TRYING TO RECALL THE PLOT OF: Blazblue Continuum Shift

[@novriltataki]

It's ok, even Mori himself doesn't understand the plot.

[@MrAlexBambino]

MAH, MAN!

[@Mclucasrv]

I want to belive that but I dont know because the directors change in some games and new writters enters,and spin offs and etc. So yeah you are problaby right.

[@Doralga]

@@Mclucasrv Mori oversaw all four games stories it's just in Japan they have Convoluted awards simplicity is banned in eastern media

[@joshualowe1821]

novriltataki ALL KINDS of events happen that can confuse people.

[@furyberserk]

@@joshualowe1821 It makes sense to me.

[@Viviantoga]

I love how Majikura struggles to remember events but can immediately recall every single anime-ass name like it's nothing.

[@tieuucanh8958]

Tbf, it's not too hard to remember character's name

[@Jimmeeehhh]

@@tieuucanh8958 Yeah. Names like "Noel" "Carl" and "Rachel" are pretty easy to remember. Lightens the load for names like "Makoto" "Tsubaki" "and "Valkenhayn," all names that Google doesn't recognize, lol.

[@joshualowe1821]

lildog Jim And RAGNA & TERUMI are the EASIEST characters to remember. Nine and Izanami too!

[@Scanvas3]

@@joshualowe1821 Its a sin to forget those 2 characters

[@iota-09]

The really surprising part is how he remembers all the names of the devices and cities: idea engine(the fuck was that? I completely forgot it even was a thing) takamagahara, the cities which i already forgot...

[@ViktorKruger99]

I animated those sprites for the fighters generation back in 2010, man time flies.

[@carlbloke8797]

Victor Kruger wow nice job!

[@DESTRAKON]

Yo thats dope and yeah a whole decade just flew by like nothing

[@dragonkid9332]

"Oh hey, You're the __________" "Nah, That's just a name the Public offices just gave to me for propaganda purposes"

[@Randomwaterfox]

"Anime boobs expert"

[@BardockSkywalker]

*LEGENDARY SUPER SAIYAN*

[@ruikirisame1744]

if i ever become important enough to have a title, i'm going to use that line

[@bigdongroma539]

When in doubt always remember Space Jenova was the culprit, no questions asked

[@solitonmedic]

I dunno why but I just busted out laughing when three differently colored Kizuna AIs appeared

[@LoveXKnife]

You forgot the part where Lamba getsherself killed so she could give Ragna the idea engine, while talking like Nu

[@CodeBlazeFate]

Or how Nu hijacked Lambda because Relius did some shit But hey, at least she gave Rags her prized Sega Dreamcast Engine

[@kieranmclaughlin264]

Blazeblue. The series where no-one knows what the hell is going on, even the writer's don't know.

[@RedHero1]

Majikura kept having to Continuum Shift back to Calamity Trigger.

[@newuser13able]

Everything is true but also false. So Literally Everything Happened. And then nothing happened at all.

[@ironmaster6496]

Hey thats like watching Freddy got fingered (a bunch of random nosensical shit)

[@dracocrusher]

Ragna, would you like some sausage? Ragna, would you like some sau-sa-ges???

[@MixedFeelers]

@@dracocrusher If this were Pakistan, you'd sewing soccer balls since you were four years old.

[@QuixoteBadger]

This sounds an aweful lot like a Elder Scrolls dragon break.

[@valhalla8140]

Superposition 🤣🤣

[@MrPomegranX]

The answer, is that, You can’t...

[@MrDrumStikz]

MrPomegranX [Matoi] How do you understand Blazblue? Ancient Chinese man: YOU DON’T How you you cross up Vega? YOU DON’T

[@Lonipok]

This was the game i got into the blazblue series, its such a beautiful shit storm or story

[@7shadowforce7]

My god, there are so many things I want to correct. But I'll keep my silence because this is super entertaining. Can't wait for CP and CF.

[@RanmaruRei]

Tell us.

[@spiritpyros]

Please do tell

[@akasajian]

Well for one, Rachel activated the Space Jenova, not Terumi. She did this so that it would go dormant, since it can only fire once every four years or so.

