Not long after the announcement of an expanded release and new characters for Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, Sega announced another new team that will be coming to the crossover fighter. Quenser Barbotage (voiced by Natsuki Hanae) from Heavy Object will be a playable character, with Froleytia Capistrano (voiced by Shizuka Ito) serving as an assist character. Quenser will be able to summon other characters from his series as part of some of his attacks.
While the Heavy Object franchise currently only exists through light novels and manga, an anime adaptation is coming very soon: October of this year, according to AnimeNewsNetwork! Heavy Object is a military fantasy franchise that centers around the protagonist Quenser, an androgynous young man who is perceptive and strategically creative, as he finds ways to thwart the massive war weapons known as Objects. These Objects are so powerful that conventional wisdom held that humans stood no chance against them, until Quenser and his partner Heivia appeared. Froleytia, the assist character in Fighting Climax, is their commander and she comes from nobility, unlike Quenser.
You gotta love how the Valkyria Chronicles stage is used to show off the Heavy Object characters. It’s definitely fitting.
The expanded release, currently with a tentative title of Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax New, is set to hit Japanese arcades this summer. No plans for the game’s consoles releases are known as of yet. I can’t immediately tell what comes next for the non-arcade releases. The game may see some more new characters though, but we’ll have to wait and see for now.
Credit for the featured image goes to this Gematsu article.