Unfortulately, you have a flaw in your argument. Ranma deserves it. And
Akane's the weakest martial artist... If she could do serious damage, then
maybe it would be easy to accept your argument... But it isn't. And Akane
does apologise. Though Ranma almost always pisses her off after wards.
Even Ranma can say sorry to her, but that's much more rare than Akane saying
sorry to Ranma.

     Nope. No flaw when I said that Akane pummels Ranma for Ranma's lack of
tact. Ranma might call Akane a tomboy, but that DOES NOT warrant being
pounded with some sort of large object. (Not to mention that Akane IS a
tomboy, by definition of tomboy.)

     Shampoo's problem: bimbo-ism
     Akane's problem: dumb-as-an-ox
     Reason for Akane to be at least as blamable as Shampoo: Hmmm. Shampoo's
a bimbo because she can't talk right (hmmm, maybe a short Japanese tutoring
might have just a little to do with that???). Oh, no, she's a bimbo because

I never said that...

     Actually, in private E-mail to me you did. I believe the wording was
similar to "she's a stupid bimbo" and the only thing you used to clarify her
stupidity was her linguistics.

she tries to glomp onto Ranma, and is willing to do ANYTHING he asks
(including stripping). No, that's just devotion and lack of inhibition.
She's a bimbo because she won't give up on Ranma, even though he makes it
obvious he doesn't want her that way. Well, let's add Ukyou to the list of
bimbos.

No, it's a combination of all of the above, plus the fact that she doesn't
wear underwear plus the fact that she never thinks her plans out before
acting on them. Ukyou can actually think things through.

     Your statement that Ukyou thinks things through doesn't disqualify her
from being like Shampoo in wanting Ranma even though he's engaged.
     And your statement about her choice of apparel is equally invalid as
your statement about Ukyou.

     And then there's Akane. She's too stupid to figure out that whenever
she pummels Ranma, she's getting farther and farther away from him. Despite
the obviousness of it all, she can't figure out that Ranma has no tact--only
an ABSOLUTE IDIOT could think that Ranma would have tact after being dragged
around by Genma for so long! Yeah, real brilliant.

But she isn't getting further and further away from Ranma. That's another
flaw in your argument. And Akane knows that Ranma has no tact. She just
can't help reacting when he's mean to her. Yet another flaw, here.

     Hmmm. I think you just supported my arguements more than you think. It
is quite obvious that whenever Akane hits Ranma (often because he says
something and she views it in a much more serious manner than he intended),
Ranma sulks away, rather than talking to Akane. Their relationship develops
through the things they do for each other, but is pushed back by their
mutual attacks upon each other (often started by Akane).

     Shampoo's problem: fanboy's love her body
     Akane's counter-problem: she has to be good because she's plain, but
exceptionally popular amongst the guys.
     So what that Shampoo was well drawn. Hell, I know people that love
Priss because of the 'suit-up' scenes in BGC where she's shown getting into
her softsuit. That says NOTHING about her character, or how good or bad

she >>is.

     Akane is popular with the guys as a result of Kuno. Hell, the marriage

Here's another flaw. Kunou had nothing to do with Akane being popular. The
only affect he had on Akane was making her hate guys by causing all the
males at school, who loved her before hand, to beat her up to get a date
with her. But they all failed.

     Well, my main experience is with the anime, and in the anime, Akane
mentioned something about being attacked by guys (and not having a problem
with guys going as nuts over her) after Kuno's speech.

prospect thing said it quite well--guys like her. Pherenomes or whatever,
she's popular with teenage boys. That says nothing about how good her
character is. Hell, if anything, it shows she's more of a boy-magnet than
Shampoo, and therefore worse.

But Akane doesn't glomp onto them, and she doesn't act like a bimbo.

     No, she doesn't. Instead, she defends herself. She is acting in her
best interest, and it would be silly to expect her to just let herself be
defeated
by any of the guys, but by not being defeated, she's becoming more and more of
a "tease" so to speak.
     Shampoo glomps onto Ranma. P-Chan doesn't leave Akane, yet you don't
fault Ryouga. Why not?

Now, I do truely believe that Akane should marry Ranma. It's obvious they're
in love (not to mention, engaged :). But, this says *NOTHING* about Akane's

Wow, you got something right! ^_~

     Oh, funny. And you complain when people insult you. Though I'll give
you credit for making the insult a little hidden.

character or Shampoo's character. If you attack Shampoo for wanting Ranma,
then you must also fault Kodachi, Ukyou, and Kuno (for wanting Ranma) as
well as Ryouga and Kuno (for wanting Akane) and Mousse (for wanting
Shampoo). Don't attack a character on the basis of a fault if you see fit to
ignore the fault when it appears in another character.

No, I attacked Shampoo for being a violent, murderous bimbo who doesn't
give a damn about Ranma, apart from wanting his body.

     But you *NEVER* prove that assertion. You just say she's a bad
character, and expect us all to bow in worship of your opinion. Please
explain how she wants Ranma's body ONLY.
     However, considering you act -- in the ML -- even more bimboish than
Shampoo (read your posts involving worship of Ryouga, then saying Ranma's
the only guy for you to glomp onto-- yeah, there's your definition of
bimbo), I don't think you've got much of a leg to stand on ("Let she who is
without sin cast the first stone" and all).
--
Ben Kosse bmk7411@cs.rit.edu
BGC Otaku and worshipper of the Red-Eyed Goddess and her music.
Anime, RPG's, computers, poetry (read/write), music (listen/compose).
Author of the Bubblegum Crisis theme pack (see the homepage below).
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