Dramatical Murder 2: Rose Code

Dramatical Murder 2 (ドラマティカル マーダー 2, Doramatikaru Mādā 2, stylized as DRAMAtical Murder 2: Rose Code) is a upcoming Japanese BL visual novel developed and published by Nitro+chiral for Windows PCs as a first press edition, with a regular edition released with Xbox one and Nintendo Switch. An anime adaption by studio NAZ well premiered on July 6, 2019.

Plot
Dramatical Murder 2 is set in the near future on the fictional island of Midorijima (碧島), Japan. 20 years later after the events of the first game, At some point in the game's recent history, the island was privatized by the powerful Toue Konzern (東江コンツェルン Tōe Kontserun) and turned into a resort called Platinum Jail (プラチナ・ジェイル Purachina Jeiru), with the island's original residents being forced to live in the Old Residential District (旧住民区 Kyū-Jūmin-ku), but not only that Toue was going to brainwash all of the citizens on the island and sell his research to other countries. Luckily, Aoba Seragaki, the protagonist of the first game and his friends manage to stop his plans. ever since that Platinum Jail was shut down and island's residents continue to live the five districts as well living in the Old Residential District. New protagonist Rose Seragaki, The daughter of Aoba, lives on the island and works at a Bakery named Pink Hipster Mediocrity(平凡 Heibon), ever since her father disappeared 10 years ago and has been being taken care by Ren and their old friends. When a mysterious organization has forcefully dragged residents into the now banned cyber game Rhyme (ライム Raimu) with its virtual world and its use of Allmates (オールメイト Ōru Meito), mobile devices that usually appear as if they are the owner's pets, Rose somehow gets mixed up in the game. Later, Rose finds out that about rumors about disappearances involving Ribstiez (リブスティーズ Ribusutīzu), turf wars between groups, she embarks on a journey to find her father and learn the truth about her origins.

Main

 * Rose Seragaki: is the primary protagonist of the game and The daughter of Aoba. She works part-time and own a Bakery called Pink Hipster Mediocrity, and lives with Ren. like her father, Rose has a special ability called SCRAP, which allows her to mix her consciousness with other people's through her hands and use it to control them, though she can also destroy them and leave the victims in a comatose-like state. Rose has a caring, honest, and open-minded personality, much like her father had. Inside of Rose lies another persona that represents Scrap, who usually comes out whenever Rose is emotionally distressed. The "other Rose" desires chaos and destruction, and has shown to be sadistic and masochistic. She is voiced by Kanako Miyamoto in the Japanese one of the anime and in the English dub of the anime, she is voiced by Barbara Dunkelman.


 * Arata: is Rose's Allmate, who resembles a Pink American Curl cat. She takes a human form in Rhyme. Arata has a innocent demeanor but has a mature, patient side of her, Despite being an built-make Allmate model, Rose considers her to be her important partner and cherishes her like family. Originally, Atata was a part of Rose's consciousness that was created to keep the balance between Rose and her other personality that wishes for destruction.


 * Madoka: is Koujaku's apprentice and friends with Rose, She is leader of the Ribstiez group Benishigure after Koujaku step down as leader. She is compassionate and strong-willed, and she cares deeply for her loved ones. Her has many scars on her body, and works as a hairdresser in Koujaku's store. She was a daughter of a yakuza leader and was abuse by her father, due to her being a woman but luckily Koujaku took her in after she tried to murder her father. Despite her terrible childhood, she retains a positive and gentle personality. Madoka is being the first to court the newest available good-looking boy, and is incredibly popular with girls and Boys.


 * RBM: real name Catherine: is an technical genius for Rhyme, a skilled Rhyme player, and the new leader of Noiz's Rhyme group, Ruff Rabbit. Since she was a child, RBM suffers from CIPA, causing her to accidentally hurt herself. her parents abandoned her, living on her own for years until Noiz discover her when he was in Germany. Due to this, RBM is sympathertic to the world around her and bases everything on logic, though she can get annoyed with hose around her. Her inability to feel pain also causes her to be reckless and she eventually turns to playing Rhyme aggressively in order to feel the illusion of pain, besides Noiz's warnings of the game. She dresses up in steampunk clothing and has her body is covered with many piercings.


 * Alawa: is the new leader of Scratch, a Ribstiez group of former prison inmates, which is now has the daughters or sons of prison inmates, Alawa hails from a Native American tribe which is led by Mink after he left Midorijima. She and Mink met and took her in when Alawa as a little girl after her tribe slaughtered. As a result, Alawa is sent into a period of shock, only communicating with hand gestures and friendly smiles and has hardened herself, a stoic, integrity and a gentle side but can become ruthless, controlling constantly using violence as a means to reach her goals.


