I’ve been really enjoying 4.1 and 4.2 story and it’s a stark improvement than 4.0 story, but there is 1 thing that keeps bugging me about the plot and that is Himeko status as the previous winner of the Phantasmoon Games. Is there a lore/narrative reason why Himeko never brought that up ever? Like the whole plot point of 4.1 and 4.2 is that people see the TB and the Astral Express as an outsider who wanted to mess with their games.
But Himeko is not an outsider. Himeko is born in Planacardia, the one who stopped the previous Herald of Death, and the “leader” of the Astral Express. She should have been the pride and joy of Planarcadia more than Fulwish is/was. Like I can’t tell you how many times I watch Fulwish slander the Astral Express and just scream “Himeko, told her and the world who you are!”