This SUPER BREAKS EVERYTHING! | Honkai Star Rail Firefly animated short Trailer | Gacha Smack Reacts 

I appreciate Smack telling his chat to read the room, and respecting the intensity of that moment

This can be said to be the first time that HSR's animated short describes the darkness of the game so clearly, this makes me see that Firefly lore is being invested a lot

firefly super breaking a goddamn planet is crazy

That lore accurate swarm, its so big

No wonder Qliphoth smacks the shit out of Tayzzyronth with his fucking hammer.

You know you're on the losing end of a war when you include children to your army

"but glamoth no longer exist…” Immedately gave me Nier Automata vibes. They're fighitng and dying for something that no longer exists, but continue to fight because they were created solely for war and without a war to fight they have no purpose. That right there is chilling. The brutality of storytelling is on a while nother level. I just wanna take a moment to say, IMAGINE the posibility that Genshin Impact was written with this same level of care and quality. I'm not trying to do a 'genshin bad Star Rail good, that's not the point I'm trying to make. I want whoever takes the time to read this comment to IMAGINE what kind of story they could have told with a game and world as large as Teyvat. I can't stop thinking about the absolute gap in quality between games. It genuinely saddens me because i KNOW Hoyo can write heartbreaking stories and create characters that you genuinly care about. I have been playing Star Rail since launch and have not spent a penny. Not because i can't or don't want to, I just saw no reason to. But this right here? Along with everything that has to do with Firefly? Bro this is the first time I have made the conscous choice to spend money on some pixels becayse the devs genuinely made me feel something for a character. THAT'S what saddens me when I think about what Genshin could have been.

Damn, firefly destroyed a planet... and there are ppl out there who still thinks stellaron hunters are weaker than the archons💀

That tree growing is just a metaphor

Glamoth had a good plan in competing against the Swarm's limitless numbers, by having a massive cloned army, but how do you a fight against an enemy that is multiplying everytime you kill one MF 🤣🤣

I think this puts into perspective Dr Ratio's position on how irresponsible and dangerous Ruan Mei specifically is for performing these experiments on the swarm and also his disgust for Herta and Screwlum for knowing about it and letting it happen. I think the only reason he is currently working with them on some things is to keep an eye on the genius society because they are clearly to dangerous to be left alone.

Ive never played HSR but if this is the level of passion they’re putting into this games lore I have to try it out!

holy shit they broke out the HI3 anime studio for this one. MihoyoAnime makes all of the stunning HI3 animations (short animes) for those who don't know, thats why the icon for it is Kiana.

Hold on, I watched this 4 fucking times. How am I getting emotional at the Scorched Earth attack now while watching with you guys? R.I.P. Firefly bro...🙏🏾

I think by the point of this battle, and even the previous video where the clones were showing slight deviations from each other and more individuality, both Glamoth and Her Majesty had already fallen and only the Iron Cavalry remained, but because they didn't know anything else except war, they continued the fight rather than saving themselves. Also, what Firefly pulled at the end, I think it was something like a mutually assured destruction protocol and the tree thing was just symbolism for her receiving the power to put an end to Glamoth's enemies using every reserve left on the planet; rather than her being an Emanator I think that move was a one time only, however, it's because she pulled that move and survived that she now has her ultimate form which keeps a little of the power that she wielded when she straight up cut the planet to shreds, nowhere near as powerful, but much more powerful than what normal Iron Cavalry suits could bring to bear.

5:14 someone in the chat said, "This version of Helldivers kinda sick" 😂😂

"How many drip marketing you want for firefly" "yes" They really want us to pull her 😂

Friendly reminder that ruan mei thought it was a good idea to try to revive the emanator of the swarm

Remember guys: Always use fly swatters. never use guns or hands.

