On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:25:38 -0500, "Andrew M. Petalik"
<wolf@sbm.org> wrote:

<snip>

She does try to clobber him in the movie "Big trouble in Nekonron China"
with a mallet, but never gets him. In the battle music video, she clocks
him once there (but neither of these were created of approved of by miss
Takahashi). The anime is "loosely" based on her manga... and therefore is
"loosely" canon. 

Anyway, I don't want this to degenerate into a character debate (which will
get me launched off the list). I'm just saying that authors should careful
not to base their characters too heavily on the stereotypes created here on
the FFML (unless that's your objective, of course), because it leads to
mediocre fanfics that rehash and recycle the same, boring, old and tired
jokes.

<snip>

I think it deserves pointing out that the manga is full of
malleting. It seemed especially common in the later volumes.


It isn't nearly as common in the anime, probably because,
believe it or not, the anime is more serious than the manga.
The manga got pretty damn silly at times.