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Rookie Magic – Author's Notes
Statistics
Started: 23 April 2001 5:20 pm Finished: 24 April 2001 2:14 am
Typing and editing: 2 hours
Published story: 3
Published on Fanfiction.net: 1
Disclaimers
Rookie Magic is a fanfiction, in honor of the animated series Dragon Ball Z, property of Funimation, the American version of the Japanese animated series Dragon Ball, by (I think) TOEI. Based of the Manga Dragon Ball released by Shueisha, story and art by Akira Toriyama.
Spoilers
If you have never watched and or read anything derived from the works of Dragon Ball or the original Chinese legend Saiyuki, translated as 'Journey to the West' this will be a spoiler as you have no idea what the heck is going on. If you are familiar with series, all references in this fic to the Dragon Ball series are based after what is commonly called the Cell Saga, save one major plot point.
The point of view of this fic takes place during the episodes immediately following Cell. This story recaps that story arc.
If you have not heard of any of this, proceed at the risk of your own ignorance, I won't tell you a thing here.
If this makes sense, you probably know the story already so why did you read this spoiler warning?
PS Thanks to Masae O'ouchi whose letter to Akira Toriyama is published in VIZ's fourth DragonBall manga, for the name of the legend Saiyuki. It's elsewhere I know, but this was the quickest source at hand.
Thoughts and Comments
I was immediately caught by the character whose thoughts I'm following. He could not be a bad guy and yet his demeanor just shouted that he should be one. Quite often while watching Dragon Ball characters give each other these looks. I watched the look and wondered at what the charcter might be thinking for face was nearly as readable as stone. I turned the idea over in my head, wondering what he might be thinking. Then I figured out when to write the story. The 'when' in this case being far enough in the future that Akira Toriyama's story has settled.
So one night when work was dead empty I cranked this out. Finished it at home. Typed it up the next awake period, and have edited it twice.
I myself have not seen much beyond what Funimation has released (What I have is due to the wonderful International Channel. DragonBall in raw Japanese, it's great!) I don't mind spoilers but haven't personally look for detailed future information.
If you have corrections for my story I will gladly accept them in my review.
R&R or C&C
It Read and Review here. On the belated FFML there was Comments and Criticisms. The difference is that C&C is useful, compared to what I often see as reviews.
I feel insulted for comments along the lines of:
"I love it!"
"Write more!"
"I just love (character)!"
Do people ever read real published reviews? Real reviews tend to be negative, but in a way that says something could be better.
I will not be insulted for comment like
"I like it, but here you said this and there you said that, shouldn't they be the same?"
"This sucks! So and so would never do that!"
"Hey you misspelled antidisestablishmentarianism. And you have 'their' instead of 'they're' fifteen times!"
"This is great! I really felt like I was lost in the woods."
These examples are in good (not perfect) grammar. Yours' don't have to be unless you are commenting on my grammar. ^_^
Therefore please C&C
Comment as if you were recommending this to another person.
Or Critique the things that need improvement.
Thank you, for taking the time to read this. Now on with the story!
