And here we can already see some differences between Blue as of then and Blue when he was created. Blue definitely was a blue mage when he started off, hence the name, but I very rarely show him using magic. That persists to this day - he is still technically his world's equivalent of a blue mage (I'm debating the actual name, but memory mage or mnemomage are up there), but he tends to shy away from magic.
The explosion from panel 5 is from Ace Attorney, just in case anyone was worried I'd stopped liking the series or something.