[Information]Story of Previous Games

[Ashton Drake]

For those who want to know the Story... well I read the original Visual novel Tsukihime & I recommended everyone to read that, but not everyone can get it I understand. And I didnt know of any alternative at that time

Recently I read the Manga Adaptation of the Visual novel named Shingetsusan Tsukihime & I can say for certain It does complete justice to the Original Visual Novel.. Although it follows a linear story, it expertly joins all the routes of the visual novel & gives a fitting ending.Same goes for Melty Blood manga

So I ask anyone who want to know the story & lore of the characters of the game Read The Mangas..
(please note I had to remove the previously posted links so as to not get banned for piracy,so you have to google the terms Ive written below)


Google "Shingetsutan Tsukihime Manga Fox"


And after that The Melty Blood Manga

Google "Melty Blood Manga Fox"


(New) Melty Blood had a funny parody route. now you can read that too. It introduces Miyako & Mech-Hisui, Also acts as a sequel to the previous manga mentioned above.

Google "Melty Blood ACT:2 Manga Fox"


(New) Melty Blood Funny Parody Sequel Featuring the Back Alley Alliance. The 4th wall is utterly destroyed.

Google "Melty Blood X Manga Fox"


Its in English But because its a japanese translation remember to read the Frame/Scene on the right first, this is becoz japanese is written from the right to left. so you read the bubble or the box on the right then make your way to the left.. simple.


List of Previous Games in the Series -
1)Tsukihime (visual novel)
2)Kagetsu Tohya(visual novel)
3)Melty Blood+ReAct Expansion
4)Melty Blood Act Cadenza
6)Melty Blood Actress Again(later updated to Current Code)


FAQ - (I will update FAQ as more people have queries)

Q)What the hell is a Manga?
A) Japanese Comic Books.They are mostly black & white but thats because they are released weekly instead of monthly.

Q)Do I need to read anything else before jumping into this one?
A) Nope. This is the first.. everything will be introduced to you here.

Q)If i read this will I be upto speed on everything?
A)On 90% of things, All that will remain is origin stories 2-3 characters like Len(s) & Kishima Kouma

Q)But this is different than the Story in Arcade mode!?
A)Thats Because the Arcade mode is a continuation of that story.. so of course its different.. Read the manga then proceed to play Arcade mode..

Q)What does Tsukihime mean?
A)It roughly translates to Lunar Princess or Princess of the Moon(I think)

Q)But theres Tsukihime anime, why cant everyone watch that instead?
A)Instead of trolling you by saying "theres no tsukihime anime" Im gonna let you in on the truth.. the anime sucks big time becuase it totally deviates from the source material and is one of the worst anime I've watched ever. Only thing worth noting was the soundtrack & the opening intro video.

Important Note : The Mangas are only for ages 18+. They Include Immense Gore, Brutality & Nudity

Edit: Added 2 manga adaptations of the parody routes of the game & labelled them (new)
Edit 2 :Removed Links because they were in violation of the rules,instead added Google search terms.
Edit 3 : Corrected Melty Blood X description.
Edit 4: Added list of previous games in the series

[Kolios]

Good threat, the manga adaption is one of the few that remains to be faithful to the source of a visual novel and be effective.

[Heavymetalmixer]

Another one I think it should be pinned.

[Z3n]

[Edited]

[Sorresint]

to bad there's no way to access pre-sequels without relying to piracy

[Ashton Drake]

Z3n の投稿を引用：

...Are you even allowed to post links to mangafox? =_=;

According to this
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4045-USHJ-3810&l=english
Those links were in violation of the forums rules & thus the original post has been updated. links are removed but google search terms have been added, first result of any of those should be the intended target. Thank you for your constructive feedback

[Nrvnqsr]

Tsukihime manga is among the best adaptations of a VN that's out there. As the OP said, most of the plot points are there (I think only the maids' backstory are left out), and some of the fights are made even more awesome than they already were in the VN, on top of cranking up the badassery of basically every character. I'd reccomend reading it even to those who already read the VN.

Melty Blood manga it's not on par with it, but it's still very solid. Between Act 1 and Act 2, the full story mode of the original VN is there, so it's advisable to read it to catch up on the plot.

After you've read those two, you'll be missing only the following backstory:
- Kishima Kouma
- Len
- White Len
- (The Neco Arcs)
- Ryougi Shiki

Your choice to google them up on some wiki or go for the source material. Be warned that the source material is pretty long.
If you go the source material route, here is what you need:
- For the first 2 characters, Kagetsu Tohya VN
- For the following 2 entries, you'll have to go play some older versions of Melty Blood (I believe it's Act Cadenza, but feel free to correct me)
- For Ryougi, she's from the Kara no Kyoukai franchise. The friendliest way is probably watching the (amazing) 7 movie + epilogue(s) done by Ufotable.

Obviously, feel free to read all the VNs/LNs if you want and have time, they're well worth it.

[DuckieMcduck]

Kolios の投稿を引用：

Good threat

dank emergency

[Ashton Drake]

UnluckyDuckie の投稿を引用：

Kolios の投稿を引用：

Good threat

dank emergency

haha dem typos.

And everyone who dont know the lore.. Ryougi Shiki is a guest character from another story(kara no Kyoukai).. put her on the bottom of your priority list for now. And I suggest reading Kara no Kyoukai Book, it has been fan translated & its completely open source so no problem posting links of it.Another note is that its not a visual novel or a manga.. its a full fledged 7 volume Novel/Book
here ya go - https://emptyboundaries.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/kara-no-kyokai-translations-2/

it says "Empty Boundaries" as its name because that is what kara no kyoukai translates to in english.(Notice that Shiki Ryougi's Last Arc is named Boundaries of Emptyness)

I may decide to put this up on the original post but I want people to focus on the story of Tsukihime for now..

