Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011002001208.009f3360@pop3.norton.antivirus> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 00:22:57 -0700 To: tenchi@ml.usagi.org From: "Dr. Briefs" Subject: Re: AIC site updated In-Reply-To: <022201c1499f$9fda5c00$1f168e88@pitt.edu> References: <20010928215305.37645.qmail@web12701.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: tenchi@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk At 07:03 AM 9/30/2001 -0400, Jordan Derber wrote: > >Given that GP officer Kiyone was introduced just to spite him (he wanted to > >name Tenchi's mother Kiyone), I rather doubt that. >Now THAT I find hard to believe... I do remember Tenchi's mother supposed to >have been named Kiyone, but to spite Kajishima couldn't have been the ONLY >reason she was introduced, if it was a reason at all... He may have been >unhappy with it, but I don't see anyone at AIC purposefully pissing him off >for any reason. It wasn't really AIC.. Galaxy Police detective Kiyone was first introduced in a novel written by Naoko Hasegawa. Hasegawa was one of the screenplay writers who worked with Kajishima and Hayashi on the first OVA series. Reportedly, Hasegawa found Kajishima to be a very difficult person to work with, and when she wrote her first Tenchi novel, she already knew that Kajishima wanted to name Tenchi's mother Kiyone (he had obviously already scoped out the name as a possible future character)... but had yet to officially introduce that name into the series. She then purposely named one of her character in the novel "Kiyone," just so that Kajishima would have a harder time giving the same name to another character, as it might confuse some fans. Don't you find it too much of a coincidence that the name Kajishima wanted to use for Tenchi's mother, with the exact same kanji, was picked to be the name of some other character? -- Glenn Wang , http://www.capcorphq.com/ Proud member of #SAS# and Co-Founder of #WASHU# *********************************************************************** "But Sarah, if you are alive, and it was you that night... I can only say--Keep fighting. God be with you. I love you. And if it wasn't really you... if it was only the you that I will carry with me in my soul until the day I die, I can only say--Keep fighting. And God be with you. I love you." --Fielding Pierce, Waking the Dead