Subject: [FFML] Re: [Ranma] The Amazon Queen, part one (draft)
From: Ken Arromdee
Date: 10/4/2003, 6:37 PM
To: David Johnston
CC: "Robert Haynie Jr." <kenjiko2@knology.net>, ffml <ffml@anifics.com>


On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, David Johnston wrote:
But here's the big one.  Akane refers to Ranma as a pervert because
she gets the idea in her head that he's a naked intruder in her house.
If she never sees him naked in the bath then she isn't going to call
him a pervert.  She'll call him, I don't know, a freak, a mutant, 
a hermaphrodite, or something.  Ranma's right, her response is crazy
because it doesn't match the changed circumstances.  It's like she's
got a script from the main timeline and is following it while everyone
else has the updates.  

Not really.

It's a lot less known than you'd think it would be among fans, but when Akane
calls Ranma a "hentai", that's a Japanese pun.  "Hentai" also means
"transform".  (This joke is also used at the end of the first chapter of
Futaba-kun Change.  Futaba's father says that his family all transform, and
he uses the word "hentai", so it can also mean "we're all perverts".)

Seeing Ranma transform should be enough for Akane to start calling Ranma that.


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