Trivia

These are the trivia of *BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle*:

* Since *RWBY* originated in North America, *RWBY* characters start out with English as their default voice.
	+ Originally, the *RWBY* characters were the only ones to have dual audio between English and Japanese, until it was confirmed by Arc System Works that the characters from each of the three other franchises aside from RWBY will also have an English dub.
		- *Cross Tag Battle* marks the first time that *BlazBlue* characters who made their fighting game debuted in *Central Fiction* like Es and Naoto K., *Senran Kagura* characters who have yet debuted in anime adaptions, *Under Night In-Birth*, *Arcana Heart* and *Akatsuki EN-Eins* cast has been dubbed in English. While characters who were NPC prior to *Central Fiction* like Jubei, Nine, and Mai had previously been dubbed in English, this marks the first time that character has been playable.
			* *Senran Kagura*’s case, marks the first time to be dubbed in-game, rather than in anime only. However some of the casts' English voice actresses being recast.
		- Selecting characters' language individually is similar to other Arc System Works’ published only collaboration game, Lab Zero's *Skullgirls* (in its last 2nd Encore update). However, individual characters’ language selections have already been done by Capcom since *Street Fighter IV* onwards.
		- Though the English dubbing for all sides was confirmed however, unfortunately unlike other recent Arc System Works' fighting games, *Dragon Ball FighterZ*, non-RWBY English cast still uncredited, nor announcing the main title when switching to Western subtitles and voices. This should be fixed in the future update.

* List of timeline alternatively takes place:
	+ *BlazBlue*: Alternatively after *BlazBlue: Central Fiction*, given that Trinity Glassfield is not in the storyline, while Yūki Terumi had been dead and the only fighter who is forbidden to be resurrected, due to how dangerous he is, even without his true Takehaya Susano'o form.
	+ *Persona*: Alternatively after *Persona 4 Arena Ultimax*.
	+ *Under Night In-Birth*: Alternatively set between prequel-based Chronicle Mode and Arcade story *Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late ([st/cl-r])*. Hyde is the victor of *Exe:Late* story, but he and Linne are interrupted by Kuon the Aion's presence that lead to the duology conclusion in *Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes*.
	+ *RWBY*: Alternatively set before Post-Volume 3 storyline.
	+ *Arcana Heart*: Alternatively set before *World Extinction* arc of *Arcana Heart 3* surrounding the rise of Omega and the interference of a Heart Aino-look alike from the alternate future, Dark Heart.
	+ *Senran Kagura*: Alternatively after *Senran Kagura: Estival Versus*.
	+ *Akatsuki EN-Eins*: While confirmed that Akatsuki's displaced involvement in *Under Night In-Birth* to be takes place after *Akatsuki Blitzkampf (Ausf. Achse)*, with *Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes* serves as a conclusion of the duology where Akatsuki (as well as Type-Moon's Sion Eltnam Atlasia serves their purposes as its displaced guest fighters), it is unknown of which timeline this universe's involvement in Cross Tag alternative takes place, whether it is prior to or after *EN-Eins Perfektewelt (Anastasis)*.

* *Cross Tag Battle* marks the return of a *Persona* game to PC after many years of the port’s hiatus since the first Persona game, and ultimately led to the release of *Persona 4 Ultimax* (gameplay based on 2.0 Arcade version with all contents from 7th-generation consoles) in post-7th-generation consoles.

* The first *RWBY* game to appear on other video game systems out outside Windows port.

* The first *Under Night In-Birth*, *Arcana Heart* and *Akatsuki EN-Eins* game to appear on a Nintendo console.

* The first *Under Night In-Birth*, *Senran Kagura* (not counting *Dead or Alive 5 Last Round collaboration costume set) and* Akatsuki EN-Eins *game to appear on Xbox consoles.*
	+ Although this is not the first French-Bread-related game to be in Xbox console, it was Type-Moon's *Melty Blood: Type Lumina*.

* The first fighting game for both the *BlazBlue*, *Persona 4 Arena* and *Under Night In-Birth* and *Arcana Heart* to be released before arcade, not counting title updates.

