Board Thread:Mangas/@comment-3087260-20160510170417/@comment-8695373-20160519181150

If a character uses a sword, and then switches to a spear, then their moveset will change. Right? The weapons are too different. If there are just two weapons, then this can work like a mode change, with "D" button to change a weapon.

But, if there are, like, a sword, a spear, a knife, and a mace, then it would require a lot of work, and a lot of sprites, even if this hypothetical character would be unable to use all of these weapons for all of their attacks. It's like drawing sprites for four characters. The easiest way to deal with that would be to give a character a default weapon, and make them switch to a different weapon only when they perform a certain attack, after which they will return to their default weapon. Kind of what Platinum does with her Drive.

That is the easiest way, and Arcs love to pick easy solutions - they flip sprites, for example. Just look at that black cloth on Azrael's left/right leg.

I too thought that Mai will be the protagonist of BB5, but they are releasing this manga too early for that, so I guess she will appear in Centralfiction, or at least in its Extend.