DOA5LR New character expectations (Spring 2016)

[UpSideDownGRUNT]

I'd really like a Yanki girl or a Reverse Trap(ala Makoto Kikuchi, Akira Satou, Naoto Shirogane)if its female which it likely will be.

Male characters, at this point anything would do.

 

[DestructionBomb]

Yes, in the DLC thread the matter was discussed using as source just the translation of the Famitsu interview, if you are interested here the link: http://americanorientalism.tumblr.com/post/127381282863/doa-xtreme-3-interview-translation

By the way I believe that the character will come in March for the Japanese Arcade (Hayashi in the past had already hinted to a similar development and actually would make perfectly logical), so I believe that for the console users (and PC?... -_-) the actual date will be around June.

It's always been Arcades first. June is far too deep for a console release. I expect it to be slightly earlier than that but we cannot throw that out the window.

Of course it's not confirmed and no one can say the opposite, but in similar cases the explanation more simple should be the one considered more likely until further revelations. So far is more easy to say that Honoka is a secret children of Raidou (if really the copycat ability is a natural one of Raidou and Honoka's glove is just a way to hide her hand and not the source of her power - as seems hinted from the red aura released from her bare hand) than a scenario like the one that you described. And also the need of the developers to say that Honoka wasn't raised from her parents and to create a tag team between her and Ayane appear suspecious (together with being the only 2 characters to own unnatural colors of hairs and eyes).

Again, I'm not saying that we couldn't realize in future that the truth is completely different, just because nothing is confirmed so far. But if people want try to imagine what is Honoka's mistery, just now make actually more sense to think that Honoka inherited her power from Raidou as her daughter because is the scenario more simple and that requires less speculation possible.

You cannot determine if it's any secret relations because the time gap before his death, during his death and his revival is not exactly in close ties due to the issue leading to over 60 reasons. That reason you placed up there is one of them. Now there are 59 other reasons with different outcomes and that one you placed just happens to be one created out of sheer thought due to either tag relations or family connection. (Which they don't have family connections unless it's "mentioned" otherwise. But since it's not mentioned at all, it's only normal speculation and not a strong one.) The red aura is merely the glove activity of it's usage. Now remove the glove, where is the aura. There is a habit here to where things visually automatically draws people into thinking it's automatically connected to someone. Apparently she has a mysterious power without the glove but yet people think the red aura automatically connects to Raidou. She has a copy cat glove equipment that copies techniques. Her mysterious power likely comes with the feedback that she can possibly keep them all as a bonus after stealing them. At this point, who knows. But who am I kidding? I don't even think it's a glove concept anymore granted that there are outfits to where she is not using it..so this concept is out of the window as there are more possibilities. Either she received a sample of Raidou's DNA to have the ability to use other moves? or maybe you were fortunate to be correct that she is related to Ayane or Raidou. (Which seems unlikely unless TN wants to say that they are related to provide even more confusion to the viewers for no reason.)

I don't understand where is the problem with the timeline:

• Around 20 years before the DoA5 events Raidou conceives Ayane coupling with Ayame. Consequently he leaves the Mugen Tenshin village and/or is exiled from it;
• 19 years before the DoA5 events Ayane was born; Raidou wanders far from the village;
• 18 years before the DoA5 events possibly Raidou conceives Honoka behind unknown reasons (why people think automatically that he abused another woman? Maybe this time the thing could be consentient);
• Along the last 18 years, Honoka is raised from her grandmother far from her parents for unknown reasons; meanwhile Raidou enters in contact with Victor Donovan, accepting to use his body for his genetical experiments. Consequently he returns to the village, cripple Hayate stealing the Sky Torn Blast, enters in the first DoA tournament and find his death against Kasumi and Hayabusa and later is resurrected as an half cyborg from the same Donovan.

3) Again, there are no substantial mention at all. The speculation is only of normal base because the theory behind this suggest that Raidou once again falls prey to abusing another woman for his old selfish desires which he may no longer had around that time to even begin with. Throwing in Honoka within that particular timeline is completely off. Raidou was pure evil. His greed caused him to seek power after the events with Burai as well as after Ayame.

4) Honoka may have a grandmother with no connectivity at all for all we know. She is a highschool student that may have grasped a device for her powers or something kawaii to throw viewers off the hook. I don't see how it's...unknown...for a grandmother to take care of her grandchildren, It's only normal since it's her grandmother. Also Raidou's body was taken by Donovan after his collapse. The situation previous to this is that in past he was willing to give himself up for higher power for Donovan's experimentation but yet would only do it for his own purposes and likely may even betray Donovan in the end if such a outcome arisen. You see, "now" it was a good time for Donovan because he wiped his memories to prevent such things from happening. At this point, there are many reasons so who knows.

