DeadmanJV2

Thank you so much!

I searched but I couldn't find one, but is there a PSD for Izanami?

If I remember correctly, Izanami in Act II (and by extension, Nine in Act I) do not actually have any story fights. Hence their endings being previews for the next act.

I don't think that's where it ends though. Kazuma and Hazama aren't the same individual, but they were both artificial bodies created so Terumi could have a vessel. Hazama even tries to use that resemblance to his favor to try and stop Trinity from using her magic to hold him in place. So while those two aren't the same individual, there is an obvious reason why they look like each other. It's also way too convenient to have someone who looks like Izanami and shares her first name with "Saya" and her last name with "Terumi". I just don't think the connection is Izanami IS Saya Terumi since Naoto ruled out that possibility itself. But I think there might be some sort of reasoning even if it's something like "they're both based off of the girl in Amaterasu" instead of being directly related to each other.

If the girl crucified to the Murakumo thing is the "real" Noel, then who is Saya? Does that make our Noel a clone of a clone? Was Ragna's sister never Saya in the first place? Where does Es fit into this considering we saw her silhouette? IS SANITY... THE PRICE TO PAY... FOR POWER? But seriously, Act 2 is just leaving us with more questions so far. Maybe we might get a clearer picture as more of the arcade modes are translated but as it stands I am really confused. This is a wild ride...

Someone in Japan has some screenshots and tweets from Act 2. Including a good image of the mysterious girl in question. Anyone willing to translate? https://twitter.com/masatohircrhyme

I also thought it was interesting how her dislike was Ragna. Especially since she seems less hostile to him than she is to Terumi (even without taking into consideration that she offered him Terumi's head). I wonder if Ragna is the key to defeating Izanami and that's her issue with him (and maybe she wanted him on her side simply so that he wouldn't be able to oppose her.) Then again I could be reading way too much into it and she's just really polite to everyone she hates, except Terumi for some reason. Interestingly, that description leads me to believe that Lambda was the first unit that actually used Saya as the base. Which makes sense considering she's the earliest model that showed up and thus the closest thing to a success they had at that point. I really look forward to getting more insight into Izanami. She's one of my favorite designs but as a villain she's kind of... underdeveloped? At least compared to Terumi, Relius, and Nine. Although Izanami also hasn't had as much screentime as Terumi and Relius.

Back to Naoto's Act 2 for a second. I feel like we're going to get some details into the connection between Bloodedge Experience and the main series. I'm sure some of it will be saved for Act 3 and/or console, but we might get more detail as to why Naoto being there threatens Ragna's existence. Alternatively we might get more info as to the relationship between Rachel and Raquel or Izanami and Saya Terumi. We might even get some detail as to what has happened to Raquel. I'd also like some details as to Terumi's true identity but I definitely don't expect that yet (if ever). The only other thing I could think of is that we might finally get some more details as to what Amaterasu's deal is. (Crazy plot twist: Raquel is in Amaterasu! No I'm not actually predicting that.) Either way, I'm looking forward to Naoto flipping out when he meets Izanami.

The thing is, even if the code is in fact real (because datamining is a thing that happens all the time) it's difficult to know exactly that Sho is in fact P5HERO. It might even be him but it might be impossible to prove it's him unless you find something in the code that shows that it's him (although I suppose a comment saying P5HERO = Sho would be too easy, lol). I do think that regular Sho and Minazuki are respectively NEWBOSS and NEWBOSS_O based on their position in the code. There's a possibility P5HERO could still be an instance of Sho but I really can't speculate much more without knowing exactly how Ultimax's story goes down. But it could also be that the P5 protagonist was considered to be a DLC character or hidden character that they scrapped during development. I still think Sho has a good chance of being the P5 Protagonist but this could just be a repeat of the Malevolent Entity deal where we let what we think is going to happen manipulate what it actually is. Guess we'll have to wait till TGS to find out.

Well, Yukiko had Carl colors but Carl had Ken Colors and the Yukiko palette was given to Tsubaki. So I don't think there's a hard and fast rule that they HAVE to be the same characters. Besides, I don't think Minato or Nanako or going to be playable any time soon (especially Nanako :P) so I think it'll be safe for Rise to have Plat or Amane. What I'm curious about is that I see the letters "DLC" on the ad. I'm interested in what that's about.

Oh, and just a theory about why Rachel tells Tsubaki that if they (Jin and Tsubaki) cannot kill Ragna that Tsubaki needs to kill her. If I remember my vampire lore there's the idea that killing the "head" vampire kills all of the "sub" vampires. Since Rachel bit Ragna, she is technically the head vampire between the two of them. So if my theory is true then killing Rachel would kill Ragna. It's just never been explicitly brought up until now because Rachel isn't that easy to kill so there hasn't been an incident where she was in danger but Ragna wasn't.

Well, if they were used to complete Lambda-11, they obviously can't be Mu-12 bodies since you can't have #12 without #11. I'm pretty sure that its referring to the bodies of the previous Murakumo units, as its implied 1-10 didn't even survive the process.

Oh wow, thanks. It looks great. <3

If I may make a request, I was wondering if anyone would make Makoto with a Ms. Fortune (Skullgirls) palette. For reference: http://iplaywinner.com/storage/MsFortune.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1314984877331

Again, Tsubaki's story mode shows that she is not willing to kill Noel. She has the opportunity, but cannot bring herself to take it.