On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Mike W. Loader wrote:
1 - Ranma, you establish, is so homophobic that the image of two members
of the opposite sex kissing disgusts him.
2 - Ranma views himself as male, and does not want to change this
viewpoint.
3 - Ranma is in love with another man. He feels no discomfort about this,
and thinks nothing (indeed, enjoys) kissing him.
Sorry, doesn't wash. The ending, to me, seemed rather contrived and
hollow...riddled with contradictions like the above. It was a
disappointment, because the rest of the stoy is excellent. And the
previous one, TOF, was IMHO the best of your works to date.
Going OOC for the sake of a story is one thing, but going this far OOC
and contradicting yourself is quite another.
I agree it is a fairly written but the conversation between Ranma and
Akane(on the roof) kinda contradicted the whole story.
Also, I thought with all the foreshadowing concerning Kentaro, that Ranma
would leave Kentaro. But that is the irony of the story.
-Ramon