LE: So... I made a small mistake. The Soul World has nothing to do with the souls of the dead. It's hard to explain it properly in a pinned comment, but it's more akin to a place where the recordings of data and memory go on. I will expand more on it in future videos. Hello! I don't usually promote my membership on the channel, but I wanted to announce that from now on, all the RUclips members will be featured at the end of all my videos. If you want to support my work and have your name at the end of the videos, check out the members tab. ruclips.net/user/HomuLabsjoin This video took a lot of time and effort, and I hope that you will enjoy it just as much as I do! The next Part will finally explain the Structure of the Universe, (Imaginary Tree, The Sea of Quanta, etc.) so brace yourself cause that will be an interesting one. Thank you for your time!
Honestly, I need to go over the translations again cause apparently I missed a lot, but someone pointed out that it's similar to ley lines and I think that's a better comparison.
I really appreciate you mentioning Genshin as part of the Honkai Universe. I really dislike when people leave out Genshin just because it doesn't have Honkai name on it. Devs said many times that they want to build a universe which shares similar story elements and have parallels between each other. I think it's wonderful that you can enjoy each game independently but still can react like that Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme when you notice the references and parallels. 😂😂
the only people who leave Genshin out are the ones who haven't played Honkai and did the story. It was pretty mindblowing to see Dvalin on screen the first time.
@@ceizhore4498 MiHoYo trying to hide the connection between Genshin and the other Honkai series by changing names from Mei to Ei but we are smart enough to see this trap. But good try MiHoYo.
i just love how so many people seem to forget that HSR is still a baby. it's literally not even in it's 1.5 update. yet i keep seeing so many people wanting answers for narrative things that are literally just being set up in a plot that plans to go on for like 6 or 7 years 😂😂😂 like chill !
Apply same logic to HI3 Part 2. So many haters just because it didn't get climactic yet, all it takes is a minute to stare at things and ask some questions to realize how dark it's gonna get, I'm like, be patient everyone's gonna cry in their turn 😂
As a Chinese player and a passionate fan of the Honkai series, I must say this video is really great! Because many early events about miHoYo are hard to find on the Chinese Internet(tips: In Chinese Mainland, miHoYo has not changed its name to HoYoverse: ) In addition, there are also errors in word meaning caused by translation, In such difficult circumstances, I never knew that there were RUclipsr outside of China who knew so much about Honkai's worldview! In fact, I really want to support you, but I can only give you like because Chinese Mainland is not convenient to reward you :D
It's finally here! Thanks a ton Homu for the amazing contribution to the hoyoverse community! You made me appreciate HI3 a lot more over the past few months (I finished the entire main story on youtube, fishing all the additional content to increase the experience - especially for ER - , and your videos were the jewels of the sea). Not only you explained the complicated stuff, but also pointed out all the crazy references, parallels, symbology and also the devs meaning and intention behind narrative choices. Thanks a ton once again! (I just didn't started to play HI3 because I'm behiind and already play 4 gatcha games haha, but HI3 main story is at the top alongside the best FGO chapters imo)
Hoyoverse lore is so interesting, but also kinda demanding for a player to follow along on their own. It’s great that you are helping to bring all the pieces from the different games together into an overall narrative.
I’m happy my theory that each leaf isn’t one planet, but an entire star system. The Astral Express is indeed special, because it seems to allow one to travel between these Star systems. Apparently, the power of the Trailblaze also allows these worlds to be traversed even by those who aren’t on the Express. Belobog got RECONNECTED after all.
Thank you! All the videos you produce makes me understand the story in a way I can understand. You explain the concepts of the game and themes. I can understand more and more what the Devs want to say. You are my number one source of information bc the translation is sometimes really confusing and you explain in a way I can follow. To my bad I'm low on money this month but I want to give you something for your work! If money looks good again you will have for sure a new member on RUclips! Keep up your work and take your time And I really like your akcent :D
It's crazy that in the honkai series, genshin may be the ultimate game. If genshin is a world inside the sea of quanta, it would make sense for the skies to be fake, for the vision of the future be the quantum "abyss" energy to be leaking from the skies, and for the abyss to be infinity AKA space+chaos. Also means that by scaping sea of quanta, one can find themselves at the Honkai Impact universe, which would make Fischl and Keqing's appearance at Honkai Impact have a lot of sense actually. Gets even crazier when you notice that some specific characters from genshin do have the knowledge even if the Irminsul is locking them in a repetitive cycle of failures.
If you finish the book of esoteric revaluations the author said that after the cataclysm the sky would look like it filled with purple abyss energy and there's a huge crack in the sky almost apocalyptic so there's someone who didn't let that happen or the whole teyvat is actually filled with Abyss energy the world is just kept in some kind of dome using fake skies by someone possibly the sustainer
My theory is that Genshin and Star Rail are part of the same universe (with Teyvat being a planet like any other), while Honkai Impact is a separate universe but part of the bigger multiverse. This would explain why so far there are no variants of Honkai Impact characters (like Seele, Himeko, Bronya, etc) in Star Rail that also appear in Genshin (unless Diluc counts but he's different enough to not be a variant. And it's also possible that Aether and Lumine have some sort of connection with Akivili, as hinted by the fact Aether's clothes are the same color as the Astral Express, the Traveler making use of the word "planet" to refer to other "worlds", the twins' ability to travel between worlds, and also the fact that in the trailer that introduced the Aeons there's a scene where the Express is flying alongside several "shooting stars" that look like Aether and Lumine when they arrived at Teyvat in that one trailer, as well as the 5 star wish animation.
