Happy Marine has nothing to do with Tea Club. He is my stuffed animal dolphin, and he is incredibly charismatic. Actually, his name isn't supposed to be Happy Marine; "Happy Marine" is a name that the company San-X used to describe a whole scene of aquatic characters for one of their product lines. However, when I bought my dolphin, I liked the way "Happy Marine" sounded, so I just named him that.

The Tea Club poster in Happy Marine's room is the first appearance of the Hana Neko Tea Club vector art. It's also the first appearance on Tea Club itself (even though it wasn't an existing comic yet).

Oh yeah, this is yet another one of my Flash homework assignments. We were supposed to use a movieclip animation symbol, and create an animation with scenes.