I dont care who the female is..
I just want Raidou...
But Im not keen on Irene..
I just watched a vid of Raidou's moves from DOAD. He looks kind of cool and they definitely upgraded him from his first appearance. But, if you really break it down...
another ninja? We have 6 and a half ninjas already. And you can see some of Hayate's and Kasumi's moves in Raidou (which would make sense). Though she'd be another blonde character (and another "good guy"), I'd think that Irene would at least not be a ninja...
Unless TN
really wants to screw with people. lol
I guess if you really think about it, spies are just modern day ninjas regardless. But, she'd probably at least (hopefully) bring another martial art to the game.
Nikki would also be acceptable and would bring some visual diversity. But, it'd be more of a stretch to think that she'd be able to fight. For some reason, if Marie Rose didn't exist, I would see her basically having Marie Rose's moveset.
A new character would be cool, but playing Blazblue for a number of years has turned me off of introducing side characters that have proven to, or likely have, relevance to the main plot and then never including them as playable...all the while introducing random new characters that seem to have little to do with anything in the long run.
So, I'd be down for Irene, maybe Nikki, or perhaps Miyako if we needed another "antagonist". What's the likelihood of TN putting a 40-year-old woman in the game? (Don't answer that.)