i would only make it up if it is to be in my favour! hehehe a sly fox trick there! LOL ^^'

I would guess it is a combination of both for Fujishima-sama. The way I write is similar to the way JMS (creator of Babylon 5) writes. I know the characters inside and out, know where I want them to end up, and know the main stops along the way. The middle stuff is fluid, and sometimes a character will surprise you, and go in a direction you never intended.

Still, there is a fixed destination, and sometimes you may have to nudge a character back onto a path. This is the case with my AMG fanfic I'm writing. At one point, Urd "said" to me, "Forget that, buddy, I'm doing this, not what you had planned." Typically when that happens, it is best to go along with the character... you'll usually end up with a better story.

Larry

I have had a charecter do this to me too
turned out to be an award winning story

that is the second or third time you referred to Babylon 5 KeiichiK1! boy are you a Babylon 5 devotee or what! :)

Yeah, I am. Babylon 5 is a richly detailed story with a lot of deep themes and moving characters, which makes it a good parallel to AMG. That, and Delenn is a lot like Belldandy.

If nothing else, the sheer scope of it (Babylon 5 was a single five year novel for TV), makes it one of the few pieces of popular American culture to come close to the length of AMG.

But enough of this! Somebody ask me some trivia about AMG!

Larry

EDIT: Grrr... Two Hour limit. I'll do the Karnak Version... The answer to the question CoolCole will ask in the next post is "Recollection ~ Nostalgia"

In the movie what song does Bell sing ot the auto club parrty?

That would be "Recollection- Nostalgia". The lyrics are in the "Chronicles" section.

the song is also in the Ah! My Goddess Movie OST (of course).

since KeiichiK1 would like another trivia question, here's one:

Where can i find the manga strip of the You're Under Arrest manga that featured the goddess in the temple which inspired Fujishima-san to create Ah! My Goddess?

It wasn't actually a strip, but an advertisement Fujishima-sama drew. I found it online long ago, but looks like the site was removed. Most likely, the image is on my hard drive somewhere, so if I find it, I will upload it here.

oh you guys are good, bet I will get you one day...

some gods and demons are vunrable to some music types: list them and who they affect

Urd is vulnerable to Enka (kinda an easy listening Japanese singer) in the Japanese version. When translated by Dark Horse, this becomes Austrian Polkas. It makes her fall asleep.

Mara's weakness is disco (in the Dark Horse translation. It may be techno or hard rock in Japanese, but I haven't found a definative source on that). It forces her to dance.

And according to one of the funniest AMG fanfics I've ever read:

Skuld's weakness is showtunes. It makes her want to invent things. Years ago, as the story goes, she created a device that she implanted in her skull that plays showtunes 24 hours a day.

According to the same fanfic, Belldandy's weakness is the long haired bands of the 80s (Guns 'n Roses, etc). It turns her into a homicidal chainsaw weilding maniac.

Larry

Mara also has a weakness against lucky objects... charms, idols etc., but that's not music. Urd's weakness, enka, is not a single singer but a category of music often equated to american "country" music. A semi-traditional style developed in the early 1900's, it usually involves themes of love and loss. And i'm recently addicted to it
some samples and info http://www.quixium.com/enka/
some info http://www.okada.de/archive-japanasitis/enka/enka.html

woaw the great KeiichiK1 has been correct!
not surprising as it is Lionfish we're tallkin about afterall! ^^
i mean he's the one with the monk as an avatar for goddesses sake, so he must be wise! (plus the fact he's a mod! ^^')

i dont see why the translated manga have to change the enka into polka etc, i mean what difference does it make to the reader!

Not so much corrected as added to.... and since the north american market in general has never heard of enka, it makes a little sense to switch to a more well known type of corny music.

And as for the lucky charms, the question was about musical weaknesses. Besides, I knew that it was Enka, just not a lot about Enka. I don't know much about country music in America either. Urd and I have a similar weakness.

Larry