Hazama

Hazama is a captain of the NOL's intelligence division.

Information
Hazama is actually an alias. At first, he appears to be supervising Noel's actions to keep her in line, but he has a sinister hidden agenda. In truth, he is actually alias of Terumi Yuuki, the main villain of BlazBlue and the mastermind behind many of the events of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. At the end of the Story Mode he issues confidential verbal orders to Tsubaki to kill Noel and Jin. Originally appeared as sub-character in the BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Story Mode. The pose that he does as Terumi, as well as the fact that he uses knives in battle, makes him a possible reference to Dio Brando of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

In Continuum Shift, it is revealed that Hazama was in fact, one of the Six Heroes and Hakumen's armor used to belong to Terumi. He created the Cauldron which would eventually transform into the Black Beast and had joined the Six Heroes in order to quell the mistake he had made. However, after the job was done, he immediately turned his back on the heroes and killed Nine, Kokonoe's mother. As the main antagonist once more, Hazama plans to destroy the core unit, Amateratsu; using Noel who becomes the Kusanagi unit.



Powers and abilities
The full extent of Hazama's abilities has not yet been revealed but is considered by many to be extraordinary in terms of power, so much that even Rachel second-guesses about fighting him though Hazama himself avoids confrontation with her as well. In battle, Hazama wields a pair of butterfly knives attached to a chain which he can uses to attack opponents from afar or reel them in as well as zip around the battlefield to quickly, if not, instantly close gaps between him and his foes. He also employs the use of dark energy which he forms into shadowy serpent-like apparitions to lash out at his opponent.

Having been the original creator of the Azure Grimoire, he possesses his own imitation, activating it in an identical manner to mock Ragna, though he shouts Blazblue instead of Azure Grimoire. When activated, a large magical circle envelops him, slowly sapping away vitality of anyone who steps inside. In the Story Mode of the first game, Hazama's true form as Terumi depicts him as a black apparition with green glowing veins and aura, or alternatively, his facial features become psychotic and his hair spikes up.

Move List

 * For Hazama's movelist, see here.

Trivia

 * One of Hazama's alternate color palettes dresses him in white, which is seen by many as a tribute to the late Michael Jackson.
 * He bears a strong resemblance to Gin Ichimaru from Bleach. Also, Hazama and Gin Ichimaru are both voiced by Doug Erholtz in the English versions of their respective series.
 * Due in his Terumi self, his hairstyle is similiar to Batman's legendary villain named Joker.
 * Hazama revels in taunting his enemies, Rachel included. This has caused fans to consider him as a Troll (a slang in internet community to refer to people who likes taunting and causing mischief for self-laughs) in the Blazblue.
 * It is heavily suspected that Terumi was driven mad after being put in Hakumen's armor. The fact that the user would submit to Master Unit Amaterasu's will didn't sit well on him. If that was the case, combined with a laundry list of atrocities he has done (such as cutting off Ragna's arm, killing Nine and her sister, turned Arakune into the being that he is today, pitting Tsubaki against Jin and Noel; and his attempt on Noel in Continuum Shift) Terumi might have been the single most despicable being to be ever conceived by Toshimichi Mori . Compared to the villains in Guilty Gear (Justice attempted genocide to preserve the Gears and prevent them to become weapons, while I-No did a lot of mischief in the name of That Man), Terumi's goals seems to be for nothing but self-satisfaction.