists for the videos. 8:18 Mankey is a 45% encounter in the grass on route 22, which is accessable to the west of Viridian City. Otherwise it’s not till after Mt. Moon, so it’s a great early pickup. 8:50 Specifics on this: Essentially what randomizers do is that they, well, randomize every encounter on the encounter table, but keep the base levels on the encounter table the same. Each Pokemon species is coded with a specifc catch rate, that influences the catching formula, that actually gives your catch chance. 9:01 Mewtwo’s base catch rate is 3, which is roughly a base 1.6% catch rate with no modifiers. Starters have a base rate of 45 (roughly 11.9%) 14:33 Fun fact, Lt. Surge is legitimately called the “Lightning American” at some point. 15:04 Hyper Fang is BRUTAL this early, as it’s an 80 base power move, which is powered up by 50% to 120 due to Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB). On top of that, due to the way damage calcs work, at lower levels the game gives you a slight boost in damage, since it’s expecting you to be using lower power moves. So yeah, early Hyper Fang is brutal from Ratticate, which is why it’s really good on your side and tough to fight. 15:48 Karate Chop is one of those moves with a heightened crit rate (+1 meaning 1/8). Combine that with base 75 power thanks to STAB, Machop’s (relatively for this level) high base attack of 80, and Diglett being frail with a base 25 defense, you get a very dead tube mole. 18:05 So yeah, general strat for stone evos is to level them up to get the moves first, then evolve. Eevee is an exception to this, as you wanna evolve it early because its evolutions only get an attack of their type early, and then again much later. 21:03 It’s not, it’s just a popular fan theory 22:33 This is an optional rule, mainly on Hardcore rulesets, might be a good idea to not do this for your first one. 23:59 Perish Song is actually really good in most unmodified nuzlockes, as many trainers do NOT switch their Pokémon. You can therefore just set it up, tank as many hits as you can and then switch to something else that can tank their enemy’s hits. 24:11 Mist blocks stat drops from enemy Pokémon for 5 turns. 24:37 Gyarados is normally faster than Rhyhorn, but what happened here is that since Gyarados is paralyzed, it’s speed is reduced to 25%, allowing Rhyhorn to out speed. 35:59 I think you might be thinking about some gen 1 stuff here, since there crits were based on speed. 37:15 Cloyster is Water/Ice (like many ice types in gen 1), so Fire is neutral against it. Cloyster has ALWAYS been Water/Ice, so I think your friend is just mixing it up with how Shelder starts out as pure Water but gains the Ice type when it evolves 41:47 It was blacked out in Gen 1, then later changed to white out in Gen 2, then eventually changed to “scurried away”. Whiting out means to “disappear”, I guess since they didn’t want the trainer actually fainting. 44:04 Gyarados is a Pokémon that’s commonly attributed as a pseudo legendary, but it’s not actually one. While it is just a fan created term, there are 3 conditions all Pokémon considered pseudos have: 1. They must be in the “slow” leveling group (how much exp they gain. 2. They must be a 3 stage evolutionary line. 3. They must have a base stat total of exactly 600 (they’re known as the 600 club in Japan). While Gyarados is in the “slow” leveling group, it is only in a 2 stage line and only has a base stat total of 540 46:12 This “unnamed friend” is Brayden, aka Captain Kidd. This “advice” led to what is probably one of THE MOST infamous moments in modern nuzlocking, and later set Brayden on his own journey of redemption in nuzlocking. 47:12 Stat boosts in Pokémon are amazing, since it effectively increases your damage/survivability more the longer the battle goes on. 47:43 You’re mixing up Swords Dance and Dragon Dance here. Swords Dance buffs Attack twice, Dragon Dance buffs Attack once and Speed once. The physical equivalent to Calm Mind is Bulk Up, which increases both Attack and Defence I think the ideal ways to do these reactions to build up to the soul link is to after this do Jaiden’s Ruby nuzlocke, then do Alpharad’s Randomizer Nuzlocke, then Jaiden’s Platinum one, then go to their soul link.

If ya want more Pokemon challenges/Nuzlocke videos, obviously there's more from Alpharad, but JaidenAnimations also has a series of her first Nuzlockes that she animated as well. Her first was Ruby, her second was Platinum, and her 3rd was a 2 Player Nuzlocke (Soul Link) with Alpharad here! Highly recommend them!

Alpharad and JaidenAnimation did a Soul Link Nuzlocke video. Great videos!

R.I.P Mistys english anime VA

The new gamers don't have Set/Switch mode so if you were ro do a more modern Nuzlocke, you simply have to hit cancel when the prompt appears

Hell, yeah. The reaction I was waiting for.

THERE'S ENGLISH CC!!! Edit: Nvm.. He turned them on.

“Can someone take my life” says the ZOMBIE. I’ll be honest I never saw that clip but that bit from Ollie had me laughing (the rest of that clip specifically was kinda meh to me)

I agree on the cats turning bipedal, like sprigatito I get based on all the final forms theme, but the fire cat should’ve stayed, you know, a CAT not a wannabe wrestler! Also my favorite starter is grass: turtwig, fire: chimchar, water: mudkip/squirtle(they tie)

pretty sure its your first time hearing Aqua herself but you did hear a small part of this song before. it was in the hololive 2023 Shuffle medly where Suisei sung it as the song before the last

You should watch kingdom hearts 2 secret ending next, it depicts the entire battle of the 3 armored figures vs the bald old man.

As you guessed, this is a love song to her fans. She actually made an official English version as well in order to thank overseas fans as well. This song is the purest expression of gratitude imagineable, and I know several other Hololive members who herald this as their favorite song anyone from the company has ever made (which is a LOT of strong competition).

