>The attention to detail is always wonderful.

It's because Kousuke Fujishima is a motorhead (I hope I used that term right). He loves motorcycles according to the preface/forward in "1-800-GODDESS". So, the detail probably comes from his years of playing with motorcycles... Like Keiichi.

>Incidentally, the OMG anime did not do nearly as well in this mechanistic aspect.

Yeah, but we did get to hear Bell's voice (I prefer the dub), so it evens out in my book. ;-)

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