Tsubaki Yayoi

Tsubaki Yayoi is Jin Kisaragi's childhood friend, Noel Vermillion's former roommate from the Military Academy, and a member of the NOL's Zero Squad Division. She is a playable character in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.

Information
During the Military Academy, she was close friends with Noel and Makoto. She's described as a straight A student, and has a rather no-nonsense personality. She's very serious and reserved, and is a member of the dignified Yayoi family. By the end of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger's True Ending, she is assigned by Hazama to kill Noel and Jin. She originally appeared as a non-playable character in the Calamity Trigger Story Mode. In BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, Tsubaki heads to Kagutsuchi to search for Jin Kisaragi and Noel Vermillion. Unbeknownst to Tsubaki, Hazama is just using her to gauge Jin's Power of Order, and to push Noel further into becoming Mu-12

She uses an Armagus called "Izayoi". Tsubaki's Drive is called "Install" which allows her to charge her attacks. When Tsubaki found Jin, he told her to get rid of Izayoi because it "steals the light from the user's eyes", implying it would, after a certain period of time, cause her to go blind.

Tsubaki is revealed to be a fan of Hakumen, going so far as to own all the books and movies based on the exploits of the Six Heroes. In Hakumen's story mode he indirectly reveals that in the past she had been his secretary instead of Noel. While they had more time together he ultimately neglected her for his own exploits. She pleaded for him to stay when he had left but continued on and she was killed as a result. To remember the mistake he had made, he named one of his attacks in her honor. After her fight with Noel, Hazama tells Tsubaki that because of Noel's continued presence, she took Tsubaki's place as Jin's secretary, relegating Tsubaki herself into assassination tasks. Tsubaki, already slowly losing her sight due to overuse of Izayoi, becomes depressed and angry at Noel believing she stole everything from her (though Hazama left out that Tsubaki would have died anyway in the timeline where she is with Jin). Hazama uses the surfacing of these emotions to his advantage by having Phantom use its sorcery on Tsubaki to manipulate her jealousy for his own purposes. The critical point of her jealousy is reached when she pleads Jin to back down, telling him that she only wanted to be with him, and wishes Noel were dead. Ultimately rejected by Jin, who decides that Ragna is more important to be concerned about, Tsubaki sides with Hazama and the Imperator as her eyes turn red and her white clothes become black.

Material Collection Information

 * Hobbies: Singing
 * Likes: Historical dramas
 * Dislikes: War

Powers and Abilities
Tsubaki's fighting style is an interesting interpretation of the standard "sword and shield" style of traditional Western swordplay, where her oddly shaped, floating book acts as a small buckler shield. Tsubaki's short sword is capable of adopting a variety of shapes, sometimes as appearing as a fencing foil, a whip sword, a floating claymore or even a staff. Her book, similarly, can change its form. Lights and angelic imagery feature prominently in Tsubaki's fighting style, such as wings and feathers appearing around her for various attacks. Because of how her drive works, her style is punctuated by moments of gathering light energy before rushing down opponents with long protracted combination attacks.

Movelist

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

Musical Themes

 * Condemnation Wings - Tsubaki's theme.
 * Memory of Tears - Tsubaki Yayoi VS Noel Vermillion
 * Condemnation Wings ~Cry Camellia...~ - Tsubaki's Theme with Asami Imai's vocal
 * Memory of Tears ~Don't Look Back~ - Noel VS Tsubaki, with Kanako Kondō & Asami Imai's vocal
 * Childish Killer - Tsubaki Yayoi VS Jin Kisaragi

Stages

 * Hanging Gardens - A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

Arcade

 * AD2200/01/07, ARCH ENEMY

Story

 * regret sin

Gallery
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Trivia

 * Tsubaki's birthday, March 14th, falls on the same day as White Day in Japan and Korea which is an mirror equivalent to Valentine's Day where girls respond to boys who gave them gifts on the said holiday. This reflects her relationship with Jin as his birthday is Valentine's Day.
 * "Tsubaki" means "Camellia" in English.
 * Her seiyu, Asami Imai, is regularly a part of Bururaji (BlazBlue Radio) along with Kanako Kondo and Sugita.
 * Tsubaki's Astral Heat uses what is believed to be the NOL statue and bears a great resemblance to the move Nibelung Valesti from the Valkyrie Profile series.
 * Tsubaki's Guilty Gear counterpart could be a reference to Zato-1/Eddie, as he sacrificed his eyesight for power, and her weapon will eventually claim hers. Additionally, both Tsubaki and Zato-1/Eddie had romantic feelings for someone who had defected from their organizations, Jin defecting from the Library, and Millia abandoning the Guild of Assassins. Gameplay wise, many compare her fighting style to Order Sol, in regards to the both of them requiring to charge a special meter to pull off more powerful attacks (though in her "Help Me, Kokonoe!" segment, she politely asks Kokonoe to refrain from the Order Sol jokes).
 * Another Guilty Gear counterpart Tsubaki could be a reference to is Ky Kiske, due to both characters' devout sense of justice and right and wrong to the point of seeing the world in 'black and white' as the phrase goes. Tsubaki even has a palette swap that greatly resembles Ky available via DLC (Millia Rage color scheme).
 * In Taokaka's gag reel, Tsubaki admits to having a secret "fetish" for period adventures, even going so far as introducing herself as Robin Hood to Carl Clover.
 * During her gag ending in Continuum Shift, Tsubaki admits that she hates pandas, upon seeing the panda (Lao Jiu) in Litchi's hair. Though the reason for this is unknown. Strangely, she is extremely gullible in the gag ending, as she even believes that Litchi (who at the time was drunk) had been taken over by Lao Jiu and gets 'coerced' into cosplaying and getting a new peking duck.
 * The name of Yayoi's Armagus, Izayoi, means "sixteen-day-old moon" in Japanese. A sixteen-day-old moon has just passed its fullest phase, so it is at this point that its brightness begins to decline. This is another clear reference to Izayoi's blindness-inducing nature.
 * Within the game's files, mainly the images for character name graphics from places like the selection screens, a file for a name "Tubaki Yayoi" is found. This is a common mistake Japanese people make when romanizing the "tsu" sound.
 * Some of her special moves bear names from movements/chants for a Requiem Mass. All of her special moves have latin phrases for names.
 * She has a total of three costumes: her robes with the mask, her combat dress and her astral heat clothes, none of them are particularly revealing which shows her conservative nature. Also she has a fixation on Jin and his friend of Noel making her somewhat similar to May- she has a crush on Johnny and she´s friends with Dizzy.
 * Both Makoto and Tao have "felt" her breasts. Makoto during Carl's gag reel and Tao during her story mode.
 * Tsubaki could be compared to Kaname Tousen from the Bleach series due to their dedication towards the idea of justice. And like Tousen she is blinded by her ideals to the point that she attacks her closest friends.
 * Tsubaki also resembles the appearance (Hair and eyes) of Makise Kurisu from the anime Steins;Gate and they both share the same voice actress.
 * Based on Mu-12's winquote against Tsubaki in Continuum Shift 2, the Izayoi's side effect has already affected 65% of Tsubaki.
 * Her surname Yayoi means march (the month of her birthday), life (maybee a reference of her death by her weapon) and extensive ( a reference of her overuse of Izayoi)
 * A coincidental VA allusion with Julie Anne Taylor seems to make Tsubaki similar to Akiha Tohno from Tsukihime, both characters harbor possible romantic feelings for their childhood friend(who was raised along with them platonically) along with Hakumen/Jin's voice allusion with David Vincent with Assassin from Fate/stay night. Both Assassin and Akiha are from series by the same company, Type-Moon.