Month: August 2018

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Enjoy Mitsuru Kirijo’s English voice clips, and more BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle leaks courtesy of BonusKun

Even more English voice clips and upcoming song lists point to the remaining BBTAG DLC characters!

On the eve of its debut at Evo 2018, more leaks just continue to keep springing for the remaining DLC characters yet to be officially revealed for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, courtesy of Twitter user BonusKun. After revealing English voice clips for BlazBlue’s Izayoi, Nine The Phantom and Mai Natsume, Persona 4 Arena’s Labrys and Akihiko Sanada, in addition to Under Night In-Birth’s Merkava and Yuzuriha, he has now posted English voice clips for the leader of the Shadow Operatives, Mitsuru Kirijo.

In addition to revealing that her role will be reprised by Tara Platt, we now know that she will have special interactions with P4A’s Naoto Shirogane, Akihiko Sanada, and Aigis, BlazBlue’s Jin Kisaragi, Nu-13, and Mai Natsume, and Rachel Alucard, UNIEL’s Orie and RWBY‘s Blake Belladonna and Weiss Schnee, even invoking the latter’s infamous “Ice Queen” nickname.

Also, BonusKun has also discovered exactly where each of these remaining nine fighters will be placed within their individual columns on the Character Select Screen. Izayoi will be in front of Azrael, as they both hail from Chrono Phantasma, while Nine and Mai will be beside Es and Jubei, respectively, rounding out the Central Fiction quartet. On the P4A side of things, Mitsuru and Akihiko will be next to each other and beside their Persona 3 companion Aigis, while Labrys will be between her sister and Yu Narukami. For UNIEL, Merkava will be in front of Vatista, continuing the mirroring of the original arcade character reveal order, with Yuzu and [st]’s Mika Returna rounding out the column.

Next, we also have some song leaks that further point to these characters, just in case you still weren’t convinced yet. The list of upcoming themes is as follows:

  • Justice Sword (Izayoi Theme)
  • Walpurgisnacht (Nine The Phantom Theme)
  • VARIABLE HEART (Mai Natsume Theme)
  • in Justice (Izayoi and Hakumen Vs./Team Theme)
  • Reincarnation (Kokonoe or Celica A. Mercury Vs. Nine The Phantom Theme; possibly Nine and Jubei Vs/Team Theme)
  • END GAZER (Nine The Phantom and Es Vs./Team Theme)
  • Missions For The Brilliant Executor (Mitsuru Kirijo Theme)
  • The Wandering Wolf (Akihiko Sanada Theme)
  • Spirited Girl (Labrys Theme)
  • Burn My Dread (Persona 3 Vs. Theme)
  • Unseen Entities (Merkava Theme)
  • Walking Lily Flower (Yuzuriha Theme)
  • Forceful Step (Mika Theme)

Though the songs are the expected fare, Reincarnation stands out as an interesting inclusion, as it served as the Mercury Family vs. theme for whenever Nine battled either her daughter Kokonoe or her beloved sister Celica, neither of whom are currently in BBTAG. BonusKun speculates that this could just be being repurposed as a vs./team theme for Nine and her husband Jubei, as they lack a proper vs. theme in BBCF, but that remains to be seen.

Finally, there is an interesting image that is currently going unused, but looks like it could fit right into the main menu as a new tab. It looks like a Keystone reflecting the images of DLC characters from all four franchises: Jubei, Blake, Carmine, and Aegis, suggesting the possibility of a new in-game interface to the online stores for purchasing DLC characters and colors, similar to the one currently seen in Street Fighter V. You can see everything revealed below.

The next Arc Nama stream will be held on Friday, August 17th, so we should be in for some more news soon.

Sources: BonusKun (Twitter); Bonus-Kun (YouTube); JROKGaming