On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Sebastian Weinberg wrote:

: 	Several blocks away, the boy ducked into an old-fashioned phone 
: booth with an "Out of Order" sign on the door.

Whoa, it's Clark Kent!  Ooops, just Tsubasa.  I don't know why so
many people use him, even though he only appeared in 3 parts of one
volume.  Kinda like the Golden Pair.

Why Tsubasa gets used:
HE fills a story role.  He's the only person who ever pays any serious 
romantic attention to Ukyou before Konatsu shows up.  (And Konatsu bears 
a suspicious resemblence to Tsubasa in behavior :)

He's also in some ways an antithesis of Ranma...Like Ranma, he is a 
shapechanger of sorts, putting on and taking off a different 
identity...but unlike Ranma, he accepts this, and indeed, revels in it.

And he's just cool :)


John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu      bailesu@komodo.hacks.arizona.edu  
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"It's good to kill the King."  "I still think the Saxons should have 
put a higher price on our heads.  I'm more valuable than 25 librum."
--Frequent quotes from our PENDRAGON sessions.