nOn Wed, 1 May 1996, Ben Kosse wrote:

     Everyone bashes Shampoo for so many different reasons. Yet, these
reasons are quite aparent in other characters (Akane, especially--but I'll
get to this later). However, in their bashing, they fail to see that Shampoo
could quite easily clobber (and KILL) Akane if she really wanted to. She
just puts on a show, though, because it's not instinctively right for her to
kill people. She would probably grieve (and sincerely) if Akane were to be
killed (or most of the other characters, for that matter) and would possibly
go so far as to kill herself if she were to succeed in killing Akane. On the

Well, I know most folks don't go by the OAV's as part of the whole
picture, in defence of Shampoo, she DID save Akane in One Flew Over the
Kuno's Nest....(even if she did make a crack at her wieght <G>) I haven't
been able to pinpoint a real explainable reason WHY she did it, other than
conscious kicking in a the right time...
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