Kotaku
Shooter specialist G.rev let slip the other day that Senko no Ronde 2 was in the works, revealing two new gender ambiguous additions to the cast of fighters. Now, courtesy of Yahoo! Japan blog Gemaga, we know a half-dozen characters who will comprise a portion of the roster. As fans of the first can see, gender confusion runs amok yet again, as Cuilan returns and a character known as ??? blurs the line between the sexes. Someone at G.rev should be made to pay for this.
Senko no Ronde 2 [Yahoo! Japan]
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Be ready to fall in a TRAP like none other before!
Even Poison dont got shit on the characters from Senko no Ronde 2.
I told my friend that I'ld never utter these words again but..... they look like women to me.
@Witzbold: There's a special place in hell for G.rev's art staff.
Hm...I'd say the person on the right's the only girl.
@Faselei:
Dammit, left. I can't tell the difference between directions.
As long as it's on 360, I'm a happy bunny.
I'd hit it
3 chances for there to be a girl in that pic
Reminds me of Bridget from Guilty Gear XX. Female by name and looks. Male by baggage.
I see females. That or a bunch of transvestites. Either way they're showing too much leg to be dudes. And if they are dudes they've gotta have the smallest packages ever. Not that i'm looking >_<
@futuresex: 3 chances for there to be a girl in that pic
Given that the redhead on the far left is wearing
(a) a miniskirt
(b) stockings
(c) nothing on the midriff
I think it's safe to assume that it's a female.
The Kotaku readership is certainly more bi-curious than I ever expected (when it comes to make believe types).
Placing my bets on the middle one being a dude.
The one in the middle? That's possibly going to be 2008's Bridget.
@baberg: Man, you -really- need to see more Japanese character designs... The face seems male, so I'm thinking that's a male character.
@baberg: Boy how wrong you are gonna be...
@baberg: That argument doesn't exist in the world of animé! Seriously google in "Bridget Guilty Gear". You'll see what i mean.
And yes. Bridget is male.
@McWhertor: lol you said it brother.
@McWhertor: lol to true, kinda shocking to me also.
@baberg:
"It's a female."
It?
A little bit of residual doubt there eh?
Anyways, the reason I say the left's a girl is because of the shadow.
@baberg:
it is NEVER safe.
From left to right: Girl, Girl, Boy.
@Faselei: The wrinkles to the side of the top and the shadow below on specimen #1 lead me to the conclusion that it has boobage, commonly found on females
@mariogalaxyman: Tell that to Poison.
@TaeK: That argument doesn't exist in the world of animé! Seriously google in "Bridget Guilty Gear". You'll see what i mean.
Oh god. OH GOD!
My world has fallen apart.
@baberg: I prefer to think of it as a new world beginning, you big whiny baby.
PLEASE tell me those are girls. I mean, Poison was SUPPOSED to be a girl...
Left = Baek = girl
Middle = Cuilan = male android
Right = new character = looks like a cross between Karel and Luchino, 2 male characters... their yaoi lovechild?, most likely male
@blackadvent: Does being attracted to a physical form seriously become acceptable only when it's a specific gender? Sexual preference and attraction are hardly the same thing.
I'd wager left and right are both female, while the one in the middle is anyone's guess.
DAMN YOUSE JAPAN WITH YOUR AMBIGUITY!!!
"It's a trap" percentages
Left: 0%
Middle: 100%
Right: 50%
What sucks is that all but 1 character so far are males.
Hmm, looking at the art history, if you have to guess even remotely, it's a guy or a real underage loli (like a 4 year old)
@Witzbold: Transvestites don't count, whatever they were born as they are no matter how hard they may want to change that.
@mariogalaxyman: Rationalize all you want, but your original theory is still shattered by the might of Poison.
@mariogalaxyman:
That begs the question...
Futanari... hot or not?
Dear Japanese Extremely Feminine Male Character Designers,
Why?
Sincerely,
Everyone but you
Thank goodness the only girl is nice looking(Baek)
I miss the days when you can gawk at a girl, and rest safe it was girl. Today unhealthy boys can pass as young frail girls with cute faces. sorry, but thats not my thing and I hate that to be the norm.
Normally the dudes that look like chicks have no tits, they're simply designed so that their clothing obscures their chest. It's safe to assume that the one on the left is a girl. The one in the middle is PROBABLY a girl. and the one on the left is probably a guy, being flat as a board that he/she/it is.
@Witzbold: You win, sir.
After playing the first Senko No Ronde (Wartech), I know the one on the left is Changpo, a 16 year old girl.
All I know is, if I had a 16 year old that wore that, she'd never be able to fly a shmupbot ever again.
I'm so horribly into this games character design... male or female. I like the style.
@Witzbold: they're too cute to be girls, wtf you talking about?
I refuse to believe that the one on the right is a man.
I also can't believe Cuilan's new clothes.
Lastly, I can't believe that I'm wondering whether he's wearing panties under that top.
As a side note, Cuilan and Fabian look a bit older, or at lat a little more mature... perhaps this game is set a few years after the previous one.
@RPGr: only in 2D, only in 2D....
Looks like a girl, its a girl in my mind. Don't care what the artist says. My imagination is all that matters!
@muu: Aparently you're not well versed in the ways of Japan. The more effiminate that a male is the more powerful he is.
I think everyone's precautions were maxed out when Final Fantasy IX pulled off their first Kuja entrance. Thankfully, they kept harping that Kuja was indeed a guy before the movie clip.
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Really sad/scary how these ladies/I mean, guys(?) have to dress the part as well. -_-
Post-up or pre-op? Giggidy, giggidy... gig-gi-dy.
I'm just going to sit back and sigh.
@RPGr: Not.
That's the official answer anyway. A cleverly hidden /fn/ folder says-- NO WAIT I MEAN...
I think they're all women, with the middle one having a 25% chance of man.
are you gay if you fap to a "female" character but later turns out to be a male?
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I love the art, even if it lures you to fap for a trap.
Fapping to male characters like Bridget, Poison or... maybe one or two of those in the pic only makes you more hetero as I see it.
That unless you are fapping to a naked pic of them.
I'm going for it. They look like pretty girls.
@splines: I was waiting for Ackbar. He always has the knack of detecting those elusive traps...
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