When drawing an anime or a video game character, a key focus is on staying true to the source material.
But in the case of Popful Mail, she had several design cues from platform to platform.
So I went with the well-known Sega CD release as reference.

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"I'm back, ya peabrains!
Yeah, I'm looking at you, ! Don't think you forgot about me all these years >.>
// I'm just not so sure about Working Designs. SO many painful changes..."

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