Blazblue is a fighting game. Like any fighting game, it has a massive abundance of something it doesn't need anything of at all: a story. Blazblue is a little unique for having so much spinoff apocrypha; visual novels, manga, radio dramas, etc.

Diving into the wiki for Blazblue requires a certain kind of courage. It takes even more to rate and chronicle the experience. But with enough time and patience, you, too, can understand what's happening here.

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It is absolutely too easy to make fun of the Blazblue wiki, so easy I don't want to make fun of it? I ended up not being very successful at this but if you only focus on how ridiculously nonsensical the Blazblue wiki is out of context, it's easy to miss how ridiculous the context itself is, that it's more overwhelming and strange that Blazblue does make sense than that it doesn't make sense.



It's truly ridiculous for how obsessively it makes sense out of itself; as a game about anime characters fighting each other, it doesn't actually need to make any sense, or at least, nowhere near the amount of sense it tries to make.

What Blazblue is ultimately "about" are characters trapped in a recursive loop of time, creating fictional solutions to fictional problems as an ad infinitum mirror of the creators of the games making shit up to explain other made up shit and solve cliffhangers and dangling plot threads.

I'm not exaggerating very much? Very seriously, and very literally, this is actually the storyline of Blazblue, and the characters coming up with ways to find a solution to the setting's dream logic kind of seems to mirror the creative process of writing Blazblue.

Part of me wants to correctly say that this makes Blazblue VERY stupid. Another part of me spent several hours browsing the Blazblue wiki, and that part of me wants to slightly disagree, because I loved it?

You can follow a hyperlink and read a full and detailed explanation for whatever fucking nonsense that the Blazblue wiki throws at you, and of course, obviously, it is just going to be more fucking nonsense, but somehow my brain is fully compelled by it. I love knowing more about it even if it's all the functioning of completely made up plot devices that have no relevance to the real world, and no meaning other than the way they interlock together. It's engrossing. It's scary!

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