Subject: Re: [FFML] Onna-Ranma... Aging? -Reply
From: Thomas Schauer
Date: 5/14/1997, 3:45 PM
To: rayburn@cc.UManitoba.CA, schell@interlog.com
CC: fanfic@fanfic.com

At 10:57 AM 5/13/97 +0100, Dae wrote:
Victor Coutu wrote:
 > >> Okay.. now it's my turn to stir the pot a little.  In an upcoming
story, I
hit a point of debate with my pre-reader.  I say that Onna-Ranma
should not
age with Ranma, since, after all, the body is magical in origin.  My
pre-reader, of course, says no... she feels it's Ranma's body, and
should
age as normal.

	<snip>

In the manga if you look carefully you notice that the characters seem
more mature towards the  > >end.  It could be that Ms. Takahashi's
style changed but even so they do
look slighty taller and  > >thinner, more adult like.  So it could be said
that Ranma would age.

I have to agree with this last bit (and that Ranma's female body would
also age).  In fact, we have rather definitive proof to this effect in volume
34 of the tankouban:  Onna-Ranma's breasts get larger as she gets older.
That certainly suggests to me that Onna-Ranma's body is maturing.

tom