Otto is probably my most favorite villain ever written, you can see yourself rooting for him in the end, for him to save her.

if you watch it without subtitles it is the same as not seeing anything.

People called him a simp but they will never know how much it means to him to go this far

No need to praise Otto No need to curse Otto. Don't have to love Otto No need to mock Otto. Don't have to understand Otto Don't feel confused to Otto. There's no need to bless Otto. No need to curse Otto. Because he doesn't care He only cares about one fact and one end and everything else is a means and we are all spectators

Otto's so brilliantly written. In this moment, you find yourself rooting for him - because everything he's done, all the sins he's stained his hands with - it was all for this one moment, and he can't fail here or else it would all have been for nothing. Thus, when he falls, you genuinely want him to get back up. His entire arc, everything he's done - it all culminates in this moment. He willingly chose to play the villain the entire time for this one chance. He's been such a big part of Honkai's story and it's gonna feel emptier without him.

As for Otto ability, he has the Void Archive, made from the first Herscher, Herscher of Reason, capable of reproducing anything if you understand its component and how it all fits together. Though if I understand it correctly, it can only reproduce things using soulium, so if the weapon use more advance material or more complex than he can comprehend then he can't make a proper copy

Yea, Otto,.... I still hate him. But I hate him because I can see myself doing the exact same thing were I in his position.

To sum it out, Kallen died because of humanity malice and Otto consider himself as tool that executioned her. Now his one only wish, obsession, goal, or whatever his end is, is for Kallen to live her life and die in peace

Otto sacrificed himself to save the woman he loved so much. He changed the destiny of the universe

You should read the Kallen's manga and Second Eruption manga to understand somethings that appear in this cinematic. There are so many things in it. Honkai story is becoming insanely good

The Judgement of Shamash is desheathed for protecting people’s loved ones, every time without an exception. Respect for Otto and, farewell.

Otto legacy would be true extent of “ if saving you is a sin, I will gladly become a sinner”.

This is my comment from the video it might help you (time for the animated short not this one) 7:31 : Kallen Die 7:34 : Otto kill his family in the revolution against Shiksal to take the position 7:36 Eleanor from Elan Palatinus manga 7:39 Otto Save Li Su Shang 7:41 Welt Joyce Anti-Entropy vs Shiksal 7:43 Theresa Experiment with clones 7:45 Otto During the second eruption vs Welt Yang 7:46 Otto talk to the "Honkai God" , the God show him how to ressurect kallen 7:48 Sirin / K-423 Awaken 7:50 Kiana escape in Arc city 7:51 Otto Deal with Kevin

You need to read the mangas to understand all of this as its complex af, not everything is explained in the game unfortunately

you know, Idk yet if you turned them on later, but.... there WERE English subtitles. They explain...a l o t from what I saw up to now.

I will say mostly about the Tree - it's the Imaginary Tree or Yggdrasil. The main reality concept of Honkai AND Genshin because they are in the same multiuniverse. It's like the root of all worlds and basically the form of reality itself. Every branch is a path of civilization, each leaf is a world. Honkai and Genshin are connected, Honkai players know this for sure because... Well, you will see it yourself on the Otto's monitor in chapter 17. There's also Sea of Quanta, the space between branches where worlds born from the Tree rot and disappear. And he saved his Kallen by returning in their past. For real. And created another branch on the Tree for her, separating her from his world's branch. Also your lore knowledge a bit messy, you really need to read all mangas and all Chronicles. You can google the right order to read them. There's also visual novels about Anti-Entropy and Durandal.

that flashback： 1. kallen died 2.otto killed his father the old overseer 3.eleano in manga elan palatinus 4.otto saved li sushang 5.welt joyce 6.Theresa refused to kill Amber 7.2nd eruption, otto with clown mask 8. 2nd eruption, otto faced to the god of honkai 9. K423 wake up then all in the main story

For clarification he went back in time and saved Kallen thus creating an alternate timeline where she never died and yes he died

The first divine key Void Archives that Otto has can replicate all the other keys

