Makoto Nanaya

**Makoto Nanaya** (マコト＝ナナヤ) is a soldier of the World Void Information Control Organization and their Magic Formula Troops. She is a playable character starting as a DLC for *BlazBlue: Continuum Shift*.

## Appearance

Makoto is a squirrel-type demi-human young lady with short brown hair, a big curly brown tail, hazel eyes, and large breasts. She wears an Control Organization uniform with a black balmoral cap to cover her squirrel ears, a jet black cloak, and black military boots. In the end of *BlazBlue: Alter Memory*, she wears a black Control Organization uniform dress with a white collar and a short red tie, with two separate long sleeves that have two heavy metal bands and white gloves. This is her standard Control Organization uniform underneath her black cloak. She also has bandages on her eye and arm after she was severely tortured by Hazama as Yūki Terumi to make Noel gets angrily emotional to break the limiter from her Event Weapon, Bolverk.

She later wears this in the end of *BlazBlue: Centralfiction*, but her Control Organization uniform is blue.

When she is in battle, she switches her outfit to an orange fighter top showing half of her bosom, two tonfas, black strap panties with an orange skirt-like cloth, long black stocking, and orange boots.

When she was in the Military Academy, she wore a standard school uniform, only with a darker mini skirt, black stockings, and brown shoes.

As a child, Makoto wore a short orange top that bared her midriff and short black tights, and is barefoot.[1]

In *BlazBlue: Chronophantasma*, Makoto does not wear her Control Organization uniform as her pre-battle outfit, trading it for an orange collared jacket with folden sleeves which was issued to her by Kokonoe. Kokonoe explains that the people of Ikaruga harbor hatred and resentment towards the Control Organization, which justifies the change in attire.

## Personality

Makoto is a silly, friendly, generally whimsical and energetic demi-human. She also appears to be somewhat scatter-brained, though this trait belies her true aptitude as an Intelligence operative and spy for the 7th Agency. She is one of Noel’s best friends, though unlike Tsubaki, she harbors no jealousy towards her. She cares deeply for her friends and cannot stand when they fight each other. When she was in Military Academy, she used to be cruel, mean, selfish, and hated humans, but then had a change of heart by Tsubaki’s words when she confronted her fellow female classmates who were picking on her. When she, Tsubaki, and Noel were trapped in the lower levels of Kagutsuchi, it was revealed that she just wanted to be accepted for who she is. Makoto also has a serious side when it comes to her friends, and has even confronted Hazama when she discovers what he did to Noel.

During her arcade ending in *BlazBlue: Continuum Shift*, she lashes out at Hazama for calling beastmen just mere tools created simply to fight the Black Beast, showing her dislike for being discriminated. This is also revealed when Relius, during Makoto’s Bad Ending, messes up with her mind, recalling painful memories of being rejected and ostracized as a beastman.

In *BlazBlue: Chronophantasma*, while she likes Kagura Mutsuki as a person, she dislikes his lecherous behavior, which includes multiple attempts to flirt with her and Noel, offering the latter drinks which are implied to be alcoholic in nature, and attempts to grab Makoto’s breasts. In her special intro with Kagura, he tries to grope her, but she parries and punches him back in response. Many other characters have joked or insulted Makoto based on her sexual outfit and body, with Kokonoe and Noel admitting to be jealous, yet Makoto herself obviously is not embarrassed by it and prefers to fight with such light clothing.

## Powers and Abilities

Because of her beastman heritage, Makoto has inhuman reflexes, as well as incredible strength, being able to make an impact crater in Carl’s storyline, and her Astral Heat involves her punching an opponent skyward, leaving an imprint of her fist in the moon before it splits apart. The increased strength, however, may be the result of her tonfas, **Impact (インパクト *Inpakuto*)**, which allows her to charge the strength of her blows.

It was also stated in the anime, *BlazBlue: Alter Memory*, she was specially admitted into the Military Academy for her athletic abilities.

In Arcade mode, both Lambda-11 and Nu-13 (also Mu-12 in *Continuum Shift*) note that Makoto exhibits a surprisingly strong resistance to magic element, eroding at 0.2% of the normal rate. This may correlate with and explain her average aptitude with Magic Formula; even if she is adept at wielding it, she may simply not be drawing in enough to sufficiently power it.

In her storyline, Rachel states that her “unyielding will” and her strong attachment to Noel and Tsubaki are what kept her soul intact during her journey through the Boundary; likewise, Relius notes that she has a hardy soul, both focused and pointing in multiple directions, and thus was able to “leap across time and space”. How this correlates with the rest of her abilities is as yet undefined.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Makoto tends to get overexciting and rushes into battle without even thinking. This can cause trouble for her friends that have already made a plan

## Trivia

Naming
* “Makoto” (誠) is a unisex Japanese name that means “sincerity” and “honesty”; two virtues that Makoto undoubtedly shows and possess. “Nanaya” (七夜) is Japanese in origin and literally means “Seven Nights”. Its a fairly uncommon surname and can be used as a surname in some Eastern cultures; however, Makoto’s last name is found more in media than it is in real life.
* All of Makoto’s special moves, Astral and Distortions have their names influenced by celestial and astronomical terms.

Appearance
* Her birthday, April 2, is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day.
* In the *BlazBlue: Alter Memory* anime, Makoto is missing several black stripes from her tail. This error is consistent with each of her appearances in the anime.
	+ In Episode 7, the black stripes from her tail are visible only during one of her appearances.
* Upon defeating Litchi in Arcade Mode in *BlazBlue: Chronophantasma*, Makoto reveals that she wears her outfit because it makes easier for her to move around.

Other
* Makoto said to Noel once that her breast size will increase if she lets a boy massage them, making her face flushed and repenting the thought of that. This also happens in a short story in one of the Official Comics, where Makoto loses her underpants.
* In the *BlazBlue: Remix Heart* manga, Makoto is implied to be bisexual due to the multiple escapades she has with Mai Hazuki. These range from kissing her, fondling her and even watching her being forced to touch Kajun Faycott sexually; even when Tsubaki and Noel look away, Makoto watches avidly.
* In the Highlander Assault Mode in *BlazBlue: Chronophantasma*, if Makoto uses her Big Bang Smash; Distortion against Highlander: Takemikazuchi, then instead of the usual large scale projection of her being shown before she attacks, the camera instead does a close-up on her.
* In *Chronophantasma’s* Tutorial Mode, Makoto will teach the *Beginner- Offense*and *Beginner- Defense* classes alongside Noel Vermillion; she will also teach the *Beginner- Rolling* class alongside Tsubaki Yayoi.
* Makoto’s beastman gene is that of a Kagutsuchi Island Squirrel.
* Upon defeating Rachel Alucard in Arcade Mode in *BlazBlue: Chronophantasma*, Makoto reveals that she comes from a big family.
* Makoto makes various old-school martial arts manga references during some of her moves.
	+ When using **Big Bang Smash**, she says *Moetsukiru hodo hīto!!* (燃えつきるほどヒート！！ *The heat’s enough to burn!!*), a reference to Jonathan Joestar from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
	+ When using **Planet Crusher**, she yells the infamous *Atatatatatatatat!!* battle cry of Kenshirō from Fist of the North Star.
* Makoto has arguably the most amount of moves that can inflict Fatal Counter hits throughout the series, partly thanks to her Drive mechanic.