How Blazblue Made an Evil Character the Hero 

Okay, addressing a few things, 1) lore stuff I got wrong, Celica wasn't one of the six heroes. It was a valkenhayn, oops. The izayoi wasn't used to kill civilians it was used to kill deserters. The rest of the that I've verified with the wiki, so cope, I guess 2). The tone of the video is clearly comedic, so allow me to clarify what my point was. Jin his whole life has been fucked with. Either by yukianesa, terumi, or the world order. And through all of this, he was able to break through and choose to be with people he loves rather than succumb to what the world has in store for him. 3) If you think I have misportrayed Jin as psychotic and evil....that's because he is. Yukianesa only influences him, not controls him. He has never been forced to do the action he committed against tsubaki, ragna, and Noel. Jin is a fucked up guy who largely thought the story has done fucked up things. So if you're one of the people who are trying to say that terumi was the real hero or that Jin did nothing wrong, please reexamine yourself

I love how most blazblue characters ideas on how to solve things first is just "Oh yeah, I'm jumping into the cauldron."

Jin is totally a super nice guy he would never hurt Tsubaki the love of his life.

Btw Jin to Hakumen is the biggest glow up in fighting game history

The most insane piece of dialogue is when Jin told Tsubaki that when he was young he tried to kill Ragna, his own brother, for no reason, and then asks her to finish it. And she’s all like “Yes you poor soul, I will kill this man for no reason.” Blew my mind.

Jin has like 20 layers of trauma and that's what makes him so interesting

Dude, I agree with you on how DUMB Tsubaki can be when it comes to Jin. Her love for that man is so strong that she ends up hating Ragna for Jin being the way he is when Ragna was the VICTIM.

Both Jin and Hakumen developed immensely throughout the series (although the latter mostly did so behind the scenes), but they still retained their main flaw of wanting to stick to their "perfect hero of justice" façade until the last act of Centralfiction. Which is why I loved so much the moment when they finally decided to drop it and prioritize their loved ones over what was objectively better for the world. Such a beautiful conclusion for such a long character development arc.

"Jin is left in a bitchless state" - Old Reliable 2022

Jin : world force him to become hero Ragna : world force him to become villain But in the end they can fight the world and become what they want to be

Jin the hero the people wanted and Ragna the hero the people needed

My favorite detail about Jin is that he's got three things manipulating his actions at all times; Trauma - his repressed memories still spilling through as his "love" for Ragna and the knowledge that he will one day become a monster Yukianesa: Sword that tells you to kill people for the fun of it Power of Order: Cosmic force that says "kill your brother for the good of the world" So whenever he meets Ragna, it's no surprise that he seems to get a giant hard-on. Every part of him is screaming out that his destiny is to kill his bro and that it's absolutely the right thing to do if he truly loves him. It's why I honestly love Ragna's relationship with Jin, because he knows that Jin is crazy, but he's still his little bro, to the point where he, as you say in this video, gives him advice on how to deal with his psycho sword. The Bloodedge family all really need therapy tho. Very good video! I love hearing an actual breakdown on what makes members of this cast so great.

“I’ve had this in my basement for like 8 years. Want it?” Honestly if that’s where the Armor had been the whole time before Jin got it would’ve been hilarious.

Jin seems like a nice guy

And today we learned that despite how many time lines are, Jin will still commit domestic abuse.

I never thought Tsubaki was all that innocent anyway. She saw Jin treat Noel -- supposedly one of her best friends -- coldly at best, and like garbage at worst. And she was pretty much cool with it. She also knew Jin went berserk and tried to kill Mai Natsume for apparently no reason...and Tsubaki was still all good with him! Didn't get particularly concerned about this extreme behavior and what it meant about him overall, just worried about him. She ignored a lot of red flags in favor of "omg my childhood friend!"

I know I've said this before but blazblue lore is wild. I think I might have a thing for convoluted stories (fate,guilty gear and maybe blazblue too).

I'll keep saying it forever, Blazblue's story gets really ridiculous as it goes on, but what it does with its characters and their own stories within the greater story are so good, entertaining and make the game's story worth experiencing.

I find it interesting that I liked jins design and cool powers so I went for him on a psp blazeblue and then thought "oh, this other swordsman Hakumen fella looks pretty sick I should use him too" and played with hakumen aswell only to find out... Its also Jin, I cant wait to find out Arakune (another character I liked) is somehow jin from another alternate future-past. On an unrelated note: you use a Soul Eater character as your face so I declare you *based*

Anyone: *breathes* Jin: F*ck off. >:(

man I didn't know Hakumen was actually Jin. The story is really confusing and hard to understand but it's really good

I like how 90% of the video had to be dedicated to the insane story of 3 of these games, without even including the end of the saga. Truly a Mori moment.