This is what happens when you work with limited information. Kallen was originally executed for "treason". The Honkai beast that stabs her literally materialized because of what Otto was doing in Imaginary Space. Originally Kallen allowed herself to be executed because she had lost the will to live - for the reason play Sakura Samsara (or find a playthrough video of it). Otto's desire to save her is still entirely selfish - he is ignoring the fact she chose to allow the execution to happen. What Otto does here is he's creating a branching timeline in which Kallen was not executed. The tree is known as the Imaginary Tree and is the backbone of the Honkai multiverse. Different universes appear on the tree as leaves. One of those leaves is Genshin - we've know this since the closing CG of chapter 17 where what of the images that leak from imaginary space and is observed by Otto is Fallen Rosemary Rita and the other one is Dvalin. Dvalin is in fact the FAR less ambiguous image in that moment (Rita is almost entirely a silhouette). So the multiversal connection between the two games has been clearly confirmed for a while now. The reason he's able to use multiple divine keys is that he is actually using copies. Otto has possession of the Void Archives, a Divine Key made from the core of PE's First Herrscher. It grants him powers very similar to those of the Herrscher of Reason with some limitations. Lastly if you really need a reminder why you should still despise Otto here's some - He OK's and probably designed the deadly experiments performed on CHILDREN the resulted in Sirin's awakening. Said awakening wrecked all of Siberia and probably a lot of neighboring territories as well. It also resulted in Shiksal throwing well over a hundred Valks at HoV only for them all to die, something that undoubtedly weakened the organization and reduced it's ability to respond to Honkai crises for years after. Sixteen years later Otto INTENTIONALLY revived HoV, resulting in an even bigger Impact event with Global effects - best case scenario this caused the loos of tens of millions of lives, to say nothing about the more personal cost to us as players since it also ruined the lives the main cast was in the process of building for themselves. It led directly to Himeko's death. I could go on but I would be here all day and KZfaq comments don't allow for a post as long as I would need.

He is worthy of respect of his determination Otto, my glorious bastard

First of all, kudos to Mihoyo for making me feel for Otto, seriously, Otto fricking Apocalypse, a character we're all supposed to despise, second, he's able to recreate those weapons, Might of Anu Tu, Abyss Flower, Oath of Judah, etc, using the Void Archives, as for how he was able to do what he did at the end, to quote River Song from Doctor Who, spoilers

My understanding is this, Otto created a new branch (bubble universe) where current era Otto (our Otto) sacrificed himself to save Kallen allowing her to live on in a new future separate from ours with K423 and the gang.

The only Clown I see is the Guy reacting to Video

Hi there, for the additional info for those flashback in the ending I suggest you to watch some of the Honkai manga and it will make you understand like most of it.

It was Otto's divine key Void Archives that can create any copy version of other divine keys

The song at the second half of the animation is called “Regression”. The first song is still unknown.

8:41 Man, you know that the Imaginary Tree is one of the pieces that make up the reality im Honkai, y´know ? They talked us about the Imaginary Tree in a CG from chapter 17, Thunders Over Nagazora

11:01 Mihoyo released a MV today for Dudu and Rita with them literally just being happy. The beach episode arc of this depressing game is incoming lmaoo

Otto made an alternate reality where Kallen lived, his ultimate goal after all this time.

If otto is a clown then what does that make all of us

Otto made a deal with the Will of the Honkai to add branches onto the imaginary tree, in doing this he successfully saved her life, he traded his life for hers.

To explain those images on the end: Otto finds Kallen dead. Kills his family and takes the throne by force. Experiments on Eleanor dead body. Saves Li Shushang and becomes immortal. The origin of AE. He makes the first Kallen clone, Theresa. Second Honkai War. Ask to the Will Of Honkai how to revive Kallen and it respond stabbing itself. Makes Kiana clone. Sees how everything goes in Arc City, and the girl at his side....you remember the other Kallen clone that Theresa let live, well now is called Amber and is that girl. His contract with Kevin. And finally end where we are

Otto is the one who most believe the love power, and after so many tests, knowing the secret of honkai world, saw the experience of how kiana got saved and save others, finally he know how to save kallen. you may have deja vu of this and other cg (final lesson/rubia/flamescion) as otto is just trying to use the most possible way to succeed. p.s. after you finish ch28, this will become totally new level, final lesson’s level (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

You forgot to click on the CC button to toggle on English subtitles.....

Otto made a deal with the will of honkai so he could create a new branch in the imaginary tree where Kallen lives. The price is Otto dies and he killed the honkai beast with his last breath

There was subtitle that you could read for more context...................

16:16 Void Archives, the first Divine Key. Made by the core of Void and Reason Herrscher from the PE. It can recreate the others Divine Key with a lower power, can create anything and keeps all the knows from the PE

wait, you forgot to turn subtitles?

k423 is a clone of kiana terri is clone of kallen

there exists subtitles lol

Low-key, u seriously need to read the mangas(and visual novels)

That's a man on a mission. He fought for what was beautiful for him. Mission complete Otto. You fought and won.

