>         About one of the attendants being Nagi instead of Minagi (that would
> make it TV-Tenchi-verse).  Sorry I lost your letter, but I havn't seen the
> TV episodes.  You say they are easy to tell apart?  Tall, skinny, resemble
> Ryoko, with blue hair(but not sharp spiky), with Juraian war-paint; and we
> don't see a lot of detail or color about Minagi. So, till I can watch the TV
> episodes, clue me in, how do you tell Minagi from Nagi? Reliably? BTW: how
> the heck does a bounty hunter after Ryoko end up being an attendant at her
> wedding to the undocumented royal heir?

hehhe, that VERY long story.... if you read my synopsis of the TV sreies 
(chock full of spoilers) it explains it a bit.. but not much. Basically, 
from what I gathered, Nagi and Ryouko started out hating each other, and 
the first time they fought in TV Tenchi, they nearly killed one another, 
then everytime they met after that, the encounters got less and less 
unfriendly, till finnally near the end, nagi ends up helping them!

As for Minagi, I didn't know there was such a person (I though Minagi was 
just a different name for Nagi, but then I haven't read much of the Manga)

>         Kudos to Magus for getting in there and fixing the background
> contrast, really nicely done, and quickly.  May I ask, what software did you
> use?

hmm. well thanks, but I actually didn't really do anything to it... I 
brought it up in LviewPro, and when I saved it as a Jpeg it came out with 
the nifty fixed background contrast. I also have an enlarged version I 
use for my background...

>         Finally, I did this out of love for the story and appreciation of
> y'all, even the ones who give me an occasional bicker. In the following way
> I don't know what I'm doing: Lets see, I get up, go to work all night in a
> mainframe DP shop, come home, snap on the PC and spend an hour or so online
> or fiddling with balky hardware, take care of home and living business, eat,
> sleep.  Wah...when do I get to watch anime?  I really don't mind, but I was
> amazed how long it took to distribute just one picture to a handful of
> people, (it takes my ISP over 5 minutes to upload each letter, on a 28.8
> connection, dare I ask why?), and almost no-one, myself included, puts their
> address at the bottom of their postings.

Indeed, I think you deserve a big round of applause from us all for going 
through all the trouble! GREAT PIC!!! THANK YOU!!!!

For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a 
jolly good feeelllooow! which nobody can deny.

<clap,clap,clap>

Thanks again!
Magus