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Badguy Sol will be in it.

This game was made by the Guilty Gear.

The world beyond the Boundary is the Bad Future of the Soul Series.

Soul Edge is an empathic Artifact of Doom that constantly searches for more souls to consume to become stronger. In the Bad Future, its host Nightmare assumes his Super Mode Night Terror and proceeds to slay entire cities at a time and become monstrously overpowered. When he has consumed the entire world, it's left a barren, twisted wasteland tainted by Soul Edge's power. Since Nightmare, the Azure Knight, has completely merged with Soul Edge, the energy of Soul Edge now appears Azure.

• The immortal Zasalamel became Terumi, the remains of his morality shattered with his sanity when he was forced to continue living with no body to reincarnate into. He doesn't want to die anymore, as his insanity lets him derive great joy from torturing others, so he abandoned the scythe he carried as a reminder of his goal. Note both character's Eyes of Gold, the fact that Terumi's ghost form's eye is on the same side as Zasalamel's gold eye, their affinity for snakes (and Ouroboros is a symbol for immortality). He slipped into the world of BlazBlue through a hole in the boundary. His presence in BlazBlue becomes stronger the more souls are resonating (aggressively) towards him.
• Yukianesa is Soul Calibur. The blade is blue and clearly has a mind of its own. Soul Calibur has demonstrated ice powers when wielded by Siegfried. It's possible that Jin's cold-hearted personality isn't revitalized by Soul Calibur which is why he doesn't gain health, but his resolve and desire for justice/revenge allow him to use the same powers Siegfried manifests. It assumed the form of a katana, Jin's preferred weapon, and drives him to destroy Soul Edge wherever it manifests (including as part of his brother's arm). When Ragna loses the grimoire in the fight with Mu-12, Jin doesn't feel the need to destroy him any more.
• Seithr is the corrupting and twisting influence of Soul Edge. Lotte Carmine was probably just close enough to the ultimate Night Terror to not get ripped a new one or completely possessed, but have enough Seithr exposure to degenerate into his current form (similar to Lizardman in Soul Calibur, but more severe because Soul Edge is stronger in the future.) He's obsessed with obtaining the Azure because the power of Soul Edge is addictive.
• The Azure Grimoire is Soul Edge. Ragna's copy is also Soul Edge, but it's only a fragment.

Rachel is Slayer's daughter.

It makes sense. They're both vampires who enjoy bugging the crap out of their respective games' lead characters, both have shapeshifting clothes (Rachel's little wings and Slayer's shoulder thing) and both live in a mysterious castle. Plus Rachel's clothes have a cross on them that's extremely similar to the cross Slayer wears, possibly a family crest. Plus her father is mentioned but his name is left a mystery.

• Slayer (brown hair) and Sharon (black hair) had a blonde daughter through the magic of anime hair colors. And that's all the explanation that needs.
  • This is completely possible even in the real world. Since blonde is a recessive gene, two dark-haired parents could conceivably conceive a blonde child.
• Jossed. It's confirmed that Rachel's father's name is 'Clavis'.
  • Then again, Slayer is highly unlikely to be Slayer's real name. He founded an assassin's guild, so it's probably a title or alias.
  • His bio in Accent Core Plus' Story even reads, "The subject refers to himself as 'Slayer,'" so it would seem that the P.W.A.B. is also under the impression that he's going by an alias. Given that Slayer hails from another world and isn't a native of the GG one, it would make sense that he wouldn't assume his real name.
• It's possible that Requiem (that pocket dimension Rachel is able to conjure up) is somehow linked to the world that Slayer's race of vampires/nightwalkers hail from. On top of this, take note of how both Slayer and Rachel's birthplace is listed as "Transylvania." (They also share the same birthday—Halloween—but that's inconsequential.)

Blaz Blue is an alternate reality of Guilty Gear.

The divergence was the Black Beast's attack which prevented Gears from being created because it destroyed the research (and maybe Frederick and That Man along with it). In the Guilty Gear universe the time loop was never started (maybe That Man/I-No altered time again) and without the Black Beast devastating the world Gears development went uninterrupted.

This, of course, opens the way for the crossover fighting game which some of the development team want.

• • I'm gonna to deviate a little here: It's possible that the Black Beast is a threefold fusion between Ragna, Nu, and Justice (when she was sealed in the original GG game, or perhaps after she got killed off). Or maybe I-No was playing with dimensions again, which resulted in Ragna and Nu going back in time to begin with. Its also possible that I-No is screwing with Rachel, forcing her to relive the time line every single time it loops for sheer kicks without Rachel knowing.

In most timelines, Bang and Arakune warp to the past through the Cauldron and become two of the Six Heroes.

Hakumen's Arcade Mode ending has a stylized picture of the Six Heroes. Hakumen and Jubei are fairly obvious, but the ones we don't have 100% positive ID on include 1) a man with a giant nail tied to his back and 2) an abstract face curled over what looks almost exactly like one of the bell bugs Arakune summons with his forward Drive. The Law of Conservation of Detail demands it! Plus, it would be funny if Bang was his own mentor (of whom he carries the giant nail as a memento).

• Found a better picture of the 6 heroes.
  • I'll take a stab at this, but you guys owe me lots of meat buns if I get it right! Jubei and Nine exist as seperate characters. Hakumen is, of course, accounted for. My pick? The guy with the spiked hair is Terumi and the man with the nail-like implement (which I don't see in either picture, but I'll go with the assumption) is one of Tenjo's predecessors, which would make the nail a family heirloom. I'd bet the Alucard estate has a representative there: either Rachel's father or Valkenhayn. You can mix and match those, by the way; wouldn't it be funny if Rachel was somehow distantly related to Bang's "lord"?
  • My turn at guesswork. Going from left to right, I'll number things. 1.) Unknown. I have no guess. Perhaps Valkenhayn, as it's all I can slot in. Slayer is also possible. 2.) Terumi. Almost 95% on that. 3.) Honestly? I think it's I-No. The appearance is just too damned close. Hat, jacket, corset, stockings, all seemingly a dark color. She's also a dimensional/time-traveler, so if anyone from Guilty Gear is getting in, it's her. 4.) Jubei, due to the heavy armor and two tails. 5.) Hakumen. 6.) Nine, due to the fact that robed characters tend to be spellcasters, and she's the only unaccounted at this point.
  • I'll try this too. Left to right. 1) I guess this is the supposed nail guy. But to me it looks like a silhouette with a scepter of some sort. No nail. Besides, Hakumen would've recognized Bang's nail and said something. But he was more like you're a new face� 2) I have no idea, but definitely not Terumi. Too muscly and badass! 3) Nine. Come on, how more stereotypical Witch� can you get? Besides she's right next to her romantic interest¦ 4) Jubei, you can tell by the tails. 5) Hakumen 6) This is probably Terumi. He's shady and he's splitting from the band.
  • As of the "Setting Material Collection," we know for sure the identity of five of the six heroes. In the middle are obviously Nines, Hakumen, and Jubei. Valkenhayn and Terumi were also in the group, but I'm not sure where they would fall in the picture. That leaves only one mystery figure, and my guess is that it is Rachel's or Carl's dad.
    • Does anyone else remember when we were told that Bang was one of the Six Heroes (before the American release)? Hakumen did recognize Bang (somewhat), its possible that one of the six is actually Bang's master (or grand master).
      • No. Hakumen recognizes Bang somewhat when he was Jin Kisaragi. And I doubt Bang's master is one of the Six if Jin easily beat him.
• This has been debunked. Hakumen, Terumi, Nine, Valkenhayn, Jubei, and Trinity have been confirmed as the 6 heroes.
• Found an updated picture of the 6 heroes. Also, Platina and Torakaka are confirmed as new story characters.
  • Actually, Terumi and Valkenhayn are labeled wrong in that picture. If you zoom in really close, you can see that the person labeled as Terumi actually has Valkenhayn's pony tail and bow.

The "Old Hag" who raised Ragna and the others was Nine.

At the beginning of Ragna's Story Mode an "Old Hag" is mentioned twice: once when Ragna finds Saya and wonders where the Old Hag is and again when Terumi states he's going to kill her. Now my theory is that she was actually Nine, the witch of the Six Heroes and Kokonoe's mother.

This would explain a couple of things: what happened to Nine, why Jubei trained Ragna and sympathized with him (they both lost someone they loved that day), why Kokonoe hates Terumi so much as well as the animosity she has towards Jubei since he wasn't there to protect her (probably off wandering).

• Actually, it's been confirmed that the woman is Nine's sister. It's also revealed that the church they were staying at is used to keep the body of the Black Beast buried.

The Cauldron itself is not what sends the Black Beast back 100 years to form the time loop.

The time shift is caused by the Takama-gahara device mentioned in Ragna's ending (and other places). Every time the Black Beast is created, it waits for Kagutsuchi to be destroyed, then somehow pulls the Beast into the Cauldron and triggers the time warp that sends it back to one hundred years ago. Either Jin or this loop's Hakumen gets caught in the warp as well, depending on whether or not Jin made it to the basement this loop.

• Jossed. Takama-gahara is a device used by Sector Seven to track Terumi.
  • And that is wrong also.

Taokaka's face is not, in fact, in permanent shadow.

Her face is literally a flat black surface with round, red glowing eyes and a Cheshire Cat Grin. Check out Bang's Story Mode Image 5; one of the Kaka clan kids has her face protruding well out of the hood, where it can't possibly be in shadow, and still looks like Taokaka's "shadowed" face. It's caused by some random flaw in the process of cloning them from Jubei, I'm sure.

• In one of the Teach Me, Ms Litchi segments, Rachel asks Taokaka "Are you wearing a mask?" So the Kaka clan might just be wearing masks.
  • They must be some really expressive masks if that's the case.
    • Face paint, maybe?

Arakune is another form of Melchsee's Door.

Both are shapeshifting, all-consuming blobs of blackness with the ability to extend massive bony claws and a hankering for the local raw Phlebotinum (seithr in Arakune's case, PSI in the case of the Door), which they are also made of. Plus, the Door is also sentient.

Ragna's Sword Is an intelligent device.

If you take a look at it, there is what appears to be a revolver chamber near the hilt, other than a gunblade, what kind of sword would have such a thing? A sword that possessed a cartridge system is what. All we need now is to see Ragna's Transformation Sequence....

• A fully workable theory regarding Ragna's sword, sure, but the Azure Grimoire (copy?) is that red circle on the back of his hand.
  • I assumed the Grimoire was Ragna's whole arm. That makes the loss of the original (and its subsequent replacement) much more meaningful. Now, who caused him to lose that arm in the first place...?
    • OP:Hmm, okay that makes sense. Now for something not entirely different.
• And he does get a Transformation Sequence. His right arm transforms into a winged SOMETHING, his entire body goes black, and he sucks the enemy's life out, then runs them through with his sword. His Astral Finish.

All Grimoires are Lost Logia.

Nu is Cinque

Specifically an upgraded duplicate created sometime after StrikerS by a lost clone of Jail. She's based on the original in terms of appearances and genetic abilities (Rumble Detonator + Stinger Knives = Sword Summoner) but her fondness for swordspam has been cranked up to eleven. She was supposed to have been used against the TSAB along with her sisters but something went wrong and she wound up sealed in the Gate after her Nox Nyctores screwed up her programming and made her kill Jail. By extension of course, this also means that Saya was the genetic base for both Cinque and Nu Cinque.

Rapture is on the other side of the Boundary

Arakune's physical and mental state are the result of incredibly excessive splicing. He has spliced himself with the Insect Swarm plasmid and Natural Camouflage gene tonic, as well as tonics/plasmids from the Houdini and Spider Splicer library. The red substance he is streaked with is ADAM, and his history with the Kaka Clan shows he is used to attacking little girls for their power. He also wears a white mask, although not as fancy as the ones the splicers wear.

Litchi is also revealed to have taken power from the Boundary in order to bring Arakune back and cure him, but since she's a bit more sensible, she only grabbed herself Incinerate! and Telekinesis plasmids. The former she uses for her All Green Distortion Drive. The latter she uses to move her staff around (which is presumably a Nox Nyctores since everyone and their grandma seems to have one in this game).

• So does this mean Hakumen and Nu-13 a type of big daddy and Big Sister respectively?

The Warp is on the other side of The Boundary

A horrifying place where one can do insane without sufficient willpower? A place full of truly unimaginable power at the cost of body, mind and/or soul altering mutations (like with Arakune)? Well, doesn't THAT sound familiar? Obviously, whoever came to or was raised on this planet that caused The Boundary to go up made it as a buffer between that planet's reality and the cold crushing unreality that is The Warp.

Arakune is Carl's father.

Think about it; the guy's been missing for the entire storyline. Its possible that turning Carl's sister into a Nox Nyctores caused his transformation into his current state (and he did go insane because of it). IIRC, Litchi did recognize Nirvana (at least Rabbit did).

• That...actually makes a whole lot of sense. But what do we make of Nirvana's "resemblance" to Litchi in that case...?
  • IIRC, and it's been a while since I watched Carl's storyline, Litchi recognizes Nirvana as being a Nox. The way the conversation went, it sounded like there's more than one of the Nirvana model, but Carl's is actually different from the rest (something only Rachel commented upon). In the ending, Litchi's kindness towards Carl is what made her resemble his sister; it wasn't actually her face or anything (well, it may have been, as we have no images of Carl's sister to work off of). I don't recall anyone ever saying that Nirvana resembled Litchi, only that Carl related Litchi's kindness at the end of the storyline to that of his sister's, and was confused because of it.
  • Jossed as of the release of the Setting Material Collection.

Arakune is a failed version of the Black Beast.

Several of his attacks turn him into a head that resembles the one seen in Tager's second ending. He didn't posses a Nox or an Azure Grimoire, thus he couldn't complete the transformation.

• Confirmed by Terumi as of Continuum Shift.

Arakune is Uboa's son.

Compare this to this.

• Except Arakune was not born that way. He FUSED with Uboa.

Makoto Nanaya is the BlazBlue conterpart to Squirrel Girl

We'll never see her as a PC because she'd unbalance the entire game.

• She just gets confirmed as a DLC for Continuum Shift. We're doomed.

Makoto Nanaya is the daughter of Squirrel Girl and Secret Squirrel

Which explains perfectly how she got into the intelligence division; with breeding like that she was probably beating the recruitment agents off with a stick for a while.

There is a timeline where the Black Beast never exsisted

Specifically, the first timeline. Considering that the Black Beast was, in the end, responsible for its own creation in the next timeline, there must have been an original timeline where the Black Beast came from. Of course, the only person who can answer what created the Black Beast of that world is Rachel...

• Or possibly Terumi.
  • Does he know about the time loops? It's a bit unclear.
    • It is Abundently clear that Terumi has Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory and has been fighting a war of Xanatos Gambit with Rachel. By the end it is effectively a draw with Terumi slightly ahead. While Terumi got power enough to fight Rachel 1v1 on even ground,he hesitated to fight Rachel and Ragna. (and possibly Noel, or maby JUST Noel) Rachel has Ragna and Noel by her side, with Tager and Kokonoe backing her up. If some info on the net is right Kokonoe brings Lambda -11- in for their faction as well.
• Of course there is. It's ours.
  • We can't know that yet, since the time loop brings the Black Beast to 2099. 89 years to go...