I think HSR and HI3 are in the same universe. As Terminus is an aeon of the path Finality.. I am guessing Terminus havnt been seen in a while.. Bc It has been occupied with Earth or rather the milky way/solar system. And Earth isint known in the HSR universe bc it is isolated by Finality or rather Terminus. They share the name Honkai. And they share universal consepts in exact names like the Imaginary tree, sea of quanta and the universe being filled with imaginary energy.. Or smthin.. Aka Honkai. Also.. They share the same elemental quality. Fire, ice, wind, lightning, physical, imaginary and quantum. Which.. Makes me wonder.. What if Aeither's element isint light... But rather imaginary.. And Lumine is.. Not dark but rathee Quantum... Or vice versa... But yeah.. HSR and HI3 share too much to not be connected.. Im guessing its HI3 but in a cosmic scale... Where what they know in HI3 is known in a wider scale.. And in an even further extent..
Amazing video from homu as usual, bro actually started at 2010 before mihoyo was a thing, i never even heard about Legend of Saha before this video, despite being in the mihoyo rabbit hole for years. The amount of work it took to dig up all this stuff and order it must have been unreal.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! THE HONKAI VERSE IS SO CONVOLUTED AND CONFUSING FOR MOST PLAYERS, EVEN FOR PLAYERS WHO PLAY ALL OF THE GAMES SO I THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK!! My brain gets bigger everytime you explain a concept in the honkaiverse! It wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said I wouldn’t know half the things I know about the lore if it weren’t for this channel, and I don’t see enough people talking about honkaiverse lore (aside from genshin, I guess). I still don’t get the history of some things like the captain storyline and the overall story of ggz, so please keep up the good work!! Thank you again
10:29 - the samsara in genshin is not on a small scale though, weve not seen it happen, but its pretty much confirmed that teyvat is in a loop/samsara and if you have done the Fontaine quests and read rene's notes, it is revealed that this is the final loop. no new civilisation will be born if teyvat is destroyed now
Amazing video! Thanks for summarising all those complicated concepts and connections into such an easy to understand format! 😂 I'm looking forward to more of your content alongside the next story developments of both HI3 and HSR! 🎉
The amount of work that went to this video is insane! I'm having a hard time trying to understand whatever tf happen on Penacony, and you studied the whole lore of entire 4 GAMES, systemised the information and delivered it in the most understandable manner. You deserve utmost respect, sir
Great video! Your explanations are so clear and easy to follow, and i appreciate the subtitles on your videos! Recent genshin lore drops have implied that the existence of samsara extends beyond just the Sumeru archon quest, and that the whole of Teyvat has been through multiple cycles already. So, another supporting evidence for the hoyoverse!
Amazing video, thank you One thing I have to mention though that wasn't mentioned in this video and might cause people to wrongfully assume. The samsara in Houkai Gakuen 2 works differently, it's not the Honkai that resets civilization there but the Stigmata Terminal Alaya, which was created by Dr.MEI in Era Zero (1st Era) Also there are actually still ways to read GGZ in English. Hoyostans being one of them for early Retrospective (Project Gekkou) but there is also a website that contains all stories and event stories, with it being translated until Reborn Chapter 12 (AKA until when Global Existed before being shutdown), but its technically using game data so won't mention name here, you can try to look it up if anyone's interested
Thanks! I knew that there were still ways to play the game with machine translations and about Project Gekkou, but didn't know about that website. It's nice to see so many people interested in the game. I'm thinking of compiling a few ways for Global players to experience the story and present them in a video in the future. Who knows? Maybe we can bring more people into the Global GGZ community.
@@HomuLabsggz have fan English translation supporting by a programmer on foxgirl server. You can still play ggz in English. Plus ggz is boring... Really boring. You need to wait next event like a month. There's nothing else you can do when you finish the stories and events, it's not like in Honkai impact.
With every new Homu Labs video, I feel a step closer to understanding the Honkaiverse, while also confirming I'll never truly understand it. Thank you for parsing this massive series for us.
_Genshin_ *is* a Honkai game. Its working title was _Honkai 4_ . On the Chinese players' suggestion, they changed it to _Genshin_ , the tern for Vision holders (Allogenes in English), and the marketing dedpartment added 'impact' to connect it to _HI3_ , but only for the global market. In total, there are four _Honkai_ games currently: - GunGirlZ (Houkai Gakuen 2) - Honkai Impact 3rd - Genshin (Houkai 4) - Honkai: Star Rail While _Tears of Themis_ is also somehow part of the Honkaiverse on the Imaginary Tree, _Zenless Zone Zero_ has ben stated to be separate. There's also a fan-made patch to allow for play with English translations for _GGZ_ . They're far from great, but they're... functional, I guess, is the best way to put it. It's a shame they closed the Global server, but it is still playable, at least.
I was wondering about Tears of Themis as it makes a reference to Genshin using the slimes as balloons for a certain thing, I forgot but maybe Genshin is a game in Tears of Themis?
@CheshireCatz Possible. I'm not familiar since I don't play, and I haven't watched any of its lore videos I'm sure someone's made. If it's popular enough to still be supported, it's popular enough for lore videos.
crazy vid, i've been a fan of this whole universe since early honkai 3rd release and yet I learned so many things, I'm gonna check out all your other vids
thanks for all the explainations. Since I don't have all the time to play every games nor even to be up to date with at least one of theme, it's really helpfull to see that you're here to explain as much as possible.
you absolutely go above and beyoned to look for clues and lore and connection, ive never played HI3 but its still quite fun to watch your videos on lore
God it make me feels so damn old remembering that I played "Fly Me To the Moon" and Honkai Gakuen Day 1 of release. The games were so basic that I genuinely never would have expected the the premise and the company to grow into a massive powerhouse that it is today.
Happy to learn that "Honkai will never end". It just gives me relief. Genshin and Star rail are the only game I'm dumping tons of money on I don't want it to suddenly disappear one day.
I love your videos I've become more attached to Honkai lore since I got deep into Genshin Quantum theory, M Theory, multiverse, imaginary tree, it's like my imagination was made into a playable game Thanks for putting it all together this way and how you always do Keep up the great work 🙏👍😎👊🚬❤️
Keep cooking my brother! Even after several years diving in Hoyoverse lore I got almost drowned, feeling kinda burnt out and was kinda disappointed in the series, but your videos are like a breath of fresh air to me, making me love this franchise again! Thank you very much for this content!
