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You're meant to be a little disoriented due to the two-year timeskip from the prologue to the start of the main story, but the explanations are there. The translation style has many fragments and things not explicitly stated, but that seems to reflect the protagonist's personality (allusions to Three Kingdoms, and seeming head-in-the-clouds due to internal digressions, but rather brusque on external details), so I didn't mind it.I don't know Blue Archive, so I can't speak to any similarities there, but I followed the story and setting without that knowledge.Man from our world dies and wakes up as the incompetent senior to the original protagonist's group, Clara, complete with a pretty-filter over everything she says, three years prior to the start of 'canon'. Now 'Lara', she opts to work around Clara's built-in limitations, culminating in the clash in the prologue with Lara and Hilde, canon's strongest character. And Lara "Pink Spiral" wins.But what then? What use is Lara's strength, when the story where the world was saved didn't have Pink Spiral?The start of the story shows Lara's decision: to erase Pink Spiral and get the story back on track to canon.That's impossible, of course, but the why and Lara's journey to realizing that is really interesting and heartwarming. It's funny and absurd at times, but the sincere care these girls show for each other is just really nice. A few twists I didn't expect as well. And Lara might just be the last person to realize Hilde like-likes her.