* This is the *RWBY* series’ second video game appearance following *RWBY: Grimm Eclipse*, as well as the first arcade game for this series.

* This is the first *Senran Kagura* arcade game.

* This is the first time entire *Akatsuki EN-Eins* characters outside the first titular character himself to be included in this worldwide release game.

* Prior to the EVO Japan Build, *Under Night In-Birth* and *RWBY* characters didn’t have secondary Distortion Drive.

* Currently, non-*BlazBlue* cast members do not have their respective crests appear (the *Persona* Cast's Arcana Card and Persona Burst animation, the *RWBY* Cast's Semblance Emblems, *Arcana Heart* Cast's Spirit of Arcana Elements, *Senran Kagura* Cast's Shinobi Transformation School Crest) displayed for Resonance Blaze Activations. The *Under Night In-Birth* and *Akatsuki EN-Eins* cast has had most of them practically no emblems within their home series.
	+ This is similar case to Astral Skill starter, whereas *BlazBlue* cast reused their Astral Heat/Resonance Blaze emblems, *Persona* cast reused Awakening/Eye Cut-In, *Under Night In-Birth* cast reused their Infinite Worth portrait (even the titular Akatsuki, who is a guest there), while *Arcana Heart* cast reused Critical Heart backgrounds, except *RWBY*, *Senran Kagura*, *Akatsuki EN-Eins* cast has none nor has their Semblance, Shinobi Transformation School crests and Instant Kill-like Perfekte Finish/EX/Final Special Attack portraits reused.

* Currently, the character BGM's are reused from the characters’ first fighting game appearances. As of finalized version, only *BlazBlue* cast's BGMs are looped to fit well with the BGM style from other series outside *RWBY*.
	+ As for *RWBY* cast’s case, their 4 titular characters’ BGMs are mixed between 5 current Volumes of their character themes.

* Although *Persona 4 Arena Ultimax* and *EN-Eins Perfektewelt* are the latest sequel of *Persona 4 Arena* and *Akatsuki Blitzkampf*, the *Persona* and *Akatsuki EN-Eins* characters are miscredited as from the original *Persona 4 Arena*, and *Akatsuki Blitzkampf*’s final update *Ausf. Achse*. This is likely either an error on their miscredited logo representatives, as the *Persona* cast mentioning Labrys already joined the Shadow Operatives and Yu already returned to his old high school in this game’s storyline; or because the Japanese version of *Persona 4 Arena* has different logo naming on the “Ulti-” part, meaning this may apply to *Akatsuki EN-Eins* logos as well.
	+ Unfortunately, as of 2022, it is revealed by *Akatsuki EN-Eins* that original *EN-Eins Perfektewelt* was in fact a beta with some incorrect character storylines, which could explain the reason why its titular protagonist is not in *Cross Tag*, with *EN-Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis* is its true proper version with all correct character storylines.

* Currently, some *Under Night In-Birth* characters (mainly Hyde, Gordeau, Orie, Carmine, Mika, and Seth) still did not use their official full names, first names with nicknames, nor full nicknames in the official website, character select, and gallery for this game.

* In promotional material, the four main characters from each franchise appear clock-wise: Ruby is on the top, Yu is on the right, Hyde is on the bottom, and Ragna is on the left. However, after the official artwork cover of the game was revealed, Ragna and Hyde switched positions.

* Similar to Arc System Works’ other current game in 2018, *Dragon Ball FighterZ*, the beta demo only available outside PC.

* It is revealed from the game’s datamine that *Senran Kagura* was planned to join this game, but was ultimately dropped while leaving the voice samples of Asuka and Yumi unused. Yet “Marvelous”, the name of the video game company which known developing *Senran Kagura* series, acting as one of the combo announcements for Crash Assault. As well as the green section that is used for ETC (Gameplay settings) originally meant for this series’ inclusions.
	+ If this series cast were made playable, they would have in Examu-styled sprites since Homura's inclusion in *Nitroplus Blasterz* crossover fighting game, which somehow foreshadowed the appearance of Examu's very own *Arcana Heart* for this game.
	+ The announcer of other *Senran Kagura* cast are eventually being added for potential Season 2. The main color is cyan, which is instead represents the current protagonist Yumi, rather than original protagonist Asuka.

