Alina Gray
Alina Gray | |
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Japanese Name | アリナ グレイ |
Character Designer Primary Artist |
Ume Aoki Sasagi Koushi |
Voiced by | Japanese: Ayana Taketatsu English: Cherami Leigh |
ID No: | 1008 |
Release Date (JP): | March 02, 2018 |
Release Date (NA): | September 25, 2019 |
Alina Gray was a playable character in the 2017 mobile game Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record, serving as one of the main antagonists for its first part. Alina first appeared in the opening video to Magia Record, however she did not appear in-game until October 2017's Magical Halloween Theater event. She was later released as a playable character on March 2, 2018.
General Info
Physical Features | |
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Age | 16 |
Eye colour | Green |
Hair colour | Bright Green with a yellow highlight |
Height | 159cm |
Magic | |
Soul Gem | Green shield-shaped gem (ribbon tie at her throat) |
Weapon | Light construct rubik's cube |
Witch Form | Old Dorothy (In the anime, she turns into Neo Dorothy Motherfucker) |
Powers and Abilities | Barrier generation |
Wish | “I want... an atelier where no one can bother me.” |
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Japanese pronoun | Alina (アリナ) |
Known relatives | Unnamed parents, Unnamed grandparents (deceased), Unnamed pet dog (deceased) |
Origins | Sakae ward |
School | Sakae General School, 10th grade |
Affiliation | Wings of the Magius (a Magius) |
Game Info
Stats, Connect, Magia Data |
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Summary
A Magical Girl who is trying to create a world where no one has to become a Witch, Alina is an artistic genius obsessed with life and death who pours herself into her work, dreaming of making masterpieces featuring Witches themselves. She's used herself as a subject for her art when in a creative slump.
Doppel Description

The Doppel of fever. Its form is a tube.
The master of this Doppel is entranced by the beauty of her own Doppel, but has yet to realize that it is still hiding its true form. It attacks from where it sprouts out of her back, using a large projection of itself made from the hardened paint (Pathogen Tempera) it emits. It boasts a Witch-like figure as it does this, despite its Doppel nature — this is because its human body becomes so coated in paint that she's no longer visible. The master cannot verify the appearance of her Doppel, but apparently it is "just as beautiful when you view it from the inside".
Side Story
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Costume Stories

For a Masterpiece, Sacrifice is Essential
Alina is at the mall shopping with Karin. Karin is interested in the screentones and other art supplies, but Alina thinks Karin's lack of talent will be wasted on the art supplies. Karin thinks it's more important to look the part, but before she can blink Alina had already wandered off. Karin remembers she mentioned wanting to look at swimsuits, and offers to pick one out for her. She pushes Alina into a store and they check out the swimsuits. Karin finds several that she thinks would look good on Alina, and Alina tries on a few. Three hours later and Alina has tried on every swimsuit in the shop. Karin suggests the simpler swimsuit while the shopclerk suggests a fancier, pricier one. Alina says she didn't come here to buy a swimsuit, just to look at them. She would rather design her own, but wasn't sure what materials the latest swimsuits were made of. Alina leaves the store and a flustered Karin behind. Some time later, Alina shows off her finished swimsuit to Karin. She says it's a reflection on paradise and original sin, but Karin doesn't get it.

A disgruntled Alina accompanies Karin to the hospital roof as they enjoy their strawberry milk. Since it’s been so long since Karin was stable enough to go outside, she figured that her friend should come out as well. As Alina pouts, the two suddenly hear what sounded like crying from one of the nurses. Karin worriedly checks on the nurse, who initially dismisses any concerns, but soon admits that she was struggling. Karin offers to listen to her, while forcing Alina to stay after she tried leaving. The nurse reveals that she never wanted this position, but rather, she wanted to be an actress. Unfortunately however, her parents were not supportive. She went on to say that although she didn’t dislike her job, she still genuinely wasn’t a to be an actress. Alina couldn’t care less about family drama, and bluntly encourages the woman to live her life the way she wants, without letting the influence of others determine her future. Stunned, the woman reflects on Alina’s advice, and decides to give her dream another chance. Karin is initially worried that their nurse will be leaving them, but is assured that she will stay as a nurse until the two girls are both released from the hospital, and thanks them for making her realize something so important. Despite the good deed, Alina is still grumpy, saying that she didn’t mean to help, and that her own strawberry milk had gone warm.
