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Honkai
''Honkai'' is a video game franchise developed by miHoYo, published by miHoYo in mainland China and worldwide by Cognosphere (trading as HoYoverse). Initially led by Cai Haoyu, David Jiang took over as the series producer from 2017. The series originates with ''FlyMe2theMoon'', a paid mobile game for iOS released in 2011, which was developed by the five-person "miHoYo studio" startup team. The first installment of ''Honkai'' series was ''Houkai Gakuen'' released in 2012. The series has seen several more games since, with the most recent main entry being 2023's '' Honkai: Star Rail''. The ''Honkai'' series is set in a universe called the “Imaginary Tree” and follows the adventures of characters such as Kiana, Mei, and Bronya. While the series features recurring characters such as Kiana, each installment has different backgrounds and character settings and can be considered as stories that take place in different worlds in the same universe without absolute connectivity. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HOYO-MiX
HOYO-MiX is a musical group and music studio under miHoYo, primarily responsible for producing songs and soundtracks for various miHoYo games, including the ''Honkai'' series, '' Tears of Themis'', and ''Genshin Impact''. The studio is headed by Cai Jinhan, miHoYo's music director. Although HOYO-MiX consists of several groups of people working on different game projects, they are mostly credited as "HOYO-MiX" as a whole in their works on streaming platforms. Etymology In an interview with ''Shanghai Morning Post'', Cai Jinhan mentioned that the name "HOYO-MiX" is actually "miHoYo" spelled backward, and "MiX" refers to audio mixing. In "HOYO-MiX," only the letter "i" is lowercase, symbolizing the individual, as "we both respect the individual and serve the collective, which is because we are the music department of miHoYo, and serving the product is essential." History In 2011, a Vocaloid music group called "Hatsune Squadron" (), consisting of Cai Jinhan, Zheng Xiaoyu (Zhen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honkai Impact 3rd
''Honkai Impact 3rd'' is a 2016 free-to-play 3D computer graphics, 3D action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo (with publishing outside mainland China under MiHoYo#Cognosphere (HoYoverse), Cognosphere, Trade name, trading as HoYoverse). It is the spiritual successor to ''Houkai Gakuen 2'', using many characters from the previous title in a separate story. The game is notable for incorporating a variety of genres, from hack and slash and Social simulation game, social simulation, to elements of bullet hell, Platform game, platforming, shoot 'em up and dungeon crawling across multiple single and multiplayer modes. It features gacha game, gacha mechanics. It was first released on mobile devices and later ported to Microsoft Windows. A massive expansion of the game, titled ''Honkai Impact 3rd Part 2'' was released on February 29, 2024. Built upon the existing game, the update marks the start of the second major story arc of the game, with new characters, reworked UI, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Rail
''Honkai: Star Rail'' is a 2023 free-to-play role-playing ''gacha'' video game developed and published by miHoYo (with publishing outside mainland China under Cognosphere, d/b/a HoYoverse). It is the fourth installment in the ''Honkai'' series, utilizing some characters from ''Honkai Impact 3rd'' and some gameplay elements from ''Genshin Impact''. The game features the main character, who is referred to as the Trailblazer, traveling across the universe through the Astral Express to help and connect the worlds while involved in resolving disasters caused by "Stellarons" and other third parties. The first closed beta test was launched on October 27, 2021. It was publicly released internationally on April 26, 2023 for Windows and mobile devices. Additionally, the PlayStation 5 port was released on October 11, 2023. The PlayStation 4 version is still yet to be announced, as revealed at the 2023 Summer Game Fest with a trailer. Partially due to the popularity of ''Genshin Impact' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MiHoYo
MiHoYo Co., Ltd. is a Chinese Video game development studio, video game development and publishing company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Shanghai. The company is best known for developing the ''Honkai'' franchise, ''Tears of Themis'', ''Genshin Impact, and Zenless Zone Zero.'' In addition to games, MiHoYo has created various products such as animated series, novels, comics, music, and merchandise. Following the global success of ''Genshin Impact'', that became 2021 in video games#Highest-grossing mobile games, one of the highest-grossing mobile games of 2021, a global publishing company of miHoYo's games named #Cognosphere (HoYoverse), Cognosphere (trading as HoYoverse) was launched in 2022 aimed at expanding content production outside China. HoYoverse is based in Singapore and has since done business globally under the brand including under operations in Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Seoul. Etymology The letters "H" and "Y" in MiHoYo's name come from the names of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyuki Sawashiro
