History Manga / BlazBlueRemixHeart

* ThirdLawOfGenderBending: Mai is mentally affected by her transformation into a girl, or at least from [[BecomingTheMask spending a long time under a female (and deliberately feminine) identity]]. This is most obvious in that over the course of the series she loses interest in girls and instead starts being attracted to boys, even falling in love with a male student. Mai gradually becomes more comfortable with being surrounded by girls and acting in a feminine manner: she stops thinking herself as being different from the girls surrounding her, is no longer embarrassed at being hugged by her friends and starts to hug them herself to show affection and she becomes willing to cry in front of others. The realization that she has fallen in love with a boy actually causes her to conclude that she has become female in both body and mind, which in turn leads to an identity crisis as she worries that she is no longer the person she was before her transformation into a girl. This is resolved near the end of the manga [[spoiler:when Mai decides that she doesn't care if she has changed as she is happy living the way she is.]]

* ThirdLawOfGenderBending: Mai is mentally affected by her transformation into a girl. This is most obvious in that over the course of the series she loses interest in girls and instead starts being attracted to boys, even falling in love with a male student. Mai gradually becomes more comfortable with being surrounded by girls and acting in a feminine manner: she stops thinking herself as being different from the girls surrounding her, is no longer embarrassed at being hugged by her friends and starts to hug them herself to show affection and she becomes willing to cry in front of others. The realization that she has fallen in love with a boy actually causes her to conclude that she has become female in both body and mind, which in turn leads to an identity crisis as she worries that she is no longer the person she was before her transformation into a girl. This is resolved near the end of the manga [[spoiler:when Mai decides that she doesn't care if she has changed as she is happy living the way she is.]]

* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Mai's life significantly improves after being turned into a girl. Having a more normal life with good friends, whereas before she was under the thumb of her harsh and domineering father who forced her to work and study all the time, prevented her from having friends and demanded from Mai to be perfect in everything, really helps.

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Mai is mentally affected by her transformation into a girl. This is most obvious in that over the course of the series she loses interest in girls and instead starts being attracted to boys, even falling in love with a male student. More subtly, it can be seen in the way Mai gradually becomes more comfortable with being surrounded by girls and acting like a girl: she stops thinking herself as being different from the girls surrounding her, is no longer embarrassed at being hugged by her friends and starts to hug them herself to show affection and she becomes willing to cry in front of others. The realization that she has fallen in love with a boy actually causes her to conclude that she has become female in both body and mind, which in turn leads to an identity crisis as she worries that she is no longer the person she was before her transformation into a girl. This is resolved near the end of the manga [[spoiler:when Mai decides that she doesn't care if she has changed as she is happy living the way she is.]]

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The first chapter plays Mai as an awkward schoolgirl around her friends. It is explained away as her being a sheltered girl and was hospitalized during the first school days. However, there's another, bigger reason revealed at the end... She actually was a guy. This twist then becomes one of the driving points of the story as a whole.

''[=BlazBlue=]: Remix Heart'' is a prequel manga taking place before the start of the main series and is set at the NOL's military academy in the 15th Hierarchical City of Torifune when many of the characters were still students. It is drawn by famous {{Doujinshi}} artist, Sumeragi, and authored by writer for the Blazblue games, Deko Akao, based on a story outline by the producer of VideoGame/{{BlazBlue}}, Toshimichi Mori. The story centers around [[GenderBender Mai Natsume]], a new student who had just arrived late due to a week absence and focuses on her interactions with her roommate Kajun Faycott and other major characters from the series including Noel Vermilion, Tsubaki Yayoi, and Makoto Nanaya, all of whom then make a posse together called [[TitleDrop Remix Heart]]. Other characters from the games do show up, but mainly as cameos. The series was serialized in a digital only magazine and ran for 24 chapters.

''[=BlazBlue=]: Remix Heart'' is a prequel manga taking place before the start of the main series and is set at the NOL's military academy in the 15th Hierarchical City of Torifune when many of the characters were still students. It is drawn by famous {{doushinji}} artist, Sumeragi, and authored by writer for the Blazblue games, Deko Akao, based on a story outline by the producer of VideoGame/{{BlazBlue}}, Toshimichi Mori. The story centers around [[GenderBender Mai Natsume]], a new student who had just arrived late due to a week absence and focuses on her interactions with her roommate Kajun Faycott and other major characters from the series including Noel Vermilion, Tsubaki Yayoi, and Makoto Nanaya, all of whom then make a posse together called [[TitleDrop Remix Heart]]. Other characters from the games do show up, but mainly as cameos. The series was serialized in a digital only magazine and ran for 24 chapters.

''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma Extend'' includes a section named ''Remix Heart Gaiden'' containing two side-stories that take place during the early part of the manga. Remix Heart will be getting a sequel manga titled Manga/{{BlazBlue Variable Heart}} written by Mori himself and illustrated by Sumeragi.

