Can you have too many waifus? A gacha game has found the answer through a hacker. The clear solution: no, but also yes.
There are plenty of gacha games with lots of anime waifus. But the perfect waifu only exists once – at least, unless you take matters into your own hands and flood the whole world with copies of the character. That’s exactly what a “fan” of the gacha game Blue Archive apparently did.
One of the currently most well-known gacha games is Genshin Impact:
What happened in Blue Archive? For the players of Blue Archive, it was a curious incident. Because although the anime ladies in Blue Archive like to cause a bit of chaos, so much confusion is rather unusual. Many reported that the character “Kurosaki Koyuki” had taken over the game on the global servers.
Not only were all banners in the game (the gacha mechanism) replaced by the 3D model of Koyuki, but also the café, one of the locations in the game, was flooded with countless copies of this character. Additionally, someone had changed the title of the game on the info page from “Blue Archive” to “Nihahaha” – an exclamation of the character when Koyuki causes chaos in the game.
What some initially saw as a curious in-game event quickly turned out to be an attack that had to be contained by emergency maintenance work. On X, some screenshots were posted showing what it looked like in the game:
Hacker plays pranks but doesn’t steal any important data
Were any sensitive data stolen? No. As Nexon reports in the game’s forum, no account data or other user data was stolen during the attack. These are stored differently, and the attacker had no access to them. Therefore, one could easily dismiss the whole incident as a prank.
The attack has since been traced back to an IP address in the Netherlands. Allegedly, a fan of the game and of the character Koyuki is behind it – which at least explains why someone would go to such lengths to dig deep into the game data and then trigger what is essentially a harmless error.
Even though nothing really significant happened during the incident, it could be classified as a cyber-attack. The operator Nexon has at least forwarded the incident to the Korean authorities, who are currently launching an investigation.
At gamescom 2025, our author Jasmin Beverungen was able to try out a completely new anime gacha game. It’s quite a wild mix, as it looks a bit like GTA in the anime world – only with the difference that the cars sometimes have tentacle arms. Don’t ask.
