History VisualNovel / XBlaze

** In the gag scenario Es says her father [[TheElderScrollsVSkyrim took an arrow to the knee]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The T-system is destroyed, Unomaru and Sechs are defeated, the Gate is cannot cover the world in seithr and the time loop has ended. However, in becoming the Embryo, Es is forced to remain in the Boundary to seal the Gate and prevent the Embryo from distorting the world, [[RetGone removing herself from the timeline and erasing everyone’s memories of her]] in the process]].

** When Drei asks Avenge who he is after he saves Touya and Es, the latter says he’s “[[KamenRiderDecade just an itinerate bounty hunter]]”[[note]]In Japanese he says “torisugari no” which can also mean “passing through” like how Tsukasa’s famous line is usually translated[[/note]].

* SpoilerOpening: Right from the start we see Touya taking on the appearance of the Black Beast as he unleashes the Original Grimoire and him wielding Murakumo and charging at Sechs at the very end, hinting that this will be the final battle and established Sechs as the main BigBad. We can also see the Es-N units hidden in shadow and [[spoiler: Ringo in her Zwei appearance fighting with magic]].

A sequel, ''[=XBlaze=] Lost: Memories'', was released on April 9, 2015. This story is about a girl who is referred as "Watashi", who lives in Ishana together with her sister. One day, her sister disappears, so Watashi goes into her father's workshop and somehow enters the phantom field were she meets with a mysterious girl known as Nobody, and together with Nobody, Watashi searches for sister while observing memories through "pieces of memories".

* AlternateTimeline: As it turns out, Watashi’s timeline (the main Franchise/BlazBlue timeline) and the [=XBlaze=] timeline are not one in the same), somehow. In Watashi’s world the Wadatsumi Incident never occurred. [[spoiler: This allows Es to change Touya’s fate without the risk of a paradox that would affect Watashi’s life]].

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: All of the Memory Fragments Watashi can find in the Phantom Field, [[spoiler: except the black ones which takes place afterwards and reveals that Touya is an ArtificialHuman]], show the events of ''Code: Embryo’s'' canon Es route from each of the main girl’s perspectives [[note]]Blue for Es, green for Hinata, red for Kuon and purple for Mei[[/note]], showing what each girl did when away from Touya and explores their characters further, showing things like Kuon and Mei having a duel that lets them become VitriolicBestBuds and revealing [[spoiler: how Hinata became the Embryo]].

* BittersweetEnding: For Watashi’s story in the first half of the game [[spoiler: She found her sister and escaped the Phantom Field, learning that her father did love his family and making her first friend in the process, allowing her to care for and trust in others. However, after learning that Nobody cannot leave the Phantom Field and of Es’ tragedy, she comes up with a plan to restore Es to the [=XBlaze=] timeline so that she can save Touya and her friends. Unfortunately the plan requires Nobody to give up all of her own memories, so she will not remember Watashi so Watashi not only will never see her first friend again, but will not even be remembered by her]].

* ColorCodedCharacters: The game gives colors to ''Code: Embryo'''s protagonists. Es is blue (considering the Azure, this is a minor ForeShadowing), Kuon is red/orange, Mei is purple, Hinata is green and Touya is black. Watashi also gets white.
* DeathByChildbirth: Watashi’s mother dies giving birth to Imouto. [[spoiler: This is because the seithr Watashi produced while in her womb poisoned her leaving her too weak to survive a second childbirth and she refused to choose her life over her child’s]].
* DelightingInRiddles: The mysterious waif "Nobody" entertains herself with riddles, and later gives riddles to Watashi.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Watashi and her family have no given names, just being Watashi, Imouto, Mother and Father. However, it is pretty obvious that Watashi, Imouto and Father are named Konoe, Celica and Shuichiro respectively; Mother’s name still remains unknown.
* HelloInsertNameHere: You can give Watashi another name, but her CanonName is still Watashi. [[spoiler:You can't, however, give her the name "Konoe". Or "Nine". Or "Phantom". [[DevelopersForesight Or Celica, Kokonoe and Shuichiro for that matter.]]]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: The memory-viewing menu shows how many of each color Memory Fragment there are in the game. Noticeably blue (Es) has the most memories, double the length of even the white memories that show the current events about Watashi, and has split pathways. [[spoiler:This is because Es takes over as the protagonist for the second half of the game and the gameplay changes to a traditional visual novel dialogue tree system]].

