I'll always be haunted by the one year I skipped for seemingly no reason. Still can't believe it has been 12 years. Simply amazing. Thanks to everyone for putting this event together and keeping it going.
Thx to all staff for this year easter event, it was -as every year- very fun thought had let to us a severe headache :D
I loved that this year it was focused to find and interpret the hints more than spot the chicken/egg in the pictures (those are easily findable if you were in the right place)
Btw, it seems I did a mistake when submitted the hard route... i didn't insert spaces in the unscramble phrase , so i get red background on my answer t.t (It seems like it's my first time instead of my ninth lol)
^this year was painful because i had to check 2 billions of anime since the chick was impossible to find in the picture and there is 10 anime school themed for every single hint in existence (japan do love their school media).
Skipped right from easy 3 to hard 17 and didn't even doubt it until i remembered egg and chick are not the same.
Thx to all staff for this year easter event, it was -as every year- very fun thought had let to us a severe headache :D
I loved that this year it was focused to find and interpret the hints more than spot the chicken/egg in the pictures (those are easily findable if you were in the right place)
Btw, it seems I did a mistake when submitted the hard route... i didn't insert spaces in the unscramble phrase , so i get red background on my answer t.t (It seems like it's my first time instead of my ninth lol)
@Bahamut_Zero Ah, I normally would have fixed that if I saw it. Think I was just too tired haha. Fixed!
@ikkew Someone listed you as their partner for Easy, that's why you got both :yuigoggles:
I can change it to Hard, if you'd prefer.
@Kineta Yes, I would love to have my badge changed to the hard one.
I'm going for the egg every year and would like to keep that streak.
Thank you in advance, and for putting in the effort!
ghost/yokai theme for next year please! i love this event i regret not paying attention to mal events way earlier, i joined mal in 2013 but i only started doing events in late 2022
A big thank you to everyone who participated in our 12th Easter Hunt!! I'm sorry that the wrap-up post took 80 years again this year. Easter is one of my favourite events, but tallying it really is not hahaha.
Please don't forget to thank our event staff!tingy, Aiimee, Aquarius, Dancho, goncix3000, KTGita22, Phloup, stinghy, Timcampy118 and Snow, did almost all of the hint creating and chick/egg shopping, and also helped a majority of you out on Discord. My role is essentially ringmaster and route planter, the rest of the event goes all to them!
First Detectives: Easy
Here are the top 10 players:
Annual Stats 3,431 (↑412) players finished the event (Ooo we went up!) 1,545 (↑291) players finished both easy and hard routes
3,246 (↑306) players completed the easy route 408 (↑31) groups/players finished within the first 24 hours 2:52 (↑0:40) average solve time of top 10 groups/players (Too easy, or are y'all getting better)
1,723 (↑392) players completed the hard route 175 (↑114) groups/players finished within the first 24 hours 6:30 (↑2:35) average solve time of top 10 groups/players (Closer to 2022 time~)
12x Players: --
11x Players: @LordAura, @zan1231 (--)
10x Players: AbnerA, Annick, Dunno21, JLGames, ZecKers (--)
9x Players: 26 total (↑2)
8x Players: 30 total (↓1)
7x Players: 35 total (↓5)
6x Players: 49 total (↓6)
5x Players: 40 total (↓7)
4x Players: 270 total (↓127)
3x Players: 531 total (↓220)
2x Players: 702 total (↓149)
1x Players: 1,731 total (↑164)
Full Annual Stats Here! If you've changed your username, let me know and I'll update the sheet.
Hunt Walkthrough
For those of you who didn't get a chance to participate but would like to see the route(s), we'll leave it up for another day:
Mangaography → Synonyms Hint: The 100 Friends That This Bunny, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Wants to Make
Search: 100 friends + anime
Chick Pic (R): https://imgur.com/NKsuRsj Komi Can’t Communicate
Producer (Itou, Kaori) → Bio Hint: Favorite Quote: “Don’t give up! Believe in the power of negative thinking”
Search: the power of negative thinking + anime/manga
Chick Pic (L): https://i.imgur.com/iqEpW7w.png Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
Background Hint: This girl followed a bunny not to wonderland, but to school! There, she meets someone with a beauty mark…
Search: girl followed bunny to Wonderland = Alice in Wonderland → Alice + school + anime = Gakuen Alice (Alice Academy) → Find the teacher with a beauty mark
Chick Pic (O): https://imgur.com/LLIsIjy Anju L. Narumi
Show spoiler in bio (Show spoiler) Hint: In episode 232, Narumi said, “Spring is finally here! Don’t worry, I’ll find the perfect area for a picnic!”
