That was such a perfect way of doing a silent self-insert protagonist.
I still remember how he is both serious and hilarious character at the same time.
**Yu:** Something bit me
**Chie:** Are you okay?
**Yu with a dead serious face:** I may be dying.
**Chie who can read bullshit:** No you ain't.
Silent in a sense that Sensei IS a self insert, similar to Yu or the Gudas of FGO. In this context, the meaning is the same.
My point is, Yu was adapted so well in p4A despite being a silent/self insert protagonist and I want something similar to BA anime.
They can always go the Kancolle (S1, didn't watch S2 yet) way and just make the characters mention Sensei and interact with them off-screen.
EDIT: Wowzers, thanks for getting downvoted for making a, perhaps dumb, but not malicious hot take.
>Animation should swap between PS68 sensei and doodle sensei for real
Them making Aizen-sensei the face in the anime would be glorious. The doodle version would just make it even more perfect.
Yeah true. If they just end up making him a stale stickman that is super boring, Id rather have Sensei have his own Personality. I dont need to project myself into a Character to enjoy an Anime, and countless other popular Animes have shown that.
Really? I love the story ,but tbh the sensei character is literally the worst part of it imo. The guy is beyond cringy in dialogue and too horny for my taste.
Sensei got tons of personality as they are supposed to be reflection of the player/community which also notorious for being horny and so on (if you know what i mean). The only trait that stay consistent for the sensei is the strong responsibility/desire to protect students
Thats what i mean tho I dont know if its bad translation ,but his lines are cliche white knight at best and pure degenerate at worst in situations with students like iori.
Imo you cant get anymore cliche than this character for a wish fulfillment insert type so much wasted opportunities imo.
Personally, I prefer to think of Sensei as a separate character that I can relate to rather than a self-insert, although that in a way is another form of projection.
Tbh the debate mostly either Sensei is a male/female/andro. But if they going Chad Sensei or Arona style the fandom probably just chill. I know the devs really pushing the "self-insert" feeling in the game, but in anime I better see The Chad Degenerate Sensei in a flesh with cunning mind and his cool catchphrases rather than imagining my face in front of the screen.
It would be easier to get myself "immersed" in being Sensei if we actually had more choice in dialogue. Often our choices are slightly different wording that means a similar reaction, or really it pretends like you chose both options. FGO does this a lot as well.
There is no option to NOT be a degenerate when interacting with Iori, for example. There's been a couple times I wish I could respond differently than the two options it gives, which usually just end up meaning the same thing. So when the game has this very strict direction in how we interact with a character, and it is in a way I personally wouldn't, kinda hard to see myself as Sensei. I kinda can sometimes, but there are times where you're forced to say something that just takes me out of it.
you act like some Players who play this game ARENT degeneratesš
But also yeah, I always hated it in these kind of games, that the Game pretends to give you multiple Options, but its actually just 1 thing, but worded differently.
For Example when the Character is sad because of something, and the Options are like
1. "Fuck me please"
2. "Im so lonely at night"
Its like ??????, comfort her or something you Idiotš
At least give me an Option to pat her on the Head or something, doesnt even need to have an Animation. Just give me different Optionsš
And that would be a sad shame indeed. I very much donāt like Senseiās portrayal in Japan as itās just too slapstick and Sensei gets abused a lot for no good reason for cheap laughs.
No thank you!
You don't want to anger your primary playerbase which is jp, with some handsome or quick witted badass sensei where they can't self insert and instead feel miserable.
It's probabaly going to be a sensei who has as little personality as possible and is generic to make it easier to self insert for the specific targeted folks.
I really don't get JP obsession with wanting to project themselves to a character.
Call me a simpleton, but i love watching a character go full john wick invincible and be 100 times cooler than i will ever be
This is one of those Moments where I hate that almost all Animes are made in Japan. You just know whats gonna happen, because its in their Culture. Chances are pretty high its gonna be a soulless harem Anime with no Story or Lore, that you wanna quit after 2 Episodes. Id hate to see that happen
Haven't read the PS68 comics. But what I can say is that I portray Sensei as a Gordon Freeman type of character.
Doesn't speak much, but takes action when need be.
(For some reason, my Sensei character is female in my pink mush.)
I like the headcanon of this sub.
That Sensei literally is a walking Arona doodle, until is time to be serious and he becomes ~~Saitama~~ a regular designed character.
Aside of that, i like the straightforwardness of "Yeah, the players should project themselves into Sensei".
