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Scene from the Stellaron Hunters flashback scene in 3.0. Trailblazer (pictured Stelle) is walking on the Astral Express and sees the Stellaron Hunters (pictured Silver Wolf and Kafka) around her
From Kafka's Companion Mission: I have no mechanism for "fear". There's an empty space in my mind and my heart, but I'm unable to perceive it. Changing that part of myself isn't something I can do alone
Picture of the tuxedo Winnie the Pooh meme template. The top tile with normal Pooh says: Having Constance and Firefly team up in story to justify selling The Dahlia as her BiS (best in slot) teammate. The bottom tile with tuxedo Pooh says: Giving Firefly her own (ex-)memokeeper big sister figure to mirror March as part of the Express and Stellaron Hunters parallels. Both tiles have chibi arts of Firefly and Constance. The bottom tile has chibi arts of Black Swan and March 7th.
Splash art for the Trailblaze Mission: Back to Earth in Evernight. It features Dan Heng Permansor Terrae, a dark-haired man with golden horns, and Evernight, a pink-haired girl holding a black umbrella
Screenshot of the script log from the 2.3 Penacony Trailblaze mission. It reads as the following: Dialogue option: Hello everyone, I'm the Galactic Baseballer, and she's Say~Cheese~ March 7th: Ah! Don't expose my net handle to everyone! Hello everyone, I'm March 7th! I'm an ordinary girl who loves adventures! Firefly: Hello everyone, I'm Firefly. Mm...I am also an ordinary girl who enjoys adventures.
Screenshot from Kafka's Keeping Up With Star Rail video. Owlbert is interviewing Himeko on the show. The subtitle text from Owlbert reads: "...who is rumored to have had several encounters with Kafka".
Screenshot from the Xianzhou Alliance Trailblaze mission. Jing Yuan's projection and Yukong are staring at March 7th, Trailblazer (pictured here as Stelle), and Welt. Jing Yuan says: It's very unlikely that the Express has joined forces with the Stellaron Hunters. They are mortal enemies, after all
Scan of B's Log magazine when they polled people's favorite characters and character pairings from Honkai: Star Rail. For favorite characters, the order is Dan Heng, Jing Yuan, Dan Heng - Imbibitor Lunae, Kafka, Himeko, Blade, Sampo, Luocha, Huohuo, and Trailblazer. For favorite pairings, it's Blade and Dan Heng, Kafka and Himeko, Jing Yuan and Dan Heng, Dan Heng and Trailblazer, Yingxing and Dan Feng, Jing Yuan and Yanqing, Sampo and Trailblazer, Kafka and Trailblazer, and Trailblazer and March
Himeko Nova's dialogue on her hobbies, which includes martial arts films: Back in my student days, I was quite the connoisseur of old-school martial arts films. I've still got all those combat techniques memorized by heart. Maybe I'll show off a few moves next time, just to make sure I'm not getting rusty.
Screenshot of the 3.7 Trailblaze Mission. Kafka and Himeko show up as crystallized projections. Himeko tells Trailblazer: Keep moving forward. Keep Trailblazing.
Screenshot of the 3.8 Finality Mission. Kafka appears when Constance is trying to peek into Trailblazer's memories
Screenshot of Himeko, a red-haired middle-aged woman, sitting on a dark velvet couch. A small drone floats besides her. There is a line of dialogue by Himeko on the bottom of the screenshot that reads: When I first started as a Nameless, I always wanted to do great things too. I wanted to save the world and change lives...You know what it's like as a youngster full of energy
Trailblazer is talking to Shawn, a NPC on Penacony. Shawn is a Halovian man dressed in a blue coat. He says: Wait, you're not in our uniform...You're a visitor? Hmm, I don't recognize the design on your outfit, but it does boast impeccable workmanship. Could it be a custom piece? You are given three dialogue options to respond. 1) I fished it out from a trashcan. 2) A piece by Stellaron Hunters. 3) My family got it for me.