And I didnt mention Kagetsu Tohya Visual novel because getting your hand on a visual novel that old, without official localization , legally, is close to impossible.

Most of us have to pirate Type-Moon products which is a damn shame...


And @Nrvnqsr .. They'll be missing backstory of Nekos??? They have a backstory nya???? nya nya nya

[Yuen]

You should note that the previous Melty Blood games had some slight differences in character story compared to Actress Again. An example would be Nanaya's story compared to Act Cadenza, the previous game.

[Ashton Drake]

Shigeyama の投稿を引用：

You should note that the previous Melty Blood games had some slight differences in character story compared to Actress Again. An example would be Nanaya's story compared to Act Cadenza, the previous game.

Not slight, Almost complete differences.ReAct , Act Cadenza & Actress Again all have differences in the Arcade mode stories.. but we mostly are interested in the main Story Mode Which existed in Melty Blood & ReAct. After that the story mode was scrapped out of the games. Act Cadenza Introduces White Len, & Nanaya is involved with White Len.

Its noteworthy to see that all Melty Blood games except the first have Arcade Modes which all have unique storylines. But none of the stories of these later games were compiled into any other form of media & thus only way to expierience them is to play the older games which is a chore in itself thus I havent mentioned them. Same goes for kagetsu tohya, too hard to obtain.

[Nrvnqsr]

Gilgamesh の投稿を引用：

And everyone who dont know the lore.. Ryougi Shiki is a guest character from another story(kara no Kyoukai).. put her on the bottom of your priority list for now. And I suggest reading Kara no Kyoukai Book, it has been fan translated & its completely open source so no problem posting links of it.Another note is that its not a visual novel or a manga.. its a full fledged 7 volume Novel/Book
here ya go - https://emptyboundaries.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/kara-no-kyokai-translations-2/

it says "Empty Boundaries" as its name because that is what kara no kyoukai translates to in english.(Notice that Shiki Ryougi's Last Arc is named Boundaries of Emptyness)

I may decide to put this up on the original post but I want people to focus on the story of Tsukihime for now..

And I didnt mention Kagetsu Tohya Visual novel because getting your hand on a visual novel that old, without official localization , legally, is close to impossible.

Most of us have to pirate Type-Moon products which is a damn shame...


And @Nrvnqsr .. They'll be missing backstory of Nekos??? :mbnecodown: They have a backstory nya???? :mbnecodown: nya nya nya :mbnecodown:

Hey, without playing the Nekos backstory, they would be missing on the awesome Neco Chaos Black G666 :D

On a more serious note, depending on where you live and what languages you understand, it may be 100% impossible to obtain a legal copy of any tsukihime related material. Since i live in Italy, I'm lucky to have the translated physical copies of the Tsukihime and Melty Blood mangas on my shelf, but from my understanding there's no legal English release.

Obviously, it's even harder to obtain a legal copy of the VNs (Tsukihime and kagetsu Tohya alike, they're both impossible to find). It's really a shame, here's hoping that the remake will be more widespread and thet it gets an official international release (yeah, I wish, as if I don't know Type Moon ). They're both really good though, I'd even go and say that for some aspects they're even better than F/SN VN (flame war incoming ).

I do agree Ryougi is of secondary importance, I've put her there for the sake of completeness. I'd reccommend to watch the movies/read the LNs AFTER you know most of the Tsukihime related things.

[Ashton Drake]

Im with you on Tsukihime>Fate(come at me fate fans )... I have gilgamesh as my avatar just to be a condacending prick thats all. I almost forgot about G666.. Damn Kohaku is scary... no one knows what other evil plans she might have.

[Andrea Jens]

I will be probably burnt as a heretic, but I have to say that the thing that I like the most of this game is trying to piece together the parts of the story from the dialogues in the arcade mode, without having read Tsukihime before :3
The path which took me to this game was something REALLY convoluted, like:

- [~3 years ago] I found a video of a M.U.G.E.N. fan game in which there was a guy dressed in red shouting sentences for six-seven times before impaling his opponent with countless swords;
- on The Spriters Resource, I came into the sprites for a game called Battle Moon Wars... and found out that the red guy was actually called "Archer" and the technique was "Unlimited Blade Works";
- [~1 year ago] found on the cover of a magazine the advertisement for the UBW anime with Archer and thought "holy cow, I've already seen this guy...";
- looked for Unlimited Blade Works on the net, found Archer's chant;
- [~3 months ago] seen a pic on Facebook which parodied Archer's chant - remembered that there was an anime called UBW;
- looked for Archer's chant on the net, found scenes from the anime, learnt that UBW was a "Reality Marble";
- looked for "Reality Marble" on Type-Moon wiki, found a list of Reality Marbles and - out of curiosity - clicked on the evocative name of "Night of Wallachia - TATARI".
- been fascinated by the TATARI description, found out that the events were covered in Melty Blood;
- since I was following Arc System Works on Twitter, I got the notification that MBCC was going to be released on Steam;
- bought it :3;
- played with Wallachia and remained amazed by the quality of the game... and the sense of satisfaction when I can put together information from the storyline to understand what has happened ;)
- delved into Type-Moon wiki for additional information, resorted not to use it to try figuring out more from the game itself X'D
That's all X'D
I wonder if I am the only one which followed such a strange path to get fascinated by this game and its lore :)

[Ashton Drake]

I admire your thorny path.. Just like I admired saber's.. you are a hero in my books.. your dedication to nasuverse is noteworthy..

[Red]

I am honestly surprised by the lack of double dots in the first post, I only see a handful of them there. If only you could do the same with every post of yours from now on, that would be extremely cool and would make your posts more pleasant to read.

Seriously, no idea where you got that from. Is your comma key broken or what?