* PensieveFlashback: The Memory Fragments Watashi finds show her the events from ''Code: Embryo'' [[spoiler: and later the circumstances surrounding her birth]].
* PlaceBeyondTime[=/=]VoidBetweenTheWorlds: The Phantom Field exists as it’s own dimension. [[spoiler: It serves as a barrier between the real world and the Boundary, keeping the Gates closed. Time is irrelevant in it since Watashi can enter it and Nobody could leave it and add herself to the timeline years before Watashi was born on an AlternateTimeline]].

* {{Retraux}}: The Phantom Field in all of Watashi’s gameplay is rendered in an 8-bit style.

* SignificantDoubleCasting: Watashi is voiced by Creator/AyumiFujimura and Imouto is voiced by Creator/IoriNomizu, the voice actresses of Nine and Celica respectively. Unsurprisingly, they are voicing younger versions of those characters.

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: Because the Embryo is needed to maintain the World of the Tsukuyomi, Nobody is trapped in the Phantom Field. If she left to try and save Touya and the others from Freaks, the Tsukuyomi would disappear and seithr would start leaking out of the Wadatsumi Gate to consume the world. Watashi figures out how use her [=XBlaze=] and Nobody’s Phantom Memories to create a human body for Es in the [=XBlaze world=] and send her memories into it, leaving Embryo behind in Nobody’s EmptyShell body to maintain the Tsukuyomi]].
* TheUnreveal: Watashi and Imouto’s names are never directly spoken. However given the same appearances, voice actors, personalities, abilities, relationships and their appearance in ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' via Amane-fication, them being Nine and Celica becomes something of a CaptainObviousReveal (in that game at least) at the same time.

''[=XBlaze=] Code: Embryo'' is a Visual Novel created by Arc System Works. [=XBlaze=] is a prequel to ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', which set 150 years earlier, according to series producer Toshimichi Mori. The game was developed by the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' team and was released on July 25, 2013 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. The game was localized and released on June 24, 2014 in North America by Aksys Games.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: All over the place. The Drive Screaming Jaw, [[MakeMeWannaShout which creates destructive sound waves]], becomes Screaming Joe and Touya’s mother Ryoko Kagari was misheard as Suzuko Kagari (although this one was fixed in ''Lost: Memories''). The most egregious example is Origin of the Grimoire. “Gensho no Madousho” literally means Grimoire of Origin while Original Grimoire is the most natural translation, but somehow they managed to combine the two in a way that, while kind of having the same idea [[note]]Original Grimoire and Grimoire of Origin suggest that it is the first Grimoire whereas Origin of Grimoire suggests it is where all Grimoires come from[[/note]], doesn’t sound natural and does not fit the naming convention set by [[VideoGame/BlazBlue the main series]].

* {{Fanservice}}: Just like [[VideoGame/BlazBlue the main series]], there’s fanservice in abundance, most notably in the [[BeachEpisode pool scene]], [[ShowerScene shower scenes]] and Es and Hinata’s OutOfClothesExperience.

** Like [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Rachel]], Drei was born on October 31 (Halloween).
* SignificantDoubleCasting: Chie Matsuura voices Ringo Akagi and Inori Minase voices Mei Amanohokosaka. The two characters are related to another 2 characters in BlazBlue that they also voiced: Kokonoe for the former [[spoiler:because Ringo is also a Mercury]] and Homura for the latter [[spoiler: because Homura is also an Amanohokosaka]].

* AlternateTimeline: As it turns out, Watashi’s timeline (the main VideoGame/BlazBlue timeline) and the [=XBlaze=] timeline are not one in the same), somehow. In Watashi’s world the Wadatsumi Incident never occurred. [[spoiler: This allows Es to change Touya’s fate without the risk of a paradox that would affect Watashi’s life]].

* {{Chibi}}: The quizzes Nobody gives after each floor of the Phantom Field use the same style as [[VideoGame/BlazBlue the ''Teach Me, Miss Litchi'' segments]].

* TheUnreveal: Watashi and Imouto’s names are never directly spoken. However given the same appearances, voice actors, personalities, abilities, relationships and their appearance in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' via Amane-fication, them being Nine and Celica becomes something of a CaptainObviousReveal (in that game at least) at the same time.