* HotTeacher: Miss Estella "Emma" McKenzie.

''Blazblue: Remix Heart'' is a prequel manga taking place before the start of the main series and is set at the NOL's military academy in the 15th Hierarchical City of Torifune when many of the characters were still students. It is drawn by famous doushinji artist, Sumeragi, and authored by writer for the Blazblue games, Deko Akao, based on a story outline by the producer of VideoGame/{{BlazBlue}}, Toshimichi Mori. The story centers around [[GenderBender Mai Natsume]], a new student who had just arrived late due to a week absence and focuses on her interactions with her roommate Kajun Faycott and other major characters from the series including Noel Vermilion, Tsubaki Yayoi, and Makoto Nanaya, all of whom then make a posse together called [[TitleDrop Remix Heart]]. Other characters from the games do show up, but mainly as cameos. The series was serialized in a digital only magazine and ran for 24 chapters.

* TitleDrop: "Remix Heart" was first namedropped in ch. 2 by Kajun as the name of their group. [[spoiler:Then much later, Sypher reveals that a perfect combination of a grimoire and a person will create a "Remix Heart", an item that is a main component of his desired creation, the Crimson Grimoire.]]
* TwoTeacherSchool: The only teachers we ever see in the school are Miss Emma and Professor Sypher Alvar.

''BlazBlueChronophantasma Extend'' includes a section named ''Remix Heart Gaiden'' containing two side-stories that take place during the early part of the manga. Remix Heart will be getting a sequel manga titled Manga/{{BlazBlue Variable Heart}} written by Mori himself and illustrated by Sumeragi.

* TheCameo: Ragna, Jubei, Hazama, Relius, Kagura and Kokonoe all make an appearance in at least one chapter. Meanwhile Mai and Kajun makes an appearance in ''CPEX'', and Taro also gets a few mentions.
* CerberusSyndrome: While the manga never gets very dark, the second half is a departure from the SliceOfLife setup the manga started with and features a more serious plot.

** The two appears again in ''CF'', during Makoto's flashback.

* TitleDrop: "Remix Heart" was first namedropped in ch. 2 by Kajun as the name of their group. [[spoiler:Then much later, Seifer reveals that a perfect combination of a grimoire and a person will create a "Remix Heart", an item that is a main component of his desired creation, the Crimson Grimoire.]]
* TwoTeacherSchool: The only teachers we ever see in the school are Miss Emma and Professor Seifer Albar.

Blazblue: Remix Heart is a prequel manga taking place before the start of the main series and is set at the NOL's military academy in the 15th Hierarchical City of Torifune when many of the characters were still students. It is drawn by famous doushinji artist, Sumeragi, and authored by writer for the Blazblue games, Deko Akao, based on a story outline by the producer of VideoGame/{{BlazBlue}}, Toshimichi Mori. The story centers around [[GenderBender Mai Natsume]], a new student who had just arrived late due to a week absence and focuses on her interactions with her roommate Kajun Faycott and other major characters from the series including Noel Vermilion, Tsubaki Yayoi, and Makoto Nanaya, all of whom then make a posse together called [[TitleDrop Remix Heart]]. Other characters from the games do show up, but mainly as cameos. The series was serialized in a digital only magazine and ran for 24 chapters.

For characters introduced in this series, [[Characters/BlazblueNonPlayerCharacters see here.]]

''BlazBlueChronophantasma Extend'' includes a section named ''Remix Heart Gaiden'' containing two side-stories that take place during the early part of the manga. Remix Heart will be getting a sequel manga titled ''Variable Heart'' written by Mori himself and illustrated by Sumeragi.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[HandsomeLech Kagura]] debuts in this series in one chapter, quite a few months from his playable debut in ''VideoGame/BlazblueChronophantasma.''

* FindTheCure: a big subplot of the story involves the team trying to help Mai cure her super taste. [[spoiler:In the end, as the No Name completely merges with her, her ability becomes essentially permanent - but the end of the last chapter has the team [[AndTheAdventureContinues vows to keep trying.]]

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* SuperSenses: [[spoiler:With the power of the Nameless Grimoire (aka No Name),]] Mai can taste something and then gain information regarding that thing. This ability has helped her and her friends numerous times. [[CursedWithAwesome She views this as a curse, though,]] because she also cannot eat normal food because of it - but this same ability also allows her to stomach [[LethalChef Noel's cooking]] because she only feels Noel's sincere love from the food.