Jin knew Ragna the Bloodedge was the Black Beast all along.

In the ending which shows him follow Ragna and Nu back in time, he is stated to know what Ragna had become (when he was talking to Rachel). Its possible that being possessed by Terumi granted him the knowledge of the Black Beast, or at least the fact that Ragna was destined to become it (which would also prevent him from knowing that the Library was involved with the Black Beast itself, albeit indirectly). This knowledge drove him insane, and led him to want to kill Ragna even after Terumi dumped his body. Its possible he is in a similar boat as Rachel, if a bit more limited due to amnesia. He's still crazy, but he knew he had to stop the Black Beast somehow.

The only hole in this is that Jin wasn't aware that Ranga was the Bloodedge himself, he merely suspected it based on the name (remember, Ragna's pictures have him with white hair, when he's actually a blond like Jin). Still, he knew that someone named Ragna was going to become the Black Beast.

• Continuum Shift suggests that he knew this on a sub-conscious level all along.

Bang is a living Nox

Self-explanatory. It does give a good reason for his manliness.

• Jossed. Nox isn't even activated so he's just manly through his own stupidity.

Noel and Rachel are the future reincarnations of Nanoha and Fate.

Noel and Nanoha were both dubbed by Cristina Valenzuela, while Rachel's character design is a ripoff of Fate's. For some reason, Hayate's DNA also gets into Fate's offspring/reincarnation, thus giving Rachel the voice of Hayate.

• Supported by the masses of Noel x Rachel official art.
• And now by Valkenhayn's Drive turning him into Zafira.

BlazBlue is the sequel to In Famous.

The Black Beast = The Beast. There.

Noel does * not* have the hots for Jin.

She's just an actual good person who wants to give everyone a chance. Notice that she shows a similar amount of concern for everyone except Arakune and v-13 (whose presence makes Noel's personality basically go on vacation), and only speaks ill of other characters or fails to give them a chance to stand down when they mistake her for a boy or spend much of the battle mocking her.

• C Onfirmed. In Continuum Shift, Jubei tries to convince her to save Jin, and she can't even think of a reason she should until she remembers how much Tsubaki loved him.

Noel will be the protagonist by the third game

Ragna holds an imitation Azure Grimore, and with it on he can trash Hakumen. (who is admitdly at 20% power, but he fought the Black Beast back in the day.) Noel does not know how to fight, she has had her Nox Nictores to do that for her; even her Astral Finish is provided by it. Events will conspire to either strip them from her or she will abandon them. (Possibly due to her friend below) Rachel, Ragna, Kokonoe,(Whoever really) will be busy between the second and third games training her to use the Game Breaker power of the true Azure. Power that will be demonstrated in a uncontrolled way in Continum Shift as a desperation move to stave off disaster, likely killing Tsubaki Yayoi in the process, and giving her the determination to get over the inevitable agnst about being the MacGuffin Girl Person of Mass Destruction. Terumi will wish it was just the White Devil after him then.

The "Master Unit Amaterasu" generates the boundary

It keeps out whatever drove Arakune mad and warped his body. If Terumi succeeds in destroying it, we're all screwed.

Noel is distantly related to Sion from Melty Blood.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

• So Ragna, Jin and Saya are all related to the Night of Wallachia? No wonder Ragna became half-vampire when Rachel bit him!
• Or Terumi is more like the Night of Wallachia. He just wants Noel as his successor instead of the others.

Litchi is an Eldritch Abomination.

Of the "seemingly human, but somehow just wrong" variety. How else do you explain the fact that she has a body, an outfit, and a personality like that, but not a mile-long line of suitors outside her door? No, she's been changed by whatever she gained from the Boundary, and the only person who can't instinctively feel her oozing wrongness is known Idiot Hero Bang Shishigami. Note also that Hakumen had a similar "purge the tainted" reaction to her as to Arakune.

• Confirmed as of CS. It seems like playing around with the Boundary is akin to playing around with Chaos.
  • Which one is confirmed? "Purge the tainted" reaction from Hakumen? Because as far as we know, in Litchi's Arcade Ending, Linhua mentioned that every single townspeople is crazy about her. So I suppose she has her own followers, just not someone who'd dare to marry her (and even then, she might just refuse as she's too busy thinking about 'how to cure Arakune')
    • Litchi being corrupted by the Boundary. Arakune actually speaks in coherent, full sentences to tell her to get cured, fast during his story mode in CS. He says this is a "line she can't cross", and tells her to go to Kokonoe while she still can. So yeah, the corruption wins again.

Arakune had a Dissidia Final Fantasy run-in when he went into the Boundary.

He tasted of dis pear and was broken more severely than Sephiroth. He does not want to eat Bang because inside Bang's head is The Void.

Lao Jiu will consume Litchi one day.

Based on the above WMG, and... look at Litchi's storyline and compare it with... Millia Rage. Both quits their own organization for their own purposes, and possesses an inhuman power (Litchi tapping power to the Boundary, Millia and her Prehensile Hair), this is after another of their colleague tapped into another similar power (Arakune and Zato/Eddie). If anything, Litchi would inherit one massive theory that Millia carried: Millia might get consumed with her hair, which is a similar beast like Eddie (which consumed Zato). Now, what is Litchi's equivalent for Millia's hair? What did she gain from the Boundary? It's Lao Jiu. It would consume her, per Arakune's warning.

Why Lao Jiu? All the answers lie in... Noel's Joke Ending. It's not joke at all, but Foreshadowing!

Why? Noel might like cute stuffs quite a lot, but to go on hypnotized stance on Lao Jiu? It must've been its power trapping Noel in such stance. Also, Litchi is a doctor, and usually doctors avoid alcohols (and she set a good example on the Orient Town people, so I don't think she's secretly hiding some wines), so why would she be drunk on Noel's story? Because it's another of Lao Jiu's corruption! It makes her drunk and insistent. Alternatively, it amps up her love of cosplaying, the usual Litchi may held herself not to drag anyone for her to put costumes on, but why did she do it on Noel? Because Lao Jiu made her do it.

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• Lao Jiu connection to the Boundary confirmed.
• Supported by Tsubaki's joke ending, though seemingly benign, if manipulative: Tsubaki gets the same cosplay treatment, but halfway through Lao Jiu takes over Litchi's body and holds her hostage to force Tsubaki to clean the room, do the laundry, cook dinner.... Tsubaki is already suspicious of Lao Jiu, though: she knows that pandas are evil creatures with yellow eyes.

Ragna, Jin, and Saya are the descendants of the Sixth Hero.

Assuming the Sixth Hero wasn't related to the Ikaruga Ninjas then this might be the case. It would explain why Terumi chose to use Saya as the template for his god killing weapon. And why he went out of his way to possess and kidnap Jin and cut off Ragna's arm. Terumi might have really hated the Sixth Hero; hence why he gets his kicks ruining the lives of these siblings.

• Probably Jossed.

Carl's father Relius Clover is the one who created Terumi's "Hazama" body.

He's been described as a talented alchemist. Creating artificial bodies seems right up his alley.

• Not to mention that he created Nu's body, while Terumi created the Murakumo unit (Nu's sword armor/Nox Nyctores). Because of this, it's likely that Relius and Hazama/Terumi are working together in some way.
  • Seems to be confirmed.
    • Definitely confirmed...in a way, in the light novel Phase 0.

Arakune is starting to get better.

His dialogue in Continuum Shift contains fully coherent sentences in scenes with both Litchi and Carl, and even with his speech cutting in and out, he seems to be a good bit more lucid than in Calamity Trigger.

• • And sure, maybe eventually Arakune will be cured. But what they really have to worry about is that middle period where he's completely sentient, but still craves the Azure and the Boundary beyond all else. Can anyone say True Final Boss?

The reason why Bang's Nox never activates

You know what the Nox Nyctores do, mostly, right? Increase the user's emotion/psychosis. Now what is Bang's greatest emotion? Hot-Blooded. Now imagine if his Nox is active. Bang's Hot-Blooded-ism will be so great and the universe will explode, unable to contain the awesomeness that is Bang and his Nox. Terumi was dumb enough to not notice that. Bang and his overloaded Hot-Blooded-ness is the key to destroy gods, not Noel!

• No. What happens when Bang's Nox activates is it summons his long-lost Crazy Awesome brother, Jack Rakkan. Here's the scoop: Ken Akamatsu and Daisuke Ishiwatari know each other, or are fans of each other's works (based on one of Akamatsu's past and the resemblance between Rachel and Evangaline, but this is WMG territory in and of itself). Thus, the two created similar characters who are actually related. We know Bang has some past with one of the Six Heroes, be it training or simple admiration (based on one of Hakumen's storylines). We know Jack has helped save the world. What would happen if the two met? Their combined manliness creates an Epic Battle, destroying the world as we know it (but humanity survives). Fast forward several hundred years, and we have the set up for Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, with Kamina being the reincarnation of both Jack and Bang.
  • Too bad Ishiwatari didn't make BlazBlue.

The whole thing is a metaphor for a message board.

Master Unit Amaterasu is the board owner, and the Susanooh unit is a position as a moderator. Terumi is a former mod who got all pissy about not being able to do things his way, and thus had his title removed and given to a former Jerkass (Jin) who mended his ways and started enforcing the forum rules properly (Hakumen). The Cauldrons and the Azure Grimoire are Terumi's troll threads. He used to keep pissing off a pair of easily angered forumgoers (Ragna and Nu) until they would flip out and force the mod (Hakumen) to lock the thread (kill the Black Beast). He's now trying to piss off the board owner's girlfriend (Noel) until she makes him close the message board for good. He's succeeding.

• Interesting. To elaborate:
  • Bang is a Hot-Blooded otaku who is trying to get Litchi, a somewhat schizophrenic, yet beautiful, poster.
  • Taokaka is a spaz poster (e.g. the first poster here).
  • Arakune was an intelligent and friendly board member who fell victim to a virus and spams the board.
  • Carl is a 14-year-old boy who's trying his hardest to fit in. He uses a Sock Puppet (Nirvana) to agree with him to make him look better.
  • Rachel is a veteran board member who can be very disdainful of everyone else.
  • Tager is a member of another board who's trying to bring Hakumen over to gain publicity under the orders of one of the board's owner, Kokonoe.
  • Jin himself is Hakumen's alternate account, which got hacked at times by Terumi and made him look like a Jerkass, even though his real self has mended his way (would explain about how Jin and Hakumen can be together).
  • Tsubaki is the girlfriend of the mod who survived the board being taken down and getting reuploaded, but she's always like a Sub-mod for Jin/Hakumen. Unfortunately, when Noel joins the board in the middle of being taken down and uploaded... Noel starts taking Tsubaki's position as Sub-mod while they still act like friends. She entered a trolling topic by Terumi while having a bad day IRL, was eaten by his troll rumors of Noel usurping her position, and now hates Noel
  • Relius is a seemingly normal poster on a good day, with Sock Puppet skills better than Carl (he taught that to him!), a notorious hacker/virus developer in the night, in cahoots with Terumi and thinks it'll be fun if he uses the virus for Trolling (rather than posting). As it turns out, he handed down the virus to Terumi which infected Arakune... and seems like to develop an unhealthy crush on Litchi, ultimately blackmailing her the program to clean Arakune's virus, in exchange of her defending his and Terumi's trolling.

Bang is related to, or an alternate universe incarnation of CAPTAIN GORDON, DEFENDER OF EARTH!

They're both comic relief Large Hams who defend something (Gordon defends, well, Earth, and Bang is a "defender of love and justice") and are possibly homages to other series. (Gordon is clearly an tribute to Flash Gordon, while Bang's mannerisms and fighting style just scream of Naruto.) Of course, if this theory were true, who are his Jennifer and Thursday? Could they be Litchi and her panda?

Yukianesa is Jin's childhood turned into a Nox by Terumi

Yukianesa is nowhere in sight when Terumi burnt down the orphanage and right after that, Jin apparently lost his memories. After being adopted by the Kisaragi family, Jin somewhat leads a normal life, never even remembering his past (which probably explains why he's so nice with Tsubaki). However, when Jin gets promoted and receives Yukianesa, he started getting loopy. Why is that?

It's true that a Nox Nyctores amplifies the user's psychosis, but why is the effect so big to Jin? Because like how Jin is contained in Hakumen's armor, Yukianesa contains a part of Jin's soul: his childhood, courtesy of Terumi. A part where he hated Ragna for ignoring him, and Saya for taking away his brother. Which kind of explains why in Continuum Shift, he tried conversing like an aloof senior, but then Yukianesa took over and he goes on 'KILL' mode.

Basically, there are three faces of Jin:

• Past: His crazy mode. Happens when possessed by Yukianesa.
• Present: His normal, aloof self. Which he usually displays to Tsubaki.
• Future: Hakumen. It kinda makes sense that when Hakumen declares that he is discarding the past, it could also mean that he realizes that Yukianesa is evil and thus threw it away and decides to live looking to the future.

Michael Jackson or a version thereof exists/ed in the BB world.

This is just fed by Memetic Mutation fodder, but still, Hazama('s outfit) is a bit too reminiscent of Smooth Criminal MJ. Maybe Terumi is a fan?

• The BlazBlue timeline doesn't diverge from ours until the Black Beast attacks in 2099, so why not?
  • Conclusive evidence

Terumi is another alternate future for Jin.

Both enjoy engaging in cruelty to Saya-alikes, both combine a calm facade with murderous psychopathy, and Jin's arcade mode has him giving a version of Terumi's signature "This world is nothing but lies" to Tsubaki. Also, everything in BlazBlue is a reference to something else, and such a thing has been done elsewhere.

• That actually makes sense: In the first loop, Jin rejects Susanooh and becomes Terumi. In later cycles he accepts Susanooh and becomes Hakumen.
  • Then how did he retain his voice when he's Hakumen, but changes his voice when he's Terumi? Also, Jin stated that the one truth is 'death'. Terumi's brand of truth is 'despair'. While they could go hand-in-hand, death and despair could be interpreted differently (we have a trope for 'happy death')They may be similar in thinking line, but they could still be a different person.

Sector Seven has tangled with Metatron or a related material.

Lambda and Nu and presumably Mu as well have limited teleportation abilities. We've seen sort-of teleportation in ZOE with Zero Shift and the Urenbeck Catapult. There's the fact that Lambda and Nu's Murakumo unit armours rather resemblance Anubis, especially during the winpose where they face the camera with the sword-wings spread. Plus Metatron has done some trippy shit before, like making Radium go nuts. Maybe it enabled Ragna and Nu's fusion into the Black Beast?

• Nu's Sword Summoner abilities are apparently based on warping space. Gentlemen, I think we've struck gold.

Bang is the anti-Xenomorph.

The Xenomorph's Chestburster comes out of a chest. Bang commands you to jump into his chest. QED.

Jin is an AU Link.

