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BlazBlue: Alter Memory

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An anime based on the BlazBlue series, that premiered in the fall of 2013. The plot is an adaptation of events from the first two games BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger and Continuum Shift.The director, Hideki Tachibana, worked on Azumanga Daioh, A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun. Seiji Mizushima (Slayers Next, Shaman King, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Natsuiro Kiseki) serves as the anime’s assistant director. The anime’s script is co-written by Deko Akao (Mysterious Girlfriend X) and Tatsuya Takahashi (The World God Only Knows and The Idolmaster).Toshimichi Mori, the games' producer, helps the series composition and supervises production of Alter Memory. It is a co-production between two anime studios: teamKG (of Hanayaka Nari, Waga Ichizoku Kinetograph fame) and Hoods Entertainment (also with Mysterious Girlfriend X).Funimation simulcast BlazBlue: Alter Memory and can be watched on their website here. It has since been announced that it's getting an English dub, with most of the English voice cast reprising their roles.(Official Site)
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Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
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Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Happens to Tsubaki as she uses the Izayoi.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: Well, the original game. Most of the anime makes little sense to those who haven't played the game beforehand, due to many things going unexplained.
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Funnily enough, this is Inverted in regards to Makoto Nanaya. In the game she debuts in, while she does get a little screentime, she ultimately doesn't have much of an impact on the plot. In the anime, she's actively working to protect Noel from Hazama.(The former goes after the latter in the games, despite warnings not to.)
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Milking the Giant Cow
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Milking the Giant Cow: Who else but Hazama? And right after the LIES LIES LIES speech, to boot.
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Adaptation Expansion
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Adaptation Expansion: The anime's rendition of Continuum Shift adds a lot of additional development and establishing scenes.
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Jin vs Bang.
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Out of Focus
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Out of Focus: The anime mainly focuses on Ragna, Jin, and Noel's routes from the first two games, so as a result nearly every other character is kinda pushed to the side with little to no info from their own routes. It might justified with there being just too much to cover in only 12 episodes however. Funnily enough, this is Inverted in regards to Makoto Nanaya. In the game she debuts in, while she does get a little screentime, she ultimately doesn't have much of an impact on the plot. In the anime, she's actively working to protect Noel from Hazama.(The former goes after the latter in the games, despite warnings not to.)
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Not Worth Killing: Ragna does this after nearly killing Hazama. This bites him in the ass big time. However, this is justified in the game. Jin says this to Tsubaki after he defeats her.
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Once an Episode: Whenever Jin appears (until Episode 9), expect him to get/open up a severe injury in some way.
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Curb-Stomp Battle
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Curb-Stomp Battle: A number: Ragna's first fight with Jin. Jin vs Bang. Hazama gives one to Noel and Makoto once he decides to use Ouroboros. It's also implied that his fight with Tager went this way.
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Cold-Blooded Torture
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Cold-Blooded Torture - Forced to Watch: Hazama tortures Makoto to enrage Noel and destroy Bolverk's limiter.
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In Episode 4, she eventually finds Ragna in Kaka Village resting from his injuries...shirtless, which prompts Ragna to tell her not to stare and she denies it...while blushing. And then the next scene has her bandaging his wounds....with less than desirable results.
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Stock Footage: Usually during fights.
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Adaptational Attractiveness: Taokaka's noticeably curvier than she's normally drawn in the game's artwork.
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: In the games, Ragna left Hazama for dead because of the life link he had with Noel, meaning he couldn't die anyway, something Ragna acknowledges. Since no such thing is even mentioned in the anime, Ragna's decision makes no type of of sense. In the games, when Jin fights Tsubaki without Yukianesa he is unable to use any attacks that involve ice. In the anime version of that fight, Jin shoots a blast of ice. While Jin can use Ars Magus on his own, he cannot use any ice attacks without Yukianesa.
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Declaration of Protection
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Declaration of Protection: Ragna to Noel.