 

[Jyakotu]

March 2016 huh? Well that's early Spring, which is great! The way 2015 has been flying (I mean, September is just around the corner and before we know it, the big 3 holidays are about to begin), March 2016 will be here before we know it!

 

[DestructionBomb]

March 2016 huh? Well that's early Spring, which is great! The way 2015 has been flying (I mean, September is just around the corner and before we know it, the big 3 holidays are about to begin), March 2016 will be here before we know it!

Expect the character to be released in Sega's RingEdge2 DOA5LR Arcades first then home consoles and PC(?).

 

[Jyakotu]

Expect the character to be released in Sega's RingEdge2 DOA5LR Arcades first then home consoles and PC(?).

Oh yeah, I keep forgetting that DOA5U Arcade is still a thing. Wait, wasn't Raidou and Honoka added to the arcade after the console releases?

 

[DestructionBomb]

Oh yeah, I keep forgetting that DOA5U Arcade is still a thing. Wait, wasn't Raidou and Honoka added to the arcade after the console releases?

With the exception of Marie Rose, Phase 4 and Nyotengu. Honoka and Raidou were likely added to the arcades within the same day due to them not actually being part of DLC content but rather raw content. Since this upcoming character will be DLC, it's high likely that this character will be added to arcades first then home consoles due to the consoles stores having to go through a process and specific day release for downloadable content on a worldwide basis.

 

[KasumiLover]

With the exception of Marie Rose, Phase 4 and Nyotengu. Honoka and Raidou were likely added to the arcades within the same day due to them not actually being part of DLC content but rather raw content. Since this upcoming character will be DLC, it's high likely that this character will be added to arcades first then home consoles due to the consoles stores having to go through a process and specific day release for downloadable content on a worldwide basis.

And they still have to find an English VA for the character too to record the dialogue for the West, so that will take some time to do before March.

 

[DestructionBomb]

And they still have to find an English VA for the character too to record the dialogue for the West, so that will take some time to do before March.

Yup, that is correct.

 

[KasumiLover]

I strongly think the fighter is going to be a male. I mean, wouldn't they have hyped it up if it was a female? They've done that for Honoka, Nyotengu, Marie Rose, and Phase 4 literally months before they hit consoles.

 

[Number 13]

Thing is DoAX3 is their next big thing so that is taking more of the 'hyping' away. I mean look at their interview where it was predominately DoAX3 with only small mentions about anything DoA5LR.

 

[Argentus]

Expectation release of the character may arrive in March.

http://shoryuken.com/2015/08/25/dead-or-alive-5-last-round-newcomer-should-arrive-in-march-2016/

It's likely to be an entire new character. So I expect the character inheriting a movelist from a previous old character or a brand new moveset.

And for Pete's sake. Enough with the idea that Raidou is the pops of Honoka. It is still unconfirmed and small speculation to the scenario at this point. For all we know, Honoka could of been a captured individual with memory loss/changed memory with Donovan having technology to create a device (glove) to copy other moves and for mass production while Honoka having the first prototype to copy moves. She could of possibly happen to run into Raidou within the facility, basement, upstairs, downstairs, MTV Donovan's hou- Look you get the point.

The timeline does not make sense. (Never made sense to begin with seeing as how DOA plot rambles to a void of unexplained twists and randomness.) There is no information on the timeline and no proof that Raidou added another child to his miserable family life of hate. Just because Raidou is considered a rapist you cannot conclude the situation for him having another offspring. For all we know, his pipe may have been removed and completely gone within the explosion from his pre-death experience and I'm sure Donovan would not invest his time into giving this man a pipe to create more children.

Come to think of it why are they revealing a single character almost a year beforehand? Thats usually a timeframe reserved for an entire game. Past new characters were teased a month or two, right?

 

[WisperG]

Come to think of it why are they revealing a single character almost a year beforehand? Thats usually a timeframe reserved for an entire game. Past new characters were teased a month or two, right?

Seems like they just wanted to have some big announcements at the Festival earlier this month. Ditto for the upcoming costume packs. Usually we'd have to wait until the week before or week of to even see what the theme was going to be, or maybe a month out for the characters, but they just went ahead and laid out (presumably) their entire DLC slate through next spring.

I guess it did it's job building early hype and discussion, but taking most of the mystery out of everything so early is a little disappointing in my opinion.

 

[UpSideDownGRUNT]

they probably haven't even finished designing the character yet.

