Shinhwa

You know, I hate how we can't really speculate in this thread and it's separated but that's the rule here... Anyhow, Noel seems to act more like Saya during CP more than before no matter how much I see. Even the lost memory that Nu had gotten access to after she synchronized with Noel explained that Noel did not want to fuse with the man who ripped apart her family and peace. For Nu, the memories that she had gotten from Saya was really vague, but for Noel she seems to have had way more except majority of them were lost after.

I am just hoping for 100% Lambda episode next week. Lambda needs moar love D: LOTS AND LOTS!!! and well, her interaction with Ragna in the official CS game was pretty low, so I hope next episode will cover that. As we have seen, Ragna has a hatred for all the Murakumo Units pretty much, but he has seen how Noel acts, so he may have a bit of a change of heart. But if you add in Lambda's innocence pretty much, then yes he may have a change of opinion. I mean come on, it isn't their fault where they were cloned off Saya. Also the fact the antagonists of this entire series is what made them suffer. They got no sin :/ Ragna killing them off despite that is what pisses me off though. (I am glad he comes to view them differently in CP though)

I am sure we will see Rachel's interaction with Jin pretty soon, but... the unsheathing of Yukianesa came quite quickly... so I am not too sure... Technically, yes he does win fights in CS (Since if you don't win, it's game over lol), but officially he doesn't really win any fights until he fights against Tsubaki (mostly because of Yukianesa refusing to be unsheathed)

I seriously don't get her. In CS she told Ragna he is needed in this world to break the law of the current world and such. Now she needs him to die? Really wut the hell... Oh that part. I didn't really pay attention to the part after she protected Amaterasu with Tsukuyomi and had a talk with Izanami, so I forgot. My bad.

Nothing much except serving tea to Rachel lol

I don't think she said anything like that...

Only place Arakune has appeared are the OP and ED XD;; Arakune sucks anyway =w= I am sure he will appear because it's what makes Litchi work hard, and is what makes Litchi make the decision at the end of CS. We need more Nu's moe yandereness to come out and Lambda's cool beauty cuteness to come out owo

Kagura asked Kokonoe where Ragna is, and she told him that Ragna has disappeared and is having Tager look for him. Kokonoe says Ragna may have died, but Kagura says Ragna won't die. I don't know what Rachel is thinking, but there are people who don't want Ragna to die, which is a factor to take in regarding Ragna.

More like Izayoi appearing during CS timeline is impossible =w=;

So far, no. They don't have any plans right now (as explained in the epilogue). Kagura and Kokonoe never said such thing about dealing with Ragna. Only Rachel had explained to Tsubaki that either she or Jin must kill Ragna before he dies a natural death, and if that fails, she must kill Rachel herself.

Basically saying, the protagonists' plan kind of failed because of Izanami coming in at the end and trolling the protagonists by going "lol nub nice try, but I have something better than what you guys had planned *evil laugh*" But yes most of the seithr is gone and right now Ragna isn't on a level where he can actually spread seithr on par with the true Black Beast, but... if things go like this then he will really turn into a Black Beast himself (like the bad ending in CS)...

Black Beast or Beast, whatever. They have the same design XD;;

Most of the seithr was removed yes. But as you know, Black Beast is made out of seithr and it spreads them. Which is one of the reason why Izanami forced Ragna to go berserk in mini-Black Beast form so it can spread new seithr.

Obviously Izayoi isn't going to make an appearance here since she changes into that form in Chronophantasma WAY later on. Even when she gets the black uniform, she continues to use the "worn" Izayoi and not the transformed Izayoi in CS, so I doubt the full transformed Izayoi will make an appearance here. Arakune... the guy has been left out when he was officially supposed to come out in Episode 1 kind of... =w=;

Yes. We mean Tsubaki who is "wearing" Izayoi and not Tsubaki who "transforms" into Izayoi.

Except all of that efforts kind of have gone in vain since Izanami forcefully made the Beast within Ragna's Blazblue come out to spread more Seithr...

Yuya, who is a well known blazblue fan artist who loves drawing Lambda drew this last night with the commentary: 来週が楽しみで仕方がないです, where she says she just can't wait for next week's episode, after seeing the non-armored Lambda appear in front of Ragna like that XD. She calls this artwork "She was an angel" 8D SOURCE: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=39846641 Yes, this fanart is based on the preview, when Lambda appears in front of Ragna lol Yeah... I CAN'T WAIT EITHER!!!

Kokonoe should adjust Celica's life span to live longer. Considering she was going to be used as a sacrifice, she didn't make her life span very long. As I said beforehand, before the Lynchpin had activated, she only had like half a year to live.

Now that I think about it, didn't Noel also get a flashback of Celica = Sister when she was sending Noel and the others off to fight Takemikazuchi?

If I remember correctly, I don't think Tsubaki used Izayoi in the drama CD in that timeline where she was Jin's assistant (The flashback in this episode practically), where she used bare fists to try to fight against Ragna lol

What the hell anime staff...

He wasn't bored though lol. The fight just gave him a bad feeling. ROFL. nice gif XD Poor Noel. So many haters of her (including me kind of 8D) I doubt Tsubaki can ever defeat Ragna unless it was her in full Izayoi mode vs nerfed Ragna with his right eye, arm and his blazblue sealed.

Well, as you know, Celica = Sister who took care of him, Ragna and Saya, so because of what he did in the past to her, he can't really do shit against her.

How so? It's the truth that although Tsubaki was aiming to kill kind of, Noel didn't want to fight Tsubaki, where it wasn't really a "fight" at all, and Ragna didn't like seeing them going on and off while not truly "fighting".

I think that was the point. If they 100% copy off the game, it might get boring because we will all know what will happen. By tweaking the storyline a bit, like maybe adding in things that were not in the game, they can make the story a bit more broad and add in things that could have happened in the game.