When Guilty Gear made its debut on PlayStation in 1998, the game featured ten playable characters and three non-playable characters. Now the game series includes over forty playable characters and over twenty non-playable characters. Playable characters not mentioned in the previous post include: A.B.A., Anji Mito, Ansect, Axl Low, Bridget, Dizzy, Dr. Paradigm, Eddie, Fanny, Gig, Goose, I-No, Izuna, Johnny, Judgment, Jam Kuradoberi, Leopaldon, Order-Sol, Ra-Ki, Robo-Ky, Robo-Ky Mk. II, S-Lord, S-Watt, Sin, Slayer, Valentine, Venom, Zako-dan, and Zappa. Some of the characters are clearly based on rock music references from the last half of the last century, including Axl Rose from Guns’n'Roses and Eddie the Head, the mascot of Iron Maiden.

The growing cast of characters makes the Guilty Gear game series more complex and challenging. Axl Low is a time traveler from the 20th century, one of the orignal Guilty Gear game characters. Throughout his travels across time and his battles against, and alliances with, other characters, Axl’s lifelong goal is to return to his own time to be reunited with Megumi, his girlfriend. A.B.A first appeared in Guilty Gear Isuka, as an artificial life form created by a scientist who is taken away before he can help her to understand her real purpose for being. She has to learn about life and its purpose on her own and has a fascination with collecting keys, since they represent to her some kind of magical portals to other places. Anji Moto, kept imprisoned by the government to protect his pure Japanese blood line, first appeared in Guilty Gear X. Ansect is an insect-like creature who first appears in Guilty Gear Judgment. More descriptions of characters will follow in the coming posts.