At a recent Capcom event, reps answered questions from a poster on Capcom Unity

A: So could you tell us who the new characters are?
Seth Killian, Capcom: That's still a secret and you won't be finding out until a few weeks
A: Oh, ok so what about the new mini-games?
Seth Killian, Capcom: I'm afraid you'll have to wait for that just like the characters. The news will be announced soon, though by then the game will be out. *laughs*

And at the same time, the game's producer, Ryota Niitsuma, is teasing that an announcement is forthcoming on the 6th. Are the two related? We'll find out.

Amaterasu Omikami, come forth!

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New Characters would be great!

more characters popular in the west wouldn't go a miss.

Please new characters please. I want Ammy in this game.

Dante plz

And Gene too.

Well the lineup is still uneven so I was expecting at least one more characters but they said characters so maybe three more new characters. So two more Tatsunoko characters and one Capcom if they still want to have an even Representation like they so said earlier any more will be a true surprise...

ooooo! cant waity for this game

Oh Jesus

If Gene is in there, this will move from "rental with possible buy" to "yes I will be buying this thank you very much"

Phoenix Wright would do the same for my wife

No new characters. Zero and the one Tatsunoko character are supposed to be the last ones.

I'm interested though.

the secret character is yatterman 2. letdown