ImmaYuukiTerumi Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 Terumi's voice clips in Chronophantasma feels like such a tease when he mentions Kazuma. The ones where he talks about Celica did end up being used for Extend.
Chaoschao222 Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 What I posted in the RH thread applies here, too. If people want to discuss Mai's appearance in CF, factor in that we know little currently before doing so.
sg1989 Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 I do not think the empty box in question is only a spoiler. And if that empty space there really was nine (or another character already present in the cast) it would wonder why a hypothetical link between nine and Es is so important to keep it hidden, when fans of the series, probably, have already played Lost Memory, making this spoiler definitely not necessary. The same applies to other characters, since Es appeared only now in the main series, I do not believe she have ties so important as to be hidden for the plot. But. this is only my opinion.
churchblue Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 Mai's story is probably connected to Relius.
Leiopelma Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 I can think of a few ways to work Mai into the story. Mai was drawn to an incomplete Murakumo in Variable Heart. Maybe the fact she had a fragment of the Azure inside her for a time or that she is now a grimoire has given her a connection to the Murakumos or to Amaterasu. And of course there's the Kokonoe connection as well. Kajun decided to link up Mai with Kokonoe in Variable Heart, so perhaps she'll come into play in the story because of that. Though I suppose there's also the possibility that Mai will come in simply because she wants to help her friends, but Makoto has already done that. PS: I hope that Mai will get a vocal version of her theme. Saori Hayami is a great singer.
churchblue Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Mai is definitely joining Sector Seven going by the way of Variable Heart is following that path. It would make a lot of sense for her disappearance. The previews from the magazine show a picture of her and Relius (which why I said there was a connection) and also Mai fighting Ouroboros. I really wish someone translated part of the previews.
ChainRevolver Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 I wonder if both Es and Mai will have Act 1-3 arcade mode...
Ogiga99 Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 10 hours ago, churchblue said: The previews from the magazine show a picture of her and Relius (which why I said there was a connection) and also Mai fighting Ouroboros. I really wish someone translated part of the previews. Translations of the two CG's, courtesy of Zedar. ”I won’t forgive you… I’ll never forgive you!! Only you!!!” "If you say that you must catch Noel, then… Do it after you’ve defeated me!!" 2 hours ago, ChainRevolver said: I wonder if both Es and Mai will have Act 1-3 arcade mode... Es most likely won't. Mori said she will enter the story at a later point and she doesn't have a role in the beginnings of the Embryo battle detailed in Act 1 and 2. I'm not sure about Mai though. On the one hand, since Mai is most likely an Entitled like most of the cast she will probably be around in the Embryo for the entire time frame. On the other hand, that doesn't mean she will actually appear during those events. It could go either way. One important thing to note is that the two above CG's come from Arcade mode and Story mode respectively (you can tell by the text format, Arcade is along the bottom with a black border whereas Story is superimposed over the image with no background and the second one doesn't have the skip option).
Yoshirocks92 Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 34 minutes ago, Ogiga99 said: "If you say that you must catch Noel, then… Do it after you’ve defeated me!!" Es most likely won't. Mori said she will enter the story at a later point and she doesn't have a role in the beginnings of the Embryo battle detailed in Act 1 and 2. I'm not sure about Mai though. On the one hand, since Mai is most likely an Entitled like most of the cast she will probably be around in the Embryo for the entire time frame. On the other hand, that doesn't mean she will actually appear during those events. It could go either way. One important thing to note is that the two above CG's come from Arcade mode and Story mode respectively (you can tell by the text format, Arcade is along the bottom with a black border whereas Story is superimposed over the image with no background and the second one doesn't have the skip option). Well I'm glad that Mai isn't on the "Noel has to die in order to have our desires granted" crusade so I can breath a sigh of relief for it.
Leiopelma Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 12 minutes ago, Yoshirocks92 said: Well I'm glad that Mai isn't on the "Noel has to die in order to have our desires granted" crusade so I can breath a sigh of relief for it. I was expecting that, since the opposite would have been completely out of character for her. Mai was always willing to endanger herself in order to help her friends in Remix Heart. Also, when a grimoire showed her a vision where her friends were battling each other in order to fulfill her desires, Mai said that she didn't want that to happen and rejected the grimoire. Mai would never sacrifice one of her friends to have a wish granted.
ImmaYuukiTerumi Posted August 18, 2016 Posted August 18, 2016 Mai's got a lance, so hopefully nothing bad happens to her. *Fate joke*
Leiopelma Posted August 18, 2016 Posted August 18, 2016 32 minutes ago, ImmaYuukiTerumi said: Mai's got a lance, so hopefully nothing bad happens to her. *Fate joke* And her birthday is the 4/4. Considering the association between 4 and death in East Asia, I hope nothing will come of it.
churchblue Posted August 18, 2016 Posted August 18, 2016 It's a spear and also a Legacy weapon. According to the translated previews, she REALLY hates Relius Clover to the core. We may find out about why she hates him in Variable Heart. I'm really happy Mai is finally a playable character!!!
Luminos564 Posted August 18, 2016 Posted August 18, 2016 1 hour ago, GunBlazer said: Yes. Upon purchase, she brings a new stage with her. Fun thing about Mai having her personal stage is that it features a pretty bigass skeleton of a long-dead creature. To me it looks like some giant-fawkin'-dragon but that's not important right now. I do find it rather curious how the last 2 ladies revealed (Es and Mai) both had a gigantic creature in their backgrounds. Es has a very much alive Black Beast literally chewing the background scenery and Mai has this huge skeleton just chillin' until it moves when you weren't suspecting and you die another time in Lothric...wait, wrong game. This might be entirely coincidence however, but wouldn't it be cool if they were connected in some way?
