#blazblue phase shift

[mizukagami-takamagahara]

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Clavis Alucard Phase Shift Illustrations

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RESULTS

After a long fight and some close calls...

(sprite rip courtesy of @arundolyn)

TORAKAKA HAS WON THE BLAZBLUE NPC BRACKET!

Thank you all for your participation! This blog will stay up for archival purposes, but who knows, another bracket may happen in the near future... (wink wink)

Below the cut are the final rankings! (Votes are cumulative. Characters who were present in round 1 will be given an asterisk by their name.)

Torakaka (C-Series) (203 votes)

Linhua (C-Series) (167 votes)

Chachakaka (Heart Series) (159 votes)*

Meifang Lapislazuli (Heart Series) (106 votes)

Trinity Glassfille (C-Series) (94 votes)

Taro Sasaga'e (Heart Series) (81 votes)

Kazuma Kval (Phase Shift) (69 votes)

Kajun Faycott (Heart Series) (58 votes)

Tomonori (Phase Shift) (50 votes)*

Kiri (XBlaze) (49 votes)

Shiori Kirihito (Heart Series) (47 votes)

Acht (XBlaze) (47 votes)*

Kuon Glamred Stroheim (XBlaze) (41 votes)*

Raquel Alucard (Bloodegde Experience) (38 votes)

Homura Amanohokosaka (C-Series) (35 votes)

Roy Carmine (C-Series) (35 votes)

Tenjo Amanohokosaka (Heart Series) (29 votes)*

Ringo Akagi (XBlaze) (28 votes)*

Touya Kagari (XBlaze) (27 votes)

Avenge (XBlaze) (27 votes)*

Hinata Himezuru (XBlaze) (27 votes)*

Ripper (XBlaze) (24 votes)*

Estella McKenzie (Heart Series) (22 votes)*

Akira Kamewari (XBlaze) (20 votes)

Karenjina Parsett (Spiral Shift) (19 votes)*

Clavis Alucard (Bloodedge Experience) (17 votes)

Sechs (XBlaze) (16 votes)*

Nobody (XBlaze) (16 votes)

Saya Terumi (Bloodedge Experience) (15 votes)

Mei Amanohokosaka (XBlaze) (11 votes)

Grimwood Huster (Spiral Shift) (9 votes)*

Eight (Phase Shift) (9 votes)

Seven (Phase Shift) (8 votes)*

Elise von Klagen (XBlaze) (8 votes)*

Cypher Albar (Heart Series) (8 votes)

Akane Teruhiko (Heart Series) (7 votes)*

Drei (XBlaze) (6 votes)*

Souichiro Unomaru (XBlaze) (6 votes)*

Yuki Himezuru (XBlaze) (5 votes)*

Houichirou Hazuki (Heart Series) (5 votes)*

Haruka Hayami (Bloodedge Experience) (4 votes)*

Fuzzy (Heart Series) (4 votes)

Kiiro Hikagami (Bloodedge Experience) (4 votes)*

Spinner Superior (Bloodedge Experience) (3 votes)*

[new-fire-chicken]

Sorry for my long absence. Work has been busy and I am currently taking a vacation in Japan. Got myself something here. I won‘t be fully translating it, but I can load up summaries of the chapters once I‘ve read them.

[aretheywlw]

ARE THEY A WOMAN WHO LOVES WOMEN?

*this character has been submitted as a transfem reading, so this poll is specifically about the transfem version of this character; keep this in mind! as such, the usual "not a woman" options have been removed.

[smellpelt]

[kingofdinosaurs]

besties...

[mangocoal]

I tried to do something different here and decided I wanted to do something akin to an audiobook reading. However, I also decided to put in some jokes and riffs into it too to keep myself from getting bored. This was NOT done in one take. There was a lot of editing and pre-planning involved (and it still didn't turn out super great in my opinion but that's beside the point).

