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.)

Ranma deserves it. He knows that ifd he does something wrong, he'll get hit.
It's the only way to pound it into his brain. Not that even that works...

     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.

Did I? I think the dictionary term for 'bimbo' will clarify what I mean.

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.

Ukyou wants Ranma, but she's not a bimbo. You aren't a bimbo for wanting
someone. A bimbo is how you act.

     And your statement about her choice of apparel is equally invalid as
your statement about Ukyou.

Shampoo dresses like you would expect a bimbo to dress. Ukyou doesn't. I've
never seen her in the manga dress up like a tart... I've seen Ranma do it,
but not Ukyou.

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).

Well howcome their fights never do anything major in their relationship?

     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.

Kunou says that he stated that all the guys who wanted to date her must first
beat her in a fight. I don't recall anything saying that Kunou forced all the
guys at the school to start fighting her...

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.

Err. Teases pretend that they want the guys, then don't do anything. I never
saw Akane pretending she wanted those guys.

     Shampoo glomps onto Ranma. P-Chan doesn't leave Akane, yet you don't
fault Ryouga. Why not?

He doesn't glomp onto her and strip for her and things. I fault Shampoo for
acting like a bimbo. Ryouga doesn't act like a bimbo.

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.

See the smilie at the end? It means that I was joking.

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.

Okay. Shampoo bashes up Mousse for no reason other than saying that he loves
her and looking in the wrong direction. Even when he IS looking in the right
direction, she still bashes him up. That is violence for no reason.

She's murderous because at different times through the manga she wanted to
kill different people... Ranma onna... Akane... Akane again... and Ranma,
too, at the end (but she was mind controled at this point, and she decided
to try to rape him instead, before killing him)...

She's a bimbo because she acts so vacasiously. The only time something that
looks like intelligence is in her eyes is when she's trying to fight/kill
someone.

She doesn't give a damn about Ranma because she doesn't care what he wants.
He wants her off him. She won't go. She tricks him into believing that the
nanniichuan powder was real, which really hurt him when he found out that it
wasn't. She doesn't care that she knows that Akane will always bash him up
when she sees her glomped onto him. She'd rather bounce against him and let
him get hurt physically than care about how he is. She tries to do magic on
him to make him hug her. That doesn't make a person happy. She is spitefully
happy when she's trying to rape him, going on about Akane being dead.

     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).

Okay. Let me give you a little hint here. Ryouga is the character. Ranma has
a user who I care very much for, RL. There's a slight difference there. One
guy isn't real, one guy is.

Kun-chan...