Happy Change Angels

Event Title

JP: ハッピー・チェンジ・エンジェルズ
EN: Happy Change Angels

tl;dr

The Story Itself

  • A simple comfy event. I like the use of the supporting characters here.
  • The way Yori reviewed Abyss Hunters 2 resonated with me somehow.

Difficulty

  • Not much to say, easy.

Translation Differences

  • Accurately translated, I have something to show how the TW server handled translating the title, so I still added this section in. (they didn't, because there's nothing to translate)

The Story Itself

Going to be a shorter blog this time around, I swear I'm not trying to slack off because I'm busy, there's just very little to talk about because the story is very straightforward, as enjoyable as it was. If I tried to force myself to discuss more things, I'd be spoiling the entire story.

The Supporting Characters' Role

As the event's title suggests, Akari and Yori swapped bodies! Too bad for them, they have people they are going to meet soon. Yori, her offline game meeting and Akari, her festival.

The entire point of Akari's and Yori's characters is how they're very different despite being twins. Both personality wise and...physically. At one point of the story, Yori comments how fighting in Akari's body feels heavier, kek.

heavy

This difference is the story's main focus, and the story presents it by showing how other characters react when the twins are in each other's bodies. You'd definitely raise an eyebrow if Yori suddenly became extroverted and lewd and Akari became an epic gamer.

Yori and Her Offline Meeting

Or should I say, Akari and Yori's Offline meeting. She's meeting up with Nanaka and Rin, and a bunch of other NPC gamers.

Obviously, Nanaka is surprised when Yori suddenly goes yahooo. Nanaka comments Yori is suddenly acting like she's a whole different person, but brushes it off as if Yori is just adopting a new persona. Meanwhile Rin is fully convinced that this really is a whole different person.

different person

A character defining moment for Rin, she's really perceptive despite being a slob. Akari comments on this.

surudoi

An offline meeting shouldn't be a big deal of our extroverted Akari, right? Wrong. She's a fucking normie so she knows jack shit about games. The NPC dude asked her about reviewing a game and how to beat a certain boss, and you bet Akari fumbled really badly.

ganbattaww

Eventually, KSKN bail her out, shoves a deck of card into her hands, and tells her to show off her card games skill. That's the one game she knows how to play since used to play with Yori when they're little. Akari kicks ass, and Nanaka and Rin assume KSKSN just did his KSKN magic.

angel? more like monster

Speaking of card games, I've been thinking about going into Shadowverse locals since there's an actual Shadowverse scene in Indonesia and I'm now decent enough (autistic enough) to reach Grandmaster 3. But that would require me talking to...people! I like playing games more than talking about it, and if you think I ramble a lot about Priconne anyway, that's because I'm way too obsessed with this IP. Anyway, moving on before I get sidetracked.

Akari and Her Festival

Or should I say, Yori and Akari's festival. She's meeting up with Suzuna and Yuki.

God, Yori is literally me here. She's bad with new people and with crowds and had to fake excitement at first to get things rolling. The difference is that it actually works for her, when I do it, it's usually very obvious that I don't want to be there...

y-yay...

After watching some stage performance, the group gets hungry and decided to get some food. Suzuna treats Yori the fes' signature curry, which has a giant portion. Looking at Yori, you might think she needs the extra calories anyway (I don't), but right now she's in Akari's body...

Meeting new people, drowning in crowds and stuffing herself with curry all in one day puts Yori into a spin. Suzuna notices and asks if Yori is doing okay. Obviously, Yori lies but KSKN bail him out. Yuki randomly walks into the scene and KSKN asks to borrow his mirror. KSKN tells Yori to fix herself up and that's when she notices that it's not Yori she's seeing on the mirror, but Akari. Yori realizes she can't ruin this for Akari and asks herself, what would Akari do in this situation? She thinks she'd know, because she's the one closest to Akari.

what would she do?

Super cute. It did take a mirror for her to realize, but I like that she thinks she's close enough with Akari to know what she'd do. It's natural to assume they'd be close because they're twins, but how can the audience be sure if it's not shown? After all, this is the same game where two siblings fighting is part of the focus of an arc. Haven't read Arc 2, but I assume there was a conflict between Sheffy and Zane to the point there that was a whole ass raid about Zane shitting up Landosol and Sheffy, his sister, opposing him.

