MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA FASHION REVIEW 

Melty blood is originally based off a visual novel called tsukihime In the series they all look like normal people but they all have secret powers in some way The designs are made to be relatively unremarkable because the characters need to fit in to the rest of the world, we then learn more about them through their dialogue ingame The genre is: Magic assholes fighting in the streets at night

Dope vid. If I recall correctly Arcueid being out of style is one of her character traits. Her old outfit from Tsukihime (2000) was out of style then too. It's almost like she's just catching up to the fashion of the original game's time lol.

Considering Tsukihime's principal of character design, I think you could see Kouma's coat as him concealing his identity as a paid emotionless killer yet he's still being feared by the people around him since the way he wears the coat is kinda like a Yakuza member or something. But hey that's just my interpretation

You now know more lore than a lot of Melty blood players

Fighting game character designs/outfits are made with the mechanics in mind, i.e virtually all characters wearing sleeveless shirts have coloured gloves or wristbands to draw attention to the part they actually hit you with. Cammy's outfit is once again, a great example. For this reason it's quite unusual for a FTG to have characters wearing black shoes with black pants or socks (as it makes kicks harder to see). I'd guess this is due to some of the characters coming from a visual novel, but also the higher quality animation compared to most air dashers. Also, I don't think it's a coincidence that the characters with the most elaborate outfits (Vlov and Sabre) both attack with long-range weapons, as having their attacks be an external object with hitboxes situated far from the body frees the character design from having to adhere to the same kind of colour theory that say, Street Fighter characters did. I know you're just looking at the outfits on their own, but thought I'd mention it. Anyway, cool video.

11:00 I think something alot of people forget is that most of the characters weren't designed to be in a fighting game

I've heard on many occasions that the style of Melty Blood and Tsukihime is meant to conceal the power, intentions, or origins that the characters have by making their outward appearance more plain. Vlov is the exception in this game but I can see this being true given most of the character designs.

YES. I love that you brought in lore, fashion history, and some character design concepts. Would love to see more in this series - even just going back to all the classic Capcom & SNK games would be interesting!

Kouma is a half demon with especially strong demon blood He became a hermit in order to train himself to better control his demon blood and his emotions. It’s why his eyes look so strange and why he has fire powers

it's crazy cause arc's outfit IS the update; she originally had an outfit much closer to red arc

The verdict is in. My wish has been granted lol. Appreciate the effort. Learned a few things I wasn't expecting to!

The original Tsukihime visual novel was wild, and saying it's and adult game is definitely accurate, since in the original game the player had the option to pick between five routes with each girl being the focus of the route, and where those routes go is pretty dark. For instance, I'll never forget the scene where Shiki rapes Arcueid in her route, and it's shown in great detail, this was done by showing Shiki pinning her down and forcefully removing her clothes as he does the deed. Another example, is in a separate route with the player witnessing a similar scenario with Shiki's violent sexual encounter with Kohaku, which resulted in leaving the poor girl in tears. That being said, there is indeed story justification on why our protagonist does what he does, and I'll leave that for people interested in what I just presented to read the VN themselves to see what that justification is, but yeah, definitely not for the faint of heart. Still a very good read IMO, and I can see why so many people call this game a cult classic.

There are two shiki tohno’s because the current shiki happened to have the same first name as the original shiki Something happened to the original shiki tohno and the new shiki ended up taking his place

These fashion reviews are so much fun. Loved the Strive one, and I love this one too, and everything you said about this is absolutely fair. I hope you do more whenever you feel like it.

The true denizen of drip dropping mad knowledge out here, good vid per usual 👌🏽👌🏽

I think it's important to remember that all of these characters are originally from a visual novel made in 2000. They work really well for that medium but not so much but for a fighting game. I definitely agree that they are pretty safe and some extra details could've been nice for those not familiar with the source material or visual novels as a whole. Feel like changing the designs would've upset fans of the original probably. Good content btw, you should make more of these.

