Musician (and new player?) Reacts to Honkai: Star Rail Character Trailers 

Omg the first time I see someone broke down Kafka's trailer with the literature references instead of from the music reference. And it's by a musician 🤣

the reason why acheron seems similar to raiden shogun is because they’re both expy’s (exports) of a character called mei (raiden mei) from honkai impact! hoyo does this with a few other characters too

In response to the "wasted" opportunity in Robin's trailer, often times, the reason for creative limitations in both Genshin and Star Rail trailers have to do with choices around showcasing the character. Though Star Rail trailers have less restrictions than Genshin demos due to how the games' abilities work, in Robin's case, the song you're hearing is what plays during her Ultimate, and so a twist in the song itself wouldn't belong. There was a break from the song into a dark section was toward the start, but it seems they mostly wanted to end on a positive note.

White Night is also pretty good, is not a trailer of a specific character but of one story arc

You actually got it about Sparkle, she is indeed a shapeshifter

i'm really glad you caught the synthesizer leitmotifs for jing yuan, blade, dan heng IL and jingliu as lore wise, they were all once part of the same group (the high cloud quintet) and it's the connective theme between their trailers. that leitmotif pops up quite often when they're in the same cutscenes together.

"No more thicc characters please, i need to focus on the music, CMON!" got me laughing uncontrollably

I love Aventurine’s trailer so much! I remember the first patch of the story I hated him so much but once the second patch came out he became probably my most favorite character in the game so far!

Gepard`s trailer has Serval`s song in the end because he is big secret fan of his big sis

16:59 fun fact gepard weapon is actually servals guitar case 😂 As a person who played HI3 you didn't recognize seele and bronya T-T

In Blade`s trailer piercing blow instrument in second half is Chinese instrument which sounds mostly on funerals

42:00 also, Kafka’s trailer’s music is a remix of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: Winter. Listen to them both and compare. It’s crazy 48:45 wellllll she comes back in 3 weeks ;)

Have you noticed that after Jingliu(except Topaz) all characters have their own version of HSR logo?

Oh the thing about robin's trailer is that a few minutes after her ult you can't really hear it clearly but there is a sound/morse code (...___...) which mean s.o.s

You thought of the Raiden Shogun from Genshin when seeing Acheron. That is on purpose. You brought up the show 'Loki' so you should be familiar with the concept of "variants" from that show. That is exactly what is going on. The two games take places in a shared Multiverse so the Shogun and Acheron are variants of the same woman, Raiden Mei.

36:10 that is actually a flower that appears very frequently in Chinese’s mythology 地府(aka where dead people goes and reborn) named 彼岸花(mangushakas/higanbana/equinox flower/spider lily or simply, lycoris radiata)

The “saxophone” in Aventurine’s trailer isn’t a saxophone. It’s a clarinet. A clarinet can be used in Jazzy music.

You will not believe but Ruan Mei is playing ruan

I really love the way you react and go more into what you react to, you're seriously the best react channel out there for me. Keep up the good work

1:17:18 In Genshin it’s the Shogun, Raiden Ei, in Honkai Impact 3rd, it’s Raiden Mei, in HSR it’s Raiden Bosenmori Mei, guardian of the Acheron River Also I may or may not have spent around $150 when her banner released to get her, her signature weapon, and Aventurine…….totally diddnt do that

Thanks for the time stamps 😃

GUys we got new HSR trailer reaction let's all watch 😍😍😍

I use Fu Xuan myself. Can understand why going with a more muted approach to the theme of transcendence might be warranted: inexperience (and limited life-management skills) are her own greatest flaws. She's effectively an incarnation of Laplace's Demon. It's interesting to contrast her "fortune-teller shtick" with Black Swan's. Fu Xuan does rely on traditional fortune-telling to "cheat", but usually to buy time while running mental simulations of reality on either temporal direction. Black Swan tends to already know whatever she's going to know from the start, but the very fact other people want to know something makes it more apparent to her, so she can always say something that sounds entirely plausible and will nearly always be accurate as well. While Acheron and the Raiden Shogun are analogues and thus in some sense the same person, I'm not sure which could be considered more mature. Or powerful: Acheron's abilities can be used for a much more limited set of purposes than those of a god in Genshin Impact, archon or not. Also, their natures mean Acheron is hurting herself more, at least for the time being. There's a good reason that the theme in Adventurine's demo trailer isn't suitable for his boss battle, but I can't think of a non-spoilery way to explain it beyond the overt enough fact that Adventurine isn't representing himself in that battle - and the rather less obvious detail that he only trusts in luck to preserve his own life. The tricky thing about Robin is that while she's a central figure in the current storyline she's almost aggressively off-camera and the trailer is intended to not tell you too much. You'd have trouble noticing it just going off the character trailers in this order, but that makeup commercial you see snippets of in Acheron's trailer? At the end of it you can clearly see it's Robin starring in it. This trailer is monofocused on a specific manufactured image, but there's definitely stuff you're not seeing here. And from what little we know of her backstory it's slightly more likely the darker visuals refer to the prequel to her celebrity career than the dark side of fame, but it could go either way.

