Sunday, June 7, 2015

GX new enemy characters and cast revealed AND airdate leak

Courtesy of a 4 day early magazine leak comes our first official look at the new characters in GX.







EDIT: New image (original post continues below)


Better quality pic:



(English name spellings are unofficial)


Carol Mars Dienheim (far right) - Inori Minase
Elfnine (far left) - Misaki Kuno
Mika Jawkān (top left) - Shiori Izawa
Leah Darāhim (top right) - Shizuka Ishigami
Gali Tūmān (bottom right) - Michiyo Murase
Fallah Suyūf (bottom left)- Masumi Tazawa

Update: Changed the spellings of the names. 4 of the characters names refer to a set of ancient tarot cards located in a museum in Istanbul. The names are reflective of the 4 suits of cards:

Coins = Darāhim
Polo-sticks = Jawkān
Cups = Tūmān
Swords = Suyūf

The four characters with smaller pictures (also with the names listed above) are sentient puppets/dolls of some kind that belong to Carol. They, of course, can talk. They are called "Auto-Scorers." These new enemy characters utilize a different kind of technology than the black art technology Fine developed (aka the Symphogear).

A leak of schedule listings on 2chan seems to indicate GX will begin airing July 4th at 1am  (Japan time).



14 comments:

  1. Woah was not expecting that. Will be interesting to see how they'll interact in fight scenes. I wonder if they sing?

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    1. The current popular theory is that because 4 of them are non-human that only one of the girls will sing, either Elfnine or Carol. Would make sense given the only character CD we don't know about is the 8th one.

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    2. Hmm Elfnine and Carol look pretty similar, maybe the sing a duet.

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  2. Hmm, can you translate the text that point to Carol and Elfnine?

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    1. The sentences cut off mid-way so not really, but from what I can see Elfnine's text talks about how she looks similar to Carol, but describes them as two different people. Carol's text talks about how her outfit looks like a magic user's and that she has a relation to the other 4, which the bottom text says they act as her bodyguards.

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    2. I see, thank you.

      In contrast to Carol, who looks like a serious one out of two, Elfnine looks like a soft and timid girl but her outfit is really revealing. Heh.

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  3. well intersting so for S3 we have Symphogear VS puppets

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  4. Their designs seem like something from another anime (first thing that came to mind was Witch Craft Works). Excited for more news to come :D

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    1. My thoughts too, did not expect these. Super excited to see how fight scenes will look between the symphogear and these guys.

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  5. I really hope they explain many things about Custodians, Lulu Amel, etc.
    If not, they need another season (or at least make some manga of it)...

    Have to be honest that I hate plot holes in the main story, and reading the encyclopedia is somewhat unsatisfying.

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  6. You're spoiling way too much!

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    1. Sorry, not you, but I think that the producers are giving too much information about the next season. I wanted to have to wait until it aired, so I would have to look forward to ir even more. Since I've been waiting for more than a year without any news, having the full story spoiled now is kind of... dissappointing. If I know too much, I won't feel that exited when the anime comes out.

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    2. Hm, I don't know. I feel like they are actually going out of their way to keep a lot of things hidden to us. The same was true with G - they revealed Maria and the other new characters early, but there was so much we didn't know about them until it was revealed in the series.

      I think everything they are saying this far is just a big tease to get us excited, but if it's really bothering you I recommend not looking at any of the upcoming posts.

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  7. We've been told only very little about the story. All we know at this moment are the character designs.

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