yrelia

i play wuwa and collect merch. heyo

[yrelia @yreliahs]

Tarokiki singing at the end was just the cherry on top. Although we found out she couldn’t make it 1 day before the concert, PIAO & Amanda were amazing considering the short notice and then some!

Thank you #WutheringWaves for making it an amazing experience!
#WuWa2026WorldTour

[FatFluffyPenguin @fatfluffypengu]

As many of you know, the story of 3.8 takes heavy reference to the real story of 'Night on the Galactic Railroad'. I'm drafting the script for my Lily video right now, but I just want to take a part of it and share it if any of you missed the references and symbolism, because IMO the way the story used it was incredible:

While the whole concept of the train of souls travelling to heaven or the afterlife in 3.8 definitely takes some inspiration from movies such as ‘Spirited Away’, Lily’s quest, as well as the mysterious story that both her and Cassandra keep talking about throughout it, with things like stars, the scorpion stuck inside of a well, of a boy that cannot find happiness by the end of this so-called story…it makes it abundantly clear beyond a doubt that a massive part of the 3.8 quest was inspired by the novel ‘Night on the Galactic Railroad’, published after the death of its author Kenji Miyazawa.

The story tells the tale of a boy called Giovanni, a lonely boy with absent parents who one day, staring at the Milky Way, is given a ticket to go on the Galactic Railroad, a mystical train that travels across several celestial stations. Giovanni soon realises that in actuality, beside himself every other passenger on the train is dead, and the train is really a train of souls ferrying people to heaven and the afterlife. Even his best friend Campanella, who Giovanni thought was accompanying him on a journey, is now a soul after he drowned earlier that day trying to save a classmate. As the only living persono and final survivor, Giovanni is forced to return to earth, and live for everyone else’s sake.

Miyazawa was Buddhist, and began writing the story after his sister died in 1922. He went to the railway to cope, and from that point began drafting the story we know today. Pushed by Buddhist ideals of saving others who are suffering before saivng ones self, ‘Night on the Galactic Railroad’ structured his story in much the same way, with the main character Giovanni being the final passenger on the train after everyone else had passed on. You may recall from 3.8 that Lily too, is the final survivor of her original unit, the supposed final soul on the train that cured everyone else’s suffering before her own.

Besides the fact that this book may have already been referenced in 3.1 within the achievment ‘Dear Giovanni’, the train of souls in both the novel and Wuthering Waves’ 3.8 story share so many obvious parallels that it’s astounding. The train stops at different celestial stops, and passengers are sent off to the afterlife after their lingering griefs are resolved. However, Lily and Cassandra especially make several more precise references to Miyazawa’s book. You may recall that in one of the cutscenes, Lily tells you the story of the constellation Scorpio, where a scorpion stung a beast before falling into a well, lamenting to God of how it should have just let the beast eat them rather than dying a useless death. In exchange, God let the scorpion blaze radiantly in the sky for a single day, becoming the constellation Scorpio. This is based on Miyazawa’s book, where a child on the train tells Giovanni this story basically word for word, with the beast specifically being a weasel. To be honest, I’ve had a bit of a think to myself as to what this parable really means, and why Lily recites it exactly. I think it may be a metaphor for Lily’s survivors guilt and self-sacrifice, where she wished that she had died to the Tacet Discords alongside the rest of her squad so long ago rather than being stuck on the train still alive, almost like the scorpion in the well. However, I think it’s really up to interpretation.

Another thing you may notice, especially toward the end is that each of the soldiers sent to the Fifth Sector is provided a ticket, with one soldier even holding out hope that this ticket will be what allows them to escape this hell and finally return home. However, as the soldiers in Lily’s story say: those who are sent to the Fifth Sector never return. In ‘Night On the Galactic Railroad’, each passenger also receives a ticket to the Southern Cross, where they must depart to the afterlife. Essentially, the symbolism of the tickets that each of the Fifth Sector soldiers carry is just that- they are death warrants, a one-way trip to the afterlife. In the book, the only person with a different ticket is the main character, Giovanni, who has a green ticket that can send someone not just to the afterlife but anywhere, even back to the world of the living. At the very end of 3.8, when Grimm gives Lily his train ticket, he alongside all of the other Fifth Sector soldiers is telling Lily to stop revelling in the world of the dead, and take this chance to live her own life.