Leiopelma Posted August 19, 2016 Posted August 19, 2016 On 17/08/2016 at 9:39 PM, Ogiga99 said: ”I won’t forgive you… I’ll never forgive you!! Only you!!!” I was thinking about the relationship between Mai and Relius and came up with a few ideas. We see in Mai's arcade mode that she hates Relius more than anyone else. This is interesting, since we have only seen the two meet once up to that point back in Remix Heart and while Mai thought Relius was absolutely terrifying, she didn't have a reason to hate him. However we also saw that Relius found Mai's soul to be intriguing; Relius let Mai go at that point because he was curious to see how her soul would develop over time. Presumably he could see that Mai's soul was in the process of changing and he was curious about what the final result would be; if he had captured Mai on the spot, then he wouldn't have been able to do so. This raises the possibility that Relius captured Mai at a later point and possibly imprisoned or experimented upon her. That would explain her hatred of him. I certainly hope that this isn't what happened to Mai, but since we don't yet know what Mai did in the two and a half years between Variable Heart and Central Fiction, that is a possibility that we cannot yet exclude.
churchblue Posted August 19, 2016 Posted August 19, 2016 Maybe Relius was responsible for the death of someone close to Mai.
Calamitus Posted August 19, 2016 Posted August 19, 2016 15 minutes ago, Leiopelma said: This raises the possibility that Relius captured Mai at a later point and possibly imprisoned or experimented upon her. That would explain her hatred of him. I certainly hope that this isn't what happened to Mai, but since we don't yet know what Mai did in the two and a half years between Variable Heart and Central Fiction, that is a possibility that we cannot yet exclude. Considering the fact that the stage is Grave Marker of Bases, I guess Mai is not happy to see him because he is the creator of Noel's discarded copies.
1337 H@x0r Posted August 19, 2016 Posted August 19, 2016 Well... @playble Mai Natsume Relius Clover, every woman he meets never forgets him, I wonder what is his secret?
heavymetalmixer Posted August 19, 2016 Posted August 19, 2016 1 minute ago, 1337 H@x0r said: @playble Mai Natsume Relius Clover, every woman he meets never forgets him, I wonder what is his secret? He tells every woman he meets, that he's single.
1337 H@x0r Posted August 19, 2016 Posted August 19, 2016 Well... 3 minutes ago, heavymetalmixer said: He tells every woman he meets, that he's single. In the face of his wife?!
Leiopelma Posted August 21, 2016 Posted August 21, 2016 I was thinking about the ages of the characters and I think we can actually determine the exact age of those that attended the Military Academy using this timeline. The Japanese academic year begins on the 1st of April and ends on the 31st of Match, while the school entrance cut-off date is the 2nd of April. Students born from that date onward have to start the following academic year. The Military Academy functions like a Japanese school in a number of ways, e.g. in its sports festivals, which makes sense since Blazblue is a Japanese game primarily aimed at a Japanese audience. This must apply to the academic year as well since it's the only way for Noel leaving the Academy 6 months early on her 3rd year to make sense, considering she left in 2198 but started in 2196. Mai, Makoto and Tsubaki all started at the same time as Noel in 2196, while Jin started two years before them. Therefore the girls would have had to have been 15 on the 1st of April 2196, while Jin on the 1st of April 2194. The games take place from late December 2199 to January 2200. Jin was born on the 14th of February, which is before the cutoff, meaning he must be 20 at the time of the games. Makoto and Mai were born on the 2nd of April and the 4th of April respectively, which is after the cutoff, meaning that they must be 19. Tsubaki was born on the 14th of March, which is before the cutoff, meaning she must be 18. In summary, we can conclude that at the time of the games Jin is 20, Makoto and Mai are 19 and Tsubaki is 18. (And we already knew that Noel is 5.)
Leiopelma Posted August 21, 2016 Posted August 21, 2016 Interesting fact regarding Mai's birthday, which is on the 4th of April: It is situated exactly between the 3rd of March, which is Girl's Day in Japan, and the 5th of May, which today is Children's Day but used to be Boy's Day in Japan. Perhaps this is the reason that date was chosen as Mai's birthday.
Sashide Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 On 8/16/2016 at 1:19 AM, ImmaYuukiTerumi said: Terumi's voice clips in Chronophantasma feels like such a tease when he mentions Kazuma. The ones where he talks about Celica did end up being used for Extend. This still bugs me! and it makes me hope for SOMETHING in central fiction...
FKGunBlaze Posted August 26, 2016 Posted August 26, 2016 Mai's profile and Story have been added to the website.
Leiopelma Posted August 26, 2016 Posted August 26, 2016 35 minutes ago, GunBlazer said: Mai's profile and Story have been added to the website. From what I can gather, her profile section says that Mai is cheerful and forward-looking, sincerely sympathetic towards others, that she values her friends above all else and that she often neglects herself due to the strength of her feelings. The story section informs us that Mai's most important relationships are with of course with Noel, Tsubaki and Makoto and has a bit of background information regarding her. It says she's the heir of the Hazuki Duodecim family, that she was a classmate of Noel at the military academy, that she was transformed into a woman by a grimoire and went trough a variety of troubles, as well as that Mai has fully accepted herself as a woman now. It also says that Mai now rushes into danger armed with Outseal in order to defend an important friend. Both her profile and her story description suggest that Mai's principal motivation within the story will be to defend Noel. By the way, here are some higher resolution images of Mai's CGs from this site:
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