Thread:Otherarrow/@comment-2188433-20120403122657/@comment-294304-20120403160556

Man, what happened to Talk Pages? This is the third time I attempted this, and the first where I decided to make a new thread instead of posting on the other one. I can't get a reply in with this god awful message wall thing.

Speaking of things that are god awful, Mu's Astral Heat animation is god awful. I can't really make it out, but it does appear that the sword she swings is the same sword that becomes her armor. From what it appears, she turns her armor into the sword, slashes with it, then reequips it for whatever reason. I can't tell for sure. The animation is obviously incomplete. But even if the sword in the Astral isn't the sword that becomes her armor, what tells us that it is Kusanagi? The sword in her Astral (if it isn't the armor) is never referenced anywhere. Also, the Kusanagi was not used to destroy the Master Unit. Saya did that off screen. Mu's main purpose was to fight Ragna with the Idea Engine to distract Takamagahara.

As for Terumi calling Mu "Kusanagi", he also calls her Murakumo. This matches up with how Lambda and Nu are called the "Murakumo Unit". The name of the sword seems to be interchangeable with the name of the Prime Field Device equipped with it. I presume this is because the Prime Field Devices should be blank slates, and thus they are the "sword" and their master (in this case Terumi) is the "wielder".

Also, note on how the Kusanagi wielded by Mu looks different than the Murakumo wielded by Nu. This is not an ascetic change. The Murakumo was forged with the power of the Azure brought through by Noel's eyes of the Azure and smelted into the Kusanagi. I wouldn't call Noel by herself "Kusanagi" anymore than I'd call Nu or Lambda without their armor "Murakumo", as aside from being able to wield the sword, Noel seems rather unchanged by the process (the change in attitude is from Mu's headpiece, which her intros and outros show isn't part of the Kusanagi)

Bit of a mythology lesson, to help you understand. Murakumo and Kusanagi? The same thing. You see, when the god Susano-o slew the monster Orochi, he found the sword Murakumo in one of his tails and offered it to his sister Amaterasu to settle an old grudge. In time, Amaterasu gave Murakumo to her human descendents.. Eventually, a priestess of Ise Grand Shrine gave the sword to Prince Yamato Takeru, who had it with him when he was ambushed in a grassland, and the grass around him was set ablaze. He used the sword to cut away the grass to stop the flames, but found that the sword controlled the winds. He used the sword to blow the flames towards his enemies and escaped, renaming the sword Kusanagi, or grasscutter sword, after his narrow escape. Since the mythological Murakumo and Kusanagi are the same sword, I don't see why the Murakumo and Kusanagi in BlazBlue would be any different, especially since the Kusanagi seems to be a transformed Murakumo. It may be easier to wait and see what game 3 says about it though, if it comes up.

Also, other pages on the wiki refer to Mu's sword/armor as Kusanagi.