Ragna the Bloodedge

Ragna the Bloodedge, also known as Centralfiction, Dream Seen by God, Grim Reaper and Man of the Blue, is the main protagonist from the BlazBlue series.
== Charactah Account ==
Ragna is a rebel outlaw with a bad attitude, a short temper, and an axe to grind with the Librarium, the international government. After destroying a branch of the Library and having a colossal bounty put on his head, he sets out for the city of Kagutsuchi in order to destroy the last "Cauldron" and prevent the resurrection of the Black Beast. As the story goes, he becomes more heroic and uses his power towards protecting his loved ones.
Ragna is Jin Kisaragi's older brother. Their rivalry stems from when they were younger, when Jin used to bully their sickly sister Saya. One day, Ragna noticed that the church the three of them lived in was set on fire. When he entered, he was ambushed by Terumi, who took over Jin's mind, cut Ragna's arm off, and left him to die inside the burning building. A combination of the trauma and the Azure being implanted in him caused one of his eyes to turn red and his hair to turn white. He was then taken in and trained by his master Jubei, who gave him his signature coat and sword, as well as the title of "Bloodedge".
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* BlazBlue: Alter Memory
=== Light Novels ===
* BlazBlue
* BlazBlue: Phase 0
* BlazBlue: Phase Shift
=== Manga ===
* BlazBlue
* BlazBlue Official Comics
* BlazBlue: Chimelical Complex
* BlazBlue: Remix Heart
* BlazBlue: Variable Heart
=== Video Games ===
* ARC style Solitaire
* BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale
* BlazBlue Calamity Trigger Portable
* BlazBlue Mobile Battle
* BlazBlue: Battle Cards
* BlazBlue: Battle x Puzzle
* BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
* BlazBlue: Central Fiction
* BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma
* BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend
* BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma
* BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
* BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
* BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II
* BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
* BlazBlue: Revolution Reburning
* BlazBlue: Variable Heart
* Chaos Heroes Online
* Code Shifter
* Eat Beat Dead Spike-san
* Lord of Vermilion II
* Lost Saga
* Magical Beat
* Seven Knights
== Trivia ==
* Ragna's birthday falls on “I Want You to Be Happy” Day, also known as Girl’s Day.
* The remains of the Black Beast that Ragna attains, is actually his own beheaded humanoid form.
* Ragna does not possess either of his original arms, as Jin severed his right arm, which was replaced with the Blue Grimoire, and his left arm was destroyed in the process of bringing back Noel, and was replaced by Kokonoe using parts from Lambda’s regeneration tank.
* Ragna’s favorite food is stated to be tentama udon (heaven jewel udon).
* Ragna dislikes needles, as revealed by his dialogue in his Help Me, Professor Kokonoe! section.
** Ragna's fear of ghosts is also referenced many times in a comedic fashion, which theroies often state stem from the trauma inflicted upon him by Terumi (who was originally a ghost-based entity himself).
* In the BlazBlue Material Collection, there is a sketch of Ragna defeated in front of Jin, with Ragna holding a sword known as the Rebellion, Dante’s signature sword in the Devil May Cry series, which in some cases, causes many parallels between Dante and Vergil to Ragna and Jin (Ragna's leitmotif is also called "Rebellion" as well).
* A running gag in the series is Ragna’s tendency to treat people to meals:
** In BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Ragna decides to feed the starving Taokaka and is left with a large bill as a result.
** In BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, Ragna is forced to feed Platinum when Sena makes a commotion in public.
** In Taokaka’s BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Arcade Mode, Tao and Luna leave a large restaurant bill on Ragna’s tab.
** In episode 4 of Teach Me More, Ms. Litchi, Ragna gives Platinum a cake, and Sena remarked that if they asked, Ragna would probably buy them as many cakes as they wanted.