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Late-Arrival Spoiler
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Late-Arrival Spoiler: Sort of. At first, the website completely spoiled that Hazama is actually Yuki Terumi of the Six Heroes. A later revision removed the spoiler-y parts. And now the first episode spoiled Hazama's involvement of the plot, as well as the existence of Lambda-11, Platinum, Relius and Imperator Saya by placing them in the end credits. The first and the last were the twist in their respective games.
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Mind Screwdriver
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Mind Screwdriver: The anime explains some of the odder plot elements of the video games a lot more clearly. For example, in Episode 11, Hazama explains the connection between the Boundary, the Amaterasu Unit, the Izayoi, the Prime Fields, Takamagahara, and the BlazBlue.
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Idiot Ball
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Idiot Ball: Yes, Ragna, leave a nearly dead Hazama on the ground. This can't be a terrible decision in any way. note This is a result of Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole. In the game, Ragna explicitly states that he is unable to kill Terumi because he has a life link with Noel, so leaving him unconscious was the best he could do. This is not mentioned in the anime.
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Put on a Bus
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Put on a Bus: Most of the cast from the games. For some the bus came back. Poor Carl got hit the hardest.
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Wham Episode
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And now the first episode spoiled Hazama's involvement of the plot, as well as the existence of Lambda-11, Platinum, Relius and Imperator Saya by placing them in the end credits. The first and the last were the twist in their respective games.
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Hot Springs Episode
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Hot Springs Episode: Appears as an excuse to heal Ragna faster.
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Adaptational Jerkass
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Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed: in the original games, Jin is already quite a Jerkass, but he still has a soft spot for his Childhood Friend Tsubaki. Here, that soft spot is gone.
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Retcon: Rachel's fate resembled her bad ending in Continuum Shift a lot more than it did her true end. Lambda's joke end is canon. However, it takes place between Lambda and Ragna, instead of Lambda and Makoto. The tartar also dies before Lambda reaches Kokonoe's lab. This also explains why Lambda sacrificed herself for Ragna, instead of using a Hand Wave and saying Nu did it.
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12-Episode Anime
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Blood from the Mouth
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Blood from the Mouth: Happens to Hazama after Ragna defeats him with Devoured by Darkness.
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Demoted to Extra: Platinum and Carl each only appear in a single scene. Arakune gets shafted as well, only appearing a little more than Carl and Platinum.
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Compressed Adaptation: The two-and-a-half episodes devoted to Calamity Trigger ignore everything that isn't to do with the central Ragna plot. The Continuum Shift part also had plenty of content that wasn't related to Ragna or Noel cut, even adding in filler to make up for the lack of content those two provided.
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Lambda's joke end is canon. However, it takes place between Lambda and Ragna, instead of Lambda and Makoto. The tartar also dies before Lambda reaches Kokonoe's lab. This also explains why Lambda sacrificed herself for Ragna, instead of using a Hand Wave and saying Nu did it.
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Ship Tease: Halfway through "The Red Rebel," we get some between Ragna and Noel. When she find him laying down and taking a nap, Noel actually rests him on her lap, puts her hand on his face to see if he has a fever and tries to get him to a doctor. In Episode 4, she eventually finds Ragna in Kaka Village resting from his injuries...shirtless, which prompts Ragna to tell her not to stare and she denies it...while blushing. And then the next scene has her bandaging his wounds....with less than desirable results. Episode 5 has the hotspring scene. Episode 8 is little more than this between Ragna and Lambda-11.
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Call-Forward: The Kaka hot springs weren't introduced until BlazBlue: Chronophantasma in the games, yet they appear here and serve the same general purpose.
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Gorn: In Ragna's flashback to when his house was burned down, a flooding of blood spews from what was left of his arm.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Ragna pulls one on Jin in Episode 12. Lampshaded.
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Shoo Out the Clowns
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Shoo Out the Clowns: Taokaka stops appearing after the first few episodes. Bang appears later, but is completely serious after learning about Jin's wounds and doesn't resemble his Hot-Blooded self at all.
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