>From the Scriviner:

At 09:47 PM 10/28/96 -0500, Michel Chen wrote:

As a follower of Anything Goes School of Martial Arts, I was wondering whether 
it would be proper to have Ranma pick up the use of various weapons...

The Anything Goes Style is literally that. Anything Goes. In a fight a
practitioner is ready to use any weapon or andvantage which honorably comes
to hand.

I mean, in my next fic, i plan Ranma to be forced to utilize a couple

articles of

weaponry.... katanas....shuriken....throwing knives....etc.

Actually Ranma has a greater tendency to use articles which have seemingly
little use as weapons (but that may mostly be due to inavailability of real
weapons). These include, pots, pans, strainers, batons (Martial Arts
Cheerleading), the various Martial arts Gymnastics tools, etc. Although he
only very rarely will use a bladed weapon.

Before I undertake the task of writing, I want to know whether having Ranma

use these

weapons.  One problem I foresee is the reader's disbelief that Ranma has become
a Mousse clone...

No he'd only be a Mousse clone if he also goes blind, starts obsessing over
Shampoo and starts hiding ridiculous amounts of weaponry on his person. As
it is, Ranma doesn't hide weaponry on himself. He just grabs whatever is handy.