User:The Kou

General Information
Hello, I'm Kou,

I am recently doing fan translations for fun. But I just do translations, and no fansubs nor scanlations, as these would require me to infringe some copyrights by using (visual) material I don't own. Meanwhile translating itself only serves the purpose of making Japanese content accessible to a larger non-japanese community, and this without involving any copyright issues.

Besides working on the translations for Kirara Fantasia here on this wiki, I also translate the monthly drama skits of Love Live Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukou-kai (these translations can be found in the comment section of each respective official video).

As I am not a native speaker of the english language, there might be some grammar or other issues, so feel free to correct any mistakes in my translations; sorry and thanks for that.

では、よろしくお願いします m(_ _)m

Other Information
-Fan of Kusunoki Tomori, also known as Tomoriru;

-Enforcer of Yuuki Setsuna's wish to create a world where no-one needs to hesitate about stating what they love;

-Trademark 1: my icon that is a blue name badge bought at Sensou-ji, Asakusa; whenever you see this on some social media, it's probably me;

-Trademark 2: this emoticon: ( ・ω<)⌒☆ which originates from Tomoriru's performance during Nijigasaki's Kounai Matching Festival; I use this emoticon as my sign on all translations (there, you can click on the star to get to this page here).

Translations I am currently working on
-Cross Scenarios (on hold after Main Story is finished)

-Event Quest: Sansha Sanyou's Casual Trip (on hold after Main Story is finished)

- Main Quest Chapter 1 (finished)

- Main Quest Chapter 2 (finished)

- Main Quest Chapter 3 (finished)

- Main Quest Chapter 4 (finished)

-Main Quest Chapter 5 (coming soon?)

-Main Quest Chapter 6

Progression of Wiki Overhaul
I intend to write detailed explanations of all major screens of KiraFan, so everyone knows a) how to access each and every screen, b) what information are displayed in each and every screen, and c) what controls are there at each and every screen.

To do so, I want to write a List of all Screens, from where you can get to all other screens with above explanations.

The list would be like this:
 * Title Screen
 * Loading Screen


 * Notification Screen
 * Home Screen
 * Town Screen (finished)
 * Main Menu (and User Interface)


 * Quest Selection Screen
 * Battle Screen
 * Missions (finished)
 * Training (finished)
 * Summon
 * Party Editor
 * Support Party Editor
 * Kirara Skill Selection Screen
 * Character Enhancement Screen
 * Ability Tree Screen (finished)
 * Shop Selection Screen
 * Trade Shop (finished)
 * Blacksmith
 * Architecture
 * Crea Craft (finished)
 * Creamate Comm (finished)
 * Room
 * Library
 * Presents
 * Settings
 * Friend List

My recommended strategy of proceeding the game
Many players seem to have one of these questions:
 * I've got a ticket to select a 5* character. Who should I choose?
 * What character shall I level up first? What Limit Break Item should I get first?
 * What Banners should I spend my Starlight Stones on first?

While people's opinions may differ greatly, I want to state my recommended strategy here:

First of all, there are likely only two measures you can choose from to decide on which character to get first; you can:
 * choose by efficiency, or
 * choose by preference.

If you choose your characters by preference, there is nothing I can tell you. Just select those characters you like the most, or complete your collection of characters from the series you like the most and that's it. That's not what I want to comment on. (Oh but actually, I recommend to not choose characters by preference from the very beginning but to wait for some while. See below for details.)

I want to comment on the other measure, on the case when you choose your characters by efficiency: Efficiency here means to beat hard Quests easily (even as a beginner). And to beat means to get all rewards for beating a hard Quest.

Now most hard Quests require you to perfectly beat the Quest, meaning to have all party members survive and get three crowns. This is the case for all Boss Quests of the Main Story, for all Weekend Bosses as well as for Ticket Quests during Events (it isn't the case for EX Bosses though).

So to perfectly clear such a Quest, I think you basically need to clear the following 2 conditions:
 * You need to have enough offensive power to actually defeat the enemy.
 * You need to have enough defensive power to survive until you defeat the enemy.

While some people tend to focus on the former condition, which results in recommending strong warrior units like 5* Karen, my claim is to focus on the latter condition of strengthening your defensive power.

Why do I want to recommend this: Well, regardless of how strong your own characters are, there is more likely someone out there who has a stronger version of the exact same character than you. Skill level, level of the personal weapon and its skills, and last but not least, the number of awakenings - all these aspects can be excelled by others unless you are an extremely excessive player yourself.

So the condition of having a sufficient offensive power can be met simply by choosing the strongest character out there for support. It should be mentioned here that this only works because the offensive is only needed to deal the finishing blow, which only takes a few turns.

On the other hand you can't clear the condition of surviving if you choose a strong defensive character for support, as even the strongest defense will then disappear after 5 turns at most. So to clear this condition, I recommend to gather a solid defensive party of 1 or 2 knights coupled with 1 or 2 priests. Highly recommended knights are 5* Chiya and 5* Hanako, and highly recommended priests are 5* Yuno and 5* Yuki.

Once you obtained this party with solid defensive powers, which should enable you to take on most of the hard Quests, you can use all your time to focus on your own offensive units, or you can start focussing on the characters you like. (This is why I don't recommend choosing characters by preference from the start.)

In my opinion, starting with a solid defense should be the very first step, everything else can wait for this step to be cleared, as getting a solid party of 5 characters together shouldn't take that long.

Note: There are some rare cases, where a Quest might not be beatable even if you chose the strongest offensive character out there, because the offensive power didn't suffice, or because you need two different elements. I need to admit that in these cases my strategy doesn't help.

I myself fair quite well with this strategy, so I can definitely recommend this. But as people's tastes differ (as stated above), it's up to you to choose what strategy to use. For example, if you prefer beating Quests quickly, this strategy is not recommendable, as a high defensive power results in Quests taking relatively long.

Some random KiraFan stats (as of 31 March 2020)
-There are 28 Kirara series implemented into the game, plus KiraFan itself as a 29th series.

-There is a total of 162 characters in the game. This amounts to 35640 Starlight Stones for leveling everyone's bonds.

-Disregarding the Etoilium available via doing Step-Up-Banners and those that are rarely dropped at Ticket Quests of Author Scenarios, the maximum amount of Etoilium available is 208, which is 2 short of getting 10 exclusive weapons to evo4.