she just super breaked the planet 💀

Firefly plot armor is too thick specially the back side that she won't die 😂 Ahh i love my baby girl

we on the stream babyy

7:57 FF vs the current meta be like…

9:30 regarding the whole Kafka thing "Yes, Kafka watched the whole planet blow up" in 1.0 when we speak with Kafka after her capture on the Xianzhou she says "we knew the stellaron would appear here but we did'nt bring it" the we ask her "why didn't you stop it if you knew you could've saved millions" she tells us that in order for the script to move forward in the proper manner they need to abide by what is written strictly and the goal of the xianzhou arc for the stellaron hunters was ""make the xianzhou indebted to express" if they stopped the stellaron from boarding the ship none of what happened would've so they couldn't stop it from coming on the xianzhou, but in doing so millions of lives were lost, so the stellaron hunters are essentially forced to "let" countless souls die for the best outcome as everything they do is supposed to lead to us beating Nanook in the future and any deviation means the destruction of the universe it's a fucked up situation that I don't wish on my worst enemies constantly knowing that you only have 2 options "break the script and help people in need but risk the destruction of the universe" or "adhere to the script and watch countless millions of souls that YOU could've saved but didn't perish all for the ultimate cause of defeating Nanook and saving the universe"

18:50 you can see people stopped reading or learning about poems in school when they cant understood a REALLY clear metaphor holy sht its really amazing when you know what it means

This has been my complaint whenever I fill out the surveys is they show us this DOPE shit but we don't get to play through it. I'm hoping that in the future with the multi POV story telling that we get to see and do more of this type of stuff. Really build the characters out. Instead of just reading a bunch of stuff in their bio page.

Damn the music when the tree started growing reminded me so much of Final Fantasy IV Tower of Babel music.

There was an explanation on her "Keeping up with Star Rail" video, on why she did got her mecha upgrade all of a sudden when fighting the last wave of Swarm. Also the tree is just a metaphor of what shes saying on that scene. 😂

nah she was born with that debuff because she was created in a factory to mass produce to fight the beetle aeon that i keep forgetting the name of

4:50 It didn't, she has the marks from Entropy Loss Syndrome on her in the Myriad Celestia trailer and that 100% takes place before this, for the matter all of the knights had those marks on them so Entropy Loss seems to be something all the knights have and isn't exclusive to Firefly.

I think we can all agree that chat was being weird as shit during the scene showing all the dead bodies, like c'mon chat, you guys are better than that.

Hearing “Scorched Earth Operation” now hits different after seeing this 😔

Firefly -Became the sole survivor of her kin -Fought off the 2nd Wave of the Swarm by herself -Eradicate the entire wave along with the planet Elio: Let's adopt her Kafka: Way ahead of you

Firefly -Became the sole survivor of her kin -Fought off the and Wave of the Swarm by herself -Eradicate the entire wave along with the planet Elio: Let's adopt her Kafka: Way ahead of you

Guys, i dont think firefly blew the planet with just her raw powers. In lore, the planet is covered with a sea of decomissioned mecha, and bugs. Perhaps she just ignited all atmosphere causing a massive chain reaction that blew up the planet.

"Acheron got power crept" Firefly nearly died doing that, Acheron slices planets in half on a daily basis lmao, js.

Firefly is now on par with an EMENATOOOOOOR and can stand as an equal to Acheron after displaying the ability to Supa Breaku a planet.

Can’t look away….eyes locked on nuclear lore.

8:48 "SHE IS AN EmeNAtoooR" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Some of the people in the chat are nasty af. Good thing smack called them out.

I'm just assuming this but i think the entirety of the iron cavalry are clones of Titania or kids infused with her cells. Each and every Iron Cavalry has a link to Titania that allows them to control a SAM(Iron Warrior). Titania's cells causes each one of the Fireflies to have that colorful veins which is the source of power for a SAM(Iron warrior). After Glamoth's fall the Iron Cavalry still followed the last directive to destroy the hive even after the planet's fall. After FIREFLY was left as the lone survivor Titania's power that was split among the fireflies are siphoned through FIREFLY alone which gave her the boost to complete the mission. Titania might have been an artificial AEON or something similar that Glamoth successfully created by chance.

Yay! I thought I was gonna have to wait for your reaction to this! Bring it! ✊🏾

The irony is crazy tho In order to fight against the Propagation, they had to propagate their own army

No no. Elio sent Uber Kafka to pick up firefly who’s been floating in space for a long time.

8:49 Grandpa it's time for your meds

Give her all the hugs pls my gosh 😭💚🔥

Man HSR needs an anime faster than Genshin.

Imma give Firefly a home. So I definitely pull her.

Man this is why I love you Bro, You're Fast as Fk. Wanted to see exactly your Reaction to passively Share the Hype and Sheer Magnitude of this Animation

Holy lore drop!

