of an illegal mercenary group "Dainsleif". Sworn enemy of Kou. Nanomachine researcher, lectoring in the Academy Seishuu. Kou's father. Member of a mercenary organization "Fenrir". Colonel. An officer mercenary from Fenrir. Major. An officer mercenary from Fenrir, Shizel's subordinate. Lieutenant. Kou's aunt, head of Ark Industry. Head priest of Dominion, a group of cultists worshipping AI as their goddess. Music The opening theme for Dive1, entitled , is sung by KOTOKO. The opening theme for Dive2 is "jihad", also by KOTOKO. DevelopmentBaldr Sky is the third game in the Baldr series following Baldr Force and Baldr Bullet "Revellion". Character designs were, like the other two games in the series, by Seiji Kikuchi. Music composition was provided by Tgz Sounds, Barbarian on the Groove, and LittleWing. Release history Prior to Dive1's release, GIGA released a demo of the game's prologue chapter online on the Internet on January 23, 2009. The full game was released about two months later on March 27, 2009. On September 24, 2010, GIGA also published a fandisc called "BALDR Sky DiveX: Dream World", which included many scenes that weren't mentioned in Dive1 and Dive2, such as the memories of Kou while he was a mercenary with Rain.Baldr Sky "Zero", another game in the series, had been in production and released in March 2013. One of the new elements is a crossover between the Baldr Sky series and Jinki series (Jinki crossover in terms of art design). Reception According to the sales numbers on Getchu.com, a popular Japanese games shop, March 2009 sales ranked twentieth in the following month in April. In Getchu's user-voted rankings for games of 2009, Dive2 came in first overall, as well as first in the System, Scenario, and Music divisions, 4th in the Movie division (referring to the opening and ending animations for the game), and 10th in Graphics. Rain Kirishima and Sora Minazuki were voted the #1 and #3 characters in that year's Character division.Dive1 was awarded the Silver Prize in the Theme Song category in 2009's Moe Game Awards. In 2010, Dive2 won the Silver Prize in the Program category and the Gold Prize in the 3D category. In Getchu.com's 2010 game ranking, DiveX'' was ranked at 4th place in the System category, 8th place in the Movie category, and 18th overall. The story is rated as one of the best visual novels of all time, both on the Japanese review