Sebastian Weinberg wrote:
 

Heterosexuality *has* to be taken as given, since the humour of
the gender-bending would be lost otherwise.  Takahashi-sensei had
to make her characters set in their gender-thinking, to set up
humorous conflicts when Ranma's sex-changing smashes those
barriers.

Actually, I don't believe ALL Ranma characters are completely
inflexible. given I'm taking this from the anime, and given its a VIZ
translation of the anime, but in 'Goodbye Girl-Type' Nabiki questions
Ranma's desire to cure his curse: "Think about how much more interesting
your honeymoon would be this way. At least you'd never be bored, right
Akane?" This was probably just to tee Akane off (which failed miserably
since she missed it completely) but I figure the majority of the rest of
the Ranma 1/2 cast would curl up and die before saying anything CLOSE to
that (It makes sense I guess, since Nabiki is essentially the rule
breaker of the group).

The Prime Saggitarian,
Alpha Centauri

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