Dear Readers,
Now that I had the game completed 100%, it was time to check out the bonus gallery!
This was accompanied with the sound of being on a moving train with a Japanese announcer voice mentioning the Fuji no Hana stop. I had the link bonus from the other Guild games as well so everything here was unlocked.
Front Cover: This gallery was presented as a spiral notebook style. The cover was titled "Space Defense Department Junior Member Notebook" and it had the logo and all on it. Nice textured yellow/orange colour.
Junior Member Code of Conduct: Some nice guidelines both in Japanese and English.
Character Illustrations 1: Designs for Sohta, his dad, his mom and S-chan. All lovely designs with rosy cheeks.
Character Illustrations 2: Designs for Ramen, Akebi, Nanafushi, Billboard and A Plus. All pleasant characters with good colours for their different shirts and tops. Helps with their identifier markers on the map I suppose! It was also nice to see them labelled with their full names.
Character Illustrations 3: Designs for Frank, Megami, the police officer, Emily, Ramen's dad and Akebi's dad. All very nice designs, again with distinctive colours. That reminds me, we don't know anything about Emily's love interest.
Secrets! For Your Eyes Only!: Designs for that little airplane, Cleaner Man and Cleaner Man Junior. Wow. These were designed by Tetsuro Kasahara, whereas the people were designed by Shunsuke Honma. The designs are kinda cool. We never met Cleaner Man Junior incarnation. He's wearing yellow with red stars, just like Sohta's shirt.
More Secrets For Your Eyes Only!: Designs for the U.F.O. and Frankasaurus. Very cool red, black and purple colours.
Image Boards: The title screen scene with traffic from the title screen, designed by Hiromichi Ito aka Kusanagi. Nice town traffic scene with an interesting three wheel car there.
Concept Art 1: Building designs by Asako Kumura. Looks like a densely built yet small town. Is this the level crossing that is always closed off? Is that the police station and Ramen's Diner?
Concept Art 2: The dry cleaner storefront! Nice delivery motorcycle.
Backdrop Concept 1: The lovely greenery around the path near the well. I like the foreground flora and the way it has an outline. Specially designed for the 3D effect, which isn't available here. Layout by Kaz Ayabe, Asako Kumura.
Backdrop Concept 2: The path near the empty lot. Nice colours and building designs.
Backdrop Concept 3: Inside the Dry Cleaners. Again the outline around the foreground clothes makes it look like they're outlined specifically for the 3D effect. Love the foreground stuff.
Backdrop Concept 4: The podium at the TV station. Nice place to have a Space Defense Department ceremony!
TV Show Poster: Long rotated portrait of one of the monsters along with captions in Japanese and English, the latter being "DON'T MISS IT! THIS FRIDAY!" and it has some cool painting. This was done by Kenichi Kato of Laugh Creation.
Back Cover: The back cover of the notebook with pictures of male and female members in uniform along with the logo. This is a nice notebook!
I can imagine if there was a special physical version of this it would have a physical recreation of this notebook. A nice companion piece to the experience. It might be nice to look up some of these illustrators as well to check out their other works!
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