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*Sigh*... Srsly! [sic] Totally on a different level! That's so exciting!
— Maho

Maho, also known as Grey Sister, is one of the supporting characters appearing in Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters. She is the CPU Candidate of the PC Continent and a software developer who works with Anri to create observation equipment to end the Trendi Outbreaks.

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Maho[]

Appearance[]

Maho has reddish pink hair tied to a ponytail with a hairclip resembling a wifi symbol and red amber eyes. her attire boasts a white and blue blazer with buttons representing smartphone apps, a black and blue turtleneck dress with the zipper resembling the power symbol and detachable sleeves, a translucent skirt with hexagon designs on the front to match her blazer, and a white belt. her legwear consists of black thigh high socks and yellow sneakers with a lightning bolt symbol.

Personality[]

The Maho who befriended Anri is bright and cheerful, and loves being social, especially towards Nepgear. She uses a lot of slang.

However, the Maho actually native to the present has become jaded from only being raised as her sister's "reserve".

Grey Sister[]

Appearance[]

As Grey Sister, she boasts long, black and gray hair with magenta eyes. Her attire consists of a white and gray bodysuit with a translucent V-shaped window on her abdomen, an earpiece microphone, matching gloves with gauntlets, boots, pieces of armor on her upper arms and waist and a floating crown on top.

Personality[]

Grey Sister from the future has developed a much more serious personality, determined to save the world from Arfoire through time travel while gradually worn down by her constant failures. She has become unscrupulous in her methods, willing to destroy an entire tower full of innocent people to limit the power Arfoire can gain from the IS Crystal, and admits to occasionally siding with the Deity of Sin to find an opportunity to stop her. She remains constantly transformed, resolving to only change back to normal when her goals are completed.

When the amnesiac Maho transformed, there was no apparent change to her personality.

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Story[]

Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters[]

Pre-game
Maho and her sister were instructed by their Oracle to avoid any actions that could tarnish their image as CPUs. They were not allowed to leave the Basilicom, nor reveal their identities to other Basilicom members. She was taught to act as her sister's "reserve". Maho grew envious of Nepgear's continent, where the CPUs and CPU Candidates were allowed to freely interact with their people.

When the PC Continent experienced a Share shortage, the CPU gave up her own Share Energy to act as a battery that kept the infrastructure running, but fell into a coma with her vitals just barely functioning. Desperate to revive her sister, Maho took a suggestion from a man who was secretly a remnant of the Arfoire Syndicate of International Crime to create the Infinite Share (IS) Crystal. The IS Crystal was then used to revive the Deity of Sin, whose newfound ability to possess people as vessels was used on the comatose CPU.

In a distant future, Nepgear and Maho were left as the only surviving CPUs, with only A.I. replicas of the others. They capture one of ASIC's robot soldiers, reprogramming it into an ally that Nepgear named N-Gear ver. 16-RE: Additional Edition, and attempt to modify it for time travel to fix the past, though Histoire insists that they should focus on the protecting the survivors. They obtain the necessary parts, but run into Arfoire, who has been consumed by her excessive power into a pure force of destruction with no sentience. They are unable to defeat her, and she proceeds to fire an attack at Histoire's ship of evacuees, presumably killing them all. Nepgear orders the N-Gear to retreat.

Hiding in a cave, Nepgear is revealed to have suffered a grievous injury from one of the robot soldiers before they escaped. She admits that the N-Gear's time travel requires a tremendous amount of power, which she decides to donate herself, knowing that she will die in her current state. As she entrusts Maho with the past, Nepgear decides to rename the robot Ziri.

Returning to the present day with Ziri, Maho resolves to save the world and transforms into Grey Sister for the first time. She assists Purple, Black, White and Green Heart in seemingly defeating Arfoire when she first revived in the PC Continent. However, Arfoire would proceed to possess Anri, and then Rom when Anri was struck down. Grey Sister repeatedly traveled through time in an attempt to defeat Arfoire for good, sometimes even siding with her to get an opportunity, but never succeeded.

In one timeline, Arfoire killed all the Candidates except Nepgear, leading to their sisters willingly sacrificing themselves to Gehaburn so Nepgear could use it to slay Arfoire. She succeeds, but with all her loved ones dead, commits suicide shortly afterward. Distraught, Grey Sister shattered Gehaburn and kept a shard to power Ziri's time travel, unaware that Arfoire's lingering soul had overheard what she was saying and hitched a ride with her to the present.

The Maho of the present submitted to Arfoire without resistance, and became her subordinate.

Chapter 0
While Nepgear and the other CPU Candidates were investigating an abandoned laboratory, they awaken Grey Sister from her capsule, who then traps them into a deep sleep in the capsule for two years.