Kohaku likes wearing a kimono because she is apparently such a bad maid shes described as a "hurricane" so i think its because she doesnt do much cleaning

Kohaku's Japanese kimono maid is probably came from when japan is in westernization phase after the war. Possibly japanese caretaker who usually wear black kimono and using apron. This is just some educated guess tho from my background in japanese lit uni student+ japanese media I consume

Really cool review as usual ! Looking forward to the next one 👍

I appreciate the fashion history lesson lol let's go

i wonder what u think of Saber since she's the last character that was added in the base roster before the game release

Do this for more fighting games! I'll watch it all

I'll let you know right now that Aoko Aozaki is peak fighting game drip😏😏😏

Hi Kilmer. How are you doing, nice to have found you. Yoroshiku. Maybe mostly women that have niche hobbies might love this video. But since I may start to "up my game" again in fashion, I am loving your intelligent, cultured and substantial analysis. Since I've been wearing sporty clothes I haven't payed much attention to looking a bit "cooler". It brings a lot of things together and I am looking forward to the many things you may bring. Maybe review the next Call of Duty and God of War for some popularity quirks :-) I came across Melty Blood: Type Lumina: The Game. Then I checked out the review of the anime from Glass Reflection. I was looking forward to finally finding a romantic anime done right. Off course there is more to say on all of these things. I didn't and probably should not check out the visual novel it is based upon, but I figure there should be something to this strory since the game is looking and playing good, but I haven't tested it yes, only picked up on a demonstration from Nihongo Gamer. Anyway, I am going to check out more of your videos and hopefully learn somethings from you and about you. What does your name mean? Where is it from? Where are you from? Good intentions and vibes from Curacao May all good be a part of you and never leave you

Would be interesting for you to look at characters from the previous melty blood too

Great review. I also watched your video about Guilty Gear fashion.

Pretty pretty pretty pleeeeaassse make this into a series. I'd love to see your fashion takes on character designs in Street Fighter and Tekken.

That nod to kohakus backstory though 🤣 yeah tsukihime goes places. As you night have guessed tsukhime is based on a contemporary modern setting where people are largely just normal people as you'd see in the real world. And so they dress to conform to that standard. Of course it's not very inreresting as a fighting game design but melty blood being a licensed fighting game spinoff of tsukihime it's kind of inevitable. Im glad you put a lot of history and knowledge into your descriptions because I didnt even know certain things. I knew sailor uniforms were based on actual old sailor uniforms but I didn't know the male uniforms were also based on a outfit Ironic that you say arcueids (are coo aid broon stud) purple dress looks uglier than her mini skirt as the fans love her purple dress which is her original design and hate her skirt which is supposed to be representative of a more modern version of her

Great video! You should look up a clip on RU-vid of Ciel's supers (game calls em Arc Drive and Last Arc) because she changes her outfit for those.

Allways fun to learn some fashion history, great video! Btw will you be makin a fashion video on the dlc characters for melty?

I'm interested in seeing your custom colors

the japanes style kimono-french maid outfit are the common uniform style for japan servants/maid/house keeper during the meiji/taisho period which are still in use mainly in more traditional service oriented jobs such as hotsprings inn keepers/ hostess

Godlike vid. Would you potentially be willing to do a cid in Granblue Fantasy Vs?

Arcuied’s outfit is so updated, she originally had a long skirt

Awesome vid you should check out Under Night In Birth. I think French Bread took their idea normal clothing for fighting game characters in awesome direction in that game, it feels like they took the Melty Blood concepts to the next level.... I disagree about the boots though I feel it brings the murder out of murder nun.

Great vid! Ironically you are kind of dressed like you belong in the game here though.

I definitely agree on the colour palette.

Have you played the new Melty game? It would be nice to see

RIP shiki's jordans

2:25 that actually is the updated version of her outfit lol, she used to have a ankle-length purple skirt

Thank you for all your videos ... :-)

To be fair they Noel uses the boots to step on people in her grab attack.

I think the designs make a lot more sense for the visual novel, since they appear a lot more classy, relatable and composed than most fighting game outfits. And since it's a legacy title, you wouldn't want to change up too much. But it was really interesting to hear you talk about the sorta historical aspect of the outfits, and I generally agree with your points and your ranking. cool video !

3:56 Lajm cameo

Oh My GOD! You play Guilty Gear! Oh My GOD! (Just getting innitiated :-) ... (Checked out your Twitch, and now I am looking forward to cooking some more (work at a restaurant) :-)

New game all new outfits, call it Drippy Blood

7:22 yeah, tsukihime family charts are complicated with some family drama The Maury Povich Show would kill for lol 😂 but tl;dr: Shiki was adopted after his biological family of 100% human demon hunters were killed by his soon to be adoptive family of demon hunters (but with demon blood) they killed the 100% human demon hunters because they were afraid they were going to kill the demon hunter with demon blood (since they can kinda go crazy because of the demon blood), they also brainwashed Shiki so he would forget about his last family being killed, he was fine for a bit but then his adoptive brother went crazy because of the demon blood, so they brainwashed him again so he would also forget about that and sent him away to live with his adopted aunts for a few years, that's why his cousin is also his step-sister ( crazy I know :P )