Why do you have to keep rewinding to listen? Is it so difficult to just listen to the whole song directly?

A lot of pausing.

.-.7

Still one of the most idol songs from Hololive, and it came from the introverted gamer onion maid

I am once again asking for "Ceres Fauna - Let me stay here" 💚

Most of Sakura Miko's songs are directed to her fans, either as appreciating them, thanking them, or expressing how she wants to improve herself for them. Her first song like that was Sakurakaze and it is pure wholesome. Speaking of Miko, she has issued Aqua a challenge to face her in a game contest with the stakes being that if Miko wins she gets locked up in Miko's room and won't be allowed to graduate. lol Just a bit of an indicator of how much the other Holomems love Aqua and are sad to see her go.

Man this song hits hard now

If you want some lore/fan interpretations of the Hololive English timeline, check out this playlist which has a combined emphasis of videos, music videos, and moment/clips that paint a picture of what happened and will happen from the events of Myth’s Bad Ending. kzbin.info/aero/PLFEJn1h_MtQxfzGMWM7G5H10trGeJsnB8&si=v4rd1QeOJ37OPUfs

toby fox, camellia and marine***

man, I can't hear this song anymore without wanting to cry lol I'm forever grateful that I was able to see her live this year at HoloFes. Thank you Aqua!!!

A sequel was teased to be in the works where Ame meets with HoloPromise

Everyone already explained so I won't bother >v< I didn't watch her much but it's always sad to see a core member graduate ): You've actually reacted to snippet of this song, sung by Hoshimachi Suisei during the 2022>2023 Hololive Shuffle Medley!

Thank you for 6 years, Akutan <3

Quick correction on the song's title: "Aqua Iro Palette" (Aqua color Palette)

Graduation in VTuber terms basically means quitting as the character and/or leaving the agency they belong to.

At least with Hololive, graduations aren't usually mandatory, at least from the company's side. Health problems might make it necessary, irreconcilable creative differences might make it necessary, but if the company is requiring it explicitly, that's generally a termination. I think it means "when the color changes, that's the part she's singing." Oh man. It seems like there've been a lot of original song releases recently. Or maybe this is a usual amount!

If you play apex, then there are some clips of her u can watch. She's called Mad dog of holo, cuz of how she plays and pulls of lots of moments, especially when she's solo. She has achieved going to master as a solo, and has participated in 1 apex tournament, aka vsaikyo, in where she teamed up with towa and suisei.

o7 to the gaming onion, we've lost a lot of wholesomeness with this one. Although I only watched clips of her I will still miss her a lot.

I recommend reacting to Haachama's new song "BAN RTA"

Howdy! Graduations are when someone decides to leave one of these companies. In her announcement she cited differing opinions between her and the company (Some would say Creative Differences if we read into it too much) but the fact she is having a graduation at all tells us she made a choice. When someone chooses to have a graduation they often have a build up, maybe its to do with contractual obligations or maybe its because they want to catch a particular event before they leave, in this case we still have Aqua for another few weeks and it will end, usually, with a relay stream where a bunch of other members call in and talk with her and wish her luck! When a vtuber is forced to retire it usually ends in a termination. There is no fanfare, no build up, the channel gets wiped clean and expunged 90% of the time and a PR notice is posted to social media, sometimes a video or stream is put out by the people who started with them (Genmates). Now theres the unwritten rule about not bringing up previous lives or alternate accounts, but I am willing to put money down that we will see aqua again, she started streaming originally because she was painfully shy, fast forward 6 years and we have one of the most beloved vtubers around. Edit: YOU GOT IT! shes a Sailor Maid called Aqua :3

There are a lot of people in the company and in the fandom affected by Aqua's graduation announcement. I mean, even I'm sad to see her go and I wasn't even a regular viewer. She's always been around as long as I can remember. Minato Aqua is a Gamer Maid. Don't call her a cosplay maid XD Suisei sang this song during the 2023 Shuffle Medley you watched. Even wore Aqua's outfit.

She also sang the song in English.

As probably mentioned by many others, Aqua hasn’t quite graduated yet, but only announced her graduation last week. Adding some more context to it, she mentioned a difference in opinion of the direction she wanted to go compared to the company, and she chose to leave on mutual terms. 7:32 IIRC, Aqua’s theming is a mix of sailor and maid, so you’re kinda right on the money here. For today’s rec, I’ll rec HoloEN’s song for their upcoming concert, “Breaking Dimensions”

Just a quick correction on the situation: Aqua has not graduated yet. She has announced her graduation, which will take place on August 28th. I'm sure you will get a flood of comments about this, so just putting it here early.

Did you notice the two boys at the very end? You seemed to always stop the video before it could fully finish 😅

Someone might have already said this, but I'll say it anyways... If you're wondering about the Good Ending, then it is the timeline that we're living right now. Also, the one controlling Ina in the video is none other than AO-chan, the Ancient One.

15:16, so fun fact here. Those symbols represent Holo Council. Mumei - Humanity Fauna - Nature Kronii - Time Bae - Chaos Sana - Space Unfortunately, because of health issues, Sana had to graduate. I think you know this already, but just in case. After an accident, she suffered from back pain, which made it difficult to both work as an artist for Hololive & Stream, so she decided to graduate 🥲 It's been 2 years. Holo council rebranded a month ago as Hololive Promise with Irys joining the other council members in one group.

Since you got This deep into Holomyth. You have to check out HoloMyth- Nonfiction. Very emotional track for their fans