Arfoire
Arfoire, known as Magiquone (マジェコンヌ Majekon'nu) in the Japanese version, is a recurring antagonist in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. She represents piracy and is often depicted as a goddess throughout the series, though not all the time.
Due to the Neptunia series being a game that revolves around different universes and dimensions, there are multiple Arfoires throughout the series though most of them retain more or less the same personalities and core aspects regardless of the setting.
Other Appearances
Games
Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart
Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online
NepNep☆Connect: Chaos Chanpuru
Arfoire appears as an obtainable card.
Neptunia Shooter
Arfoire is the final boss of the game.
Dimension Tripper Neptune: TOP NEP
Arfoire acts as the final boss of the game.
Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution
Arfoire acts as the president of Ar Co. and the head of the Pirate Makers.
Anime & Books
Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation
Hyperdimension Neptunia: Megami Tsuushin
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Chou Jigen Game Neptune: High School
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Gakuen Game Neptune: Katsudou Diary
Arfoire is one of the main antagonists in Gakuen Game Neptune: Katsudou Diary. In Chapter 1, her, alongside Linda barge into an empty room occupied by the 4 goddesses, and tells them that this room originally belonged to them and used it for copying games and selling them en masse.
At the Authority figure's office, Histoire, the school board chairman, bans the 4 goddesses, Arfoire and Linda from using the empty room after hearing about the whole situation regarding it. In a way for them to get the room back, she assigns both groups to become Student Council Executives and have them be known as "Gaministrators", in which the latter group refuses the offer and leaves. As Histoire announces the former group's roles, and tasks them to make the "Universe's greatest game", Arfoire and Linda eavesdrop in their conversation, with the former deciding to do some unfriendly competition in order to get their room back, by creating an epic game of their own.
In Chapter 2, Arfoire summons an army of zombies and tasks them to interfere with the goddesses' game development while her and Linda work on their own game.
Later on, she chases after Nepgear, who leads her to the Game Club's room. The former announces that they have established a new club, known as the "Shadow Gaministrators". She then explains that her new club will oppose and hinder the official Game Club and starts summoning her zombie army to take them down. The zombies start wreaking havoc to the room, but then get locked out with an "anti-zombie" lawnmower turned on. Arfoire and her army then retreat and head for their next target.
The Shadow Gaministrators begin to kidnap Uni, Rom and Ram. Arfoire tells the 4 goddesses if they surrender the room quietly, she will release the three. The goddesses then transform into their Goddess form and defeat Arfoire to save the Candidates.
Non-Neptunia Appearances
Sangoku Taisen Smash!
Arfoire is a playable unit as part of a collaboration.[1]
Musical Themes
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| Name | Game | Description | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arfoire's Theme | Hyperdimension Neptunia | Arfoire has her own theme in Hyperdimension Neptunia composed by Kenji Kaneko that plays every time she appears. | |
| Arfoire's Battle Theme | Arfoire's battle theme in Hyperdimension Neptunia. It is a rearrangement of her normal theme. | ||
| True Arfoire's Theme | Arfoire's battle theme when she enters her true form in Hyperdimension Neptunia. It is a rearrangement of her normal theme. | ||
| CFW Arfoire's Theme | Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 | The theme that plays when fighting against the incomplete form of Arfoire. | |
| DoS Arfoire's Theme | The theme that plays when fighting against Deity of Sin Arfoire. |
Etymology
Arfoire's English name comes from the piracy flash-cart, the R4. Her Japanese name, Magiquone, comes from "Magicon", a catch-all term in Japan for devices that let you run unofficial and/or pirated software/games on video game consoles. Originally came from the device named "Magic Computer" which is used to copy games for the Super Famicom (SNES).
Trivia
- Though Arfoire's English name might be a reference to the R4 flash card, there are recurring machine monsters also named R-4.
- Even though Arfoire is a goddess in the original continuity of Super Dimension and Hyper Dimension, she doesn't represent a console.
- Arfoire is the only goddess that lack the power symbol in their eyes, perhaps due to not having a proper HDD mode.
- She is the only antagonist to appear in all main games and all remakes, and she has appeared in a few spin-offs.
- She is the only character to have different designs in each of the four main games.
- She and CFW Magic share the same Japanese and English voice actresses.
- The models of Super Dimension Arfoire's dragon form as well as her two forms in Hyper Dimension are reused several times throughout the franchise, usually as monsters that appear in the Colosseum or as transformations.
- In the 2011 popularity poll, Arfoire came in 23rd place, just beating CFW Magic by 2 points.[2]
- In the 2022 Neptunia Great Thanksgiving poll, Arfoire came in 1st place with 924 points under the category "Which character do you think is a "true villain"?"[3]
- Like Histoire, each version of Arfoire is usually one of the oldest beings in their dimensions. Both iterations of Super Dimension Arfoire have existed since the time of True Goddess, while Hyper Dimension Arfoire has been around since before Uzume Tennouboshi's birth. Her Ultra Dimension and Zero Dimension versions are not however, being a human and a copy respectively.
References
- ↑ https://altema.jp/sansuma/chara/533842
- ↑ キャラクター人気投票企画「ゲイムギョウ界大選挙！！」結果発表(Japanese)pp. 1. Compile Heart(October 2011). Archived from the original on October 22, 2011.Retrieved on May 29, 2022.
- ↑ ねぷねぷ大感謝祭(Japanese). Compile Heart(April 28, 2022). Retrieved on May 29, 2022.