Kinoko Nasu — the mastermind behind Fate and the entire Type-Moon universe — is going to sit down for a conversation with the producer of Honkai: Star Rail. And when this news hit NGA, the community's first instinct wasn't excitement. It was mass surrender. When even the spiritual leader of Type-Moon fans (月丑, moon otaku) starts accepting interview requests from miHoYo, you know the timeline has shifted.
The most upvoted comment came from a user with lethal comedic timing, who preemptively wrote B站 (Bilibili) clickbait titles for the upcoming interview: 'While FGO fans are lining up at a domestic FGO-only convention, the leader of the moon otaku has already accepted miHoYo's interview.' Other users piled on with praise — 'Amazing headline, come work at our shock-value news department tomorrow' — while another admitted with a hint of jealousy: 'I envy your talent.'
Another top comment cut straight to the heart of the matter: 'This right here is a meeting between the old meta king and the new meta king. Sharing tips on how to better serve as the benchmark for gacha games?' In Chinese gacha gaming culture, 拐 (guǎi, literally 'crutch') refers to the game everyone else gets compared to — the genre-defining benchmark. FGO was once the undisputed 拐 for story-driven gacha games, while Honkai: Star Rail now holds that title for the turn-based RPG subgenre. Two '拐 kings' sitting down for a chat? It's basically the Emei Mountain summit of gacha.
One sharp commenter even compiled HSR's 'commercial flattery timeline': before launch, a talk with Falcom's Trails series — 'turn-based combat that only borrowed the ultimate-skill queue system'; at launch, a talk with Atlus's Persona series, where director Katsura Hashino was accused of pure 'mutual marketing flattery'; and now Type-Moon — 'I guess the writing only learned from Type-Moon Heavy Industries (a meme about Type-Moon's notoriously dense prose).' Three cross-promotional talks later, and players have mapped out HSR's entire 'lineage of inspiration.'
Not everyone was in a humorous mood, though. Some users took a more hostile angle, sarcastically asking 'Is HSR getting Nasu to do PR because it's been falling off the charts? Why not use Genshin Impact instead?' — implying the game's revenue ranking was slipping. That said, the comment felt more like agenda-posting than genuine criticism.
One user tried to bring some rationality to the chaos, analyzing: 'At its core, this is the HSR producer using company money to fanboy, while both sides get publicity out of it. Given how popular Type-Moon is in Japan, you don't need me to spell out who's really getting the credibility boost here.' But they also added: 'I genuinely think some people who want to leech off Type-Moon's prestige while simultaneously looking down on it are about to get real salty.' That last bit was apparently too real — it got downvoted, and even the OP commented in disbelief: 'Don't tell me this actually hit a nerve.'
Some Type-Moon loyalists tried to preemptively cope by noting that 'Nasu has said he plays both good games AND trash games' — so even if he praises HSR, don't read too much into it. Others were more concerned about the format: 'Is this interview text-only? Because if it's on camera, the elusive Kinoko-sensei would actually have to show his face' — a reference to how famously reclusive the Type-Moon writer is.
All in all, the NGA reaction to this news was less of a discussion and more of a collective performance art piece — mass surrenders, meme compilations, and passive-aggressive takes all coexisting in the same thread. But one thing everyone seemed to silently agree on: when Kinoko Nasu himself is willing to sit down and chat with you, Honkai: Star Rail's status in the turn-based RPG space has been officially legitimized, at least commercially. Whether this is a 'mutual appreciation' moment or just 'company-funded fanboying' — well, that's for each reader to decide.
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