Unfortunately, Miyazawa and the book he wrote does not exactly have a happy ending. Miyazawa himself died before the book was completed, and the story was published unfinished. By the end of the story, Giovanni is the final survivor of the train of souls, much like Lily, and must return to the mortal world, living the lives that the others no longer could. In the story, Lily and Cassandra, when they are referring to this mysterious story, which we now know is almost painfully obvious to be based on Miyazawa’s, says that the main character, by the end, never can fully understand what happiness really is. Giovanni, by the end, is much like Lily in this regard. At the end of the story, she is final survivor, and is caught in a limbo of remembrance and keeping them close, while also having to push on and let go of the past. The real meaning of this, that Giovanni does not know what happiness is by the end, is because Miyazawa wanted to say that happiness is not always something that is static and permenant once achieved. Many people who have philosophically analysed his story has said that Miyazawa’s true lesson is that happiness is a struggle, an active and painful commitment to keep on living in a flawed and imperfect world, carrying on the memory of those that cannot.

Miyazawa carried on living past his sister’s death in 1922, Giovanni kept on living despite being the final survivor of the Galactic Train and losing his best friend Campanella, and Lily must keep on living carrying the memories and legacy of the soldiers of the Fifth Sector.

[yrelia @yreliahs]

@keikakudorii yeah was just hoping for aemeath denia levels of synergy and dmg together with hsin and suoming. but instead it’s just hsin 90%+ of the dmg.

suoming by herself is actually great, just slap lynae with her.

[yrelia @yreliahs]

@keikakudorii for a character that can do main dps stuff, in a dual dps comp.. yeah her dmg is super lackluster in a dual dps comp.

versus like denia, iuno, etc. i was better off staying s2 suoming tbh. love her but damn.

[yrelia @yreliahs]

@keikakudorii i lowkey regret s6ing her when i see her dmg 💀.
i normally am able to just ignore it, but i was planning on pulling sigrika and yy this patch.. so seeing suoming just be alright when she’s not the main dps is like 😭 to me.. but hey its alright i guess
i’ll save funds for 4.x

[yrelia @yreliahs]

@keikakudorii my rule is that if i like the character i suck up the bad dupes and just go for s6.

cough cough s4 lynae and suoming.

but normally i do the same thing, I just really liked lynae, denia, and suoming.. although i wont lie suoming s6 is the reason i don’t have much funds rn 💀

[Jimmy Patel @jpatel02]

this shit mean something to me man

#wuwaspoilers

[NieamArt (BleeeGMV) @NieamArt]

I got the opportunity to create a cinematic video for Wuthering Waves 3.8 story quest, thanks to Kuro Games..
The way they portrayed and executed its anti-war theme was truly incredible.
For better Quality: https://t.co/qv18fHG0gZ

#WutheringWaves

[yrelia @yreliahs]

this is easily the best event wuwa has released! absolutely loved the story and vn aspect.

[yrelia @yreliahs]

@keikakudorii oh 100% agree.

[yrelia @yreliahs]

@keikakudorii my first thought when they revealed this earlier when i finished was the exact same thought u had 😭
“lily more relevant than chisa”

[yrelia @yreliahs]

@Kuko__Ne I don't mind! Just tag me and I love your edits by the way!

[yrelia @yreliahs]

Camellya taking my Camellya Plush and throwing it back to me..

Camerawork was horrible 😭 as I was chasing her… caught my plush at least.
#WuWa2026WorldTour

[yrelia @yreliahs]

first run done! probably the best event for me in all of wuwa!

[yrelia @yreliahs]

3.8 story spoilers.. but holy damn

[Wuthering Waves @Wuthering_Waves]

Wuthering Waves | Resonator Showcase | Lily — FORGET FEAR

"At least this way… I can save one life."

Follow @Wuthering_Waves and repost. 10 winners will be chosen for a $50 Amazon Gift Card.

#WutheringWaves
#Lily

[yrelia @yreliahs]

@phrolovaesque don’t feel too demotivated! unfortunately max characters and showing them off will always have people making up excuses.. just share what you like and don’t look too deep into it!

and true phrolova in all 3 endgames has been so 50/50 since 3.0

[yrelia @yreliahs]

@phrolovaesque phrolova twins

[yrelia @yreliahs]

holy jumpscare in lily's EP

[Wuthering Waves @Wuthering_Waves]

Wuthering Waves EP3.8 — Lily - "Lily Grace"

Through the long night, washing off woes, we'll be mended by a fragrant dream.

Production: Wuthering Waves
Vocalist: Aurora Sky
Producer: Aurora Sky, Lucien X
Composer: Aurora Sky, Lucien X
Lyricist: Oil Li
Arranger: Aurora Sky, Lucien X, TN163
Strings: TN163, Lucien X
Guitar: Lucien X, TN163
Backing Vocal Arranger: Aurora Sky, Lucien X, TN163
Recording Engineer: Billy-Zen@RC-Studios
Mixing Engineer: FN1U
Mastering Engineer: FN1U
Music Supervisors: Steven Tang, ShawWZ, Marisa Yan

#WutheringWaves
#Lily