Arcana Heart, (アルカナハート, Arukana Hāto) is an all-female fighting game series created by Team Arcana, formerly co-owned by Examu, the company which originally owned the said developer team. Examu or Team Arcana had a long history with Arc System Works as one of the most recurring HD sprite-based fighting game competing companies. Aside Arc System Works, Examu, or Team Arcana again also had a history with Atlus America, whereas Atlus published the North American release of the first game, while Arc System Works published the third game during BlazBlue era. Before BlazBlue, Arcana Heart is one of the oldest games alongside BlazBlue's spiritual predecessor, Guilty Gear and Subtle-Style's Akatsuki EN-Eins. By the late of February 2020, Team Arcana's parent company Examu suspended their business operations, with any ongoing development works and product supports (most particularly ongoing supported fighting games (including licensed fighting games)) are migrating to Team Arcana, which is now a private company after Examu’s demolish.
In BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Arcana Heart characters no longer need to select any different Arcana Elements, leaving them set by their default Arcana. Additionally, their sprites are being upgraded than the rest of the characters from different series, just like Heart’s previous appearance in Nitroplus-related crossover fighting game Nitroplus Blasterz: Infinite Duel (published by Marvelous, in addition of Senran Kagura's Homura), and so as the series's stages being updated to the 3D-based area, except missing the walking sprite animations, including regular KOed sprite animation (NOT face to floor KOed animation) as the characters from RWBY, Senran Kagura (so might Homura if she’s announced) and Akatsuki EN-Eins (not counting Blitztank nor Akatsuki (due to being guest in Under Night In-Birth)) within their sprite packs. The series’ inclusion was foreshadowed by Examu's involvements in Cross Tag Battle, as shown on the end credits, as well unused Senran Kagura-related files. It is also for the volunteering companies’ budget saving, with Arcana Heart series itself is very easy to pick than Senran Kagura. Due to likely because Team Red's Guilty Gear moved on to 2.5D era, Arcana Heart still has a chance to enter the fray instead. In this game, Arcana Heart characters has their Homing Dash Mechanic on their , which is now only applied to during jump only, or may cost 1 gauge like an EX if used to cancel from certain special/EX moves.
Following the shutdown of RWBY's creator, Rooster Teeth, which led to Viz Media to the series' signature as of Mid-2024, this makes Arcana Heart becomes to first two series appearing in Cross Tag to be previous owned by respective original creators.
Main Games:
- Arcana Heart
- Arcana Heart 2
- Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2
- Arcana Heart 3
- Arcana Heart 3 Love Max
- Arcana Heart 3 Love Max Six Stars
- Arcana Heart 3 Love Max Six Stars Xtend
- Arcana Heart 3 Love Max Six Stars
- Arcana Heart 3 Love Max
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