Isn’t it just some Takeuchi’s inconsistency ? Because her comment is wrong since these designs were never in the anime, and those wristbands are not even in the manga or in other color illustrations of the artbook (the one some page earlier for instance). It seems to me she draw them first in some color illustrations and then forgot to use them or choose to suppress them later.
Not exactly wrong at that time since they were planning the Stars Season, her plans for the anime that were never part of the 90s Anime and Manga are in the Materials Collection and the Artbooks.
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