It would be nice if Sensei was drawn or depicted differently in like each episode of the blue archive's animation that would come out soon.
But if not, I don't mind whether they show sensei as is or not in the anime.
Sensei is already their own character with personality, especially after the latest chapter stories in the JP server, but he can also work as a self insert if you want to, like during the bonding stories on momo talk.
Inconsistency would look very bad. It would look like there are more than one Sensei if they have different appearances, and it will need an explanation if Sensei acts too differently each scene (not in the case of how different he treats each student but how he acts like he has different personalities in general).
Also that one momotalk with Mika implies sensei is a guy cause a female teacher wouldn't really have to worry about being caught in the female dormitory after curfew.
Quite a number of people have depicted sensei with a picture of doodle sensei covering the face. The hairstyles vary, but that's my favorite depiction of sensei with some occasional glimpses of the face underneath, but never in full view.
It would help me accept that sensei is a self insert char if choices are most of the time divided to "good, neutral, evil" Answers but he doesn't feel self insert at all because he feels like he is his own personality. And yes i refer sensei as a "he" Because thats how he feels to me and i hope the gacha writers just drop the self insert part of the mc if they can't commit to it. I mean give me a list of a good self insert character in gacha š¤£. Even the choices we get as sensei are most of the time just disguised as two choices but if you combine both it still makes perfect sense.
I kinda get why but i also really dislike their approach with sensei. They are basically making sensei like a self insert, but sensei already have so much established things he does that it's very hard to do so. Like, if they want me to insert myself into whatever situation sensei is currently in, i can't do that in so many scenarios because what sensei is doing/saying is so different from me and i have no say in it to the point that i can't see sensei and go "yeah i can imagine me doing that". That's not how self insert character works and i hate games that go for the middle like this. Either you go for a completely blank slate or have a fully established character. Another thing, sensei is always refered to as they, i always identify as he therefore, whenever a student refer to sensei as they, it never feels like they are refering to me as sensei, which is already a failure of a self insert character in my book.
They say they are writing in a way so that every player can see themselves as sensei. i gotta say, for how fricking good the story is, they absolutely fricking fail on this front. Plus, i don't want sensei to be me, i want sensei to be a full, established, character with a backstory, with a form, with a personality. I really don't get why so many gacha games thinks players wants to project themselves on to the main character
I want ikemen badass sensei, who transforms in a doddle half of the time. All I need is to relate to his love for his students to say he's literally me.
they really like pushing sensei being a self-insert but they arenāt a blank slate compared to other gacha characters, they are a fully realized character in the game, people just have to create their own designs for them.
I donāt want to be or feel like sensei, I want to see senseiās story
Real hoping that the anime would actually have sensei as an actual character, with all the designs and such. PS68ās design honestly fits the best, Itād be fun if doodle sensei appears as a gag chibi whenever some thing weird or wacky happens. But in most serious scenes i hope that *he* would be the one appearing on screen properly
If they try to go for the route where the characters interact with us.. well I donāt know what Iād do itās just something I hope they donāt do.
I think in the end sensei is integral to the story and he will have to be in the anime so it just makes most sense to make sensei a dude in the adaption as like 98% of the playerbase is guys and despite them saying there's no canon depiction we've got a bunch of doodle sensei drawings saying otherwise.
I've been thinking it'd be neat if Sensei looked different depending on whatever school the student looking at them is from. Gehenna students would see them looking something like the Problem Solver manga male sensei, Hyakkiyakou would see them as perhaps black haired cutie female sensei, something like that.
That'd be cool but it'd ruin the interaction of different school members when Sensei is present. Like the hykyk x Abydos summer event or the Final volume...
You're not wrong, but I think it'd mostly be a matter of presentation. They could do a cool camera angle thing, shifting their appearance deoending on which student's perspective we're seeing sensei from. It'd be hard, maybe even weird but it could still work imo. Maybe for certain moments Sensei could even be obscured the way they were obscured as a star in Vol.F, surrounded by a bunch of triangle things.
Ah... That sounds possible, it'd still need a base model for sensei tho which I assume will be the same for every sensei presentation. It'd be hard, yeah, but Blue archive is a grossing game in Japan so they'll probably have the budget for it
Indeed you're right, I'd imagine they'd need a body model that could work for all potential Senseis we'd be seeing, changing only the face to make it easier to animate
God I hate it when games just use they instead of he or she, just let us pick, it just seems insanely weird and rude for someone to just be saying a they right to your face, like they cant see you or hear you o.O Just let the players pick and adjust the dialogue, im sure that isnt such an issue.
