Blazblue Rival Theme Songs Are PEAK (Blind Reactions and Tier List) 

Running joke about XMatic: it's all using string instruments, because both characters use Puppets.

Hazama was originally a boss character from the 2nd game, thats why he had a theme with Ragna that goes that diabolically hard. He also had his own boss theme different from glutonny fang, which is called Endless Despair which yes, has a 2nd version

Fun Fact: Unlike most fighting games, BlazBlue is very story heavy. Makes it really worth playing all of the games to see how the characters develop and interact with each other. Whether it be Ragna learning to be more accepting of having friends despite his hand in life or Noel overcoming the things she hates about herself. Absolutely love all of these characters. Except Hazama and Relius but that’s very understandable considering what they do. Especially Relius, Carl still hasn’t recovered from what he did.

Fun fact: The things Hazama was holding in nightmare fiction ii were butterfly knives, and they are like foldable knives, but they are tricky to use because if used wrong, it could cut you, but if handled with skill, you can do some really unorthodox stunts with it.

Really love when you try to analyze character and lore through the music ✨✨✨

I admit, Weak Executioner fits really well, but the situation in itself is hard to read. To put it lightly, even if Litchi and Arakune are the ones fighting, the thing is that Litchi's story involves curing a man from an accidental parasite-esque black blob form that consumed his memories with an obsession for the Azure, while the man she's trying to save doesn't want to be saved yet, nor doesn't want Litchi to be hurt in the process. So the suggestion of "let it go" and "I can't" is there, even if it needs the context. The L.A vocal version, even if outdated and somewhat innacurate, at least explains this dynamic way better than the original. One of the few L.A versions to do that, mind you.

Also cool, but some characters actually change their in game dialogue when fighting each other. Like in Ragna's case he normally says the move's name for Gauntlet Hades and Hell's Fang. Against Jin it changes to "JIN! DIE ALREADY!" and "I'll never...FORGIVE YOU!" for the respective moves. Meanwhile Jin goes from serious to unhinged.

Based fellow Six Heroes enjoyer. Definitely my favorite tune on the OST, and that's saying a lot.

Jin and Noel's rival music is emotional because Jin is being driven by his sword (Yukianesa) to kill her. Plus the Power of Order driving him to kill anomalies like her since Noel is a Murakumo Unit based off her real younger sister, Saya. Jin hated Saya because of Ragna's favoritism towards her when they were children. At first, Jin only feels slight contempt for her, but then as his sword's influence towards him becomes more and more pronounced, so does his mental gets more and more corrupted. At the same time, even if they are siblings, the theme also serves as the theme for the organization they are working for (The NOL). So yeah, knowing how crazy the BlazBlue lore is, the music towards them is more like tragedy after tragedy. That's why most of the music have some emotional flair to them, especially if they concerned the three main protagonists - Ragna, Jin and Noel.

FYI, any of the “topic” RU-vid channels of videos have the best quality because they are uploaded by the the actual publisher

When you search soundtrack on youtube, sort by newest, these are usually HD uploads; or listen to the the soundtrack in-game, most fighting games have a gallery mode.

All of the II themes were remixed by GALNERYUS which is like a Japanese Power Metal band, which is why they’re so much faster paced overall. Some of them are ok but I usually prefer the Daisuke originals

Going to tell you now. Thin Red Line 2. Arakune's theme? Goes fucking hard. Same with Noel's theme Bullet Dance 2.

wonderful video as always mr donut. its always great seeing your thoughts on how fg themes represent a character, that x-matic analysis was on point lol very excited to see your reactions to the second versions of character themes. that shit goes so hard

No but fr first time I listened to God of War I felt the same thing, like the song itself is a whole fuckin movie it’s so good, and how it ends I always imagined they did one final clash but we don’t see the result

loved your reactions! ngl tho im bummed Memory of Tears 1 wasnt included, i was looking forward to your take on ky favorite theme in the game 😢

While it's not oficaly listed as one, It's widly considered to be a versus theme between Ragna and Susano'o, or Susano'os unlimited theme. Check out "Hakaishin" when you can. It's really good. Also Unlimited Hazama's theme "Endless Dispair" and Unlimited Ragna's theme "Black Onslaught". Blazblue songs in general just slap all around.

Screamed like a fan girl when this shit got uploaded Also, thx for the shout-out

3:53 You are no the only one, THAT'S EXACTLY THE POINT

7:33 Oh honey booboo, he's been trying to do that LONG before Central Fiction. I'm talking Calamity Trigger.

I feel like Weak Executioner is a spiritual successor to Still in the Dark, the Millia vs Zato theme in the older Guilty Gear games. Daisuke said on a Blazblue podcast that it is his favorite song, I can imagine him making a Blazblue version of it when composing the song.

Since your going back to the 2nd character theme versions, I was wondering if you would react to the l.a vocal versions of the themes they did. They are all great, and if not, I still highly recommend listening to them on your own.

Weak Executioner is very underrated in my opinion. The first 20 seconds or so of it hit so hard.

Modern Links exist for ALL of these songs. so tell the one that made you this playlist to git gud. But loved the video regardless. A shame some of those low EQ songs were underrated Bangers.

Versus themes done! The only one I really don't care for is weak executioner. it just didn't hit as hard as it should for how tragic it's supposed to be. Any chance you'll be doing Guilty Gear Overture or Daisuke's take on Contra?

The reason Relius VS Valk sounds that way os because they were once team mates.

Love the observations, im sure they're intended

Btw, where is the rest of Guilty Gear Xrd reactions? Where is "Devide My Heart"? Where is all those other cool OSTs from Xrd like ths one about ship "The Bruce" of "Captain Steel"?

1:16:54 That boinga boinga I would assume relates to Nine's theme or the fact is a theme with a shit ton of lore related to something that happen in the past

25:59 how did you knew? 😂

You forgot about End Gazer (Es vs Celica/Nine)

I always thought Imperial Code was such a good song it didn’t deserve to be wasted as a Jin-Noe vs theme as they don’t even have that big of a rivalry and barely even plays on the story.

Liked for actually doing both versions of the songs. I usually prefer the OGs.

Peak peak peak peak

There’s a bunch of other songs with vocals which aren’t character songs or rival songs

Bro i can't believe you don't know what a violin is 😭

When I pick God of War, just know Im tired of yo ass 😭