BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

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**BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle** is a crossover tag-team fighting game created by Arc System Works, which initially the roster was conformed by Arc System Works' *BlazBlue*, Atlus' *Persona 4 Arena* (*Ultimax*), French-Bread's *Under Night In-Birth* and Rooster Teeth's *RWBY*. But later as of 1.5-2.0, Team Arcana's (formerly known as Examu) *Arcana Heart*, Marvelous' *Senran Kagura* and SUBTLE STYLE's *Akatsuki EN-Eins* would join the fray.

The character art for this game is drawn by Higuchi Konomi, who previously worked as a character designer for the *XBlaze* series.

## Characters

The starting roster confirms to have 20 default rosters (21 in PC version) and 20 Season 1 DLC characters (19 on PC version), totaling 40 characters. As a result for the half of game’s planned roster, this game caused backlash from fighting game fans who have been promised a large roster at launch, while also citing that the game uses mostly reused assets from earlier Arc System Works fighting games. Robert Ramsey of Push Square called the title ugly compared to Arc System Works' other project, *Dragon Ball FighterZ*.

Season 2 DLC characters has been planned, according to Arc System Works president Minoru Kidooka, including this game's producer Mori, starting from their appearances in Arcade Edition on April 25, 2019.

\**Italic* for DLC characters.

### From Akatsuki EN-Eins

* *Akatsuki* (Season 2, DLC Version 2.0)
* *Blitztank* (Season 2, DLC Version 2.0)

### From BlazBlue

* Ragna the Bloodedge
* Jin Kisaragi
* Noel Vermillion
* Rachel Alucard
* Iron Tager
* *Hakumen* (Season 1, DLC Pack 3)
* Nu-13
* Hazama
* Makoto Nanaya
* *Platinum The Trinity* (Season 1, DLC Pack 1)
* *Tsubaki Yayoi* (*as Izayoi*) (Season 1, DLC Pack 4)
* Azrael
* *Celica Ayatsuki Mercury* (Season 2, DLC Version 2.0)
* *Nine the Phantom* (Season 1, DLC Pack 6)
* *Naoto Kurogane* (Season 2, DLC Pack 7)
* *Yūki Terumi* (*as Takehaya Susanoo*) (Season 2, DLC Version 2.0)
* Es
* *Mai Natsume* (Season 1, DLC Pack 5)
* *Jubei* (Season 1, DLC Pack 2)

### From Persona 4 Arena (Ultimax)

* Yu Narukami
* Yosuke Hanamura
* Chie Satonaka
* Yukiko Amagi
* *Kanji Tatsumi* (Season 1, DLC Pack 1)
* *Teddie* (Season 2, DLC Pack 7)
* *Naoto Shirogane* (Season 1, DLC Pack 3)
* *Mitsuru Kirijo* (Season 1, DLC Pack 5)
* *Akihiko Sanada* (Season 1, DLC Pack 6)
* *Aegis* (Season 1, DLC Pack 2)
* *Elizabeth* (Season 2 DLC)
* *Labrys* (Season 1, DLC Pack 4)
* *Tohru Adachi* (Season 2, DLC Version 2.0)

### From Under Night In-Birth

* Hyde Kido
* Linne
* Waldstein
* *Carmine Prime* (Season 1, DLC Pack 2)
* *Orie Ballardiae* (Season 1, DLC Pack 1)
* Gordeau the Harvester
* *Merkava* (Season 1, DLC Pack 4)
* *Vatista* (Season 1, DLC Pack 2)
* *Seth the Assassin* (Season 2, DLC Pack 7)
* *Yuzuriha* (Season 1, DLC Pack 5)
* *Hilda the Paradox* (Season 2, DLC Version 2.0)
* *Mika Returna* (Season 1, DLC Pack 6)

### From RWBY

* Ruby Rose
* Weiss Schnee
* *Blake Belladonna* (Free DLC)
* *Yang Xiao Long* (Free DLC)
* *Neo Politan* (Season 2, DLC Version 2.0)

## Gallery

Character portrait of AkatsukiCharacter portrait of Blitztank
## Trailer

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle 2.0 Announcement Video『BLAZBLUE CROSS TAG BATTLE Special Edition』製品紹介トレーラー『BLAZBLUE CROSS TAG BATTLE』Ver 2.0 Akatsuki - Introduction Video『BLAZBLUE CROSS TAG BATTLE』Ver 2.0 Blitztank - Introduction Video-2
## Trivia

* Like *Under Night In-Birth* characters, this marks the first time *Akatsuki EN-Eins* characters, alongside *Arcana Heart* characters, have received English dubs.
	+ This is also technically the first time *Senran Kagura* characters have received English dubs in a video game (while the first English dub of the series was in its anime adaptation). However, should another batch of DLC characters from the series be announced, some *Senran Kagura* fighters (particularly those whose names have already been datamined) will likely have different English dub actors from those in the anime adaptation.
* Announcer voice clips for Sai, Fritz, Kanae, Dawei, Adler, Murakumo Zero (to avoid being mistaken for a character from *Senran Kagura*), Mycale (Perfecti), EN-Eins and Kati were found in the version 1.5 ROM through datamining. This was a hint of further *Akatsuki EN-Eins* DLC characters, however, with the end of Season 2, those characters would actually be playable along with the rest who were datamined as well, has never been able to be added to the game as future DLC at time when the artist Higuchi Konomi and the co-creator of *BlazBlue* Toshimichi Mori left Arc System Works, leaving its storyline at a cliffhanger.
* Excluding Blitztank, due to not being the primary character of its home series, Akatsuki is missing in Season 2/Special Edition cover art.
* It was released prior to *EN-Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis* was announced.
* This game was originally meant to commence the home port of *Akatsuki Blitzkampf Ausf. Achse* (under the name *Akatsuki Blitzkampf Type-A*), at time when it was revealed in SUBTLE's blog. However, home port *Ausf. Achse* had been on hold, due to SUBTLE is busy with helping French-Bread on *Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [cl-r]* and *Melty Blood: Type Lumina* in his freelance job when the COVID-19 pandemic first started, then announcing *EN-Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis* in the following year.
* Based on this game's storyline and placeholder, as well how original *EN-Eins Perfektewelt* was revealed to be a beta prior its storyline to being fixed and finalized in *Anastasis* update, the involvement of *Akatsuki EN-Eins* is alternatively takes place as a midquel between both *Akatsuki* titles and *EN-Eins Perfektewelt*.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.siliconera.com/2017/07/16/blazblue-cross-tag-battle-announced-features-blazblue-persona-4-arena-uniel-rwby/
2. ↑ https://www.famitsu.com/news/201801/13149729.html
3. ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/CourteousOddFloofOptimizePrime
4. ↑ http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/01/half\_of\_blazblue\_cross\_tag\_battles\_character\_roster\_is\_dlc\_fans\_are\_raging
5. ↑ https://www.arcsystemworks.jp/portal/post-12020/