Japanese Sci-Fi Galaxy Interview

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_Nightclub of the Dustbins_ was the second Doctor Who Book that we
translated.  Now at that time, Takeshi Akimoto had just enough money to
put out the two books.  We had an early idea that the line was going to 
be a success, but Takeshi wanted to wait and make sure, so the first 
thing he told me was there wouldn't be a "next time" final illustration.

Why'd he tell me?  Oh, I figured fandom new more about this.  See I 
wasn't just the translator, I did all the illustrations.  I had a large 
family, and needed the money.  I'd been hired originally to do just 
illustrations but Akimoto and the previous translator had a huge falling 
out.  Needing the money I put myself forward, as I had studied English 
for some time.

At any rate I knew we were going to wait and see about the next
translation [and I really hoped there would be one!], so trying not to
worry about being jobless and without money, I read _Nightclub of the
Dustbins_, or _Dust Vacuuming Ogre Dark Night Orgy Party_.  This was in
all ways superiour to the Curse of Paddington.  The Dustbins are
interesting villians - or are they the universe's caretakers?  It is 
never clear, and it makes them a fascinating force in the Doctor Who 
universe. Because if they are the universe's caretakers, than the 
Doctor - their enemy - must then be a villian!  A lot of subtexture 
there.

The novel essentially had two basic ideas, one a support for LSD and the
other a Time Paradox. LSD was rather easy to support, mostly because
Akimoto was a big supporter of it. The Time Paradox was interesting, but
I'm not so sure it was the best thing to anthopomorphize the Time Paradox
into some low-grade US comic styled Supervillian but since I was being
paid by the page, and the Time Paradox was the last third of the novel, 
I left it in.

Keeping things consistent with the previous novel we added a third major
idea to the novel, this the seperation and loss Jo Grant feels when thrown
into the future.  Even though the Doctor can travel in time and space, she
feels the loss is permanent, and throws herself into nihlistic and empty
sexual relations.  This leads her to sex a Dustbin, and thereby fall into
the Dustbin's plot to capture the Doctor while she's in a jealous rage. It
works of course, and the Dustbins ensure the Doctor can find them so they
can extract a final revenge on her.

Funnily, this led to one of the few "lost" pages of art.  Jo's sad lonely
path ends in a twenty page sex scene with a Dustbin, and for this I had
drawn a image that was quite provocative I thought.  Akimoto thought it
TOO provocative, and refused to publish it.  Instead he had it framed and
took it home.  I think its still hanging in his bedroom, actually.  The
twenty page sex scene, however, remained intact.

Anyhow the Doctor gets free, and goes and defeats the villians, and she
and Jo zip off to another time while Stylish promises to make sure LSD is
legalised.  Since one politician would never, ever be able to do this, I
made sure to strand one of the female time commandos [another of Akimoto's
ideas, actually.  They were originally supposed to be both genders, but
Akimoto insisted it be an all female band] and word Stylish's last speech
to make it debatable as to whether Stylish really plans to do this, or if
he's just trying to impress the female commando.

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