It’s kinda weird to say Japanese flower, Japanese instrument etc in Chinese characters from the Chinese episode (xianzhou) from a Chinese game from a Chinese company.

1:19:19 she is a variant of raiden mei from Honkai impact 3rd And yes raiden shogun aka EI is also one The Raiden of Honkai star rail is Acheron / Raiden bosinMori Mei The myriad Celestia trailers and animated shorts is also insane Honestly mihoyo up all their trailes for HSR from genshin impact standards

I’d love to see you react to more of the HSR songs with vocals! Samudrartha is truly epic and does such a good job with musical storytelling that I could talk about it for a long time. Wildfire as part of the Cocolia boss fight music is just insane, and I feel like the songs from Penacony have taken over the internet.

Gepard is Serval's younger brother, which makes it hilariously cute that he sings her song at the end

the final phase of the Phantylia theme is a mashup of the frist two phases and the themes for Imbibitor Lunae and Jing Yuan

What I love most about these reactions is that you can literally tell how hoyoverse progressively puts more effort and budget into their trailers I Mean between the first few and the last few is a world's difference of course they are all good but the overall quality just keeps going up

Some HSR trailers are a bit short because of the turned based RPG aspect of the game. Meaning there's not much room for showcasing the character, so they put more effort into visuals to compensate for it

For Serval's theme It's full version is in the latest live concert

@Jhulian R From the moment they released the Acheron trailer until the banner ended, the sales for the Acheron character surpassed Seele, who was the first character in the game's release and was the most bought character in HSR until Acheron. Most of the views on the Acheron trailer are not final because most of the users see it on reacts from other streamers who play the game.

There are many many references to Honkai Impact Characters, like Bronya and Seele, Silverwolf (which acutally plays herself in honkai impact in the start of the Video), Acheron, but its also someone like Natasha or Luocha. There is a 2Hour Concert of Honkai Star Rail from May 1st , its worth to watch

You really really must be react to Honkai Star Rail concert, it was so awesome!

I saw Dali in the background and knew we were gonna have good takes. I think the "Apply your color" bit is reminiscent of the Blade Runner 2049 meme. The surprise in the Robin trailer is the Morse Code for SOS playing at one part in it.

There is a surprise in Robin's trailer! During the final choruse you can faintly hear morse code in the background of the mix spelling S-O-S

if you want to hear more boss battle tracks Return to None - Something Unto Death boss theme Nevermore - Sam boss theme Harmonious Choir: The Great Septimus · Boss Theme (All Phases) are some of the recent ones that all are amazing and very different from each other also I'd recommend checking out the recent live concert stream they did to celebrate the game's first anniversary! it's 2 hours long but absolutely worth it

I am late, but my most favorite in trailer is Acheron's. But for the trailer music, it's Sparkle's 'Monodrama'. As for my team, I am currently running E2 Acheron, E1 Bronya, E0 Bronie (Silver Wolf), and E0 Aventurine.

You absolutely have to watch Honkai Impact 3rd animated shorts. They have some insanely good music. It's an older game made by Mihoyo, and it's deeply connected to Honkai: Star Rail. Their character trailers are pretty good too, but not the oldest ones. Newer ones are sick (since about 2 year old). P.S. Both Acheron and Raiden Shogun originate from a character from Honkai Impact 3rd - Raiden Mei. She has a sick animated short too (there are even earler versions, but let's not bring that up).

