Continuing relentlessly through what's been reposted so far....

Quoting Thunderstruck <thunderstruck_comic@comcast.net>:

true love on this journey.  Genma had spewed his customary
streams of bad advice and cracked wisdom until somebody had
turned him into a panda to shut him up.  Kasumi had helped Akane

Hey, hey! Genma's capable of giving good advice. Not that he would ever actually
follow any of it himself, mind you....

And Nabiki?  She'd said her good-byes, made a little joke about
Ranma and Akane being alone together... and that should have
been that.  She should have been relaxing and enjoying the rare
opportunity for peace and quiet.  She should have been catching
up on her reading, or checking in with her operatives, or
polishing up the presentation she was scheduled to give at the
Daitokuji Convention for Teenage Intelligence Experts.

Being held at the Fanfiction Cliche Institute. :)

Ryouga pulled up to a halt, pausing for a moment to catch his
breath.  It wasn't so much the exertion that was getting to
him, but the fear.  Akane was in danger.  He didn't trust
Ranma any farther than he could throw Mount Fuji.

Fortunately, for him that's actually a decent distance.

Ryouga took a deep breath and closed his eyes.  He had no
rational hope of finding Ranma and Akane before that thing
got to them, but logic and rationality had never been the
dominant forces in his life.

Um... that's certainly true, but probably not something he'd say to himself, or
at least not the way he'd put it.

"// If you there was anything at all you could do, great-

Capitalize relations when used as names. Look for this elsewhere.

Once again, Cologne had made it clear that she thought Ranma
was going to die.  Mousse felt he should have been ecstatic.
Finally, the scoundrel who had such an unfair hold over his
beloved's heart would be gone.  The three of them would return
to China - it would be like starting fresh again.  He'd find
some way to win Shampoo's love, and he'd spend his life making
her happier than Ranma ever could.

It was so perfect.  But why, then, did his heart feel so heavy?

I like the character development for Mousse here.

"Hey Akane," he said, struggling to sound nonchalant, "I think

"Hey, Akane,"

"The Reikoku gained that ability after fighting you, Ranma,"
Cologne explained.  "It will only use it while it is in combat
with you.  When Ryouga came and attacked it, you were already
defeated and helpless.  Therefore, he faced it for the first
time alone.  It's power, when fighting him, was at the same

Its power,

The farewell between Ranma and Akane was far more awkward and
stilted.  Each had deep reflexes to hide any genuine emotions
of affection that might arise through teasing or insults.  Each
desperately wanted to make this parting a good one, though,
to give voice to the things their hearts and eyes were trying
so hard to say.  The middle ground they achieved was not
terribly satisfying, but it wasn't too bad, either.

Good scene, but since we actually get to see it below, do we really need this
summing up of it? At least move this review to after the scene itself.

The Anything-Goes Martial Arts Obstacle Course was an anime episode
in the third season.  I enjoyed it, in a large part, because Ryouga
actually won the race.  It's so rare that you get to see Ranma beat
in a Martial Arts competition, and Ryouga deserves a break now and
then.  I thought it was a legitimate assumption that he would hold
on to his (supposedly) useless prize for sentimental reasons.

That was in the manga too, if it's the same one I'm thinking of. Volume 16 (in
the Japanese numbering).

Not much to say since this is a rerun anyway. Keep 'em coming. :)



             .---Anime/Manga Fanfiction Mailing List----.
             | Administrators - ffml-admins@anifics.com |
             | Unsubscribing - ffml-request@anifics.com |
             |     Put 'unsubscribe' in the subject     |
             `---- http://ffml.anifics.com/faq.txt -----'