[@7shadowforce7]

@@akasajian Actually, the Takamagahara controls "space jenova." They tried to kill Ragna so the world undergo a soft reset but Rachel was like, "No, this timeline is good," and used the Tsukuyomi Unit to protect the place.

[@joshualowe1821]

HAKUMEN: JIN wearing the Susano'o armor SUSANO'O (*TAKEHAYA* SUSANOO): TERUMI wearing the Susano'o armor.

[@palindinX]

I never played Blazblue, but the story to me sounds like this: "EVERYTHING HAPPENED, BUT THEN IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. *WELL, EXCEPT THAT ONE TIME WHERE IT DID ACTUALLY HAPPEN, JUST NOT THE SAME WAY AS THE FIRST HUNDREDS OF TIMES WHERE IT HAPPENED, BUT MORE HYPED."*

[@Tauposaurus]

Also everyone is a clone robot ghost from the future of a simulated vampire computer! Maybe?

[@midenarithmos9200]

Yeah basically, everything happens. But We as a player only follow one timeline that actually supposed (what that means, how the writer imagined) to be important that progress the main story.

[@poemboigenesis4435]

I've never played Blazblue either

[@carlbloke8797]

palindinX yep

[@carlbloke8797]

So does this mean that Ragna didn’t actually lose?

[@neonwitch1449]

L A D Y B O N E R

[@1superstick]

The Trying Recall The Plot Of: Blazblue series is very entertaining as well as a surprisingly good refresher on what is essentially a 200 hr visual novel that comes with several fighting games.

[@darklord21z]

Oh man....the "try to recall" of calamity trigger still had some semblance of coherence,this...this...it's one of the most glorious trainwrecks i've ever seen...great vid and i hope you continue up to central fiction....even i have trouble explaining THAT one

[@carlbloke8797]

darklord21z it’s gonna be so hilarious to see him explain CF. Also Cross Tag Battle

[@CodeBlazeFate]

Damn, if people knew the Sega Dreamcast was this powerful, it would’ve sold better.

[@thelamergamer1894]

7:08 the crude animation of Hazama flinging Noel into Glados is so satisfying...

[@NinjaWorldWarrior16]

Who said fighting games have no story... their stories are Rocket Science.

[@projectikaruga]

I died at Ragna's fake blazblue!

[@Doralga]

Wich is true and not true at the same time

[@dripgodragna4266]

Well, he has the true blazblue now.

[@soarel325]

I’m surprised at how coherent these videos are, given how much of a mess you’re sorting through. I’ll try and correct some mistakes and elaborate on a few things since I think I have an okay grasp of the plot: You ignored Relius’ general role in the story of the game. He mainly just helps Terumi though. Jin doesn’t get teleported after he fights Ragna. You kind of touched on this, but essentially, what happens is that at the end of one of the previous timelines, more specifically, the very first timeline, Jin got sent back in time to the beginning because he fell into the cauldron, just like Ragna and Nu went back and became the Black Beast. He survives the time reset, and then Rachel turned him into Hakumen. Notes that in this timeline, Jin and Tsubaki were even closer than they are in the current timeline. Bang’s master (Lord Tenjo) isn’t actually alive, her heir (Homura) is alive. (Note that Bang’s master is actually a woman and the heir is of nonbinary/unspecified gender. The English translation of the games fuck this one up by referring to Bang’s master and her heir both as male). I believe Plat just told him about the true powers of his nail, and he uses it in Chronophantasma. You skipped a little over a lot of the Jin/Tsubaki storyline. Most importantly, you missed how the reason Tsubaki was ordered to capture Noel is so that Terumi could turn her into Mu. You also missed Jin realizing the NOL is fucked up and he’s being manipulated by Terumi, which is a big part of his development in CS. You also completely forgot the fact that Lambda had Nu’s soul inside her. that was what motivated her to sacrifice yourself in order to give Ragna the IDEA engine. That parody of Rachel‘s conversation with Takamagahara is absolutely perfect and captures most of the cryptic bullshit in the series, lmao. Takamagahara isn’t just “simulating” the timelines. They are actually running a ton of different parallel timelines at once, because they have a limited degree of control over the universe, though still subordinate to the master unit which is basically a god. Terumi created all the Azure Grimoires. He doesn’t simply have one, the entire artificial hose body that he uses, Hazama, IS one. Ragna’s is an incomplete prototype compared with the completed one that is Hazama. Ragna didn’t kill Terumi/Hazama. In fact, due to a spell Terumi used to link them, he can’t kill him unless he also kills Noel, which he isn’t going to do. I’m surprised how much you managed to get right, though. I considered doing a correction for the previous video but I’m not gonna bother at this point

