Princess Connect 6th Anniversary Adds Villain Boss Eris to Gacha Pool — Players React: 'How Is This Even Gossip?'

Is a villain boss joining the gacha pool considered gossip? In the Princess Connect Re:Dive (PCR) community, the answer is a resounding 'nope.' The OP excitedly dropped what they called a 'small scoop' — claiming that Eris, the main villain boss from PCR's Story Arc 2, would be added to the playable roster during the game's 6th anniversary. They even attached a character screenshot, clearly expecting the revelation to blow up. What followed instead was one of the most spectacular anti-climaxes in NGA history.

The OP's theory was that PCR has an unwritten rule: any female character who appears in the main story with a unique illustration and voice actor will eventually become playable. Eris, they argued, fits this pattern perfectly. But this 'discovery' failed to impress anyone.

The comment section was almost unanimously bewildered. One player asked flatly, 'Is there literally anything weird about a boss becoming playable?' Another quipped, 'This is considered gossip? The bar is absurdly low.' The top-voted reply from Floor 7 was perhaps the most devastating: 'This time it's confirmed... and THIS is what counts as gossip now?' — dripping with exasperation.

Players in the comments quickly deployed much stronger counterexamples. Patatato Misaki (nicknamed '8-Bamboo' for her scheming ways) was already made into an EX-rank unit available for exchange. Miku, infamous for going full assault-rifle mode on a school campus, had already entered the FES gacha pool. Compared to these two, Eris's 'villain' status is practically benign. As multiple commenters pointed out, Eris's real identity isn't 'big bad boss' — it's 'the ultimate protagonist simp,' a devoted single-target stan (单推人) of the main character. Of course she belongs in the gacha pool.

Floor 3 nailed it: 'Frankly, what's weird about a character who's literally the protagonist's biggest fan joining the roster? If anything, she's overdue.' Floor 4 took a more humorous angle: 'The men who rejected me already got turned into playable characters — is it really that outrageous for a girl who likes me to join the pool?' The implication being: if male villains can be playable, why not a female simp?

Some players used the thread as an opportunity to voice their own wishlist: 'I'm still waiting for Black Cat Fist and Black Sword Saint to become playable,' and 'I wish every game would let villains join the gacha pool — free would be fine too. Having such great character designs and not letting players use them is criminal.' Clearly, in PCR's community, villain-ification isn't a controversy — it's a feature.

Worth noting: several commenters referenced past dramas that were actually controversial. 'Eris joining the pool isn't half as controversial as when Misaki became playable,' one wrote. Others pointed to Patatato Misaki's EX-rank debut as a far bigger talking point. By comparison, an 'ultimate simp' boss entering the pool barely registers. One commenter even said 'this isn't as juicy as the female fist gesture illustration controversy,' redirecting the conversation to entirely different drama.

In the end, this might be the most spectacularly flopped scoop on NGA — the OP carefully prepared a gossip bomb only to have the entire comment section disarm it with a collective 'that's it?' But looking at it from another angle, it says something positive about PCR's playerbase: they've become so accepting of the game's content direction that villains, bosses, whoever — if the character looks good, just throw them in the pool. No drama required.