ran into a bug, pressed b on the character name screen while hovering over a character, and it switched to the screen that plays when you select a gender (character sprite in the middle with selected below them), pressing a or start didnt do anything but when i pressed b again i get the dialog box, and pressing b one more time gets me a black screen, nothing happens to the audio
soft reseting will fix this state for anyone frustrated by relaunching the game! (pause + run if you skipped the text)