Chapter 1
Maho meets Nepgear while the latter is wandering outside in a daze from losing her nation and sister during the two-year gap.

Meanwhile, Grey Sister is awoken by Ziri and is told that the smartphone share rate is at approximately 70%, which is enough to unleash her ample power and decide to search for an automated factory in southern Leanbox.

Chapter 7
The CPUs, along with Higurashi, find a spy who is working for Arfoire in Planeptune. As they arrive to the research facility, they encounter a mountain of documents and recorded media. Nepgear finds a burned disc and starts playing it. Maho sees herself on the recording about a criminal organization and the solution to restore all shares and prevent the ruin of the PC Continent, but doesn't remember any of it. Higurashi claims that it's a lie and implies that Maho is Arfoire's spy. Maho denies this claim, but Higurashi counteracts by mentioning that she saw her talk to someone at the rPhone factory and she is the traitor. As she is about to attack Maho, she is stopped by the goddesses who then aid the latter.

Chapter 8
Arfoire encounters Maho alone, offering to help restore her memories. Refusing to abandon her friends, Maho obliviously transforms into Grey Sister. The Candidates and Neptune arrive to drive Arfoire away, but Maho exhausts herself from transforming and faints before they can question her. They start to wonder if she has been hiding her identity, but Nepgear reminds them that they have seen Maho and Grey Sister together in the same place. Histoire becomes suspicious that Maho may be a spy, pointing out that they have no proof that Maho really has amnesia. Nepgear panics as she realizes that Anri has found the target of her revenge.

Anri approaches Maho while she sleeps, somewhat reluctant to turn on her best friend, but reveals herself to be F2P as she attempts to kill Maho before escaping when spotted by Nepgear. At night, Maho is called to a confrontation with Anri. Maho refuses to fight her friend, but Anri attacks her anyway as F2P. Even after the F2P armor has been damaged beyond further use and suffering severe injuries, Anri continues trying to avenge her parents, ultimately convincing Maho to offer her life as atonement. However, Anri cannot bring herself to actually kill Maho and finally surrenders. Grey Sister then emerges, taking the blame for killing Anri's parents. When she reveals and explains her IS Crystal, Maho feels part of her memories resurfacing, which Grey Sister attributes to guilt deep in her heart for its creation. Grey Sister is then attacked by Arfoire, who disguised herself as Compa to overhear the explanation of the IS Crystal before taking it for herself.

Chapter 12
Grey Sister Being Possessed

Grey Sister being possessed by Arfoire

At the reformed Gamindustri Graveyard, Arfoire briefly relents control to the present Maho to ask how she feels containing two souls, lamenting that her comatose sister was a boring host, and is amused by Maho's disgust. When the CPUs arrive, Arfoire first has them fight a fake version of her True Deity of Sin form before fighting them in present Maho's body. After losing, she releases the limiter on the IS Crystal, forcibly transforming present Maho into Grey Sister as she is overloaded with Share Energy. Present Maho screams in agony, lamenting that she keeps suffering when all she wanted was to help her sister and get a chance at a normal life. Hearing the cries of her other self, Maho suggests that present Maho had never asked anyone to help her until now, and requests that Nepgear save her. Arfoire is seemingly defeated again, but boasts that she cannot be truly defeated with the excess Share Energy from her IS Crystal, and sealing her away would only temporarily stop her. With no other choice, Maho sets up a barrier to remove the CPUs from the area as resolves to fulfill the promise she made with Grey Sister: sacrificing herself to set off a paradox with present Maho, mutually destroying each other along with Arfoire. Arfoire warns Maho that she might simply get assimilated, but Maho remains unfettered. As Nepgear begs Maho to stop, she thanks Nepgear for befriending her and asks her to convey an apology to Anri for breaking her promise to return. Using the password "Sisters", Maho transfers the IS Crystal's ownership from present Maho to herself, alleviating the burden on present Maho. She assures her present self that Nepgear will save her in the past. The paradox of the two Mahos making contact creates a spacetime rift.

Bad Ending
Only Present Maho's body begins to disappear, indicating that their consciousnesses will merge together. Maho expresses relief that she will be able to return to Nepgear, but present Maho begins to laugh maliciously and asks her other self what she thinks will happen when their minds merge. Arfoire attempts to escape to the past, but Maho traps her in the sealing device, leaving her stranded in the spacetime rift for eternity.

Nepgear is relieved to encounter Maho when she wakes up, but then receives an urgent call from Anri exclaiming that they are losing all their Shares. Just as Anri mentions the IS Crystal, Maho cuts off the call. She admits that she is absorbing their Shares with the IS Crystal, but assures Nepgear that they will be left with enough Shares to not threaten their lives. She has decided to take control of Gamindustri to ensure that she can be with Nepgear forever. Frightened, Nepgear asks if she is really Maho. She insists that she is, but acknowledges that the merging of her two minds may have "slightly" changed her views. Maho proclaims that they will be friends forever, and asks in a somewhat threatening tone if Nepgear will support her.