 * Block: is an female android that previously served for Platinum Jail before being discarded. Block was saved by Clear who treated Block like a daughter. Block addresses Clear as his father and is fondly to Rose. She refers to Rose as her best friend and follows her around and watches over her well-being. Despite her childish façade, cause others not to take him seriously and be annoyed by her. Block enjoys singing, and can often be heard singing a song called the "Jellyfish Song". the same song that Clear sing.

Supporting

 * Sakura: is the new leader of the Ribstiez team Dry Juice after her father, Mizuki step down as leader to run his tattoo shop called Black Needle. Sakura and Rose met and became friends due to their fathers's friendship. like her father, she is dedicated Ribster but has a interest in Rhyme, she has a friendly personality, and she treats her team members as family. She works part-time at Rose's bakery and has a good relationship with her father, Mizuki.


 * Akushima: is the old head of the Midorijima police, primarily in the Old Resident District, and is usually seen giving orders to other officers until he was fired, Ever since then, he now usually in a retirement home with Haga and usually visits Rose in her Bakery, he still carrying around a megaphone wherever he goes.


 * Koujaku: is one of Aoba's friends and the old leader of the Ribstiez group, Benishigure. He has many tattoos and scars on his body, and works as a hairdresser. He has a strong daughter-like relationship with Madoka and advise her to control her emotions, Prior 20 years before the start of the game and after the fall of Platinum Jail, Koujaku took her in after she tried to murder her abusive father. Ever since then Aoba's disappeared, Koujaku has been looking over Rose, making sure she not in danger and advise her and Madoka to not get involved in Rhyme.


 * Ren: is Rose's guardian and the part of Aoba's existence that maintained the balance between Aoba and the other entity inside of him. Prior 20 years before the start of the game, Ren was an entity born from Aoba's power, Scrap. His role is to maintain the balance between Aoba and the other entity (the desire to destroy) inside him. He then transferred his consciousness to an AllMate that Aoba had picked up off the street to fix, after the fall of Platinum Jail, Sei, Aoba's twin brother had transferred Ren's consciousness into his own body afterward, giving him his own physical being in reality. Ever since then Aoba's disappeared, Ren have not been heard of him since then but still feel him be around.


 * Noiz, real name Wilhelm: is an formaly information broker for Rhyme, a skilled hacker, and the founder of his Rhyme group, Ruff Rabbit. Prior 20 years before the start of the game, Noiz discover RBM after she was abandoned her, due her CIPA, Ever since then, Noiz has from an organization to help others with the same disorder has his. He has a daughter-like relationship with RBM and passed down his leadership of Ruff Rabbit to her. Ever since then Aoba's disappeared, Noiz has prescribes medicine for Rose ease her headaches under Aoba's request and build her Allmate Arata.


 * Mink: is the formaly leader of Scratch, a Ribstiez group of former prison inmates. Mink hails from a Native American tribe that grew special herbs that affect a human's body odor to give them a sense of peace. Toue, who mistook the purpose of the plant's effect as mind manipulation. Prior 20 years before the start of the game, after the fall of Platinum Jail, Mink left Midorijima to rebuild his tribe with his Ribstiez group, during that time, Mink met Alawa after her tribe slaughtered and took her in as his own daughter. Ever since then Aoba's disappeared, Mink has been keeping in contact with Ren and Koujaku on Rose but has be in contact with Aoba.


 * Clear: is an android that previously served under Toue as a prototype for Scrap before being discarded. Clear was saved by a man who was in charge of the disposal, Prior 20 years before the start of the game, after the fall of Platinum Jail, Clear found Block after she was discarded and treated her like a daughter. Ever since then Aoba's disappeared, Clear resolved to searching for him while helping raise Block and looking over Rose but also to not allow that search to consume him.


 * Xiao: is the new CEO of Toue Inc and is the main antagonist. Years prior to the series, she worked as researcher, specialized in the brain's plasticity and engineer children who had the power to control people's will. after the fall of Platinum Jail, Xiao took over as the CEO after Tatsuo Toue's death and vow to continue his research. She is known as a calm and manipulative and self-righteous individual, justifying her horrendous crimes to achieve goals by claiming it was for the greater good. She also continued the research on engineer children, she merely sees Rose as a test subject and sees life as a game.


 * Aoba Seragaki: is the primary protagonist of the first game and Rose's adopted father, Aoba has a special ability called SCRAP, which allows him to mix his consciousness with other people's through his voice and use it to control them, though he can also destroy them and leave the victims in a comatose-like state. Prior 20 years before the start of the game, after the fall of Platinum Jail. Aoba discovered Rose in one of Toue's research labs and rescue her as a baby, adopted her as his own daughter. Aoba left Rose with Ren and Koujaku to go on journey when she was a child and disappear since then but before that, Aoba ask Noiz to transferred Arata from Rose's consciousness to a AllMate so she can influence Rose and help her to control her scrap power.