Loose translation of the commands you can give your shinki before battle -

There's three time two boxes here. First two boxes are rounds 1-3, second are rounds 4-6, last are round 7-10.
The left one tells your shinki what to focus on (if they do or not depends on affection), right one tells them how much skills to use.



From top to bottom- focus on attack, accuracy, dodge, guard, try various things, do whatever you want, don't move around too much.



From top to bottom- use skills as much as possible, use them normally, use few skills, don't use skills at all.

Thank Sword! Extremely useful guide.

now I can finally use some strategy! Thanks!

>There's three time two boxes here. First two boxes are rounds 1-4, second are rounds 5-7, last are round 8-10.
This is not correct.
First two boxes are rounds 1-3, second are rounds 4-6, last are round 7-10, so last rounds are 4 of them.
If you tell her not to use skills on begging rounds(1-3) and use from middle rounds(4-6), they begins to use from 4th turn.

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Aye, the timeline is 1-3, 4-6, and 7-10. (Says official manual at http://www.shinki-net.konami.jp/battler ... tle.html#4)

Speaking of which, I think having the whole manual translated will be really, really helpful...
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in shinki customization there are stats for using melee weapons and using ranged weapons, anyone know which is which ?:)