As I further played NG+ I have indeed unlocked both Belial and Forneus as playable characters - Was quite a trial in order to get them - Look forward to it =)
Not sure about the events - I also only had events with her.
It's gets much easier in NG+ to start capturing monsters due to the addition of Lili who also gets a capture skill rather than needing the item and being high enough level / high enough megami points to finally start getting the double action skill - My set-up for capture farming early on was Fia, Lili (once you get her to about 30), Eushully-chan with capture rope, and Valefor with Drop item skill + Full's Tears - Later on you can get Belial and Forneus to equip the rope as well and power capture monsters - the 1.02 patch changing the monster cages from +10 to +20 was quite nice - atm I have a max capacity of 100 monsters so every mission I just capture everything and get quite a bit of power ups for my summons.
Best news I've seen all day. Looking forward to her wink wink. Now I just need a place to find who drops what. Especially upgrade stones.