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 :)
In disbelief Akane charges into Ukyo's room, to find Ranma in his
boxers. This time, Ranma cannot deny with any effectiveness the charge of
unfaithfulness, for he knows he has been unfaithful in his heart. Now
As if Ranma ever demonstrates a lot of self-insight. He'd try to stammer
out some kind of explanation, and as usual, Akane would pound him flat.
Given that Ranma sleeps in his boxers and not much else, this wouldn't
entirely constitute proof of Ukyou's claims...the TWO beds set up would
probably help as well. Assuming Akane actually FOUND Ranma. He is
hiding, which he is good at...sometimes :)
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.
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.
There are no unforgivable sins in Ranma 1/2, because most events have NO
long term consequences. Ryouga can beat the hell out of Ranma and vice
versa 100000000000000000000 times and neither of them will take any
meaningful measures to prevent a rematch.
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.
And he's had plenty of opportunities to whomp Ukyou for making moves on
him, and he didn't.
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
As if Akane ever forgave anything Ranma ever did.
I can't name one time in the manga Akane ever offers any
explicit forgiveness to Ranma for ANY of his actions.
Not that he always deserves forgiveness :)
Except of course, for the forgiveness that comes from a sitcom like
structure where continuity is fairly low. Let's face it, these people
forgive and forget Attempted Murder against their love ones once the
story is over. Possible almost infidelity is another story.
Now we see Ukyo retreating to her room after her
entreaties go
unheard, cursing her fortune and the pride and lust that robbed her of
Ranma at last, and led to both of them being cast out into the dark where
there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, deprived forever of the light of
love.
Never happen in a MILLION years. Totally antithetical to the spirit of
the series. And if Kodachi hasn't been flambeed by now, Ukyou certainly
won't be.
And next episode, no one will even remember any of this happened anyway.
(The joys of minimal continuity)
The thought of Ukyo being cast out into the dark, or worse, burnt at
the stake like a daughter of Satan, as it has been recommended to me
should be done to Shampoo, does not give me pleasure, as it seems to to a
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 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.
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.
John Walter Biles : MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu bailesu@komodo.hacks.arizona.edu
http://www.hacks.arizona.edu/~bailesu/falcon.html
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putrefying bodies of monsters, which are constantly thrown up by the sea."
--The Natural History of Pliny, first century AD.