[@BardockSkywalker]

So Basicly, Before Chronophantasma, The Only Way To Kill Terumi For Good Is To Also Kill Best Girl?

[@soarel325]

Yep

[@ByaKyuren]

@Bardock SkyWalker You didn't need to kill Rachel to kill Terumi though

[@BardockSkywalker]

@@ByaKyuren Oh Hahah, Very Funny... Also, U Sead My Name Twice, What's Up With That?

[@kazsura9812]

@@soarel325 you missed the fact that he needs to be not hated in order to be killed

[@nataliaborys1554]

This video made me realise how much meme potential Hazama's sprites have. 5:51 for example

[@carlbloke8797]

8:33 that GTA edit of Sector 7 was hilarious

[@YoutubeIsAwesome]

My god they really went that far to justify all characters story modes and endings in CS? Crazyyyy.

[@dracocrusher]

So I'm pretty sure this also means the ending where Ragna just dies and becomes a ghost is canon? Along with the ending where the characters all just sit down to play a board game? And there's one at some point where Hazama is in a band with Noelle and Carl's sister but then Hazama just quits the band to force Relius into proposing to him??? Was that canon, too???

[@Ace20A]

Fighting Games Are Awesome Still ain't got shit on the Nasuverse though.

[@gh3364]

Nah, gag rells are not canon

[@gh3364]

What is the problem?

[@midenarithmos9200]

@@dracocrusher every other ending besides the gag reels (I.e Terumi band gag reels) are canon by their own timeline and dimensions. We're just following the one where ragna continues to live.

[@EnvyMizuhashi]

Nailing the plot perfectly, right down to your own rewinds. LOL

[@insidemagicworld]

okay, i was understanding EVERYTHING in calamity trigger, but now i was just "?" lmaaao

[@rachelalucard8907]

This was such a disaster, a deplorable attempt to say the least. Yet your futile struggle to fathom the plot is amusing to observe...

[@SuperFusionAJ93]

Bitch, Shut The Fuck Up!

[@altreon3608]

Never try to explain the plot when you're drunk af. (Dunno if he was but he sure sounded like it)

[@seanwuzhere12]

Shorter version, “snake man kills computer so confusing shit will stop fucking up story”.

[@aorekose4262]

Best recap It gives me life when you guys upload videos

[@krustygraze189]

This series is beautiful Can't wait for CP plot recall video

[@akirathewildcard9625]

Blazblue: hazama does some trolling

[@espurrseyes42]

11:08 Correctio : He's breaks the Takamagahara's ass with the power of mathematics.

[@GlacierFox523]

thats a line in the dub

[@IN-tm8mw]

I love the story of these games so much. the true ending of blazblue central fiction was golden and heartbreaking.

[@SpeedStar1642]

5:44 OHH!!! FUUUUUUUCK!!!!

[@MrHerbsti]

08:35."...They're rolling around....doing science" - line of the week *ROFL*

[@durandol]

All this talk about time travel, swords, robot people, multiple time lines, and a giant energy beam, yet not a single Trunks in sight.

[@midenarithmos9200]

Summary of continuum shift: *I JUST DESTROYED THEIR ASS BY THE POWER OF MATHEMATICS* -Hazama/Terumi from the anime

[@bluesummerstaylor3987]

All right, you're actually making Blazblue hilariously make sense. SUBSCRIBED~! I hope you follow up with these videos for the other games because Continuum Shift was the last one I actually played so I have no clue what the hell is going on with yellow cloak Terumi, Hazama, and Susanoo who are like....All....The same person?? Except...Not really.

