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I'm not convinced that that spike is the enhanced version of Griflet. There's also another crest that seems to emerge from the edge of Griflet's hitbox that doesn't seem to appear when she uses it on naoto earlier in the trailer (though it's a little hard to be sure since it cuts away not long after she uses it) and it strikes me a bit superfluous to add in that extra hit if the REAL enhancement was the downward strike. Would it no be simpler to just amp up the hitstun so the spike just naturally links? Hard to say, but as of right now I'm unconvinced. Also we can see towards the end of the trailer she has a little dashing pommel strike move that causes Celica to wallsplat/bounce. Pretty funny coming from a move that looks more like a poke. Would wager that's her 6A. (also you can see the activation hitbox for that full circle version of her drive that she uses in this combo at 0:55 in the left corner of the screen)

I don't think that's a follow up animation to activate the crest, that just seems like a normal to me. If you slow the video down you can see how the crest starts to active while it still looks like she's in the last frame or two of recovery from that overhead. Edit: Here's what I'm talking about:

Couldn't Izanami still pelt people who can jump out with her 4D? I mean, sure, it's hardly advantageous, but if you're going for a style points finish like za warudo, who cares? spam taunt and 4D on someone frozen offscreen sounds hilarious. Even with that in mind, I don't think the entire cast is capable of jumping out of her range, just some of the more air mobile ones. I would guess that the only people who can do it that you didn't list are Amane and probably tao, though I'm a little dubious on that one to be perfectly honest since I pretty much never play as or against tao.

What interests me about this, is that we've had stage quotes about the devil before, and all of those are stages Hazama can be found on. In Kagutsuchi port (At night) the quote is "The Devil can cite scriptures for his purpose." and while Altar is not Hazama's stage, most story modes lead to you having to fight him on Altar, where the Quote is "· The devil is not so black as he is painted." In both instances, it works as forshadowing. Hazama's trademark lies of omission is exactly like a devil citing scripture for his own purposes, telling you the "truth", but it's an edited version of the truth made to cater to their wants. Hazama not being black as he is painted also works, as it foreshadows that he is not the real big bad, when going into BBCS it really did look like Terumi/Hazama was the ringleader of the whole operation. One might argue that this tend doesn't hold up in BBCP, because the devil isn't mentioned in either Hazama or Terumi's stage quotes, but I will say au contraire, mon ami, because that actually adds to the point I'm trying to make. In CS, Hazama and Terumi were one incredibly nasty package, while in CP and CF, they have different stages for each of them. I propose that the "Devil" is Hazama and Terumi together, and as of Hazama's Act 3, they are an item again. Assuming that is the case, "The Devil take the hindmost." could be read with some scary implications of what the terrible twosome might be planning.

Relius outright says that a black beast is the core of a Nox nyctores, actually. You might wanna take that with a small grain of salt because the translation on CSEX was kinda awkward if you ask me. Based on what's said we can kinda assume that Take-Mikazuchi was a black beast made from human souls, and then got neutered to make the other Nox.

Well, Celica has very numbered days, and Nine will likely go back into the ground after all's said and done, so as of right now chopping block seems to be Ragna, Rachel, Arakune, Tager (ominous AF ending tho), Any but most certainly not all member of the 6 heroes, and any saya clones except for maybe Mu and Noel. Kagura and Hibiki have both started tripping on death flags, though not especially many, and Hazama is a wildcard. Plaintum's whole deal is a little bit up in the air right now, so let's all join hands and pray that Luna does not survive the ordeal so based Sena can be the last man standing. Relius and Terumi would make sense, but Relius dying wouldn't feel.... satisfying, in my opinion, he's the type of villain who gets locked away forever, thematically speaking, and Terumi has enough stamps on his "jk not really dead, lol." card to redeem a free pizza on his next brief stint in the afterlife, so good fucking luck getting that shit to stick. Everyone else is probably safe.

Ragna is also an actual terrorist who has likely killed NOL randoms who happened to be in his way when he was gonna got fuck up the caldron. You don't exactly earn the moniker "The Grim Reaper" for kissing kaka kittens and whistling Dixie while sending terrorist attack RSVP slips to all employees and the next cauldron he wants to fuck up so he doesn't ruin their casual Friday attire with all that blood of their coworkers and possibly their own. I know Ragna is presented as a hero, and he's definitely taken several times the recommended daily dose of chill pills since his introduction, but like the villains are: A manifested drive with a rager for genocide;effectively death itself, Puppet wizard Joseph Mengele, and a pschopathic ghost who subsists on hate and despair and has about three minimum hidden agendas at any given time. Of course he's going to come off as heroic against that. Now, I love Ragna, love how he's developed, but objectively speaking, there's really no argument against Tsubaki's judgement on Ragna beyond "He's a really nice guy, deep down, under all the bad Attitude and body count.". I Also really doubt that Tsubaki would drop everything and go ham on Ragna while the both on team #leavenoelalone. She wouldn't be happy about it, but Noel's safety clearly comes before her personal feelings right now, but Ragna is mad huge point on her team's favor for now and Tsubaki's not the Lawful Stupid.

Jubei appears firs the first time ever in BBCF and he fucking pulls this shit. I'm almost entirely certain Jubei purely exists as Mori's meta avatar trolling conduit.

Whoop, there it is. Also, If Noel won't die even if she's killed, then does Nine's blow up the world strategy even work? Couldn't noel just survive and then recreate everything again?

Yeah, nah, fuck this, I'm waiting for console to try to figure out what on fucking earth Naoto's whole deal is. Thankfully his story seems fairly segregated from the rest of the goings on right now so whatever bullshit he's involved with I can ignore that shit until we get something other than 10 lines of dialog on the matter.

Well, only in personality it seems. The body is based on her own, if anything. Luna and Sena seem incapable of magic. However, as it must be said to please the hype gods: PLAYABLE TRINITY CONFIRMED! Kind of... for the most part... just give me a barrier fighter mori pls

Goddammit. I knew Amane would get himself involved with Ragna's business ever since their fight in CP, but this delightfully beyond my expectations. Well, Luna could be based on Nine when she was younger (fair degree of similarities, right down to the love of a certain cat) while Sena could be based on Kazuma before he started getting influenced by terumi and subsequently going off the wall. They were sort of her best friends. Carl needs to fucking chill. Seriously starting to think Amane wanted to recruit carl to prevent exactly this type of shit from happening.

I'm getting the impression that Ragna is saying it to himself. Kind of like he's Steeling himself for what he has to do, since storywise from what we know, he's likely marching off to his death. Ragna has a lot of regrets, and therefore a lot of things he feels like he needs to fix (because if nothing else, he is a self sacrificing motherfucker) from the myriad of saya clones, to saya herself, to Jin. It feels like he's trying to get his house in order. Quietly throws another death flag on the mountain-sized pile labeled Ragna

Anyone willing to translate this? Kinda interested by the fact it's in japanese while the other two text blocks were in english.

Hibiki's 236A~C/Izuna drop should also bypass ribcage. I don't think that Nine has any moves that can bypass the ribcage, Nephrite can be barrier blocked iirc.