Game mechanics guide (ENG & JPN) + unlocks & requirements table

[See bottom for the unlocks & requirements table] 
This is a guide about how to play the game and all of the different strategies and thought processing you can have during it. It was written directly by the hands of the Klonoa Works team, in one of the section of their website, Klonoa Home : https://www.bandainamcoent.co.jp/cs/list/kloweb/kbv_top.html

The pages were originally in Japanese and thus unreadable for us westerners, but StarryScarab on KMC recently made a translation of it, and it motivated me to create a guide for it here after reading it.

It's not much, but it's probably still a avaluable piece of information if you'd like to maybe speedrun hard mode, or with other characters than the standard GuntzKlonoa duo, or in other game modes... 
On top of that, it's accompanied with small diagrams, demonstration videos, and even suggested character pairs by dev players...
I would be surprised that the game manuals are more in-depth than this, that is if you can even lay eye on one at all.

So there you go. I stored them in zip files. I also included the original Japanese guide screencaps on top of the translated one, in case the site goes down in the future. Credits obviously to Klonoa Works for the base content, and to StarryScarab for letting me distribute his English translation doc.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/eixzuziiougwtoc/AAAUFaIF471_ZB1tj5Upy38fa?dl=0 

It honestly could be made better, especially the Japanese one, but I think that's enough effort for something that might not even be used once a year. 

Parts of the guide is not entirely translated (section titles mostly) but they aren't essential to the whole thing.

[Edit 30 Jan 2022] As the new guide name implies, I've added a section with the known unlocks of the game and how you can get them : https://imgur.com/a/HTHNhbL

Balneor

Klonoa Beach Volleyball

PlayStation 2

PlayStation

buggle

RayUziCrow

Ettie

EUR / PAL

JPN / NTSC

retr/bee 4x

duck 2x (quad)

No FDS

duck none (double)

retr/bee 2x (native)

Disk speed

Klonoa

About developing the leaderboard

KBV any% run timing definition change vote

History of Beack Volleyball speedrunning