2) A fellow ML guy (Julian F.) spotted MANY MANY MANY GRIEVOUS ERRORS
   that I had missed.  I went back and fixed it.
3) Julian found MORE GRIEVOUS ERRORS that slipped my attention
   and I went back and posted it AGAIN.
4) Julian found MORE mistakes that I made.  (Do you see a pattern?)

	You exaggerate... at the time, I only made one proofreading for each
of the two episodes.  Actually, now that I've had a chance to read the
reposts, I've found some orthographic problems I missed before... but for
the sake of your sanity I'll forbear to comment.  -_-

Do you guys think I can get away with concentrating on TWO "worlds"
and just getting in quick one-liners of the rest of the worlds?
Or should I just stick to one?  The ones I know best are R1/2 (but
isn't there alot of that going around anyways? (but then again,
isn't it true that you're best writing what you know?)) and Urusei
Yatsura.

	Important distinction: are you talking about just Episode 3, or the
rest of the series?

Okay, now, I've been thinking about HOW this series oughta progress.
Here's what I was _hoping_ for.

*1- intro pt 1
*2- intro pt 2
~3- first airing, reactions from the worlds
4- Workin' for a living.
5- Night on the Town
6- DAAAAAARLING! (gee, guess what two people are gonna visit?)
7- The Two Akanes  (hey, guess which movie title I stole THAT from)
8- The Dinner From Hell
9- March of the Fiancees
10- Washu experiments...
and on and on....

	I can see that 6-9 are going to involve bringing people in for a
visit... what about the others?  Perhaps episodes with visitors should be
interspersed with stories of the housemates getting into new situations on
their own.  The big question is whether these characters are capable of
doing *anything* if you remove them from their native universes.  (For
example, what is Kyosuke without Madoka and Hikaru?)

	What about character development?  Do we expect any of the
housemates to learn anything from living with these people?  *If* you can
come up with some good plots in this direction, I think the show should
focus on how the housemates interact with each other -- which is the point
of "The Real World" -- rather than making the house a crossroads for a bunch
of disparate universes with the residents isolated from each other.  After
the most self-evident crossover plots are out of the way, the story should
become less dependent on outside visitors.

How to write a solid length of AMG... hm... well, I've been reading 
other AMG fanfics as a guideline, and I have watched the OVAs... but
aside from Urd, Skuld, Keiichi, and Belldandy squabling, I can't
really imagine what I'd write.  Somehow, the excuse "er... she's
actually an alien" comes to mind for some reason.

	AMG does present some problems, because one of the biggest sources
of plots for the *manga* are people at Nekomi Tech.  What can Urd do if you
take her away from that context?  She thinks of herself as a matchmaker, but
the other housemates don't present her with much material to work with.
Let's face it, the possibility of romance developing between anyone in the
house is virtually nil, because all the men are taken, and all the women are
unapproachable.

All those damn suffix titles in KOR.

  [snip]

	You think KOR's bad?  Think about characters in the Tenchi universe:

-- Tenchi calls Ryoko by her given name, appends "-chan" to Sasami, Ryo-oh-ki
   and Washu (when she's 12) and uses "-san" for everyone else.
-- Tenchi is "Tenchi-niichan" to Sasami, and Ryo-oh-ki is "Ryo-chan". All the
   other female characters are "oneechan" except Aeka who is "oneesama."
   Everyone uses "-chan" for Sasami.
-- Mihoshi uses "-san" for everyone except Sasami and Ryo-oh-ki, I think.
-- Aeka calls Tenchi "Tenchi-sama" and Washu "Washu-sama" even though she
   keeps telling Aeka to call her "Washu-chan."  I'm not sure about everyone
   else....
-- Washu calls Tenchi "Tenchi-dono"... and what does that mean, anyway?  I
   think she uses "-chan" for everyone else, but I'm not sure.
-- Ryoko is on a first name basis with just about everyone except Sasami-chan
   and Ryo-oh-ki-chan.
-- Ryo-oh-ki just goes "Miya!"

-- 
"I will chide no breather in the world but myself,                 _____
 against whom I know most faults." - As You Like It         |_____|_____
                                     Act 3, Scene 2    _____|     |
            Julian Fong: fong_jh@sunset.bph.jhu.edu