Mane's Bulletin & Battle Pass: What's Worth It and How to Progress It
What Mane's Bulletin gives you, whether the paid track pays for itself, and how to clear it without extra grinding.
Mane's Bulletin is Reverse: 1999's battle pass. It runs on a free track and a paid track, both fed by weekly/daily quests and event stages you're already clearing; the paid track is worth buying if you play at all regularly because it returns Sharpodonty, Universal Insight Ticket-tier fodder, and other progression materials that push your roster's Insight ranks and Portray count faster than the free track alone, while the free track alone still keeps you stocked on basic upgrade currency at no cost.
Mane's Bulletin is Reverse: 1999's seasonal battle pass, sitting alongside Limbo and UTTU as one of the game's recurring progression tracks rather than a one-off event. Each cycle gives you a free reward track and an optional paid track layered on top of the same experience bar.
- Free track: available to everyone, filled by completing the Bulletin's own quest list.
- Paid track: unlocked by purchase, running in parallel on the same XP bar so every quest you clear fills both tracks at once.
- Quest source: the Bulletin's quests are built around things you're doing anyway — clearing story/event stages, using Insight materials, spending Moxie in battle, completing daily/weekly login-style tasks — so it isn't a separate grind bolted on top of your normal play.
Whether the paid track is worth it comes down to how much of your progression already depends on the resources it hands back.
- Worth it if you're actively Insighting characters or building toward Portrays (duplicates that boost Ultimate levels) — the paid track's extra Sharpodonty and upgrade-material rewards shorten that grind meaningfully compared to relying on Clear Drop and Unilog income alone.
- Skip it if you're a light player who won't finish most of the Bulletin's quest list before the season ends — a battle pass you don't complete returns poor value regardless of the price, since you're paying for the whole track's rewards, not per-tier.
- Not a pulling shortcut: Mane's Bulletin doesn't hand you new 6★ Incantators or push your pity counter — it strengthens characters you already own, so don't buy it in place of saving Unilog for the gacha banner.
Because Bulletin XP is earned through quests rather than a separate currency, the fastest way through it is to fold it into your normal clear routine instead of grinding it in isolation.
- Clear content once, credit twice: story chapters, event stages, and Limbo/UTTU runs you're doing for their own rewards typically also satisfy Bulletin quest conditions — check the quest list before you start a session so you sequence stages to hit multiple quests per run.
- Don't bank dailies/weeklies: like most login-quest systems, unclaimed weekly tasks reset and are lost, so log in and clear the cheap quests even on days you're not doing a full session.
- Buy early if you're buying at all: purchasing the paid track partway through a season doesn't retroactively grant tiers you already passed for free — buy at (or near) the start of the cycle so no paid-track rewards go unclaimed.