DOA5LR Honoka Reveal Trailer

Releasing a day earlier than its original January 15th reveal date (all in part to yesterday's scan/screenshot leaks), here is the official reveal trailer for Honoka, "a sweet, easygoing kind of girl," Koei Tecmo subtly points out.

Her fighting style looks strikingly similar to a few of the cast members, doesn't it?

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Dead or Alive 5 Last Round Honoka Reveal Trailer

 

Great, this will bring more'n'more weeaboos that we love so much! Keep comin jpop and kpop lovers, I'll destroy all of you

 

I was having a conversation with Ain from Taiwan about this ...
Honestly I couldn't have said it better myself...

Ain: Honoka's design is not shit ..
Ain: Actually, there is NO design .. LOL

 

You people need to calms your metaphorical tits and go take a walk or somehing

I'll calm my tits once Honoka calms hers. But, I think that'd be conceptually impossible for those things...

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HAI-yoooooooooooooooooooo

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Well, it's good to know that Zack is being respected by Japanese fans...

 

I...I...

I think someone has finally managed to rip me from my Mila main.

Oh god. What's the world coming to?

 

Ain: Honoka's design is not shit ..
Ain: Actually, there is NO design .. LOL

While I completely agree with you, and with Ain, Emperor, honestly - what's the betting she's the most popular new character in the rotation?

Don't hate on the company, hate on the playerbase. imo, she's just a reflection of the majority of people we play with, and their buying history over the past two and a half years.

 

She probably won't be as popular as MR simply because flat gothic lolita + an actual fresh movelist, but more popular then the rest of the post DoA5U release characters easily. Kan- excuse me I mean Cyber Raidou very likely will be the least popular.

Edit: Do we know her entire movelist yet via a leak? Otherwise I doubt we saw all her mimic potential in that trailer. Oh god.

 

I...I...

I think someone has finally managed to rip me from my Mila main.

Oh god. What's the world coming to?

You are a disappointment to Mila fans worldwide.

 

I get that a lot of you are unhappy with the addition, but at the very least, it's an addition. They're not taking away a character or replacing someone with something you don't like.

If you dislike the character, don't use her. I think it's a pretty simple concept. The game's not ruined yet, considering we have no idea what the extent of her movelist is, no idea what can transition into what, how she'll be played, or even how good she is.

You can hate a character, that's fine, even though you're judging her based on an extremely short video. That said, all of this "wow, DOA is ruined GG I'm out" is not only childish, but completely idiotic.

Wait. Wait until you see how DOALR ends up. Just wait. Even if she is an awful character, just...you know...don't use her.

 

Just to shine a little perspective ...
Even when Ayane's hair was made blonde, you can still tell its Ayane...

This is not possible with Honoka and Marie.

 

This is not possible with Honoka and Marie.

Perhaps that's something to do with hitting their asset cap on last gen machines? Every character's mesh will need to be loaded for the new selection screen to work. Maybe they didn't have space for a fully new one.

Edit: don't get me wrong, I think it's shite too. Just playing devil's advocate here.

 

Perhaps that's something to do with hitting their asset cap on last gen machines? Every character's mesh will need to be loaded for the new selection screen to work. Maybe they didn't have space for a fully new one.

Edit: don't get me wrong, I think it's shite too. Just playing devil's advocate here.

Not true, because I know for a fact that there are new DLC characters on the way ... and they were pretty blunt about planning to abandon the last gen...

then lets be serious for a sec, you honestly think they had enough memory for giant tits but not for the face? come on ..

 

Not true, because I know for a fact that there are new DLC characters on the way ...

Oh, gawd. Somebody please stop them. Please.

 

Here's the Japanese Trailer. It's a lot better and has more hidden footage

 

Not true, because I know for a fact that there are new DLC characters on the way ... and they were pretty blunt about planning to abandon the last gen...

But they've just said those DLC probably won't be available on last gen?

 

LOL, so, basically TN felt comfortable now going full blast with the 'overly sexualized little girl' theme.

Marie Rose was basically the test case to see how people would respond. After TN realized that no one was going to put them in jail for MR, Honoka was released

On the other hand though, I freaked when I saw Hitomi's P+KPP being performed and I was like WHAT?????!!!!!!!!

 

Here's the Japanese Trailer. It's a lot better and has more hidden footage

Love the way everyone blames the Japanese for the ecchiness, yet the actual Japanese dialogue is infinitely less suggestive.

For example, TN have taken:

"What is this? [It's] hot..." (in reference to the red energy around her hands.)

And turned it into the innuendo-laced:

"Why am I so hot?"

The intro with her "don't tell anyone, okay?" is just as altered and slutty.

The duality of those lines is a business decision, based on market demographics, not a poor translation. They're doing that for the western market, specifically, because they obviously have sales data that tells them it's going to make them money.

Hate the players, not the company.

 

Love the way everyone blames the Japanese for the ecchiness, yet the actual Japanese dialogue is infinitely less suggestive.

For example, TN have taken:

"What is this? [It's] hot..." (in reference to the red energy around her hands.)

And turned it into the innuendo-laced:

"Why am I so hot?"

The intro with her "don't tell anyone, okay?" is just as altered and slutty.

The duality of those lines is a business decision, based on market demographics, not a poor translation. They're doing that for the western market, specifically, because they obviously have sales data that tells them it's going to make them money.

Hate the players, not the company.

You're projecting.

For one, "Promise me you won't tell anyone." is hardly suggestive on its own nor an incorrect translation of "Minna ni wa, zettai naisho da yo". And the intonation of how she says "Why am I so hot?" in English pretty clearly negates it being taken in a sexual way. You're bringing something to the table in your head that is not quite actually there.

Furthermore, her tag intro with Marie Rose has the line "Mune wo karite mo ii desu ka" (Is it okay if I borrow your chest?) in Japanese which was wholly changed to "Could we maybe try a practice round?" in English to get rid of anything "untoward". So, no, the Japanese dialog is not "infinitely less suggestive".

 

I'm just starting to imagine how much more crazier the reaction from everyone would really be if they would've ended the trailer with Honoka performing Hayabusa's izuna drop.

 

I do love SC too but SCV was pretty bad overall... the costumization options were pretty cool tough i'm not gonna lie but history wise and when it comes to character originality it sucked

Not to mention removing just about half the roster that was there from previous SC titles.

On topic: If she is, in fact, a joke character like Dan from SF that would make things a bit easier to stomach.

 

There sure is an awful lot of bitching and moaning going on, prior to even having played the character.

As Codemaster has stated, you still have your own characters. Don't like her? Don't play her.