Ive never seen da wei cry about the game he made. Its trully touching how much honkai impact means to him. I will never regret joining honkai impact. I still play to this day.
If the shared multiverse idea has been directed by one person all this time... Does that explain the sheer disparity in writing quality between the main quests and the lore/world-building material in Genshin??
I don't think it's one person. Each game has its own team. Most likely they follow a similar "template" to stay somehow consistent throughout the games.
Similar to a company's structure, I believe the director will only be in charge of details that are related to the multiverse idea. They will be responsible for quests that heavily refer to the cosmology concept of Honkaiverse, and make sure that some multiverse details are incorporated into other quests/lores, so that there is a sense of consistency. However, there are also other teams who work with that director. Aside from making sure details concerns multiverse are included in the stories, they pretty much have their freedom to write any kind of story about nations and characters in the game.
Yo, Homu I'm a Brazilian Honkai channel and I was producing a similar video explaining the cosmology of the Hoyoverse but I was having difficulty finding some of the information you presented in the video, can I please use it in my video, of course, leaving the credits for your video on my description ?
thank you for the video! i love multiverse or parallel world so much, its facinating to me how the writer can come up with different worlds with different people and the connection between them. and i love the concept of variant/expy character! i dont play hi3 but cant wait for su and theresa expy in hsr since i alredy have alhaitham and nahida lol also tears of themis is also a game made by mihoyo but theres little connection to it to be a part of honkaiverse (i dont know actually since i only play until the third chapter but i know that theres a novel in hsr with artem name in it, and a promotional photo with tot boys with homu plushie and slime from gi) so this make me thinking if zzz later will be a part of honkaiverse or not?
Amazing video! Im sure the work it took to make was horrible haha but you should he proud, it is amazing! We don't really have youtubes doing Honkai related lore videos that are as good as your, soo im happy i can support you! Thanks lmao
It's not like I forgot about ToT, but we never got any official confirmation from HoYo that the game is part of the Honkai Universe. (unlike the others) While there are plenty of references to other games in ToT, for this video series, I wanted to work only with the games that HoYoverse officially confirmed as part of their shared Universe.
@@Giovansbilly She mentions Artem if she appears in the astral express. Though I believe that the characters in ToT are actually part of a novel instead of an otome game because of the dialogue
Another amazing video. For a suggestion, what about explaining the captainverse diferent history. Or the history of the golden countryard as is the most connected to the flame chasers.
Random theory I have that is not exactly related to this video but I was reminded of it 😅: HOMUs are definitely interdimensional beings, seeing as they are popular franchises in MANY HoYoverse worlds (even Tears of Themis!), but especially Houkai Gakuen and Honkai Impact! In the chapter focusing on Durandal how she is actually Kiana, you see these beings that resemble HOMUs that help her in the Imaginary Space. This also happens way earlier in the game with Bronya, when she was in a coma and Fu Hua used Fenghuang Down to get her out of it .
Isn't it just a easter egg though, because the Homu Bronya saw in her coma was Fu Hua choosing Bronya's favorite character to lead her or smth, and the durandal part was because the Kaslanas before her forgot their own identity and became Homus
Hahah this is good video, although I was expecting it to be a "History of Honkai Universe" where you tell the history of the Imaginary Tree itself from every different perspective of these games
10:25 it's not just sumeru archon quest, but in fact recently, new fountaine lore drop revealed that the entirety of tevyat is stuck in a huge loop were civilizations are destroyed over and over again (likely by assholes aka celestia and phanes) and this current cycle which is the cycle in which traveler is journeying, is the final and last cycle, after this there will essentially be no tevyat, as the primmoridal waters of tevyat will remerge and destroy it.
I might have been busy as a college student and only focusing of my studies but i wll never forget to settle some time to play and learn their interconnection and being a die hard fan of honkai verse
I want Homu to know that this is my comfort video ❤. I always come back here from time to time to rewatch or even listen while I wash the dishes or clean the room.
Your video become better and better..... btw is @HomuLabs also plan to make a video about explaining all the Captain Bizarre Adventure event until Luna event in ver. 7.0. It sure be nice to hear all the connection of event like from Sanguine Night, Odd Drifter, Honkai Kingdom arc and so on...... PS: I also want more easier explanation about Ferryman lore.
Great video as always, Homu! It's a shame GGZ isn't available in english anymore; I'd love to learn more about it and see how it laid the groundwork for HI3rd. Then again, I probably shouldn't be playing any more gacha games. Also, the early HI3rd mangas (Escape from Nagazora, etc.) were made before the actual game? That explains why they feel so different... and horny.
Ggz has an english patch that restore the old global translation on the last version There is also Operation Gekkou, the VN adaptation of the story in full retranslated english
yeah herrscher of coding and other mods created eng sub version it's prettty doble. I dowloaded it myself and been playing for a month now.@@haeldral3405
that was... very educational. i knew some concepts, kinda, i tried to play hi3 before, but i really kinda skipped some story bits bc i got overwhelmed... anyway, the retroactiveness of time took my attention in turn to some weird genshin things with time, it would explain the weird sakura planting and especially that one line in one of the books... i think it was enkanomiya book maybe, i just remember it said "only the future can save the past not the other way around" the retroactiveness of time as a concept in hoyo games definitely does fit into this line tbh
Perfect video to learn about HoYoverse and Honkai...... I started to play genshin at first and now playing honkai after the announcement of honkai impact 3rd part 2..... This game is interesting man... It so confusing but it will be understandable.....Thanks for the video and really appreciate it. really love the video.
So salt snow holy city recap when or are you gonna recap the entirety of part 1.5 ? Plus still waiting for that captainverse history video since captainverse is also over
The Seele Arc Recap should be coming soon. Also, like I previously said, the Captainverse recap won't be coming anytime soon since I am too busy with other videos I want to make right now and don't have the time to properly research the older events. Hopefully, sometime next year.
