I distinctly remember going outside and playing basketball while listening to music, a habit that I’ve always had when trying to brainstorm. I racked my brain for characters that I had seldom written about before. As I often do, I started with the five human characters that are most interesting to me - Krillin, Tien, Yajirobe, Yamcha, and Chiaotzu. I neglected to write about Krillin, Tien, or Yajirobe, as I had already written about them in A Front, Tien: Origins, and Why Bother? respectively. I eliminated Chiaotzu too, because I couldn’t think of anything interesting for him - I reserved his story for a later date. Thusly I settled upon Yamcha, and began to think of a storyline.