Just so people don't get confused: that was not Otto Stabbing himself with a knife; That was the WIll of Honkai showing Otto what was actually necessary to save Kallen. It was a scene pulled right out of the comic, as were most of the flashbacks they used.

The tree there is basically a visual representation of the universe's many parallel timelines. Otto have learned that he can't resurrect or remake Kallen because of the cycle of rebirth doesn't transfer the mind and Theresa is already Kallen's reincarnation. So Otto decided to create a new timeline visualized by the tree growing new branches where Kallen survived that encounter and could live her life and die on her own terms. Otto also believes that Kallen is a person who can truly make a change in the world so however that timeline ends up is ought to be interesting. The trees in Genshin are the outsprouts of the planet's veins of magical energy. They are a different thing.

I have no idea about the story but, did he, did he sucessfully Nox it? Holy heck! I literally can't think of any story where an antagonist succeeded in the Nox play, rather than getting the trope result. That's normally reserved exclusively for primary protagonists, who have to die in the process.

If you haven't heard already. When Otto first viewed the bubble universes, one of the beings that he was able to observe was Dvalin.

Pretty good guesses and observations from someone that doesn't regularly plays the game. Kudos!

You REALLY should have turned on the subtitles from the start 😂 it would have been easier to understand what's going on 🤣

Lemme clear things up, love isn’t all there is to it, yes, they were once lover and yes they knew each other from they were young, but the main was because Kallen is basically his only friend and the only one that believe in him for his belief to be an inventor, she would approach him and let him out of his cage, giving him freedom for the first time since he is seen to be a weak boy that’s unable to lead the Apocalypse family, he’s willingly to go that far is because he felt responsible for Kallen’s death for treason by the Kaslana family, which the problem also related to Otto, Otto knew Kallen was gonna get executed so Otto release a honkai beast to attack the city just so that Kallen could escape, but his plan backstabbed him since Kallen decided to help the city, he felt responsible. What he has done here is creating a new bubble universe that Kallen is alive, one of his words explains it when he touches the tree, essentially he is giving his life for her because the reason she lost her life was because of him, he didn’t bring her back to life to meet her again or to live together with her, but to give her a long living chance, he doesn’t have to meet her, the thought of her being alive is enough for him. And that my friend, is the clown that you’ve been calling

This dude has not read any of the prequel Manga XD, it litter take to you the manga in the main menu XD

Gotta say, I full respect for Otto to his Dedication to save Kallen even if its on another Universe.

Kallen is alive means new kallen battlesuit lezzgo

Otto took the philosopher's stone ritual waaaaayyyyy to serious.

8:40 That tree is the Imaginary Tree aka the multiverse, and each branch represent a possibility with the leaves being individual universe at a specific time. Genshin IS confirmed to be one such universes around the time of its release. It's unknown if the tree we keep seeing in Genshin is people referring to the Imaginary Tree or something inside Teyvat. 9:55 He went back in time, the dialogue sub flat out said that to save Kallen he has to create a branch (aka new timeline) in the past. So up till the moment she almost died was his past, then everything after that is a new universe/timeline.

Basically, he indeed went back in time (in his time) 500 years ago. This is the real Otto and real Kallen that died in original story. However, in this case Otto saved her and created a new future where Kallen and Otto of past live. Pretty much Kallen's rescue is a point where realities split: the one where she died and main characters are, the second where she lives.

otto made a few dozen timelines to save otto by sacrificing his own soul

He used that tree to create another past where Kallen alive

Summary of this Animation: Otto created a new branch in the imaginary where Kallen did not die, and thus giving rise to many more branches(Each representing a possible future) where she's alive. He did so in exchange for his own life. Creating another Future/Timeline from the Past... Declaring that he was sacrificing the world outside Kolosten was just to have Dudu and Kiana be motivated enough to kill him. In the end, he sacrificed himself rather than the world to create another world where Kallen didn't die.

White figure is will of honkai

his body was reaching the limit so that why he had those stuff on them

I feel like that this is one of the MOST important animations to watch with subtitles on. It felt kinda infuriating to see you not use them.

The otto wish comment made me crack up🤣🤣

@AirierGames Hi3 has several mangas and VNs that the animation takes shots from. Also genshin and Hi3 exist as diffrent universes on the imaginary tree and not connected beyone that.

