On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Reid Carson wrote:

Well, I seem to be losing my audience.

	Trust me, you are incorrect.

	<discussion on whether Shampoo would openly kill Akane and expect 
Ranma to run to her snipped>
	I got the impression that Shampoo was being hypnotized, at least 
to a degree, at the beginning of the story.

HTG