** In the gag scenario says her father [[TheElderScrollsVSkyrim took an arrow to the knee]].

** When Drei asks Avenge who he is after he saves Touya and Es, the latter says he’s “[[KamenRiderDecade just an itinerate bounty hunter]]”[[note]]In Japanese he says is “torisugari no” which can also mean “passing through” like how Tsukasa’s famous line is usually translated[[/note]].

** When Drei asks avenge who he is after he saves Touya and Es, Avenges says he’s “[[KamenRiderDecade just an itinerate bounty hunter]]”[[note]]In Japanese he says is “torisugari no” which can also mean “passing through” like how Tsukasa’s famous line is usually translated[[/note]].

* AlternateTimeline: As it turns out, Watashi’s timeline (the main VideoGame/BlazBlue timeline) and the XBlaze timeline are not one in the same), somehow. In Watashi’s world the Wadatsumi Incident never occurred. [[spoiler: This allows Es to change Touya’s fate without the risk of a paradox that would affect Watashi’s life]].

* BadEnding: [[spoiler: After Es returns to the XBlaze timeline]] the player makes choices like a traditional visual novel, with incorrect choices leading to the B routes that end badly. Most of them involve [[spoiler: Freaks killing everyone]] but there are a few joke endings too.
* BittersweetEnding: For Watashi’s story in the first half of the game [[spoiler: She found her sister and escaped the Phantom Field, learning that her father did love his family and making her first friend in the process, allowing her to care for and trust in others. However, after learning that Nobody cannot leave the Phantom Field and of Es’ tragedy, she comes up with a plan to restore Es to the XBlaze timeline so that she can save Touya and her friends. Unfortunately the plan requires Nobody to give up all of her own memories, so she will not remember Watashi so Watashi not only will never see her first friend again, but will not even be remembered by her]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Es finally gets a happy ending, as opposed to ''Code: Embryo’s'' BittersweetEnding. She gets to return to the XBlaze world, helps avert Touya’s tragic fate, and [[BecomeARealBoy becomes human]]. While it’s unclear whether or not Touya and the others regain their memories, they still welcome her into their life. She and Touya work together under Mei in the Mitsurugi Agency and it’s almost guaranteed that they are going to get together, averting StarCrossedLovers]].

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: Because the Embryo is needed to maintain the World of the Tsukuyomi, Nobody is trapped in the Phantom Field. If she left to try and save Touya and the others from Freaks, the Tsukuyomi would disappear and seithr would start leaking out of the Wadatsumi Gate to consume the world. Watashi figures out how use her XBlaze and Nobody’s Phantom Memories to create a human body for Es in the XBlaze world and send her memories into it, leaving Embryo behind in Nobody’s EmptyShell body to maintain the Tsukuyomi]].

Just when he thinks all hope is lost, a young girl appears and repels the attacker. The Azure Maiden easily weilds a massive sword. Her name is Es. Seithr, Drive, D-Progressor Union, Ensis Librarius Imperium... Touya's peaceful life is turned upside down by a series of confusing, unbelievable events. The wheel of fate is turning.

A sequel, ''[=XBlaze=] Lost: Memories'',was released on April 9, 2015. This story is about a girl who is referred as "Watashi", who lives in Ishana together with her sister. One day, her sister disappears, so Watashi goes into her father's workshop and somehow enters the phantom field were she meets with a mysterious girl known as Nobody, and together with Nobody, Watashi searches for sister while observing memories through "pieces of memories".

''[=XBlaze=] Code: Embryo'' is a Visual Novel created by Arc System Works. [=XBlaze=] is a prequel to ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', which set 150 years earlier, according to series producer Toshimichi Mori. The game is being developed by the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' team and was released on July 25, 2013 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. The game was localized and released on June 24, 2014 in North America by Aksys Games.

* DelightingInRiddles: The mysterious waif "Nobody" entertains herself with riddles.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Es finally gets a happy ending, as opposed to ''Code: Embryo’s'' BittersweetEnding. She gets to return to the XBlaze world, helps avert Touya’s tragic fate, and [[BecomeARealBoy becomes human]]. While it’s unclear whether or not Touya and the others regain their memories, they still welcome her into their life Though it seems that only Touya and Mei are the only ones that at least started to rememer her. She and Touya work together under Mei in the Mitsurugi Agency and it’s almost guaranteed that they are going to get together, averting StarCrossedLovers]].

