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I have to agree that if they had time to insert a half filler episode, they could have invested more time in extending what happens during Calamity Trigger instead to actually make the story make sense for the non-gamers. T___T yeah... I won't be surprised as this anime is all Ragna's POV mostly anyway... Maybe it has to do with Japan's culture that we the outsiders don't really understand?

We know she got those memories after synchronizing, but even if they synchronized, it was never explained "how" she obtained those memories while synchronizing. Noel herself doesn't remember it, but Nu was somehow able those access those memories while synchronizing.

I am more interested in how the anime staff are going to deal with Lambda-11 in the anime. Needs moar Lambda-11 and Nu-13!!!! DX

Because I don't own the game, I am following the story slowly through youtube videos lol. Although I have read the summaries done by users on this forum and korean users in other sources, it's better to see the story thoroughly XD I did skip to the ending because I really love Nu-13 and Ragna that I wanted to know what happens to them at the end XP I could make a summary of the 6 Heroes episodes from what I have watched so far.

Can't wait for next week.

That's going to be difficult... you can try going through the first few pages to see the whole BBCP plot. Don't remember the Bullet/Azrael conversation, but I know the whole Ragna/Nu conversation. (Because Ragna and Nu is pretty much the thing I mostly care about in this game XD) After Ragna and Celica goes inside Takemikazuchi, Nu greets Ragna as "Ragna-san", and the way she speaks becomes the same way Noel speaks (you can say that Nu = Noel due to the synchronization). Ragna tells Nu to not speak that way, but Nu tells him that she is Noel Vermillion, where Ragna denies it and tells her she is Nu. Somehow Nu was able to obtain a memory that not even Noel could remember (Noel cannot remember her past before getting adopted into the Vermillion family). Nu tells Ragna about Noel's past. Apparently during the war between Sector Seven and NOL, because Sector 7 wanted to win badly, they tried to create a Black Beast. The ones who were going to fuse were Terumi and Mu-12/Noel, but since Noel had memories of Saya, who knew that Terumi was the one responsible of messing up Saya's family, where Jin goes weird and Ragna losing his arm, she did not want to fuse with someone who was the culprit of causing that. Apparently at the time, Takemikazuchi had fired upon them, where the experiment was cancelled and Noel had been "saved" from getting fused with Terumi. Nu says not even she would want to fuse with someone who had taken her family away from her. Ragna wonders how she would have a "family" when she was artificially made. Ragna tells Nu that she has indirectly told him that she wants to be saved, and Nu tells him she did not say such thing, but Ragna tells her that what she told him was something like her telling him that she wants to be saved by him. Ragna tells her that he has not come to kill her or destroy her. Nu gets pissed about the way Ragna is right now, saying if Ragna is not going to stop all the bullshit he is speaking, she will definitely kill him for real. Then Ragna tells her to bring it on, where he beats her, then Nu goes in denial how Ragna became stronger than her, but Ragna tells her that she is just weak. Nu loses consciousness then Ragna grabs her quickly in a "Princess Carry" position (KYAAAAAA <3 <3 <3). He comments that Nu looks like Noel when sleeping, and Celica tells him she looks cute. Then they get out (they had no idea how to get out, but Minerva had helped them get out of Takemikazuchi's core), then Jin and Noel comes, where they tell Ragna that he has been inside Takemikazuchi's core for only 3 seconds (The time flow was different in there). Hakumen tries to kill Nu, saying she is going to bring a disaster in the future, but Ragna and Celica stops him from killing her. Then Izanami appears, where Ragna tries to defeat her to no avail. Hakumen tries to use his Time Killer attack, but of course since Izanami = Death, which means she does not live on a Time, it doesn't affect her. Phantom forcefully teleports Hakumen away, and Noel transforms into Mu-12, where Izanami comments that because Mu-12 is a God Killer, Izanami herself should become serious. Izanami then makes Nu stab Ragna in the back, where Nu also tells Ragna not to say any bullshit about saving her, in her yandere tone (after this, no one knows what the hell happened to her because that was the last of her dialogue). Izanami then forcefully makes Ragna's Blazblue berserk and bring out Black Beast from him. He tells Jin and Noel to take Celica and run, but they refuse. Minerva takes Celica and runs, while Jin and Noel tries to fight against the berserk Ragna. After Tsubaki finds Jin and Noel, they were both injured and unconscious and Ragna was gone.

Kind of weird how he didn't notice Bolverk in Episode 2 =w= But he was busy fighting Nu, so it's understandable. But only Nu is totally all over Ragna. To Noel, Ragna is just Nii-sama pretty much XP (But Ragna put a flag on her anyway)

Yep, No one likes Noel. (Hence why some fans think her position as a heroine is pretty much flowing away) I kind of feel like the hot springs episode was a total fanservice episode =w=;; A bit of a waste of episode if you ask me... =_= They could have extended Calamity Trigger instead of doing some comedy episode kind of... And isn't the meeting with Platinum kind of rushed?

I am going to guess they are going to totally skip what happened with Lambda and Kokonoe during Lambda's prologue... ah well...