 

[Argentus]

Seems like they just wanted to have some big announcements at the Festival earlier this month. Ditto for the upcoming costume packs. Usually we'd have to wait until the week before or week of to even see what the theme was going to be, or maybe a month out for the characters, but they just went ahead and laid out (presumably) their entire DLC slate through next spring.

I guess it did it's job building early hype and discussion, but taking most of the mystery out of everything so early is a little disappointing in my opinion.

Exactly its like dude you're shooting off early, I'm not gonna care that long lol

 

[Jyakotu]

On some Facebook groups, a lot of people seem to be leaning towards an androgynous looking character since Hayashi said that this character is going in a direction that the team hasn't touched before.

 

[Argentus]

On some Facebook groups, a lot of people seem to be leaning towards an androgynous looking character since Hayashi said that this character is going in a direction that the team hasn't touched before.

Eliot

 

[Banana56]

On some Facebook groups, a lot of people seem to be leaning towards an androgynous looking character since Hayashi said that this character is going in a direction that the team hasn't touched before.

I also think that's the direction TN would go for the newbie, although Idk whether they'd go for an ordinary androgynous character (like Zhang He or Ash Crimson) or a trap (like Brigette). Probrably a trap.

 

[UpSideDownGRUNT]

if it's androgynous, I hope it's a reverse trap. Girls that wear suits, and things like plaid shirts and skinny jeans and stuff is cool/sexy

EDIT:

Akira Satou is waifu.

 

[Argentus]

if it's androgynous, I hope it's a reverse trap. Girls that wear suits, and things like plaid shirts and skinny jeans and stuff is cool/sexy

EDIT:
examples:

Much as I also love that type

Spoiler

The problem is this wouldn't be new to DOA so it wouldn't match up with what hayashi said. Christie, Mila, Hitomi and Eliot all already fit this type with certain costumes.

 

[Juihau]

It's always been Arcades first. June is far too deep for a console release. I expect it to be slightly earlier than that but we cannot throw that out the window.



You cannot determine if it's any secret relations because the time gap before his death, during his death and his revival is not exactly in close ties due to the issue leading to over 60 reasons. That reason you placed up there is one of them. Now there are 59 other reasons with different outcomes and that one you placed just happens to be one created out of sheer thought due to either tag relations or family connection. (Which they don't have family connections unless it's "mentioned" otherwise. But since it's not mentioned at all, it's only normal speculation and not a strong one.) The red aura is merely the glove activity of it's usage. Now remove the glove, where is the aura. There is a habit here to where things visually automatically draws people into thinking it's automatically connected to someone. Apparently she has a mysterious power without the glove but yet people think the red aura automatically connects to Raidou. She has a copy cat glove equipment that copies techniques. Her mysterious power likely comes with the feedback that she can possibly keep them all as a bonus after stealing them. At this point, who knows. But who am I kidding? I don't even think it's a glove concept anymore granted that there are outfits to where she is not using it..so this concept is out of the window as there are more possibilities. Either she received a sample of Raidou's DNA to have the ability to use other moves? or maybe you were fortunate to be correct that she is related to Ayane or Raidou. (Which seems unlikely unless TN wants to say that they are related to provide even more confusion to the viewers for no reason.)


3) Again, there are no substantial mention at all. The speculation is only of normal base because the theory behind this suggest that Raidou once again falls prey to abusing another woman for his old selfish desires which he may no longer had around that time to even begin with. Throwing in Honoka within that particular timeline is completely off. Raidou was pure evil. His greed caused him to seek power after the events with Burai as well as after Ayame.

4) Honoka may have a grandmother with no connectivity at all for all we know. She is a highschool student that may have grasped a device for her powers or something kawaii to throw viewers off the hook. I don't see how it's...unknown...for a grandmother to take care of her grandchildren, It's only normal since it's her grandmother. Also Raidou's body was taken by Donovan after his collapse. The situation previous to this is that in past he was willing to give himself up for higher power for Donovan's experimentation but yet would only do it for his own purposes and likely may even betray Donovan in the end if such a outcome arisen. You see, "now" it was a good time for Donovan because he wiped his memories to prevent such things from happening. At this point, there are many reasons so who knows.

It's also because the only other character with unusual hair and eye colors is Ayane. But really, a lot of the theory relies on the idea that the most likely answer is the one that requires the least assumptions. All this requires you to assume is that Raidou had sex with someone else after he raped Ayame. Or, if you subscribe to the theory that he's her grandfather, that he had sex with somebody far before he raped Ayame, though that sticks you with the rather gross idea that he was a father when he was, like, 12 at the oldest.