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Pretty sure that was just because her VA was at the live BuruRaji they did and not an announcement of her being in the game. They revealed the cover at the same event:

AFAIK you have to buy it through a site called BOOK☆WALKER. From the Settings Material Collection thread:

I didn't scan them, I just found them on a couple of sites.

Found better scans of most of the color illustrations from the light novels (there's one missing from Phase Shift 2): Phase 0 Color Illustration 1 Phase 0 Color Illustration 2 Phase 0 Color Illustration 3 Phase Shift 1 Color Illustration 1 Phase Shift 1 Color Illustration 2 Phase Shift 1 Color Illustration 3 Phase Shift 2 Color Illustration 1 Phase Shift 2 Color Illustration 2 Phase Shift 3 Color Illustration 1 Phase Shift 3 Color Illustration 2 Phase Shift 3 Color Illustration 3 (NSFW)

Noel didn't participate in the Ikaruga Civil War, it ended six months before she graduated. And like redsilversnake I doubt that was Terumi getting tortured, it just seemed to be people suffering.

Ada wasn't originally part of Nirvana, she was added later, probably because Nirvana was missing it's power core. Here's a quick timeline: 2099: Relius is working on Prime Field Device #1 with Shuichiro and Terumi when the Black Beast comes out of the Cauldron and Relius falls in. He's sent forward in time to the year 2179. 2108: Nirvana is created by Nine along with some of the other Nox Nyctores. Nine's sister Celica becomes it's master. 2110: Dark War ends, Nirvana is sealed away by Celica and Trinity. 2179: Relius re-appears after falling into the Cauldron. Terumi meets up with him and tells him the year. Ada and Carl are born sometime after this. 2193: The Sector Seven Extra Episode: that which is inherited. 2195: Carl enrolls in the Academy. Relius presumably puts Ada into Nirvana sometime between this and him dropping out of the Academy. 2197: Carl drops out.

Relius ended up in 2179 (not 2199), Ada and Carl were born after that.

IIRC Bang was Makoto's younger sibling.

Thanks for the translation zephyr. It sucks that people would take your translations without asking.

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The new episode of BuruRaji shows Valkenhayn's Distortion Drives and more info on his Drive starting at 14:40: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/1284016979

New episode up: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/1284016979

Rachel's just no longer the Observer of the Boundary for Takemegahara. She quits during her talk with them.

Ragna has never used a Nox. Jin states Ragna's using Ars Magus and that he's surprised because Ragna didn't have the aptitude to use it before. He then wonders if Ragna can use Ars Magus because of the Azure Grimoire. Nothing to do with Ragna's sword.

Terumi isn't using Ragna's grudge to stay in existence, he was just doing that prior to using Noel as his Observer and after that's broken he's seemingly using Saya to observe him.

You're awesome, zephyr. Thanks for doing these translations.

Actually that seems to have come from a misunderstanding on p-kun's part, at least going by zephyr's translation. While the bite isn't shown the story goes from Rachel saying she'll suck his blood to Ragna staring up at the sky with his new red eye. That's a pretty big hint that she did indeed bite him. And there's nothing indicating it doesn't happen every loop.

Rachel gives him that name. Rachel remembers all the loops. Therefore Rachel could still name him that even in the loops where there is no Bloodedge.

In Arakune's story Hakumen warns him he's in danger of fading away because he's becoming an "uncertain factor" like Hakumen and Rachel.

Ragna's grudge would of only kept Terumi around temporarily, he says he needed to be observed by Noel to actually stay. And having somebody love you doesn't seem to be enough, Arakune is at risk of fading away even though Litchi cares about him.

IIRC the story takes place prior to Calamity Trigger so I doubt it will have Ragna as Bloodedge fighting the Black Beast during the Dark War since he would have to time-travel back and forth.

Uh, I think you've got that wrong. The BlazBlue world is the "real" world, it isn't a fake one made by the Azure. The dead world thing is basically Hazama saying the world SHOULD be dead but isn't due to time repeating over and over. And I don't think mankind needs an observer since they predate the first one.

The Material Collection came out after CT so as it's more recent and more detailed then that single line I'm inclined to give it more credit. Plus it's backed up by Continuum Shift's "Previous" feature mentioning multiple decades as passing between the two wars. And it wouldn't be first time Aksys mis-translated something.

Wrong. The Ikaruga Civil War was started 81 years after the Dark War and lasted for seven years. The ten years line in the timeline is talking about how the Dark War lasted ten years. Look at the chart linked to in that post and it gives dates.

Hakumen never says he doesn't know about Ars Magus and implies he does during that conversation ("I understand far more then you know"). I think he was just trying to get Jubei's opinion to ease his own reservations since he knows what mankind will do with the Ars Magus in the future.