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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. | 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. | ||
==About Card Rarity== | ==About Card Rarity== | ||
Revision as of 12:47, 12 May 2020
This article is a beginner's guide to the game. For the article on Systems, go to System.
Game Description
What is Tokyo Afterschool Summoners?
Tokyo Afterschool Summoners who is 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.
The game's story is much more complex and imaginative than what you would expect from a mobile game. The story takes place in Tokyo City which has been walled away from the rest of the world, here 24 pillars of light or gates has been opened and serve as a way of travel for Transients characters who are heavily inspired from real world characters from various mythical pantheons, works of literature and different culture and arts all around the world.
How Do I Download This Game?
If you are an iPhone user, simply download the game from here from your phone.
If you are an Android user, you can download the app from the Google Play Store here. If this is not possible for some reason, you must install QooApp onto your phone from here. Then, open QooApp and do a search for Lifewonders. Select 東京放課後サモナーズ and install
Game Trailers/PV's
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Game Flow
When you first begin the game, you will connect to the server. When it finishes loading, hit the blue button on the bottom.
When you reach the main screen, tap the screen to start.
You will be brought to an agreement page. Hit the leftmost button to agree.
You will then be asked if you want to download extra data to decrease loading times. It is recommended you hit OK.
Once downloading has completed, hit OK and select a character. All main characters have the same skills.
Next, select a voice from the right, and hit the button in the middle. Then, hit the green button to the right.
You will then be asked to put in a name and select your gender. These can be changed later. Afterwards, hit the green button on the bottom, and then the green button to the right.
Hit OK on the next screen.
The first chapter of the game will begin. The game will present you with several dialog options, but they do not change the story, so feel free to skip.
You will be guided through the battle system. For help on the battle system, see the Battle System section of this wiki.
After you complete the tutorial within the game, main quests and sub(free) quests will be unlocked. As you complete main quests, repeatable free quests will be unlocked. The main story can be continued even if you do not complete the free quests.
As you complete quests, you will gain stones that can be used to summon cards, or new companions. For better help understanding a card, see the Companion Catalog section.
Summon Currency
How do I obtain more characters?
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).
But there are several ways besides that to obtain new transients to build your team; that is, earning the various summoning currencies for a chance at pulling from a gacha.
Transient Stones [Premium Event Gacha/Premium Standard Gacha]
5 
for Single Pull, 50 for Multi-Pull
Bare to mind to do multi-pulls if you want to obtain a guaranteed 4☆ or 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.
Here are some ways to earn more free stones:
- Earn 1
for every quest you complete for the first time. Look for new events for fresh quests to complete. Keep in mind that the story quests for rerun events do not give out 1 for the first completion bonus but the associated event free quests will. - Earn 50 for first week of play (5 on Days 1-6, 20 on Day 7)
- Earn 5 for daily logins on a weekly cycle (1 on Day 2, 2 on Day 4, and 2 on Day 6)
- Earn 5 as a reward every time you clear a chapter in the Main Quest
- Earn extra stones for cumulative logins:
| Stones | Log-in streak |
|---|---|
| 5 |
10, 20, 30, 40, 75 |
| 10 |
50, 150, 250, 350, etc. |
| 20 |
100, 200, 300, 400, etc. |
| 50 |
1000, 2000, 3000, etc. |
- Purchase stones with real-life money. (Be responsible!)
- Gain stones from LifeWonders after server maintenance, issues, or login campaigns.
- Purchase stones at Andvari’s Shop at a maximum of 25 per month.
Ally Points [Premium Ally Gacha]
2000 points for Single Pull, 20000 for 10-Pull
The multi-pull doesn’t give you any special bonuses. So just doing single pulls is fine. Just don’t expect anything special from this gacha.
- Gain +25
every time you use a friend’s ally support - Gain +25 every time another person uses your ally support
- Gain +20000 for the first daily login in the weekly cycle (Day 1)
- Gain AP from event shops
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 1☆ and 2☆ units, the occasional 3☆ featuring the main group of characters, and a chance at extra resources and low-level seeds.
That said, 1☆ and 2☆ units are not that valuable apart from maybe the support oriented ones like Mobsters. And anyway, once you’ve done two multi-pulls on the Premium Gacha, you’ll have a good starting assortment of 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
Rare tickets allow for a single pull (can’t do multi-pulls sadly with these tickets) on any Premium Gacha.