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Mai is mentally affected by her transformation into a girl. This is most obvious in that over the course of the series she loses interest in girls and instead starts being attracted to boys, even falling in love with a male student. More subtly, it can be seen in the way Mai gradually becomes more comfortable with being surrounded by girls and stops thinking herself as being different from the girls surrounding her. The realization that she has fallen in love with a boy actually causes her to conclude that she has become female in both body and mind, which in turn leads to an identity crisis as she worries that she is no longer the person she was before her transformation into a girl. This is resolved near the end of the manga [[spoiler:when Mai decides that she doesn't care if she has changed as she is happy living the way she is.]]

* WhenHeSmiles: The usually cold Jin lets out some warm smile occasionally here.

Blazblue: Remix Heart is a prequel manga taking place before the start of the main series and is set at the NOL's military academy in the 15th Hierarchical City of Torifune when many of the characters were all still students. It is drawn by famous doushinji artist, Sumeragi, and authored by writer for the Blazblue games, Deko Akao, based on a story outline by the producer of VideoGame/{{BlazBlue}}, Toshimichi Mori. The story centers around [[GenderBender Mai Natsume]], a new student who had just arrived late due to a week absence and focuses on her interactions with her roommate Kajun Faycott and other major characters from the series including Noel Vermilion, Tsubaki Yayoi, and Makoto Nanaya, all of whom then make a posse together called [[TitleDrop Remix Heart]]. Other characters from the games do show up, but mainly as cameos. The series was serialized in a digital only magazine and ran for 24 chapters.

* TheCameo: Ragna, Jubei, Hazama, Relius, and Kokonoe all make an appearance in at least one chapter. Meanwhile Mai and Kajun makes an appearance in ''CPEX'', and Taro also gets a few mentions.

* DramaticIrony: In ch. 10 and 11, the team goes finding hints of the Azure Grimoire in the lower levels of the city, but in the end they technically didn't find anything. But little did Mai knew that the guy she met when she's separated from the others (who got hounded by the "zombies" and ended up outside) had the Azure Grimoire with him.

* {{Fanservice}}: UpToEleven from the main series, and that's saying something. It is drawn by a doujin artist after all.

* FindTheCure: a big subplot of the story involves the team trying to help Mai cure her super taste. [[spoiler:In the end, as the No Name completely merges with her, her ability becomes essentially permanent - but the end of the last chapter has the team [[AndTheAdventureContinues vows to keep trying.]] And Mai never revealed what exactly caused it.]]

* FirstLawOfGenderBending: Mai's condition is basically irreversible [[spoiler:but he (she?) comes to accept it in the end.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Played with. The fact that Mai is from the Hazuki house of the Duodecim is known as early as ch. 2, but there's how Tsubaki, Jin and Kagura (also from the Duodecim) remark in different occasions that they've seen someone like her before. It does, however, lead to the InternalReveal in ch. 23 that shows to them (mainly Tsubaki) that yes, she is (was?) Mai Hazuki.

* LethalChef: Noel's "quality" is shown more here. Apparently, her cooking is so atrocious that Miss Emma uses it to punish anyone who didn't do their cleanup job well. Mai, however, notes that it tastes so awesome (because she can feel through the food that Noel pours all of her pure heart into it) that later she would eat nothing but her cooking. This is pretty much a constant source of joke in the manga.
* LighterAndSofter: While it does have its serious moments, the series is mostly a comical SliceOfLife series compared to very dark atmosphere of the video games.

* MagicMirror: The grimoire named Ammit Cryas takes form of this. It shows within the mirror [[TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf the "true self" of the one holding it.]][[note]]Kajun nearly revealed her "true self" (i.e being a Sector Seven DoubleAgent) before she threw it away, while Mai also gets ahold of it and we just see a silhouette. [[/note]] But as Kajun noted, gazing at the mirror for too long may lead to you being absorbed into it. Noel herself instinctively feels that she shouldn't touch the thing.

** In ch. 18, the team suspects that Mai has shown signs of being lovestruck with Taro and decide to plan a date for them. It doesn't go as perfectly as expected, but in the end Mai does get to be with Taro and everyone's happy.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Downplayed: It doesn't particularly harm Mai, per se, but her holding out her real problems from her friends has made her troubled almost all the time and made her friends risk themselves trying to help her, a fact that she knows all too well. [[spoiler:When her secrets are finally revealed near the end, her friends don't really care and they still love her like before, giving her quite some closure.]]

** In ch. 23, the support and affection of her friends allows Mai to realize that her life isn't meaningless even if her father has seemingly rejected her and allows her to accept and be happy with herself as she is.

** Inverted in ch. 2: Tsubaki loses the contest for determining the "Izanami" title for the school festival to Kajun (who didn't mean to win in the first place), but she noted that, in the previous year, Jin (as the "Izanagi") neglected the "Izanami" of previous year because he's so busy with himself, and she predicts that Jin will be the same again this year. Which basically means Kajun saves Tsubaki from getting a PyrrhicVictory. Later on Kajun herself just slacks off from being "Izanami" and Tsubaki just walks into the student council room and meets Jin by herself, readying to work as a student council member under him.

