On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Gary Kleppe wrote:

I could be wrong, but towards the end it seemed to me that she was going
off with _no_ provocation at all.

Zen, I don't want or expect your pro-Ukyo bias to be kept out of your
work, but couldn't we have just a _bit_ more balance? I just can't
accept Ukyo as the Angel of Compassion and Akane as the Bitch from Hell
to the degree that you have portrayed them that way in this story.

  Zen did mention why Akane acted the way she did.  There is a real life
medical condition in which people become more and more angry over time,
and Akane according to him exhibited all the symptoms.  Ukyou was simply
trying to keep Ranma alive.  She still loved him after all, and was upset 
at watching him fall down into dispair.

  Yes, her actions were irrational.  Her physical attacks on Ranma have
*never* been rational to begin with.  It is very easy to interpret Akane 
as a bitch from hell because she *is* abusive towards Ranma normally.  
The only thing which has kept Ranma alive is the fact that the series is 
a comedy, not a drama.

  How would you "balance" the characters?  Make Akane less abusive?  She 
still beats Ranma regularly.