Melancholic

Is there supposed to be a suspicious lack of spoken dialogue for many lines, mostly longer ones, or is this caused by the English patch? It seems to occur mostly (always?) when an English sentence does not fit on one line where the original Japanese probably did, which seems indicative of some kind of problem.

I can explain at least the extraction errors: WinRar renames the files because they're in a folder with a non-unicode filename, which it cannot deal with because western software hates Japanese.

This only affects certain user made scenarios, not the main game.

No idea about the startup crash, though. Have you previously saved your game at a time it wasn't allowed, or entered a different name for the save?

I don't really want to make a tech support topic for this, so it goes here: how do I get the encyclopedia entry for the nekomata? I've lost to her multiple times, but she just won't appear in my monsterpedia at all.

Instead, I have a blank ("???") entry in-between the yuki-onna and samurai elf ones.

My inner completionist cannot deal with this.