- Gain
from event shops (usually 10 from a new event). - Gain 1 for daily login bonus in weekly cycle (Day 7).
- Gain 1 ticket as a possible reward by completing an event high difficulty quest.
- Purchase tickets at Andvari’s Shop at a maximum of 10 per month.
AR Tickets
Rare tickets likewise allow for a single pull (still can’t do multi-pulls sadly with these tickets) on any AR Gacha.
- Gain
from event shops (usually 6 from a new event). - Gain ticket for daily login bonus in weekly cycle (Day 6).
- Gain ticket as a possible reward by completing an event high difficulty quest.
- Purchase 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.
Event Shop Characters
On occasion, certain events will give you the opportunity to get multiple copies of an event-only character:
& 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 3☆ and 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 
,
and in comparison to older ones like 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.
Current event shop units (as of April 2020): 
Friend Code/Ally
Housamo has been present for almost 4 years, and there are already plenty of veteran players who have a Harem 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 bare 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 #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.
About Card Rarity
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 1-2 are basic mob cards.
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.
If you obtain a duplicate card of the same character AND rarity, that dupe will be automatically added to your current card, increasing it's Charge Skill level by 1 if it's a Rarity 1-3 card, +5 if it's a Rarity 4 card, or +20 if it's a Rarity 5 card.
There is no way to upgrade a card's rarity. So if you want Moritaka's 4 star card you can't upgrade his 3 star card, and will instead have to pull his 4 star card normally.
About a Card Deck
A deck is made of up of 5 of your own cards and, when you enter battle, 1 Support (a card from another player), for a total of 6 cards. 4 cards can fight at one time, with two of your cards being sub-cards. When one of your characters is defeated, it will be swapped out for a sub-card in its place.
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:
| Rarity | Cost |
|---|---|
| 1 Star | 2 |
| 2 Star | 4 |
| 3 Star | 8 |
| 4 Star | 16 |
| 5 Star | 24 |
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.
This means that you can't make a team of five 5 Star cards and that using 1 Star or 2 Star cards is a good idea sometimes. As your Rank goes up, your maximum available cost will increase, allowing you to use more powerful cards.
Lastly, Supports (cards from friends) are treated as having 0 cost, regardless of rarity.
Keeping Your Account Safe
It is recommended to follow these steps to make it easier to recover your account in case you lose access to it.
Backing Up Your Authkey
Authkey is the file that keeps your account data. If you lose access to the device where you play the game you can simply install the game on another device and copy the Authkey to the game folder. This means that making a copy of your Authkey and keeping it somewhere safe is highly recommended. See Risky Easy Way for information on how to locate your Authkey.
Customizing Your Account
From the main menu, select "Options" and then "Player Settings". You will be taken to a screen where you can change your avatar and name (the one you selected when creating the account). It is recommended to fill the Surname and Nickname fields and keep them noted down along with the number of your avatar voice, as Lifewonders will ask for this information if you have to contact their support to recover your account. Don't forget to click on Update after making changes.
Player ID
From the main menu, select "Friends" and then "Search for Allies". On the lower part of the screen you will find your Player ID. Noting this number down is recommended, as it is something Lifewonders will ask you if you have to contact their support to recover your account.
How to Back-up Your Data
To create a transfer code data, simply start up the game, go past the title screen to the map, and go to Options(オプション) on the bottom menu. Then hit Transfer Data (データ引継ぎ) in the middle left.
Enter a password into both boxes of your choosing (English letters only) and hit the bottom-most button. Write down the Code it gives you AND the password you used.
When you're ready or need to use it, start up the game. At the Title Screen, hit the blue button (Account Transfer) on the bottom left. Enter the Code in the top box, and your custom password you made in the bottom box. Then hit the green button.
Since the version 3.1.3, the transfer codes expire after 14 days, so this is not a fully reliable way to keep your account backed up in case of phone data damage or a lost phone. It is recommended you keep your User ID handy and ask for help with contacting the developers in such an event. Or, recover your account using your AuthKey.
NOTE: When you transfer your account to another device using this code, a new Authkey will be created in this device and your account will be bound to this new Authkey, while the previous Authkey will be bound to a new account. So remember to backup this new Authkey after transferring your data, as the previous Authkey will be rendered useless.
Tips
- 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.
For more tips, please consult the Tips page for reference.
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