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Takeshi, Marion, and Sean's names. Akira is a very common name for boys in Japan, so I thought it would make sense that at least one of my Guardians have that name. It's also the name of the main character in one of the best anime movies of all time. Chujitsu is actually named after a friend of mine at work. He lived in Japan for a while and speaks Japanese a lot better than I do. His name is Loyal and "chujitsu" is Japanese for "loyal". Miraku is kinda interesting. I got the idea for this name while listening to the end credits of DBZ(Japanese version). There's a line in the chorus that goes ". . . miraku zenkai power . . ." Now "miraku" is not actually a Japanese word. What it is, is the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "miracle". Pretty neat, huh? Debra, Ana, Laura, Douglas & Tim - Call it sweet, call it lazy, call it whatever, Jianu's entire family is named after my own. Don't ask, I can't remember why I did it that way, I just did. Larry Niven and several other well-known authors often did the same thing, using their friends and family's names for their characters. ^_^ Crystal is named after my sister Nashi's friend who is also a huge DBZ fan. James & Jasmine - Mirai Trunks and mirai Laura's children were both named by one of the biggest Trunks fans I know, my other sister Makoto-chan. Michiru Nagata, Miraku's big sister is named after Sailor Neptune. All of the Guardians' mother's names start with a "D" and all of their father's start with a "T". Jianu and Miraku's daughters Kristi and Tia are named after two of my childhood best friends. Their son Kojiro is named after James from Pokemon. Kojiro is James' name in the Japanese version. The villians in my fic Peace Can't Last Forever are all named after sea creatures. The Guardians' siblings are all named after Sailor Moon supporting cast characters. Per tradition, all my saiya-jin characters have food-related names. The males after vegetables and the females after fruit. Akira, Takeshi, Marion, Sean, and Chujitsu's last names all come from a city or region in their homeland. Debra's last name Kreiger, is German for warrioress. |