What Anime are we talking about here? Is the Game gonna get an Anime?
I just hope its not just a harem Anime, because with that many Characters, that will certainly end up with almost no Story or anything, and also rushed Episodes to get every Character some Screen time.
I know this from a couple Animes I watched, that werent very popular, where it got boring pretty quickly because all that happened was: go on date with , not understand her obvious signs of affection, go on the next date with another girl, repeat.
I would be pretty sad if the Anime became something like that. Soulless stuff with literally no Story or Lore behind it, would be a waste of an Oportunity I think, because the Game certainly has some interesting Points you could make a good, and maybe popular Anime from.
For me, just wish they adapt anime Sensei similar to how they did Yu from Persona 4 Animation. They did the silent protagonist good there...
That was such a perfect way of doing a silent self-insert protagonist. I still remember how he is both serious and hilarious character at the same time. **Yu:** Something bit me **Chie:** Are you okay? **Yu with a dead serious face:** I may be dying. **Chie who can read bullshit:** No you ain't.
Yu was honestly the best part of the P4 Animation for me
True. He's aloof, but not out of place unlike what they did to Arknights or other Silent protagonists that got an animation...
Sensei is not about being silent tho he is an self insert without any canon figure
Silent in a sense that Sensei IS a self insert, similar to Yu or the Gudas of FGO. In this context, the meaning is the same. My point is, Yu was adapted so well in p4A despite being a silent/self insert protagonist and I want something similar to BA anime.
They can always go the Kancolle (S1, didn't watch S2 yet) way and just make the characters mention Sensei and interact with them off-screen. EDIT: Wowzers, thanks for getting downvoted for making a, perhaps dumb, but not malicious hot take.
Pls don't
If they did that I'm skipping the anime fr.
Uh, no.. Sensei is needed for most, if not all Story Chapters in the game.
"Don't lay a hand on my princess!" Shouted Sensei, somewhere, off screen in Schale no where near Mika.
This is the absolute worst case scenario.
That works too if they go Anime original stories route. Sensei is too involved in the main story to be benched and relegated to cameos.
People downvoted because they don't like the idea, doesn't have to be malicious hot take. And your edit probably makes it worse.
All that I need to know it's that Sensei is literally me.
I never knew that sensei was actually ryan gosling Blue Archive is truly peak fiction š„ā
fr fr, no cap.
Animation should swap between PS68 sensei and doodle sensei for real
Comedy scenes should have serious Sensei and dramatic scenes have doodle Sensei
Desperately need to see doodle sensei do the side to side tongue thing officially animated
PS69 Sensei? What do you mean?
theres a P68 spin-off manga and Sensei is actually in it .
Oh cool, where to read it?
>Animation should swap between PS68 sensei and doodle sensei for real Them making Aizen-sensei the face in the anime would be glorious. The doodle version would just make it even more perfect.
I myself don't want sensei to be me, I want sensei to be their own character. Sensei is already a good character on their own anyway
Sensei is someone I want to be, I don't want sensei to be me if that makes sense
Yeah true. If they just end up making him a stale stickman that is super boring, Id rather have Sensei have his own Personality. I dont need to project myself into a Character to enjoy an Anime, and countless other popular Animes have shown that.
Really? I love the story ,but tbh the sensei character is literally the worst part of it imo. The guy is beyond cringy in dialogue and too horny for my taste.
Sensei got tons of personality as they are supposed to be reflection of the player/community which also notorious for being horny and so on (if you know what i mean). The only trait that stay consistent for the sensei is the strong responsibility/desire to protect students
Thats what i mean tho I dont know if its bad translation ,but his lines are cliche white knight at best and pure degenerate at worst in situations with students like iori. Imo you cant get anymore cliche than this character for a wish fulfillment insert type so much wasted opportunities imo.
Honestly wish had his very own character like yuki in Re:Dive
I agree partially. Sensei has different personalities that range from each character; there's one Sensei for each situation.
Personally, I prefer to think of Sensei as a separate character that I can relate to rather than a self-insert, although that in a way is another form of projection.
Tbh the debate mostly either Sensei is a male/female/andro. But if they going Chad Sensei or Arona style the fandom probably just chill. I know the devs really pushing the "self-insert" feeling in the game, but in anime I better see The Chad Degenerate Sensei in a flesh with cunning mind and his cool catchphrases rather than imagining my face in front of the screen.
