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Tokyo Afterschool Summoners, also known as Housamo, was developed by the company LifeWonders and was launched way back in 2016. It might sound like just another free-to-play gacha-based game, but it is one of the only LGBT-positive games on the market that features LGBT genres all in one place. It has an active fanbase whose community has created a torrent of artwork, fanfiction, manga, and fan translations based on the game’s story and characters.

When you officially start, you are greeted by a black screen followed by some dialogue and story, skipping and reading through that will result on a battle with some {{Transient icon|Red Slime|size=small|show name=n}} and a {{Transient icon|Red Oni|size=small|show name=n}}. Follow the instructions given by the Game and you will see yourself winning the fight with the result of obtaining the {{Transient icon|Red Oni|size=small|show name=n}} as a permanent unit and member of your team. To learn more about how Fighting, it's suggested to look and read the [https://housamo.wiki/Battle_System Battle System]

Apart from free characters you’ll receive after completing certain chapters in the story, as mentioned, you will want to spend 50 transient stones on multi-pulls for Premium Gachas. Premium Gachas are mainly based on the current event, which either celebrates a particular holiday (New Year’s, Christmas, Halloween) or features a neat side adventure (Go Go Island, Desert Journey).

Bare to mind to do multi-pulls if you want to obtain a guaranteed {{Star|4}} or {{Star|5}} on the 10th pull. It’s also recommended to pull mainly from the Event Gachas since they usually include drops from the Premium Standard Gacha anyway.  

* Earn 5 {{Item|Transient Stone}}s for daily logins on a weekly cycle (1 on Day 2, 2 on Day 4, and 2 on Day 6)

* Purchase stones at Andvari’s Shop at a maximum of 25 per month.

The multi-pull doesn’t give you any special bonuses. Doing single pulls is fine, just don’t expect anything special from this gacha.

* Gain +25 {{Item|Ally Points}} every time you use a friend’s ally support

Don’t bother with the Regular Ally Gacha apart from maybe the first week of play, if you’re desperate. It costs much less to pull from this gacha, but the odds aren’t worth it. Either way, the Premium Ally Gacha has a mix of {{Star|1}} and {{Star|2}} units, the occasional {{Star|3}} featuring the main group of characters, and a chance at extra resources and low-level seeds.

That said, {{Star|1}} and {{Star|2}} units are not that valuable apart from maybe the support oriented ones like Mobsters. Once you’ve done two multi-pulls on the Premium Gacha, you’ll have a good starting assortment of {{Star|3}} or higher transients that are much more worth your time for investing coins and resources to build. Recent events also feature mobs as drops for doing free quests. Some non-event free quests also drop mobs.

===Lil’ Salomon Tickets===

{{Item|Lil' Salomon Ticket}}s are rare tickets that allow for a single pull (can’t do multi-pulls sadly with these tickets) on any Premium Gacha.

* Gain 1 {{Item|Lil' Salomon Ticket}} for daily login bonus in weekly cycle (Day 7).

* Purchase {{Item|Lil' Salomon Ticket}}s at Andvari’s Shop at a maximum of 10 per month.

{{Item|AR Lil' Salomon Ticket}}s are rare tickets that likewise allow for a single pull (still can’t do multi-pulls sadly with these tickets) on any AR Gacha.

* Gain {{Item|AR Lil' Salomon Ticket}} for daily login bonus in weekly cycle (Day 6).

* Purchase {{Item|AR Lil' Salomon Ticket}}s at Andvari’s Shop at a maximum of 10 per month.

AR Equipment are cards you can equip to your units that apply various effects to them. They usually give out flat stats along with one or more effects. These cards will be explained in detail under section 11.

On occasion, certain events will give you the opportunity to get multiple copies of an event-only character:{{Transient icon|Yule|size=small|show name=n}} {{Transient icon|Agyo|size=small|show name=n}} {{Transient icon|Sitri|size=small|show name=n}} & etc. Usually these may not be the best units in terms of skill sets, but because you can obtain multiple copies of these units very easily, you can boost their Sacred Artifact Level to 100 which you can’t regularly do (more details on Sacred Artifact Level in Section 13 of this guide). That means that both the {{Star|3}} and {{Star|4}} variants for these units are well worth obtaining by spending the event’s two specific currencies on them. More recent event shop units tend to perform better like {{Transient icon|Arachne|size=small|show name=n}},{{Transient icon|Astaroth|size=small|show name=n}} and in comparison to older ones like {{Transient icon|Yule|size=small|show name=n}} so always try to max their SA levels. Keep in mind that event shop units cost an additional 2 team cost, likely to balance the fact that they are guaranteed to be SAL 100.

In the case where you fail to obtain these free units during their events, they will also be made available for the reruns of their respective debut events. After their events have been rerun several times, they will then be made available in Andvari’s shop. Keep in mind that these units will not be added to the general summoning pool.

Housamo has been present for almost 4 years, and there are already plenty of veteran players who have a roster of maxed-out characters or even a couple of fully seeded units and if you're lucky enough to be accepted, you will now have a Support that can easily carry your party all on their own, and the best part of this is that friend supports characters cost nothing in team cost to borrow. Just bear in mind that you can still use non-allied units but they cannot use their CS during the battle. You can check a support unit if it can use it's CS or not by checking the right side of the screen every time before you start a battle if it has the word "Ally" in it.

To gain friends quickly, you will want to share your friend code, which is a 9-digit code separated by commas (found in the Friends section of the game), in various places. A popular place is the Discord [https://api.housamo.xyz/housamo/friend-catalog/ #Friend-Code] which would require you to have a Discord Account or you could even input your code on the Reddit's Weekly Social Thread.

The game contains up to 5 ratings for each card, from a 1 star rating to a 5 star rating.  A cards rarity can be told by counting the stars on its portrait.

 

Cards with a rarity of 3-5 are special character cards.  Nearly all specific characters have two different card ratings.  For example, Moritaka has a 3 star card, and a 4 star rating.  In some cases, a characters qualities, such as their weapon type, will change.

===Cost===

Cost is a number that limits the amount of high rarity cards you can use in a team. Each card has a cost and the total cost of the cards in your team cannot exceed the maximum cost, which is 36 when you start the game. Most of the time the card costs are:

There are exceptions, like Benten's 3 Star and 4 Star cards costing 10 and 18 instead of the usual 8 and 16. The Protagonist's card cost is 0.

See [https://wiki.housamo.xyz/Tips#Transferring_Your_Data Risky Easy Way] for information on how to locate your Authkey.

*  If your team happens to die during a quest, do NOT use a stone to revive your party unless you’re absolutely desperate. It’s much better just to rebuild your stamina to try again; or, if you don’t mind using an exploit, quitting the game right before you die and then restarting the game which allows you to start at a save point before your untimely death.  

* Try to save your AR tickets for event AR banners. You’ll have an easier time farming events due to the bonus drop rates associated with event AR equipment.