THIS SUPER BREAKS EVERYTHING

FIREFLY BREAK EFFECT OVER 9000!!!!

Firefly was so in sync with her SAM suit.. she transcended!

Holy Nuclear Firefly Reaction Insane Never seen before SUPPAAA BREAAAAAK

Your reactions are way better when you're not interrupting them every 10 seconds to interact with the chat.

Thank God for your reaction. Tectone kept berating everything throughout the entire animation. LOL

Firefly is most likely blessed by Yaoshi the moment she questions her own existence and wish to live and became abundance emanator. Similar when Mei questions why she even fighting when her world and friends already gone then she blessed by IX

Someone said Yaoshi/abundance is giving her powers. Which makes sense cuz of trees and even when she's floating in space a green light envelopes her.

She broke the planets toughness bar.

ngl I didn't think I would cry because of this trailer :c

HSR is about to make millions next patch🥶

at this point, they should have created their own anime series..

i love her lore so much. all the soldiers remind me of the YoRHa units from Nier

that EMANATOR shet always gets me, SHES A EMMMMMMAANATORRRRRR

Fuck! You get me every time with the goddamn emanator😂😂😂

Btw this was created by the Mihoyo anime team who previously worked on Honkai Impact 3rd Animated shorts (you know those videos everyone reacts to even if they don't plan to play the game). Hence the change in animation technique and quality. They also (sadly) got rid of the unique SAM designs since this type of 2.5D animation requires unique 3D models for everyone, so they just reused the SAM model from the game.

another banger reaction from gacha smacky 🔥

A little note here is that Glamoth was destroyed way before the main story, which implies that Firefly was floating in space for a very extended period of time before Kafka and Ellio arrive.

14:09 the JP va absolutely killed it, that line pretty much tells you everything

Man this is insane quality. I need it to stay this dark and get darker. Hsr is the best

her trailer is basically gundam whole series. animators went CRAZY

"I don't even have to stall chat" *Double checks vid length*

Much better reaction than coomer tectone

Firefly is my Planetary Queen

Been waiting for this reaction

Since the planet is turned into pieces,firefly has been found by Kafka after a long time

Man serious nier automata vibes with this animated short.

yea as soon as I saw firefly destroying that planet I knew that everything that welt said abt aeons being galaxy level gods was true

LETSGOOO FIREFLY!!!!

Elio really gave Kafka front row seats to SAM's awakening. This was nuts

I thought this was a Upbeat story eeh??💀 Btw Ruan mei tried bringing that thing back

Epic smack reacts, My goat fr 🔥

Ruan Mei making one of these things in the basement hits different now

Goes to show that firefly's main body is more durable than her sam armor that shi was vaporized but all their bodies remained intact

Thing is how old is Kafka as she watch the fight with the Swarm, and that was a long long time ago.

Im guessing by the end of it she started following the path of destruction

I don't know which is more shocking: That Firefly committed Exterminatus on what's left of her homeworld, or that Kafka watched it like it was an ordinary Sunday matinee picture show.

imagine she had a Trailblaze moment and Nanook thought itd just be fun to give her power for the luls

I think Firefly and all of the other people were artificially mutated to have Entropy Loss Syndrome so they could only be born to fight and nothing else. But it seems like our Firefly’s SAM is able to help her with her disease.

7:10 Yeah, this video really demonstrate how the swarm were just such a massive interstellar threat. Yeah, I was gonna skip Firefly until about two weeks ago you revived my interest in her. And now, after this video...Damn. I may not love her the same way all these other fans did from the beginning, but this video moved me. Firefly is now a top 5 character for me.

Certified banger! Loved it

All the hype for her is unreal!!!!! Love her from day 1. Can't wait for her

THIS ANIMATED SHORT SUPER BROKE MY HEART 😭😭😭

Bruh the trailer gunna be crazy at this rate

little sister thinking she's freeza blowing up a planet for fun.

We breaking records with this one!!

I got big 86 vibes from the start as well, with all the voices and the hopelessness.

Also, we see younger Kafka here. She has her legs uncovered and without makeup

This changes EVERYTHING!

Elio's script it like "You will die in the scent of the tulips". You gonna evade all of the tupis fields to be save, yet, your killer will just have the very strong tulip perfume that reminds the scent of the whole field. Idk, but I feel like Elio's script is true, but also is about thinking around the box.