Makoto Nanaya

Makoto Nanaya is a former classmate of Tsubaki, Carl, Noel, and Jin from the Military Academy. She was released as a DLC playable-character in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift on August 3rd for North America.

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She is a squirrel-type human-like, and is considerably hyperactive with a short attention span, though she has proven to be rather cunning when she needs to be. She is outgoing, adventurous, and has inhuman reflexes as well incredible strength, able to make an impact crater in Carl's story line and her Astral Heat involves her punching an opponent skyward, leaving an imprint of her fist in the moon before it splits apart. She has a few complexes about her race, but nonetheless, acknowledges who she is and is proud of it. In BlazBlue Continuum Shift, Makoto works for The NOL Intelligence Department with Hazama, but is actually a spy for Sector Seven. In the True Ending, she defects from the NOL after finding out what happened and leaves with Noel and Iron Tager.

Material Collection Information

 * Hobbies: Lacrosse
 * Likes: All-you-can-eat, Chestnut parfait
 * Dislikes: Discrimination

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift

 * Alexandrite - Makoto's Theme.

Powers and abilities
Makoto is a short range rush down character for those who favor offense. Makoto's drive, "Impact" is chargable up to three stages, but timing is important as waiting too long will weaken the attacks, sending them back to stage 2 and 1 respectively. At maximum charge it dishes out higher damage as well as wall bounce properties and/or prolonging the opponents recovery time, opening up combo options. Several of her moves are rather decieving as well. Her special "Asteroid Vision" makes three images of her as she rushes towards her opponent which can be cancled to a dead halt, appear behind the opponent or to attack. Her normal attacks can be sly as well. For example, her 62 C attack causes her to spin on the ground feinting for a sweep a couple times before the actual kick.

Gallery
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Trivia

 * Seemingly, Makoto is the only BlazBlue character who has no Guilty Gear counterpart. But it can be speculated that she can be the counterpart of Anji Mito, since they wield two weapons. Though it is possible that Makoto's counterpart is Testament both with an outfit that reveals most of their skin and going out of their ways to protect the heroine of their story from harm (Dizzy and Noel).
 * During Tager's gag reel, Makoto pronounces the phrase "Mekaleka High Meka Hiney Ho" before activating Tager's inflatablilty option. This is a reference to PeeWee's Funhouse, in which the character Jambi has the audience pronounce the magic words "Mekaleka High Meka Hiney Ho" before granting a wish.
 * Makoto's Astral Heat bears a resemblance to Slayer's Instant Kill in Guilty Gear with punching their opponents into outer space save the combo she performs in the beginning which is a reference to a move that the "Fist of the North Star" protagonist Kenshiro uses.
 * During one of her attacks she screams "Spoon!", a battlecry the Tick often uses.
 * Makoto's Unlimited moveset strongly idolizes Dudley's moveset from Street Fighter. That being able to perform Machine Gun Blow, Cross Counter, Duck (straight and upper), and projectile taunt (acorn).
 * As Unlimited Makoto, you can perform the other Makoto's Abare Tosamani from Street Fighter as a Distortion Drive.