Normal Ending
The two Mahos begin to mutually destroy themselves, along with Arfoire and the Gamindustri Graveyard. Realizing that she will not survive in either Maho's body, Arfoire takes the risk of time travel, and escapes to the past.

The spacetime rift flung Grey Sister and Ziri 12,000 years into Gamindustri's past, along with the sealing device that was sucked in at the Planeptower. Grey Sister decides to seal herself inside, leading to the prologue where she sealed the Candidates to protect them. However, she finds herself suffering brain damage from prolonged cryostasis. She waits to ambush Arfoire, who had traveled to the past to save herself from the Mahos' mutual destruction. Grey Sister has realized that Nepgear did not commit suicide out of despair, but to empower Gehaburn in case Arfoire had not been truly defeated, and berates herself for not understanding Nepgear's true intentions before destroying the sword. She uses the remaining power in Gehaburn's shard to slay Arfoire, who has been weakened after abandoning Maho as her vessel, but finally succumbs to brain damage and loses her transformation. This results in her becoming the amnesiac Maho with the powerless Gehaburn shard who was discovered by Anri outside Planeptune. However, she can still remember her name from vague memories of Nepgear and Anri calling her.

True Ending
Within the year after Maho's sacrifice, the Trendi Outbreaks and freezing phenomenon ceased, but the existing victims of the latter had not yet been saved. The PC Continent is also still gone. Maho's existence was kept secret from the public, as the reputation of the late PC Continent's CPU Candidate would be tarnished if people learned that she was involved in Arfoire's revival and the Trendi Outbreaks, even though she had ultimately sacrificed herself to stop them.

Aneeta Job invites Nepgear to the laboratory where she had first met Grey Sister. The lab is actually Ziri, who had reformatted itself in the 12,000 years it had been sent back, and provides Nepgear with a second IS Crystal created by Grey Sister. Having calculated the coordinates for time travel during the 12,000-year period, Nepgear is given one chance to go back to when the original IS Crystal was created and have them mutually destroy each other, erasing all the events caused by its existence.

Returning to the past, Nepgear finds the original IS Crystal, but is interrupted by the Maho of that time, who still believes that she needs it to save her sister and attacks Nepgear. She stops when she sees the second IS Crystal, giving Nepgear the opportunity to explain her motives and show the picture they took with Anri in the future, insisting that they are friends. Maho decides to trust her and relinquishes the original IS Crystal. Nepgear promises to help save Maho's sister, willing to come over to Maho's continent if Maho cannot come to hers. After the IS Crystals destroy each other, the two promise to meet again as the timeline changes, with Maho coming up with the same nickname for Nepgear that she would use in the future.

Nepgear and Maho True Ending (No Text)

Maho being hugged by Nepgear

In the new timeline, the PC Continent remains intact, with its CPU Candidate Maho traveling to Planeptune to personally thank Nepgear for providing her continent with a new energy source. When Maho arrives with Anri, Nepgear tearfully hugs the former, with only the two of them remembering what had happened.

Gameplay[]


Equipment[]

Weapons[]

  • Weapon/Sisters vs Sisters/Maho

Costumes[]

Skills[]

Combo[]

  • Command/Combo/Sisters vs Sisters/Maho

Tactical[]

  • Command/Tactical/Sisters vs Sisters/Maho

EXE Drive[]

Videos[]

Grey Sister Battle (Ch. 12)

Maho Battle (True Route)

Etymology[]

Her name is derived from Sumaho (マホ), the Japanese word for smartphone.

Quotes[]

Trivia[]

  • Maho is the first CPU Candidate to be introduced after Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2.
  • Maho's favorite video game is Gran Brun Saga. This is a reference to the mobile game Granblue Fantasy.

References[]

  1. Lindsay Sheppard 💖💜💙🌈🧠 on Twitter(January 24, 2023). Archived from the original on January 25, 2023.Retrieved on January 24, 2023. “OMG! Guess what! Guess what! I voice Maho in Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters, out now on PS4, PS5 & Steam! SRSLY I’m so hyped to be here in Gamindustri with all my new BFFs. Thank you so much @ideafactoryintl and @bangzoom for making this happen. #NeptuniaSistersVsSisters”
  2. Lindsay Sheppard 💖💜💙🌈🧠 on Twitter(February 13, 2023). Archived from the original on February 26, 2024.Retrieved on February 13, 2023. “.....Grey Sister! I will have something special to celebrate both characters very soon!!! Stay tuned!”

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