#ghostblade

[guiltygearofficial]

[its-coffeetime]

Prompt Week 4 Comfy-vember: Hot chocolate

Prompt belongs to @comfy-vember

— GhostBlade was sad...but a nice man gave him a cup of hot chocolate. He is grateful to the man, though he is not quite sure who he is.—

[thekingsavatar-fan]

乔一帆，生日快乐！

Happy birthday, Qiao Yifan! [wiki]

[bison2winquote]

"Ghost: How exciting! The clashing blades always brings me back to life Ghostblade: ... Looks dead to me." - Ghostblade with his companion ghost, DNF Duel (Eighting/ Arc System Works)

[starthaw]

Ghostblade is going to die!!1!!

This post is totally bait (well, kind of). It's all rambles about him, not a lot of substance to be found here.

I dunno, I can see it happening. I saw a comment about how there's a high chance the popular characters will die (sure got a lot of that in Link Click), and yeah. I see it.

He has a lot of death flags, okay? I've talked about this on Twitter before, his ranking is No. 4. Off to a terrible start! (四 (4) phonetically sounds like 死 which means death - a very unlucky number.)

Moreover, his birthday (08/28) is very... not auspicious at all? This would be around the time of 中元节 or the Ghost Festival. It's like Day of the Dead or Obon, a day to pay respects to lost loved ones. From his PV we can probably assume his wife died or something, his motivation for killing is likely related to her death, whatever. Bro's going through it.

And his name. Most characters have the same name in JP/EN, with some exceptions.

From the JP Twitter account, this lists the VAs and the characters they play; Dragon Boy, Ghostblade, and E-Soul are the only characters (thus far) with kanji names. The kanji means the same thing as the hanzi Chinese characters, which more or less translates to what their English titles are. I'm going to focus a bit more on Ghostblade though, since I think that's a pretty interesting take on what the characters actually mean.

默杀 is the Chinese name for Ghostblade (again, same meaning as the Japanese 黙殺). Translated literally this means silent killer, but the character 杀 has a... hm. I guess a more violent connotation? Or at least a rather strong one, it's the kind of word you'd use to describe murder.

So the ghost part makes sense - silent as a ghost, probably a reference to the Ghost Festival. Blade also makes sense, he kills people.

But he's got Buddhist symbolism all over him??? Ghosts don't linger, we all enter the cycle of reincarnation until we're free from the karmic debts of our past lives, and one of the cornerstones of Buddhism is to abstain from inflicting unnecessary suffering. To live is suffering enough, man. I guess he can justify it to himself if he's only after the bad guys...

The website quote for him says 开不了口 (lit. can't open his mouth anymore). Terrible for him. Someone wanted him fo stay quiet that bad?

No clue where I'm going with this. My expectation is that he's not going to have a great ending though - death would be kind if only to reunite him with the person he lost. He's a solitary individual, so even if he successfully kills off all his targets, he doesn't seem to have a lot going for him past that. I'm guessing there's something brewing with his hero agency, but it's hard to say with the very limited info. we have as it is.

[chaekawa]

Ghostblade

[blacktornn]

Wang Ling never disappoints

[infinitymythos]

Many have tried to break the Cycles, some have altered its courses, others have bested its fates, none have put it to an end🦇🪽👼

By:

WLOP

[mogranet]

GhostBlade - Princess Lylian (WaterLight City) Cosplay

[5water-kohaku]

I know Sparkkey Studio has been working very hard on other new donghua, and I didn't expect this quality at all in Ghost Blade/鬼刀! Sparkkey Studio continues endlessly on improvement. I'm totally blown away. They deserve all the credit and fans. <3  (The other brand new donghua they've been working on for years is called The War of Styx/绝境编年史)

[ercdouken]

DNF Duel (PC/Steam) - Ghostblade Arcade Playthrough

[animekissingblog]

Please tell me more... You are so cool looking and seem AMAZING

[its-coffeetime]

Day 25 Flufftober: Haunted House

Prompt list belongs to @flufftober

—And behind that old column, he could see the cause of every little thing that happened on the grounds of that huge mansion.

All those footsteps, murmurs, lost things were caused by only one person.

A child...

The Blade's youngest son

A small and frightened ghost. —

[thekingsavatar-fan]

李轩，生日快乐！

happy birthday, Li Xuan! [wiki]

[baitustudios]

Art Pile! (May 2023)

[prokyon]

It's from Ghostblade by WLOP

basic summary in prev post's tags:

love this image bc what did the princess do to make the crowd shout and throw tomatoes at her. i know it wasnt nothing