Yeah. Because of Fraps fuckery and my failure to back up my previous save game, I'm redoing the whole thing from scratch to get back to our previous point. But this does afford us a unique opportunity.
Using a save to import data from Suikoden 1, which allows us some unique bonuses much later on.
I also recruited Anita in Muse this time around. Just be nice to her and eventually you'll get a chance to ask her to join.
Tuta is also recruitable slightly earlier in Muse (just talk to him in the street), but odds are you won't be using him anyway because of his absurdly low stats, so eh.
And now, without further ado, the feature presentation. We recruit a slew of new characters and advance the story ever so slightly.