When Karin says that her’s is still cold, Alina quietly steals it, showing that she did not lose her memory entirely.Appearances
- Main Story Part 1: Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10
- Main Story Part 2: Chapter 1, Chapter 2
- Another Story Part 1: Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 9
Event Appearances
- Magical Halloween Theater
- Mitama's Special Training - Alina and Hinano Episode
- April Fool's 2018
- Mitama's Special Training - Homura Episode
- Alina Is Comin’ to Town
- Kamihama Twinkle Rarity Star
- One Fleeting Summer Night
- Wings in the Wind
Magical Girl Story Appearances
Other Appearances
Powers and Abilities
Because of her wish, Alina has the ability to summon her own labyrinths at will. With this ability, she is able to hold other witches within it without the risk of them escaping. She uses this power to feed victims to whatever witch she currently has captured to make it stronger, and to trap witches together until they eat each other, and is thus the reason why all the witches of Kamihama are stronger than elsewhere.
In the anime, she is able to contain witches, familiars, and instances of their own labyrinths within the cubes of her weapon, which are able to be given to and used by others to release and capture whatever is imprisoned inside.
The paint her Doppel creates is capable of making whoever comes in contact with it go mad. However, as this did not seem to be the case for Sana Futaba, this was likely either an oversight, or she must consciously choose to inflict insanity on her targets.
She is also capable of creating magical barriers of various kinds. She was able to create a barrier capable of blocking Ui Tamaki's collection power, allowing her to avoid the fate of becoming a witch, and she's also responsible for the barrier around Kamihama that makes the Automatic Purification System possible.
Etymology
- The characters of her name use katakana as her parents may be foreign born. In her side story, it states Alina was born in the Sakae Ward of Kamihama City.
- 'Alina' means 'bright, beautiful'.
- Her surname Gray comes from Dorian Gray, the titular character of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian was a beautiful youth who was corrupted by another person and turned to a life of hedonism and vanity, losing his morality and believing beauty was the only thing worth striving for in life. Through unknown means (though commonly likened to a deal with the devil), he wishes that a portrait of himself that had been recently painted would age instead of him so that he may remain forever beautiful; his wish is granted, and while he ceases to age, his portrait both ages in his place and displays the darkness within his soul, becoming progressively more grotesque. Dorian ends up becoming both indirectly and directly responsible for the deaths of several characters as a result of his evil, though near the end attempts to turn over a new leaf in the hopes of returning his portrait to normal; however, as his desire to become good ultimately stemmed from selfish intentions, his portrait only grows uglier, and he ultimately ends his own life by destroying his portrait, returning it to its original appearance while he suddenly ages and dies.
- The name of her Witch, Old Dorothy, is both a reference to Dorothy Clutterbuck, a woman who was (potentially falsely) identified as the leader of a Wiccan coven by the popularizer of contemporary paganism and Wicca (who referred to her as "Old Dorothy" in his writings), and acts as a feminine form of Dorian.
- It it also the name of Oscar Wilde's niece.
- Alina's doppel breaks the pattern set by Iroha's, Ui's, Touka's and Nemu's doppel of referencing works by Kenji Miyazawa. However, Shitori Egumo does have references to "The Happy Prince", a short story by Oscar Wilde, in its design and familiars.
- It it also the name of Oscar Wilde's niece.
Trivia
- Alina's weapon looks like the HIV virus's envelope and her doppel originally showed the virus's anatomy. You can check out the resemblance here.
- Alina, Touka and Nemu form a prison theme in their outfits. Alina is the warden, who befittingly protects the barrier that allows Touka's power to spread and simply cause Magical Girls to create Doppels instead of Witches, and Nemu's power to create Rumors.
- Her illustrators are Aoki Ume for her four star card and Sasagi Koushi for her five star card.
- The name of Alina's Magia and personal Memoria refer to kuzosu, a genre of Japanese paintings from the 13th through 19th centuries. These paintings depicted the nine stages of a human corpse, according to Buddhist belief. In certain Buddhist traditions, monks were taught to reflect on these stages to better understand - and transcend - the physical world.
- While Alina Gray is a foreign name, her origins are listed as Sakae Ward, implying that she may be Half-Japanese, or has foreign parents that moved to Japan before/after she was born.
- In the JP version of the game and anime, Alina speaks Japanese with English mixed in. In the NA version of the game and the English dub of the anime, she speaks English with Italian mixed in.
