Jin Kisaragi

Jin Kisaragi, also known as Hero of Ikaruga, is one of the main characters from the BlazBlue series.
== Charactah Account ==
Jin Kisaragi is a Major in the NOL, and one of its elite commanding officers. He is always cool and calm, but is also jealous, ambitious, and possessive, with little care for others, treating them like they are mere obstacles.
Jin displayed formidable actions to gain his rank during the Ikaruga Civil War. When he heard that Ragna the Bloodedge had arrived on the scene, he quickly abandoned his post to hunt him down by himself.
Jin was adopted into the Kisaragi house, a highly powerful and respected family within the NOL. He possesses a notable psychosis, said to be caused by his sword, the Nox Nyctores "Yukianesa". While the sword grants him manipulation over ice, it also enhances primal feelings and is often blamed for "insanity".
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* BlazBlue: Alter Memory
=== Light Novels ===
* BlazBlue: Phase Shift
=== Manga ===
* BlazBlue
* BlazBlue Official Comics
* BlazBlue: Chimelical Complex
* BlazBlue: Remix Heart
* BlazBlue: Variable Heart
=== Video Games ===
* BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale
* BlazBlue Calamity Trigger Portable
* BlazBlue Entropy Effect
* 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
* Chaos Heroes Online
* Lord of Vermilion II
* Lost Saga
* Magical Beat
== Trivia ==
* “Jin” name is used chiefly in the Chinese and Japanese languages, and its origin is Chinese. This name means "gold, metal, money", – "embroidered, bright" or "ferry". Kisaragi (similar moon/month) is the Japanese name for the month of February via the lunar calendar. His name can literally mean Bright February.
** Although Jin's name is pronounced as "Juh-in" in the localizations, the actual pronunciation is "Jeen/Jean".
* Jin’s move naming motif is winter. As a notable “fighting game rivalry” contrast to his brother Ragna whose primary techniques are mainly written in English, all of Jin’s moves are written in Japanese with kanji.
* Jin’s birthdays falls on Valentine’s Day, a parallel to Tsubaki’s birthday being on White Day.
** Jin also shares the same birthday as Ken Masters, the deuteragonist of the Street Fighter series.
* According to Ragna’s Story Mode in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, when Jin was younger he had a fear of the moon “falling".
** Jin tries to run away from the moon in the bad ending of his story “Decision”, if the player loses against Rachel.
** When Tsubaki asked Jin whether he likes the moon, he answered that he hates the moon.
** Ironically, two of Jin’s attacks (one of his Distortion Drives and his Exceed Accel) and his surname all have a moon-motif naming.
* Jin’s power seems to vary differently in different media. In the Drama CD BlazBlue: The Wheel of Fortune and in the BlazBlue: Alter Memory anime, he is much weaker than Ragna, but in the game, the two seem to be at equal strength (Ragna is a little stronger, though it is also implied that he holds back whenever he fights against Jin) and in the Chimelical Complex manga, Ragna has to activate the Blue Grimoire to defeat Jin.
* While it is clearly stated that Jin hated Saya, in Nu-13’s Story Mode, when Nu first encounters Jin, he treats her kindly and states that he was worried about both her and Ragna. When he hears that her name is Nu, however, he reverts to being cold, indicating that he may have been confusing her with Saya. Also, in the Wheel of Fortune Drama CD, they can be seen happily playing with one another. This may indicate that he does not hate Saya, his sister, of which all Murakumo Units are based on.
* Jin, Noel, Tsubaki, and Terumi are the only characters in BlazBlue with playable alternate forms. Jin’s in particular is the leader of the Six Heroes, Hakumen, unlike the other versions they both share a version of exactly the same technique. Unlike the three latter, both Jin and Hakumen are count as "different persons" due to their timeline history differences between them.
* During Hakumen’s story in Continuum Shift, Jin argues that he must kill Ragna to end the latter’s suffering before it gets worse, implying that Jin is deeply conflicted regarding his brother’s fate and feels that killing him will be an act of mercy.
* Jin is a very elegant and intelligent character, but he is very cold and hostile towards others. However, he can be very affectionate when it comes to Ragna and Tsubaki. This caused the fanon to label him as a tsundere (a person who is initially cold and hostile towards another person (as well as sadistic), but beginning to show their warm side over time).
** Arc System Works has released a Fan CD called “BlazBlue: Fan Disc Tsundere CD”, with Jin as one of the two hosts.
** Jin’s seiyuu, Tetsuya Kakihara, jokingly said in an interview, that Jin is actually not a tsundere, but a yandere. However, it could be stated that he can be a very rare archetype of both, with an added probability that he may also be a kūdere during his academy years without Yukianesa in his possession.
** This also often adds on the fact that in various gag endings, there have been many comical incest jokes between Ragna and Jin in this fashion.
* During one “Teach Me, Miss Litchi!” segment and for one of Chronophantasma’s joke endings, Jin’s dislike for meat dishes is referenced; in the former, Noel and Hazama comment on wanting to catch Jin actually eating a meat bun at some point (Jin was about to eat one before getting attacked and dragged by Tao). In the latter, Jin expresses himself that he is unable to eat meat for certain yet-unexplained reasons, and eventually somehow is put out of commission (due to the possibility that his body cannot digest it without side-effects). Even then, Toshimichi Mori himself has claimed with the vague reasoning that Jin dislike of meat stems from him and Ragna "being brothers".
* In BlazBlue: Chronophantasma’s Tutorial Mode, Jin will guide the player through the course Advanced- Foundations for Combos.
* In one of the Drama CD’s, Jin can be heard imitating motorcycle sounds out of enthusiasm, which may or may not be a reference to his Musō Senshōzan attack’s memetic stats as “The Ice Car”. However, it may instead be a very close nod to his official hobby of collecting vintage motorcycles.
* Jin, along with Ragna, Hazama, Rachel, Hakumen and Platinum the Trinity; is a playable character in Lost Saga.
* Jin is a playable character in the MOBA game; Chaos Heroes Online. Other characters include Ragna, Noel and Rachel. The four of them also appear in Fantasy War Tactics.
* Along with Noel and Ragna, Jin is a playable character in the Square Enix game: Lord of Vermilion Re: 2.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Jin Kisaragi at BlazBlue Wiki
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