Amane Nishiki

Amane Nishiki is one of the three brand new characters set to appear in BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma.

Material Collection Information

 * Hobbies: Making Japanese sweets
 * Values:
 * Likes: Beautiful things (beautiful men)
 * Dislikes: Being indoors

Personality
Amane, as expressed through battle dialogue, is seemingly very haughty and arrogant. He conducts himself in a graceful and awkward manner, and seems to enjoy playing with his androgynous appearance by carrying a sash and parasol (similar to an oiran or geisha).

Appearance
Amane Nishiki is an androgynous male character with purple hair tied in a bun and green eyes. He wears a flowing pink and red kimono that exposes his shoulders, black shorts and legwarmers, and platform sandals. He also sports a translucent pink scarf which appears to levitate through unknown means.

In his pre-battle that was first seen in the trailer, he wore a royal white geisha outfit underneath was pink and red checker pattern kimono.

Powers and Abilites
Amane's drive is Spiral. His Drive attacks turn his cloth into a drill, with which he can use to attack his opponent. It is heavily implied in the command list that there is a level system with it.

His Over-Drive is Cyclone. Over-Drive attacks are upgraded to their final level.

Movelist

 * Movelist
 * Combo List
 * Changes in Unlimited Mode

Gallery

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Quotes

 * Main article: Amane Nishiki/Quotes

Trivia

 * His fighting style is similar to that of Noel and Jin in terms of using his kimono as a weapon, indicating that he also utilizes a dance-like fighting style, almost similar to that of Anji Mito from Guilty Gear.
 * His ability to form drills out of his clothes seems to reference Lisa Lisa from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series.
 * In an interview with BlazBlue producer Toshimichi Mori, he mentioned that the ideas for Amane's Drive and fighting style were originally proposed by Tomokazu Sugita, the seiyū of Ragna.
 * Intriguingly, the input for Amane's Astral Heat is the same as the Murakumo Units (Lambda-11, Mu-12, and Nu-13).
 * His birthday, November 15th, is Shichi-Go-San in Japan, a festival for five-year-old boys, seven-year-old girls, and three-year-old children of both sexes.
 * "Nishiki" translates as "Brocade" in English. A brocade is a class of decorative fabrics woven with elaborate designs, usually having a raised overall pattern.