Yori's Game Review

This happens before Akari and Yori got their body swapped, so it's in a different section.

Before Raphi started to swap people's bodies around, Yori was her first victim. Yori wished she could be more honest with her feelings, so that's what Raphi gave her. At first, it seemed only her outfit changed, but it starts kicking in when Yori went to her first offline meeting.

Nanaka asks Yori about how she feels about Abyss Hunters 2. Nanaka herself likes the new character design, and Rin remembers having trouble clearing Abyss Hunters 1. Raphi's magic kicks in and Yori suddenly becomes brutally critical. Actually, she's always been brutally critical when it comes to games, Raphi's magic just made her capable of expressing it.

She goes on about how while the new designs are great, the game's lower difficulty is a disappointment. She thinks that it's great that they're trying to cater to newer players, but this comes at a price of shafting the hardcore fans.

game review with yori

This reminds me of Dragalia...Lost. Dragalia Lost was considered to be "gacha dark souls" because of its High Dragon fights. It was fine until they decided to add Expert and Master difficulties AND locked progression behind them. The devs notice people were quitting, so they decided to tone down the difficulty when the second series of endgame fights released, The Agito Uprising. However, now the hardcore players were quitting because of how easy the new fights were, so to combat that, they added a new Legend difficulty. It's balls to the walls hard, but only rewarded weapon skins, so no progression was locked behind them.

Personally, I really liked this solution, but at that point the game was on a timer already. I just didn't see it...

Well, there you have it. The constant ping-ponging of how Dragalia handled its endgame fights really made Yori's review hit hard for me. I could go into more details, I know how Volk was well received at first (I thought so too) only for Kai Yan to shit everything up, and how the Dominion fights shit things up even further by introducing Nihility, but that would end up longer than my review of the Happy Change Angels event. Guess I can't just help going off-topic when there's little to talk about.

Difficulty

Not much to say here, perfect comprehension. 100% (834/834).

Translation Differences

I mostly want to show this off.

happy change angels

This is TW server's version of the event PV. Notice how they didn't bother translating or even transliterating the event title using Chinese characters. I don't know Chinese, so I can't comment on how they should've handled it.

If EN had lived long enough to reach this event, I bet they'd just steal the event logo from TW. I'd say fuck Crunchyroll for being lazy, but it's not like there'd be anything to translate.

That is all for now. See ya on the next one.

ultimate gamer

Honestly, a girl with Yori's body and Akari's personality is fire. Not to throw a shade on Yori's personality, but she reminds me of myself a bit too much....

Notes

prologue:

  • yori going to a game's offline meeting
  • doesn't know anyone outside her guild, and doesn't like meeting new people
  • so she invited kskn
  • he's late...or maybe he ditched me
  • hey
  • oh thank god he came
  • ugh, you're late! c'mon, we don't have much time left
  • and this kid?
  • huh, this kid who...?
  • hello, my name is raphi, and i'm an angel that'll make you ultra happy
  • yori-chan, don't you have something on your mind?
  • wanna be ultra happy?
  • an angel...? well, you've got the wings and the bow...
  • wait, are you going to shoot me with that!?
  • yes, but don't worry, it won't hurt...probably
  • pshooo
  • ...? did anything happen
  • cute
  • wtf are you saying so suddenly? let's go...huh!?

episode 1:

  • why did you change my clothes!?
  • your clothes was changed according to your wish...probably
  • ugh. i can't go to the meeting like this, change me back-
  • huh, where'd she go!?
  • agh! anyway, who else are in the meeting
  • choice: rin, the lazy bastard or nanaka, the collector from the scary guild twinkle wish
  • wtf is that list!? now i can't go!
  • but cancelling last minute is rude, so let's just go
  • meanwhile, nanaka and rin are chatting in the meeting
  • you know, didn't expect a twilight caravan member to be here
  • aren't you guys supposed to be scary?
  • wtf! is my magical girl image backfiring!?
  • btw, is anyone else arriving
  • yes! the demon girl from diabolos! a bit of a tsundere, an angel, and has a twin! it's like she crammed all character traits into herself
  • wow, you sure know a lot of people, but...
  • kskn and yori arrive
  • oooh an angel has arrived!
  • hush, you'll scare her away
  • the conversation eventually goes into the newly released abyss hunters 2
  • nanaka loved it because of the new design
  • rin had trouble with abyss hunters 1
  • so...what do you think, yori?
  • i think it's disappointing
  • huh, what am i saying!?
  • while the new designs are good
  • stoopp! is this magic!?
  • the lowered difficulty is something i have a problem with
  • nooo!
  • while it's good to bring in new fans, it's not good to ignore the old fans!
  • they must hate me now
  • oooh i agree yori! nice review
  • i'm glad i have someone to talk about games, no one back in the farm are interested
  • you are truly my new best friend!
  • too fast. you're putting too much pressure on people
  • oof!
  • see, told you nanaka
  • and you, rin. playing games is good, but not to the point of troubling people in the farm
  • oof!
  • well, i guess in the end i was honest
  • but i was able to make friends
  • and thanks for invi- actually nevermind. where is that kid? i need to talk to her
  • akari and raphi are talking
  • eventually, akari asks raphi to use magic on her
  • changed her clothes, but wants to see real magic with substance
  • wtf!? don't encourage her!
  • raphi uses super angelic arrow
  • akari and yori swapped bodies.

