Blazblue: Short Stories and Novel Discussion

[Michi]

YES, YESS. KAZUMAAAAA. <3 <3

THANK YOU AGAIN.

Still looking for pictures from the novel in order to post 'em here. Or zepp.

[Manta]

Funny, it's surprisingly similar to how Blazen depicts Hazama minus Terumi.

[Vulcan422]

Mori knows too much.

[Suzaku]

So basically Kazuma was Crazy LSD Happy Sunshine Hazama without Terumi inside him.

Actually, seems he was a quiet, wimpy bookworm that kept to himself, and apparantly made other people uncomfortable. :/

Edit: Found a review, but it's not very in-depth. Still gives an idea of how the book progresses. To summarize it...

The book's purpose is to reveal the origins of Hazama. It begins at the Magic Guild not long before the events of Phase 0, with Caelica, Trinity, and Nine as students. An amnesiac student, Kazuma Kval, is the protagonist, and things start getting strange when he meets a mysterious man named Yuuki Terumi. The outcome of the book is basically known from the start, but it was unexpected to see the book actually take place before Phase 0. It's apparantly pretty exciting, and it seems that part of what's really cool in the book is that Kazuma gradually becomes more and more manic after meeting Terumi, until he completely transitions into being Hazama / Terumi.

Trinity also apparantly plays a major role in the book, and even appears in a color illustration, so it's possible that she might be considerd the actual heroine of the book.

Edited April 21, 2011 by Suzaku

[Michi]

YESSS. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS INFO. I've been reading hints of the book as well mostly from twitter and other blogs but thank you for getting them all together. I want to see the illusts so bad already. Trinity is amazing, really.

Kazuma, my angel. ❤

[Takoto]

Thanks for the information again :D

I've not been able to find much in English and I can't read Japanese much so ;w; Kazuma sounds cute...

that Kazuma gradually becomes more and more manic after meeting Terumi, until he completely transitions into being Hazama / Terumi.

Manic as-in, going insane, or...?

[Vulcan422]

Seems that way. After all, wouldn't anyone go crazy if their soul were separated from their body, then you met your "true self" and had to merge back with it eventually?

[Pestilence]

Once upon a time I bought BlazBlue on release. Then I played it on a non-widescreen TV and could never see what happened in the corner. So I stopped playing. The End.

Once upon a time I bought BlazBlue CS on release. Then I played it and realized they nerfed my character. (rachel) So I stopped playing.

Once upon a time I decided to give BBCS another shot. So I played story mode and was bored to tears, so I made the little kids in the house play through story mode and they were also bored to tears. So then I started making them play through story mode as punishment for acting up. Then one day we unlocked Mu-12 finally!, I was no longer bored but did wish I could FRC some of her moves.

[Pantsukon]

Post above is maybe out of topic, so is this one since it responds to it, but...dude, your story moved me to tears. I'll think about it whenever I'll need inspiration to look up to in life.

But for the new novel, I'm quite curious...the idea of a characterization for the shell under Terumi is quite interesting.

Edited April 21, 2011 by Pantsukon

[Emma]

Thank you for sharing this information, Suzaku. \o/ I'm still waiting for Phase Shift 1 to arrive here. It should be another day or two, so I'm really excited... *_*

Anyway, Kazuma really interests me. At first, I wasn't actually too keen on the idea of "Hazama" and "Terumi" being two different entities because I thought it sounded kind of meh, but the way it's being played out is actually really neat. :D ...and on that note, is it just me, or does Kazuma's situation seem eerily like Noel's? Amnesiac student, lost their "memories" a few years earlier, shy, weird dreams, created by Relius, etc... I don't know, just food for thought, I guess.

[DeXTeR]

YESSS. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS INFO. I've been reading hints of the book as well mostly from twitter and other blogs but thank you for getting them all together. I want to see the illusts so bad already. Trinity is amazing, really.

Kazuma, my angel. ❤

Please check your PM: I've sent you a message several days ago. By the way, I was one who posted illustrations from Phase 0 here, so I thought my words have, well, some credibility.

=)

[pktazn]

Huh thought I posted my thanks in here already but apparently I didn't

Thanks for the summary Suzaku! And I'm with you Michi, I'm interested in seeing the illustrations as well :D

[Suzaku]

Bit more info. Trinity's full name was Trinity Glasfille (トリニティ＝グラスフィール, Toriniti Gurasufiiru), and she was known as the Platinum Alchemist (白金の錬金術師, Hakkin no Renkinjutsushi), hence "Platinum the Trinity".

Note: Gurasufiiru could be just about anything, from Glassfill to Grassfeel to Grasfiel... So, without much to go on, I found that Glas (actually pronounced "gla") was French for "(funeral) bell" and fille is French for "girl" so I went with that because it suits her just about perfectly. Still probably not what the official translation is supposed to be, though.

[Takoto]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but if she was known as the Platinum Alchemist, wouldn't her name make more sense as "Trinity the Platinum" rather than "Platinum the Trinity"?

/edit.

actually, I know Platinum the Trinity makes some sense seeing as now she has three personalities residing in her and all.

Also

I'm kinda surprised no ones put the illustrations from Phase Shift online yet, the ones from Phase 0 were up in a matter of hours of it's release if I remember correctly. :c I wanna see them super bad~

Edited April 22, 2011 by Takoto

[Emma]

^If no one else does before I get my copy, I can post illustrations if everyone's okay with it. :|b

[Suzaku]

Some people have posted shots of the cover or the book sitting on the carpet or whatever, but no interior shots that I've seen.

[pktazn]

Interesting that Platinum's name is actually Trinity :o

^If no one else does before I get my copy, I can post illustrations if everyone's okay with it. :|b

Yes Emma, I will be so upset that you posted the illustrations that I won't be able to sleep for weeks. WEEKS.

Please do. I'll love you forever xD

[sesame]

/random offtopic/

so about dem names.

the names are like hints they gave to you in the beginning.

for example bloodedge.

it's ragna "the" bloodedge => Ragna IS The bloodedge.

and trinity's the same.

therefore, we can replace THE with IS

platinum the trinity =>Platinum Is the Trinity.(of 6 hero time)

it's 'currentname followed by 'actual name' it seems.

and i'm sure platinum is more or less just a nickname for the current body...LOL

(not too terribly interested in the novel now sadly/ cus it sorta went with the prediction too much ruined the fun for me ;P)

[Vulcan422]

Yay for more FMA references!

[Chsal]

Yay for more FMA references!

What references?

[WolfCrimson]

Platinum the Trinity is the "Platinum Alchemist". Get it?

[Chsal]

No... Maybe its because I never read the whole of FMA.

Was there a character who used platinum or something?

[Tokkan]

Hakkin no Renkinjutsushi = Platinum Alchemist (Alchemist of Platinum)

Hagane no Renkinjutsushi = Fullmetal Alchemist (Alchemist of Steel)

白金 can also be read as Shirogane, which is similar sounding to Hagane (Steel).

[WolfCrimson]

@Tokkan: Is it "Hagane no" or "Haganeno"? In the Brotherhood anime Colonel Mustang calls him "Haganeno" like it's one word.

[Tokkan]

@Tokkan: Is it "Hagane no" or "Haganeno"? In the Brotherhood anime Colonel Mustang calls him "Haganeno" like it's one word.

They're technically both correct, romanisation can be tricky like that. In Japanese, there are literally no spaces between words. "Hagane no" is just cleaner than "Haganeno" from an English standpoint. Hagane means steel, no is a particle that basically means "of".

Edited April 23, 2011 by Tokkan