The backstory of how Final Blade came about: 

I was 14 years old in English class drawing Dragon Ball Z (been an artist since I was in my moms stomach, ha-ha).  While I was drawing, a thought came into my mind... 

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"Why do I always draw these anime/cartoon series that isn't mine?

Why wouldn't I want to draw my very own series?
I can do it. I know how to draw. 

So why would I spend hours on Akira Toriyama's (Artist of Dragon Ball Z) passion and not my own?" 

 

It was a breakthrough, like someone grabbed a ball of wisdom and threw it directly through my window to let the air of common sense in. 

 

Then, the plot thickens... 

 

The story, what type of art style you want of your own, what's popular, what people like and don't like. There's SO much that goes into making a great concept for your series. Like do you want it

be an underground series or do you want it to be mainstream? 

 

I said "Skip that, I want mainstream! I want to be the best. I want to have my series better than the legendary series 'Dragon Ball Z'. I want to become a multi-millionaire [knowing that Akira's net worth is $45 million]. I want to make more than that for I can help out 3rd world countries, the homeless veterans (as a current Army soldier myself), homeless civilians. Give back to my community in Michigan. And inspire other Americans to do the same with their ideas".

 

As the years came and went. I've changed my series from inside and out numerous of times

(you will too). It went from a typical anime/manga series of having 95% of Asian characters

living in Japan TO having 75% minority characters living in America. 

I wanted to showcase the beauty of black/African-american culture by having an copious

amount of them. [ Typical Anime in-general isn't big on having them]

 

So I came up with the plan to create Hispanic, Black, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Samoan, Jamaican, African, and many many more type of characters. 

 

Because that's who I see/live with in America. Those people who I work with in the military. So, I turned this Japanese Anime series into a true American-Anime/American-Manga series. 

 

 My goal? To get people from all types of cultures to want to get their series on TV. 

You don't have to make your series for the way the system is setup. 

You can break the systemic vision by adding your colorful creativity. 

Inspire others to make these anime/manga/cartoon series more DIVERSE. 

 

 The power is within you, no one can tell you no, but God. Man-made answers don't have

any power over your destiny. 

Stay focus, be phenomenal, express yourself through your hustle and talents. 

 

 -Terry Keith Hughes II (Artist/Author) 
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