Thanks for another awesome video, your channel helped me so much as a new fan to understand some of the confusing stuff. Do you think one day you can make a video like "full story of the captainverse" and "full story of the idolverse" by the way? Ive only been able to play the most recent events as a new player and its a bit confusing, but i still wanna know the stories behind these parallel world events. If you see this comment thank you so much for your efforts!!
@HomuLabs no worries i know it takes alot of time and effort to make these videos. I cant wait to see the future videos you come up with!! 👏 take your time and thank you for all your work in this fandom 🙏
I can't wait to see what the finality equivalent of genshin is. We have the cocoon of finality in HI3, the ruler of will in GGZ, and most likely Terminus in HSR. Will the sinner be the finality? Or is it something beyond anything we've seen or read about, and still unrevealed? Probably still unrevealed.
thank you so much for this video! i started playing hoyo games in 2020 where i played genshin impact. i quit for a few months but then picked it up again in 2021. i recently stopped playing it and now im playing hsr, so i guess i could be considered a new fan. i dont know too much about the honkai universe but i do know a bit of hi3 lore. its really interesting seeing how they all connect.
This was a really nice break down! I knew about Fly me to the Moon but I didn't know about the game before that. Its really cool that some of these ideas never really left and were reused, and I can't wait too see what they reuse in Genshin and even in Starrail. Personally for Genshin I like the project stigma theory, which is that the world of Teyvat is the result of project stigma succeeding, which could be why reality seems kind of weird and how Kevin could still be involved in the story but you don't need to have any knowledge of HI3. (HI3 Kevin and Genshin Kevin are two different versions)
I watch this video just now and realizing, and I definitely heard or read it somewhere, Senadia is definitely a Star Whisperer! But her case isn't only the sea of quanta's work, there is influence done by either Ai-Chan or Vita or by Senadia in the dream doing something that caused Dreamseeker to also wake up in the sea of quanta but having Dreamseeker as the catalyst to whatever she implanted in or on her to cause the birth of a Star Whisperer
LE: So... I made a small mistake. The Soul World has nothing to do with the souls of the dead. It's hard to explain it properly in a pinned comment, but it's more akin to a place where the recordings of data and memory go on. I will expand more on it in future videos.
Hello!
I don't usually promote my membership on the channel, but I wanted to announce that from now on, all the RUclips members will be featured at the end of all my videos. If you want to support my work and have your name at the end of the videos, check out the members tab.
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This video took a lot of time and effort, and I hope that you will enjoy it just as much as I do! The next Part will finally explain the Structure of the Universe, (Imaginary Tree, The Sea of Quanta, etc.) so brace yourself cause that will be an interesting one.
Thank you for your time!
Sorry homulab 11D is bubble universe no SoQ
So something similar to Leylines in Genshin ?
so is this soul world was garden of recollection ? since they also collect data from the deceased world under the aeon fulli the remembrance
Yeah, I guess you could say so.
Honestly, I need to go over the translations again cause apparently I missed a lot, but someone pointed out that it's similar to ley lines and I think that's a better comparison.
I really appreciate you mentioning Genshin as part of the Honkai Universe. I really dislike when people leave out Genshin just because it doesn't have Honkai name on it. Devs said many times that they want to build a universe which shares similar story elements and have parallels between each other. I think it's wonderful that you can enjoy each game independently but still can react like that Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme when you notice the references and parallels. 😂😂
the only people who leave Genshin out are the ones who haven't played Honkai and did the story.
It was pretty mindblowing to see Dvalin on screen the first time.
Yea like Genshin literally has Raiden, Yae and Murata
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MiHoYo trying to hide the connection between Genshin and the other Honkai series by changing names from Mei to Ei but we are smart enough to see this trap. But good try MiHoYo.
I think da Wei or someone from hoyo did mention their every game is from the same universe
Because they are the MINORITIES in the Honkai world 😂
wake up babe, homu labs've just posted a new video!
It's line for dantavius but ok
So cringe
This guy's actually underated
i just love how so many people seem to forget that HSR is still a baby. it's literally not even in it's 1.5 update. yet i keep seeing so many people wanting answers for narrative things that are literally just being set up in a plot that plans to go on for like 6 or 7 years 😂😂😂 like chill !
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Apply same logic to HI3 Part 2. So many haters just because it didn't get climactic yet, all it takes is a minute to stare at things and ask some questions to realize how dark it's gonna get, I'm like, be patient everyone's gonna cry in their turn 😂
2.2 now!
@@sorta-7272 eh. I still didn't like honkai 2 and I'm saying that as a hi3 veteran
When Murata becomes playable in Genshin, that is an instant C6 for me no cap. Amazing video as always.
BUT WAIT!!!
And then she dies... And then hilichurl Wei comes out and says it's canon event in hilichurlian
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 I am not worried. There is no killing in Genshin.
@@LARPing-Wolf only NPCs are affected
But not playables; the closest to getting Himeko'd was 2.7 Xiao
@@LARPing-WolfBro forgot about Signora 🗿 you mean “playable” characters don’t die.
@@timeflies313 Yes that. I am sure they won't make Murata NPC, right?
Great video! I`ve been playing Honkai 3rd far almost 6 years and thought I already knew most of what there was but this franchise keeps surprising me!
Thank you very much! :D
As a Chinese player and a passionate fan of the Honkai series, I must say this video is really great! Because many early events about miHoYo are hard to find on the Chinese Internet(tips: In Chinese Mainland, miHoYo has not changed its name to HoYoverse: ) In addition, there are also errors in word meaning caused by translation, In such difficult circumstances, I never knew that there were RUclipsr outside of China who knew so much about Honkai's worldview! In fact, I really want to support you, but I can only give you like because Chinese Mainland is not convenient to reward you :D
It's finally here!
Thanks a ton Homu for the amazing contribution to the hoyoverse community!