Both are blonde, wield a sword, have an annoying companion that won't shut up (Yukianesa and Navi; and hey, Yukianesa means snow fairy!), time travel, fated to defeat a great evil, and later wield a sword that's effective against said evil (Ookami and the Master Sword). And once they're through with saving the world? They run into another problem not long after; one that could very well doom the world. But if all else fails, the world will just reset itself anyway. Also, Jin's afraid of the moon falling. So yeah.

BlazBlue is set in the same universe as Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

There are Beastmen, and just try to tell me Bang isn't a Spiral. Plus, MOOOOOOOOOON!

Saya is the host for the Amaterasu unit

...Or at least has a certain connection to it that Terumi targeted for her.

• Probably Jossed
  • Definitely Jossed. Terumi used her to destroy it.

Kokonoe is older than she looks

Her mother was Nine, a human woman who fought with Hakumen in the Dark War 95 years ago. This means she can't have been born more than about 30 years after the Dark War. She must have inherited her father's long lifespan.

Ragna will merge with the remains of the Black Beast

• • He already has prior to the first game. Rachel's story in the Material Collection is about how after she saved him he broke the seal on the Black Beast's remains and merged with it. It became his right arm and his fake Azure.

Continuum Shift sequel will see an epic quest for Bang Shishigami to cancel Litchi's Face Heel Turn and possibly genuinely win her love.

They're all heading for Ikaruga now, and Bang still remains the force of goodness. This will be a test for Bang whether he CAN sway Litchi to the other side and prove his love for real. Maybe his new Nox would cure Arakune so it cancels out Litchi's joining with NOL. And if Bang does it full-heartedly, maybe Litchi would finally see that he's really a good man and would take him seriously. Except love, if Arakune is cured and alive. Still, this looks as if Litchi's Face Heel Turn is a premonition to Bang's most epic quest.

• This troper believes that Carl will be the one to save Litchi, along with Bang perhaps. In Carl's true ending in CT, Litchi sacrifices her life to protect him from being killed by Nu, reminding him of his own sister's kind heart. In fact, in CS story mode, Carl says that he wishes he could grow up to be a kind person like Litchi one day. Also, Relius is the one who manipulated her, giving Carl even more reason to save her. So, it wouldn't be surprising if Bang worked together with Carl to rescue Litchi and Arakune.
• For one, I would suppose that Carl would concentrate further in defeating Relius, leaving the rescue to Bang. According to the rumors, the Nox that he has and Platinum the Trinity is training him to use has recovery element, thus Bang would be the one to do the job to cure Arakune.

Going with the above entry, Bang will be forced into a Moral Dilemma regarding Arakune and Litchi

Litchi, one way or another, will end up being corrupted after extensive use of the Boundary's power, which, for lack of better phrasing, ends up royally fucking with her mind. For some reason, Bang is only able to use his supposed recovery Nox once, or suffer some form of consequence. Bang will either have to choose to save the love of his life, when all it means is going right back to where they all started, or curing Arakune, fulfilling her wishes at the cost of her well being. Alternatively, he only thinks he has one use, but everything was actually okay from the get-go, we have a little laugh, and he saves them both.

• Or for worse, based on the other WMG about Tao's joke ending below (this is a really Darker and Edgier setting after all): Bang only has one use of the Houyoku... but if he wants to save more than one, he'll have to use the Houyoku on himself, which would work like an area heal... at cost of his live. I Want My Beloved to Be Happy occurs and Bang makes an epic heroic sacrifice to cure both Litchi and Arakune. This is also a pretty common outcome for characters like Bang after all (see: Kamina). Then maybe Carl would take up/inherit Bang's manliness and become a REAL GAR (like Simon)
• Alternatively, Bang's mental dillema is not about Arakune at all... it's his personal preference. Look at the things he liked in the Material Setting Collection: Justice and Litchi. At this moment, if he arrives at Ikaruga, he'll no doubt has to choose a Sadistic Choice: Either he has to take Litchi down in the name of justice (she's going to Ikaruga as part of NOL, presumably as an invading force), or he cannot bring her down at all. Either way, he has to choose what he likes more between those two. I'm seeing the next installment as a moment when Bang stops being a Joke Character and shows a serious side.

The current setting of BlazBlue is leering to a Darker and Edgier, more serious Bleach

With lots and lots and parallels to go. I kept thinking that Mori might be reading Bleach and thinks "Hah! I can do better!"

• As we all know, Hazama/Terumi is Gin. This is reinforced when he's revealed to be NOT the Big Bad
• Saya is Aizen, being the one behind Hazama/Terumi and even NOL. And what does she do while Hazama/Terumi distracts you? Destroy Amaterasu, organized the hacking of Takama-gahara. Sounds like killing Central 46 and extracting Hougyoku to me!
• Tsubaki is getting parallels with Tousen. She ends up blind, and frustration about Noel taking her place drove her mad and refused the good way, similar to how Tousen ends up forsaking the proper way of Shinigami after his friend's death frustrated him and ends up siding with Aizen.
• Relius is somewhat a parallel to Ulquiorra. When Ulquiorra debuts, he's rather minor in fighting scene (even when he makes his debut, he leaves most fighting to Yammy), but he hides a great power by himself, quite possibly being a playable character when CS sequel comes out. When he caught Arakune and coaxes Litchi to join NOL, this is similar with how Ulquiorra forced Orihime to unconditionally go to Hueco Mundo. Also, Relius has Grimmjow's voice.
• It's now pretty much true that Litchi is the parallel for Orihime. They're both busty healers whose powers seem to be sourced from their 'hairpins' or something (except Litchi is more willing to get into battle). This goes into the ultimate kicker when both of them had to surrender themselves to the bad guys to save someone they love.
  • Does this mean Taokaka is Chizuru?
• Noel is a bit like Rukia, as in they hid something really great that the bad guys sought (Urahara hid Hougyoku in Rukia; while Noel has the makings to become the Kusanagi, which Terumi sought). They're also flat chested (though Rukia is more or less uncaring about that)
• Bang... is Uryuu, only more boisterous and more into manliness than fruitiness. Even though Ragna is pretty far from Ichigo, Bang himself hails from a city that has its population reduced greatly (like how the Quincy came to near extinct). While Bang is stalking Litchi and full of that advances, Uryuu has a more subtle feeling towards Orihime. When Litchi made the decision to join NOL; Bang was away training with Platinum the Trinity, like how Uryuu is away training with Ryuuken when Orihime went to Hueco Mundo

Taokaka's joke ending in CT are going to be fulfilled

It's been confirmed that one of them is true: Litchi becoming an antagonist. However, another factor can be considered fulfilled: Jin the main antagonist was not meant to be Jin, but Relius, because CT forbids that Relius be seen so they had to use Jin as a model for him (and in actuality Jin gets into a full blown protagonist). Therefore... yeah, we can expect Bang going out in a blaze of glory, and Tao getting her Super Deluxe mode

Iron Tager is Lord Tenjo

All we know of his past prior to being Iron Tager is that he was a 'Leader of Ikaruga Resistance'. It's not entirely impossible that Kokonoe, with her mastery of both science and magic could repair the frozen and sliced apart body of Lord Tenjo, and recreate it in the form of Iron Tager.

• Alternatively, she didn't repair his body, but merely put his soul into an entirely artificial body, like what she did with Nu and Lambda. Thus explaining why Bang doesn't recognize him. And obviously, some memories would be lost (intentionally or otherwise) in the process, so Tager doesn't recognize Bang.
  • Alternatively alternatively, Tager is Tenjo's son, who Valkenhayn hinted might still be alive at the end of CT and who Bang goes searching for in CS.
• Jossed as of Continuum Shift 2.

Terumi will betray Saya

Saya's goal doesn't sound so evil or enjoyable for Terumi in the long run, and he seems to be the type of person that "Screw everyone else, everything is all about me!" in a more extreme version than Relius. I would predict that in the end of the sequel of CS, Terumi stabs Saya in the back no matter what her true intention is, grab her power, corrupt it for his own and turn to the Big Bad that everyone would pull themselves together to kick his ass. He may also take Relius for the ride, or kill him.

• Go a step further. Saya is a Puppet Queen. I mean Terumi kidnapped her, he could have instilled in her some of his beliefs before setting her up as Imperator. He acts like he works for her, when really he's The Man Behind the Man. Plus it would be epically trolly for him to go "Oh I'm the villain. Gotcha, I'm not! Oh wait, I REALLY AM! HAHAHAHA!"
• Except they have the EXACT same goal. Terumi wants to kill the world because for 100 years he saw the "truth" and had to listen to souls screaming at him. That "truth" being that the world is supposed to be dead but is distorted and is just endlessly repeating. This is revealed during Noel's True Ending.
  • Thing is, Saya has no visible motivation for her goal as of yet. Terumi has a personal one. Considering he kidnapped Saya in the first place, it's very likely he instilled his own goals and beliefs into her.
    • Being an orphan Ill Girl with a brother that babied her and a brother that bullied her might have been all the motivation she needed to hate the world.
  • Put it this way: By the next game, Hazama would be more likely to become some sort of 'Regular' character, while Saya takes his place as the Arcade Mode's Final Boss. How are you going to excuse Hazama going against Saya? Simple, have him say You Have Outlived Your Usefulness and start the betrayal.
    • • Possibly Jossed, in that it's confirmed Saya is a puppet queen. Terumi and Relius are the Men Behind The Woman, and she's being used as a "vessel" for them. She's a tool for him, and he needs her in her position to retain control.

Phantom is Nine

The revelation would be something like this:

Kokonoe: You killed my moth Terumi: WROOOOOOOONG

Relius is Ragna, Jin, Saya's real father

You know they live in an orphanage. And they have blond hairs (used to, for Ragna). And you know how Relius acts for his children. Also, in CS, it is revealed that Ragna and Jin aren't really humans. Thus, Relius might've experimented them to the point that they're no longer humans (though they still look human), then suddenly considered them a failed project and threw them off, along with Saya. When he met Terumi, he probably realized that Saya still has potential, thus had Terumi capture her so he can create the androids out of her (Noel, Nu, Lambda, etc).

• • I thought Rags and Jin were indeed humans, but just gifted with weird power. Ragna given the power of the destroyer through his azure while Jin manifested his Order due to Ragna's existence?
    • Nope, they are like Noel. Also, here are some suspicious things. Nu was created by Relius. Isn't the fact that Nu have WHITE hair despite being a SAYA clone strange? Nu and Saya are blonde. Nu also have a life-link with Ragna, of all people. When the hell was this lifelink supposed to be created? My guess is that "father" is maybe too much, but Relius definitely had something to do with the creation of the 3 "siblings", or at least Ragna. Hazama needed Noel by his side in order to create a life-link.
    • Not quite. No source material states that any of the three original siblings are false humanoids. (If it was revealed in-game I really want to see where.) Ragna is half-vampire due to being bitten by Rachel, but Jin and maybe Saya are still considered full human as far as canon is concerned. It's just that their family line is VERY gifted with Armagus capabilities.
      • It's not outright stated, but it is speculation based on CT Material Collection mentioning successful experiment creating artificial humans based on Black Beast DNA and CS True End where Ragna stated that he's not sure that he is normal human.

Carl will be the 3rd game's 4th Protagonist

As of current, Ragna, Jin and Noel do not concern themselves of Relius, the OTHER great threats, very much. Carl, on the other hand, has a lot of beefs against Relius. Rather than having any other people dealing with him (would be Anticlimax if Ragna, without buildups and such, suddenly tossed Relius aside), it'd be fitting that Carl is the one to ultimately off him. Between his Character Development and Mori telling about Carl's prominence in CS Story and declaring him the strongest vigilante... Perhaps in the 3rd game, Carl will be some sort of 4th Protagonist, leading the vigilantes (Bang, Platinum and perhaps Taokaka) to assault on Relius while Ragna and the other big guns deal mainly with Terumi and Saya.

• • Well, Rachel's arcade victory quote against Carl actually seems to be implying that Carl will have a much bigger role soon.

The Imperator will turn out to be the master of another powerful Unit

Assuming the Imperator isn't just a puppet ruler, how else would Saya keep people like Terumi and Relius in line? Following the trend of naming things after deities and artifacts in Japanese Mythology, the Imperator's Unit will probably be named after a mythological Big Bad like Amatsu-Mikaboshi.

Litchi's current situation is one way for Toshimichi Mori to say something to SNK Playmore... especially Garou: Mark of the Wolves

If anyone remembers Garou, in the presumably most canonical ending, Rock Howard ends up joining Kain R. Heinlein in order to find out more about his mother, which Kain might have information about and he told Rock that she's might still be alive. However, years and years and it looks like Garou 2, which may resolve on how Rock goes along with Kain, went through Development Hell and hasn't been touched while King of Fighters has gone to about 13 official titles. Mark of the Wolves is acclaimed as one of the better fighters of SNK, so perhaps Mori has learned about it... and is pissed on the Development Hell it went through.

So, his take was, to give a BlazBlue character a similar situation with Rock. Rather than picking Ragna, he picked Litchi, the one who has all the makings of such 'last minute Face Heel Turn', thus, Hazama convincing her might look like how Kain convinced Rock:

Hazama: Join us... or that blob is dead.
Litchi: I'll never join you!
Hazama: What if I say that we HAVE the only cure?
Litchi: Ugh... fine.

tl;dr, this is pretty much Mori's way to say this to SNKP: Hurry the @$%@# up with Garou 2 already, or I will 'finish' that idea before you could! (Because the sequel of Continuum Shift seems more likely than Garou 2)

Valkenhayn is a werewolf, but Toshimichi Mori did not initially plan this.

Initially, Valkenhayn was just going to be Rachel's Badass Butler who is actually one of the Six Heroes. But then Toshimichi Mori heard about the sequel to Twilight and thought, "Now she's making werewolves suck, too? THIS IS WRONG. I MUST FIX THIS." And he rewrote the story to make Valkenhayn a werewolf.

Carl might become a Shipper on Deck for Bang/Litchi

Pretty much because those two are the only adults he knows that are good person (Litchi has proved herself many times, while in one of his CT story paths with him meeting Bang, Carl noted that while he's over the top, Bang isn't really a horrible person). So pretty much those two (mainly Litchi, but Bang may be a second consideration) will be one of the counterpoints Carl has against Relius who's trying to prove him that adults are evil. Thus, in any case, he might try shipping them both, or at least push them together (Carl might be the one to give Bang a What the Hell, Hero? for his over-the-top advances to Litchi (if Platinum the Trinity didn't bother to do it already); while he also might be the one to persuade Litchi that Bang is more than just a dirty Stalker with a Crush and is more than willing to help)

BlazBlue is set in the Nasuverse

Specifically, between the main continuity and the events of Angel Notes. At some point prior to the events of that story, something "killed" the planet, covering it in a toxic substance called "Gin" or "Grain", though humans eventually developed a tolerance for it. In the meantime they created the A-Rays, creatures genetically engineered from human and animal DNA which could absorb Gin to power special abilities.

The Black Beast seems to fit the "planet killer" bill, with Gin being basically the same thing as seithr, and the Kaka clan are oh so obviously the first A-Rays. Bang might even be an early example of the freakishly powerful Ether Liners.

Rachel is most likely the descendant of Arcueid Brunestud and Tohno Shiki - she can remember the previous timelines due to her inheriting the Pure Eyes of the Nanaya clan, which allow the owner to see things which normally cannot be seen. This is supported by the power of Observers being referred to as "The Eye".

