NA: Augh, my BB Map tickets have failed me on Banner 1. Melt won me over early in the story and her tsun and nobleness just increased more and more by the end. I want her (or any of the other Banner 1 servants), but I don't want to spend money until after Anniversary and need to save my 30 paid quartz for that. At least I know what my quartz plans are up until then (Onigashima and Summer 1 Banner 1 attempts).
I did 0 KP Kiara, using Nero Bride with an MLB Iron Will Training, Merlin with Prisma Cosmos, and a support Tamamo. Took 85 turns and 2 HP Command Seals, once in the middle of the 2nd phase, and once when I broke the 2nd break bar at a bad time. It was novel, but I won't try that again as that took almost 2 hours to do.
JP: While people say that Merlin/Musashi/King Hassan is the first gauntlet of servants and Abby/Ereshkigal/Hokusai is the second, I want to say KingProtea/Kama/Reines (with favorites like Kiara, MHXA, and Okitan in between) is almost up to that level. These 3 servants boast some of the most unique kits of all the servants: KP has a neat stacking HP buff that you can trade into NP gauge or damage, Kama is an especially strong Assassin with the first real counter to Alteregos, and Reines is a balanced yet strong Support Rider with a special ability to negate class disadvantage, a godsend to Berserker teammates. And all 3 hit the right character traits for me. I managed to get KP, but couldn't get Kama and currently have no Reines. Got spooked by Jack, but can't complain because Jack is almost always a worthy spook.
Case Files music is outstanding, story is pretty good so far, but I slacked on the missions and am trying to figure out what to complete in order to join the loot pinata raid. Barbatos bulli is now a canon event.