Ok before I even get into anything wow I was watching both streams at the same time and Twitch failed so hard! I mean the lag is normal. I've always griped about that and I seriously wonder when Twitch who is owned by Amazon will spend a little more on getting their streams to play like video streaming sites in 2022 should play. I almost thought it was my own internet that was failing again but no everybody had the same problems. I even left Twitch to head to Youtube to watch somebody else's stream thinking their internet might be better. But no they had the same lag and then it got worse. Poor Zach got cut off and the whole segment with the conches restarted making it pretty obvious that these livestreams are prerecorded videos. And it just kept getting worse. Even the awesome end credits scene was messed up! Come on! The Chinese stream on Bilibili which should be coming from halfway across the world was still working fine the whole time lol
Anyway besides the utter fail of Twitch - I was thankfully checking out Bilibili - and they had so much more going for them. First
More people! I actually question MiHoYo's decision to make Oz this "special guest." Ben really didn't talk and it felt like a missed opportunity to hype up Sumeru. I personally thought Cyno might be introducing the region and that was the outlined guy. The leakers decided to talk about a new character and both would have worked with that outline. But it was just Oz.... Congrats to the people who guessed it right I guess. 
On Bilibili they had Mona and Xinyan as additional hosts. These guys took turns explaining the events and Heizou was also there talking to Kazuha and explaining his abilities.
Speaking of
Introducing Genshin's own One Punch Deer!
Heizou's moves look great. I'm not sure how well he'll play but the One Punch is pretty cool. His Burst looks fun too but the fact that he's really short range could be a problem. So we'll see when he comes out.
I'm happy I got the banners totally right. Yoimiya and Klee the new bffs. But here's the thing. Unless they end up showing up in the new Character Quest their inclusion here feels weird. I was only joking before but I mean I totally thought they would be a major part of a Mondstadt based story. Instead for some reason Kazuha will be in two stories? Maybe that was just a throwaway line.
Kazuha's first story is the big one. It looks like I was onto something with my first Harbinger theory. We saw him activate his friend's Electro Vision in a moment of tremendous stress (typical for how Electro allogenes get their Visions) but then it deactivated and he left it at his friend's grave. But I also felt that Kazuha was going to be special and a "higher" allogene someone that will get to where allogenes are supposed to end up in Gnosticism earlier than most.
The ability to expand to being able to use multiple elements seems to be one of the steps needed to attain gnosis. This is why Childe's important and especially why the Traveler is important. We got a taste of this from Enkanomiya when they were experimenting on the vishaps and couldn't graft Bloodbranch Coral to them because they were no longer pure. It is natural to be able to use the elements. Celestia made it so that each being could only ever use 1 and only 1 out of the 7 it allowed. So it'll be breaking out of this "heavenly principle" ehe 
that will be the first step towards gnosis.
That seems to also carry through with our new - apparently 1st 5* - outfit. Diluc's got a total revamp for the look and in both livestreams they point out how his Vision isn't present.
The quest that couples with it talks about a problem from the past. Could this Diluc be Delusion Diluc? Maybe just like Kazuha will be for Inazuma Diluc will be Mondstadt's higher allogene?
So anyway the second time Kazuha will appear is in the main event. But from what we know about it we're just getting 3 Domains the guitar one for Xinyan, the Abyss looking one for Mona and finally Princess Fischl's castle. I don't see there being room for Kazuha unless he's just along for the ride with our MC and Paimon.
Again that would feel like a waste and like I was saying yesterday each of these characters is related to Scara. The last time we saw any of them was in a story related to Scara. But it doesn't look like that's even getting mentioned here. 
Speaking of which Princess Fischl's new outfit will be unlocked by collecting conches just like Barbara's last year. Why? The main event is clearly about Fischl having this larping fantasy. Wouldn't it have made more sense for that to be where we get the outfit? She'll probably even be wearing it during her Domain.
My only guess here is that MiHoYo worries some players especially all the newer ones wouldn't have Fischl so they want to make sure everybody has her first and then unlock her new outfit. But in that case just flip it. Make the conches unlock Fischl and have that happen first. Then everybody will have the Fischl to use the new outfit for when it's actually part of the story.
I have to say I am both happy and a little nervous for the Co-op only event. It's something like Windblume so it's great to not have to rely on yourself to get the task done but at the same time if I'm the one falling behind I would just feel bad. Still it looks really colorful and fun so hopefully everybody has a good time with it.
I think puzzle gamers will love this. I'm more interested in what this story will be with our next Fontaine NPC. We're getting so much info now on Fontaine it's way more than the info we got on Sumeru before Inazuma released. I wonder if there's a reason for that.
Finally we had Kusanali's voice but no chibi introduce us to Sumeru. From what she says it almost sounded like she's never left the desert area because she was surprised by the rainforest area and even said "it would be great if the jungle and desert areas got along as well." Does that mean she's sheltered? You know I had this old idea that Sumeru would be full of Big Bang Theory-like nerds. If Kusanali herself ends up being like an otaku hikikomori I'll laugh so hard. But even if that is her outward personality I'd still call it a front and I still think she'll be conniving. (something like Kokomi 
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Anyway I know Twitch really screwed up this preview. That really sucked but it should be up on youtube now so go check it out if you haven't yet. Sumeru's rainforest area looks gorgeous. I have no idea if any part of Persia looks like this. There is a rainforesty area in India but the way Sumeru looks feels very fantasy jungle. I don't think there's anywhere in the world with giant monolith sized flowers lol
And lastly China got another thing we will never get
Last time it was Chinese KFC. We saw waiter Diluc and waitress Noelle. Now its Chinese Pizza Hut and the loving couple chef Eula and delivery girl Amber. And on top of that
Pizza Hut is actually making Jean's Mushroom Pizza. 
Guess they broke into Stormterror's Lair for the recipe. I am no fan of mushroom pizza but I would still like to see what they come up with.
Anyway what part of the new update are you excited for? What parts feel weird to you? And what do you think of the new outfits we'll be getting?
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