Jin was jealous of Saya because Ragna paid more attention to her and he hates Noel because she looks the same as her. Same applies to the Murakumo units in one of the CT endings where Nu kills Ragna Jin says something along the lines of "I won’t late you take my brother away from me again" referring to how he saw Saya back in the day. He acts crazy around Ragna because he still wants his attention, the power of order sees Ragna as something he needs to kill in order to have world peace, has trauma surrounding the church event and Yukianesa amplifying those emotions, the mixture of those things is why Jin is crazy in CT-CS.

ah yes good old ice sociopath 10/10 (oh yeah right i forgot to mention the part where he get no bitches)

1:28 Use gun, if gun is not working, USE MORE GUN

One of the things that should also be mentioned about his beginnings is this sort of mental stagnation he has from his time growing upthat I've recognized. I think after receiving yukianesa, Jin had gone through so much mental alteration and trauma that you can kinda tell that he never truly got to "grow up" or just mature in a safe or normal way that kids should. Being fed murderous thoughts as an impressionable and emotional child who also ALREADY had trauma from the lab (shown through Ragna as he was INCREDIBLY defensive towards his siblings when first meeting the sister). He'd already been through enough to make him need a sort of consistency/safe space and for him it was his older brother, who had been attempting to protect both him and Saya that entire time. It's only natural for both Jin to latch onto his older brother because of his "role" as his protector. I just think that it was that attachment that caused him to "hate" Saya (although it was in that sort of childish "Why isnt anyone giving me attention like they are to you" way). It was a perfectly reasonable thing for him to believe since he was just a kid and already so emotionally traumatized. But because of him getting yukianesa at around that time, it certainly didn't help with that childish view of his siblings when it started feeding thoughts into head, and when he was told that his brother was the "villain". Jin didn't ever "hate" Saya, at least not in my opinion. It was just that the last experience he had with her and Ragna as a child before believing they were both, in fact, dead was Saya garnering all of the attention of Ragna and the sister because of her frail body. And because he was a child and became traumatized from both of his siblings "dying" in front of him, it makes sense that his mind would block it out and only associate both Saya with "Jealousy and Hatred" and Ragna with "Safety and Affection." But over time it definitely took its toll on his mental state. If he had just let go of the sword, he might have been able to heal... But I recall in Spiral Shift that Jin mentions he keeps Yukianesa as a testimony to the sins that he comitted, and that's why he doesn't just get rid of it. (there's also probably the world's order at play, but that's besides the point). I'm certain that Jin's "bloodlust" that we see in the games for Ragna is simply a mix of the world's order telling him to kill his own brother, and his true feelings that he has. Nothing romantic, he just cares a LOT about his family. Jin is always pretty family oriented, which is why he cared so much for Tsubaki because for the longest time she was the only real family he had. His actions towards Ragna are always very contradictory. If he ever truly wanted Ragna dead, then why would he be begging so much at the end of CF where he tries to keep Ragna alive? There's so much evidence against him actually wanting to kill Ragna that it's insane. At the end of the day Jin strikes me as a character who loves his family more than anything. He was just horribly traumatized and fucked with that his true thoughts and feelings were trapped underneath layers upon layers of his own mental derrangement from said alterations. He loves Saya and Ragna (not in a weird way you fucking weirdos), and probably would have been a pretty sweet kid like we see him be in the academy were it not for all of those horrible events that changed him.

You know I used to not like Jin from the surface level except for his fighting style and stuff But after watching this, kinda makes me appreciate him a bit more While I still have a bunch of stuff to get through the story, at least I now appreciate the character a bit more than before

I haven't laughed this much in Blazeblue content in ages. Honestly feel if the dialogue swung that way Rachel would just throw out "How are you this hoeless?" to Jin. Granted Ragna would get it a thousand percent worse and my boy has enough abuse hurled at him by the entire cast (Tao being the exception) You got a like today sah.

I like this. Jin isn’t one of my favorites, but I like the characters analysis of the character. Hope to see more videos of Blazblue lore.

There are a few things off, like Jin's motivations and historical/order of events, and I'd say Jin is more of a tragic character than an evil one (Something he shares with Ragna). But a decent synopsis of his general story.

The reason Jin attacked Ragna is actually the sword Terumi gave him. it recognizes ragna as the black beast, and pushes him to kill him. he would not have fully decided to do it otherwise

Jin do be considering murder sometimes

Hakumen is actually just way too based to the point it is funny. He was literally written to be the idea of cool for 2022 male teenagers and young adults on the internet obsessed with based and cringe. I fucking love him.

