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Momoi Saiba才羽モモイ

First-year Millennium Science School student and Game Development Department scenario writer

Momoi Saiba is a first-year student at Millennium Science School in Blue Archive and the scenario writer for its Game Development Department. Together with her younger twin sister, Midori, club president Yuzu, and fellow member Aris, she pours her enthusiasm for video games into making them. Momoi is the first to propose a wild new concept, demand a rematch, or turn a setback into a grand adventure.

Her confidence regularly collides with Midori’s quieter practicality, but the sisters’ shared love of games keeps them working side by side.

Biography

Writing Games at Millennium

Momoi handles scenario writing for the Game Development Department at Millennium Science School. Her favorite hobby also gives the club its creative direction: she is forever pitching dramatic plots, debating mechanics, and dreaming up the next game. She works with her younger twin sister, Midori, and the club’s president, Yuzu. Momoi’s expansive ideas do not always survive Midori’s practical objections, but even their arguments spring from a shared desire to make something worth playing.

A Club in Trouble

The department faces closure when Seminar treasurer Yuuka questions whether its members have produced enough to justify keeping their clubroom. Momoi has no intention of surrendering it. Along with Midori and Sensei, she heads toward Millennium’s ruins in search of the elusive G.BIBLE, a guide the students hope will reveal the secret to making a successful game. For Momoi, the expedition is part desperate rescue mission, part irresistible adventure.

Making Room for Another Player

In the ruins, the group encounters a mysterious girl who has little experience with ordinary school life. Momoi sees a potential new friend and fellow player rather than merely another complication. As the newcomer learns about video games, the club offers her a place among students who are often better at playing and imagining adventures than managing a tidy development schedule.

Personality and Motivations

Momoi is cheerful, loud, impulsive, and fiercely competitive. A lost match can provoke an immediate demand for another round, especially when she has just announced an allegedly unbeatable combo. Her dramatic gamer vocabulary and confident declarations are part of the performance; in an actual fighting-game session, Sensei quickly learns to exploit her reckless attacks. Midori, who is much more measured, frequently catches the gaps in her sister’s plans.

Her volume can obscure how much she cares about the people making games with her. She values the thrill of sharing a game with someone else, not just winning, and her stubbornness can become useful resolve when the club faces a setback. She also has moments of self-awareness: when Midori points out that insisting on another match is unfair to Sensei, Momoi realizes she had not considered the other player’s side.

Appearance

In her standard game design, Momoi is a small-statured girl with light blond hair in short, tied side sections and pink-toned eyes. Her black cat-ear headset and pink-accented outerwear distinguish her from her similarly styled twin sister. A pink halo floats above her head, consistent with Blue Archive’s student designs.

Her usual school-and-club outfit includes a pale shirt with a blue tie, a dark pleated skirt, a loose white jacket with pink lining, and dark thigh-high stockings. She carries a pink-and-black assault rifle with a cat-themed decoration. These are details of her standard character illustration, not a claim about every alternate costume.

Quick facts

School: Millennium Science School
School year: First year
Club: Game Development Department
Club role: Scenario writer
Age: 15
Birthday: December 8
Height: 143 cm
Hobby: Playing video games
Weapon: Unique Idea — assault rifle
Japanese voice: Sora Tokui (徳井青空)

Abilities

Scenario Writing

Momoi writes scenarios and helps shape the story concepts the Game Development Department develops into playable projects. She is especially eager to propose dramatic situations and blend familiar game genres in unexpected ways.

Limitations: Her enthusiasm can outrun the practical design; Midori and the other members often have to test whether an idea will actually work.

Competitive Gaming

Momoi is an avid, highly competitive player. She throws herself into matches, watches for ways to improve, and draws inspiration from the games she plays when brainstorming new projects.

Limitations: In a fighting-game match against Sensei, her overcommitted combo attacks become predictable.

Assault Rifle Use

Her playable student equipment includes the assault rifle called Unique Idea. It is a conventional firearm in the game setting, not a supernatural ability.

Relationships

Midori Saiba

younger twin sister and development partner

Momoi’s younger twin is quieter and more cautious, often questioning the practicality of her grand proposals. They bicker and compete, but their shared passion for games underpins their creative partnership.

Yuzu Hanaoka

club president and fellow game developer

Yuzu leads the Game Development Department and is an exceptionally talented player. Momoi respects her work and helps drive their collaborative game projects forward.

Aris Tendou

fellow club member and gaming friend

Momoi eagerly welcomes Aris into the club and shares her love of games with her, helping her become part of their circle.

Sensei

adult adviser who assists the department

Sensei becomes involved when the club needs help and later participates in its gaming sessions and game-design discussions.

Yuuka Hayase

Seminar treasurer overseeing club performance

Yuuka challenges the Game Development Department to demonstrate results and takes the club’s continuation seriously; Momoi finds her scrutiny frustrating.

