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.

Information
She is a squirrel-type beastkin, 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.

In Makoto's CSII ending it is revealed that one of the reasons Makoto is in Kagutsuchi is because of her discovery of many failed attempts by the NOL to create Noel Vermillion at Ikaruga.

Material Collection Information

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

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 canceled to a dead halt, appear behind the opponent or to attack. Her normal attacks can be sly as well. For example, her 3C attack causes her to spin on the ground feinting for a sweep a couple times before the actual kick.

In Unlimited form, her Impact gains a fourth, more powerful level but with a split second window to achieve it. This level can chip away at guards or, if unguarded, causes them to slide and stagger to the other side of the screen and her projectile attack can act as a stationary trap that hits up to four times. Lastly, she gains a hidden Distortion Drive where she hits the opponent three times that take away at least half a health bar. However, if the button is repeatedly tapped, Makoto will assail the opponent with a barrage of tail whips that quickly chew away more than half the opponent's health bar, even at full health, leaving them in the Danger zone, if not KO them outright.

Movelist

 * Makoto's movements.
 * Changes in Unlimited Mode.

Musical Themes

 * Alexandrite - Makoto's Theme
 * Alexandrite ~Butterfly Sky~ - Makoto's theme with Tomomi Isomura's vocal

Stages

 * Heritage Museum - It will all be the same one-hundred years hence

Gallery
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Trivia

 * Makoto's Guilty Gear counterpart may be Jam Kuradoberi. Both characters have short attention spans, are overtly energetic, fight with primarily hand-to-hand combat styles (though Jam also uses Chi, and Makoto also uses tonfas), are stereotypical ditzes, wear rather revealing clothes, are physically very powerful women, and neither are exactly intelligent. However, where as Jam owns her own restaurant and considers over-eaters to be her bane, Makoto is an over-eater and is very fond of all-you-can-eat buffets. Even their fighting gimmicks are similar; both characters specialize in a strong rushdown, mix-up offense along with many attacks that lead to wall bounces and stuns, thereby granting opportunites for longer combos. Both women even have a special attack that is similar to Kenshiro's Hyakuretsuken (One-Hundred Rending Fists) technique from the "Hokuto no Ken" series.
 * Makoto's birthday, April 2, may be based to "April Fools", which is a day before her birthday, due to her slightly childish ways.
 * During Tager's gag reel, Makoto pronounces the phrase "Mekaleka High Meka Hiney Ho" before activating Tager's inflatability option. This is a reference to PeeWee's Playhouse, in which the character Jambi has the audience pronounce the magic words "Mekaleka High Meka Hiney Ho" before granting a wish. Also, when he first transforms into his "air" form, she remarks that "there's more to him than meets the eye," a reference to Transformers.
 * 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 "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" protagonist Jotaro Kujo uses and ends with Makoto's super finish stance from Street Fighter 3 and 4. The move also references to Bridget since both characters in their finishing attack, litterally send the opponent to the moon.
 * 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). It also includes a Distortion Drive similar to Dudley's "Rolling Thunder" Ultra move. However it requires a full heat gauge and can deal a large amount of damage, easily taking characters down to 1/4 health from a full bar.
 * Two moves from Makoto bear resemblance to Street Fighter's Makoto's Super Arts from Street Fighter III (or Ultras from Super Street Fighter IV). The first is her Astral Heat, Planet Crusher, based on SF Makoto's Seichusen Godanzuki (albeit with more hits). The second is one of her hidden Distortion Drives in her Unlimited form (done only in mid-air), based on SF Makoto's Abare Tosanami.
 * Makoto does not have a story mode, and she cannot be selected in arcade or conquest modes, prior to the release of Continuum Shift II. In the upcoming DLC she is given a Arcade mode.
 * Intriguinely enough, Makoto is the only character from the NOL that does not have what fans call a "Special Intro" with Ragna the Bloodedge.
 * During one of her Big Bang Smash phrases she says "My soul burns with the heat of a thousand suns, behold the power of youth!" a reference to Might Guy from Naruto.
 * Makoto's design may have been inspired by Steve Ditko's Marvel character Squirrel Girl since both characters are human with squirrel-like qualities.
 * Makoto has a hidden Distortion Drive that can only be performed in mid air. It allows her to use her tail like a propeller (Similar to Miles 'Tails' Prower from the Sonic the Hedgehog series) and then dives downward striking the opponent three times before finishing with a uppercut.
 * Makoto will occasionally say "Bang! Just kidding.", which could be a Deadpool reference.
 * Being a member of the NOL, Makoto will recite the speech when pitted against other NOL members (Jin, Noel, Tsubaki, or Hazama), though there is a slight chance she will forget the speech, and give up midway. One can tell she'll forget the speech when she recites the speech out of sync with the other NOL member. There are also times she will recite the speech when facing a non-NOL character, but she will always give up midway.
 * One of the attacks used by Dr. Strange in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 bears great resemblance in mechanic to Makoto's Comet Cannon.