Update 49 - New Enemies and IGA Asks Michiru-san

What an amazing update, this is exactly how I love them! Thanks everyone for providing this meaty update.

Yamane is a wonderful lovely woman and an amazing composer. It is so nice to hear her talk about her work, this time with English subtitles. I would like to know the translation of the interview that is on the DVD in Akumajo Dracula Best Music Collections Box. Can anyone help with that translation?

The concert in Japan should have finished by now. I wish to know the setlist and I hope to see some videos. A live CD or DVD would we perfect!

New monsters look so great- I like Aello's colors and Gieremund's mad design. I particularly enjoy scary and hideous designs, like some monsters from Silent Hill.

Nice, very nice. I like this update's monsters for one very simple reason - they set the precedent for having more monsters that aren't demons from the Ars Goetia.

Which... I think might also mean that they don't have crystals? I think Gieremund's eyes MIGHT be crystals, but I'm not sure. And try as I might I can't see a crystal on Aello at all. Can anyone confirm that?

That harpy looks so blurred compared to what we have seen, especially the castle background
with something so detailed and beautiful, will be ruined so easily due to badly detailed enemies
I have no complain on the wolf though, looks pretty detailed to me

ChucklesTheJester and Enkeria , about the Shards and the enemies.

What we know for now is this:

1) Lesser Demons doesn't have Shards. The update that showed enemies from Minerva, called "meet some Lesser Demons" but they actually just labeled Morte as a Lesser Demon. It's description says this " it doesn't drop any skills. It's a lesser demon, after all...". At the time, they didn't detailed the Shard system yet, we just knew we would get skills/magic from enemies. In the Demo, we can read, when we get the first shard something like "Demon power has been crystalized, it cannot be used by a ordinary person". Considering this info, they are probably classifying some demons as "Lesser Demons" (probably demons that are hard to create powers) and those doesn't have Shards.
For now, the only Lesser Demon we know is Morte.
Of course, that was a minor information on a update. They may change that later on.

2) Not only Goetia Demons have Shards. Dullahammer is not from Goetia (it is a totally made up demon) and have a Shard. IGA said in the past that he wanted to use all Demons from Goetia, and then said that he would need to use more, they wouldn't be enough (Ars Goetia has 72 demons. Most Igavania games had 100+ enemies).

3) Yes, the Shards doesn't need to be visible. They are pure demon power that crystalizes on the spot after the demon is killed, i think.

4) We don't know officially if Aello and  Gieremund are Lesser Demons or not. I HOPE not. It is always fun to speculate what their Shards could be.

Pure Miriam Oh I wasn't knowledgeable about that little piece of information.
I was ready to grind the most of monsters, but if you relay the data that they will not yield shards...
Thanks!

*Attempts to record this for future use*

...I should have checked my post one last time before leaving.
I wanted to say "since some of them won't yield shards..."

One question has been bugged me since, by the way.
In the Sorrow games, do all enemies yield souls? I can't remember about it (I didn't attempt to farm all of them).

Yep.  All enemies except for Dmitrii, Dario, and Menace.

(In Dario's case, you have to use a certain other Boss Soul to fight an alternate Boss during Dario's 2nd fight.)

Lestaroth , Shard System is still quite nebulous. They basically only said that Morte had no Shard. We speculate, based on that, that not all enemies will have Shards (i don't really believe Morte will be the only one).

I'm pretty sure they will show that at the Bestiary somehow. Only enemies with Shard may have the Shard information on them, for instance.

It was also said on comments / interviews, that it is probably that Shards will be obtainable through other means, like chests or scenario areas (maybe Demon essence locked or something like that?). 

Aria of Sorrow / Dawn of Sorrow had that, in the form of the Soul Holders. Objects that had Souls that couldn't materialize into Demons.
Aria of Sorrow had a single Soul that had a specific requirement to obtain. Legion Soul. You could only get it if you destroyed all it's body and then kill it's core. Otherwise, the boss would NEVER drop it's soul.
Dawn of Sorrow had hidden enemies, that you needed items or souls to make them appear, so you could kill them and farm their soul. 

Order of Ecclesia, that had a system quite close to that (the Glyph Art) had a interesting take on that. After you kill an enemy, the enemy could show a red or blue triangle vanishing. That means that enemy CAN DROP a Glyph. You just had to kill it again and again until it shows up. Not all enemies had that. Some Glyphs you could obtain when the enemy itself used it's power, manifesting it's on Glyph. And you could obtain Glyphs around the scenario and by breaking statues.

So, we are still waiting for the full explaination of the Shard System. All "let's get powers from enemies" Igavanias had several gimmicks alongside that. Obtaining powers from the scenario, by fullfilling certain requirements when killing enemies, hidden demons and such. I'm pretty sure Shard System will have those little things too.

Don't know why but as soon as I saw this harpy model I picture myself killing them with heaven sword. :3