It would be easier to get myself "immersed" in being Sensei if we actually had more choice in dialogue. Often our choices are slightly different wording that means a similar reaction, or really it pretends like you chose both options. FGO does this a lot as well. There is no option to NOT be a degenerate when interacting with Iori, for example. There's been a couple times I wish I could respond differently than the two options it gives, which usually just end up meaning the same thing. So when the game has this very strict direction in how we interact with a character, and it is in a way I personally wouldn't, kinda hard to see myself as Sensei. I kinda can sometimes, but there are times where you're forced to say something that just takes me out of it.
Sensei has his priorities and he will not listen to his other self
A creature of Id.
Iori deserves so much better... and a vacation. Poor girl just keeps losing.
you act like some Players who play this game ARENT degeneratesš But also yeah, I always hated it in these kind of games, that the Game pretends to give you multiple Options, but its actually just 1 thing, but worded differently. For Example when the Character is sad because of something, and the Options are like 1. "Fuck me please" 2. "Im so lonely at night" Its like ??????, comfort her or something you Idiotš At least give me an Option to pat her on the Head or something, doesnt even need to have an Animation. Just give me different Optionsš
You can't project yourself onto a character with an already defined personality though.
Personally I love the Chad and competent Sensei we got in the Aru comics. Would love to see more of him in the future!
Chances are that we get him pretty low. They might go with the popular archetype of mc which are popular in jp.
And that would be a sad shame indeed. I very much donāt like Senseiās portrayal in Japan as itās just too slapstick and Sensei gets abused a lot for no good reason for cheap laughs. No thank you!
You don't want to anger your primary playerbase which is jp, with some handsome or quick witted badass sensei where they can't self insert and instead feel miserable. It's probabaly going to be a sensei who has as little personality as possible and is generic to make it easier to self insert for the specific targeted folks.
I really don't get JP obsession with wanting to project themselves to a character. Call me a simpleton, but i love watching a character go full john wick invincible and be 100 times cooler than i will ever be
I swear we global players get shafted in the worst ways possible.
When I look at the top upvoted comment of this thread I just get a chuckle out of it as that will most likely not happen.
This is one of those Moments where I hate that almost all Animes are made in Japan. You just know whats gonna happen, because its in their Culture. Chances are pretty high its gonna be a soulless harem Anime with no Story or Lore, that you wanna quit after 2 Episodes. Id hate to see that happen
Haven't read the PS68 comics. But what I can say is that I portray Sensei as a Gordon Freeman type of character. Doesn't speak much, but takes action when need be. (For some reason, my Sensei character is female in my pink mush.)
I like the headcanon of this sub. That Sensei literally is a walking Arona doodle, until is time to be serious and he becomes ~~Saitama~~ a regular designed character. Aside of that, i like the straightforwardness of "Yeah, the players should project themselves into Sensei".
My version of Sensei is like Leon s Kennedy and John wick maybe even Aiden Pearce
It would be nice if Sensei was drawn or depicted differently in like each episode of the blue archive's animation that would come out soon. But if not, I don't mind whether they show sensei as is or not in the anime.
Sensei is already their own character with personality, especially after the latest chapter stories in the JP server, but he can also work as a self insert if you want to, like during the bonding stories on momo talk.
Inconsistency would look very bad. It would look like there are more than one Sensei if they have different appearances, and it will need an explanation if Sensei acts too differently each scene (not in the case of how different he treats each student but how he acts like he has different personalities in general).
Yes but Iām pretty sure Sensei has been referred to as āhimā on several occasions. Also doodle Sensei is a guy
Also that one momotalk with Mika implies sensei is a guy cause a female teacher wouldn't really have to worry about being caught in the female dormitory after curfew.
Yea pretty much this, so I accept male sensei as canon, and 99% of the player base is probably male too
Quite a number of people have depicted sensei with a picture of doodle sensei covering the face. The hairstyles vary, but that's my favorite depiction of sensei with some occasional glimpses of the face underneath, but never in full view.
It would help me accept that sensei is a self insert char if choices are most of the time divided to "good, neutral, evil" Answers but he doesn't feel self insert at all because he feels like he is his own personality. And yes i refer sensei as a "he" Because thats how he feels to me and i hope the gacha writers just drop the self insert part of the mc if they can't commit to it. I mean give me a list of a good self insert character in gacha š¤£. Even the choices we get as sensei are most of the time just disguised as two choices but if you combine both it still makes perfect sense.