I’d like to think that aventurine trailer, is more complete than his boss battle theme, because he himself admits that he was only doing it for the purpose of helping the IPC gain traction in penacony. his entire antagonist demeanor towards the astral express was a cleverly crafted scheme. If you have his character, he actually will text you after the 2.2 patch basically to say no hard feelings and wishing you joy

37:31 There is a Hon Kai concert vid on youtube, you can check out the Blade theme in live xD very cool. It is an official vid so I think you can react to it as well ;D 44:28 the concert also has Dan Heng and the Phantylia theme xD 49:06 Her theme in concert is amazing too

Ohhhhhh In Robin's trailer, you missed something HUGE. In her song a very subtle morse code plays a few times. ... --- ... SOS "Save our Souls"

the characters from genshin you meant during acheron's trailer are the archons, basically the ruling god of a specific region but they do sound similar! :) acheron (you pronounce her name with a K), named after a river in the Underworld in Greek mythology, the river of woe and some sources say it's where the dead are ferried into Hades (lore-wise it's kind of relevant but it was only a very recent confirmation so no spoilers hehe) there are different regions in this game, just like genshin, but here we're in space so it's planets and space stations mostly

The trailers are always a blast to watch and u truly see how they evolved over time. As for favorite characters, thats a hard one, Acheron is personally my favorite since she's a version of Raiden Mei from Honkai Impact, something Hoyoverse loves to do. As for Robin, she actually sings that song during her ultimate where she buffs the entire team, wich is very cool, she also is bringing out 3 songs(not a joke by the way) so keep an eye out 😄 If u want to see more HSR music i strongly suggest u check out the jazz concert they did 2 weeks ago called S.P.A.R.K.L.E.(45 min long) and the Honkai Star Rail concert(2 hours long) that they did last week, they are a absolute blast to watch and listen to!

Now you need to react to Myriad Selestia and animated shorts

1:14:50 Sparkle's teailer is a huge reference to Leaf, a japanese(?) music producer(?) I know very little about it, only that the trailer is very similar to Marenol (rated R18). Quite disturbing to be honest. You might want to check it out

A year after release, we now have Serval's song blended with CN rap by an NPC character that immediately rose to renown among players. Bonkers in the best way.

Acheron and raiden shogun are versions of Raiden Mei from HI3

About the surprise in Robin's trailer. At the end, she lies dead on the stage. Killed by a Sparkle, judging by the lines behind her back. And everyone is filming her in shock. Do you think this is such a surprise?

I am guessing he's reacting to the new boss theme within a week or after this week (ig so)

HOLD UP DID HUOHUO JUST USE DOMAIN EXPANSION 😭

Is Gepard a good character? Sure, yes, but he got recently overpowered by Aventurine by like several miles at least xD The latest trailers he says... and Jingliu is not even a late trailer at all xDDD Also my favorite team is the latest meta team: Robin, Aventurine, Topaz and Dr. Ratio. They have decided turns don't matter inthis turn-based game. It's simply ALWAYS their turn xD

1:10:12 No more thick characters please Thick characters intensify😂

i think each of the themes have an extended version on the hoyomix channel (saying this if someone else hasn't already)

1:07:53 what's crazy is that he's not even wrong

can you turn on the sound video higher little bit? i mean i want to hear the music too....

First 2 trailers are made long before start, almost a year earlier and they both 4 star, the only 4 star who got their own trailer

Apart from Acheron looking like Raiden Shogun, her theme also shares a bit of Raiden's motif.

She's similar to Raiden Shogun because she's the Star Rail version of Mei from Honkai 3rd, and Shogun was based on Mei.

Please react to everything Star Rail. Myriad celestia trailers, Animated shorts, maybe even the 2024 concert!

Argenti `s trailer is so show off😂. In the end there is a different person answer March in different languages. Also he definitely doesn't think he is the most beautiful thing. In the end he is follower of a goddess of Beauty and he is worshipping all that is beautiful, including you and some pot plant

• Fave Trailer: Sparkle • Fave Character: Sampo (He is a 4* so no Trailer but if we get a 5* Version of Him we will get one) • Fave Team: + Acheron - Aventurine - Sampo - Guinefen/Sparkle + And in the future Boothill - Harmony MC - Aventurine - Sparkle

I`d say that Kafka doesn't transmorph. Her theme is a spider in the middle of the web

25:36 i think you are referring to shaka? the gold saint of virgo?