- Her doppel type being that of Fever may refer to her wish, as people infected with an illness that could cause an epidemic are often put in 'spaces where no one can disturb them' (quarantine) or referring to her questionable mental stability (being "sick in the head")
- She is very similar to the character Yoshihide from Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story Hell Screen. Yoshihide is a painter, considered the greatest in the land. He is commissioned by a Lord, who also employs Yoshihide's daughter in his mansion, to create a folding screen depicting the Buddhist hell; to this end, Yoshihide inflicts various tortures on his apprentices so as to accurately capture their torment for his work. The story ends with Yoshihide requesting a beautiful woman be burned alive in a carriage, for which the Lord provides Yoshihide's own daughter without his knowledge. After watching her die, he immediately completes his work and gives it to the Lord; the screen is so well-painted that, even knowing the horrors that contributed to its creation, all who see it are compelled to recognize its beauty and its creator's talent. The following night, Yoshihide hangs himself in remorse.
- She shares her voice actor with A-Q.
Gallery
Game Gallery
Sprites
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Magia Record 4 Star Card
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Magia Record 5 Star Card
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In-battle sprite
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Doppel Sprite
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Witch Sprite
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Alina's original doppel, displaying the HIV virus' anatomy
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Magical Girl Seal 2019
Memoria/Chapter Art
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Alina's barrier viewed from the inside
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An external view
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Preview image for arc 2, chapter 6, section 2.
Openings
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Alina in the opening video
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Alina in the second arc's opening video.
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Anime Magia Record Opening
Official Art
Concept Art
Anime
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End Title Card by Masugitsune
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End Title Card by Fujino Fuji
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Season 2 promotional image
Other
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Art posted on Masugitsune's twitter.
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Comic by Masugitsune.
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Comic by Masugitsune.
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AmiAmi collaboration image.
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Illustration from Megami's December 2021 issue.
Alina Anime Screenshots
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Alina's Magical Girl form
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Alina's Doppel
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Alina in her hospital gown
Memoria Cards
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**Unique to Alina Gray** If all colors seem faded, that means I have lost my color. If my color must fade, then I shall enliven everything for that final moment by sacrificing my very self. | 全てが色あせたなら、それは自分の色が失われたから このまま自分の色が無くなるのなら最後に全てを彩ろう 自らを捧げて | ||
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Oh, this is where she's gonna use her lock-picking skills!...Or not?You're kidding?! This protagonist, she stole the key from the guard she bumped into before?! I don't get it... Um, let's see, the explanation is mentioned in page 152 at the back of the book... Wow, how does the author even come up with this stuff?! | 「なるほど、ここで鍵開けテクが活用できるんだ!…って違う?うそでしょ!?この擦れ違い様に警備員から鍵を取ってたの!?どういうことだろ…え、えっと解説は巻末の152Pに記載…こんなテクニックが書いてあるなんて作者は何者なの!?」 | ||
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"For I, Alina, to be reading the same comic that fool girl reads? Ridiculous...the reason escapes me. But the monochrome panels appear as if they are in full color, and I, Alina, understand why better than any other." | 「まさかフールガールが読んでる漫画をアリナが読むなんて…ホント、理由なんて分からないケドモノクロのはずなのに、カラーになって見えるワケそれは何故かって、アリナが一番よく分かってるんですケド」 | ||