** This tendency is noted by Ragna himself in “Mechanical Soul”, where he preemptively tells Lambda that he wasn’t going to feed her. This episode is based on the BlazBlue: Continuum Shift — Part 2 novel, where he actually fed her.
** In Taokaka’s Act 3 of BlazBlue: Centralfiction, Ragna said that they will eat some meat buns only if Kagura pays the bill.
* In the second episode of “Teach Me, Miss Litchi!” in BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, Ragna makes a reference to the character Naruto Uzumaki from the Naruto series.
* Ragna was bitten only once by Rachel, as she admitted it in her ending in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. In all the other timelines, he was able to save himself by touching the Blue Grimoire, as it is described in Rachel’s short story Endless Waltz.
* In one of Ragna’s endings in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, after Ragna and Nu fuse together without entering into the Kiln, the new entity is able to activate the Murakumo Unit and deploy the Blood Scythe at the same time.
* There is an artistic error found during the Calamity Trigger Reconstruction story in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend, when Ragna’s right arm was cut off, he still has white hair instead of blonde.
* Although the image in which Ragna transforms into the Black Beast is part of Ragna’s Bad Ending in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, it is listed as part of the True Ending in the Gallery.
* Although Ragna has his own unlimited theme, Black Onslaught, this is not played in both Jin and Hazama’s Arcade Mode in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, where the theme played is instead Under Heaven Destruction and Nightmare Fiction respectively.
* When Ragna is beaten by Platinum in the latter’s Story Mode, his sprite is the bloody Ragna with his left arm torn off instead of the normal defeated sprite, which might be a case where the game loads the wrong sprite for the situation.
* Each of Ragna’s attacks that use his Soul Eater Drive involve a part of a Black Beast (though some do not involve life steal):
** 5D second hit, 2D and Hell’s Fang followup, Dead Spike, Datou (in his Unlimited Form) and Nightmare Edge followup: one of its heads.
*** In the case of Dead Spike, that very particular beast head has been spawned into a popular entity of its own within the BlazBlue fandom, even birthing an official spin-off game revolving around it.
*** Also in the case of all of these specific animations save for Hell's Fang's followup and Dead Spike, the earlier frames of such animations involve a swarm of smaller snake-like heads converging to form the larger one.
** 6D, Crush Trigger, Keri Age/Spin Kick followup from Gauntlet Hades and Yami ni Kuwarero: One of its claws. In the case of both his Crush Trigger and Yami ni Kuwarero, the two of them involve actually turning his hand into a clawed-arm.
*** His Crush Trigger however, due to not being mapped to the D button, involves no life steal.
*** Also as of Chronophantasma, Ragna's clawed-hand during the base versions of Yami ni Kuwarero has an eye on its dorsal side that slowly opens upon the attack connecting.
** j.D: The beast’s maw.
** D version Inferno Divider and Nightmare Edge: the beast’s hide. However, Nightmare Edge does not have any life steal effects due to being mapped to a C input instead of a D input.
** Kakato Otoshi/Ax Kick followup from Inferno Divider: A lump of Magic Element in the form of dark mist, which may as well be its breath. This element to the attack was not present in Calamity Trigger.
** Carnage Scissors: a portion of the beast’s outer skin, possibly its spikes.
** Black Onslaught: One of its wings during the ending blow. Interestingly enough, this is the only Soul Eater-based life steal move that does not normally benefit from the mechanic (since it is an Astral Heat, meaning the opponent is already finished once it connects), and its input is mapped to the C button instead of the D button.
*** This is also due to the fact that the life steal orbs when examined closely, gravitate towards Ragna's Blood Scythe for the finishing blow. However, the orbs that gravitate towards his body during the initial slash combo still count towards healing him as normal.
** If one listens closely, any move that involves an element of the beast’s heads emits a faint roar; this sound effect is amplified in both Chronophantasma and Centralfiction for a majority of Ragna’s Soul Eater attacks compared to other titles.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Ragna the Bloodedge at BlazBlue Wiki
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