Amane Nishiki (アマネ＝ニシキ), also known as the Uzume (舞神, Dance God), is leader of the Dance troupe and He is the current Bystander of the world.
Appearance[]
Amane Nishiki is an androgynous male character with violet hair tied in a bun and blue eyes with dark pink eye shadow and red lipstick. He wears a flowing pink and red kimono that exposes his shoulders underneath his sleeveless black skintight turtleneck, black shorts and legwarmers, and red platform sandals. He also sports a translucent pink scarf which appears to levitate through unknown means. In Story mode, Bullet states that he looks identical to his appearance 10 years prior.
Pre-battle, Amane wears a royal white geisha outfit, underneath, he has a pink and red-colored checker pattern kimono.
Personality[]
Amane is a friendly, respectful, and eccentric individual. He refers to battles as “dancing” and his gameplay style even resembles such. He is always on the lookout for possible fellow performers, asking both Ragna the Bloodedge and Carl Clover to join, being very persistent to have the latter do so. His subordinates greatly revere him and he in turn is shown to be very generous towards them, going so far as to treat them to a surprise vacation in the 7th Hierarchical City of Kazamotsu. He often addresses any individual he meets as “my dear”. Despite his heavily female appearance, Amane’s personality is fairly masculine.
However, he can make rather careless mistakes at times and is rather slow at realizing his error, such as when he trained Bullet’s squad dancing techniques for 3 days before realizing he made a mistake, having mixed up the words “troop” with “troupe”. This is shown again during Noel Vermillion’s arcade when he mistakes her for a cross-dressing boy.
History[]
BlazBlue: Chronophantasma[]
Amane is a young man who travels around, gathering a troupe of young and handsome men as he goes. Upon stumbling across the news that a cute vigilante boy was heading for Ikaruga, he immediately sets out to look for him. As he finally meets the boy, Carl Clover, Amane asks him to join his troupe, but Carl declines and runs away; Amane chases after him, however, and encounters Rachel, who is suspicious of his mysterious nature. As they engage in combat, they gain the respect of each other and Amane reveals his purposes: he claims that to dance on the greatest stage, also the greatest battlefield where greatest warriors gather is his wish. The majority of his troupe are orphans of war from around the world, which he has adopted.
BlazBlue: Centralfiction[]
As a Bystander, Amane rebooted the Takamagahara, reviving the AIs so they could observe the world instead of the Master Unit. He also desisted making Carl Clover being a part of his dance troop, due to the latter’s personality changes and acts (becoming more like his father).
When he encountered Celica Ayatsuki Mercury, Minerva attacked him to make a connection with Amane, which extended Celica’s life-span a little. He also offered Ragna his observation, but the offer was rejected. Amane seems to know a way of saving the world without killing Noel, and he needs her and Tsubaki Yayoi to seal the Amaterasu Unit and send it back through Nemesis Horizon. Since sending the empty Unit to the other side of the Gate might cause the world to disappear, Amane has prepared a replacement for the god.
After Terumi’s defeat, Amane watched as Ragna erased himself from everyone’s memories, and assured him that nothing is left of him in Takamagahara. His memories of Ragna were also erased.
Powers and abilities[]
Amane has an unusual ability that allows him to form his clothing into various shapes. His Drive, Spiral ( Supairaru, Thin Silk Cloth Hut of Wave Sphere), utilizes his clothing into drills that increase in power with repeated use, going from Level 1 to a maximum of Level 3, at which point his Drive begins chipping away at the opponent’s defenses at an alarming rate. However, using it too much can result in it becoming overheated and will become unusable until it cools down and restarts at Level 1. Amane’s Overdrive, Cyclone ( Saikuron, Smashing Dragon Body), maximizes his Drive’s Level for its duration.
In terms of fighting style, he mainly focuses on theatrical dancing-motions along with a variety of motions that also involve weaving his many cloths, as well as forming them into a variety of shapes such as a ribbon, a kite, non-Spiral-based drills, a gunbai fan and so forth.
Amane could very well be an extremely powerful individual, casually brushing off the results of any fight he is in as if he was merely testing his opponent. In Bang Shishigami’s gag scenario, Amane was able to withstand blistering heat, freezing cold, and electrocution without any lasting effects. Although it is implied that he is immortal due to his mysterious relationship with Rachel Alucard, his appearance having not changed for at least 10 years, and his ability to effortlessly shrug off a majority of damage inflicted upon him in Centralfiction, Amane himself states that he is not immortal. Rachel also says that Amane is 'the Uzume', something that he is apparently unaware of. As well as this, Slave Red does not seem to work on him, it is unknown whether he is immune, or just was subjected to this spell before.
Amane is one of the Qualified.
Story of Joining Sora's Team[]
Amane joins Sora's team even though he is sometimes not as obsessed as the previous incident but he is amazed at the hero's insightful knowledge especially in Class 3-E, and Isogai even though he is surprised that Korosensei used to be the cruelest assassin but became the teacher of Class 3-E because of Aguri made Amane surprised that Korosensei was resurrected by Class 3-E especially. He sometimes liked the Japanese food and drinks from Class 3-E especially Isogai, and Muramatsu, even more so He liked the way Isogai led Class 3-E as the hero party of Sora's team even more so he was surprised that Isogai was the mortal enemy of Ehit, Alva, King, Nurarihyon, Junko Enoshima, and the criminals associated with Yanagisawa as Yanagisawa's colleagues, especially since Isogai followed Aguri and Korosensei's way, which Amane actually liked because what Isogai did was justified even though he was not obsessed, but he is called a sissy pervert man teacher because of his nature by Class 3-E especially since Class 3-E feels disgusted to him just like Korosensei, especially when Misumi sees him like Root making Kuzunoha, Mio, and Tomoe agree, especially since Root is there to make the hero annoyed when he is with Amane, making Hero, Mahiro, Misumi, Class 3-E, and Isogai will not hesitate to attack Root again if he becomes a perverted dragon again to him. Moreover, it turned out that Kouki Amanogawa was very disgusted with him when his body was touched by Amane, which made Kouki a little afraid to him as stalker pervert making the Returnees understand about Kouki traumatized moreover, the Returnees didn't like him as the perverted side of Tio Klaus, making Nagumo understand then Nagumo was even annoyed even he almost killed him if he made trouble during the break, making Amane understand even more. again He is Sion's enemy and the great ascetic Mitsuki from Yogiri's world because He has a relationship with Sion, and Mitsuki moreover Amane knows Yogiri's crazy power so Amane will not bother Yogiri, and Yogiri's partner makes Yogiri understand but Yogiri actually wants to talk to Amane about his power Moreover, Yogiri becomes a bystander like Amane in Yogiri's world and the whole world, making Amane agree to teach Yogiri and even give bystander knowledge to Yogiri, Class 3-E, Isogai, Nagumo, and other heroes if it can be used properly.