Screenshot of Argenti's Character Story III: Since embarking on the Path of Beauty, a path of asceticism, he had faced numerous trials. Some presented themselves as prayers, others as opportunities for repentance, and still others as the seductive whispers of the Triple Demons. Fearlessly, he confronted these temptations with an unwavering lance and an indomitable spirit. With each victory, his weaknesses, greed, and distractions dissolved into oblivion. He pledged to offer his soul and life at the feet of the Aeon of Beauty. The profane words of the Triple Demons resembled fragmented ravings, morphing into manifestations of human desires. They embodied the crass pursuit of personal gain, shameless indulgence in sin, the allure of power, and the enticement of battle and worldly pleasures.
Blade, a tall man with long dark hair and in a red coat, looks at Welt
Screenshot from Yukong's Companion Mission. She is pictured here talking to her daughter, Qingni. Her dialogue: If crushing our enemies was as easy as breathing for the Reignbow Arbiter, then what purpose did our sacrifices serve?
Excerpt from "Envisioning the shôjo Aesthetic in Miyazawa Kenji's 'The Twin Stars' and 'Night of the Milky Way Railway'". Basically Miyazawa might have read Nobuko Yoshiya's "Flower Tales", the origin of all schoolgirl yuri
Description of the City of Converging Stars relics set: The media moguls wanted to keep their department sizes right at the sweet spot on the profit margin curve, breaking down creativity into metrics they could measure and evaluate. One employee let slip that in the narrative database, you'd find tragedy plot points that could make even a Mourning Actor weep, and comedic formulas that'd have a Masked Fool doubled over with laughter. All of it is fed into an algorithm that's adjusted in real-time based on every micro-expression from the audience, ensuring maximum viewership ratings. There's no denying it. Under the IPC's powerful operations, many cosmic superstars have risen to fame from this very place. It's a dream factory for stardom, drawing wave after wave of young people chasing their dreams, giving their youth to their aspirations. The tower's lights never go out. It's a clock hand forever pointing to midnight. Just as the first line of the Astropolis Employee Handbook reads: Humanity's hunger for entertainment knows no boundaries.
Himeko's and Trailblazer's (pictured Stelle) conversation on Herta Space Station. Himeko says "Who exactly you are escapes me, but you seem familiar to me"
Himeko's dialogue during the recording of her conversation with Asat Pramad. Chinese text: 列车的伙伴...我认可的那些孩子们，也不会逃避。 English translation: My Astral Express companions, the kids I uphold, wouldn't run away either
Screenshot from Kafka's companion mission. When asked "who are you?", she looks away and lies: "The old me? I used to be a Knight of Beauty."
Art of the Light Cone: "This Is Me!". Himeko is brushing March's hair while she points her phone at the mirror
Himeko from the "Your Ending, My Beginning" animated short. Her eyes are covered by her hair and rain trickles down her face
Screenshot from the Honkai Star Rail 2nd Anniversary animated PV. Kafka and Himeko appear to be talking over a game of chess, while Caelus's body floats in the background outside of the Astral Express
Two IPC guards confront Nihilux while Trailblazer and Graphia watch. Bodyguard B says: "No way are you running away and taking our jobs with you. Good thing this kind lady spotted where you were headed, you might've slipped away for real"
Trailblazer from the A-door side quest: Whether you're from the past, the future, or an imagenated version of me...Draw the curtains, and let's each return to our own timelines.
An older red haired lady carries her younger self into a train. Caption reads: "Your flames ignited the Express's engine"
Description from the new Himeko animated short: I often dream of the end of that Phantasmoon Games. If you had been the one to survive back then... You'd be far more impressive than I am now. Motoko, I'm home.
Cover of the book: "By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga"
English Translation: Perhaps Himeko will go to the unpredictable stage of destiny
Screenshot of Himeko talking about her nightmares to Ryusuke in the 4.1 Trailblaze quest
Excerpt from Nobuko Anan's article "Two-Dimensional Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Performance" on the Takarazuka Revue adaptation of "Gone With the Wind"
Book cover of "A History of the Takarazuka Revue Since 1914"
Left: a Hungarian hussar charging on horseback, Right: Himeko Nova's military jacket cape
A scene from an anime movie where a girl's current self and 2 past selves watch as an engine on a train starts to ignite
Motoko is a female Japanese name that means "origin child"
Tabby cat stares up at a desktop monitor that has a picture of a bandaged anime man and a red-haired beauty from Honkai Star Rail