Cosmic
Onshi
I say only two because obviously Reimu and Marisa are going to be in, and we haven't had a mainline game that exceeds four playable characters since PoFV, so it seems like a good number of slots. Personally, if we entirely ignore how likely they are to actually get in as a factor, I'd go with Sumireko and Megumu. I chose Sumireko just because if we exclude characters that were very specific to their game or setting like Komachi or Saki, and ignore Aya because she already showed up as recently as HSiFS, then she's my favorite, so there's not much reasoning there. Megumu I chose because I think it'd be cool to have a character from UM show up, and while Momoyo might be my favorite from that game, I feel pretty confident that she'll probably show up in the next fighting game (assuming there is a next fighting game), and if we exclude her, then most of the other characters from that game that I like (Sannyo, Tsukasa, Chimata) either probably don't have much you could do with them outside the context of UM's story, or in the case of Tsukasa, would likely have their own highly specific goals in mind to the point where it'd be difficult to write a story around them that would have them going through all of the same stages as the other playable characters. There's also Mike, who while she is one that I like who could work well enough as a playable character in a new game, isn't really as interesting as Megumu in my opinion, and while you could argue Sumireko's already gotten a decent amount of the spotlight recently, I didn't want both of these slots to go UM characters, so she isn't included.
EDIT: Almost forgot to mention, but I hope they find an excuse to do the SA thing where you pick a second character who isn't seen or playable but does influence your shot type and gets some little bits of extra dialogue, it was a great way of representing more characters without having to put in the extra time and resources into adding several new, fully playable ones into the game in my opinion. But the rest of this post assumes they're not doing that, so consider this edit largely unrelated.
EDIT: Almost forgot to mention, but I hope they find an excuse to do the SA thing where you pick a second character who isn't seen or playable but does influence your shot type and gets some little bits of extra dialogue, it was a great way of representing more characters without having to put in the extra time and resources into adding several new, fully playable ones into the game in my opinion. But the rest of this post assumes they're not doing that, so consider this edit largely unrelated.
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