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It could be a charge mechanism like Tsubaki except with meter. It could be a powerup state or it could be that little ring thing U Hazama has. Meter stealing definitely sounds awful on paper though.

They've already reached the threshold for belts to qualify as a Final Fantasy game. Lets go Blazblue RPG.

O hai there celica

Breakdance fighting? This guy is BASED.

You know damn well that Makoto-kumo is going to be buck-naked if the first two designs are anything to go by.

Blood pain mirrors for the win. The real question is, what happens to Hazama's lovable trolling without Terumi? Then again, his base personality could be "troll" too.

I have until October to get a ps3? Done. Also, new characters are semi-hype.

I don't mind the moeblob, I kinda don't mind the stupidity but Noel's JP VA hits this specific frequency that makes me want to blow my brains out. In English, she's bearable to an extent. I will admit that Noel has her moments. I'll also admit that she takes a lot more shit than she deserves. She is occasionally endearing. In the end, I still can't stand her. And hey, I like Makoto. It doesn't mean I have to like her best friend. >.>

Haters gotta hate, what can I say? :/

We trashing Noel now? I can't stand the character. I don't know how I can stand Platinum for extended periods of time but listening to JP Noel's VA making sounds for more than 5 seconds me want to blow my brains out. Also, facerolling drives. As a storyline character, she's alright. I do agree that her best parts come from the profound sadness she gets when someone verbally thrashes her. I thought Mu was an vast improvement. Then they made Sword of Doom II and turned Mu into Noel [a]. Now I can't stand her too. Also, you know something is wrong when Makoto has more material covering her crotch than Mu does. The only place I can stand Noel is in certain parts of the English Story mode and Remix Heart where I can look at Noel and Makoto e-mote every three panels.

All those videos were from Jourdal's deceased account. =/

Goro vs. Hifumi (Litchi) Eda (Makoto) vs. Serizawa (Mu) Goro vs. Ryuusei (Jin) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUJcNldPjoE Goro vs. Sakamoto Ryoma (Ragna) / Kuresu (Tsubaki) / Chin (Hakumen) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh5O1Yo6I4Q&feature=youtu.be A lesser furry (read: Tao) would have been obliterated by those Hakumen combos. Goro vs. Shirushi (Jin) / Nanashi (Carl) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS-zCt3uPeU

It's funny how our character rankings would look hella average without Goro grinding out wins. Then you have god-tier players playing top-tier characters at 15-16 dan and you realize this dan stuff is only a small indicator of player ability. I don't know if it's character loyalty that keeps him around or if he knows that he's the last of a dying breed and that's his claim to fame but I'm glad he's still grinding it out to teach us how to squirrel. His yomi and neutral are too sick. Also, 19th dan is a very shaky title. There's been a new #1 and #2 like every week.

Page 57. Alternatively, you could use the fast-forward button to skip through the manga until you see the Blazblue stuff. Also, oh shit plot.

I remember seeing a Makoto Faye-Ling sprite in the sprite thread once. It took me a while to pick my jaw up off the floor. She even had a little squirrel in her hair. EDIT: Found them...

No but if you watch the U. Makoto vid, you can chain into it as opposed to waiting for 5D to recover, then using 2D. Even in overdrive, I don't think you could link into all of those that fast.

Drive recovery also seems drastically reduced. 5D can go into 2D now.

Unlim. Litchi beam clashing ftw.

Unlimited Makoto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-jI8o-qTo -Permanent G drive with all OD properties. (Just D it) -Cosmic Ray goes through the opponent (not sure if that property was available in OD) -Lander Blow is multi-hit -Comet Cannon is MASSIVE -Old Unlimited Parry is still there -New DD: Cosmic Ray -> Infinite Rush -> PF I'm gonna miss Machine-Gun Blow, Duck, Abare Tosanami and Seichusan Godanzuki but using Cosmic Ray to traverse the screen and having the opponent either stuck on the wall or sliding across the floor for most of the match is a fine replacement. I officially dub Unlimited Makoto, not lame. (GG U. Tsubaki)

I'm going to miss Seichusan Godanzuki and Abare Tosanami (really going to miss that last one) but damn. U. Makoto whiffing Ds and still getting over there to continue the combo. Forget dashing, I'm just going to Cosmic Ray everywhere. That new DD is all sorts of sexy. Evil Makoto looks awesome too. I dub U. Makoto not lame. People spending most of the match on their face and stuck on the wall? Somebody hold me.

Nope. Also, that Yandere Pincushion DD. And that Chaotic All-Green. And that Power of the Clover Force. Man, I hope U. Makoto isn't as lame as U. Tsubaki.

I would have linked that earlier if it wasn't for the fact that if he was giving up games 3, 4 and 5 to charity and making it so easy for me to guess when he was going to eat a Yukikaze. That and Ragna gave him the ID hard. Still, he's not bad and there's sooo much footage so that's a plus. Edit: didn't even see the Tager matches. This guy has some extremely bad luck against magic-pixel Tager.

I believe it was after Makoto was sent back in time to before she and Noel split up to find Tsubaki. Makoto was trying to figure out what happened to her (after all, she was about to be struck down by Izayoi) and I guess that was the look on her face when Noel knocked her out of her daydream. Also... was the zipper on her jacket always that big? o.O +1 on the bigger resolution scans by the way. If not, then just the page with the images from Makoto's ending. I need a better pic for my avatar. :3

How much of that 95% is the same though? :o

Well, Kuroku is back to 13th dan from 12th so maybe he did suffer a loss streak. Anyway, frame data. I heard from Errol that we should have it translated soon. I won't hold my breath about certain moves but things do seem like they've gotten better for the most part.