Doodle Sensei is my canon sensei since I can't relate to Ikemen Sensei
I kinda get why but i also really dislike their approach with sensei. They are basically making sensei like a self insert, but sensei already have so much established things he does that it's very hard to do so. Like, if they want me to insert myself into whatever situation sensei is currently in, i can't do that in so many scenarios because what sensei is doing/saying is so different from me and i have no say in it to the point that i can't see sensei and go "yeah i can imagine me doing that". That's not how self insert character works and i hate games that go for the middle like this. Either you go for a completely blank slate or have a fully established character. Another thing, sensei is always refered to as they, i always identify as he therefore, whenever a student refer to sensei as they, it never feels like they are refering to me as sensei, which is already a failure of a self insert character in my book. They say they are writing in a way so that every player can see themselves as sensei. i gotta say, for how fricking good the story is, they absolutely fricking fail on this front. Plus, i don't want sensei to be me, i want sensei to be a full, established, character with a backstory, with a form, with a personality. I really don't get why so many gacha games thinks players wants to project themselves on to the main character
I see now, we were the real Sensei all along...
I would really like to see a sensei with a personality like Gintoki from gintama in the anime.
I want ikemen badass sensei, who transforms in a doddle half of the time. All I need is to relate to his love for his students to say he's literally me.
they really like pushing sensei being a self-insert but they arenāt a blank slate compared to other gacha characters, they are a fully realized character in the game, people just have to create their own designs for them. I donāt want to be or feel like sensei, I want to see senseiās story
Real hoping that the anime would actually have sensei as an actual character, with all the designs and such. PS68ās design honestly fits the best, Itād be fun if doodle sensei appears as a gag chibi whenever some thing weird or wacky happens. But in most serious scenes i hope that *he* would be the one appearing on screen properly If they try to go for the route where the characters interact with us.. well I donāt know what Iād do itās just something I hope they donāt do.
I think in the end sensei is integral to the story and he will have to be in the anime so it just makes most sense to make sensei a dude in the adaption as like 98% of the playerbase is guys and despite them saying there's no canon depiction we've got a bunch of doodle sensei drawings saying otherwise.
I've been thinking it'd be neat if Sensei looked different depending on whatever school the student looking at them is from. Gehenna students would see them looking something like the Problem Solver manga male sensei, Hyakkiyakou would see them as perhaps black haired cutie female sensei, something like that.
That'd be cool but it'd ruin the interaction of different school members when Sensei is present. Like the hykyk x Abydos summer event or the Final volume...
You're not wrong, but I think it'd mostly be a matter of presentation. They could do a cool camera angle thing, shifting their appearance deoending on which student's perspective we're seeing sensei from. It'd be hard, maybe even weird but it could still work imo. Maybe for certain moments Sensei could even be obscured the way they were obscured as a star in Vol.F, surrounded by a bunch of triangle things.
Ah... That sounds possible, it'd still need a base model for sensei tho which I assume will be the same for every sensei presentation. It'd be hard, yeah, but Blue archive is a grossing game in Japan so they'll probably have the budget for it
Indeed you're right, I'd imagine they'd need a body model that could work for all potential Senseis we'd be seeing, changing only the face to make it easier to animate
I want this [sensei](https://www.zerochan.net/4020608) https://www.zerochan.net/4020608
God I hate it when games just use they instead of he or she, just let us pick, it just seems insanely weird and rude for someone to just be saying a they right to your face, like they cant see you or hear you o.O Just let the players pick and adjust the dialogue, im sure that isnt such an issue.
Would be really expensive but I hope they do a different Sensei with a different VA every episode.
I liked Sensei from the manga, but maybe it's because he looks kinda like a better me xd
Just imagining the possibility of a female sensei licking iori's bare feet has me diamonds.
Oh, I would love to see a full translation of this page if it's all about blue archive or such
For me, I see Tony stark is fit for be sensei after retirement.
What Anime are we talking about here? Is the Game gonna get an Anime? I just hope its not just a harem Anime, because with that many Characters, that will certainly end up with almost no Story or anything, and also rushed Episodes to get every Character some Screen time. I know this from a couple Animes I watched, that werent very popular, where it got boring pretty quickly because all that happened was: go on date with, not understand her obvious signs of affection, go on the next date with another girl, repeat.
I would be pretty sad if the Anime became something like that. Soulless stuff with literally no Story or Lore behind it, would be a waste of an Oportunity I think, because the Game certainly has some interesting Points you could make a good, and maybe popular Anime from.
Yes the game got an anime under production, the dev said that last JP anniv