[@alexanderpierce8990]

Please I mean Please keep making these this is the funniest shit ever man I played all the games and I can't recall shit

[@alexandergonyea4642]

BlazBlue screws around with time travel so hard that you can actually hear the Doctor in the TARDIS crying their eyes out every time someone tries to understand it.

[@dukemagus]

And there was I complaining kingdom hearts had a convoluted plot...

[@milkboi2765]

Duke Magus It gets worse way worse than kh.

[@soarel325]

BlazBlue makes KH look like Super Mario Bros.

[@iota-09]

Yeah, honestly kh isn't as complex as it is confusing, blazblue on the other hand is... Something else.

[@thomashare6733]

This makes my day honestly, just, hearing this so badly explained, yet still well explained, and now I just need need CP before I can start CF story, btw am the only one that wants just a video of Hakumen, Lambda, and Tager just partying for some reason down the street.

[@thomashare6733]

Side Note, Endless Despair is still an amazing OST.

[@chrismanning2888]

@@thomashare6733 it is. I think Endless Despair is the #1 Blazblue song in the whole series. I hope if Terumi gets into Cross Tag, This is his theme because it fits him. Side Note: I don't like Silent Scream that much.

[@sephyrias883]

5:30 This whole thing took place before Hazama kidnaps Noel, while Ragna is on his way to the Cauldron to fight Nu-13.

[@ethanhinton4549]

Correction: tagamakahara isn't a part of/sided with the master unit. They were created to try and beat the master unit, and it's more of a "enemy of my enemy"/"it's our world too yaknow!" kinda deal. Edit: forgot the point of the video when I made this comment lol.

[@Shiptonio]

YAAAAAASSSSSS I have no idea if this is right since the plot is so complicated, but I love this!

[@galenwilds3273]

"Yeah, Platinum's looking for Bang." Phrasing!

[@1986Hikaru]

Now you need to do a "Trying to Make Sense (and Failing) of The Plot of Blazblue: Central Fiction"

[@ponderingForever]

I remember coming into the series here thinking it's confusing only to realise they all are pretty wild VN Fighters when playing the others. Please do more of these complicated plot games, it's amazing to see how people remember them out of context!

[@tomefilho3902]

Terumi is having fun messing with us!!

[@Arsene873]

Can’t wait for chronophantasma and central fiction vids if it’s possible to recall them

[@Xavierfrostebite]

Loving this series especially for blazblue , a big blazblue fan. Nice work guys

[@Vulji]

Holy shit that was good. The thing itself is comedy gold but the editing brings it to a 10

[@inujoshwa89]

"He gets teleported to moonlit wilderness " lol it's funny because that stages soundtrack is my ultimate gaming song

[@sillysiji5257]

These are hands down the best explanations of the Blazblue series

[@Mickspad]

At least Chronophantasma is an easy plot to follow, like Azrael and Tsubaki are both fucking shit up and the good guys band together and fix both their problems at once and Ragna goes back in time to meet best girl, Celica, that's about it

[@espurrseyes42]

It's sad that the game with the BS time loop has an easier to understand plot.

[@LackadaisicalWizard]

I actually enjoy these videos about BlazBlue so much!

[@__AlexTheGr8__]

TRYING TO RECALL THE PLOT OF: BlazBlue Calamity Trigger again

[@kabang35]

that was entertaining to watch. fun as i was remembering stuff when you were so you were like "oh then there's that!" and in my mind i was "oh yea and that was because of that?!".

[@MenaceRx]

So I'm gonna need the image of Tager, Lambda and Hakumen shooting and fucking shit up...

[@Ártica-26]

omg you guys did it! congratulations! I love it!

[@ponderingForever]

8:38 - This frame will never bore me

[@Vanisonic]

You struck gold on this one. This was A+.

[@CosmoCamelliaYT]

Even though I understand a lot of the plot from the first three games, this is so funny to watch XD It reminds me of when I first got into it.