"The Boundary" is the same thing as the "Akasha", "Root" or "Origin" desired by all magi. Both the Azure Grimoire and the Holy Grail are described as "devices to reach Origin", use homunculi with white-blonde hair and red eyes as mediums, and can produce monsters made of darkness under the wrong circumstances. In addition, "The Third Magic" used by the Holy Grail has the power to keep souls in the world after they should have passed on, which seems to describe Terumi. Arakune's transformation is the result of him following imperfect rituals left by the Makiri family. Somehow, Litchi gained access to The Second Magic used by Zelretch (with similar effects to those of the Kaleidostick's Prism Trance).

The Sankishin go as follows:

• Tsukoyomi: Named after a moon god, this contains the remaining power of Crimson Moon Brunestud (aka Type-Moon), hence why it is held by a vampire.
• Susanoo: The White Beast of Gaia, Primate Murder, attempted to stop the Black Beast but was killed. Its remains were reshaped into a suit of armour, and its wearer inherited its task of protecting Gaia as a being similar to a Counter Guardian.
• Amaterasu: Gaia itself, or posibly a "Type-Sol" (who is presumably killed before the events of Angel Notes).

Saya is likely a descendant of Sakura or Sion (see WMG further up the page). Given the resemblance of her Boundary-granted abilities to Kaleidoscope, Litchi might be descended from the Tohsakas (who were known to study Chinese martial arts).

The principles behind Touko Aozaki's "Mystic Eye killer" glasses were used to create the Izayoi, and Relius Clover may very well have studied her doll-making techniques.

Tao is Neco-Arc.

Ragna has become a "perfect" Black Beast

Originally the Black Beast was created by a fusion of Ragna and Nu, with Nu's mind in control, resulting in an uncontrollable monster. In Continuum Shift, Nu sacrifices herself to give Ragna the power to save Noel - in other words creating a fusion of Ragna and Nu with Ragna's mind in control, which retains his normal appearance. This could very well have been a Xanatos Gambit on the part of one the antagonists.

• • Doubtful. Saving Noel did cost him his fake Azure Grimoire arm. Chances are in the next game his fighting style will revolve more around the techniques Jubei taught him, whatever power he may have gotten from Rachel and his spiffy new robot arm (courtesy of Kokonoe) now that he can't use "Soul Eater" anymore.
    • Saving Noel actually cost him his OTHER arm. His Fake Azure is still intact, but both his arms are now fake/robotic. No need for new playstyle.
      • My bad. But man, both arms gone now? It really sucks to be Ragna.
      • All of CS was planned by Terumi. He specifically needed Ragna to defeat Mu-12, knowing it would divert the attention of the Observers for a brief instant, thus allowing him to kill them all.
  • The Black Beast WASN'T created by a fusion of Ragna and Nu but rather their false Azure Grimoires merging, Ragna's Azure was the body and Nu's was the heart/soul. Since Lambda didn't have Nu's Azure when she merged with Ragna it didn't create a "Perfect" Black Beast but just gave Ragna access to the Idea Engine that Kokonoe created. Ragna's probably still at risk of turning into an incomplete, humanoid Black Beast like he does in his Normal Ending if he overuses the Azure.

Bang hitting Arakune with Houyoku will create an Eddie

Houyoku's ability is said to SEVER the connection with Boundary, but not destroy the Boundary elements in it. So, when Bang hits Arakune with Houyoku; while it will certainly restore Roy into normal, the remnants of the Boundary will gather up into one new being, the true Arakune, a la Eddie from Guilty Gear. If BlazBlue continues after the Continuum Shift sequel, Arakune will no longer inhabit Roy's body, but rather become a sentient beast like Eddie, desperately looking for a new host. In other words, Bang... Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.

• Who said Arakune needs a new host? After the severing, Arakune will become much like the Venom symbiote and Roy will goop up whenever he needs to fight.

Based on the WMG above, Eddie!Arakune will be the Karmic Death of Relius

This might be ending the game after the sequel of Continuum Shift. Thing is, after Bang hits Arakune with Houyoku, Arakune left Roy and will seek a new host... who better than the nearby Relius, who sought vast knowledge to make the perfect doll? Unfortunately for Relius, the mass Boundary elements contained by Arakune is also too much for Relius and he started losing his mind just like Roy did. Eventually, he's reduced to be like Arakune, except nobody cared about him since he's done too many atrocities (That not even Carl would forgive). Then, Hakumen comes in and strikes him down for being corrupted by the Boundary, before Relius could try to master the Arakune moveset, thereby making Hakumen kill a non-tragic monster unlike when he killed Roy in Arakune's CT Story.

The reason Tsubaki is such a bitch is obvious!

I mean, c'mon. The NOL is evil. Anyone with eyes can see that.

OH, WAIT.

BlazBlue is set in an alternate universe of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Specifically, the first game is based on the "Endless Eight" storyline. Ragna is Kyon, and Nu is Haruhi (sort of).

• Does that mean that Jin/Hakumen is Mikuru?

Terumi will be backstabbed and sealed for good by Saya

We don't know how much it will succeed, though. Basically, Saya might be aware of what kind of person Terumi is and decided to eliminate him one day when they make death in the world permanent, so Terumi doesn't come back to troll people. Her plan was to have him sealed in the Boundary after he's taken out, and make sure he never comes back. This is why she purportedly has Relius investigate Arakune and get Litchi to join her, since due to their usage/knowledge of Boundary, they will be able to find a way to seal Terumi for good. The reason of this is because Litchi's defection to NOL may mirror another event in Guilty Gear: Anji Mito goes from a carefree Japanese into an agent of That Man, and his first mission was to arrest I-No and get her sealed. Considering Saya-Terumi is getting like That Man-I-No...

• • Doubtful, considering Relius is Terumi's partner, and Saya is their puppet.

Jin forcefully took Yukianesa from Saya

In Continuum Shift, it's revealed that Jin got Yukianesa from Saya. Now, we all know that Jin was a colossal Jerkass even as a child, so it's unlikely that he would have gotten that weapon as a gift due to him bullying the living hell out of Saya. So, then, suppose that he coerced her into handing it over while Ragna was out fetching water before the church was burned down.

• My guess is As revealed in CS, Jin is the antibody created by the world in response to Ragna being the possible Destroyer of the World, to destroy anything that might be a threat to the world. This is what causes Jin's psychosis, he's reacting negatively to his natural enemy. Now we know that the villains needed Noel to access and destroy Amaterasu. We know that Noel was never ment to survive Ikaruga, but every successive loop increases the chance that Noel will survive to the point where her survival is almost guarranteed in every loop. Now, the villains need to ensure that the loops keep repeating itself. What causes the loops? First is Ragna and Nu-13 fusing, falling into the Cauldron, forming the Black Beast and going back in time. The second is Jin following them, becoming Hakumen, forming the Six Heroes, and teaching mankind the art of magic thus ensuring they will eventually be advanced enough create Nu-13 and restarting the loop all over again. Ragna merging with Nu is all but guarranteed. Terumi "kidnapping" Saya, destroying his life, and having him know what the NOL is doing with Saya ensures he will go after them in every loop, where Nu will be ready to defeat and merge with him. As for Jin? Yukianesa amplifies his emotions, magnifying his natural instinct to kill Ragna. In other words, Yukianesa was intentionally given to Jin to ensure he will go after Ragna once he receives news that he's heading for Kagatsuchi, where he will end up following Ragna to the past and becoming Hakumen.

Terumi is actually |Tomoya Okazaki after countless times of getting the bad end

Tomoya does border on a Jerkass in how many times he makes Sunohara's life a hilarious living hell. However, in the same time, he's gotten a lot of shits thrown at him (Heartwrenching, even), and was forced to live up to many variations on his life for many times (playing the game many times). Terumi is the result when Tomoya failed to get into Clannad's true ending after so long. The stress of losing Nagisa and Ushio and dying miserably so many times pushed Tomoya over the edge, and thus when he dies AGAIN... he completely loses it and decided "Ah screw it! Since the world is making me a miserable bitch, I will have my vengeance! I will make this world a horrible place for life!". Then, his ghost didn't even bother to reincarnate and he changed his name into 'Terumi Yuuki'... and the rest is history.

Taokaka will be the new Boobie Lady in the next sequel

The changes in her latest in-game sprites is a clue! Now that Litchi has done a Face Heel Turn there will be a 'good' counterpart who will get in her way: The grown up Taokaka.

• Are we forgetting MAKOTO? She's technically out of NOL and stationed in where Litchi started: Sector Seven. She's got'em bigger than Noel and Tsubaki as well, plus LOOK AT HER CLOTHES!

The next game will have either Dr. Han or Linhua as a PC

Now that Litchi has gone into NOL, Orient Town is practically unrepresented come next game. The only one who can represent them now is either both of them. If included, Linhua can be seen as how Mori would've handled Satelitte Characters eventually (unlike how Kishimoto deals with Tenten), and seeing that she's the closest with Litchi, she'd be one of the people who'll try to convince her that even if she lost Arakune, she still have a home in Orient Town. Dr. Han, on the other hand, would be a chance for Arksys for a more proper Faust counterpart, being a wacko doctor (he's noted to be eccentric).

Litchi is meant to mirror Rider before becoming a Heroic Spirit

Not just on the basis of they're the series' respective Boobie Ladies. Litchi used to live separated with the whole cast (only concerning herself to save Arakune), and had Taokaka to continuously pester her about her boobs; just like Rider isolating herself with the humans and had her sisters Euryale and Stheno tease and bully her. However, when they expose themselves to the humanities, they went batshit and practically gets to have a Face Heel Turn or sorts (Rider turns into the scary Gorgon form after being harrassed with humans one too many; while probably a lot of people didn't care about Litchi wanting to save Arakune and in desperation after realizing that Arakune is in danger; she ends up joining NOL), and probably in the near future, just like how Rider eventually consumed Euryale and Stheno, in her tenure as an ally of NOL, Litchi ends up wounding or even killing Taokaka, and had a massive Freak-Out, realizing she crossed the Moral Event Horizon. She'll end up as a Death Seeker, urging those who fight her to kill her already, in which someone (presumably Bang), as the counterpart of Rider's Perseus, will defeat her and might kill her.

Makoto is related to the Nanaya family.

Specifically, a descendant of Shiki, who must have reclaimed the name sometime. Obvious surnames aside, her Astral splitting the moon after the opponent gets punched into it - which, if you've been paying attention around this site, is harder than most might think - must be thanks to some form of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

Valkenhayn is not a werewolf.

He's a Gangrel.

The Mu-12 armor will return in the sequel worn by * drumroll* ...

Imperator Saya, it's even her size, and fighting games that "kill" off characters always find someone new to give the moveset too.

• Actually I expect that Saya will have her own, new unique style while the Nu as the "Sword of Izanami/the Imperator" will be the new Mu.

The translator in Continuum Shift is a troper

Otherwise, how in the hell can they come up with such big shout out list to the other media? Such as "Why So Serious" and "Heeeeere's Terumi!"...

• Memetic Mutation?

Ragna is the original Bloodedge

He, or at least a part of him broke free of the Black Beast to fight against it after it was pulled into the past. His sword and coat are yet more time paradoxes.

• Which would explain going out of his way to save Jubei, and Bloodedge's vow to fight to the end as a human being.
• Confirmed. Bloodedge was the Ragna who went into the Cauldron with Nu. Nu only managed to merge with his Azure and become the Black Beast while he ended up in the year 2106 and became Bloodedge. He was absorbed by the Black Beast when he saved Jubei and was part of it for the rest of the war.
• Where did they confirm this?
  • The Phase 0 light novel.

Sol Badguy is the first Bloodedge

Alright, it's heavily hinted (I think, I've yet to finish Continuum Shift's True End) that The First Bloodedge gave his life to save Jubei back when the Black Beast was running around, Which shows Sol's case of Jerk with a Heart of Gold, plus Ragna's sword does look like Sol's... Course I have no proof, but Black Beast VS Gear!Sol would be a Crowning Moment of Awesome.

• Jossed.

Ragna's joke ending in CS was actually foreshadowing

The Crimson Grimoire will play a larger role down the line, and Ragna was not only told about it but where he could find it.

• What the hell is he going to do with a giant tuna, though? Aside from feeding Taokaka, that is.
  • Sorry I didn't explain this one well, I mean that There is a device like the Azure Grimoire Called the Crimson Grimoire and it's somewhere in Ikaruga, it may also use a different form of energy, but that's another WMG.

Terumi is shaped up to be the Expy of Kefka

At any rate, while he serves Saya, his goal differs further than her, in a similar way of Kefka and Emperor Gestahl. Saya wants to restore the world to its original form so it fell into her complete rule and order, just like how Gestahl wants to rule the world. On the other hand, Terumi's goal seems more to the destruction of the world. He's a chaotic being, he probably wouldn't like an orderly world. Therefore, I can see that by the third game, Terumi will backstab Saya and take over as the Big Bad... then sets the third game to have a Downer Ending whereas he turns the world even MORE crapsack than usual. Then the fourth, final game will involve Ragna (or perhaps Noel?) gathering up anyone who's against Terumi, and then pose for one final showdown against the now God-like Terumi. Relius may either die with Saya or become Terumi's right hand man in result.

Mori is giving a Take That to One More Day through Litchi

As it stands now, Litchi has made a decision nearly as bad and selfish as Spider-Man himself. Just like how he refused to let Aunt May to die despite her wish to just pass away already, Litchi refused to let Arakune die despite him begging her to just end his life already. Then what happens was Spidey/Litchi made a deal with someone extremely shady: Mephisto/NOL, which changes the Status Quo that would make their fans say "WTF": Spidey got his marriage erased, Litchi is now viewed as an antagonist, and both got their bases broken.

However, this troper is convinced that Toshimichi Mori isn't Joe Quesada as he tried hard to make Litchi still look sympathetic and justified, as well as making her adhere the philosophy of 'With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility' (in which she feels like Arakune's curing is her utmost responsibility and she had to comply to it no matter what). Therefore, while Quesada will probably be satisfied with Spidey living with that devilish choice, with no one or himself to care, Mori is probably going to make Litchi feel extreme guilt and eventually get out of that condition, by herself or by being rescued. Thus in the end, if One More Day doesn't get a Retcon when Litchi's arc concluded, Mori will be able to join the anti-Quesada camp and say, "You want a 'selfish' character story? This is how it's done, Quesada!"

Arakune is going to die in the third game.

His real name says it all. It is a horrible, cursed name that only results in brutal death, even an entire millennium after your ancestors left their home planet and relocated to Earth to escape it. Trying to break the curse is what drove Arakune to research the power of the Azure in the first place.

Terumi is Mori's Jerkass Stu.

He gets to spend all of his screentime rampaging around being as hugely dickish as he chooses, only recieves any sort of comeuppance outside of canon, and by the way...

Terumi: The creator of BlazBlue... is ME!!