You made me appreciate HI3 a lot more over the past few months (I finished the entire main story on youtube, fishing all the additional content to increase the experience - especially for ER - , and your videos were the jewels of the sea). Not only you explained the complicated stuff, but also pointed out all the crazy references, parallels, symbology and also the devs meaning and intention behind narrative choices. Thanks a ton once again!
(I just didn't started to play HI3 because I'm behiind and already play 4 gatcha games haha, but HI3 main story is at the top alongside the best FGO chapters imo)
Hoyoverse lore is so interesting, but also kinda demanding for a player to follow along on their own. It’s great that you are helping to bring all the pieces from the different games together into an overall narrative.
I’m happy my theory that each leaf isn’t one planet, but an entire star system. The Astral Express is indeed special, because it seems to allow one to travel between these Star systems. Apparently, the power of the Trailblaze also allows these worlds to be traversed even by those who aren’t on the Express. Belobog got RECONNECTED after all.
Belobog didn't get reconected it was just considered a lost case
@@mohamedmohamedyoussouf4853 it did get reconnected. Stellarons are mentioned to mess with galactic travel.
It’s literally Kingdom Hearts lmao
That is exactly what they explain about Akivili and the Silver Rail in the express data bank that is available from the very start of the game.
Thank you! All the videos you produce makes me understand the story in a way I can understand. You explain the concepts of the game and themes. I can understand more and more what the Devs want to say. You are my number one source of information bc the translation is sometimes really confusing and you explain in a way I can follow. To my bad I'm low on money this month but I want to give you something for your work!
If money looks good again you will have for sure a new member on RUclips!
Keep up your work and take your time
And I really like your akcent :D
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it! :D
Now you have new yt member ;)@@HomuLabs
@@xderbusfahrer Thanks for the generosity! :D
It's crazy that in the honkai series, genshin may be the ultimate game.
If genshin is a world inside the sea of quanta, it would make sense for the skies to be fake, for the vision of the future be the quantum "abyss" energy to be leaking from the skies, and for the abyss to be infinity AKA space+chaos. Also means that by scaping sea of quanta, one can find themselves at the Honkai Impact universe, which would make Fischl and Keqing's appearance at Honkai Impact have a lot of sense actually.
Gets even crazier when you notice that some specific characters from genshin do have the knowledge even if the Irminsul is locking them in a repetitive cycle of failures.
If you finish the book of esoteric revaluations the author said that after the cataclysm the sky would look like it filled with purple abyss energy and there's a huge crack in the sky almost apocalyptic so there's someone who didn't let that happen or the whole teyvat is actually filled with Abyss energy the world is just kept in some kind of dome using fake skies by someone possibly the sustainer
A must watch for honkai fans everywhere. Thanks for releasing this well put video!
That video took a lot of time to make for sure
You have no idea. :))
My theory is that Genshin and Star Rail are part of the same universe (with Teyvat being a planet like any other), while Honkai Impact is a separate universe but part of the bigger multiverse. This would explain why so far there are no variants of Honkai Impact characters (like Seele, Himeko, Bronya, etc) in Star Rail that also appear in Genshin (unless Diluc counts but he's different enough to not be a variant. And it's also possible that Aether and Lumine have some sort of connection with Akivili, as hinted by the fact Aether's clothes are the same color as the Astral Express, the Traveler making use of the word "planet" to refer to other "worlds", the twins' ability to travel between worlds, and also the fact that in the trailer that introduced the Aeons there's a scene where the Express is flying alongside several "shooting stars" that look like Aether and Lumine when they arrived at Teyvat in that one trailer, as well as the 5 star wish animation.
Yae Sakura and Raiden Mei's Variants are going to come to Star Rail. It's in the Mines
@@SpultoBNMTheMutuallyUnrequited i have 2 HSR accounts and my second one is ment for E6S1 Yae and mei
The pyro archon is gonna based off of himeko murata and himeko also exists in star rail so nah
mark my words tsarita will be the bronya (or cocolia) lookalike
I think HSR and HI3 are in the same universe.
As Terminus is an aeon of the path Finality..
I am guessing Terminus havnt been seen in a while..
Bc It has been occupied with Earth or rather the milky way/solar system.
And Earth isint known in the HSR universe bc it is isolated by Finality or rather Terminus.
They share the name Honkai.
And they share universal consepts in exact names like the Imaginary tree, sea of quanta and the universe being filled with imaginary energy.. Or smthin.. Aka Honkai.
Also.. They share the same elemental quality.
Fire, ice, wind, lightning, physical, imaginary and quantum.
Which.. Makes me wonder.. What if Aeither's element isint light... But rather imaginary.. And Lumine is.. Not dark but rathee Quantum...
Or vice versa...
But yeah.. HSR and HI3 share too much to not be connected..
Im guessing its HI3 but in a cosmic scale... Where what they know in HI3 is known in a wider scale.. And in an even further extent..
After the Natlan Quest in Genshin, the plot now truly thickens and supports this essay
Yup i can't wait
However which part of the quest you're talking about?
Amazing video from homu as usual, bro actually started at 2010 before mihoyo was a thing, i never even heard about Legend of Saha before this video, despite being in the mihoyo rabbit hole for years.
