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Film - MANISH is a Story Boss encounter in Neverness to Everness. Film - MANISH is weak to Cosmos damage.

Lore and Description

An Object Anomaly that battles by projecting items. The mission of film rolls is to capture those shining moments, but shining often means fleeting, leaving the outdated film roll behind in time. Waiting in a dusty darkroom with a dim red light, they spin and weave, trying to record the past, while also creating the future.

Quick Facts

Strategy and Mechanics

Mechanics

Several intertwined film rolls can project recorded items into reality. They fear bright light. Under strong illumination, the projected items vanish and the source becomes weakened.

When Film - MANISH is Broken, Ultimates are ready. Use them.

Rhythm Cues

• Take out the copies of Sakiri to expose Film - MANISH and force the boss out of its projection cycle.

Recommended Team

The team picks below are aligned to the Cosmos weakness. Pulling any of these into the active rotation is the highest single-stat increase you can apply to Film - MANISH's clear time.

General Combat Guidance

Fill the boss's break meter with consistent attacks and reward-heavy defensive inputs. Successful parries and dodges contribute significantly more to the break bar than a hit, and a clean parry also fills the Esper Cycle Meter instantly. Save ultimates and heaviest skills for the stagger window that follows a full break. Film - MANISH takes greatly increased damage while staggered, so burst output during this phase largely determines whether the encounter clears quickly. Build the team around the Cosmos weakness. Characters aligned with Cosmos will see the largest damage multiplier, and team compositions that can enable elemental reactions on top of that attribute will apply additional pressure to the break bar between stagger windows.

Weakness and Resistances

The table below lists the boss's raw resistance value for each of the six elements. A lower number marks the element the boss is most vulnerable to. For Film - MANISH, that element is Cosmos.

Challenge Level Stats

The table below lists Film - MANISH's HP, attack, and defense at each of the encounter's difficulty levels. Higher levels yield better drop rates and progression materials at the cost of a tougher fight.

Encounter Notes

Film - MANISH is a story-tied object Anomaly. Damage payoff is gated behind defeating its projected Sakiri copies first, so AoE-leaning Cosmos units like Chiz clear the add wave faster than a single-target damage dealer would.

Combat Statistics

Element Weakness and Resistances

This boss is weak to Cosmos damage at 16% resistance, the lowest of the six elements. All other elements resist damage at 20%. Players should center their team around Cosmos damage to clear faster and at higher challenge levels.

Recommended Espers

Cosmos-element Espers are the strongest picks for this fight. The recommended 4-character roster below covers the bulk of community team builds and clears the fight efficiently at high challenge levels:

Mechanics

Eliminate copies of Sakiri the Film projects to expose the main boss. When Film MANISH enters a Broken state, its damage taken spikes; save Ultimate attacks for that window for the cleanest clear.

Lore Description

Film - MANISH is an Object Anomaly. Several intertwined film rolls project recorded items into reality. The boss fears bright light: under strong illumination, the projected items vanish and the source becomes weakened.

Drops

Defeating this boss yields the following materials:

• Story progression rewards

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