What I was thinking of, is how most of the people who met with DAZ in Japan also had products for Aiko3 at DAZ when Aiko was released. (That was the first time I had seem a few of them sell at DAZ.) They might have had some input on Aiko3, but that's just a guess. The Simpsons and Futurama are animated in South Korea. Terai Yuki was an Idol in Japan, -- a Virtual Celebrity. imho, It's the storytelling from Japan that is dramatically better than the offerings from Hollywood and TV in the 2000s. bB