On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Paul Corrigan wrote:

   Akane comes to the door, all tears, looking to know if Ranma is there 

Well, frankly, Akane doesn't go around crying like that, anyway.
But that's another story :)

        This is her worst fight yet with Ranma.  Who is to say that she
isn't affected as badly.  Remember, Ranma wasn't sent into orbit, as is
usually done by RT for comic effect.  In this one, he accepted the slap,
and left looking very dejected. And it's also not like Ranma to wander all
around the town, but who knows what Akane said to him in her room?

   For Ukyo, too, there will be no forgiveness, for she has committed the 
unpardonable sin of decisively driving Ranma from Akane's heart, 
unpardonable because there is no repairing the damage. He strikes her 

Oh please.  If Akane hasn't pressed criminal charges against Shampoo, 
Ukyou, Mousse, Cologne, and most of the rest of the cast for things 
they've done to her, then she can forgive anything.

Clap clap!  Nod.

If Ranma and Akane can still love each other despite the constant rain of 
violence and arguments they live through, one more incident isn't going 
to change matters.

And this incident is not as serious as a naked Shampoo in the bath with a
naked Ranma.  Or a naked Ranma-chan with a naked Ranma, in the same bath
(vol.35, R1/2 tankobon)  (WebDragon holds up a gagshield, to shield himself
from gags coming from various ML-ers)

with his hand, cursing her for the heartless seductress she has played, 

Oh yeah, right.  Like Ranma EVER does anything like that.  If he doesn't 
beat the hell out of Shampoo for doing this sort of thing, he's not going 
to hit Ukyou either.

Let me point out that Ranma has never slapped a girl for making a move on
him.  In fact, truth be told, I think he actually likes being flirted on,
whether in boyform...or girlform (out comes the gagshield again).  Let us
all know what all of your views on this are....

And he's had plenty of opportunities to whomp Ukyou for making moves on 
him, and he didn't.

Same with Shampoo and Kodachi, the two girls who really deserve slaps and
*whompings*, but they don't ever get it.  

Incidentally, let me point out that Ranma has never hit Akane in anger, no
matter how many times she hits him.  The only time, to my knowledge, that he
actually hits Akane was in the koi no fishing rod part, where he (she) kicks
Akane and says something like "don't interfere", or something like that.

and runs off in his own course, pleading for Akane to take him back, to 
bestow the forgiveness he knows he cannot receive. Ukyo calls to him, 
pleading to him to return; but the traitor may count on the love of none, 
and as Ranma's betraying his love lost him all Ukyo's betraying her 
friend in turn cost her all

Read my earlier post yet? 

Biles :  [Rolls his eyes for 1d6 rounds]  Yeah right.  This is a romantic 
comedy show.  No one is going to hell, or most of the cast would be 
flambee right now.  Similarly, there aren't any unforgivable sins, or 
they'd have all gotten each other locked up/killed by now.  Mousse has 
threatened to blow Akane to bits with bombs and all Ranma did was beat 
Mousse up and that was the end of it.

        If half the effects on Ranma 1/2 were true-to-life, there would be
no cast left alive or in relatively good health.  Lessee...Ranma would be
blown to bits by Happosai's bombs, Akane would torn to pieces by Ranma's
Hiryuu Shotenha (when he does it on Kuno, Mousse and Principal Kuno), Mousse
would be headless (from Shampoo's trick exploding weapons), Ryoga would have
all the bones in his body crushed to powder, Kuno would be alligator food,
and so on and on and on.

IF attempted MURDER is forgivable, then virtually anything is.  All that 
would come of this scenario would be that Ranma would get yet another 
beating and life would go on.

        Akane is not exactly blameless for attempted murder.  Look at the
sizes of the rocks and mallets she chooses to whack Ranma with..!

Maybe if she found Ranma and Ukyou butt naked having sex, then that would 
be the end, but that's not going to happen.

At least not in THAT story.

Damn right.  I have no intention of ruining the mood of Namida no
Okonomiyaki (the title has a special meaning, after all).

Thanks, J.B., for your support.