Search: perfect area + anime
Chick Pic (O): https://imgur.com/hLL64Ea Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts
Okamoto, Nobuhiko (VA with bunny ears/bowtie) → Bio Hint: Love is a subject that cannot be taught
Search: love cannot be taught + anime/manga (anime links to the manga entry)
Chick Pic (I): https://imgur.com/mol9rUK The Teacher Can Not Tell Me Love
Forums (Sesnei wa Koi wo 0shierarenai) → First post “show hint” Hint: A sacred grove of learning where salvation wears a biker jacket
Search: teacher + biker + anime
Chick Pic (T): https://imgur.com/3DLLce0 Great Teacher Onizuka
Episodes (🐇🐤目指せ!! 憧れの沖縄行路🐤🐇) → Synopsis Hint: So we meet again.
Kind words will get you nowhere.
Everything leads to this moment.
Tonight we finally settle our feud on the dance floor
Search: First letter of each sentence (SKET) + dance
Chick Pic (R): https://imgur.com/ig35tgf SKET Dance
Clubs (₍ᐢ. ̫.ᐢ₎) Hint: Startled by the shrill alarm, he smacked the timepiece across the room. “What are you trying to do, kill it?!” barked his mom.
Search: kill + time (MAL w/ anime filter) / kill + time + anime (Google)
Chick Pic (Y): https://imgur.com/ZqDTyNe Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time
News (PV Collection for Feb 20 - 385) Hint: When the stage is set, even an adult can be an idol
Search: idol + teacher + manga brings up the title in top thee results (Google)
Chick Pic (U): https://imgur.com/C2tKkYc Osasete! My Teacher
Bio (small, white text) Hint: APTX4869 has sure become less effective over the years
Search: APTX4869 -> Pill that turn conan into a kid -> pill turn young + class/school + mal
Egg Pic (E): https://i.imgur.com/8ZT6A9p.png ReLIFE
Where: More Info Hint: Volume 12 contains the side story "I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You" (このヒントを見逃すと死ぬことになる).
Volume 13 contains the side story "Behind the Bonfire" (小さな手がかり).
Search: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You -> Read synopsis of book of same name -> Spy + Girl + Bonfire
Egg Pic (N): https://i.imgur.com/6j2rrcD.png Spy Kyoushitsu
Relations (Spy Kyoushitsu: Choco-hen) https://myanimelist.net/manga/117833 → synopsis Hint: First flight? I remember like it was yesterday, what a beautiful spring day that was. What? It was winter? No, I’m certain spring came early that year!
Search: First flight brings you to December 17 1903 → Spring 1903 → shows M1903 Springfield → Springfield + anime brings you to Negi’s page
Egg Pic (S): https://i.imgur.com/kEegbsn.png Negi Springfield (Negima)
Related Entries Hint: Bio (REST BREAK)
Required Course Materials
"Don Quixote" (2018) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra; ISBN 9780241347768
"War and Peace" (2017) by Leo Tolstoy; ISBN 9780141
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" (2021) by George Orwell; ISBN 9780241453513
"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (2024) by Robert Louis Stevenson; ISBN 392462
Search: ISBN 9780141392462 → The Count of Monte Cristo, a famous tale of revenge → course materials are typically textbooks → “revenge” + “textbook” + “manga” (GOO)
Egg Pic (L): https://i.imgur.com/H7hvEfd.png Fukushuu no Kyoukasho
Authors (https://myanimelist.net/people.php?id=83593) Hint: Fireflies do this in the dark (-w), but only ones with vision can perceive it. (⌐⎚u⎚)
Search: Fireflies glow in the dark, minus w = glo, search glo vision (MAL search all) OR glo vision site:myanimelist.net (GOO) → Glovision company page, find anime with glasses [searching (⌐⎚u⎚) will give results for sunglasses kaomoji] OR Glovision glasses site:myanimelist.net (GOO) OR Glovision glasses anime (GOO)
Egg Pic (F): https://i.imgur.com/FFYS48B.png Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta
Background (Hidden text) Hint: Nine years before __?__ ga Megane wo Wasureta, he worked with a mangaka, who was previously a teacher.
Search: Search "ga Megane wo Wasureta" on Sukimega's DB page and one of the hits is the ED song. ? refers to Masayoshi → go to Masayoshi's page, 9 years before Sukimega he did a theme song (OP) for Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun → he worked with a mangaka = the mangaka of Nozaki-kun is Izumi Tsubaki → find Oresama Teacher (either because it fits the theme or from the teacher in the hint) (MAL)
Egg Pic (R): https://i.imgur.com/cm7CYHf.png Oresama Teacher
Characters (Usa-chan Man) → spoiler button Hint: He has a habit of collecting weird pets. He adopted a pet tapioca in 2012, an almond ten years later, and recently, a chikuwa was added to the mix. Let's not talk about the weird thing he got in 2018. He'll be bringing them to his class in October when the new school year starts! Search: tapioca chikuwa almond site:myanimelist.net (GOO) leads you to Sugita → October is Fall season, Ginpachi-sensei fits the theme OR search tapioca on MAL, click on the duck and see that Tsuritama is 2012. Do the same thing with almond and chikuwa, see that it's all Sugita.