Can you react to all honkai impact version trailer? The early trailer may not be that great but i sure you will like the song😊

Favorite trailers 👇 Mine is Serval

I would love to see you react to robins new album ❤

32:04 first time is correct

Huohuo really just went domain expansion

Himeko ISN'T the same Himeko as in HI3; (unfortunately) it's confirmed that Himeko is dead. However, HSR Himeko did cameo in the HI3 manga Alien Space - her image was captured on a screen while Welt Yang and the Void Archives were having a conversation. In fact, HSR Himeko is why Welt Yang traveled to this universe - because he failed to protect HI3 Himeko, his former college student, since he learned about HSR Himeko he felt it necessary to come and personally protect her this time. And, as far as we know, Welt Yang is the ONLY character that is the exact same in both HI3 and HSR. Every other character (Himeko, Silver Wolf, Bronya, Seele, Natalia, Acheron, and perhaps others as this is off the top of my head) are alternate universe versions of HI3 characters.

Honkai Impact 3rd? Trailers/animations? Thats a great game.

day 4 of asking for Jhulian to react to tn-shi - the wind's final wish

please react to the arlecchino boss theme

Since Honkai Star Rail is set in a more futuristic setting, Hoyo-Mix has a lot more freedom in their creativity. In Genshin Impact, they mainly only get to use edm for Inazuma/Electro OSTs. HSR used GI as a stepping stone at first to iron out all the flaws GI had. Now, both games are insanely good in their musical and visual quality. Personally, I like GI’s soundtracks more because it will lean towards physical instruments. But, HSR’s futuristic setting allows more exciting, colorful, and unique animations.

Oh buddy, you really need to get through the story. You are in for a treat.

Bailu unfortunately isn't all that powerful, the only reason she was able to one-shot the guards was purely to show off her ability to resurrect. She's a decent healer and her ability to resurrect is pretty powerful, but overall, several characters are better for being a support than her (mostly because of her random healing)

My comment contains some spoilers on character personalities and motives, so please do ignore if you plan on playing these games eventually. Robin is a character that encompasses hope. A philanthropist, she even went to a war-torn planet to help out the victims and ended up getting shot herself. She's a lover of life and a firm believer in the capabilities of humanity when they are given their own agency. So, in that sense, imo, while a twist would've been nice (there certainly is space in her story for it), it does make more sense for the trailer to end on a positive note. I love Ei (the Raiden Shogun) from Genshin, and while Ei's story was about running away from grief (which she eventually overcame and is now all the better for it), Acheron's is more about helping the departed. Both characters have heavy themes of grief, but their ways of handling it are quite different. Acheron is a more philosophical character, whereas Ei is more straightforward, so in that sense, I can understand why Acheron comes across as more mature. Both are exceedingly powerful in their own right. I loved your conversation about Franz Kafka. I have the book, but haven't finish reading it. Perhaps I'll pick it back up again. I enjoyed your reaction. Hopefully you'll also upload another once more characters release.

New player?? You're not gonna play Genshin first? lol you've loved that music for longer than HSR's xD I'm a fan of both games, I just know you'd love playing both too. edit: my fave trailers are Blade, Argenti, Jingliu, Sparkle and Huo Huo. I listen to their themes all the time :D

You haven't seen Himeko so I assume you don't know yet. Dr. Ratio is someone who showed Genshin literally L + Ratio because until the end of 2.3 you will get this man for free

The boss battle song was good wdym

Honestly I loved how you broke down the music and explained how it represents the characters it was amazing especially since you're a musician and I like seeing things from a professional's point of view But I was disappointed with how you didn't really analyse any at all or even spoke much about the music in some trailers- especially with Acheron's, I loved her OST but you didn't really mention any motifs or go into detail Either way I liked it in general 🙃 though you mentioning HI3 and GI without the proper knowledge and it not really relating or being correct- Also the waifu jokes.. 😅

先生、これは何ですか？w 🧻、bocchiで正直慣れているが、overlordやAOT思うとギャップ有って面白すぎるw

Next is "hope is the thing with feathers" for sure! Its the best hsr song in my opinion

Raiden Mei, she can cook ) shogun cant cook))) honkai impact 3rd before genshin

It's really annoying that you always move your mouse

Bro think Blade and Huo Huo are japanese culture 💀

1:04:32 fucking guitar

Lesbian dance? Where? XD

but，blade，huohuo，they all are Chinese culture not Japanese culture， many thing include Naruto，dragon ball they all borrowed many Chinese culture

You are watching CHARACTER trailers, the main point is to showcase the characters. You're better off reacting to the myriad celestia trailers and animated shorts. Better yet just play the game, get the full experience; all the surprise, twist and turns you ever want, that you can't get from these character trailers because it will spoil the story.