Girls' Frontline: Difference between revisions

Players are called "Commanders", or by the Japanese translation "Shikikan" (shortened SKK) due to the game only having Japanese voice acting. The game has assembled a large and active community in several languages, sharing creative works and strategies.

Due to the latter part of the story being told through time-limited events only slowly added to the [[Guide:Campaign Menu|Campaign]], the complete story isn't accessible in-game.

Chuapp reported that the game's development was significantly hindered by repeated miscommunication, reduced team sizes, lack of internal skills, unclear distribution of responsibilities, legal disputes and general trust issues between Sunborn and Wave-Game. Shanghai Xinfan Asset Management, one of Sunborn's main investors, reportedly pushed Sunborn to end their partnership with Wave-Game in favor of [http://www.windplay.cn/ Windplay] and later [[Game publishers|Digital Sky]], who would become Sunborn's launch partners, leading to a gradual breakdown of the partnership between Sunborn and Wave-Game starting in February 2016. The internal debacle was followed by the general public on Weibo and described by Chuapp as the second big public drama on the Chinese mobile games market after Warship Girls R. Due to contractual issues with Wave-Game, Sunborn was denied access to data from the third beta and asked beta players to take on a multi-steps verification system to transfer their accounts to the final game.<ref name=Chuapp>[https://www.chuapp.com/?c=Article&a=index&id=243971 Chuapp] ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SPU1NIu8z7avwSDq3hpXLEyg64rBqbjCRKkX3fFBQyE/edit Translated])</ref><ref>[https://weibo.com/p/1001603976919883368606 Wave-Game's Breach of Contract public announcement]</ref> Confirming Chuapp's report, Wave-Game's Marketing Director Jin Jie (金杰) commented in interview that the company had invested a hundred million yen into the project during its year of involvement.<ref name=InsideG>[https://www.inside-games.jp/article/2016/05/13/98604.html Inside-Games.jp]</ref> For more than a year after launch, girls-frontline.com, owned by Wave-Game, displayed their official response to Sunborn's change of distributor, while Digital Sky properly marketed the game at gf.ppgame.com (superseded by gf-cn.sunborngame.com in 2020 when the contract with Digital Sky ended).

The game released for Android in 20 May 2016, and for iOS on 7 July 2016.<ref>[https://m.weibo.cn/status/3994242609686897 Weibo]</ref> By September 2016, the game had one million accounts with over 200,000 daily active players.<ref>[https://weibo.com/5611537367/F2LBOiAb9 First anniversary post on Weibo]</ref> As of the game's third anniversary, over 10,500,000 player accounts had been registered,<ref name=Anni3>[https://live.bilibili.com/902593 Bilibili - 3rd Anniversary stream] (Unavailable, [https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1a4411i7DT/ Reupload])</ref> and over 13,400,000 by fifth anniversary.<ref>[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1i54y157bC/ Bilibili - Girls' Frontline Carnival 2021], [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EkFe5_oF7gM7BA_g2i1IZuchQzKqmua3YOyLmWy-hX0/edit# Translated recap]</ref>

The game is often included among the foundational titles of Chinese gacha games due to its historical connections with Shanghai-based publisher Yostar (who managed regional servers for ''Azur Lane'' starting 2017 and [[Arknights]] starting 2020) and with the head producer of ''Arknights'', [[Artist:海猫络合物|Hai Mao]]. Though Girls' Frontline has long been less financially successful compared to competing games and CN players regularly called it a “pill” (药丸 or 丸, a wordplay on 完 (to end), for a mobile game soon to end its service) due to technical issues during beta and after, it has regardless continuously received new content since its launch in 2016 (apart from a [[#Transfer of CN client to Steam|short break of the CN servers]]). This led to Sunborn's reputation as a studio that never closes their games (known as EOS for "End of Service" in the gacha community) whereas even games supported by big IPs struggle to survive past a few years in the gacha market segment.

The final chapter of the main story, [[Quantum Fluctuation]], released in CN on 16 October 2025. New character costumes continued to be released after this point.

The ironic quote “Girls' Frontline is a game full of love and hope” (“少女前线是一款爱与希望的游戏”), and the shortened form “Love and Hope” (“爱与希望” in Simplified Chinese, “愛與希望” in Traditional Chinese, “사랑과 희망” in Korean and “愛と希望” in Japanese), appeared in fan communities in early 2020 ([https://www.bilibili.com/opus/359192586027056933 example from March 2020]) and became widely adopted after Yuzhong used it in an interview in July 2020,<ref name=Gunslingers /> and again in later interviews and in a [[Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium]] dev log in January 2021.<ref>[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1oh41117WW/ Bilibili] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzCK_a1X7mA&t=292s Translated])</ref> According to Yuzhong, this is in line with the overall tone of the story, which he described as “the road is tortuous, the ending is bright” (“道路是曲折的，结局是光明的”).<ref name=Gamecores2021 /> The quote features prominently in Chapter 15 of [[Project Neural Cloud]]. Fans have compared this approach to Gen Urobuchi's "Warrior of Love" (愛の戦士) story pattern.

