Megadimension Neptunia VII

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This page details pre-release information and/or media for Megadimension Neptunia VII.

Early Character Designs#

Uzume Tennouboshi/Orange Heart#

Her early designs depicted her as a petite girl with white medium-length hair, with some including her with curly buns shaped like the Dreamcast logo. Some depicted her with blue eyes, and her outfits ranged from modern-styled space dress, to a conservative gray blazer. Her bottom-right design depicts her with a cap or beanie with the Dreamcast's swirl. Her bottom-left design depicts her with blue hair, despite being closer to her final design; it was changed to red to likely avoid spoiling her "original" self.

This version is closer to her final design, but her pigtails are more exaggerated, her suit is black instead of white, she wears a large jacket with an arm garment at the right, she has triangle-shaped hair clips on her pigtails, her tie has a different color, her socks are white, and she wears a skirt.

A version of Uzume wearing glasses with swirls on them.

While nearly identical to her final design, she doesn't wear her headgear, her gloves are less detailed, and the bottom of her dress is shaped like the top of the Dreamcast console.

(Source: Shin Jigen Game Neptune VII The Complete Guide + Visual Collection, Shin Jigen Game Neptune Victory II (VII) Pre-order Visual Book)

Umio#

Instead of being a male fish with the face of a human male, he was originally going to be a female mermaid, a normal girl with a fish hat, and a regular, gender-less fish, though the design at the middle had a cat-like mouth.

(Source: Shin Jigen Game Neptune VII The Complete Guide + Visual Collection)

Adult Neptune#

Not much has changed from her initial drafts, owing to the fact that she originated as a little sketch in the "Hyperdimension Neptunia + mk2 art book". However, her earlier drafts had her parka be similar in color to her Hyper self's parka, while the top-left designs depicted her wearing a purple parka.

(Source: Shin Jigen Game Neptune VII The Complete Guide + Visual Collection)

NEXT Forms#

Early concept art of the four CPUs (Neptune, Noire, Blanc and Vert) NEXT Forms, based on the then-current eight generation consoles (PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox One, with Neptune personifying a fictional 8th-gen Sega console).

NEXT Purple#

From what we could see from this design, both her breasts and thighs were exposed. Her outfit also has more emphasis on purple compared to her final look.

Two additional concept sketches shown through magazine scans depict NEXT Purple in different processor outfits, with one (shown in the right) exposing her torso right down to the abdomen section, while another (shown in the left) had far more emphasis on purple. Furthermore, the right illustration depicted her wings without cybernetic cosmetics, while the left was closer to her Purple Heart form, but with additional layers reaching to the end.

NEXT Black#

She was originally identical to her Black Heart design, only except that her topwear was designed to be like the PS4, she wore a blue skirt with the cape at the back having the PlayStation's play patterns. Her hair was also braided to the right side.

NEXT White#

Her initial design (on the right) was far different; she had long hair at the back, her attire would've been the same as her Base White processor in Victory, except her topwear is modeled after the Wii U, she has black socks with a d-pad in the middle and her boots are changed to shoes, which are also black with blue accents. She also would've had a hardware-operated fairy companion who looked nearly identical to her. Her second design (on the left) is closer to her final look, but her hat included cat ears.

NEXT Green#

She initially had a split ponytail with green eyes, her headgear was three or four-layered ribbon shaped like the MSN logo, her suit consisted of X-shaped top and bottom wears with long sleeves and leggings, and her belt had upside down triangles.

(Source: Shin Jigen Game Neptune VII The Complete Guide + Visual Collection)

Gold Third#

B-Sha#

B-Sha

She wore a red dress with yellow flowing layers tied together with a bell and a white collar. Her hair was more pale yellow and her pigtails were longer. She was also much smaller.

C-Sha#

Her middle design was similar to Street Fighter’s Chun-Li, except her hair was tied like a ponytail and her outfit was a navel-dipped neckline. Her later designs were closer to her final look, but with some differences: the left design had her hair down, wore triangle-shaped earrings and her outfit included a scarf, her bottom-left design was lighter hair, and both that and her bottom-right had the cross belt on her thigh be on the left instead of the right, in addition to having sleeves and a white necklace.

Her initial design was far-removed from her later pre-final designs. She had a bobbed hairdo with the Capcom's "C" initial as her headgear, and wore a modest neckline, as well as having an equally modest bust.

K-Sha#

Her sailor uniform was dark blue instead of red, and was styled like a standard school uniform instead of it serving as a jacket styled like a school uniform. She also had peach (or gray, in the case of her top-right design) hair, with her top-left design giving her side pigtails.

Her hair went through different styles and textures, ranging from curly, to straight, to medium-length, to tied with a ponytail. Also, her bow didn't have the Konami "K" insignia, instead being four balls or a flower-shaped emblem, while the bow itself was originally white instead of yellow.

This design depicts her with medium-length hair, a sailor uniform shrug, long black gloves with short white gloves, a belt over her dress, black socks, and different shoes.

S-Sha#

Her design is otherwise unchanged, except that her outfit was supposed to be dual-themed: the left side of her clothing was longer than the right side, and she wore a detached sleeve on the left while she wore a glove on the right. Her design on the right also had her in a white version of her final outfit.

(Source: Shin Jigen Game Neptune VII The Complete Guide + Visual Collection, Shin Jigen Game Neptune Victory II (VII) Pre-order Visual Book)

Kurome Ankokuboshi#

Originally, she wore a gray jacket to distinguish her from Uzume, her other half and the deuteragonist of the game. She also didn’t have orange accents in her initial design.

(Source: Shin Jigen Game Neptune VII The Complete Guide + Visual Collection)

Dark CPUs#

While the Dark CPUs overall remained unaltered from their initial drafts, the brown accents were lighter in color compared to their final designs. Dark Purple's skin was pale instead of light gray, which was changed likely to maintain consistency with the other Dark CPUs, while Dark Orange had red accents in her suit and didn't have the bloody veins of her final design. Their bust sizes were also the same, whereas in the final game only Purple, Black and Orange had the same bust size; White's bust was smaller and modest, while Green had the biggest bust of the four.

(Source: Shin Jigen Game Neptune VII The Complete Guide + Visual Collection)

Miscellaneous#

Chuko. She was more “mouse-like” and wore a shirt instead of an apron.

An unused character with a design akin to that of a delivery woman (if the card was any indication), wearing an outfit that has balls for motifs. It's not clear if this was supposed to be an original character, or an early draft of what would become B-Sha.

Early Nation logos#

Early logos for each of the four nations.

Planeptune - The ring orbiting around the "N" had two designs: one was supposed to be on a straight line, while the other were made up of two rings orbiting on each side. The third design would've been the words "NEPU" styled like the Sega logo.
Lastation - It was initially styled like the PlayStation logo.
Leanbox - It was going to be a simple "X" inside a box, while another design was styled akin to the original Xbox exterior.
Lowee - The logo went through several designs. Among them include a snowperson on a patterned ground, two snowpeople, Blanc on the logo, a Japanese wishing card with Blanc on it, a snowflake with a star on it, a star with the letter "L" on it, and the letter "L" itself styled with blocks.

(Source: Shin Jigen Game Neptune VII The Complete Guide + Visual Collection, Shin Jigen Game Neptune Victory II (VII) Pre-order Visual Book)