Overview
, also known as simply Symphogear, is a Japanese anime television franchise animated by Satelight. The original season aired on Tokyo MX between January and March 2012. The second season entitled Symphogear G aired between July and September 2013, The third season, Symphogear GX, aired between July and September 2015, and the fourth season, Symphogear AXZ, aired between July and September 2017. The fifth and final season, Symphogear XV, aired between July and September 2019. A manga adaptation was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype Ace magazine between November 2011 and April 2013. A mobile game titled Symphogear XD UNLIMITED was released in June 2017 in Japan.
Plot
Two idols, Tsubasa Kazanari and Kanade Amō, collectively known as Zwei Wing, battle against an alien race known as Noise using armor known as Symphogear, which uses the power of music to counteract the Noise's destructive capability. However, Kanade sacrifices herself to protect a girl named Hibiki Tachibana, who ends up with a piece of Kanade's Symphogear relic, Gungnir, embedded in her chest. Two years later, Hibiki awakens the power of the Gungnir relic inside her body, gaining the same Symphogear armor that Kanade had. Using the power of song, Hibiki and her fellow Symphogear wielders must fight to protect the innocent and defeat those who would use the Noise for evil.
Characters
Symphogear Users
Collectively termed as Symphogear Adaptors, these are the main protagonist of the franchise. Each are armed with a ruby-like shard, which can conjure a , a hyper-advanced alchemic powered armor powered by one's , the user's harmonized melody. Symphogears, otherwise called as , has an access to an weapon that was unique to them specifically, and multiple different forms that can be unlocked through various factors that bypass some of each gear's 301,655,722 locks, with its ultimate true form, , can only be unlocked via a large amount of Phonic Gain.
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