* HelloInsertNameHere: You can give Watashi another name, but her canon name is still Watashi. [[spoiler:You can't, however, give her the name "Konoe". Or "Nine". Or "Phantom". [[DevelopersForesight Or Celica, Kokonoe and Shuichiro for that matter.]]]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Es finally gets a happy ending, as opposed to ''Code: Embryo’s'' BittersweetEnding. She gets to return to the XBlaze world, helps avert Touya’s tragic fate, and [[BecomeARealBoy becomes human]]. While it’s unclear whether or not Touya and the others regain their memories, they still welcome her into their life. She and Touya work together under Mei in the Mitsurugi Agency and it’s almost guaranteed that they are going to get together, averting StarCrossedLovers]].

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: Because the Embryo is needed to maintain the World of Tsukuyomi, Nobody is trapped in the Phantom Field. If she left to try and save Touya and the others from Freaks, the Tsukuyomi would disappear and seithr would start leaking out of the Wadatsumi Gate to consume the world. Watashi figures out how use her XBlaze and Nobody’s Phantom Memories to create a human body for Es in the XBlaze world and send her memories into it, leaving Embryo behind in Nobody’s EmptyShell body to maintain the Tsukuyomi]].

* AlternateTimeline: As it turns out, Watashi’s timeline (the main VideoGame/BlazBlue timeline) and the XBlaze timeline are not one in the same), somehow. In Watashi’s world the Wadatsumi Incident never occurred. [[spoiler: This allows Es to change Touya’s fate without the risk of a paradox that would effect Watashi’s life]].

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: All of the Memory Fragments Watashi can find in the Phantom Field [[spoiler: except the black ones]] show the events of ''Code: Embryo’s'' canon Es route from each of the main girl’s perspectives [[note]]Blue for Es, green for Hinata, red for Kuon and purple for Mei[[/note]], showing what each girl did when away from Touya and explores their characters further, showing things like Kuon and Mei having a duel that lets them become VitriolicBestBuds and revealing [[spoiler: how Hinata became the Embryo]].

* InternalReveal: Taking the black Memory Fragments will show you [[spoiler:how Touya and Mei finds out that he's an ArtificialHuman]].

* TheUnreveal: Watashi and Imouto’s names are never directly spoken. However given the same appearances, voice actors, personalities, abilities, relationships and their appearance in VideoGame/BlazBlue via Amane-fication them being Nine and Celica becomes something of a CaptainObviousReveal at the same time.

''[=XBlaze=] Code: Embryo'' is a Visual Novel created by Arc System Works. [=XBlaze=] is a prequel to VideoGame/BlazBlue, which set 150 years earlier, according to series producer Toshimichi Mori. The game is being developed by the VideoGame/BlazBlue team and was released on July 25, 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. The game was localized and released on June 24, 2014 in North America by Aksys Games.

* AlternateTimeline: As it turns out, Watashi’s timeline (the main VideoGame/BlazBlue timeline) and the Xblaze timeline are not one in the same), somehow. In Watashi’s world the Wadatsumi Incident never occurred. [[spoiler: This allows Es to change Touya’s fate without the risk of a paradox that would effect Watashi’s life]].

* BadEnding: [[spoiler: After Es returns to the Xblaze timeline]] the player makes choices like a traditional visual novel, with incorrect choices leading to the B routes that end badly. Most of them involve [[spoiler: Freaks killing everyone]] but there are a few joke endings too.
* BittersweetEnding: For Watashi’s story in the first half of the game [[spoiler: She found her sister and escaped the Phantom Field, learning that her father did love his family and making her first friend in the process, allowing her to care for and trust in others. However, after learning that Nobody cannot leave the Phantom Field and of Es’ tragedy, she comes up with a plan to restore Es to the Xblaze timeline so that she can save Touya and her friends. Unfortunately the plan requires Nobody to give up all of her own memories, so she will not remember Watashi so Watashi not only will never see her first friend again, but will not even be remembered by her]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Es finally gets a happy ending, as opposed to ''Code: Embryo’s'' BittersweetEnding. She gets to return to the Xblaze world, helps avert Touya’s tragic fate, and [[BecomeARealBoy becomes human]]. While it’s unclear whether or not Touya and the others regain their memories, they still welcome her into their life. She and Touya work together under Mei in the Mitsurugi Agency and it’s almost guaranteed that they are going to get together, averting StarCrossedLovers]].

