Metallic Rouge: Does Rouge Have a Sister? The “Second Rouge” Explained!

Directed by Motonobu Hori from scripts written by Yutaka Izubuchi and Toshizo Nemoto, Metallic Rouge is an original anime series that premiered on January 11, 2024, and is currently ongoing. Metallic Rouge is set in a future in which people have colonized Mars and have established a civilization there. Focusing on Rouge and Naomi, the series has also introduced us to a series of other interesting characters as well. This article will be related to Rouge, as we are about to explain the “second Rouge” that appeared in the series. Is she her sister? Keep reading to find out everything you need to know!

It does seem that Junghard created two Rouges, and that the heroine has a twin sister

The first episode of Metallic Rouge was truly a handful. While it did introduce us to the lore of the series, it also provided us with a lot of concepts, as well as characters; we have to be honest, at times, it was quite difficult to follow all the new information that the series presented. And while the story calmed itself down a bit in the subsequent episodes, the lore has been expanding ever since and we now have a very respectable series with a lot of quality content. Episode 5 gave us a brief insight into Rouge’s past, revealing many fascinating yet unreliable details about her. One of the more interesting things that the series revealed is a second Rouge, suggesting that the heroine has a twin sister. Allow us to tell you more about that.

Rouge was so worn out from killing Phantom Verde, one of the Immortal Nine, that she passed out. Opera and the Puppeteer showed up and took Phantom Verde’s corpse and Rouge with them. Rouge found herself confined within a pod, where she was exposed to the Puppeteer’s mind-control method, which involved accessing her memories and subtly inserting himself to control her. We learn that, following her “birth,” she resided with Dr. Roy Junghardt and his son, Gene, and that she was a Nean created by the doctor she is said to have killed. It seemed to be a really pleasant area, and Rouge appeared to be content with the circumstances, even though it took her some time to learn about the outside world. She enjoyed listening to Roy play the piano, and it appeared that Roy Junghardt also gave her good treatment.

While the revelation that she is Gene’s sister was a shocking one, during these flashbacks, we were also introduced to a second Rouge in the series. Due to the fact that the Puppeteer also inserted himself in these memories, all of this has to be taken with a bit of skepticism, but it is a fact that two Rouges have been seen in the series.

There is some evidence that Rouge wasn’t just hallucinating, as she saw her clone inside a capsule, probably the same one from which she was “born,” and the clone later confronted her about being a traitor, referring to the enigmatic Code Eve. We also saw that the clone’s hair color changed from black to turquoise at one point and after Rouge was set free, we saw that the Puppeteer was observing a hologram of “turquoise Rouge”, implying that she really does exist.

This was later confirmed when the “second Rouge”, now with shorter hair, was actually seen in person in the series in a brief cameo. She later had a proper appearance in Episode 8, when she approached Rouge and told her that she wanted to kill her. She then introduced herself as Cyan Bluestar and revealed that she was Rouge’s younger sister, thus confirming that the scene where she accuses Rouge of being a traitor was not a false one. Of course, there are going to be some additional layers here, but this is what we know so far.

Cyan seems to be related to the Immortal Nine and we can assume that she also wants to activate Code Eve to release the Neans from their servitude towards the humans, which is why she needs Rouge’s Id. She is also able to transform into a gladiator, a blue one, and she seems to be very powerful. On top of that, she seems to be a noble fighter, as she did not want to fight Rouge without her sister wanting to fight her as well.

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