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator. She has played voice roles in a number of Japanese anime/games including ''Beelzebub'', Bishamon in '' Noragami'', Petit Charat/Puchiko in '' Di Gi Charat'', Mint in '' Galaxy Angel'', Sinon in '' Sword Art Online II'', Twilight/Towa Akagi/Cure Scarlet in '' Go! Princess Precure'', Dlanor A. Knox in '' Umineko: When They Cry'', Izuna Hatsuse in '' No Game, No Life'', Amagi in '' Azur Lane'', Celty Sturluson in '' Durarara!!'', Kurapika in ''Hunter × Hunter'', Raiden Mei and Dr. Mei in '' Honkai Impact 3'' and '' Gun Girl Z'', Raiden Shogun/Raiden Ei in ''Genshin Impact'', Akane Kurashiki in '' Zero Escape'', Ayane Yano in '' Kimi ni Todoke'', Fujiko Mine in later installments of '' Lupin the Third'', Queen in '' Mysterious Joker'', Jun Sasada in '' Natsume's Book of Friends'', Shinku in ''Rozen Maiden'', Haruka Nanami in '' Uta no Prince-sama'', Kotoha Isone in '' Yozakura Quartet'', Kanbaru Suruga in '' Bakemonogatari'', Sab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raiden Shogun
Raiden Shogun ( zh, s=雷电将军, p=Léidiàn Jiāngjūn) is a character from ''Genshin Impact'', a 2020 action role-playing game, action role-playing gacha game developed by miHoYo. Added in a 2021 update for the game, she was initially a boss (video game), boss enemy for players to fight, and then later released as a playable character. Within the game's story, she is the ruling Archon (Gnosticism), Archon of the game's Inazuma region. Consisting of two separate beings, the puppet body "Shogun" and the consciousness of Archon Raiden Ei (), she originally acts as an authoritarian and stern ruler. As the game's story unfolds the two aspects come into conflict with one another, and in the aftermath Raiden Shogun adopts a more forward thinking approach to governing her nation. Drawing elements from a character they had developed for ''Honkai Impact 3rd'', miHoYo devoted a significant amount of time with multiple teams towards Raiden Shogun's development. In all appearances the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Element
The classical elements typically refer to Earth (classical element), earth, Water (classical element), water, Air (classical element), air, Fire (classical element), fire, and (later) Aether (classical element), aether which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler Substance theory, substances. Ancient cultures in Ancient Greece, Greece, Angola, Ancient Tibet, Tibet, Ancient India, India, and Mali had similar lists which sometimes referred, in local languages, to "air" as "wind", and to "aether" as "space". These different cultures and even individual philosophers had widely varying explanations concerning their attributes and how they related to observable phenomena as well as cosmology. Sometimes these theories overlapped with mythology and were personification, personified in deities. Some of these interpretations included atomism (the idea of very small, indivisible portions of matter), but other interpretations considered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experience Point
An experience point (often abbreviated as exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in some tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's life experience and progression through the game. Experience points are generally awarded for the completion of objectives, overcoming obstacles and opponents, and successful role-playing. In many RPGs, characters start as fairly weak and untrained. When a sufficient amount of experience is obtained, the character "levels up", achieving the next stage of character development. Such an event usually increases the character's statistics, such as maximum health, magic and strength, and may permit the character to acquire new abilities or improve existing ones. Levelling up may also give the character access to more challenging areas or items. In some role-playing games, particularly those derived from '' Dungeons & Dragons'', experience points are used to improve characters in discrete experience ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Side-scrolling Video Game
A side-scrolling video game (alternatively side-scroller) is a video game viewed from a side-view camera angle where the screen follows the player as they move left or right. The jump from single-screen or flip-screen graphics to scrolling graphics during the golden age of arcade games was a pivotal leap in game design, comparable to the move to 3D graphics during the fifth generation.IGN Presents the History of SEGA: Coming Home Hardware support of smooth scrolling backgrounds is built into many s, some game consoles, and home computer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Yuan
The renminbi ( ; currency symbol, symbol: Yen and yuan sign, ¥; ISO 4217, ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB), also known as the Chinese yuan, is the official currency of the China, People's Republic of China. The renminbi is issued by the People's Bank of China, the Central bank, monetary authority of China. It is the world's Template:Most traded currencies, fifth-most-traded currency as of April 2022. The Yuan (currency), yuan () is the basic unit of the renminbi. One yuan is divided into 10 Jiao (currency), jiao (), and the jiao is further subdivided into 10 Fen (currency), fen (). The word ''yuan'' is widely used to refer to the Chinese currency generally, especially in international contexts. Valuation Until 2005, the value of the renminbi was Fixed exchange-rate system, pegged to the United States dollar, US dollar. As China pursued its Chinese economic reform, transition from planned economy, central planning to a market economy and increased its participation in foreign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
