On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, David C. Yi wrote:

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, The Venkarel wrote:

At 02:55 PM 8/31/96 -0700, Jack Ji wrote:

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One thing, Craig, you made Perfume look like Ranma in her girl form. I 
don't think that is really correct. See, if you fall into one of the 
springs you'll turn into whatever died inthere, but it'll be that version 
of yourself. Uh, like if Shampoo fell in there, she'd look like herself 
again, not like Ranma-chan. There's proof of this! I think it's like 
manga #22 or somewhere around there. I think it's about Herb or some 

monkey.

It's manga #24.  A monkey feel into the Nian-Ni-Chuan and got transformed 
into a er ... naked girl.  Herb was entranced by her ... er ... breasts.  
Then the monkey tossed Herb into the pool.  Herb got out and was 
entranced by *her* breasts ... then the monkey-girl used the Chiisui-ton 
(Herb brought ti to lock the monkey-girl in human form so that he could 
have her as a wife :) and instead used it on Herb.  Herb himself 
commented that the girl Ranma looked like the monkey-girl.  

Okay.  

In Manga v. 24, Herb threw the monkey into the pool for a very simple 
reason:  to see what a woman was like, not to marry said person.  The 
practice of dunking the animals to use as brides had gone by the wayside 
by that time.
 

But, I guess the story wouldn't have worked if you didn't have Perfume 
look like Ranma-chan.

        I dunno...if Ranma-chan is the female version of Ranma-kun...why
does she 
have red hair?

That only holds in the anime.  They use the different hair colors to 
distinguish the characters.  In the manga, Ranma-chan has black hair, 
just like Ranma-kun.  I think that in the manga (since there was no anime 
of this), Herb has white hair, but I can't vouch for that.
Come to think of it, hair color changes quite often, even for major chars 
... but I have no explanation for this, other than "creative license"

Herb's hair is the same in both masculine and feminine form:  White, 
long, with a blue streak on top and blue strands in front of the ears.

Personally, I use the red hair for Ranma-chan, simply because it is more 
recognizeable and I like it better. 

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