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Beauty in life, beauty in death, beauty in decay, those are the themes of 'Alina's Beauty'. I, Alina, simply create things that excite me. I'll show you if you want to see. Then you can go ahead and get all excited yourself. Your brain will surely light up in psychedelic wonder. | 「生の美、死の美、滅びの美、アリナのテーマはアリナの美”アリナがゾックゾクしたものを、アリナは勝手に作るダケ見たいならみせてアゲル。そして、勝手にゾックゾクしちゃってヨネきっとブレインがサイケデリックでブリリアントになるカラ」 | ||
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Everyone’s feelings, gathered together. What do you taste, when eating next to a cocoon of impurities? The sweetness of joy travels down to my heart. Maybe just one more bite, while we enjoy the quiet. | 集め集まる色んな気持ち。穢れの卵のすぐ傍で口にするのはどんな味? 広がってくのは愉悦の甘味 口から広がりハートに落ちて、うっとり静かに満たされる もう少しだけ欲張って、口の中に入れようか | ||
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A girl seeking the ultimate beauty, a girl seeking a universe where a Witch could have such beauty, and a girl who dreams of writing about a world where mechanisms were built in the pursuit of knowledge... Everything began with these three, who are connected by fates from newly birthed stories that twisted together into an unusual friendship. | 最高の美を求める少女は、その美しさを魔女に求めた 宇宙の全てを求める少女は、知を得るために機構に手を掛けた 世界を原稿にすることを夢みる少女は、物語を産み落とし続けた 捻れた因果の先で繋がった、稀有な関係、始まりは全てこの3人 | ||
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"You're usually so calm and collected... But I see even you can make a cute face like any other girl your age, Alina!" "Personally, I believe you are the one who is acting way too excited for someone your age, Mifuyu." "What a terrible thing to say! H-how could you say that?!" | 「いつもは澄ましてますけど、アリナも年相応に
あんな可愛い顔もするんですね。…ふふっ」 「みふゆは年甲斐もなくはしゃいでたヨネ」 「そ、そんな言い方…あんまりですっ!」 |
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"At CoCo Ichi, you can freely combine the toppings. A set that doesn't look like it would go well together at first glance can be unexpectedly delicious"
"I'm very glad to have found my favorite original menu." "It's kind of peaceful today." (CoCo Ichi Collaboration Commemoration) | 「ココイチではトッピングの組み合わせも自由自在だヨネ
一見合わないセットも案外デリシャスだったりするワケ」 「自分好みのオリジナルメニューが見つかると、すっごく嬉しいわね」 「今日はなんだか平和ですねー」(ココイチコラボ記念) |
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**Unique to Holy Alina** When the life-themed artist (INNOCENT ARTIST) fused with the fur god (BEAST FORCE) has noticed the mankind's frozen heart, she, as a wish granter (BRILLIANT MAKER), creates a paradise (UTOPIA ZERO) inscribed in genes!? It's time for complete star demolition (STARDUST CLEANING)! | 毛皮神(ビーストフォース)と同調した生命芸術家(イノセントアーティスト)が凍える人類に気付いた時、願望執行人(ブリリアントメーカー)として遺伝子に刻まれた理想郷(ユートピア・ゼロ)を作り出す!?今から星屑完全燃焼(スターダストクリーニング)なんですケド! | ||
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"Mifuyu's body is supreme art material, Losing it would be very bad for Alina. Do NOT lose yourself in the Christmas spirit and venture into danger, Mifuyu!" | 「みふゆのボディは思考のアートマテリアルなんだから ロストされるとアリナ的にベリーバッドなワケ クリスマスだからって、みふゆも浮かれて危ないところに近寄らないでヨネ!」 | ||
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The talk of the town this Christmas! Appearing with her advanced villainy notice, her "Black Card", the mysterious magical Maiden of Mortality, the CHRISTMAS・DEATH・CARIBOU…! | クリスマスの話題を独り占め!犯罪予告“ブラックカード”とともに現れて 街を騒がす謎のマジックガール そのなも死神少女クリスマス・デス・カリブー…なの! | ||
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"Oh... This is so fun... I, Alina, am enjoying this..."
"Um... Alina-san... Your lips are twitching..." What a depressing, nightmare-inducing Halloween... It's impossible for me, Alina, to pretend to have fun in these crazy circumstances. | 「あー…楽しいんですケド…エンジョイしてるワケ…」
「あの…アリナさん…口元が引きつってます…」 気が滅入るようなナイトメアハロウィン… あっちもこっちもクレイジーで、楽しむフリも無理なワケ |
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Because it was a wish that saved my life, I'm not afraid to offer it to someone else.
In her dreams, in her mind, from her slumber, she awaits for the time of her "awakening". Spun by several girls, the price of a wish passed down from generation to generation, is it hope or despair... (TV Anime 2nd Season Key Visual) | 願いに救われた命だから、誰かに捧げるのは怖くない
夢に、うつつに、まどろみながら、彼女は「覚醒」の時を待つ 少女たちに紡がれ、受け継がれた願いの代償、それは希望か絶望か… (TVアニメ 2nd SEASON キービジュアル) |
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"It's amazing! It's Halloween everywhere! It's awesome!"
"Heh heh, you look nice." "Wow! So cute!" "I'm glad you're having fun~..." Our very own Dream Halloween! It was so crowded here and there that we forgot our purpose and just had fun! | 「すごいの!どこもかしこもハロウィンなの!サイコーなの!」
「ふふっ、素敵だね」「わぁ!可愛い!」「楽しそうで何よりぃ~…」 わたしたちだけのドリームハロウィン! あっちもこっちも賑やかで、目的を忘れて楽しんじゃったの! |
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The difficult girl that wasn't able to fall asleep and caused so much chaos is finally sleeping like a baby, satisfied after seeing her absurd mess of a party succeed...
