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Honkai: Star Rail pitches "The Death of Aha" at work

The latest episode of its office comedy turns a covert information hunt into a deeply uncomfortable story meeting.

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Honkai: Star Rail Story of October 20, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video is running at 68,553 views a day, 14 times its usual pace (4,751).

"The Laughter Outsmarts miHoYo" Episode 4 | Meeting

The meeting gets personal. A beret-wearing visitor sneaks around the IP Content Team's office looking for information on Voracity, only to be invited into a presentation with an alarming theme: "The Death of Aha."

That's the setup for "The Laughter Outsmarts miHoYo" Episode 4 | Meeting, a comic-strip-style promotional sketch for Honkai: Star Rail and its web event. Speech bubbles do the talking as the game turns its own development process into a joke.

Released three days ago, the episode picked up roughly 69,000 views in a day, more than fourteen times its usual daily pace. It follows the series' interviews and employee-handbook training with another workplace ritual: sitting through someone else's story pitch while trying to keep your own agenda intact.

The developer writes the ominous theme on the board, then presents a narrative that has the other employees in tears. The visitor's bewilderment provides the contrast: this is evidently not the meeting she expected to attend.

In the comments, viewers keep returning to the same running joke, treating the promise of a heartwarming story as something to be nervous about. For this space-fantasy game's office comedy, an emotional writing session is quite enough to unsettle the room.

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What viewers say

Poor Aha just heard an elating story like none that has come before
@windblumeprismSee it on YouTube
AHA: "What Are these guys talking about?"
Everyone: "A heartwarming story huh? Here we go again...."
@DrakeTony51112See it on YouTube
Ahhh... Another 'heartwarming story' I see...
@jaaganSee it on YouTube

2 more comments

Shaoji with "heartwarming story"
@enddarkingSee it on YouTube
I'm guessing this isn't just fun and silly comic, they probably going to put "Aha visited Hoyo HQ" somewhere to in-game lore
@s.n.y4165See it on YouTube

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