This comment is written by @ニュートリノ I copied this comment so people can see how complex this character is. Since this is Otto's final departure, i want to give him a proper closure and tribute by clearing some misconceptions. Theres quite a number of people out there that thinks hes doing all these just for Kallen's "love". Thats just not right. It started as a meme but people joined the bandwagon without context and took it seriously, spreading it like wildfire. In order to understand his motive, u have to put urself in his shoes and look at his past. This animation becomes way more emotional and meaningful if u truly understand him. Otto was bornt and expected to be the next heir of the Apocalypse family. However, the heir was handed over to his brother cuz he was physically weak and naive as a child. Instead of exhibiting characteristics of a noble warrior and leader, he wanted to be an inventor but nobody believed in him. As an Apocalypse, he was a disgrace to the family and shunned. One day, while he was being shunned by his older brother, a girl named Kallen from the Kaslana family, helped him and believed that he would become a great inventor in the future. She was the only one who believed in him. They talked and quickly became friends. They spent a lot of time together as they grow older. Otto gained self-confidence that he isnt useless and unwanted by being around her. He even proved that he was a great inventor by inventing a cure for the Black Death disease that was running rampant in his time. This leads to him gaining the trust and respect from the public. Some times later, he gave a present to Kallen as a token of gratitude, the Sixth Serenade. Otto really admired Kallen as his saviour. Without her, he wouldnt be where he is at now. To him, the world was a cruel place and humanity are of barbaric species but Kallen was the beacon of hope for humanity. Heroic and caring, throwing herself head first into saving people. If only humanity could be similar to Kallen he thought. Gradually, the Schicksal government eventually become corrupted, Kallen along with Otto helped the common folks by stealing from the rich and distributing it to them. The government also waged war against other nation to gain more power even when under the crisis of Honkai. Seeing this, Kallen and Otto planned a rebellion against the current government. During a battle against the other nation, Otto accompanied Kallen, who was a front-liner, as a medic despite Kallen's concerns over his health. He didnt want to seat back as a spectator and wanted to be of help. Unfortunately, they lost the battle and retreated. Years later, the Schicksal government, under Otto's father guidance, declared that Kallen to be executed publicly due to treason. Otto was confused and begged his father if there was another way. His father told him that he would let her go if she promised to marry Otto and become an Apocalypse. This will make them gain control over the House of Kaslanas who was gaining more power than them. Otto was shocked since it was his dream but was hesitant since its not truly love. However, her safety takes priority first. When Otto told Kallen, who was in a cell, the proposal, she refused since the Kaslanas should uphold their oath and save people. Instead, she wanted to have one last drink. Otto, not accepting Kallen's injustice execution, made a deal with his sister, Risa Schariac, to free Kallen during the execution. His sister accepted the deal under the agreement that Otto will get his hands dirty as an Apocalypse who had always seat at the sidelines. During the day of the execution, Otto released Honkai Beasts into the town which distracted the guards. He freed Kallen but was slapped by her as he endangered the townspeople. She then went into town, saving them but ended up getting killed in doing so. Because of Otto and his family's doings, Kallen ended up getting killed. He felt guilty and devoted his life to find a way to revive Kallen for her to live once again without worries. He thought to himself that its natural to give his life for hers as she was the one who saved his. He purposely played as a "villain" role cuz a villain is the only way a world can truly change from his perspective. This perspective came to be due to the "evil" world taking the only "hero" which was Kallen away from the world, unfair and injustice. He then rebelled the Schicksal government along with the people that believed in the Holy Maiden and eventually took over as the Overseer. He lost a lot of people he held dearly in the rebellion, namely the children in the orphanage like Voila. However, he became the very thing he swore to destroy. Under his rule, he uphold Schicksal under corruption for his goal. His obsession got over him. During 2nd Eruption when he met WoH, Otto wanted to strike a deal but WoH didnt deemed him as worthy and basically took a form of Otto and stabbed itself. Over the timeframe of what Otto did, WoH finally deemed him as worthy and accept the deal with Otto to help him with the connection to Imaginary Tree in chapter 25-Ex. His sole dedication lead him from a frail young boy to what he is capable of now. He went from a hero to a "villain". He did what others couldnt. He walked on a thorny path of no return and made a deal with God itself, WoH and Void Archives. He did all these without expecting anything in return. Just like everyone else in the honkaiverse, hes part of the tragedy the world inflicted upon. Thats why i like him as a character narratively but hate/pity him as a character in the honkai universe. He represents the humans' obsession and the inability to let go. He truly embodies the quote, "U either died a hero or live long enough to see urself become a villain". "When the world's demise is nigh, strong desires and obsessions can make one go further. Like everyone else, I too have obsessions." - Su, the 7th Flamechaser. Farewell, Otto Apocalypse. Next, Void Archives in APHO and Kevin Kaslana in WS.