[goofballproximitysurveyor]

Something I've always liked about Blazblue is how mood-wise it's pretty well rounded. It's very earnest in it's serious moods but at the same time it doesn't take itself too seriously. Even taking out the gag reels I feel like the game does a good job where all the grit and edge is well balanced with silly or more wholesome moments. Even the most serious and tragic character has funny quirks and even the most goofy character has some edges. It's very good with keeping the mood from turning into something irritating across the main story. XBlaze also does an excellent job at this (pspspsps it's not too late to play XBlaze) and I would argue at least Variable Heart is decent at it too. I haven't gone totally through Phase Shift but considering it's pretty well liked I'd assume that of it as well, and I'd even give Bloodedge Experience that from what I've heard from other people.

[arundolyn]

Why do you think Blazblue made Celica both the Sister who raised the siblings, AND some weird time travel love interest for Ragna? Did they just shoehorn Ragna into phase shift and that dynamic just got so popular they shoved it into Chronophantasma? Did they think Ragna’s development needed to be with his family but they have their own plots so they make Celica into the Sister, but NEVER have the characters piece it together ON SCREEN in a way that changes their dynamic?

i kept meaning to answer this and forgetting bc my brain has been soup for the past like WEEK but oh my god its so weird. its very blatantly both trying to give him relevance in a side material and also tie the side material into the main story better and make it plot relevant in chronophantasma all at the same time and it just falls flat horribly and comes off severely contrived. that entire scene in cp would be so extremely improved if rather than sending ragna back in time via the cauldron he just like. idk the boundary can do a lot of shit we dont even know about. it'd be a hell of a lot better if bloodedge was a completely separate guy so that negates the weirdness of celica's attraction to him then vs now and solves the like... what. 5 separate goddamn paradoxes the existence of bloodedge as a character separate from ragna causes? the LEAST of which is where his jacket and sword come from. blazblue loves its recursive paradoxical time loops so much.

making celica the sister is such a weird can of worms that honestly would be fine IF they didnt make her also have a crush on him in her chronophantasma body. thats the fuckin odd part. sure she doesnt have the memories of the now-dead nun that raised ragna and his siblings BUT it still feels weird because don't he AND jin during the whole takemikazuchi disaster at the climax of chronophantasma look at her and recognize that it's the sister and then just like.. its left at that. ragna never acted particularly romantically toward her in the first place thank god but her lack of awareness of the situation is the weirdest part. hes his usual trying-to-be-aloof-on-purpose self about it and when kokonoe blackmails him into celica tagging along with him its literally just. "you cant fight dumbass stay behind me" thats it. yeah she doesnt know and all and remembers him-as-bloodedge from her time that she had a crush on but like. she doesnt.. have to be unaware. its a really weird plot contrivance that doesnt sit right to just have another love interest that comes off really weirdly not only for the story but for the fuckin guy writing it

[marshmallow--shark]

Rules: Share 10 facts about yourself and tag other blogs! The facts can be about anything!

1. I cannot feel fear, it becomes either arousal or anger.

2. I tried to take a martial arts class once but when someone touched my neck for a chokehold, I moaned. I never tried to do marital arts again.

3. For the longest time, I thought rape and sex were the same thing. No, not in a rape is acceptable way. The opposite, all sex is painful, disgusting and scary. Even now, it's extremely difficult to write it consensual.

4. I never had a boy/girl crazy phase at puberty, I didn't start getting stupid crushes on characters until recently.

5. I don't understand torturing someone based on hate. If I truly hate someone, I just won't do anything to them. They're nothing.

6. The best games are Kirby's Adventure Wii Deluxe, Corpse Party Bloodcovered, Miitopia, Dramatical Murder, Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea and Blazblue Continuum Shift. Discussion is not allowed.

7. I get bored of everything rather easily but not when it comes to fandoms. I will never leave a fandom, I'll always find a way back to it.

8. I prefer early 2000's slang over whatever stroke inducing gibberish people speak these days. It's easier to learn Russian than modern slang.

9. The only change I want to make to the world is write or draw something so horrible that it will make people psychoanalyse and belittle me. Or a murdersim that makes people want me ocs to demolish them.

10. I'm great at disappearing. Too great.

[mizukagami-takamagahara]

But my money’s on the snake, though!

[mystech-master]

Hi, pretty sure I was the one who made the idea of having Platinum and Akitsu-Kou bring connected to Ragna because I haven't seen anyone else bring it up.