Interesting facts

Momoi’s named assault rifle, Unique Idea, has a cat-themed accessory given to her by Midori.

The tiny detail ties an otherwise functional weapon to the twins’ bond and Momoi’s search for inspiration.

During a fighting-game session with Sensei, Momoi loses repeatedly while trying to land her showy special combo.

The scene undercuts her claims of unbeatable technique without diminishing her determination to play again.

Momoi and Midori can settle creative disagreements through a competitive game called Fruitjelly War.

Their development process sometimes turns a design argument into the very activity they both love.

Momoi has a playable maid-outfit variant connected with the Alabaster Calling Card event.

The costume is an event-specific appearance, rather than her standard Millennium outfit.

Momoi’s personal item, Old Game Console, is described as the first handheld console she bought together with Midori.

The keepsake gives their shared love of games a concrete history beyond their present-day club projects.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Momoi Saiba in Blue Archive?

Momoi is a first-year Millennium Science School student who writes game scenarios for the Game Development Department.

Are Momoi and Midori sisters?

Yes. Midori Saiba is Momoi’s younger twin sister, and they work together on games.

What does Momoi do in the Game Development Department?

She works on game scenarios and pitches ideas, while the club develops games as a team.

Who are Momoi’s clubmates?

Her core clubmates include Midori Saiba, club president Yuzu Hanaoka, and Aris Tendou.

What kind of personality does Momoi have?

She is lively, confident, easily excitable, and highly competitive, though her ambitious ideas sometimes frustrate Midori.

What is Momoi’s weapon called?

Her assault rifle is named Unique Idea.

Does Momoi have a maid outfit in Blue Archive?

Yes. Momoi (Maid) is an alternate playable variant associated with the Alabaster Calling Card event.

Major story spoilers below.

The Game That Brought Them Together—and the G.BIBLE

Yuzu once withdrew after players harshly criticized her game, Tales Saga Chronicle. Momoi and Midori sought her out because they genuinely enjoyed what she had created and wanted to make games like hers. The trio went on to finish Tales Saga Chronicle together, only for it to receive the humiliating Worst Game of the Year distinction. When the club’s future later comes into question, those early disappointments weigh on them—but they also explain why Yuzu treasures the friends who stood by her work.

After their long search, the G.BIBLE finally offers its supposed secret to great game development: love video games. Momoi is furious that the promised breakthrough amounts to such a simple instruction. Then Aris describes the genuine excitement she felt playing Tales Saga Chronicle, and Yuzu remembers what the sisters’ support meant to her. Momoi stops waiting for a miraculous answer and rallies the club to create Tales Saga Chronicle 2 before the Millennium Prize deadline.

A Prize That Keeps the Club Together

The club races to finish and submit Tales Saga Chronicle 2. At the awards ceremony, the ordinary first-place prize goes elsewhere, and Momoi briefly believes the department has lost everything. Then the judges announce a first-of-its-kind Special Honors award for the team’s RPG and the feelings it evokes. Yuuka explains that the clubroom’s confiscation is postponed and the students have another year before their situation is reassessed. Momoi and her friends can remain together and keep developing games, but their future has not been guaranteed indefinitely.

When Aris Loses Control

When strange robots activate during an investigation, Aris suddenly loses control and Momoi is knocked unconscious in the resulting chaos. Two days later, Momoi still has not awakened, while the others try to understand what happened. After she recovers, she learns that Rio has taken Aris away and intends to destroy her halo. Momoi does not pretend to understand every revelation, but she refuses to accept that their friend should simply be abandoned.

Choosing Their Own Ending

When the group reaches Aris, the girl believes her dangerous origin makes her unworthy of staying with her friends. Momoi reminds her that meeting her helped the club finish Tales Saga Chronicle 2, win recognition, and remain together. Rather than accept a destiny imposed on Aris, Momoi insists that the friends who chose to play and create together still have a future. With the crisis behind them, Momoi promptly proposes a new monster-collecting RPG after an earlier concept proves unworkable—leaving Midori to question the latest plan all over again.

The Club Continues Beyond Volume 2

The Game Development Department’s adventures continue beyond Volume 2. A June 2026 Blue Archive announcement introduced Game Development Department’s Great Cleanup Operation!, an event story involving Kei and the department’s students tidying their clubroom after the Decagrammaton conflict.

Spoiler questions

Why was Momoi unconscious?

Aris lost control after coming into contact with mysterious robots, and Momoi was knocked unconscious during the incident. She had still not awakened two days later but eventually recovered.

Did the Game Development Department win the Millennium Prize?

The club’s Tales Saga Chronicle 2 did not win the ordinary first-place prize, but it received the inaugural Special Honors award. Yuuka then postponed confiscation of the clubroom, giving the department another year before reassessment.

How does Momoi respond to Aris being taken away?

Momoi rejects leaving Aris behind and urges the others to bring their friend home, regardless of the frightening claims made about her.

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