Big update to the table finished! I’ve generally cleaned up the information as I found more on how some of this stuff was distributed and added two major sections: Chara Birthday Fair Premium Sheets (found under the Chara Birthday Fair dropdown) and Drama CDs. @ekg: do you know what’s contained on the Special Talk Drama CDs? Is is just the cast chatting with each other or something, or is there some sort of story content?
(Thinking on it, I’m not 100% sure that some of the separate entries I listed for some of the Drama CDs are accurate. For example, I listed the tracks for the Navigation CD separately based on name, but they could definitely be all one story. No way to verify until someone can confirm whether they’re separate stories or not.)
I may have accidentally ordered more stuff while I was doing research, so I should be able to fill in/verify some of this info in like, a month. The only short story I know exists but don’t have a title for is for the one released in 2022’s Chara Birthday Fair issue; I did pick that up with my purchases, so I should be able to fill that in no problem when that arrives. Presumably there will also be another story released on a premium sheet for 2022, but I don’t think those have been distributed yet since I haven’t seen any listings so far.
There are only three bits of merch so far where I’m unable to say what kind of F&B content they contain: the seven Special Talk Drama CDs, some other Drama CD-adjacent thing (there are multiple of these, this is just one example), and this booklet.
I have the tracks from the Special Talk CDs, but my listening skills are pretty subpar, so I’m hoping ekg or someone can help me there. The second set of items, what looks like Drama CD-adjacent booklets, are all surprisingly expensive; like, the average secondhand price I’ve seen is 3000-4000 yen, if not more. I did pick up the one linked since it was the cheapest one I could find, just for science’s sake. And the last booklet in the list I also picked up, so we’ll see.
I need to double-check all the names, but as far as I can tell there’s no duplicates among all the bonus stories? So we’re looking at a potential minimum of 72 extra F&B shorts (not including the Drama CDs), and that’s just for the stuff I could find browsing auction sites. And of those 72, the only ones that’re widely and easily available are 予感, which is included with the digital copy of F&B volume 1 (I assume it’s the same 予感; once again, will need to verify. It seems pretty likely, though.) and the three stories included in the three キャラ文庫 anthologies.
I’d like for there to be an easy way for people to access these, since the vast, vast majority are part of promo booklets and such.
Ah, and one thing I forgot to type up earlier, some fun facts from the character artbook I noticed while flipping through it!
Fun Facts
- Height and weight for the characters are given in, unusually for a Japanese publication, feet/inches and pounds. I suppose this is 松岡先生 trying to be regionally accurate?
- Blood types are listed for all the characters, but since that’s such a Japanese thing, everyone’s besides Kaito’s and Kazuya’s are guesses on Kaito’s part based on their personality or whatever.
- There are short thoughts on each character from the author given. I haven’t read any yet for fear of spoilers. :X
- Vicente and I share a birthday! Well, almost. His birthday in the book is given as 1/22, but it’s noted that he was actually born on 1/21, and his father changed his birthday to be 1/22 so that it honored St. Vincent (presumably this guy).