The second volume of Karina's drama CD spinoff, and this one comes loaded with extras. "Ran no Shou" keeps the same bookend structure as the first volume, opening with "Lucky smile" and closing with "Dear my friend," but the middle gets significantly more generous.
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Three more drama episodes continue the story, and the Cult Quiz returns as Part 2 with presumably harder questions for the true ASUKA 120% devotees. The real addition here is the Good Luck Call series. Five separate character messages from Asuka Honda, Megumi Suzuki, Ryuko Yamazaki, Torami Hojo, and Karina Toyota herself, each one a personalized encouragement recording.
This was peak 90s fan engagement, characters from your favorite fighting game literally cheering you on through your CD player. The fact that they gave five different roster members their own version shows how seriously Fill-in-Cafe took their fanbase.
Between the two Karina 120% volumes, you get a surprisingly complete picture of these characters outside the arena. The 1997 release date puts this right in the golden era of PlayStation drama CDs, when every popular game spawned audio side stories.
For ASUKA 120% fans, this is the deeper cut of the two volumes.