From:        The Major, major@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Scott Johnson wrote:

I'm somewhat intrigued by the idea of a somewhat 
more well-adjusted Kodachi - not too much more so, or you'll lose a lot 
of her unique flavor, but perhaps in this universe, she managed to come 
to terms better with her mother's death (I tend to operate under the 
assumption that Mrs. Kuno died long ago, and that was what sent the three 
surviving Kunos into the states we know them today), and she's now not 
nearly as obsessive about love. 

There could be some changes, Kodachi might well be a friend of Akane's,
made while she was suffering Kunou's torments.  But so far the author has 
not given us any reason to expect great changes in Kodachi.

Kodachi does have some good points, but she acts like a spoiled brat; I'd 
really like to see how she'd turn out with "better influences."

And since Kinuko is sort of going to 
be filling the Kodachi/Shampoo 'Unscrupulous Chaser' role, a revised 
Kodachi might make an interesting contrast.  Or perhaps she's already 
attached - she found a 'true love' earlier, for instance.  (I've always 
wondered, to tell the truth, if there was any significance to her 'I 
almost gave up dating boys' comment.  Did it just mean she was going to 
give up dating in general, or...  I'm probably reading too much into it, 
really.  Still, she and Azuka the White Lily might make an interesting 
pair if they weren't rivals.)

As I recall her statement in her introductory episode it was more: "I've
spent so much time winning, I haven't had time for a real boyfriend" 
[Insert initial collision with Ranma] "What a hunk!  He'll do!"

The exact wording escapes me, but the above should be fairly close.

In the Viz manga translation, it goes like this:

"Oh, the gray, dreary life of a girl's school! I'd given up hope of 
finding a man to love! Ohh! To think that such a wonderful encounter was 
awaiting me!" <Dream picture of Ranma carrying her off on a white horse> 
Doesn't really fit either scenerio.

And I always thought Kodachi got really interested in Ranma after she 
realised that she'd have to fight Akane for him.  It is clear that 
Kodachi hates losing, at anything. :-)

Frito: Naaah, she was ga-ga with goo-goo eyes from the start. White horse 
an all.

[Editor's note: Hey! Where'd you come from?]


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