Unrelated, but It's refreshing to hear someone talk about Tsubaki in a neutral way. At least that's what I got from the bits that mentioned her.

jin really goes thru a lot, and that traumatizes him

Fuck man that scene with Tsubaki and Hakumen hits me hard every time specially the last bit when his voice goes back to Jin I just love this game so much, good video dude.

There is a light novel about Jin and his time in the Ikaruga Civil War and does a very good job at showing his change from the academy into what he is now.

wow i didn't expected so many war crimes the video:

this is unexpected but i love it a lot especially since Jin is my fav BlazBlue character (my baby boy is too misunderstood honestly) so thank you for this video kind sir ! also after seeing yer great video on I-No, that we get one on Nine soon ? in the mean time, i'll keep supporting ya

5:46 I cannot express how much I love this joke

1:40 ngl Jin and Hazama really do be cosplaying Kiritsugu and Natalia there

jin is why therapy is worth it

The home movies callback, thank you for that, and the good video oml

So are we going to go over the fact that Tsubaki herself isn't innocent at all. Anyway, thanks for the video, Jin is a much more complex character that I originally thought( I thought he was just a psycho brocon). It's nice to know that he actually loves Tsubaki, but I still don't get his irrational hatered towards Saya, his own little sister.

Thank you for bringing more attention to this incredible series🙏

I LOVE the way you break down BB stories. I hope you continue. Subb'd 🙏♥️

A few things: Wasn’t Celica killed by Terumi while Jin was told by both Terumi and his ice sword to kill Ragna? The Six Heroes included all you mentioned except Celica, that Valkenhein’s spot. And the seventh unmentioned hero being Bloodedge. And the reason Jin jumped into the cauldron thus being Hakumen was not necessarily suicide but to save Ragna from Nu. Also the timeline where Noel is his secretary is the timeline he doesn’t become Hakumen. Thanks to Noel saving Ragna from being the Black Beast thus causing the Calamity Trigger. Let me know if I’m mistaken.

Never read the light novels but the games say Jin gets his sword from Saya. While he does get mad every time he sees a girl that looks like Saya even Ragna knows the burning of his orphanage as his first encounter with Teroumi, because he not only saw him but also knew that killing all those people would be something thats to hard for Jin at the time. While Jin is a bit attached to Ragna the real thing that makes him go crazy when Ragna's around is Yukianesa which has a draw back of making the user's emotions go out of control. Jin doesn't really like Noel which in the games he makes really obvious but that's only because of Yukianesa without it he just doesn't much care for her.(not enough to say anything about it) I agree that Jin is crazy but most of that is his weapon's doing warping his emotions to a point where they become disturbing to say the least.

If it helps, the green haired creep implanted a mind eating curse into Jin while telling him all of that, so he literally doesn't remember shit clearly. Though he also absolutely doesn't give even half a damn and would deny having trauma like a boomer.

5:45. The music cut in had me dying

I know the whole backstory of Hakumen and somehow watching this video is still confusing....

Remember that Jin has the power of order and Yukianessa both telling him to Kill Ragna. At like 10... like imagine that.

I like how Ragna's standard face is just him done with everything and everyone.

Bruh you drop so much lore in such fun way and this just on character OMG this pretty cool video im now getting into blazblue!

Jin has trauma and is a misogynist. He's just like me fr.

great video(and I don't want to be that guy AT ALL), BUT The Jin who sees Tsubaki get killed just straight up goes back all the way to AD 2099 and doesn't loop again with Noel. He never met Noel, he got the Susanoo Unit right after that tho.

this is my comment after watching the video; noticed ya changed the title, im allright with that since contrary to the I-No or Terumi videos its less bout why we should care and a depth analysis showing Jin feelings and more a rundown to what he did in BB (and ya didnt even get to CF lmao) but without much hindsight of how Jin felt about all of these (like why his conflict with Ragna and Saya runs more deep and it isnt as childish as it appears), what i mean by that is that its mostly showing Jin as the jerkass he is but less bout the more humane moments he had😅(whether its with Tsubaki or his former classmates) still its a great video and dunno if ya will talk more bout Jin in the future but i sure hope so coz he deserves to have the spotlight (and my point about a Nine video still stands, need my witch mommy video)

I am the white void, I am the cold steel, I am the just sword. With blade in hand shall I rid the sins of this sword and cleanse it in the fire of destruction! I am Hakumen. The end has come! I lost to Hakumen so many times in Calamity Trigger that that dialogue has seared into my brain.