"*mutter*... *mutter*... Alina-senpai~... Halloween... You must..." "No! Don't talk in your sleep and make any more trouble than you already did!" | あれだけ眠れないと騒いでいた駄々っ子も
ハチャメチャ狂騒パーティーの成功で満足すやすや… 「むにゃ…むにゃ…アリナ先輩~…ハロウィンを…」 「ノー!寝言でもハプニング起こさないでヨネ!」 |
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**Unique to Alina Gray & Holy Mami & Holy Mami (Anime ver.)** Blue-ray & DVD Volume 3 jacket illustration (TV Anime 2nd Season) | Blu-ray&DVD 第3巻 描き下ろしジャケットイラスト (TVアニメ 2nd SEASON) | ||
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**Unique to Karin・Alina (Halloween ver.)** Pumpkin soup, pumpkin salad, pumpkin gratin... And the main dish, adorning the table at the center of all the different pumpkin cuisine, is a pumpkin pie! ...After Alina got forced to eat too much food with pumpkins, she no longer wanted to even look at any pumpkins for a while... | パンプキンスープ、パンプキンサラダ、パンプキングラタン…
たくさんのかぼちゃ料理の真ん中を飾るのはパンプキンパイ! …かぼちゃばかり食べさせられたアリナは しばらくかぼちゃも見たくなかったとか… |
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"Alina-senpai, good job on the Halloween festival preparations!
Ta-dah! Here's a reward for all your hard work!" "...It's not like I, Alina, like strawberry milk, you know." "Huh!? Then why have you been snatching it from me up until now...?" | 「アリナ先輩、ハロウィンフェスタの準備お疲れ様なの!
じゃじゃーん!頑張ってる先輩にご褒美なの!」 「…言っとくケド、イチゴ牛乳が好きなわけじゃないカラ」 「えっ!?じゃあ、イチゴ牛乳を奪ってたのはどうして…?」 |
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"Ouch! That... That hurts, dammit!! Put a stop to this already...!"
"Woah! Alina-senpai, what's going on? Are you okay?" Orders of the one who rules over Halloween, the Pumpking, are absolute! Nobody is able to defy them... Not even the Pumpking herself! | 「アウチ!痛っ…痛いんですケド!!いい加減にしてヨネ…!」
「わっ!アリナ先輩、何やってるの?大丈夫なの?」 ハロウィンを支配するかぼちゃの王様の“命令”は絶対! 誰も逆らうことなんて許されない…それが王様本人だとしても! |
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I feel nothing, a sense of nothingness, only the pain that has returned.
I close my eyes and in the darkness, the flames of that day are still burning. My consciousness fails to rise to the surface, and fear looms at my back as I flee. But the presence of someone I respected easily brought me back to reality. | 何も感じない無の感覚、戻ってきたのは痛みだけ
目を閉じた暗闇に、あの日の炎が燃え盛るのに 意識は浮上しきれずに、逃げる背中に恐怖が迫る だけど、尊敬する人の気配は簡単に、わたしを現実に引き上げた |
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**Unique to Alina Gray** The girl who seeks her own beauty is intoxicated by life and death and gives birth to a dramatic work without a theme. Misunderstood rubbish that drives those around her insane, however she still desires to remain secluded in her atelier. Wrapped in arrogance, she tries to hide from the public eye but her deviant art transforms into a nightmare. If you can capture the beauty that moves your heart and communicate it, everyone will agree that it is a first-class masterpiece. | 己の美を求める少女は 生死の境に酔い痴れて 主題なき劇物を産む
周囲を狂わせ 理解されない塵芥 それでも願うは 籠居する工房 傲慢さで身を包み 人の目を遮るも 逸脱した芸術は 悪夢と化す 心震える美を 落とし込み 発信すれば 一流の名画と 誰もが頷く |
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Card | Effect | Cooldown | EN Text | JP Text |
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External links
Gameplay Videos
- Recording of Alina's Transformation Video on Youtube (JP)
- Recording of Alina's Magia Video on Youtube (JP)
- Recording of Alina's Doppel Video on Youtube (Original Animation) (JP)
- Recording of Alina's Doppel Video on Youtube (Updated Animation) (JP)
Side Story and Costume Story Videos
- Recording of Alina's MSS on Youtube (JP): Episode 1/3, Episode 2/3, Episode 3/3
- Recording of Alina's Swimsuit Story on Youtube (JP)
- Recording of Alina's Hospital Clothes Story on Youtube (JP)