Talk:Aspara/@comment-5249174-20120630085000/@comment-4080028-20120630163319

Hm? How come? The way I see it, I want to be some kind of entertainer myself (mostly a manga-ka at the moment,) and so I think of myself as an artist to some degree. And with that being said, I value art and its contributions to society greatly. (Thus where I got the inspiration for my main character, Jolly D. Chris, and his home island, Pleasure Island.)

And so, when trying to create a decent backstory for Chris, I began to think of what he values, and what I wanted to express in the story. And it ended up as this: I wanted to show my appreciation for art and entertainment, and to show how I feel about it. And so when I needed a name for the island, I thought of the fact that people are pleased when they're having fun, or being entertained. Also, I wanted the name to carry some humor in it as well (as explained in the Trivia section.) So with this being the island where the world's greatest artists, performers, and entertainers hail from, it could be considered to be an island of pleasure, beauty and culture. And so in order to keep the joke in the name, I called the island "Pleasure Island."

Sorry if this was longer than it should be. To be honest, I was expecting to write a lot less myself... >_> But anyway, that's the gist of what I was going for.