Richard E. Rae (76174.1410@COMPUSERVE.COM)
Thu, 13 May 1999 16:54:31 -0500
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Message-ID: <199905132155.RAA16281@hil-img-10.compuserve.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 16:54:31 -0500 From: "Richard E. Rae" <76174.1410@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Hanagumi Tsushin>Not to make this note a total waste of everyone's time, I'd just like to ask >if anyone has found some worth of Sakura Tsushin, which so far I've found to >be mostly a waste, especially since I have Teigeki Graph, so I don't >_really_ need the interviews from Tsushin... nice to have if you're a Sakura >collector, though... You should probably state this as "Hanagumi Tsushin", though. "Sakura Tsushin" is an ecchi series unrelated to Sakura Taisen... When "Hanagumi Tsushin" came out originally, it was the first follow-up to the game and served as something to tide us over between "Sakura Taisen" and "Hanagumi Taisen Columns". It still is the only collection that has interviews with the seiyuu for the "Sannin" (and the content of all the interviews is much different than in "Teigeki Graph") and it's enjoyable for the cute tricks it has in it- notably how it changes the "newsletter" layout and its features a little bit every day, how the Hanagumi will greet you with the proper salutation (based on the time of day you play the game- Steam Radio does that too), and how they'll tell you when it's their birthday (again based on the date). The date also is generated newly in kanji every day. The 3D mecha renderings that are provided in "Hanagumi Tsushin" are also only found in the CD-ROM extra feature of the 1st BGM soundtrack. And unless you have the concert video somewhere, "Hanagumi Tsushin" also contains Chisa Yokoyama's first public performance of "Geki! Teikoku Kagekidan" and "Hanasaku Otome" as featured in her very first concert- and she wears the Sakura kimono pictured in the Softbank Artbook. --Richard