Companies who ran brand deals with Girls' Frontline include Cherry keyboards,<ref name=Anni3 /> Moondrop (wireless earbuds with {{doll name|QBZ-191|AR|5}}), KFC (fast food), Lawson (convenience stores), Nissin (instant noodles) and Happy Zoo (cosplay cafe). The AirAsia X airliner 9M-XXB received a Girls' Frontline [[:File:2018 KR AirAsia Login.jpg|livery]] in July 2018 as part of KR server's first anniversary promotion organized by publisher XD Global.<ref>[https://www.girlsfrontline.co.kr/gfinfo/180725.html KR official site]</ref><ref>KR Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/GirlsFrontlineKR/posts/pfbid02FfqUxfuDXwTbX6GQ8Ty7LjE82C7tdPuKGtmFSYNv8ADw8qULTcdwTALRFE7A3HUBl], [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=334551637083747], [https://www.facebook.com/GirlsFrontlineKR/posts/pfbid02eKdk6mMypSmhmqLuVGxdrFMNqY3pVB8uT8zqKvTWpkQRAkQb8RWk6eZfiSwQVQBKl]</ref><ref>[https://www.chuapp.com/article/285560.html Chuapp]</ref>

File:IOP Special Goods Department mascots.jpg|Rice and Nico.

File:Merch Collapse Fluid.jpg|[[Collapse Fluid]] chilled drink.

File:Karasumaya 2025.jpg|Karasumaya merch collab.<ref>[https://weibo.com/7813381183/Q6dfnzb9S Weibo]</ref>

In the FPS ''Ready or Not'' by VOID Interactive, markings on the weapons are references to Girls' Frontline:

**The ARWC bears the markings ''1557'', referring to {{doll name|ST AR-15|AR|4}} (index number 57).

**The DM4PDW bears the markings ''DDM4036057'', referring to {{doll name|ST AR-15|AR|4}} (index number 57).

**The F90 bears the markings ''THF90-073'', referring to {{doll name|AUG|AR|5}} (index number 73).

**The G36C bears the markings ''95-0104'', referring to {{doll name|G36C|SMG|5}} (index number 104).

**The M14S-16 bears the markings ''340037'', referring to {{doll name|M1 Garand|RF|3}} (index number 34) and {{doll name|M14|RF|3}} (index number 37).

**The MCX bears the markings ''35600-338'', referring to {{doll name|SIG MCX|AR|5}} (index number 338).

**The MK1 (supporter weapon) bears the markings ''072219-56'', referring to {{doll name|M4 SOPMOD II|AR|4}} (index number 56).

**The MK17 bears the markings ''B0377'', referring to {{doll name|SCAR-H|RF|5}} (index number 377).

**The MK18 bears the markings ''16148054'', referring to {{doll name|M16A1|AR|4}} (index number 54).

**The SA-58 OSW bears the markings ''DSA00106'', referring to {{doll name|FAL|AR|5}} (index number 106).

**The SLR47 bears the markings ''☆59'', referring to {{doll name|AK-74U|SMG|5}} (index number 59).

**The SR-16 bears the markings ''GFL IH-3 55'', referring to {{doll name|M4A1|AR|4}} (index number 55).

**The VPL-25 bears the markings ''25565'', referring to {{doll name|HK416|AR|5}} (index number 65).

**The MP5/10MM bears the markings ''(026) 2-20-00'' and ''PN #00026'', referring to {{doll name|MP5|SMG|4}} (index number 26). ''2-20-00'' refers to the time required to build MP5 in Girls' Frontline (02:20).

**The MP7 bears the markings ''Id. No: 2:18:00 028'', referring to {{doll name|MP7|SMG|5}} (index number 28) ''2:18:00'' refers to the time required to build MP7 in Girls' Frontline (02:18).

**The MP9 bears the markings ''17-0176'', referring to {{doll name|TMP|SMG|3}} (index number 176).

**The P90 bears the markings ''FN000245'', referring to {{doll name|P90|SMG|5}} (index number 245).

**The SPC9 bears the markings ''21-000341'', referring to {{doll name|SP9|SMG|5}} (index number 341).

**The UMP-45 bears the markings ''404-000103'' as a reference to {{doll name|UMP45|SMG|4}} (index number 103) being part of [[Squad 404]].

**The UMP-9 bears the markings ''404-000101'' as a reference to {{doll name|UMP9|SMG|4}} (index number 101) being part of [[Squad 404]].

**The 590M bears the markings ''SG154155'', referring to {{doll name|M500|SG|3}} (index number 154) and {{doll name|M590|SG|4}} (index number 155).

**The 870CQB bears the markings ''S. 000229'', referring to {{doll name|M870|SG|5}} (index number 229).

**The Supernova bears the markings ''V000352'', referring to {{doll name|Supernova|SG|4}} (index number 352).

**The Beanbag Shotgun bears the markings ''S. 000229'', referring to {{doll name|M870|SG|5}} (index number 229).

**The B1301 and its Entryman version bear the markings ''GFLSG404'', referring to [[Squad 404]].

**The B92X bears the markings ''GFLHG003'', referring to {{doll name|M9|HG|3}} (index number 3).

**The G19 bears the markings ''GFLHG015'', referring to {{doll name|Glock 17|HG|3}} (index number 15).

**The M11 Compact bears the markings ''SSPNO186'', referring to {{doll name|P226|HG|3}} (index number 186).

**The M45A1 bears a QR code displaying the phrase ''Oya oya, kyo wa nani o shimasu ka?'' in reference to the greeting quote(Japanese) of {{doll name|M1911|HG|2}}.

**The MK-V bears the markings ''V000096'', referring to {{doll name|Grizzly MkV|HG|5}} (index number 96).