Who’s That Aniimo? needs a submitted photograph of the mystery Aniimo’s exact form. Idyll Ecological Investigation needs you to catch the exact form on its survey list. These events share a phase window, but a photo and a capture prove different things. Finishing one action does not automatically finish the other.
The first phase ends on November 6 at 03:59 in each server’s clock. For Pacific players, every listed cutoff falls on November 5, at a different hour depending on the service region.
- Photo event requirement
- Student II
- Catch survey requirement
- Student I
- Form matching
- Exact requested form in both
- Repeated survey catches
- No repeated points
A photograph can come from your album or a friend’s Aniimo
In Who’s That Aniimo?, photos of Aniimo sharing the mystery subject’s characteristics gradually reveal its silhouette. Completing the research topic requires photographing the form corresponding to that silhouette and submitting the photo.
You can submit a qualifying image already in your in-game album. You can also photograph your own Aniimo, another Pathfinder’s Aniimo or a wild Aniimo on the Idyll Continent. Owning or catching a new copy is therefore not the universal requirement for this event.
The form restriction still applies. A photograph of the right species in the wrong form does not complete the topic. Aniimo inside Holo-Battle Sim or the Sanctum cannot be recognized for submission, so a clear-looking battle photo from those modes does not replace an eligible subject.
Correctly photographing the mystery form before the silhouette is fully revealed also earns the event’s extra observation reward. That gives recognizing the form early a purpose beyond uncovering another part of the silhouette.
Ecological points come from a target’s first completed survey
Idyll Ecological Investigation asks you to catch Aniimo matching the phase’s ecological survey list. Only the same form as the listed target completes that survey.
Each target grants points on its first survey completion. Catching that target repeatedly does not keep producing survey points. The activity is a list to complete, rather than a loop where any number of duplicate catches advances the score indefinitely.
If the survey target is not yet recorded in your Index, its first survey completion awards double points. This is a condition on that target’s registration state, not a blanket multiplier for every target caught during the phase.
Two examples show why repeating the wrong action stalls progress
Imagine you already own the exact mystery form. A qualifying album image or a new photograph of that owned Aniimo can satisfy the photo event. Throwing another Aniipod is not required merely because the mystery subject is a catchable creature.
Now imagine a listed ecological target whose ordinary first-completion value is P points. If it was already recorded, that first completion gives P. If it was unrecorded, the stated rule gives 2P. A second catch of the completed target does not add another P or another 2P. P is symbolic here, not a claimed point value for a particular creature.
Likewise, photographing the ecological target does not substitute for the catch its survey requires. The collection tracker helps distinguish an already registered form from a missing one, while the catching guide covers the separate capture action.
The last minute is different for each server
Both first-phase windows end at the same written server time, November 6, 03:59. APAC uses UTC+8, Europe UTC+0 and Americas UTC-4:
| Server | Pacific cutoff |
|---|---|
| APAC | Nov 5, 11:59 AM PST |
| Europe | Nov 5, 7:59 PM PST |
| Americas | Nov 5, 11:59 PM PST |
These are the final listed minutes, not recommended starting times for a hunt. The reset timer keeps the service region separate from your computer’s local clock. Later phases run November 13–20 and November 27–December 4 on the same regional-clock pattern.
Gachapus recognition received a specific repair
The October 30 patch fixed Gachapus not being identified by photos in Who’s That Aniimo? A failed attempt affected by that recognition issue is worth revisiting after the fix.
That repair concerns the photo event. It does not make a Gachapus picture count as an ecological capture or remove the exact-form requirement. The October 30 fixes article separates the other repaired objectives. Here, the action that matters is precise: submit the right eligible image for the mystery topic, and catch each listed form for its first ecological survey.
