You wrote: 

On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Julian Fong wrote:

ME> I might also add that the very existence of Kiyone is suspect as 
ME> far as officialness is concerned. [...]

	You didn't take the TV series into account.  (Yeah, I know hardly
anyone's seen it.)

Nor did he take the comic into account, but again, it having not been 
really translated yet, I guess that's excusable. ;)

My story takes place in the OAV universe (although it may turn out to 
be compatible with the TV universe).  The manga diverges from the OAV 
universe after OAV 6.

------RM