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Glad to see some HuneX rep!

Do you guys happen to have the special edition on Saturn?

Supposedly, there are two versions of the game according to the Japanese community, but I've had trouble finding a copy of the original release to check.

The one consistent character is your childhood friend, who provides advice to help you get closer to others.

I haven't played it too much, but it sounds like part of the game is also managing your relationship with her, and as she gets older, she starts to get jealous.

The characters you can fall in love with change as your classmates change, but each seems to also include a novelty crush with someone older than you, like your elementary school teacher.

Whoops! Here's the updated link: archive.org/details/Ojou...

I also was looking at the manual again and there's a couple pages dedicated to her, and one of them is advice from her on how to play the game.

Weirdly enough despite being not as emphasized as the other girls, her art has the most dynamic poses.

But I think she's suppose to come off as more cool and competent so might have made more sense to give her some strong poses.

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Some of the other boards are a bit more static, but have some nice full screen art.

Unfortunately I can't recall if there's anything special about this board, but I do like the nice touch of the cherry blossom floating down the dot matrix display.

This board largely stays the same when you enter a jackpot state, but a vaguely Indiana jones-esque theme starts playing.

When you start playing this one the Tanuki opens his mouth for a split second and if a ball is in front of him, he'll eat it.