The point of arcueid's desing is that it looks old af. Since her lore is that she was isolated and never interactued with society

I was not expecting a fashion video about MBTL but I'm glad it exists. The boots! I can't unsee how bad they look. And I'm not even talking about the boot and the belt not matching... Can't unsee... I had to rewind and belike what?! The pirate red belt thing too... Really interesting overall. Let's not forget the characters are from a doujin hentai visual novel dating from 2000 so it may explain some of the outfits? And finally, it kinda makes sense that the character designs are not over the top considering how much action happens in the game. At the same time, Strive is just really intense on the eyes everywhere.

Get ready to do another review because more melty characters are coming soon lol, just was revealed last night 😆

The slander on Roa's swag 😭

Hey can you review clothes from their other game undernight inbirth made by the same people.

can you do one of these for kof15 too, please?

I believe one of the reasons the characters are so normal, is because Takeuchi (the character designer from the original Tsukihime) was inexperienced and didn't want to make complicated designs, since in a visual novel you have to make a LOT of drawings. The artwork from the original Tsukihime is very amateurish. In this remake they updated the characters designs, but tried to keep the same simplicity they are known for.

Going too deep into Kohaku lore is too real, got a whiplash reading it 😂

Pretty fun Video idea.

Turn this into a series

what song is this

Persona 4 and 5? 😃 (RPG's, Rhythm Games, Fighting Games?) People are gonna love it, and I suppose you may be able to have a lot of fun with it as well. Win Win, right?!?

maaaan you should drop move videos like this, would love for you to start making yt content again

pls do one for UNI!!!(under night)

2:29 Weirdly she’s one of the few characters that had a outfit change that I noticed at first. Most notably her skirt is shorter compared to previous games, and it looks like they gave the long skirt exclusively to her Red form. Yeah it’s not that much of a change compared to others. But to be fair most of the Melty Blood characters got some form of pretty small design tweaks in Type Luminus. And were certain wiki pages not much help with giving you info about the characters? Kind of understandable as wiki pages can get edited by weirdos and trolls at times.

The outfits might not have drip but at least the combos do lol. I'm not sure why people are mad that the characters are somewhat dripless though. Simple is best sometimes. Plus, I feel like it works well for this game. They're just dressed like normal people would be at the time. Anyway, great video. Watching you look into the lore of the characters just for the fashion was fun to watch. Hope you do some more.

next up fashion on kof xv and dnf duel ^^

The closest thing to japanese traditional "maid" style outfit would probably be kimono base + 割烹着 (kappougi) apron and 三角巾 (sankakukin) hat

Oh, somebody steps into Kohaku's backstory? D-D-Damn, you got some courage.

Also ... Hi everybody, have a nice life and happy days ...

kind of a small thing, but still: saying 'main protagonist' is redundant because 'protagonist' already means 'main character'.

u should do under night next

are you A18 from Dragon ball ??

it's funny that you point out that the boots of ciel is bad...as shiki complement how good it look on her in the visual novel and I'm just there scratching my head

That is arcueid’s modern design lmao her original design is basically red arc’s but it’s a full dress without the slit so you couldn’t see her legs.

why this girl talking about drip when her own outfit makes her look like some farmer from the 1850's

I don't know if your into anime or manga but if you are I can definitely recommend the tsukihime manga online. It gives tons of context to the characters and I just think it's a beautiful story anyone can read. And its much easier than reading an entire visual novel heh.

Nice vid.

Good video do more 👍

Is Kilmer the queen of drip 🤔

baller lets gooooooooo

What's with all these fighting games channel saying 'drip' or 'dripless'? What's the English definition of it

jennie video Poggies

Puede alguien decirme como es la jugabilidad?? Tiene autocombos??? O si es una jugabilidad ptofunda a la vieja escuela?? Es que no quiero comprarlo si tiene autocombos por que me decepsionaria.

Tbh one reason I was skeptical about getting MBTL was the very generic character designs, after playing the game for a few days I can say that the bland designs don’t bother me at all, the game is actually so much fucking fun to play.

You forgot Saber…

the way you dissapeared

Your outfit is sick as fuck

Yeah the outfits are a bit more boring than I'm other fighters but it is nice to see a fighting game where the female characters aren't sexualized, especially because the majority of the cast is female

well, this is one way to connect with your bf. I meant that as a compliment.

LOOL

Having no drip almost feels like part of Tsukihime's brand 😆