Egg Pic (O): https://i.imgur.com/KUZbn7I.png 3-nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-sensei
More Info (REST BREAK) Hint: Pop Up!
Location: Shinjuku Marui Annex @ 6th floor
Store: ⚕️
Items: 🍎🐈⬛
Date: Dec 19, 2023
Search: Shinjuku Marui Annex @ 6th floor → Click on floor guide, and see which shops are there → use ⚕️symbol to select MEDICOS SHOP → some combo of the following may work:
Medicos / medicos shop / pop up / dec 19, 2023 / 2023/12/19 /🍎/ 🐈⬛
Egg Pic (B): https://i.imgur.com/FBjngkj.png Tsuiraku JK to Haijin Kyoushi
Forum (Tsuiraku KJ 98) → tiny text Hint: In another life, this 2D loving Otome fanatic was a shy bassist and a bit of an ice queen.
Search: shy bassist anime/character (GOO) -> Mio Akiyama + another life = seiyuu (Hikasa Youko) -> Hikasa Youko + 2D loving Otome + teacher (GOO)
Egg Pic (U): https://i.imgur.com/rZ69vN4.png Ayano Tanaka (Murai no Koi)
Bio Hint: Loves: “Valzer dei Fiori” by Camelopardalis Peralta
Hates: being overly formal
Search: Valzer dei Fior -> Song in Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Camelopardalis Peralta -> Scientific name for giraffe, Pyotr + Giraffe -> character page giraffe on School Rumble
Egg Pic (A): https://i.imgur.com/LcG3VHj.png School Rumble
OP/ED Hint: #24: "XVth Card (ft. 🗿🗿🗿)" by Not Yet A Duke
Search: XV Card refers to the 15th tarot card, which is the devil (GOO), 🗿🗿🗿 = 3 heads, Not Yet A Duke = Marquis, since Marquis is below Duke (in British rank)
You can find Naberius as a result with "3 heads devil marquis," (GOO) but #24 makes it clear that it's Naberius since he's the 24th demon in the Ars Goetia → Search Naberius on MAL, only 5 characters in the results, only 4 have Naberius in their name. Find the one that's a teacher since it's the theme.
Egg Pic (S): https://i.imgur.com/N9fFe7F.png Kalego Naberius (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun)
Bio (REST BREAK) Hint: 2JGSL57QPQ6ID : "I'm three times too big! Go back to main base₁₀"
Search: 2JGSL57QPQ6ID from base 30 to base 10 (basic numbers) is 1409474157205757953 -> googling that leads to the first chapter of the Twitter manga
Egg Pic (E): https://i.imgur.com/JpIJ4Xt.png Tsuyokute New Game na Love Comedy
I think it might be true I didn't participate in 2021 at all, because I can't find a google sheet, and I definitely abandoned hard 2020 after not finding egg 4 (or being too late) hahahaha so that's correct.
I did get the correct badge last year tho! Just the sheet this year doesn't seem correct.
@Kineta I'm not sure what to do, I did both easy and hard and submitted the form for both before the deadline. 4/19 for easy form and 4/25 for hard form, but never got my badge.
I found that I'm on the ranking for the easy, but not for the hard even though I submitted
Third time I finished this event (only easy route that is) and I am still so bad at it with no improvement in sight...
Think this will be my last time participating.
Astonishing how the top solvers can do it in mere hours!
@Kineta I'm not sure what to do, I did both easy and hard and submitted the form for both before the deadline. 4/19 for easy form and 4/25 for hard form, but never got my badge.
I found that I'm on the ranking for the easy, but not for the hard even though I submitted
I think it might be true I didn't participate in 2021 at all, because I can't find a google sheet, and I definitely abandoned hard 2020 after not finding egg 4 (or being too late) hahahaha so that's correct.
I did get the correct badge last year tho! Just the sheet this year doesn't seem correct.
@lifeiscrazy Seems you're listed under Hard last year :thinking: (I didn't change anything, maybe tired eyes?)
@lifeiscrazy Seems you're listed under Hard last year :thinking: (I didn't change anything, maybe tired eyes?)
@Kineta oop my bad! I swear the hard was empty, but the easy is now.. or I was just looking... not good haha.
I did both though! My eyes must've played tricks on me, than 2024 easy is missing instead of hard, haha. Sorry for the confusion :pray:.