• • Doubtable. To make this full Jerkass Stu, Mori needs to voice Terumi himself (he can alternate with Yuuichi Nakamura)... Just like Daisuke Ishiwatari and Sol Badguy.
  • Unless the OP specifically meant "Mori's Jerkass Stu" as in "Mori's Author Avatar, who also happens to be a Stu", you can be a Sue/Stu without being an avatar (and for that matter, an Author Avatar doesn't necessarily have to be voiced by the creator either). Heck, Terumi's already pushing Villain Sue status in the eyes of many.

Bang will turn into Kamen Rider for real.

As said, he has the Phoenix Rettenjou Nox. In the arcades, Arakune feared that Bang will rub him with his belt because it will make him 'cease to exist'. Meaning, Arakune knows what Phoenix Rettenjou is, and where it's located. Which is Bang's belt. And since it looks like a Kamen Rider belt, it means that to activate the Nox, Bang just needs to do a Kamen Rider henshin pose and yell... then he will turn into a Kamen Rider-like creature. Kamen Rider Phoenix?

Saya is actually a Murakamo Unit herself, and was never Ragna's sister in the first place.

This speculation comes from the idea that Terumi is indeed the one running everything behind the scenes, and through Relius, actually created Saya herself, who's now Terumi's "puppet queen" as mentioned in an above entry. Notice how stoic her personality is and how monotonous her manner of speech is in her appeances in Continuum Shift? Recall Noel talking that way in Calamity Trigger when she first encountered Nu-13? Then Saya herself must just like them. Speaking of which, how is it that Nu-13 seems to "know" Ragna the most and not Saya the Imperator (who called Ragna "scum")? It's because Nu-13 was in fact the "Saya" who was Ragna's sister, planted there in the past by Terumi in order to condition her into becoming sweet and clingy to Ragna before "kidnapping" her, reprogramming her, and eventually placing her in the Caulderon in Kagutsuchi. That way Nu-13 would be eagerly waiting for Ragna and thus fulfil her role of merging with Ragna to form the Black Beast and ensure the occurrance of all the significant chain of events. And as for Saya, she will eventually assume her true Murakamo Unit form by the third game to be the final boss there when the time comes.

Noel will have the ability to assume her Murakamo Unit form (aka Mu-12) at will in the third game.

Since at the end of Continuum Shift she and Tager are now in the same team, then she must have met and talked with Kokonoe as well (who did want to have Noel captured during Continuum Shift in the first place if you recall). During this time, Kokonoe made a few "enchancements" to Noel, so that she would have an "ace in the hole" in what could be the fight of her life in the third game. This could either be a device similar to the "idea engine" Lambda-11 had (now possessed by Ragna, which was how he was able to kick Terumi's ass and turn Mu-12 back to Noel), or an enhancement to Bolverk. Either way, it's unlikely Noel would be sent there to Ikagura without such an "ace in the hole" given what she, Tager, and everyone else will be up against. And this time, Mu-12 won't be Noel's Super-Powered Evil Side, but rather, Noel will still be in full control of herself, and will be able to change herself back to normal if and when she's done fighting the big fight.

• In other words, it will be her Super Mode. Bonus points if she gets a badass Transformation Sequence

Carl has the potential to become an Observer.

That's why he can remember some of the alternate time loops from CT so well, and why Rachel seems to have such interest in him. But the path he has choosen himself and his refusal to let go of any ties to his past like Ada makes it impossible for him to reach this potential. It's also the real reason as to why Relius tried to kill him.

This track is the Daisuke Ishiwatari version of this track from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

They do sound pretty similar, especially in the piano which is basically the same melody with different notes, but the major difference is that the BlazBlue version is a lot less creepy.

After the third game, Rachel and Valkenhayn will be revealed as villains

Taokaka's joke endings have proven that it is a tool for Funny Aneurysm Moment, or at least alignment switching tools for those designated as villains. Jin and Litchi appeared as 'villains' in her CT joke end, and guess what? In CS, Jin had a Heel Face Turn, while Litchi had a Face Heel Turn. Now, in CS, the 'villains' for Tao's Gag Reels are apparently Rachel and Valkenhayn (and they're obviously good in canon). Who's to say that after Terumi is beaten, Rachel and Valkenhayn will reveal their true cards and their own nefarious plans, but couldn't get it rolling because they have to take care of Terumi first?

• Or alternatively, THIS will happen to Rachel in the end of the next BB

Members of the Kaka clan skyrocket in intelligence at a certain age

• This would explain a lot, and it would be quite interesting to see a Taokaka who's more mature and intelligent yet still having hints of her eccentric charm.
  • Or, alternatively, the brainy ones just ate a metric asskilo of Silvervine Candy.

Valkenhayn had a hand in the Murakumo Units.

The basis for this is because he and one of the researchers sound, and look ^{[dead link]} somewhat similar. Perhaps his "going way back" with Terumi extends to more than just the Six Heroes.

The Ikaruga War was started to create Nirvana.

In Tager's Continuum Shift ending he has a flashback to when he was in the Ikaruga War, and talks about how the Nox Nyctores were used for something. Add that to something Arakune says about Nirvana his own story and the statement Hazama makes that the Nox Nyctores required thousands of human souls to be made. If this is so, perhaps Ada is like a "focus point" around which all these souls centre?

• Given Noel's backstory in the Calamity Trigger story opening cutscene, it was more likely started to create the newest Nox: Murakumo.

The Sequel will have six new characters

This is not counting Makoto, Valkenhayn, and Trinity, who will all return as standard characters. They'll be Saya, Tenjo's son, Kokonoe, Jubei, Relius and Nine (the true identity of Phantom). Saya will be the FINAL Boss. Tenjo's son and Nine will be DLC. Saya will only be playable on the home version. The new music themes will be: Relius vs. Carl, Kokonoe vs. Hazama, Jubei vs. Haku-men, Saya vs. Ragna, Saya vs. Jin and Tenjo vs. Bang

• You missed whatever will replace Nu. Granted, that's not so much a new character...

Relius is actually doing Kagutsuchi a favor by capturing Arakune

Their plan is to have Litchi join NOL then go to Ikaruga. But then, that would mean leaving Kagutsuchi and Arakune alone, and then without Litchi keeping tabs on him, he's free to consume many people. So, Relius took it to his hands to capture Arakune and store it with NOL so it doesn't consume people, saving the lives of thousands of innocents.

In some iterations of the time loop, Arakune is thrown back into the past and pops out a century earlier than the Black Beast.

Where, in the early 21st century, where none of the relevant plot points have happened yet and our real world is still trucking along, we know him as the Slender Man.

In the third game, or however they end the story, Makoto will defeat the Big Bads.

After all, defeating insane, evil, superpowered beings is what squirrel girls do.

Bloodedge Ragna from Phase 0 will be a secret character on the sequel.

If we had Order-Sol in Guilty Gear, then I'm not surprised, thanks to the time loop shenanigans, that Bloodedge Ragna will appear and meet the current timeline Ragna. Hell, it could be a crowning moment of awesome if that happens!

• Or, Bloodedge Ragna will be the exact same Ragna, just without BlazBlue. Near the end of Continuum Shifts sequel, Ragna will lose his grimoire and learn that he is still powerful with only one working arm and eye and using only his sword. He then beats the crap out of the sequel's boss and prove how dangerous he can be as a Badass Normal. If the that game has a sequel, then the opposite will happen and Ragna gets his grimoire back at the end.

The latest version of Nu in the third game will be...

Omega-24!

Cause Lambda-11+Nu-13 = Omega-24!

Bonus points if she does a Heel Face Turn. More bonus points if she teams up with Noel as Super Mode Mu-12 against Saya (since 12 is 24/2).

== The Boundary is what Yukari Yakumo's gaps open up too ==. This would mean either Yukari is either the Anthropomorphic Personification of the Boundary, or is a Humanoid Abomination. Or both. Oh Crap.

Sister named Ragna after the original Bloodedge

Bang will save Litchi in the Third Game

Well, duh. But I guess this needs clarification. Litchi gained some power from being exposed to the boundary - that is to draw power from their alternate universe selves. Being exposed to the Boundary, however, leaves one in a state of decay. Just ask Arakune! Litchi will eventually rot and decay. Now, guess who conveniently has the Nox Nyctores necessary to rip the Boundary a new one?

• • This is actually possibly lampshaded in a blink-or-miss even dating back on CT, in Bang's story. After beating Tager, Bang left and Tager was actually impressed with his optimism, and thought that he could be the one to save Litchi from... something. Considering this something would be said decay as well as obsession with Arakune, then yes, Tager may be right.

Hakumen keeps saying that he is Hakumen because part of him still feels like Jin

It's some sort of Affirmation; the more you repeat it the more likely you'll believe it to be true. Especially how Continuum Shift shows that he still feels something for Tsubaki.

Hakumen is actually Hideo Kojima

• Because NUKES ARE VEDDY VEDDY BAD. GRRRR NUKES.

When Kokonoe becomes playable, she'll play a lot like Tron Bonne in the Marvel vs Capcom series.

Instead of Servbots however, she'll put Chibi Tagers to use.

Should there be a Guilty Gear X BlazBlue, it will be Valkenhayn, not Rachel, who takes on Slayer.

Team Slayer vs Team Valkenhayn. Take your pick. While at it, they could take potshots in some... things.

Slayer: At least I don't sparkle on sunlight!

Valkenhayn: At least I don't run around naked everywhere!

The real Imperator and true Big Bad of the series is HypeDog.

He's controlling Saya by torturing her with his incessant barking. This will be revealed in the third game.

The reason behind Jin's hatred with Saya is...

Chronicled in Wheel of Fortune. Original Jin saw Tsubaki dead by the hands of Nu in cold blood. This Jin's extreme hatred to Nu. And then, time loop occurs, and when Jin was little, memories of him hating Nu started to manifest, causing him to dislike Saya, who was the template of Nu and looked like her, and gets amped into real hate when Ragna gave her more attention. Basically, Jin's hatred to Noel and Saya was based on the fact that they looked like the person from the previous timelines that killed his beloved.

Hakumen defeated the Black Beast because the Black Beast's animator suffered a fatal heart attack

Actually Hakumen and the Six Heroes WAS losing and could only run away from the Black Beast. But then, it happened and the Black Beast perished and Hakumen took credit. History never knew that the Black Beast's full name is the "Legendary Black Beast of AAAAAAUUUUGGGHHH"

By the end of the series, Jin will overtake Hakumen in strength

In the third game, the bad guys will use the Power of Order against Jin somehow...

But Noel will stop them, saving Jin from his fate and fulfilling her promise to Jubei.

• My guess is that Jin will get maimed by Tsubaki due to a moment of hesitation and Noel will save him.

The Spectacles of Eros will be instrumental in Terumi's defeat.

Once Rachel finds out Terumi is alive because of all the hate he's directed towards him, she will find a way to modify the glasses to affect everyone in the world, regardless of gender. She will then place them on Terumi, who will then be ripped apart by a colossal swarm of loving fangirls and fanboys, never to return.

Terumi was born as the Slender Man

As more people learned about the Slender Man Mythos and feared him, the Slender Man grew powerful to the point where he became alive and sentient. The first thing he did was wander around his homeworld, the internet, first around Something Awful, then to websites, such as YouTube, Twitter, and even here at TV Tropes, where the Slender Man was introduced. Over time, he discovered the art of trolling, and became one himself. The hatred directed at him grew and grew, until finally the Slender Man, now in the guise of Yuuki Terumi, was able to leave the internet and wreck havoc on the offline world.

Litchi will have to be revealed to have a past similar to Shirou Emiya

Which might explain why she is kind to everyone and put everyone else's (That she knows) well being in before her own including her own morality and the sides she choose. She probably will have a past revealed that she is some sort of Sole Survivor on her own hometown being massacred, adopted with a kind family and defines with the virtue of 'saving everyone before self', in which she doesn't mind afflicting herself with the Boundary if she can save Arakune, she thinks she herself is worthless, being a Sole Survivor. Of course, this is a darker take, as in 'What if Shirou went through Unlimited Blade Works while disregarding Archer's warnings'

Ragna is the only one who can hear Nu's Yandere side - to everyone else she sounds emotionless

The only time we've seen her act like this without Ragna present was in Continuum Shift where Arakune entered Ragna's memories... and heard Nu speaking with two voices at once - one emotionless ("Loading.") and one Yandere ("Yay Ragna!").

• Maybe she's selective.

Ragna isn't limited to channeling his Azure power to just his right arm.

Just because the BlazBlue is his right arm doesn't mean he can't use the power of azure throughout his body and sword. That just means his right arm is the easiest to use. Hell's fang and followup requires both arms. Gauntlet Hades' followup uses his foot. When Ragna saves Noel, the animation wasn't Gonzoed, that's just him using his left arm to channel power instead of his right.

• This is canon. The animation didn't screw up.

The reason why Phoenix Rettenjou was inactive for the long time is due to how much of a Crapsack World the current world is.

With Black and Gray Morality and such. Phoenix Rettenjou is a weapon that thrives on idealism and such, and so it found the home at the most 'idealistic' character: Bang. But due to him being put as a Joke Character, ridiculed, and the world just likes being cynical, the Nox got pissed. It went into a slumber, until it felt like it's time to bring forth idealism to the world. If Bang could spread idealism throughout the Crapsack World, and things are starting to look up, the Phoenix Rettenjou would activate.

The 3 Siblings/Protagonists(Ragna, Jin and Noel) will have their own opposing Antagonistic Rivals within the Novus Orbis Librarium

Granted, we already have Ragna VS Hazama/Terumi and Noel VS Tsubaki. In the next sequel, We will be having Jin VS Saya.

Hakumen will have to die later in the series

In order to have absolute order in the world, only one person of the same genre will have to exist. And since Hakumen is still Jin, only either of them will have to exist in the current timeline. And it is highly unlikely that we will see the "Original" dying instead of the "Alternate" now, would it?

• Oh, he may die, but you can guarantee he'll go down in a badass manner, taking his opponent with him with a special as-of-yet unrevealed technique.
• It's unlikely that the series will have the world gain absolute order since order is implied to be a bad thing going by what Rachel told Ragna.

There is an opposing energy called Crimson

to go along with the Crimson Grimoire theory above and as a result of Law of Conservation of Detail Why did Noel's other gun stream red when the other was streaming blue? You could say design choice but you could argue that because the limiters placed on Noel by Bolverk were being released, then that was Azure energy. The red gun then seemed be releasing a different energy, crimson energy. Plus, I'm a sucker for Yin Yang concepts.

Lambda is still alive

There is one overlooked plothole. Sure, Ragna saw Lambda dying, but who's to say that it was only a replica? Lambda's True End ends with her encountering Relius and he seemed interested in taking her in. If he has shown interest, it kinda makes no sense that he suddenly lets her go. My guess is that Relius created a copy of her, transferred the Idea Engine to the copy and sent the copy out to Ragna/Terumi. The real Lambda might still be held within Relius' lab.

• One problem: Lambda clearly had Nu's soul when she saved Ragna. How would Relius copy that? Plus there's no reason to keep Lambda around when they're already bringing Nu back.
• Solution to that: Relius put the Nu's soul in the Lambda replica, which would be slain by Terumi. The real body of Lambda is stored somewhere within the NOL base, probably with no soul until Relius can pick up one unfortunate soul to plug into Lambda's body. Yes, Relius seems to be something of the equivalent of A Wizard Did It.

