The Steely Maria

I generally liked the Nakadashi's shenanigans here, but Yuni somewhat carried here.
Wish Maria had more interactions with the Nakadashis.
Didn't like how Shinobu's contribution was mostly off-screened
Might be surprising coming from me, but I liked Mifuyu's role here.
I liked how Nozomi pushed the Nakadashi's

Difficulty

Why is this story so goddamn long?
Understood everything, but I used Yomitan more than I liked.

Translation Differences

Accurately translated.
I mostly talk about how the furigana in the title here.

The Story Itself

The sports festival are coming up, and the Mother coerces the Nakadashis to participate by dangling their scholarship in front of them. On the other hand, Nakadashi-bu isn't officially registered as an extracurricular, and so, the student council wants them gone. After some bickering, the two parties agree that if Nakadashi-bu wins, they get to stay. And so, starts Nakadashi's struggle to prove their feminine charms in the festival...

Yuni

Probably my favorite character here. At one point of the story, the Nakadashis decide to look around the research posted for the festival. Yuni being Yuni is the one most attentive here. She criticized the first research she sees because it took a sociology approach instead of a scientific approach and gave it like 30 points. The second research...is straight up plagiarized, and so, Yuni gave it 8 points. I assume these points are out of 100. Funny that plagiarism still nets 8 points and not straight up 0.

EIGHT POINTS

The second thing Yuni "did" was submit her clay model of the Nakadashis to the art exhibit. The Nakadashis express disdain because the event managers put Yuni's artwork after exit of the room, which means most people won't see it. And because the fact that clay model itself is horrendous. However, a pack of maniacs arrive, see it, and absolutely clamors over it, much to Yuni's delight. This clay model eventually comes to life somehow and becomes the boss of the event later.

good tastes

Not much to say about Yuni's contribution in this event other than "huh, it's really Yuni". IMO, it's very simple, but it really gets across the idea of who Yuni is really well.

Chloe

The story went for a completely different approach here and goes for the gap moe. After the track race, some of Chloe's fans approach her and ask for help because one of their members sprained her ankle or something and couldn't participate. Chloe assumes they wanted her to sub in their friends for the track race...only for her to find out they were talking about the maid cafe. Chloe objects, but her fans never did say it was about the track race.

suteki indeed

Again, really obvious what the story is going for here. Scary girl wears cute outfit, gap moe.

Chieru

Unless I missed it, I don't think Chloe did anything in this event other than drool over Nozomi. I guess you could argue she's the loudest when arguing with Maria, but eh. She's just loud. The only "meaningful" interaction Maria had was with Chloe where the latter asked if the former thinks she's doing the right thing. And also because the former is secretly fangirling on the latter...

abababa

Maria

Most of her interactions with the Nakadashis boiled down to this:

acknowledge us
no

After that most of Maria's screentime is her scheming with the student council. She really only jumps into the field at the final track race.

Sounds like a bad thing, but I like that her pulling the strings from the shadow having visible effects of the Nakadashis, like that time during the art exhibit where Yuni's clay was intentionally opressed.

Shinobu

There are no rules stating that outsider help isn't allowed, and so, Nakadashi's opposition exploits this fact and hires Shinobu to open a fortune-telling booth.

I like the interactions between Skulldaddy and the Nakadashis, the part that I don't like is that you don't really see him actually do the fortune telling. After some sexual harassment from Skulldaddy, the story smash cuts into Nakadashi having much lower points than their opposition.

I guess they were going for the shock factor of the Nakadashis being steamrolled by Shinobu, but I think the story would've benefitted if they just showed a tiny bit of Skulldaddy actually fortune telling on screen. It doesn't have to be complicated or even serious at all. Say, Skulldaddy could look into the future how busty a girl will get and that would be enough for me.

Mifuyu

The Nakadashis decide to fight fire with fire and hire Mifuyu for their final race track to replace Yuni. Yuni uses Rosetta to replace Mifuyu's face with a projection of herself to trick others.

I suppose the credit goes to Yuni here, and not Mifuyu...but my favorite part is where the commentator commented that Yuni is running as if she's a completely different person. Maria comments...

that's because it is!!!

yuni hasn't skipped leg day

Nozomi

Doesn't do much here, and not much to say here. I just like how Nozomi pushed the Nakadashis into the spotlight, much to the MC's (Master of Ceremonies, not Main Character) dismay.

wtf don't just move the event yourself

And honestly, I'll never get tired of this trope:

okay, here comes our song, muteki dreaming!
ED plays

Official EN Translation: Supreme Dreaming

This is my 3rd time seeing the story pull of this stunt, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of it.

Difficulty

This event has 1681 voiced lines. That's slightly longer than Dive Astrum, what the hell!?

While I pretty much understood everything, there are times where I just held shift and dragged my mouse across Yuni's lines to understand them, lol. Still understood them in the end, but I didn't like how reliant I was on Yomichan when reading this event.

Translation Differences

Sometimes I wonder why people ignore the furigana in event titles. I think the EN patch translates this event as The Saint of Steel and the Heretics of the Sacred School. It's technically correct, but the game itself already gives you the "proper" words, so why not just use that?

logo

See that those little マリア and リセエンヌ? Those literally say Maria and Lycéenne. Ma-ri-a and Ri-sen-nu. They're there to give you context. 聖女 is saint. Who's the saint? Oh, it's Maria. As for 異端児, it's a bit funky. The word really does mean maverick/nonconformist, yet lycéennes just mean (female) high schoolers. In this case, just put the two together. High schoolers who are nonconformists. It's basically just a roundabout way to refer to the Nakadashis.

And that's it for now. See ya on the next one.

yunichanzu

I acknowledge the legitimacy of the Yunichanz guild.

tl;dr

The Story Itself

Difficulty

Translation Differences