episode 2:

  • uhhh that wasn't supposed to happen
  • it's not on the manual
  • well, i'm an excellent angel, so this must have meant to happen
  • anyway, i gtg now see ya!
  • crap...what do we do know, we can't meet with people like this
  • how about we try to adapt to each other?
  • me? adapting akari's lewd speech? no way!
  • me? lewd? i think i'm just normal though...
  • btw, stop panicking yori, we may have swapped bodies, but our bonds are unchanged
  • the two of us will get through anything
  • yes...i guess so
  • speaking of, i have a fes with suzuna coming up. wanna join?
  • you want to go to the concert with my body speaking like that? no way!
  • and i have an offline meeting anyway...
  • you want to go to the meeting with my body?
  • ah crap right i also swapped bodies
  • how about akari go to the meeting?
  • no way! that's too much for you right-
  • it's fine actually. you can go to the concert in my place yori
  • whaaaat

episode 3:

  • the twins go to their respective meetings
  • both of them introduce themselves as the other twin at first
  • akari (in yori's body) immediately hit it off, even though nanaka noticed she's a bit different
  • played it off as akari (yori's body) trying on a new character
  • yori (akari's body), still shy
  • it's the first time she's met suzuna and yuki, so they just assume that's how akari is
  • suzuna asks which artist akari wants to see
  • yori (akari's body) says whatever is fine
  • okay!
  • holy shit this is so crowded
  • and everyone is dancing all around
  • kskn yells in excitement
  • wtf, you're too loud!
  • haha, good going kskn!
  • oh, you were supposed to do that!?
  • yay yay!
  • haha, nice vibes, akari!
  • one show over
  • there's still time until the next show, so they eat
  • wow, so many carts here!
  • here, the fes' signature curry, my treat!
  • the portion is huge...but suzuna already bought it...
  • damn...i meet new people, in a crowded space, and ate a lot..
  • i'm getting tired...
  • you tired?
  • huh? no?
  • kskn drags yori (akari's body) away
  • suzuna is understanably confused
  • yori (akari's body) thanks kskn, but...
  • suzuna comes after them, concerned
  • oh no...now i made suzuna worry
  • yuki casually walks in
  • kskn asks to borrow his mirror
  • i should fix myself up? okay
  • she notices that it's akari on the mirror
  • realizes can't ruin this for akari
  • wonders to herself, what would akari do in this situation?
  • she'd know, because she's the closest person to akari
  • first, be honest
  • tells suzuna that she got way too excited, wanted a cold drink before the next show
  • ah, sure, we can do that!
  • yori eventually thanks kskn (while being in character)
  • happy to be able to thank him seriously, but wishes to be able to do it in her own body next time

episode 4:

  • akari (in yori's body) is attending yori's offline meeting
  • hearing everyone talk, she's learning a lot
  • that's the problem, everyone else thinks she doesn't have any more learning to do because she's a game maniac
  • nanaka comments that she's really doing a good job at keeping this charade up
  • rin thinks it's as if she's a whole different person (true)
  • suddenly, they ask akari about game reviews and how to beat a boss
  • ahah...the game was interesting...and just do your best on the boss!
  • huh...
  • yori, you okay?
  • ah, this is a game meeting, i need to impress them with a game
  • how about we play...the king's game!
  • huh...but that's a normie game!
  • oh no...
  • suddenly, kskn comes
  • heyyy, it's you, listen, yori here is feeling terrible. mind taking her outside for some air
  • akari (in yori's body) leaves
  • fuckkk that was close, what do i do
  • you need to impress them with games
  • i tried...huh, use these
  • akari (in yori's body) goes back inside and invites everyone to play card games
  • rin yeah sure we're already gathered up might as well do something that isn't talking
  • akari (in yori's body) kicks everyone's ass
  • everyone impressed
  • whew...thank god i could beat them in the one game i'm good at
  • i usually play this game with yori
  • from this event, realizes how her sister is more amazing than she thought
  • after meeting, can't wait to meet yori again.

episode 5:

  • akari and yori reunite
  • akari thought it'd be easy, but it was hard
  • yori said she handled it...or not, it was kskn doing the carrying
  • rafi sees them being happy
  • must mean she managed to grant their wishes succesfully
  • okay, time to grant more wishes!
  • shoots a bunch of random people, swapping their bodies
  • akari and yori try to find rafi, notices people being weird
  • old man and young man swapped bodies
  • mom and son swapped bodies
  • the son (in the mom's body) ran into yori (in akari's body)
  • they return to normal
  • oh, i guess we have the power to swap people back
  • yori, let's use it on ourselves then
  • no, if we swap now, we might lose the power. we need to prioritze everyone else first
  • hm okay
  • hm? got any objections?
  • no, i was just impressed at you wanting to help strangers
  • oh, akari...
  • yori tells kskn to go find people
  • they go around swapping people back
  • a bit of drama happens when the old man didn't want to give the young body back
  • eventually, they get tired. wonders where kskn is
  • turns out kskn went to nightmare to ask for help to gather people
  • suddenly, a large bow comes in a starts scrambling everyone again
  • akari and yori chase after it, find a crying rafi
  • turns out rafi accidentally shot herself and granted her wish of wanting to grant others' wishes
  • made her bow big so it can do that
  • they start fighting the big bow

episode 6:

  • the big bow is going around town granting wishes (bad)
  • rafi starts self-deprecating (literally me)
  • yori steps in, realizing how similar they're. finally admitting to what akari said
  • they both want to fit in with the people around them
  • rafi might have fucked up
  • but she still made yori's wish come true, she was able to finally say things that she wants to say
  • as far as she's concerned, that makes her a splendid angel already
  • akari is also grateful to rafi for making her closer to her sister
  • okay, but how do we fix this? one meek angel isn't enough
  • well duh, you're looking at 2 more!
  • now that you've granted our wish, time to do yours!
  • akari and yori rush to the scene
  • the nightmare knights retreat because they're in random bodies
  • they start jobbing because they aren't used to fighting in each other's bodies
  • rafi rushes to the big bow and starts begging it to go back
  • she knows she fucked up, but because someone has believed in her, she wants to try to fix it
  • seeing this, the twins go all "we can't lose to her can we?"
  • big bow suddenly emits a big flash
  • both scared, but stuck together. nothing is scary when we're together etc
  • they return to their original bodies
  • must be because they're ultra happy now!
  • they proceed to beat the bow

epilogue:

  • bow beaten, things return to normal
  • the twins lose their angel outfit
  • rafi thanks the twins
  • rafi suddenly talks to someone
  • who?
  • it's the bow
  • they can now communicate thanks to akari and yori's influence
  • they have to leave
  • parting gift before rafi leave
  • rafi aims bow at the twins
  • wtf not again!?
  • outfit changed back to the angel, but bodies didn't swap this time
  • guess they worked that out
  • so...you're leaving? shit just happened, why not stay here
  • wasn't here to play, can't stay long
  • will we see you again?
  • yes, once i really become a splendid angel
  • there she goes...her leaving was as sudden as her arriving
  • phew that was quite something wasn't onee chan
  • yeah
  • shit was wild, but i got to experience lots of things
  • i could finally express my opinions, had fun in the concert, and solved the big bow shit by asserting myself
  • coudln't have done it without rafi
  • no way, i think you also had a part in that
  • thanks. guess i have to keep doing my best
  • that won't do. i have to keep doing my best too so i won't be left behind
  • after all, we're the bestest twins there is!
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Pub: 08 Oct 2025 21:04 UTC

Edit: 25 Oct 2025 07:40 UTC

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