Terumi is actually gay.

The reason why Terumi makes Mu wear such a skimpy outfit is because he's uncomfortable with his sexuality, also no straight guy says "toodles", even as a joke. YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT.

Next sequel, the Litchi vs Arakune theme will be titled 'Executioner' rather than 'Weak Executioner'.

The reason why it's called 'Weak Executioner' refers to just how weak-willed Litchi is in terms of slaying Arakune because she still loved her thus she couldn't fulfill her duty as Arakune's executioner. After Continuum Shift, provided that Litchi receives Character Development to not only think about Arakune only, she will be able to fulfill her destiny to give Arakune a well-deserved rest without even doubting anything, thus her song title evolves, in a sense that she's no longer a weak executioner.

Mori's plan to make Carl the 4th Protagonist go along with the current boom of Miyuki Sawashiro

As of current, Miyuki Sawashiro has gotten a bit more popular and got many leading roles here and there. Then Mori realized, "I only made her play a sub character!!" So in order to promote her, he made Carl much and more prominent so eventually, by the next BB, Carl becomes a prominent and possibly main protagonist, thus BB becomes yet another series who follows the current hype of 'Miyuki Sawashiro being a lead'. In other words, "Sorry I made you play a sub character, Miyuki."

BANG'S NAIL IS THE NAIL THAT SHALL PIERCE THE BOUNDARY!!

All the hints about him allude to it's ability to "cut people off from the boundary". Therefore his new Astral Finish will be a Shout Out to Giga Drill Breaker.

Next in line of Face Heel Turn-ing: Bang Shishigami

Everyone seems to forget that every Nox Nyctores have side effects on the user. Bang may possess the Phoenix Rettenjou, but he doesn't know how to use it, which means, the Nox hasn't been giving side-effects on him. Now... what do you think the side effect of Phoenix Rettenjou is? Quite possibly, it grants him immortality like a Phoenix. Instead of being an awesome thing to use, Bang will suffer Who Wants to Live Forever? as he sees justice constantly being trashed by Hazama, the world becoming more and more of a Crapsack World as cynicism constantly prevails over his idealism and Litchi betraying him with her previous Face Heel Turn and would never win her love... and he couldn't do a thing. Doomed with such life, Bang will eventually had enough and conduct Immortality Immorality and become a Fallen Hero.

• Alternatively, since every Nox Nyctores took away something of the user, Phoenix Rettenjou is no exception. It takes away Bang's sense of morality, turning him into an amoral Knight Templar. He could snap this way if he learns that Litchi did a Face Heel Turn only for Arakune, completely trashing his image of her and his love to her, this becoming his Freudian Excuse to eventually jump off the slippery slope, combined with the sacrifice of using Phoenix Rettenjou.

Litchi is a Fake Defector

To wit, her Face Heel Turn may look as if she's desperate, but she doesn't seem to plan to stay long, for these facts:

• She is aware that NOL is a official-shady business, considering Hazama can steal her unpublished work. Thus, she really has a dislike towards NOL, even more as it has another Complete Monster like Relius.
• Her only aim is Arakune and the cure, not the 'World of Death' or whatever the Imperator decreed
• She hasn't reached Jerkass levels that even matched Kokonoe (which was even LESS than Terumi) to even think about It's All About Me
• Unless she's currently holding an Idiot Ball, Litchi herself is a smart person.
• She's not Brainwashed and Crazy like Tsubaki.

Therefore, it will be nearly too possible that once she gets what she wants, she will get out and return to the side of good (not necessarily returning to Sector Seven or joining Ragna, but she just quits) rather than being intoxicated with NOL's/Terumi's evilness and jumps off the slippery slope.

If Terumi/Relius don't have a hand in handling that, that is.

Terumi had a hand in creation of Nox Nyctores... by influencing Nine.

Recall how Nox Nyctores was created. It involves a sacrifice of many human souls. Nine at first did not know what to do about beating Black Beast, but Terumi, being the creator of the Black Beast, knew its weakness... the creation of Nox Nyctores. So he influenced Nine, the one with greatest mastery with magic, to create the Nox Nyctores, which could only be possible with the combo of Terumi's knowledge and Nine's magic. Without a choice, Nine sacrificed humans to create the weapon to counter the Black Beast, and it succeeded. People die, but humanity's survival is ensured at cost of the stain at Nine's hands.

• Jossed. Supplimental material reveals Nine created the Nox Nyctores, and did so using human transmutation. A very Terumi thing to do, but he had no hand in it.
  • Debatable. There could be some things that history twisted, such as how in truth Hakumen was making a Heroic Sacrifice to seal Terumi in the Boundary, instead of getting tossed by the humans for lecturing them. As of Nine, she did possess the knowledge of human transmutation to create the Nox Nyctores, but still very possible that she was VERY reluctant to do so. This is where Terumi comes in. If he had no hand in its creation, then he had MOUTH to its creation. He could as well influence Nine, telling her that human transmutation is the only way to go to save humanity, thus Nine stains her hand to do so with her own choice, believing that it's for the greater good. History may say that Terumi is not involved in its creation, but he could've been influencing it and that part was not mentioned in history like the truth of his sealing by Hakumen.

Jin will be the main character in the third game, alongside with Bang.

One game for each sibling, the fact that he got better during continuum shift helps. And he will become "The hero of Ikaruga", but this time in the truest sense.

Saya is actually the original Anti Sankashin Core Unit, Aka Alpha-1.

Think about it, Saya was kidnapped by Terumi 10-ish years prior, yet there have been 13 core units and number 12 was a involved with the destruction of Ibukido 5 years before the main story. The timeline just doesn't make sense, unless shes actually much much older. My theory is that Saya is actually 100-ish years old and was created by Terumi himself. The story states the first core unit was locked in the boundary due to fear from it possessing the "eye". Now what if sometime after the black beast was defeated she emerged from the Boundary and due to its memory erasing effects had lost all of her memories. Jubei or Rachel found her at this point and realizing what she was took her to the church so she would be hidden from Terumi or anyone else seeking to use her. Saya's face/heel turn off screen wasn't because Terumi mind-raped her, it was because he restored her memories of being tortured by scientists and then locked in the boundary for 80–90 years. This theory also explains how Saya possessed Yukianesa, it was her version of the Murakumo.

Nu-13 or Tsubaki will be the main heroine of Blazblue 3

Noel's story is effectively over, whereas Nu has just completed a Redemption Equals Death heel/face turn and will most likely be in need of saving thanks to now being in the possession of Relius Clover. Tsubaki has been built up for two games now and Jin seems to have realized that at the very least he does care about her...also delicious irony in the fact that Tsubaki would be stealing Noel's spot as the main heroine.

Carl is a clone of Relius

Relius is designed with a mask for the reveal that both have the same face.

• This may very well hold water due to the fact that Relius is over 100 years old.
• It could also be that Relius settled down with a family for the sole purpose of experimenting on them. He's depraved enough for that kind of thing.

Nirvana is controlling Carl by pretending to be his sister.

Many times in Carl's story and arcade modes Nirvana is seen reacting to people Carl has never met such as Valkenhayn and Terumi. In addition, every character aligned with Sector Seven has told Carl that the Nirvana unit is dangerous, perhaps with a manipulative nature being the reason. Its reasoning for protecting Carl are possibly explained by Hakumen in Carl's CT arcade story- citing that Nirvana is fueled by Carl's blood lust. This is something easy to come by with someone like Carl, given his past. All that was explained in the creation/awakening of both Nirvana and Ignis is that a human body is used in the process. The fact that Nirvana is known to many characters far older than Carl suggests it has been around for a while, not newly created from Ada like Ignis was. Ignis is also apparently not sentient and only follows Relius's orders. Nirvana is known to act on its own, attacking Ranga, Hazama, and almost attacking Valkenhayn. Also, many of the people Carl fight is provoked by Nirvana explaining to him that he/she is dangerous, causing him to lash out with almost no other provocation. This makes it seem as if Carl is acting at least partially on Nirvana's influence to further its own goals as well as aiding Carl's to keep him on its side. Once Relius is done with, Nirvana may decide to attempt to break Carl's already damaged mind and take partial control over him in a manner similar to what Yukianesa did to Jin, if this is already not being done.

There is a Time Skip inbetween the True Story

Otherwise, how it would explain suddenly Ragna developing Angst? What Angst? on The Reveal about Saya gave Jin the Yukianesa. He would normally pique that a little more than suddenly treating it like "Cool story, bro", they both reveal that inbetween the Time Skip. Also, Time Skip would explain why Noel and Makoto did not develop any semblance of Angst after Tsubaki, the last one of the usual trio, still stuck with NOL and Hazama while they're in Sector Seven at the end of True Ending (they would deal with their angst in that Time Skip).

In other words, there may be an extra storyline regarding on whatever happened inbetween 'Battle against Mu-12' and 'Journey to Ikaruga'.

Relius' ultimate plan is...

An evolution for humanity. He sought perfection, but has no regards on human lives. Because in his eyes, humans are not perfect thus currently, they are only useful as his guinea pigs. Therefore, he's trying to develop things that would eliminate the current human race, and create 'perfect' beings like he is currently, or Ignis. Once he's gotten ahold of that, he will drop the contamination to the world, ensuring COMPLETE. GLOBAL. SATURATION.

Makoto knows a surprising amount of what's REALLY going on, and her loyalty is to Noel first and foremost, before anything or anyone else

The name of her theme is "Alexandrite". That is the name of a unique, natural gemstone that reflects one color under natural sunlight, and a completely different color under artificial light; artificial stones will reflect even mode shades under different kinds and shades of light. Perhaps the theme-song's name harkens to her role as a double-agent? But her cover is blown now, before her music ever got to play in a story-mode battle. Why harken back to it?

In fact, in the first place, why is she betraying the NOL to work with Sector Seven? Her stated reason for joining the NOL was to recieve financial support for her large family; apparently she must care for them a lot. But just as Noel's parents needed to be hidden from the NOL's wrath, Makoto's family will now need to be hidden, and a large family of squirrel-people isn't going to be easy to hide. If they were the reason she joined the NOL, why put them all in that kind of danger?

Also, is Makoto any more loyal to Sector Seven than she was to the Libarium? She already turned traitor to one organization; why not another? In fact, Makoto warned Tager that if he hurt Noel, she would kill him. Killing Tager would make her an enemy of Kokonoe and all of Sector Seven. And Makoto NEEDS Sector Seven's help, since by that time she had already betrayed the NOL. But she was willing to become marked for death by the world's only two superpowers, dooming her family along with her. Why? Because Noel is THAT important to her, apparently.

Noel is not only the heir to the True Azure, but she also became the heir to (or at least the Eye of) the Master Unit, Amaterasu; the Sankishin named after a sun goddess. If Makoto is the alexandrite gemstone, then perhaps Noel is the sun that brings out Makoto's true colors? No one else gets Makoto's real color—she will betray and play both the NOL and S7 against each other, just to protect Noel.

When Tager asked Makoto why she was betraying the NOL, she told him that she thought it would be sad if someone cloned a T-Rex, since the beast would be born into a hostile world where it could not live in peace. But she wasn't really talking about the dinosaur, she was talking about the Murakumo Units. Living people created only to be tools, and heartlessly abused.

Recall Lambda's "Joke" End, which was dead serious, not even remotely funny. Just as Makoto sought out and found Noel outside the city in Noel's storymode, Makoto found Lambda when she left the city on foot. Makoto probably sought her out, too. Even if she ran across Lambda only by accident, she is completely unsurprised and unthreatened by Lambda's threatening armored appearance, and goes out of her way to befriend Lambda. Makoto knows exactly what the Murakumo units are, and that Noel is one of them. Maybe that's why Makoto seeks to protect Noel... but maybe it's the other way around, and Noel in specific is the reason that Makoto is sympathetic to the Murakumo in general.

Makoto is based on Ratatoskr, the squirrel of Norse Mythology who ran up and down the World Tree (which is depicted in her magical symbol), who listened to the wisdom of the eagle at the top (also depicted in her symbol), and who used that knowledge as ammunition to taunt and needle Nidhogg, the serpent who chewed endlessly on one of the Tree's roots. Makoto is a squirrel-girl who worked in the Intelligence department of the organization that runs the world, and her greatest enemy is Terumi, who has an evil-serpent-monster theme. Maybe the eagle will be represented by a specific character later, whom proves to be Makoto's real boss (the Master Unit?), or maybe the eagle is just the Intelligence Department itself and she learned everything she knows on her own. Either way, she's working to thwart Terumi, and she, rather than Kokonoe, will probably be the one to do it, even if she isn't the one who actually kills him.

• Alternately, there's this illustration ^{[dead link]} from Extend. This opens the possibility that Rachel, Valkenhayn and Jubei are her Hresvelgr (notice how the Tsukuyomi resembles a bird when active, like when Take-Mikazuchi opened fire?).

Ragna's Blood Scythe is a Sankishin Unit

Ragna's blade would appear to be another Ars Magus, but it was in the hands of the Bloodedge, the hero who held off the Black beast for a year on his own, with only one arm and blind in one eye, thus it was made before the Ars Magus were developed. Since it appears to be partially magical and mechanical specifically when he uses Black Onslaught, it must be a very powerful artifact. And before anyone pulls the it was a weapon from a previous Ragna, he got it from Jubei who recieved it from the First Bloodedge.

• Except for the fact that Sankishin means THREE Shining Gods and we already know all three Sankishin Units. Also the "First Bloodedge" WAS Ragna. And he didn't hold off the Beast for a year, he put it into a coma for a year by allowing himself to be eaten.
  • To the first poster, the Blood-Scythe can't be a Sankishin Unit. The Amaterasu Unit, the Master Unit, is somewhere inside the Boundary, Hakumen is currently inside of the Susano'o Unit, and Rachel has the Tsukuyomi Unit. The weapon's origins are unknown, although it's likely that Bloodedge created it himself, creating a Stable Time Loop of the weapon being constantly being handed back down to himself (i.e. Ragna) in subsequent time loops (of course, the fact that Ragna had his sword and jacket when he ended up being flung back in time implies that he had it in the original timeline as well). To the second, that's indeed how Phase 0 describes Ragna/Bloodedge's death, but that also directly contradicts what Jubei outright says about Bloodedge fighting the Beast and stalling it for an entire year to give the Six Heroes time to teach humans how to use Ars Magus, then letting himself die when Jubei clearly implies he could've fought much longer. There's no reason to doubt Jubei (i.e. Unreliable Narrator) since Jubei was there to witness Bloodedge's last moments, but the fact remains that the two tales aren't exactly the same. My guess: time loops. We already have evidence that events change (sometimes slightly, sometimes not) over the timelines (for example, Hakumen being in the Susano'o Unit instead of Hazama and joining the Six Heroes) and Phase 0 would appear to be the one of the earlier time loops (if not the first), so it's not implausible that multiple time loops would corrupt what Phase 0 reveals into what Jubei disclosed.

Phantom is actually Caelica.

