New Ikemen Vampire Boys

For about fifteen days now, there's been a video on Cybird's official YouTube channel showing artwork of the three new characters they'd announced. Even though it'll probably take an eternity for them to come to the English game, I just thought I'd share the video with you here. (Also, it's just fun to talk about otome news and stuff!)

In case you are unable to view the video due to data limitations and stuff, I have provided screenshots of the new characters down below. These have probably already been widely circulated around the web, but I don't care.

The screenshot's a bit cut off because YouTube wouldn't hide the user interface during the video!

The megane on the left is Faust, or Johann Georg Faust to be exact. He has a pleasant sounding voice, but since he hasn't got a route yet, it'll probably only be heard in game events and menus right now. I don't really know much about him, but I infer that he's not going to be one of those boys who is nice right from the start. His voice lines in the video I could sort of understand (well, at least I think those were his lines!), but all I could catch was your typical romance talk, nothing that gave away much of his character. The artist really did well on his design though! I hope that his sprites look that good.

On the right we have Charles-Henri Sanson. I have no idea who he is in real life. At least with Faust, even though I don't know him, I've at least heard of the name. All I can infer is that he's French, and I'm guessing he's going to be either a cinnamon roll or a huge tsundere. There aren't really too many tsun boys in IkeVamp right now, so it would make sense to add another one.

VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE: I read a fan-translation of his profile here and it seems to suggest that he might end up being a yandere! I am now very, very excited, because as you probably know, I very much like boys like him. Not in real life, of course, but just in otome.

And this boy I've known about for a while, Vlad. Something tells me that he's going to be the first to get a route. In fact, I predict that he's going to get a route before some of the original characters, probably the ones like poor Dazai, who always seem to be near the bottom of the polls.

The video also features what looks like either possible route CGs or just ultra-rare gacha cards.

Here's Charles'. I'm really enjoying his colour scheme here, and just the whole CG in general.

This is also another good CG. In the game, it's obviously going to be a portrait image and not under a blue tint.

You know what, you could use all of these images as wallpapers! They'd probably get a bit blurry on a bigger screen though.

Here's Vlad. I don't like this one as much as the others, probably because it's not as close up and personal.

There were also images of the other boys in the video, but I'm not going to put the rest in here. There was a really sexy one of Dazai, but you can probably find it in the English game, with a 0.0000001% chance of getting it in the gacha.

The one image I will show you is this.

This image is nice and all, but.... MC, what are you doing to Vlad?

Sucking his blood, is she? Does that mean our heroine will finally get to be a vampire in this game?

So, yeah. Those are the new Ikemen Vampire boys. I really hope that they give some of the others a route first before letting these new ones have a chance at romance. Apparently they're gonna have darker stories than the others. The brand new fifteen day old preview video does make the game seem a lot more dramatic and deep than it actually is.

If all three of the new characters had routes from the start, I'm not sure which one I would like to pick first. Maybe Charles or Faust. Vlad looks good, but I'm not really that intrigued with him yet. That's probably because most of the information on him I can't understand. These boys don't look like they live in Saint-Germain's mansion, so hopefully their routes will allow the heroine to step out of the familiar locations found in the rest of the game, and do something different.

As of right now, I think that all you can do is find their character pages in the Japanese version of the app. I doubt that there's an updated prologue with them in. They're probably the types of characters the MC meets inside their own routes or in others.

That concludes my post for today. I'm sorry that all I seem to be talking about is mobage, but that's all I have to play right now. This will not be my last IkeVamp post, I'm currently playing through Arthur's route, and I'd like to make a small post on it once it's over.

Goodbye!