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: Because the Embryo is needed to maintain the World of Tsukuyomi, Nobody is trapped in the Phantom Field. If she left to try and save Touya and the others from Freaks, the Tsukuyomi would disappear and seithr would start leaking out of the Wadatsumi Gate to consume the world. Watashi figures out how use her Xblaze and Nobody’s Phantom Memories to create a human body for Es in the Xblaze world and send her memories into it, leaving Embryo behind in Nobody’s EmptyShell body to maintain the Tsukuyomi]].

!!Tropes pertaining to ''Code Embryo'' include:

* BlindIdiotTranslation: All over the place. The Drive Screaming Jaw, [[MakeMeWannaShout which creates destructive sound waves]], becomes Screaming Joe and Touya’s mother Ryoko Kagari was misheard as Suzuko Kagari (although this one was fixed in ''Lost Memories''). The most egregious example is Origin of the Grimoire. “Gensho no Madousho” literally means Grimoire of Origin while Original Grimoire is the most natural translation, but somehow they managed to combine the two in a way that, while kind of having the same idea [[note]]Original Grimoire and Grimoire of Origin suggest that it is the first Grimoire whereas Origin of Grimoire suggests it is where all Grimoires come from[[/note]], doesn’t sound natural and does not fit the naming convention set by [[VideoGame/BlazBlue the main series]].

* GoldenEnding: Es’s route is the true and best ending. [[spoiler: While it is still a BittersweetEnding, it is this by default since all other endings are negated when Hinata presses the ResetButton. Es’s story breaks the time loop and canonically leads into ''Lost Memories'' and by extension, the rest of the series]].

* NGOSuperpower: The Mitsurugi Agency has pretty much complete control over Shin Yokozaki city, commanding the police, able to buy Touya’s entire school overnight and with ties to the similarly powerful Magic Guild. [[spoiler: ''Lost Memories'' reveals that the Shin Yokozaki branch is just a small part of the Agency and the much larger and stronger branches are searching all over the world for other Gates]].

* OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding: Again, the Mitsurugi Agency. Unomaru, the leader of the branch in only one city, was able to buy Touya’s high school overnight just so he could enroll Es in it without having to deal with getting her credentials, and this is before any of the experiments with Embryo and the Gate. In ''Lost Memories'', Mei remarks that the Agency was probably created by a bunch of rich old men with nothing to do.

!!Tropes pertaining to ''Lost Memories'' include:

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: All of the Memory Fragments Watashi can find in the Phantom Field [[spoiler: except the black ones]] show the events of ''Code Embryo’s'' canon Es route from each of the main girl’s perspectives [[note]]Blue for Es, green for Hinata, red for Kuon and purple for Mei[[/note]], showing what each girl did when away from Touya and explores their characters further, showing things like Kuon and Mei having a duel that lets them become VitriolicBestBuds and revealing [[spoiler: how Hinata became the Embryo]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Es finally gets a happy ending, as opposed to ''Code Embryo’s'' BittersweetEnding. She gets to return to the Xblaze world, helps avert Touya’s tragic fate, and [[BecomeARealBoy becomes human]]. While it’s unclear whether or not Touya and the others regain their memories, they still welcome her into their life. She and Touya work together under Mei in the Mitsurugi Agency and it’s almost guaranteed that they are going to get together, averting StarCrossedLovers]].

* InconsistentDub: A rare positive example. Because of BlindIdiotTranslation, Touya’s mom was named Suzuko Kagari. In ''Lost Memories'' this was corrected, switching to her original name Ryoko Kagari, but the discrepancy is noticeable.

* PensieveFlashback: The Memory Fragments Watashi finds show her the events from ''Code Embryo'' [[spoiler: and later the circumstances surrounding her birth]].

* RedHerring: The scenes of Sechs talking to a crystal in ''Code Embryo'' and similar endgames seem to hint that [[spoiler: Hades Izanami is the ManBehindTheMan to Sechs]]. However ''Lost Memories'' reveals he is talking to [[spoiler: A strange double of himself that appeared due to him being an ArtificialHuman. This double shares none of Izanami’s personality or mannerisms and even considers Sechs a friend. Additionally, it was Sechs who came up with the plan, wanting to absorb the world into seithr so that there is perfect balance in the world, without life or death, which is slightly different than Izanami’s goal]].