Actually, what we have here is the story of a woman who starts out with

unquestioned power and then over time is reduced to a pathetic state,

where she is trivially manipulated by the men around her.  You know, just

like her own characters.



By the time of the Ranma movies Rumiko has lost all control and just can't

say no.  (This also happened with the UY movies, but at least the people

who took over also had artistic vision.  Compare to the "Fire Walker"

video.)



If you want to fire off at the canon, use only the manga and not the

VIZulated comics.  (The money you save by not paying VIZ to translate can

buy quite a bit of instructional materials.)



I shudder to think of the sheer bounce we'll see in the Inu-Yasha movies.



"The skirts too long and the neckline needs to plunge down to her

bellybutton."



"But this is a standard school uniform."



"And this is Anime, Rumiko!"



"Oh, sorry."



	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb

    And people think that OOC stories were invented by the Americans...