It'd be a much better reason for Plat to hate Ragna than "Ha Ha look at the angry punk be punked on b a little kid, but he can't hit back otherwise he is satan....even though that brat needs her teeth kicked in for some discipline." Plus it'd be a good morality thing to question Ragna on.

But for the other parts, I think they added Celica because once they got to CP and got rid of the individual story modes, the interpersonal character conflicts were also gotten rid of b/c they needed everyone to be on the same page for the linear narrative to fight Terumi and Izanami but also have them still hate each other to keep Blazblue's edgy tone and so that every arcade fight could sound big and dramatic without actually moving a character forward.

Noel was already dealing with Tsubaki and mastering her Murakumo power, Celica was apparently sure popular in the Phase Shift novels and I guess she played a similar "innocent good girl" role with a bit more cheerfulness added in b/c Noel has a lot of angst with her that would appeal to Japanese fans. So adding her to be a catalyst for Ragna's development made sense for them I guess. This is all just a guess though.

Tao is also like pure comic relief with the IQ of a concussed goldfish, but it would be funny to see her give the same speech to Ragna and the others as Caboose did to Tucker in the 2nd season of the Chorus trilogy in RvB (Hopefully someone will get what I mean).

No you don't understand

There is so much that CP fucking dropped the ball on and I can never possibly fucking begin to explain it unless I sit down. Tao and Noel could have easily filled in Celica's role of helping Ragna develop. Ragna didn't need to be SPOONFED a motive or development from Celica, a literal who he has barely known and was forced to be around because the plot demanded it. Tao could have even showed a certain level on "intelligence" by helping Ragna find another reason to fight, cause she wants to help her village above all else!! Even if she can be very childish, she has a good heart at the end of the day and lets most things not bother her!

And I've been thinking about it more, and I'm mad Platinum and Bang being travel buddies didn't stay longer, because CS had Bang just ignore/roll with whatever Luna said. They did more than just make pedo jokes with Bang, and it worked because Bang didn't let those comments aggravate him. I've seen an idea thrown around here that Platinum could have resented Ragna for causing Akitsu-Kou's weather system to malfunction, and that could have given her a more valid reason for hating him. Could you imagine if Bang helped Platinum to not let vengeance consume her the same way he doesn't let his hatred for Jin control his every move? There could have been a nice relationship there!

I fucking hate Chronophantasma so much :^))))))

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QUARTERS: Trinity Glassfille vs. Linhua

Will the former Six Heroes member show her might against the doctor in training? Or will Linhua have to show her medical skills healing Trinity's wounds?

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Blazblue Radio W Ep 1: Ranking Island

Blazblue Radio put up a survey online with 10 questions which were answered by blazblue radio fans. Here are the results:

list of Questions: 1: Who would you like as your sibling? 2:Who would you like as a pet? 3:Who would you raise as a child? 4:Who would get annoyed/offended during a date?** 5:Who talks a lot in their sleep? 6:Who would you like to share a room with? 7:Who would make a good father/mother? 8:Who seems to have a messy private life? 9:Who looks good in a school uniform? 10:Who seems to have been a non-human in a past life?

Answers to 1: Who would you like as your sibling?

2:Who would you like as a pet?

3:Who would you raise as a child?

(they Joke that Kon-Chan[Noel/nu/Lambda] almost has the 3 top spots.)

4:Who would get annoyed/offended during a date?** **(small clarification: THey're basically asking who it would be the worst date partner. I haven't been able to find a good direct translation yet.)

5:Who talks a lot in their sleep?

6:Who would you like to share a room with?

7:Who would make a good father/mother?

8:Who seems to have a messy private life?

9:Who looks good in a school uniform?

10:Who seems to have been a non-human in a past life?

(to Bang: a fan comment was: he was definetly a Gorilla. Another said that Bang must have been Lava from a Vulcano of Honululu)

These rankings were conducted during the release of the psp and 3ds release of Continuum Shift. Also the first 2 Phase Shift novels had already been released.

[kingofdinosaurs]

wait... did kazuma have a cat allergy?