Blazblue: Calamity Trigger (Ragna Stories - Grim Reaper)
Blazblue: Calamity Trigger (Ragna Stories - Grim Reaper) chronicles some of Ragna’s childhood, the betrayal of his brother and his first meeting with Hazama.
Tropes:
- An Arm and a Leg: Ragna has arm chopped off by Jin. Initially he sees him severed arm before he feels anything but is hit with excruciating pain.
- Backstory: This serves as a small glimpse of Ragna’s life before Present Day.
- Big Brother Instinct: Ragna’s brotherly instincts are on full display when his narration depicts him holding his younger sister Saaya and checking on her when he first arrives at the burning Church.
- Chewing the Scenery: Yūichi Nakamura does not really “chew”. “Completely devour” is definitely more appropriate.
- Episode Title Card: It begins with one that reads “Ragna Stories Grim Reaper”
- Establishing Character Moment: Terumi/Hazama wastes no time hiding his nature as a Large Ham Card-Carrying Villain.
- Evil Gloating: Terumi’s first line is him rubbing in the loss of Ragna’s arm.Terumi: Oh man, you seem to be in quite a bit of pain there, Ragna-chan ! Does it hurt? Does it? Of course it does! Ahahahahah!
- Evil Laugh: Terumi lets loose a delicious one after his aforementioned Evil Gloating.
- Downer Ending: Young!Ragna ends the episode having lost his Parental Substitute, his home, his younger sister and brother and his arm.
- Faux Affably Evil: Terumi’s playful and childish veneer barely hides his sadistic nature.
- First-Person Perspective: This is how the Opening Narration is told.
- House Fire: Ragna, Saaya and Jin’s home Church goes up in flames.
- How We Got Here: The episode initially picks up In Medias Res before moving to this trope.
- Incoming Ham: Terumi’s first line tells you everything you will ever need to know about him.
- In Medias Res: The episode begins as Ragna confronts his junior brother, their home in blazes in the background.
- Innocence Lost: This incident marked the end of Ragna’s childhood and led him down the path we currently see.
- Narrator All Along: Ragna ends of being this.
- Psychotic Smirk: Jin gives an unnerving one after cutting off his brother’s arm.
- Terms of Endangerment: Terumi cheerfully refers to Ragna as Ragna-chan after Jin cut his arm off.
- Time-Shifted Actor: Subverted. Jin and Ragna as children are still voiced by Tetsuya Kakihara and Tomokazu Sugita respectively.
- Where I Was Born and Razed: Jin ends up being part of this.