The amount of work it took to dig up all this stuff and order it must have been unreal.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! THE HONKAI VERSE IS SO CONVOLUTED AND CONFUSING FOR MOST PLAYERS, EVEN FOR PLAYERS WHO PLAY ALL OF THE GAMES SO I THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK!! My brain gets bigger everytime you explain a concept in the honkaiverse! It wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said I wouldn’t know half the things I know about the lore if it weren’t for this channel, and I don’t see enough people talking about honkaiverse lore (aside from genshin, I guess). I still don’t get the history of some things like the captain storyline and the overall story of ggz, so please keep up the good work!! Thank you again
10:29 - the samsara in genshin is not on a small scale though, weve not seen it happen, but its pretty much confirmed that teyvat is in a loop/samsara and if you have done the Fontaine quests and read rene's notes, it is revealed that this is the final loop. no new civilisation will be born if teyvat is destroyed now
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Amazing video! Thanks for summarising all those complicated concepts and connections into such an easy to understand format! 😂
I'm looking forward to more of your content alongside the next story developments of both HI3 and HSR! 🎉
The amount of work that went to this video is insane! I'm having a hard time trying to understand whatever tf happen on Penacony, and you studied the whole lore of entire 4 GAMES, systemised the information and delivered it in the most understandable manner. You deserve utmost respect, sir
Wow perfect timing when I wanted to learn about how all of them are connected
Great video! Your explanations are so clear and easy to follow, and i appreciate the subtitles on your videos! Recent genshin lore drops have implied that the existence of samsara extends beyond just the Sumeru archon quest, and that the whole of Teyvat has been through multiple cycles already. So, another supporting evidence for the hoyoverse!
Amazing video, thank you
One thing I have to mention though that wasn't mentioned in this video and might cause people to wrongfully assume. The samsara in Houkai Gakuen 2 works differently, it's not the Honkai that resets civilization there but the Stigmata Terminal Alaya, which was created by Dr.MEI in Era Zero (1st Era)
Also there are actually still ways to read GGZ in English. Hoyostans being one of them for early Retrospective (Project Gekkou) but there is also a website that contains all stories and event stories, with it being translated until Reborn Chapter 12 (AKA until when Global Existed before being shutdown), but its technically using game data so won't mention name here, you can try to look it up if anyone's interested
Thanks!
I knew that there were still ways to play the game with machine translations and about Project Gekkou, but didn't know about that website. It's nice to see so many people interested in the game. I'm thinking of compiling a few ways for Global players to experience the story and present them in a video in the future. Who knows? Maybe we can bring more people into the Global GGZ community.
@@HomuLabsggz have fan English translation supporting by a programmer on foxgirl server. You can still play ggz in English.
Plus ggz is boring... Really boring. You need to wait next event like a month. There's nothing else you can do when you finish the stories and events, it's not like in Honkai impact.
I heard that some fans of GGZ are working on an English translated emulator. Not sure if it’s like project gekkou but it’s something similar.
With every new Homu Labs video, I feel a step closer to understanding the Honkaiverse, while also confirming I'll never truly understand it. Thank you for parsing this massive series for us.
_Genshin_ *is* a Honkai game. Its working title was _Honkai 4_ . On the Chinese players' suggestion, they changed it to _Genshin_ , the tern for Vision holders (Allogenes in English), and the marketing dedpartment added 'impact' to connect it to _HI3_ , but only for the global market.
In total, there are four _Honkai_ games currently:
- GunGirlZ (Houkai Gakuen 2)
- Honkai Impact 3rd
- Genshin (Houkai 4)
- Honkai: Star Rail
While _Tears of Themis_ is also somehow part of the Honkaiverse on the Imaginary Tree, _Zenless Zone Zero_ has ben stated to be separate.
There's also a fan-made patch to allow for play with English translations for _GGZ_ . They're far from great, but they're... functional, I guess, is the best way to put it. It's a shame they closed the Global server, but it is still playable, at least.
Tears of Themis is connected?!
wait whatt i really wanted to get into ggz how can i find the english translation?
I was wondering about Tears of Themis as it makes a reference to Genshin using the slimes as balloons for a certain thing, I forgot but maybe Genshin is a game in Tears of Themis?
@CheshireCatz Possible. I'm not familiar since I don't play, and I haven't watched any of its lore videos I'm sure someone's made. If it's popular enough to still be supported, it's popular enough for lore videos.
@CheshireCatz For me, my theory is that Tears Of Themis is a game in Honkai Star Rail. As you look at Pela's cellphone, it shows the 4 boys.
crazy vid, i've been a fan of this whole universe since early honkai 3rd release and yet I learned so many things, I'm gonna check out all your other vids
thanks for all the explainations.
Since I don't have all the time to play every games nor even to be up to date with at least one of theme, it's really helpfull to see that you're here to explain as much as possible.
you absolutely go above and beyoned to look for clues and lore and connection, ive never played HI3 but its still quite fun to watch your videos on lore
God it make me feels so damn old remembering that I played "Fly Me To the Moon" and Honkai Gakuen Day 1 of release. The games were so basic that I genuinely never would have expected the the premise and the company to grow into a massive powerhouse that it is today.
A must watch for Hoyo fans!
Wow awesome vid. Really makes you see how far hoyo has come
Happy to learn that "Honkai will never end". It just gives me relief. Genshin and Star rail are the only game I'm dumping tons of money on I don't want it to suddenly disappear one day.
This vid was a banger from start to finish! Bravo, sir!
Seeing Kyuushou once again is really appealing
12:34 shots fired!
28:59 More shots fired!
I love your videos
I've become more attached to Honkai lore since I got deep into Genshin
Quantum theory, M Theory, multiverse, imaginary tree, it's like my imagination was made into a playable game
Thanks for putting it all together this way and how you always do
Keep up the great work 🙏👍😎👊🚬❤️
Next video idea - full summary of the whole captainverse story. I really need this because back then I haven't started HI3rd 😭
This video was incredible, thanks for your hard work!
Amazing video, thanks so much for your contributions to the Hoyoverse community!
Keep cooking my brother! Even after several years diving in Hoyoverse lore I got almost drowned, feeling kinda burnt out and was kinda disappointed in the series, but your videos are like a breath of fresh air to me, making me love this franchise again! Thank you very much for this content!
Very very great video Homu! Gives a very clear view for both new and older players of Hoyo games. Keep up the good work!
What a mind blowing series! 👍👍👍
BADLY NEEDED THIS, A HONKA IN DEPTH LORE!!! THANK YOUUUU
Ive never seen da wei cry about the game he made. Its trully touching how much honkai impact means to him. I will never regret joining honkai impact. I still play to this day.