Knowing nothing about Blazblue lore and after watching this video, I’m still confused how Jin is a hero. It was funny though 😂

I start playing blazblue calimity trigger this year, i start to play the story mode with Jin and he is such a crazy bastard, i love him uwu

Hey wait a minute, it's you again, from that other BlazBlue video that popped up in my feed

So Hakumen story is pretty much Fate/Stay Night Archer of this Franchise only with more Psychosis child trauma and no need to make temporal sui**** cause of broken dreams.

really appreciate the use of Ultrakill ost there

*L + Ratio + Cope + Seeth + Mald + Cry about it + Stay mad + My Yukikaze is better + I was able to kill Ragna + Ye Ye ass haircut + My song is better + I am the white void*

His vocal them is fucking lit, haven't even watched the vid yet, just wanted to point it out

2:46 Bro this is the funniest shit I ever saw in my life

your humor is fucking fantastic, Subscribed

Wasn’t Valkenhayn a part of the six heroes, not Celica

Oh yes.......the ultimate BRO-CON!!!

for some reason… I learned more about the lore from this then actually playing the game

>jin commits domestic abuse >and leaves, again satisfied iconic.

Jin's guide on how to be a gentleman a book now sold in stores and part of curriculum in schools

found your content recently and i really love it

Thanks, i would like to see more videos like this about BlazBlue characters.

I think in the start of the video, you should have stated that your following 2 different timelines. And too follow the A and B timeline at the top left. You did mention time shenanigans but it wasn’t clear. Otherwise really interesting videos, seems like an interesting character for a game I don’t play lol

Unrelated to your fighting game videos I got to say you have banger taste making your mascot Erika from soul eater. On topic why does tsubaki blazblue feel like she is the same as tsubaki soul eater. Feels too much like a coincidence with how you described it here

Wtf this vid man I rewinded 10 times already and I am not even half way through the vid

F1rts... Real Thumbnail title question: "Why you could care about a 'Psychopath' ?" 2:10 Damn , Ky. Poor Tsubaki. 2:38 I'm unsubbing because of that voice. 3:15 Made in Heaven and Bites the Dust and Mandom maybe? 4:45 Ayooo Calm Down. 4:48 Eruka's face here reminds of the UNIclr artstyle. I kind of like this portrait. 5:35 Wasn't Valkenhayn one too?

It’s one am so I assumed when I saw Brendan and the coach that I was loosing my shit but here we are and I’m enjoying every second of it

the home movies bit caught me so off guard lol

The wheel of fate is turning

Ah yes Jin Kiske

But Valkenhayn is one of the six and not Celica? Or is there a meme that I'm missing Also the izayoi wasn't made as a weapon to kill citizens during war time. That was the Zero Squadron division of the NOL, and I hate how nerdy I sound nitpicking a video like this lol

Fantastic video

You should def do more of these!

Jin. Everybody's favourite domestic abuser

Mini game unlocked: Keep tapping to the left of the screen to make old reliable sound like Scooby Doo. Can you tap more than 5 times though??!?

This dude should be named "Body Pillow" based on how MUCH he gets bodied

Watched the whole video, and, not gonna cap, i'm more confused now than i was at the beginning

I was obsessed with BB but now I'm like "where did this lore come from?" Like I totally dont recall Hakumen killing Ragna after defeating the Black Beast. Was that timeline saved then?

Ah yes my favorite series BlazBlue where the entire lore is about INCEST

So Hakumen is Archer but Shirou and Jin is Shirou but Archer.

He is great, there is usually sexual tension between rivals but they never say it but Jin is honest (maybe too much) about it.

*Slaps Jin* This boy can fit so much trauma in him.

Tsubaki just deserves better as a whole, wtf Mori

Ur brain can be denied from the reality if u gonna enjoy the whole blazblue lore

Dude this video confused the hell outta me but you used FE3H and Hollow Knight music. So I decided you deserved a comment :3 In more seriousness, I like fictional characters that are well written, regardless of whether or not they're good people. I don't understand how some stans of certain fictional characters must insist their favorite is a "good guy" simply because they like the character. Dude, ur fav can be trash. Embrace the trash. Accept that you love trash. We all have loved trash characters - and that's fine. Characters are good if they're well written, not because they're perfect angels or saints.

Hazama sick as ever the guy is the badness that glides in these starters.

The author after smoking weeds oh yeah I'm ready to write down this bad boi story

Jin was my favorite character in the only BlazBlue I've ever played lol