On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Sebastian Weinberg wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:28:09 -0500 (EST) Goosed said:

: Godai Yushaku
: 	Notorious loser.  At the beginning of the series, he was a ronin,
: a high school graduate who had failed his college entrance exams.  He
: has a bad habit of scratching his head and laughing pathetically
: whenever he gets nervous, which is whenever he's in an awkward situation
: around women.  Basically, whenever he's around women, period.

And he has a *major* crush on his apartment manager (true love,
actually).  That should not be missing in his characterization. 
Ah, but I am thinking of Godai *Yusaku*.  :)

I think it was actually spelled "Yushaku" in the NT Anime fansubtitles.
And you're right, I should not have forgotten the obvious.  :)

: Yotsuya
: 	A mysterious lecher.  Has been known to peep at just about
: anything female and with a pulse, although he has been known to be
: honorable on occasion.  He won't peep at Otonashi Kyoko, for example.

Oh, but he *did* try to do just that.  When Akemi and Kyoko bought
some leotards and changed tried them on in Akemi's room, Yotsuya
caused some pretty embarrassing scenes for Godai, by trying to
peep on them from his room.

Woops, I forgot about this.  Okay.  But Yotsuya has a completely
different reason (other than some small shred of honor and decency) for
actually taking Haruka out to eat, and presumably paying for her meal.
*evil grin*

: Otonashi Kyoko
: 	Manager of Maison Ikkoku.  "Maison" implies a mansion or elegant
: house.  In reality, Ikkoku-kan (-apartments) is a run-down building always
: on the verge of falling apart, especially one particular hole between
: Yotsuya's and Godai's room, and sometimes another hole between Godai's
: room and Akemi's room.  Kyoko is a young widow.  Her former husband was
: named Souichiro.  He left her a mangy white dog which she renamed
: Souichiro.

The dog was named thus, even when her husband was still alive.

Nope, check with the scene that has Kyoko talking to the dog right after
Souichiro supposedly died.  She called it "Shiro", Whitey.  That's what
Souichiro named it.  And yeah, what Mihoshi said in her post.  :)

As for the fic, it's interesting, even though it's mostly setup
for now.  Get cracking on the next part.

Yeah, I was up late last night working on it, as you might be able to
tell by the time those last posts of mine got to the FFML.  (hint:  I
live in PST)  *grin*  The next part is going to be *supremely* difficult
though, since I have to take care of the outside world and set up a way
for at least *some* of them to know that Kyoko and Yushaku are now
trapped in Hellivision.  ^_-

Oh yeah.  Thanks for the free plug.  *giggle*

Damon Casale, scyth@prolog.com / scyth@andrew.cmu.edu
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