Line #41 Anime/BlazBlueAlterMemory


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2	An anime based on the ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' series, that premiered in the fall of 2013. The plot is an adaptation of events from the first two games ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'' and ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]''.
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4	The director, Hideki Tachibana, worked on ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun''. Seiji Mizushima (''Literature/{{Slayers}} Next'', ''Manga/ShamanKing'', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', ''Anime/NatsuiroKiseki'') serves as the anime’s assistant director. The animes script is co-written by Deko Akao (''Manga/MysteriousGirlfriendX'') and Tatsuya Takahashi (''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' and ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'').
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6	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'').
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8	Funimation simulcast ''[=BlazBlue=]: Alter Memory'' and can be watched on their website [[https://www.funimation.com/shows/blazblue-alter-memory/ here]]. It has since been announced [[http://www.funimation.com/blog/2015/03/16/blazblue-alter-memory-cast-announcement that it's getting an English dub, with most of the English voice cast reprising their roles]].
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10	([[http://blazblue-am.jp/ Official Site]])
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12	!!This anime provides examples of:
13	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Taokaka's noticeably curvier than she's normally drawn in the game's artwork.
14	* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed: in [[Franchise/BlazBlue the original games]], Jin is already quite a {{Jerkass}}, but he still has a soft spot for his ChildhoodFriend Tsubaki. Here, that soft spot is gone.
15	* AdaptationExpansion: The anime's rendition of ''Continuum Shift'' adds a lot of additional development and establishing scenes.
16	* AdaptationInducedPlotHole:
17	** In the games, Ragna [[spoiler: left Hazama for dead]] because of the [[spoiler: 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.
18	** In the games, when Jin fights [[spoiler: 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, [[spoiler: he cannot use any ice attacks without Yukianesa]].
19	* AllThereInTheManual: 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.
20	* AnimeOfTheGame: As far back as 2010, even the game designer was hopeful for an anime adaption. One of Creator/ArcSystemWorks' partners, Zen United, launched an official petition to support ''[=BlazBlue=]'' becoming an anime. They finally got what they wanted.
21	* BigDamnHeroes: Ragna pulls one on Jin in Episode 12. Lampshaded.
22	-->'''Ragna''': I was lurking in the shadows, waiting for you to get beat.
23	-->'''Jin''': You're so mean, brother.
24	* BloodFromTheMouth: Happens to Hazama [[spoiler:after Ragna defeats him with Devoured by Darkness]].
25	* CallBack: Kokonoe has coffee in her laboratory, despite hating the stuff. [[spoiler:The only reason she even asked for coffee the first time was to give Roy, who is now Arakune, a reason to leave the room when she talked with Relius a long time ago. She never drank his coffee either, but constantly requested he make her some.]]
26	* CallForward: The Kaka hot springs weren't introduced until ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma'' in the games, yet they appear here and serve the same general purpose.
27	* ColdBloodedTorture - ForcedToWatch: [[spoiler:Hazama tortures Makoto to enrage Noel and destroy Bolverk's limiter]].
28	* CompressedAdaptation: 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.
29	* CurbStompBattle: A number:
30	** Ragna's first fight with Jin.
31	** [[WorfHadTheFlu Jin]] vs Bang.
32	** Hazama gives one to [[spoiler:Noel and Makoto]] once he decides to use Ouroboros. It's also implied that his fight with [[spoiler:Tager]] went this way.
33	* DeclarationOfProtection: Ragna to Noel.
34	* DemotedToExtra:
35	** Platinum and Carl each only appear in a single scene.
36	** Arakune gets shafted as well, only appearing a little more than Carl and Platinum.
37	* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Happens to [[spoiler:Tsubaki as she uses the Izayoi.]]
38	* {{Gorn}}: In Ragna's flashback to when his house was burned down, a ''flooding'' of blood spews from what was left of his arm.
39	-->'''Terumi (English Version)''': ''Hey kid, need a hand? Well shit, Rags. That looks kinda painful! So? How much does it hurt on a scale 1 to 10? Whoops, don't have enough fingers to count that high!''
40	-->'''Terumi (Japanese Version)''': ''Whoops! He cut it off! Oh crap! That looks super painful, Ragna-chan! Does it hurt? Come on, does it hurt? Well, of COURSE, it hurts, right?!''
41	* HonourBeforeReason: Bang doesn't want to defeat Jin if neither are at full strength. This ultimately leads to Bang ''bringing Jin to his village to help Jin heal''.
42	* HotSpringsEpisode: Appears as an excuse to heal Ragna faster.
43	* IdiotBall: Yes, Ragna, leave [[spoiler:a nearly dead Hazama]] on the ground. This can't be a terrible decision in any way. [[note]]This is a result of AdaptationInducedPlotHole. In the game, Ragna explicitly states that [[spoiler: 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.[[/note]]
44	* LateArrivalSpoiler:
45	** Sort of. At first, the website completely spoiled that Hazama [[spoiler: is actually Yuki Terumi of the Six Heroes]]. A later revision removed the spoiler-y parts.
46	** And now the first episode spoiled [[spoiler: 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 [[WhamEpisode the twist]] in their respective games.
47	* MilkingTheGiantCow: [[spoiler: Who else but Hazama? And right after the LIES LIES LIES speech, to boot.]]
48	* MindScrewdriver: The anime explains some of the odder plot elements of the video games a lot more clearly. For example, in Episode 11, [[spoiler: Hazama explains the connection between the Boundary, the Amaterasu Unit, the Izayoi, the Prime Fields, Takamagahara, and the [=BlazBlue=].]]
49	* NotWorthKilling:
50	** [[spoiler:Ragna does this after nearly killing Hazama. This bites him in the ass ''big time''.]] However, this is justified in the game.
51	** [[spoiler:Jin says this to Tsubaki after he defeats her]].
52	* OnceAnEpisode: Whenever Jin appears (until Episode 9), expect him to get/open up a severe injury in some way.
53	* OutOfFocus: 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.
54	** Funnily enough, this is Inverted in regards to [[LittleBitBeastly 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.)
55	* PutOnABus: Most of the cast from the games. For some [[TheBusCameBack the bus came back.]] Poor Carl got hit the hardest.
56	* RetCon:
57	** Rachel's fate resembled her bad ending in ''Continuum Shift'' a lot more than it did her true end.
58	** Lambda's joke end is canon. However, it takes place between Lambda and Ragna, instead of Lambda and Makoto. [[spoiler:The tartar also dies before Lambda reaches Kokonoe's lab. This also explains why Lambda sacrificed herself for Ragna, instead of using a HandWave and saying Nu did it.]]
59	* ShipTease:
60	** 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.
61	** In Episode 4, she eventually finds Ragna in Kaka Village resting from his injuries...[[ShirtlessScene shirtless]], which prompts Ragna to tell her not to stare and she denies it...[[LuminescentBlush while blushing.]] And then the next scene has her bandaging his wounds....[[NurseWithGoodIntentions with less than desirable results.]]
62	** Episode 5 has the hotspring scene.
63	** Episode 8 is little more than this between Ragna and Lambda-11.
64	* ShooOutTheClowns: 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 HotBlooded self at all.
65	* StockFootage: Usually during fights.
66	* TwelveEpisodeAnime

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