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?


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