[@djcwittz3012]

Holy fuck this series is confusing. No one: Majikura: RESET THE CLOCK

[@tomefilho3902]

This is so fun to watch! Please keep the good work! 👍

[@dripgodragna4266]

For Jin, that's wrong... technically. That happens when Jin tries to follow Ragna into the boundary when Nu stabbed him. And Terumi made two blazblue's. Noel is Saya - the real Saya. Izanami is Saya's evil half and Noel is the good half. The only real clones are Nu and Lambda.

[@ragingtyga]

Noel isn't Saya. Noel is actually the 12th, and most powerful "Murakumo Unit", Kusanagi. (all these names are from Japanese Shinto Religion) In the Religion, you have Amaterasu, a nine tailed fox god, who is the overall guardian of earth. She has a Son named Susano'o who saves the world from a 8 headed snake demon named Orochi, using a legendary sword named "Asa-Murakumo no Kusanagi Tsurugi". Noel and the other Murakumo Units, represent this "sword". Hakumen is a "Susano'o unit", and he represents Susano'o. The Master unit, is known as Amateratsu, and it represents the God. Terumi, basically represents Orochi

[@dripgodragna4266]

@@ragingtyga Noel is *literally* the good half of Saya -- it is said in the story mode. What are you on about?

[@ragingtyga]

@@dripgodragna4266 No she's not, and Story mode explains this. The ACTUAL Noel, is the "Origin" Unit.

[@ragingtyga]

There's 3 Deities in BlazBlue story. The Master Unit (Amaterasu), The Susano'o Unit (Hakumen), and The Origin Unit. Saya's original body, is what you see "bound" up against the wall, if you play Central Fiction, or read the Mangas or Anime. The Origin Unit essentially created several Extensions of her throughout reality. There's the 13 Prime Field Device, aka. Murakumo Units, That's why V13 (Mu13) , Lambda 11, and Mu12 (Noel), all look like Saya. There's also Izanami, the leader of NOL, who herself, is a piece of Master Unit, that Relius made into a body. Also, BlazBlue is based on Japanese Shino Mythology. Amaterasu was a Japanese Goddess, along Gods, Izanagi, and Goddess Izanami, and God Susano'o. Inzanami, is supposed to be an "angel of death", After she was locked away in an underworld and corrupted. This is why Izanami acts the same way, She really is just another "Prime Field Device" that was corrupted by Relius. Noel is NOT the actual Saya. The difference is, she's special, because her hidden power is the Kusanagi. In Japanese folk lore, it was Susano'o who used the Asa-Murakumo no Kusanagi Tsurugi (heavenly sword), to Kill the 8 headed demon, Orochi (personified by Yuuki Terumi).

[@dripgodragna4266]

@@ragingtyga She is the other half of the Origin, ergo the same god which is why Terumi was so persistent in his hunt for Noel in order to kill Amaterasu, who used the energy of the Take-Mikazuchi blast to inhabit the 12th unit while the evil half remained as Hades Izanami. The story mode said this. The Origin still remained within the Master Unit, as seen during the final cutscene with Ragna.

[@goldenalpaca3881]

I love the increased production value

[@BirdoHermes]

Rock Band timeline is the one true timeline

[@Kriseiri]

And this is BEFORE the story became an unholy clusterfuck with more spinoffs and supplementary novels than Star Wars.

[@ManlyPlant]

Yeah sounds about right

[@joshualowe1821]

This was one of my FAVORITE Blazblue games!

[@mistergremm735]

You didn't bring up lichti still chasing after her senpai arakune but i understand why you wouldn't because it's pointless

[@RyuEmatsu]

Gorgeous Gremac But that’s when she turns Heel and becomes an interesting character 😂

[@Doralga]

@@RyuEmatsu for like five seconds

[@CodeBlazeFate]

Nor how Ragna’s crippled ass got whooped by Carl and then he got healed by Lichi before meeting Luna Or Relius capturing Arakune Or now Nu becomes conscious inside Lambda and then hijacks Lambda because of Relius and then dies is Ragna’s arms to give him the Sega Dreamcast Engine Or how Rags loses his robo arm to save Mu Or Lambda fighting Ragna Or Jin and Hakumen facing Mu-12- ok this installment is a complete clusterfuck!