This canon is screwed up. No one would expect it. Plus, she's been a big focus in the light novels and there's yet to be any mention of what happened to her body after the church incident, so... who knows?

Bang is a Nox Nyctores

Specifically Bang is Phoenix Rettenjou!

Saya is actually Alpha-1, the original Murakumo unit

She was used as a template for the rest of the Murakumo units. By "template" they probably mean she was the first to be converted into one. She lost her soul in the process, turning her into an emotionless doll. When she went into the boundary, she regained her soul. She was then sealed back by Hazama and Relius, unbeknownst to her. All the events leading up to this eventually broke her, and she decided that humanity wasn't worth it and upon being salvaged by Hazama and Relius, was made Imperator and now has them as her underlings, not knowing the truth.

Bang is going to be the Spanner in the Works for the bad guys

In other words, Hazama and Relius' downfall would be because they didn't pay enough attention to Bang. Hazama only acknowledged Bang being more tricky than his 'comic relief' self does, but he failed to realize that Bang has the Phoenix Rettenjou. Bang is also never in the account of Hazama's backup plan after backup plan after backup plan, all his plans hinges more on Ragna, Jin, Noel, Rachel and the remaining Six Heroes. Thus, Bang will be an unexpected element that will crumble Hazama's well built plan by just being there. The true definition of Spanner in the Works.

Hazama is aiming for the World Tree of BlazBlue

This is the reason why he goads Litchi into NOL, or exactly, why he needed her research on Seithr manipulation. The World Tree may be hidden within the Boundary throughout lots of Seithr and Hazama plans to manipulate it. He still needed Litchi even if he already possessed her unpublished work because Litchi might've had knowledge about the World Tree, since her staff is made out of the oak of the tree. For whatever plans, unknown, perhaps the so-called Sword of Imperator/Izanami he mentioned at True End doesn't require just Nu, it also needs some component from the World Tree. Let's have it this way: Since when Hazama merely have single-minded goal? Therefore, there must be some sort of goal behind recruiting Litchi merely for 'Seithr manipulation help', he's the guy who'd use lots of Gambit Pileup after all. Second, when a fiction has a World Tree, when is it that it plays NO role at all?

Phoenix Rettenjou isn't a good weapon

Could be effective, but it has a use that will be disastrous for the world. All Platinum said is that it has the power to sever the connection to the Boundary, and people take it that Bang will use it to cure Arakune and save Litchi. However, they miss out one thing: 'Sever Connection to The Boundary' can also mean that Phoenix Rettenjou can be used to completely separate the world with the underworld/afterlife (Boundary). Therefore, when people die, they stuck to Earth and if this continues, in the near future, the world will be filled with ghosts. Platinum's message was not 'Use this Nox to save your lover!' but 'Be careful about this Nox, or you can end up creating a Ghost World.'

Bang isn't that Highly Visible as we all thought to be

We thought Bang with his over the top manner, hammy yells and everything, we thought he's a Highly-Visible Ninja. We took things on face value. However, with his increasing values of story importance he's getting, it became clear that Bang is in fact, a true ninja, master of stealth. What stealth, you ask? We were all being treated with the facts that he's a Joke Character and were constantly reminded so. And when we were trying to accept such fact, Bang was instead prepared to be a major player in the eventual BlazBlue universe, and when the time comes, he would surprise everyone with his importance that he has gathered so far while fooling everyone that he's going to be stuck as an ineffectual Joke Character.

In other words, Bang is the ultimate Red Herring of BlazBlue.

Terumi Was Once a Man

Named Joshua Radcliffe. He was beaten by the Ruina, unable to escape Despair Event Horizon by Perfectio and eventually developed a sight of despair. Soon, he became a ghost, a shell of his former self and changed his name into Terumi Yuuki. Thus is one of the many possibilities of Continuum Shift Super Robot Wars multiverse.

If there ever was a Guilty Gear and BlazBlue crossover, Hazama won't be quite as fortunate as he was in BlazBlue.

For starters the Guilty Gear series is less willing to let their villains get away with their evil deeds. (As there are plenty of times in which I-No can attest to that.) Another thing to consider is that the BlazBlue storyline does like to mention that the reason why Hazama hates Rachel because he fears the fact that she is a young vampire whom has the potential to truly defeat him, think about how he would fare against an old pro like Slayer?

• That's if Hazama suddenly got transferred from NOL to That Man's group. Different group, different policy. Also there's the fact that Sol is less guilible and more immune to trolling than Ragna. And more broken. So rather than Hazama gloating over, he'll be curb stomped without mercy by Sol.
  • True but it does make one wonder how beneficial it would be if Hazama ended up working for That Man or not. Because That Man of all people is one of the more prominent reasons why I-No is actually not a Villain Sue. If for some reason That Man ever wanted to stop Hazama's plans for any reason then lets just say there is really nothing Hazama can do about that to put it very mildly.

If Jubei is ever a playable character, he will be Brought Down to Normal.

He will be treated like Hakumen, storywise, in that his injuries will Nerf him a bit but he's still a respectable fighter in general. However, just like Hakumen, "his normal is not everyone else's normal."

Litchi is suffering Fake Memories to make her obsessed with Arakune... designated by Hazama.

If you remember, her Boundary corruption seems to deal with jumbling her memories. In this case, her corruption has been on the stage since before CT on why she left Sector Seven, the corruption gave her Fake Memories that Lotte Carmine is a wonderful Marty Stu that can do no wrong, when extra stories such as her Short Story gives us the fact that both Lotte and Litchi distanced themselves after he lashed out at her, and that Lotte himself has been shown as not really wonderful if his interactions with Kokonoe in various flashbacks and EX Story in Continuum Shift 2 has shown (he might've been a Green-Eyed Monster with serious inferiority complex to everyone he comes across). When Lotte became Arakune, Litchi investigated a little, and was corrupted a bit, and originally wanted to heed Kokonoe's words that it's too dangerous and not worth her time. However, that bit of corruption immediately gave her Fake Memories that he's her lover, he's screaming for help, and it's totally her fault for letting him, leading her to continue further her research, leave Sector Seven and ends up in NOL all for his sake. When she interacted with Orient Town people, she gained many people that love her and messed with her corruption, making her think she had to kill him, but in her CT ending, the corruption acted up, restored, making her convinced that she must save him because that's what lovers do.

And this was all designed by Hazama from get-go, on request of Relius. Relius was very impressed by Litchi's research during the EX Story, but she's on Kokonoe's side thus he can't use it. But then, he saw Lotte and his inferiority complex and on research found out their relationship. So he had Hazama eventually try on experimenting Lotte, resulting Arakune. And when Litchi tried tapping to the Boundary, Hazama gave her the Fake Memories corruption to obsess over Lotte, eventually leading her to NOL. This may also be why Litchi was extremely suspicious of Hazama because her corruption might react to him being the originator of the corruption.

Terumi will be revealed to have a God Complex

And we'll get to know why he has that: Basically, he was suffering some sort of despair. However, other people did not despair for some reason. Terumi got pissed. "I don't wanna be the only one to suffer. I WANNA MAKE EVERYONE SHARE MY SUFFERING, LIKE IT OR NOT!" So off he goes trolling people and making people fall into despair, because in his own opinion, that's the only truth there is. In that regard, he wants to be the God of the World so he can shape it to his own liking, where the only truth is despair and the rest are just lies that he hated. The origin of his excuse was based on real life issues where there are some cancer victims trying to infect his cancer to other unassuming people just so they're not the only one who suffers. Terumi is the same, he can't stand suffering alone.

• Impossible. He does things strictly For the Evulz. And plus he tried, and succeeded, in killing a god-like entity.
• Exactly the second version. He wants to be the ONLY GOD that manipulates events and the world. For the Evulz is one of the reasons why he wants to be a God: So it lets him do whatever evil he wants and there'll be nobody to oppose him to have his fun of 'evil for the heck of it'. Terumi is just that good to hide his God Complex, just because he killed a god-like entity doesn't mean he hates becoming one.

Cooking Mama is the announcer for Portable Continuum Shift II

On a much less serious note, after venturing forth in cooking, gardening, crafting and babysitting, the world's most famous Engrish accented woman decided to do something a bit less sexist by... announcing a fighting game, apparently.

There will be two more games after Continuum Shift

The third can center on Saya, Tsubaki, Litchi and Kokonoe, while the fourth will finally deal with Terumi and Relius directly.

ASW will call in Norio Wakamoto AGAIN to voice whoever is Terumi and Relius' true boss as seen in the Wheel of Fortune

Case in points: Wakamoto isn't that unfamiliar with ASW, he voiced Johnny. Besides, with his memetic status, reputation as his villain roles, PLUS even Tomokazu Sugita (Ragna) and Yuuichi Nakamura (Terumi) respect him a lot so much that they drag Takahiro Sakurai (Suzaku Kururugi to play a 3-way battle Yu Yu Hakusho Genesis game, all picking up Wakamoto's character (Chu) and making up Wakamoto impressions for the whole battle... If ASW said Terumi and Relius' boss are in, what's stopping Sugita and Nakamura to demand, "BRING WAKAMOTO TO VOICE HIM!!!"

Bloodedge will return

A man so powerful that he fought the Black Beast single-handed without the use of the Azure Grimoire; even if he was originally Ragna himself, Terumi and Relius aren't ones to pass up a chance to at least try to revive Bloodedge through DNA samples, or at least by researching what made Bloodedge so resistant to begin with.

• He didn't hold it off for a year by fighting it, he allowed it to eat him which put the Black Beast in a coma for a year.

Terumi is Amaterasu

He just pretends to hate Amaterasu to fool his boss. His actual goal is to free himself from the boundary.

Male prime field devices are modelled after Jin

At the end of Noel's story, Terumi mentioned the existence of male prime field devices, or Noel's "brothers". If female ones are modelled after Saya, male ones might be modelled after Jin. Both were kidnapped at the same time, and both have very high armagus aptitude.

• Does that mean we're going to see the Blazblue equivalent to Robo-Ky?

Taokaka and Platinum the Trinity will team-up next game.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica Relationship Voice Actor.

Ragna is the son of Sanger Zonvolt, who somehow traveled back in time/to the BlazBlue universe.

Because seriously, am I the only one who noticed they share an uncanny resemblance?

• Except that Ragna did not share the ultimate thing that defines Sanger: The passion to smite evil everywhere, even if it didn't slight him?

Litchi is an alien from Planet Tits

First take a look at the All Hail Oppai video. Listen to what Charles said about the Chinese Federation:

The Chinese Federation which values size? They look like inhabitants of Planet Tits!

Now look back at Litchi. With boobies that humongous and Chinese origin, don't you think she's actually someone from Planet Tits?

Terumi's goal is To Create a Playground For Evil

It's the only thing to explain why he's doing things For the Evulz. If the world is full of messed up things, he practically ensures his existence and eternal fun. This is why he's trying to destroy Master Unit Amaterasu in the past, their world-resetting tendencies may attempt to reset his Playground For Evil if he once succeeded. Hell, if the world is so messed up, he doesn't even need Ragna to hate him. Basically, just get people to ask 'who turns this world into this mess?', and be reminded that Terumi did it. They'll hate him and it'll be a steady income of existence for Terumi.

Bang was an Ax Crazy ninja

The keyword being was.

Thus far the source of Ikaruga War in a deeper detail is Bang, who seem to portray that Ikarugans are brave rebels of justice to oppose the tyrannical NOL. However, as BlazBlue doesn't seem to be letting anyone who gets serious and be in story to be 100% Good (such as Litchi), and Bang is getting his own prominence soon, he will be revealed that... like every other War, there were no good side and bad side. The Ikaruga side weren't composed of Chaotic Good ninjas as Bang thought to be. They, including Bang, were pretty much blood-lusted Ax Crazy ninjas who murder NOL soldiers the same way NOL incriminates them, an eye for an eye to say. They have slowly forgotten the ninja tenets taught by Lord Tenjou, or the ministers serving Tenjou were fooling them around with promises that they shall be heroes, but in turn, they view NOL soldiers, who are just as human as they are... to be devils that needs to be slaughtered in the name of justice and they went mad in killing them. Bang, however, did see Jin killing Lord Tenjou and in that moment, he starts remembering most of the teachings Tenjou did to him. When Ikaruga citizens moved to Ronin-Gai, to atone for his sins, Bang tried his best to lift the spirits of the survivors and next generation will move on from the bloody past. Thus Bang had to made up the past to be told to the children, that he's a hero of justice fighting for the evils of NOL and the Ikaruga Federation and their ninjas are honorable rebels rather than Ax Crazy ninja, so the children can have people to look up into.

This, however, is also possibly why Phoenix Rettenjou remained inactive in Bang's hand. Bang tried to cover his sins with another sin of lie, and it's a big one since he pretty much spread his lies to his kinsmen. This may end up as a possible double-edged sword for Bang because Nox Nyctores are Evil Weapon by nature so when it awake, it may feed on Bang's sense of justice, possibly reverting him back to his Ax Crazy ninja self.

This can be used later if Bang confronts the system of NOL... such as Saya giving him a Not So Different Hannibal Lecture.

Bang will try to cure Arakune.

In a case of I want my beloved to be happy, Bang will try to use his Nox Nyctores to cure Arakune. It's been stated that his Nox can cut connections to the bondery, and when/if Litchi finds out she will no doubt ask him for his help. He will do as Litchi asks and use his new found powers to cure him, but...

Arakune does not want to be cured

Both Kokonoe and Lotte, in a moment of sanity, say he choose this path. If given the choice, he would get his memories back, but his abilities as Arakune are to valuable to him in his research of the boundary. After Bang cures him, he will begin looking for ways to become Arakune, but keep his sanity. By the time of the fourth game, he will of suceeded.

Tenjou's son is actually evil/messed up psychologically

This is the world of BlazBlue after all. Either way, Tenjou's son has no implication that he'd be a Generation Xerox of Lord Tenjou, being just and all and revered as a good man. It could be that he is a Green-Eyed Monster on Bang, considering that Bang inherits the Phoenix Rettenjou and that nail, while he got left with nothing. Or he was captured by NOL and experimented at cost of his sanity. But at any rate, he's probably set up to be Bang's bitter rival more than Jin ever could be, in a more personal level too. Which leads to...

Next BlazBlue, Bang CAN swipe off the 'story protagonist' position from Ragna/Jin/Noel

Featuring him and Tenjou's son as rivals and main characters of the story (and probably Litchi would've taken the 'heroine' spot?). It's not like this notion hasn't been used: Sengoku Basara at first had Tokugawa Ieyasu as a Bratty Half-Pint Dude in Distress Joke Character no one takes seriously, but remains a good-hearted man, and come Sengoku Basara 3, he Took a Level in Badass and swipes main protagonist position from poster boys and actual main character Date Masamune, whereas new character Ishida Mitsunari is introduced as his new rival, all while Masamune remains the face of Basara. Bang was a joke throughout CT and CS, but he remains one of the whitest in morality (even after Litchi failed). Who can say that next time, he gets the Ieyasu syndrome (from joke character to serious main character)?