** In Gaiden ch. 1, Kajun takes the Torifune Yam they just found seriously. The yam is apparently rare and is very nutritious and good for young girls. Mai doesn't really get it, though, and notes that Kajun becomes "different" when it comes to this.

* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Mai's life significantly improves after being turned into a girl. Being put in a more normal life with good friends (as "he" was a sheltered aristocrat) really helps.

The 15th Hierarchical City of Torifune is best known as the Military Academy for the NOL. There, future librarians train and hone their skills for whatever challenges may await them outside. The story centers around [[GenderBender Mai Natsume]], a girl who had just arrived late due to a week absence, but there seems to be several phenomenons centering around her that could be more than just coincidence.

Remix Heart is a manga drawn by famous doushinji artist, Sumeragi and based on a story draft written by the producer of VideoGame/{{BlazBlue}}, Toshimichi Mori. The manga takes place before the start of the series at the NOL's military academy. It stars Mai Natsume as a new student and her interactions with her roommate Kajun Faycott and other major characters from the series including Noel Vermilion, Tsubaki Yayoi, and Makoto Nanaya, all of whom then make a posse together called [[TitleDrop Remix Heart]]. Other characters from the games do show up, but mainly as cameos. The series was serialized in a digital only magazine and ran for 24 chapters.

Will get a sequel series titled ''Variable Heart'' written by Mori himself and Sumeragi returns as the primary artist.

''BlazBlueChronophantasma Extend'' also includes a side story named ''Remix Heart Gaiden'' which gives 2 extra chapters to the story and, of course, gives cameos from this manga, including Mai herself.

* AbortedArc: Around the first book, a concern is made by Miss Emma that the team somehow finds/stumbles upon a number of grimoires pretty easily, and concluding that something may conspire against them. [[spoiler:While it can be argued that all of them were Seifer Albar's doing (as he wanted someone to make a perfect merge with a grimoire to form a Remix Heart), it isn't clear how much he was involved within it.]] The explanation for this is probably that [[spoiler:Kajun deliberately made the group go looking for grimoires, mainly using the search for a grimoire to cure Mai as an excuse (though she resorted to other methods, such as tricking the group into thinking that they needed to find the Conversion Grimoire during the sports festival). She did that because her mission from Kokonoe was to find the Burning Red grimoire and she thus investigated any signs pointing to the presence of a grimoire in the hopes of finding it.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Don't be fooled, [[GenderBender that's a man front and center in that shot.]]]]

* YonKoma: The manga has them as omakes where they all made fun of the things happening in the manga itself.

* ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis: Mai constantly struggles with her gender identity throughout the manga. She enjoys the warm and fuzzy feeling that she gets from her new life, but at the same time she fears about 2 opposite things: the time where the truth of her condition may be revealed to her friends (as they all wanted to "turn her to normal"), or the time where she "loses" her real self. [[spoiler:Both of them are eventually resolved near the end of the manga.]] On a more humorous note, at first she has a hard time adjusting herself to look at naked female bodies normally, having blushes and occasional nosebleeds.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Downplayed in that there are only five (later six) main female characters, and three male supporting ones. Justified by the fact the series focuses on a group of friends who are girls and it's obvious that there a number of males at the school.

* YonKoma: The manga has them as omakes where they all made fun of the things happening in the manga itself.

* MagicMirror: The grimoire named Ammit Cryas takes form of this. It shows within the mirror the "true self" of the one holding it.[[note]]Kajun nearly revealed her "true self" (i.e being a Sector Seven DoubleAgent) before she threw it away, while Mai also gets ahold of it and we just see a silhouette. [[/note]] But as Kajun noted, gazing at the mirror for too long may lead to you being absorbed into it. Noel herself instinctively feels that she shouldn't touch the thing.

** Miss Emma [[spoiler:is secretly working for Kagura Mutsuki. She refers to herself as "Agent E" when talking to him on the phone.]]
** Kajun [[spoiler:is a DoubleAgent from Sector Seven who was sent to locate the Burning Red grimoire for Kokonoe as she wanted to use it as a power source for Iron Tager.]]
** Both Shiori and Chachakaka [[spoiler:are assassins who have enrolled at the Military Academy as students. Their mission is to assassinate Jin Kisaragi.]]

* FindTheCure: a big subplot of the story involves the team trying to help Mai cure her super taste. [[spoiler:In the end, as the No Name completely merges with her, her ability becomes essentially permanent - but the end of the last chapter has the team vows to keep trying. And Mai never revealed what exactly caused it.]]

** In ch. 6, Mai wonders where the Azure Grimoire might be. Cut to a shot to someone in Torifune's woods... who's none other than teenage Ragna.