[@Doralga]

@@CodeBlazeFate it's not confusing enough his robo was actually his real arm remember the BlazBlue is the best plot armor

[@RyuEmatsu]

Archus orez I didn’t play CF but I know she was a villain in CP.

[@kingcrowbro2486]

All of this clock rewinding is actually very fitting for a discussion of CS's story.

[@thatman666]

Blazblue: It's pretty much Kingdom Hearts as long as you don't think too hard on the plot.

[@Cybermoonmage]

5:40 ...PERFECT

[@SpeedStar1642]

5:52 Hop! Hop!

[@djoshawott2850]

Most of this Continuum Shift plot recall is a plot recall of Calamity Trigger

[@alexgaudette988]

2:00 "The major problem [with time travel] is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father."

[@theweeblife622]

this series was already the best but those BB videos are even better

[@jovan3686]

I remember there was a summer where CS extend was the only game I played, going through every characters story over and over until I got every ending playing every characters arcade mode so I would get all the story bits I got so invested in this shit I even started watching anime (outside of dbz/naruto) for the first time just to see if there was a show like blazblue. People always praise netherrealms for giving fighting games good stories but arc system did it first. It sucks that they always get overlooked because there anime games

[@ShadowNinjaMaster93]

Well, actually Noel is the Calamity Trigger that brings about the Continuum Shift, as in the shift from the time loop to everything that happens after the time loop breaks. So technically everything that happens after the instant Noel pulls Ragna out of the cauldron is part of the Continuum Shift, including Chrono Phantasma and Central Fiction. Basically the plot of BBCS is resolving which of endless possibilities do we follow now that fate isn't set in stone like it was during the time loop.

[@Grozdor]

I hate Central Fiction story, I thought that they will move on with the time loop but nope, it is just another time line with a bunch of additional characters.

[@midenarithmos9200]

Yeah, BlazBlue do that. At least Chronophantasma doesn't do that... Then again because of chronophantasma, Centralfiction were born.

[@natara1976]

Thats the main plot. They have to keep on since cf is the master unit saying" okay, this shit went too far. Lets start over" And they fight against it

[@CakeCzar]

REWIND THE CLOCK

[@XvXgriffon]

5:19 I dunno why, but I want that as a screensaver.

[@huzai7083]

Man blazblue's story is a fucking trip

[@Gang3rs]

oh it is a great day to see a recall the plot again and seeing Jenova appear as a fill in the blank monster

[@thatnerdinthecomments4678]

You mean to tell me that the 3 Murakumo sisters talking to Platinum about ass is canon?!

[@shadowclaw7210]

Maybe .

[@yashosa2190]

REPLAYING ALL THE GAMES IN A ROW IS A PAIN, BECAUSE NOW YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER EVERYTHINGS. THIS INCLUDRS THE XBLAZE SERIES

[@Lionsden99]

So great 😆! Love this series.

[@klis5996]

Thank you, it all makes sense now

[@TheRealVordox]

The story of all 4 games is quite simple. but trying to recall every important event is hard as balls.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

The only thing i remember of the plot...of all Blazblue games is when i won as Ragna.....in the following scene he lost...is that right ?

[@LoveXKnife]

YES I WAS WAITING FOR THIS

[@asuna5701]

I just bought the game for the Vita recently. I barely understand the plot but I still love the game. Hope you guys do Chronophantasma!

[@malikoniousjoe]

Kitsuna Asuna Oh the game is more arcsys glory, but if you want a plot to follow I suggest Guilty Gear or the Persona games they licensed. Blazblue is a fun fighting game with an aneyurism inducing plot

[@revanknight796]

It only gets more and more confusing

[@soopplaza4477]

I hope they do all of these

[@Ceradeez]

God so much rewinding what is this killer queen?

[@MoriBoita]

this video is a timeloop basically