Hazama doesn't hate lies

It was all part of his Trolling. He set up a hammy and convincing speech about how the world is a lie and the only truth there is is despair, but not one bit in his speech says he hates such lie. And even if he did, it is very possible that in the end he just pulls this off, the Troll he is: "You remember that time I said that I hate lies? Well... I Lied." Just to pull our legs after thinking "Oh at least he has one virtue that he never lies... wait, did he just lie to us all the time!? FFFFFFFFFF--!!!" He's baiting us for THAT, and it's a pretty common troll strategy.

Phoenix Rettenjou will work like Goldion Hammer

Let's look at it, Bang is definitely a superhero parody, while GaoGaiGar is one, in Humongous Mecha form. Bang styles himself "Hammer of Justice". He has a gigantic nail. Part of Goldion Hammer's 'Hammer Hell Hammer Heaven' is stabbing the Zondar with a nail before smacking it with the hammer. So in short, probably when the time comes, Bang will stab his nail to either Arakune/consumed Litchi, and then pulls Lotte/Litchi from the core of the corruption, hence 'separating connection with the Boundary'. And whatever remains of the Boundary will be given the "Hikari ni nare" treatment. When you squint, the process looks similar on how GaoGaiGar uses the Goldion Hammer on a Zonder robot before the core is purified... Bang probably includes both plugging out and purification.

Take-Mikazuchi is Ranga from an alternate timeline

Well think of the way Rachel speaks to it after she deflected the beam she seams to speak as Take-Mikazuchi is someone very close to her. Also in the latest Extend trailer we can see for a split second Take-Mikazuchi's front lit up, and it does indead have a humanoid shape strangeley simmilar to when Ragna was turned into the Black Beast in one of his endings.

• Or it looks like that because of all the Nox Nyctores basically having mini-Black Beasts inside of them as Relius explains in Extra Story 2 in CS2. Take-Mikazuchi was the first and was probably too close to the Black Beast hence why they sealed it away.

Nu-13 was cut by someone wielding Saika while being experimented upon/created.

Saya probably only had normal sisterly feelings for Ragna as a child, but in the process of being forged/uploaded/whatever into a Murakumo unit, someone had Saika on hand and cut her with it For Science!. Instead of Nu becoming Yandere for all mankind, something in the process "only" amplified her feelings for Ragna. Her Red Eyes are also a symptom of having been Slashed.

Terumi used Yukianesa during the Dark War

Just look at the picture of the 6 heroes. The only nox that matches Terumi's sword's silhouette is Yukianesa. I suspect that like how Susano unit still contains Terumi's memory, Yukianesa also still contains Terumi's memory. And that it is the reason why Yukianesa tends to steer Jin to do something that benefits Terumi.

Terumi in actuality is a form of Nyarlathotep

Think about it. Terumi (the spirit, not Hazama) seems to be very like an Eldritch Abomination personally. His motive of For the Evulz sounds very similar to Nyarlathotep. And the fact that he feeds on hatred (and probably sadness), and a worshipper of despair really felt like on how Nyarlathotep is feeding on the negative feelings of humanity. Also, Terumi has Eyes of Gold similar to any forms Nyarlathotep took.

And when you think about it, the struggle between Rachel and Terumi also bore similarity with the same struggle between Philemon and Nyarlathotep, Rachel/Philemon are bound with the rules as 'observers' thus cannot intervene as much as they want to. Terumi/Nyarlathotep, however, actively intervenes and screws people over in daily basis to make sure he 'wins'.

The sentient being within Yukianesa is one of Umineko's Stakes of Purgatory - Asmodeus of Lust, and Jin's musical theme "Lust SIN" is actually a nod to her.

Yukianesa is said to be the representation of Jin's repressed emotions, and if you took into account Yukianesa's way of convincing Jin to commit dastardly deeds. Yeah, Yukianesa is Asmodeus, alright.

The whole story is actually a game set up by Beatrice, and that Hazama is her opponent.

Which would explain the Groundhog Day Loop and Hazama's Seen It All attitude.

Saya ends up as the final boss of the next game.

She ends up being so freakin' evil that even Hazama and Relius are disgusted and want to stop her. All of the characters end up fighting their way to beat Saya up in Arcade Mode.

With regards to how she is as a boss, she'll be part of the background (i.e. Apocalypse) and will be harder than Nu, Hazama or Ragna. Oh, and she won't be playable (even with cheats).

• Very less likely that in lieu of Wheel of Fortune Drama CD, Saya is being 'processed' by Relius into a 'vessel of something', thus if anyone's out-eviling those two, it's whatever is being vesseled by Saya. Though not to say that those two can (and probably will) out-evil that thing.

Platinum the Trinities body isn't Luna.

Just about everyone assumes the body is Luna's and Sena and Trinity came into it from elsewhere, I propose that it's actually SENA'S body and Luna is the one renting space.

The next game's protagonist will not be Ragna

But instead focuses on mysteries of the Ikarugan War, which will demand either Bang or Tenjou's son to take the main protagonist role. Jin may take a little more role as well, but he might not be a main player, but he is still one of the most important character of the verse. Why? There are other games that follow this formula, such as Sengoku Basara (Ieyasu-Mitsunari taking center stage over Masamune-Yukimura), or King of Fighters during NESTS saga (K's Team over Kyo's Team)

BlazBlue and Guilty Gear take place in the same multiverse.

If you can decipher Sol's Magi Babble in GG2: Overture, his description of the Backyard being a realm that provides the backbone and reason for the entire world of GG to exist sounds not unlike this series' description of the Boundary, which is where multiple timelines cross paths and intersect. Notice that Sol explains that the magic of the GG verse temporary accesses the Backyard to draw upon it as a power source, whereas more than a few characters in BB are interested in the power that lies within the Boundary. It is not implausible that the Boundary and the Backyard are but two of many names for the same plane of existence. Thus Ishiwatari, Mori, and the rest of the ASW crew have some very reasonable means of creating a crossover between these two series.

Rachel and Valkenhayn will now give more attention to Carl in BlazBlue 3.

In Relius' story mode Rachel and Valkenhayn are now showing an interest in taking down Relius (especially Valkenhayn) so if Carl becomes a more prominent character those two will start to pay more attention to him. While Valkenhayn has been making efforts in trying to convince Nirvana that he is not her enemy and Rachel still does have a bit of an interest in Carl lets just say. While there is a good possibility they will do more Carl X Rachel ship-tease the idea of Rachel and Valkenhayn aiding Carl against Relius is possible. (In which Relius will of course not approve of the idea of Carl working together with Rachel and will try to make sure that this doesn't happen.) That isn't to say that Ragna will be flat out ignored though (however it might give the gag reels another excuse to make him a Butt Monkey depending on how he feels about Rachel spending more time with Carl than him).

Hazama and Relius might no longer have their Villain Sue status in BlazBlue 3.

One of the strongest disadvantages that the good guys had in Continuum Shift is that they were very unorganized and were often at each-other's throats which made things a bit easier for Hazama and Relius. However at the True End of BlazBlue Continuum Shift the forces of Good were for the most part starting to get a bit more organized in this time Hazama and/or Relius will start to get their comeuppance a bit more often especially in their "bad endings" and possibly their gag reels. However keep in mind that doesn't necessarily mean that they suddenly become completely ineffectual but plot won't be quite as willing to ensure their victory this time around.

• Excarbated with the facts that their new 'recruits' weren't exactly loyal material. Tsubaki would've attacked and opposed Terumi if it wasn't for Phantom's brainwashing. Litchi is completely uninterested in the world of despair (or would've opposed it), and only in it for preserving Arakune and herself. And making matters worse for them (or better, for us), some stories had Phantom regaining some of her own sentience, which can completely fuck up any leisures they used to enjoy.
• Further complicating matters for them, the stage is shifting to Ikaruga - and Ibukido with it. While the likes of Ragna and Hakumen remain just as threatening to them as ever, two individuals are more dangerous than previously projected for the sheer potential they possess in screwing matters over. Starting off, we have Bang Shishigami...
  • Combat: Bang was last seen leaving for Ikaruga so that he may learn of the whereabouts of Lord Tenjou's missing son. Also, since Platinum is in his company, Trinity may provide assistance with tracking down Rettenjou's missing components and/or teaching Bang how to use it. Relius is interested in Kushinada's Device for whatever reason, and Rettenjou is already stated as being able to rend the Boundary and destroy Nox Nyctores; I'm sure the Mad Puppeteer will be less interested after a demonstration gives Ignis a few bugs. Bang has also been seen to know when to hold his ground when possible, and run otherwise rather than constantly charging even at the face of death.
  • Diplomacy: If there's a resistance movement in Ikaruga - and let's be honest, works like these having an oppressive government usually have one - Bang would likely be the local hero, and would thus be able to organize them into a more efficient fighting force. With Take-Mikazuchi on cooldown and Order being turned against the Imperator, there will be no easy cleanup for the coming revolt, and the loyalists serving under Terumi and Relius will have their hands full.
    • With the Boundary rending ability, it would be also hard for them to take many actions against him without Litchi eventually catching on, and if that happened, that could be a big chance for her to get out of NOL and seek help from Bang instead, ruining whatever plans they had to her about her research (Concentrate on Bang with the risk of Litchi finding out and deserting, or concentrate on Litchi's research and let Bang do whatever plan-ruining he likes). Making matters worse, Hazama's observation on those two are plainly just "Bang is an Ikarugan idiot" and "Litchi is obsessed with saving Arakune", while Relius' observation was "Bang has Kushinada's Device" and "Litchi used to work under Kokonoe". They missed out the bonds between those two, Bang is madly in love with Litchi, and while not really reciprocating it, Litchi considers him a dear friend rather than an idiot; missing that one particular bond and not taking measures for it can be very fatal as it could lead them to consider Bang to be of no consequence for Litchi and their problems are separate problems and won't clash with each other, while in truth... it could be a big consequence.
    • Their only hope is if, by any chance, Tenjou's son wasn't as clean cut babyface like everyone expected him to be (see the other WMG about this), thus giving Bang a harder time gathering an actual resistance for those two. However, at best it's just 50/50 chance. OR, the chance that Bang wasn't viewed as a folk hero but instead a coward who turned his tails backwards, ran away and abandoned the actual Ikaruga and sucks up to NOL due to his job as a vigilante (after all vigilantes report to NOL). Again, it's just 50/50.
  • Tactical: As a native to Ikaruga, Bang likely possesses knowledge of the lay of the land, and can strike from anywhere at any time, as well as give his men orders to do the same. Also, it is stated that Platinum's body was born in the region, and may also possess knowledge of hidden routes that Bang can use to slip around town unnoticed by the Library. Hazama is not the kind of guy who has patience for flitting about a town looking for one rebel, so he will become extremely livid before long; aside from dumb luck, he may never find Bang or Platinum.
• Much to Hazama's eternal consternation, the other person whose threat level elevates significantly by change of location is that "damned squirrel" Makoto, who had just come off assignment in the region. While not to the same extent as Bang, she does possess a number of factors that can potentially ruin the villains' day - and unlike her first interference with Hazama's schemes, she will be aiming to break things apart this time.
  • Combat: Makoto is capable of holding her own against Hazama for a period of time, but more likely than not she's going to need an escort or serious intervention to escape alive - Hazama is out for blood, and with Takamagahara down, he's down a Reset Button, and Relius is still out there. Not all is bad, as Rachel did fish her out of the Boundary, and would like a return on her investment, so if it crossed her mind she'd have Valkenhayn offer some training. In addition to being one of the Six Heroes and kicking Relius' ass up and down the block in his youth, he is also a beastkin and, based on his Arcade commentary, is sympathetic to Makoto's plight - if he is ordered to do so, he would help the lass face her racism-riddled past with confidence. Not only would this force Relius to Mind Rape her for longer, which widens Murphy's window (the time in which anything can possibly go wrong), but it could also ease open any restrictions locking Makoto out from her full potential. Suddenly, that "hale and hardy soul" doesn't seem as enticing anymore... and if Relius loses the ability to suppress her movements, what does that say about Terumi?
  • Diplomacy: Makoto was on assignment under the NOL, remember? As one learns shortly into Slight Hope, the Ibukido branch is not as loyal to the Main Branch due to being removed from regular communications - furthermore, House Mutsugi has been known to mouth off, and likely is just as disloyal. With a proper report and suitable knowledge of the Imperator's affairs with Relius and Hazama, they could be convinced to rebel of their own accord. Having your own squad defect from under you is a massive detriment, as you will lose vital resources and personnel to quelling an uprising. Coupled with Bang, it's safe to say they're going to kick this revolution into overdrive.
    • Also, one has to consider that Makoto is quite friendly with Bang, due to his aiding Jin in Decisionand Slight Hope. If the two were to meet mid-op, there is a strong possibility they would collaborate on their plans, and possibly unite Sector Seven, NOL Ibukido, and the Ikaruga resistance (if Tenjou's boy was a babyface) under one banner. If that were to happen, well... let's just say they'll be talking about this one for years.
  • Tactical: Knowledge from alternate timelines does not lose usefulness just because affairs are settled in Kagutsuchi. Makoto is aware that in that timeline, Tsubaki transferred to the Zero Squadron to bring Jin back personally - the girl loves him more than her own job and family. If Makoto were to intercept Tsubaki during "pissy boss" mode, she could tell her what she saw, and coupled with Hakumen's tale, it could at least give her pause and interfere with the brainwashing, at which point anti-magic or Order could dispel it for good. Losing Tsubaki, and control over Jin and Hakumen in the process, is one of the last things Terumi and Relius want right now. Further, Makoto has likely made herself familiar with the lay of the land, though not as much as Bang has. How are Terumi and Relius supposed to eliminate Makoto if they can't find her?
• All these are probably planned ahead by both Rachel and Jubei. In Slight Hope, Rachel took notice of Makoto's incident and prepared her for eventually screwing Terumi's plan in the end, while throughout CS stories, Jubei went out all his way to ensure that Bang will be prepared to take the stage, starting from getting Platinum (a resident of Ikaruga) to him so he realizes his potential of Nox Nyctores and also giving hints to Litchi (as seen in Platinum's story) about Bang's potential, probably it's to hope that Litchi would even think of the possibility of other source of help when NOL proves to be inadequate, thus screwing Hazama/Relius' plans (Jubei's work on Bang is done, and he's now preparing for the other screwage: Jin).

Tenjou's son will be EVIL

Brainwashed and Crazy or just a straight up evil (though probably not to the level of Terumi and Relius), I'm pretty sure that they'll pull this one twist for Bang and finally make it that there's no such thing as overly white faction in the BlazBlue world (Ikaruga Federation included). So... what's the idea behind this guessing? Because Bang is such a Kamen Rider homage, they're going to make yet another homage inside Tenjou's son... evil Riders, in particular the most popular between them: Shadow Moon. (Plus, Shadow Moon shares the same Japanese VA as Jubei, thus making it easier to find VA.)

The REAL reason why NOL tries recruiting Litchi

Yes we know that they probably sought interest in her research in the Boundary. But that's not the true reason. It's just a cover for something...

Because they want to research her boobs, therefore making something to increase the Saya's boobs. Why? Noel is a template of the Saya, therefore she will possess things from her. What's stopping them to say that Saya also has a massive A-Cup Angst and is trying to fix that?

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