Onmyoji's Susanoo Back From the Dead After Just Months While Arakawa Still Rotting Since 2019 — Double Standard Storywriting Sets Community Ablaze

One character gets resurrected after being dead for mere months, while another has been dead for over four years with 0% revival progress — welcome to Onmyoji's idea of "fair" storywriting.

In December 2023, Onmyoji's latest event storyline dropped a bombshell: the popular gacha character Susanoo — last year's top pick in the annual character popularity contest (崽战) — is seemingly about to be brought back to life. The original post included a screenshot from the new event story, hinting at a resurrection arc.

But instead of celebration, the comment section turned into a mass coping session. One returning player fired back: "So this 'popular' character only died a few months ago? Is he coming back this fast because he's the biological father of Zen (NetEase's Onmyoji studio)?"

Veteran players dug up the real tea. Back in 2019, Lord Arakawa (荒川之主) died a heroic death defending his homeland against an invader. And that invader? He offed himself, and his family swooped in to revive him almost instantly — the classic "I'll take all the sin on myself" cop-out followed by an immediate undo. Meanwhile, Arakawa's been left with nothing but a successor character who occasionally shows up to sell skins, endlessly repeating "I will definitely bring you back" — and as of late 2023, that revival progress is still sitting at a fat 0%.

Players nailed the irony in one-liners: "Arakawa's been dead longer than he was alive." "Lord Arakawa — his death timer has officially exceeded his lifespan."

The soul-crushing questions kept coming: "Both are sea otter characters, Arakawa how did you fall off this hard?" "What does this have to do with Goldfish Princess — this is all Onmyoji devs' fault." "Wait, Arakawa STILL isn't back? The Sea Kingdom arc was ages ago — they can't even throw him a bone?"

Players also brought up Ōtakemaru (大岳丸), another dead character who's basically been stuck in purgatory for 9+ months — like an "earth-bound spirit" that never fully passed on. Yet Susanoo, dead for a fraction of the time, gets priority resurrection. An Arakawa stan summed up the despair: "Arakawa fans enter this thread just to get traumatized again — it's been four years, devs, let him rest in peace. He wasn't even allowed to ENTER the resurrection tournament."

Others roasted Susanoo's hype credentials: "Isn't this the most underwhelming winner of the popularity poll ever? Revenue wasn't even top for the year, but hey, let's aim for being the first 'white moonlight' (beloved dead character) to come back."

The post also flagged a hilariously dark detail — Susanoo's storyline is connected to Seimei's (the protagonist's) mother. A player posted the evidence with the comment: "PSA: this character is literally selling Seimei's mom. The devs are going to hell for this one."

One final comment captured the community's sentiment perfectly: "The new Goldfish Princess skin just released and she's STILL talking about reuniting with Arakawa in the story. I love Goldfish and Arakawa, but the Onmyoji devs genuinely enjoy tormenting their players." Arakawa's lover is still waiting for him to come back while Susanoo — dead for a fraction of the time — is already getting his resurrection arc set up in the new content. This level of double-dealing might just be the final straw for veteran players.