Maybe they wanted to add in the other characters' route in the episodes?

Finally Lambda appears <3 YAY And after re-watching the Calamity Trigger True story (in the game), I really do feel they totally rushed the Calamity Trigger chapter for the anime. I really don't know how the anime staff planned out the series, but 3 Episodes for Calamity Trigger and 9 for Continuum Shift seems a bit too big for the gap... =A= Although Continuum Shift has a more longer story compared to Calamity Trigger...

The Korean players are saying that Izanami had made BOTH Ragna and Nu go berserk at the Ending. I will have to rewatch the Ending again to confirm, but the Korean sources are saying that Izanami appeared then made Nu and Ragna go berserk, making Nu stab Ragna and Ragna going Beast mode.

Kagura is seriously hilarious. I am glad his seiyuu (voice actor) is Fujiwara Keiji. It really fits his character XD I loved the scene where he tried to flirt with Noel. It was too hilarious, except then Makoto kept hitting him XP

No, because Izanami told Ragna that she can feel Saya's love towards Ragna. So her soul is pretty much trapped inside the body.

But what does Rachel have to do with the Evil residing in Ragna?

I rewatched the epilogue, and Rachel indeed said "You or Jin Kisaragi must kill Ragna the Bloodedge before he dies"

I am really worried about the future... I just seriously hope it doesn't end with death for major characters (Especially Nu-13 DX). Ragna doesn't deserve death at all I think there is also the possibility that Rachel may sacrifice herself to save Ragna because she loves him. Who knows. I really want to know what role Nu-13 will have in the next game though, as she is my favorite character QwQ

Do you guys think there is a way to kill the "Evil" inside Ragna? I mean that's the thing that's causing him to go Black Beast mostly right? I mean come on, Ragna doesn't deserve to die :/ It's the evil that's in him that's making him suffer. Same goes for Nu. Isn't the Azure Grimoire pretty much corrupting them somewhat? Although Ragna like subdues it somewhat, I think for Nu, it is pretty one of the reason why she has such a corrupt Yandere personality. I wonder if there is a way to turn those powers into the Good instead of Evil.

I understand them because I understand Japanese, however although I can understand what they are saying, I cannot read the subtitles with 100% understanding as I am still learning Japanese writing, where I am unable to read a lot of the kanji lol. So I rely on hearing the stuff characters say instead of reading. However I still havent watched all of them yet because of the time XD;; The other guy who did a live stream of his gameplay of BBCP had actually posted the entire story except they were unorganized did not point out what is in what order, so I just watched randomly and then I watched the Ending + Epilogue.

Guess I will have to rewatch that scene, but the owner of the video made it private (It was an online streaming and not a recording)... The other guy who is uploading the episodes is doing like 2 episodes per day (including Gag Reels)

If Izanami did indeed take interest in Ragna, well the influence of Saya may also be part of it, maybe at the end of the next game, if Ragna indeed dies like how Rachel said to Tsubaki, after seeing Saya and others crying over his death, maybe she will use her powers as the goddess of death to negate Ragna's death or something? Like after they fight against her (but unable to kill her since she is a god who cannot die) and prove themselves or something? I am still anxious to know what happened to Ragna (who disappeared at the end) and Nu-13, who just stabbed Ragna in the back then just didn't show up after... The cliffhanger really made me feel anxious and worried about how the story will end... T___T Celica may as well be another version of Carl I guess lol But knowing her personality, I really don't think it's appropriate or even really make much sense to input her as a fighting character, as she is a healer, she is always put in the sidelines instead of front lines where she fights. Even if she does have Minerva, I don't think she really is the type to fight @_@; I think Mai Natsume should come out in the next game. Considering she was mentioned in the game, it already created some questions for the players, for those who never read the Remix Heart manga (and is unable to for some reason) Also due to the fact a lot of the characters who came out in CP didn't really have much good roles, I think it's appropriate that they have more major roles in the next game, or maybe somewhat more roles in Extended if it does come out.

Celica isn't a combat kind of person though @__@ Unless you mean Minerva.

I was pretty sure Rachel said either Tsubaki or Jin must kill Ragna before he dies naturally.

Oh yeah I should have been more specific. CS was bad. CT wasn't that bad compared to CS.

I have a question. Izanami governs death right? So let's say in the next game, she can't be defeated in battle, where the protagonists have to prove themselves to her, so that she will change her mind in destroying the world (Like how the protagonist proved himself to Izanami in Persona 4). Let's say Ragna goes through an evolution, where he is able to subdue the Black Beast within himself thanks to some other source (Ex. Mu-12 or Nu-13's Azure), and he is able to defeat Izanami. However Izanami cannot die, so after seeing the efforts of Ragna and the others, she changes her mind and decides to go back to where she came from. But because it was mentioned that Ragna doesn't have much time to live, let's say he dies after this, and Saya returns to her former self, along with let's say all the other protagonists become sad at his death, and Izanami after looking at that, decides to use her powers to make his death not happen, where he lives on. Do you think this is possible?