* Only Blake and the other characters of first 3 announced DLC packs appear in the first storyline as the opponents. However, Yang only appears in her CG portrait there.
* *BlazBlue* is the only Episode to have 4 multiple endings.

* Unlike Special/EX and Distortion Skills, Astral Skill is still written as ”Astral Heat”.

* There has been also few controversial issues in PC version:
	+ Graphic Issues on certain Driver. For NVIDIA user, there is a method.
	+ The price on Blake is supposed to be FREE permanently, not with expensive currency $20. Blake was FREE in a few hours ago. The pricing is fixed alongside DLC Character Pack 1 after PS4 & Switch, with Blake is made default and Yang is available at update patch time release in this version.
	+ File Assets are different than in PS4 & Switch.
	+ Few issues on certain controllers, functions, and keyboards.

* Examu, most commonly on their *Arcana Heart* series had been foreshadowed in the last EVO 2018 Trailer to appear in Season 2. Starting from Season 1.5.
	+ Furthermore that Cyan color from Season 2 based on leaked data was thought to represents SUBTLE STYLE's *Akatsuki EN-Eins* series instead of CyGames’ *Granblue Fantasy* for quick promo purposes.
		- Eventually as of Evo 2019 announcement, the cyan color happens to none other *Senran Kagura*, with the color represents the tritagonist Yumi instead of the original protagonist Asuka. While *Akatsuki EN-Eins* color is brown.

* It is one of the few post-console Arcade games to allow players playing with controllers on the Arcade machine, in this first case, PlayStation 4 controller.

* In Season 2, there are unannounced characters added under announcer files, including recently added *Akatsuki EN-Eins* and supposed one of Season 1 representative series *Senran Kagura*, with both last series eventually being added in the latest season.
	+ Despite both Akatsuki and Sion Eltnum Atlasia are guests fighters from SUBTLE STYLE's titular series and Type-Moon's *Melty Blood*, they are still listed on *Under Night In-Birth* section list by the announcer.
	+ Eventually Akatsuki has been acknowledged to return to his home series, while Sion herself remained excluded due to her home series still excluded and only as Akatsuki’s color scheme, unless Sion herself is planned to be included, as Mori plans to include Nasuverse such as *Fate* series in this game.
	+ As Arc System Work's original IP *Guilty Gear* and French-Bread's licensed game Type Moon's *Melty Blood* are still disconfirmed, meaning that Sion was initially unconfirmed, considered that she's a guest in *Under Night In-Birth*. For the former series' case, its storyline is yet finished, out of respect for the creator Daisuke Ishiwatari.
	+ A decade later after the reveal of *Under Night In-Birth*, *Melty Blood* is both revived and rebooted, meaning Nasuverse is potentially qualified for future new contents. The reason *Melty Blood* is not included in Cross Tag, possibly because the remake is still in-development, with the *Tsukihime* Near Route section titled *Blue Glass Moon* starring Arcueid Brunestud and Ciel as the prime heroines of their respective routes were half-finished during for two years until the completion and first released at Japan in 2020, shortly before *Melty Blood: Type Lumina* was released several months after the release *Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [cl-r]*.

* If *Senran Kagura* cast added to this game and would use Examu-style sprites as its character Homura since *Nitroplus Blasterz*, *Akatsuki EN-Eins* cast may uses French Bread-style sprites since Akatsuki's guest inclusion in *Under Night In-Birth*.
	+ On *Senran Kagura* side however, confirms to be Arc System Works’ style sprites, means Homura will be redrawn from Examu into a same sprite style as Yumi, if she’s officially announced.
	+ Only *Akatsuki EN-Eins* character Blitztank whose sprites isn't made by French-Bread.