If the shared multiverse idea has been directed by one person all this time... Does that explain the sheer disparity in writing quality between the main quests and the lore/world-building material in Genshin??
I don't think it's one person. Each game has its own team. Most likely they follow a similar "template" to stay somehow consistent throughout the games.
Similar to a company's structure, I believe the director will only be in charge of details that are related to the multiverse idea. They will be responsible for quests that heavily refer to the cosmology concept of Honkaiverse, and make sure that some multiverse details are incorporated into other quests/lores, so that there is a sense of consistency.
However, there are also other teams who work with that director. Aside from making sure details concerns multiverse are included in the stories, they pretty much have their freedom to write any kind of story about nations and characters in the game.
Vision is a thing
not only between games, the writting quality differs per scene.
as they may have different writers.
A good explanation for everyone hates Genshin's story so far...
Agradecido con el de arriba (HomuLabs) por subir estos vídeos
4:50 love that you said that in a very precisely way, they use reverse uno card on us. (edit: liked the video you worked hard on)
Yo, Homu I'm a Brazilian Honkai channel and I was producing a similar video explaining the cosmology of the Hoyoverse but I was having difficulty finding some of the information you presented in the video, can I please use it in my video, of course, leaving the credits for your video on my description ?
Sure, no problem! :D
@@HomuLabs Thanks S2
Canal brasileiro de HI3? Irado!
@@HomuLabshow did you even find certain information is what i struggle to understand. that’s some really hard work.
thank you for the video! i love multiverse or parallel world so much, its facinating to me how the writer can come up with different worlds with different people and the connection between them. and i love the concept of variant/expy character! i dont play hi3 but cant wait for su and theresa expy in hsr since i alredy have alhaitham and nahida lol
also tears of themis is also a game made by mihoyo but theres little connection to it to be a part of honkaiverse (i dont know actually since i only play until the third chapter but i know that theres a novel in hsr with artem name in it, and a promotional photo with tot boys with homu plushie and slime from gi) so this make me thinking if zzz later will be a part of honkaiverse or not?
also didnt know that legend of saha is made by mihoyo! i heard the story of the game and its just so sad 😢
Amazing video! Im sure the work it took to make was horrible haha but you should he proud, it is amazing! We don't really have youtubes doing Honkai related lore videos that are as good as your, soo im happy i can support you! Thanks lmao
Tears of Themis, the forgotten middle child of Hoyoverse
It's not like I forgot about ToT, but we never got any official confirmation from HoYo that the game is part of the Honkai Universe. (unlike the others) While there are plenty of references to other games in ToT, for this video series, I wanted to work only with the games that HoYoverse officially confirmed as part of their shared Universe.
@@HomuLabsspeaking of references, Pela's phone case has mininalistic art of some ToT chars, though that's probably just an easter egg
@@Giovansbilly She mentions Artem if she appears in the astral express. Though I believe that the characters in ToT are actually part of a novel instead of an otome game because of the dialogue
this is very detailed and thorough great video :D
Amazing video, Wait was worth it.❤
Another amazing video.
For a suggestion, what about explaining the captainverse diferent history. Or the history of the golden countryard as is the most connected to the flame chasers.
Random theory I have that is not exactly related to this video but I was reminded of it 😅:
HOMUs are definitely interdimensional beings, seeing as they are popular franchises in MANY HoYoverse worlds (even Tears of Themis!), but especially Houkai Gakuen and Honkai Impact! In the chapter focusing on Durandal how she is actually Kiana, you see these beings that resemble HOMUs that help her in the Imaginary Space. This also happens way earlier in the game with Bronya, when she was in a coma and Fu Hua used Fenghuang Down to get her out of it .
Homus a the true Gods of the Honkai Universe. That is factual and true.
Isn't it just a easter egg though, because the Homu Bronya saw in her coma was Fu Hua choosing Bronya's favorite character to lead her or smth, and the durandal part was because the Kaslanas before her forgot their own identity and became Homus
@@phantom_servant7980 Haha yeah that one was half a joke when I mentioned it, but then again, who knows?
@@donut1550 it's no doubt that Homus can be considered interdimensional beings though
I just want kyushouu to be playable in Hi3 or HSR that's it
Hahah this is good video, although I was expecting it to be a "History of Honkai Universe" where you tell the history of the Imaginary Tree itself from every different perspective of these games
I really hope star rail players react to this especially the big ones(Asmon)
Thanks FINALLY SOMEONE EXPLAINED THE HONKAI UNIVERSE with Words
I can finally convince my friends to play honkai impact because of this video 😂
10:25 it's not just sumeru archon quest, but in fact recently, new fountaine lore drop revealed that the entirety of tevyat is stuck in a huge loop were civilizations are destroyed over and over again (likely by assholes aka celestia and phanes) and this current cycle which is the cycle in which traveler is journeying, is the final and last cycle, after this there will essentially be no tevyat, as the primmoridal waters of tevyat will remerge and destroy it.
I'm still behind the Fontain content, but I'm looking forward to play it now.
@@HomuLabs take your time, cause hoyo cooked nicely in fountaine!
@@HomuLabslook at the names of Mona's constellations, they sound awfully similar to what has happened and might happen in the Fontaine story.
That's scary
is it possible that teyvat is a bubble world as mentioned in the video
I might have been busy as a college student and only focusing of my studies but i wll never forget to settle some time to play and learn their interconnection and being a die hard fan of honkai verse
I want Homu to know that this is my comfort video ❤. I always come back here from time to time to rewatch or even listen while I wash the dishes or clean the room.
Amazing video! as a player that sometimes skip the storyline i need a amazing video like that recap
You now have my attention for i humbly request more. I have been trying to find out more about these games and how they tie together. Thank you.😊😊😁
Your video become better and better.....
btw is @HomuLabs also plan to make a video about explaining all the Captain Bizarre Adventure event until Luna event in ver. 7.0.