This isn't going to make much sense unless you play chapter 27

Definitely curious about how is going to end after he is dead. Will Kallen actually be saved?

This was beautiful

Say Airier, when are you gonna react to That Time I got Abridged as a Slime episide 8? Thanks for ur answer in advance

that Otto stabbing pose is the Honkai god when Otto met it on the 2nd erruption then the next scene on lab is our beloved tuna :)

To answer how he uses all the divine keys. Otto has the void archives divine key which has the power to mimic all the other divine keys

The girl watching Meteoric Salvation with Otto is Amber, Otto's secretary and also a Kallen-clone like Theresa. Amber is A-303 where Theresa is A-310 (they are from the same clone batch)

Otto used the Imagination Tree to make a new parallel world, where Kallen live.

He is a clown, but he's my fav character in the game.

Are you gonna react to Charlie the Unicorn Grand Final part 3-5? They dropped a while ago!!

the one in the tube was a kiana

17:00 "I gotta stop seeing similarities!" Why? Genshin IS inside the Honkai's world. There is World Tree Igdrasill (the one Otto touch - and grow a new branch!) each leaf of it is a different world. So Teivat over there somewhere as well.

I’m surprised how you decided to watch this despite not having read the manga and played the story. Brave.

I really really loved this! The man that knew through mostly everything in this world that's full with Honkai shit He created another timeline for Kallen and he succeeded on saving her This is just....Beautiful for me

Otto has actually tried this time and again...every clone you saw was a timeline of him that FAILED his 500 year journey to undo his mistake. (He called upon the honkai beast back then to prevent her execution...it backfired horrifically.) He's Giles De Rais meets Gendo Ikari but in a good way...oof.

Short explained all the crimes he had comit, were to safe Kalle. And its basicly an alternste future, where he was able to safe kallen and gave her a future

Watching this while you're only at chapter 9 is kinda........?

Otto is the best villain. A villain will sacrifice everything just to save one important person to him. He may not worthy of forgiveness but he's worthy of respects.

Did you react to Otto s chronicles

This short did something impossible. Even the people who despise Otto, when they saw him finally a hair’s breadth from actually succeeding, couldn’t help it. We want to see him finally win, even if it costs him everything. Even I was whispering “Go, Otto. Go.”

Kallen died for rebelling against Schicksal for their corruption, who led Otto's family when he was still a child and because of Otto who was the one who released the Honkai beast to avoid Kallen's death penalty, which caused the same end but with a worse effect for Otto. This was 500 years ago from the present. What Otto did was create a new timeline, where Kallen never died, that's why new branches grew on the imaginary tree. To make you feel even sadder, Otto, I think that for using the powers of VA and the imaginary tree, it ended up merging with the latter, that's why he had those black marks with yellow stripes in the body, and by dying in this new timeline, he literally destroyed any possibility of being able to re-exist in any other timeline or universe within the entire sea of ​​Quanta. Basically, we will never see any version of Otto again, in any other parallel/alternate universe, or in any other video game. The mere existence of Otto, ended after 500 years of work, effort, frustration, failed experiments and genocide, to save the only person who gave him some care, love and appreciation and yes, he already knew how his end would be...

that's kolostan 500 years in the past

CC available. Some of the question you have is in the things spoken there. Sorry.

I think it just better to turn on the subtitles, 'cuz its not spoiling much more than its actually is.

You have to catch up with the references not just from the game, but also you need to check out the other references such as the manga and light novels.

the thing when he just make a new timeline where kallen's live, a new branch in imaginary tree, change many people perspective to him. The most hated but the most respectable at the same time

Okay so what's going on is Otto is creating a whole new point in time he gave his life to save kallen so she the one who survives that tree was the world tree and the branch that grew from it made a new time period

Otto died at the end because he'd run out of endurance and was using a replica of Judgement of Samash, which causes the user to heat up catastrophically. He knew it was a one way trip. He didn't care.

i would said the death of kallen is the point when otto begin to go to the hell it just take him 500 years to get there

If you don’t know what happened may I suggest doing a reading of the Manga? Their history is covered in the first one: Elan Palatinus (I may have misspelled it). I would recommend reactions for it, but the second manga (aptly named Second Eruption) covers the story of Kiana’s parents and Sirin’s story. It gives a lot of context to the story, and is pretty amazing. If nothing else, its incredible to see the depth of the story world outside the game.

also the stabbing himself part u can read second eruption

maybe the clone he fight is otto from another universe who failed and only him is successed to save kalen

Should have turned on the subtitle

Why didn't you just turn the subtitles on?😭😭

5:10 it is not durandal spear xdd