On Tue, 10 Sep 1996 pcorrig@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU wrote:

   The only problem with your story was that Tsubasa gave up on Ukyo even 
before the end of his story. (When Ukyo buys Ranma's last okonomiyaki, 
helping him win the bakeoff battle for her company, Tsubasa can no longer 
kid himself that Ukyo desires him or anyone but Ranma, and with a 
heavy heart commits himself to abandoning his suit. He appears to have 
kept his promise; at any rate, he does not bother her again in the story 
and is never seen again afterwards.) He spends the second half of the 
story chasing Ranma and then Akane. 

	True.  I suspect that in the straight manga universe, Akane 
manages to dissuade Tsubasa (one of the very few R1/2 cha5racters who 
*can* be dissuaded), he went back to his own neighborhood and found a new 
girl to be obsessive about.

   Tsubasa has the dreadful habit of falling for any girl who shows any 
signs of affection towards him or acts in a friendly fashion towards 
him, which Ranma and then Akane make the mistake of doing. (Of course 
that begs the question of when Ukyo, who claims that Tsubasa repulses 
her, ever acted in a friendly fashion towards him. Perhaps Ukyo never 
told the whole truth about herself and Tsubasa?)

	Here's how I see it.  Ukyou arrives at boys' school, disguised as 
a boy, and is sufficiently convincing to fool a majority of the 
students and faculty.  However, Tsubasa, with experience 
crossdressing, spots the telltale clues.  Ukyou is civil to this 
rather odd girl, and Tsubasa starts obsessing.  Ucchan rapidly 
discovers that T is a boy (probably tipped by her fellow students) 
and believes him to be a homosexual, since she is unaware he's 
penetrated her disguise.
	Of course, she wants to let him down gently, without revealing 
her own secret; that doesn't work, and she starts r4esorting to 
violence, still without realizing her cover is blown, and finally 
tracks down Ranma and moves away.
	Tsubasa is still sending Ukyou love letters, so she mails him a 
picture of onna-Ranma, her fiancee.  Tsubasa actually shares the 
belief with Ranma (and Kunou, in the anime version of this story) 
that girls liking other girls "that way" can be cured by the proper 
man, himself.
	When Tsubasa shows up, he doesn't spot Ranma as really a guy, due 
to the "perfect disguise."  Only now does Ukyou learn that Tsubasa knew 
she was a girl all along.  However, she neglects to mention to Akane or 
Ranma that T is really a boy.  The bake-off convinces Tsubasa that Ukyou 
really is in love with onna-Ranma, and he starts working on the other 
side, neglecting to mention his actual gender.

   In any case, inasmuch as the story shows 

Tsubasa plotting to 
win > Ukyo's affection the story (while still well-written and quite 

entertaining, I thought) violates continuity, as Tsubasa is no longer 
intersted in Ukyo. Happily, that was my only major problem with the 
story.

	So, once Tsubasa learns the truth about Ranma's gender problem, 
and that Ukyou isn't a lesbian after all, and that there is severe 
competition for Ranma's hand, he decides to try for Ukyou again.  Simple, 
yes?

	Then of course, there was that scene at the opening of the "Seven 
Lucky Gods" movie, but as we all know, the anime doesn't count :-)

SKJAM!