It sure be nice to hear all the connection of event like from Sanguine Night, Odd Drifter, Honkai Kingdom arc and so on......
PS: I also want more easier explanation about Ferryman lore.
I will do one sometimes in the future.
thanks for this content Homu
I hope hoyoverse will become big to the point wendigoon covers it like an iceberg because GOD I'm so into this great vid btw ily ‼️‼️
I started with genshin and have been playing both genshin and star rail since launch... This may be the catalyst that gets me started on impact 3rd
Thanks to you for this information. ❤
woah, the "hoyoverse"
Great video as always, Homu! It's a shame GGZ isn't available in english anymore; I'd love to learn more about it and see how it laid the groundwork for HI3rd. Then again, I probably shouldn't be playing any more gacha games.
Also, the early HI3rd mangas (Escape from Nagazora, etc.) were made before the actual game? That explains why they feel so different... and horny.
its horny because the writer also do the same to GGZ story.
Ggz has an english patch that restore the old global translation on the last version
There is also Operation Gekkou, the VN adaptation of the story in full retranslated english
yeah herrscher of coding and other mods created eng sub version it's prettty doble. I dowloaded it myself and been playing for a month now.@@haeldral3405
that was... very educational.
i knew some concepts, kinda, i tried to play hi3 before, but i really kinda skipped some story bits bc i got overwhelmed...
anyway, the retroactiveness of time took my attention in turn to some weird genshin things with time, it would explain the weird sakura planting and especially that one line in one of the books... i think it was enkanomiya book maybe, i just remember it said "only the future can save the past not the other way around"
the retroactiveness of time as a concept in hoyo games definitely does fit into this line tbh
My mind was blown , omg thank you for your hard work ❤
I feel kinda nerd because I didn't feel bored watching this video😂thank you again
Amazing work as always!
Perfect video to learn about HoYoverse and Honkai...... I started to play genshin at first and now playing honkai after the announcement of honkai impact 3rd part 2..... This game is interesting man... It so confusing but it will be understandable.....Thanks for the video and really appreciate it. really love the video.
Good video as always Homu labs 🎉
Well it was confirmed in hoyoverse discord interview that the games are connected
Let's gooooooooo
Also wow what an epic intro
So salt snow holy city recap when or are you gonna recap the entirety of part 1.5 ?
Plus still waiting for that captainverse history video since captainverse is also over
The Seele Arc Recap should be coming soon. Also, like I previously said, the Captainverse recap won't be coming anytime soon since I am too busy with other videos I want to make right now and don't have the time to properly research the older events. Hopefully, sometime next year.
@@HomuLabsahh okay thank you for the response sir
What a gem of a video this is o7
Thanks for another awesome video, your channel helped me so much as a new fan to understand some of the confusing stuff. Do you think one day you can make a video like "full story of the captainverse" and "full story of the idolverse" by the way? Ive only been able to play the most recent events as a new player and its a bit confusing, but i still wanna know the stories behind these parallel world events. If you see this comment thank you so much for your efforts!!
Thanks! :D
Hopefully some day I will. Not in the near future though.
@HomuLabs no worries i know it takes alot of time and effort to make these videos. I cant wait to see the future videos you come up with!! 👏 take your time and thank you for all your work in this fandom 🙏
I wouldn't be surprised if they revealed the supposedly sibling/twins on the Genshin is just 2 versions of the same people
this is insane
thank you so much for clarification
Hoyoverse was Honkai-verse all along. I knew it
Great work my friend
I can't wait to see what the finality equivalent of genshin is. We have the cocoon of finality in HI3, the ruler of will in GGZ, and most likely Terminus in HSR. Will the sinner be the finality? Or is it something beyond anything we've seen or read about, and still unrevealed? Probably still unrevealed.
theres no finality in genshin bcs its not part of the honkai series, so honkai concepts doesnt exist in genshin
thank you so much for this video! i started playing hoyo games in 2020 where i played genshin impact. i quit for a few months but then picked it up again in 2021. i recently stopped playing it and now im playing hsr, so i guess i could be considered a new fan. i dont know too much about the honkai universe but i do know a bit of hi3 lore. its really interesting seeing how they all connect.
bro youreblowing my mind rn, I didnt evenrealize da wei wasnt a founding memberaa
Dawei is one of the founding members. It's just that his real name isn't Dawei. It's Liu Wei. Dawei is more like a nickname.
Ena the Order's splash art might have some significance, since it shows Ena looking over what is essentially a bubble containing planets and stars.
This was a really nice break down! I knew about Fly me to the Moon but I didn't know about the game before that. Its really cool that some of these ideas never really left and were reused, and I can't wait too see what they reuse in Genshin and even in Starrail.
Personally for Genshin I like the project stigma theory, which is that the world of Teyvat is the result of project stigma succeeding, which could be why reality seems kind of weird and how Kevin could still be involved in the story but you don't need to have any knowledge of HI3. (HI3 Kevin and Genshin Kevin are two different versions)
I miss the days where Sirin was named Celine
Me who plays the 3 hoyo games: I'm here for the positive and wholesome story🤣🤣
The cope of that gaslight
I watch this video just now and realizing, and I definitely heard or read it somewhere, Senadia is definitely a Star Whisperer! But her case isn't only the sea of quanta's work, there is influence done by either Ai-Chan or Vita or by Senadia in the dream doing something that caused Dreamseeker to also wake up in the sea of quanta but having Dreamseeker as the catalyst to whatever she implanted in or on her to cause the birth of a Star Whisperer
"Sirin" "Less Depressed Sirin" gives the same vibes as "Daniel" *"The Cooler Daniel"*
You're the best hyv cc. Period
The video we needed, tysm 🙏
Wow so even the very first mihoyo/hoyoverse game had an eva refrence.. i love it.
I keep hearing about the Captain vers, and now that it’s properly explained, I want it back.
good thing that i had popcorn bag at home, thats goin to be goood :)