Honkai Impact 3rd Animation - Final Lesson

"never let you g-" honkai players: sobbing

For those who don’t have all the context. Edit: I’ve compiled a playlist for those who don’t play Honkai Impact 3rd and want to see all the cinematics and story explained. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3mYfhC4jQAn-cnk8-01utF… So in this world, Valkyries take on some of the Honkai (invading aliens) cells to give them super powers to fight off the Honkai. The problem is that the Honkai cells are toxic and the longer and more you use them, the more they destroy your body. Himeko (red head) is a mentor figure in this story (think Kikashi to Naruto) and has been a Valkyrie for a long time and she’s due for “retirement”, in which she is suppose to take a serum which will eject the Honkai cells from her body. This will save her life, but it will rob her of her fighting power. Kiana (the white haired girl), a student of Himeko’s and the game’s protagonist, is being controlled by a strain of “God Honkai” cells named Sirin. Sirin is controlling Kiana and is wrecking havoc on the world alongside her dragon minion. So in this moment of dire need, Himeko forgoes her “retirement” in an effort to save her student. She actually dons a prototype suit which will actually amplify her Honkai cells even further and kill her even more rapidly. In the end of this suicide mission to save her student, Himeko ejects Kiana with her own “retirement” serum to eject Sirin from Kiana’s body, thus hopefully freeing the young girl the Honkai God’s control. Ultimately this causes Himeko to burn through her body and she dies right at the moment she was suppose to be freed from the fighting and death. I wrote all of this out because the context makes this beautiful video even more amazing and I hope I was able to clarify any questions and shed some light on the context.

"She was reborn in fire, she smiled in fire"

Himeko at Star Rail, shes still beautiful as the day we lost her. Edit: ohh the time has come, new himeko appeared i hope mihoyo doesn't do anything bad about her :(

Mihoyo really loves their cubes..

This short animation has more budget than seven deadly sins season 3

4:52 After rewatching this for a few times I finally noticed this little detail. The corners of Himeko's lips turned up into a faint smile as she got blasted away by HoV, because she knew she had won. Even if she was dying, she managed to successfully inject the anti Honkai serum into Kiana and stop HoV, that's why that one last smile appeared on her lips.

4:40 if you pay attention in honkai star rail, you can see that Himeko’s broken sword is exposed in the storage room of Herta’s Spaceship alongside the planer from Genshin and Vyn’s card pyramid in tears of Themis, however Himeko’s sword was by far the cruelest Easter egg they could’ve had done 🥲

Im a simple man, I see Himeko die. I cry.

Now Kiana gets to use the same ult that Himeko used T-T Carrying on Himeko's legacy.

Hopefully, Himeko won't get the same fate in Star Rail. Fellow captains, we must protect her at all costs!

hearing the line "reach the end of your story in your own way" in honkai star rail really shocked me, i just had to come back here. and shed a tear once again.

I don't know these characters I've never played the game I have no idea what this is about I still teared up at the end

Me when I first played this Chapter: FINALLY! MOMMY MURATA GETS THE SPOT LIGHT :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD Me after the chapter: Oh...that was her only spotlight

4:49 Himeko was trying to give Kiana a final hug, but Sirin head butted her away. This detail here just made it ten times more depressing.

That scream in 3:58, man. You can hear the desperation in her voice and her hope for Kiana. She's also in massive pain while fighting her. What a strong woman himeko is

"You don't truly appreciate something until it's gone." Auntie Himeko really hit us hard with that lesson!

I'm watching this again after Everlasting Flames, just so I can cry again.

One thing I love about this animations current in-game audio, is that when Kiana is injected with the serum, you can hear both Kiana and Sirin scream in agony as the Honkai cells are rejected from their body. Kiana's voice slowly creeps in after Sirin's, and you can hear everything. The hate, the regret, the sadness, the pain. Everything.

Coming back here cause Murata had finally been showed.