* The reason why the Season 1.5 DLC characters originally never had special team dialogues with one of their selected partners is related to the absence of Nine and Yuzuriha's seiyuu as of April 1, 2019, but they were eventually added to 2.0 except Yuzuriha's seiyuu did not return, as Mitsuru's seiyuu voiced Nine in her absence, while Yuzuriha remained voiceless in the said version. Unfortunately, Yuzuriha's new seiyuu, Hitomi Nabatame (known for her portrayal as Type-Moon's Bazett Fraga McRemitz) is instead being casted in, *Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes*, which is five years after Cross Tag 2.0 was released.
	+ Similarly, before Ayumi Fujimura's retirement, the seiyuu of Arcana Heart 3 voice, Yumi Shimura retired in 2017 prior to the release of *Arcana Heart 3 Love Max Six Stars*, which could also explain why Saki is not in *Cross Tag*.

* This is the second crossover game to have both *Arcana Heart* and *Senran Kagura* appeared in the same crossover game since *Nitroplus Blasterz*.

* It was released before the announcement of *Arcana Heart 3 Love Max Six Stars Xtend*, *Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [cl-r]* (and its true sequel *Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes*) and *EN-Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis*, including the remake of *Tsukihime* timeline entries (with *Melty Blood* remake series starts with *Melty Blood: Type Lumina*).

* *Senran Kagura: Estival Versus* logo was used, because it is the last main installment game and the *Senran Kagura* series’ original genre being a hack n’ slash.

* Excluding Blitztank, due to not being the primary character of its home series, Akatsuki is missing in Season 2/Special Edition cover art.

* Currently, the character select in initial full Season 2 that adds another series to Cross Tag have them temporarily sharing a same row due to being each of them have no single secondary character(s) accompanying them, including *Akatsuki EN-Eins*, despite the said represented series have 2 fighters in it, until when some of their other represented fighters announced sometime after the initial full Season 2's release date. Just as their file listing being in a temporary number.

* At the end scene of Season 2 episode finale has few series represented references and connections to each other:
	+ Left and Right: Initial and Season 2 represented series respectively. If counting BlazBlue on the center side means representing the characters.
		- The reason why *Akatsuki EN-Eins* is between *Arcana Heart* and *Senran Kagura* is mostly because of the sprite style of its character Blitztank is different than the rest of its home series’ cast.
	+ Upper (*Persona* and *Arcana Heart*): Atlus use to publish *Arcana Heart'*s USA release; both are the oldest series before *BlazBlue* debuted.
	+ Middle (*Under Night In-Birth* and *Akatsuki EN-Eins*): Akatsuki guest starring in *Under Night In-Birth*; both are dōujin fighting game series.
	+ Lower (*RWBY* and *Senran Kagura*): Both are originally 3D series introduced to fighting game environments, the first one before *RWBY* was *Senran Kagura* via *Nitroplus Blasterz* on its character Homura, which also has *Arcana Heart*'s title character too; both series' companies (not Marvelous, but Funimation, which owns *Senran Kagura'*s English dub anime rights) are involved with Vic Mignogna's incident in 2019 - 2022.
	+ *BlazBlue* on the center is because hence to the title being named “*BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle*”, and the center protagonist universe.

* Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all of Cross Tag's future plans for DLC are likely being postponed until further notice from Arc System Works, with the seven companies involving in this crossover game are currently busy with their respective projects prior to their possible return to produce DLC for this game.
	+ Due to the passing of Naoto Kurogane's English voice actor, Billy Kametz in June 9, 2022, combined by Fujimura's (original Japanese voice actor of Nine the Phantom and Yuzuriha) indefinite hiatus from voice acting, then lastly the departure of *BlazBlue* series creator Toshimichi Mori in September 25, 2022 prior to co-founding Net Ease's Studio Flare alongside former Marvelous executive behind *Senran Kagura* series, Toshinori Aoki in Early 2023, with the current prime director Team Blue involved-contents is initially a localization director for *BlazBlue* series, Osamu Sugiyama, Cross Tag's storyline is currently end at a cliffhanger, as of Season 2.

* According to an interview, Mori said that in the case of including a western franchise, he would love to see Marvel characters like Spider-Man in the game.
	+ It is also mentioned that he would love to include 2B and 9S from the video game *Nier Automata*.

* Despite Konomi Higuchi's departure from Arc System Works in February 14, 2020, Arc System Works can call and hire her back anytime when needed during her current freelancing career.