On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Anthony Woo wrote:

On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Sean Connor wrote:

- Akane is overly sensitive about a number of things, and Ranma is 
awfully good at insulting her about those things (both 
unintentionally and intentionally.)

Such as?  (asking for examples from the Manga _not_ the anime)

1.  Pervert / unmasculine

  Is pretty much the big one.

These happen every time they have an arguement.

- The reverse is also true, albeit to a lesser extent.

Again such as?

  This one is easy, Ranma refers to her as the following:

1.  Tomboy / unfeminine
2.  Pathetic Cook
3.  Pathetic Martial Artist

- Akane simply can't seem to trust Ranma.  Whenever anything happens, 
she automatically assumes the worst from Ranma, and then either won't 
give him a chance to explain himself, or if she does let him explain, 
she won't believe it.  This has happened _countless_ times in the 
manga, and Akane just can't seem to catch on.

_Countless_ times!  Surely you're exagerating.  It does happen but not
_that_ often.  In the anime, yes.  In the manga, no.

  Ask Blade or Epsilon, who've read all 34 volumes.  They'll rack up
evidence faster than you can blink.  The one which reoccurs the most is of
course Shampoo.  Every time Shampoo shows up, Akane bashes Ranma. 
Shampoo's glomping has never been Ranma's fault.  Akane bashed Ranma for
finding him in the tub with Shampoo, *despite* the fact that he was
cringing away from Shampoo, *despite* the fact that he tried to apologize
when it was never his fault in the first place! 

Such as when (in the Manga the only times I've ever seen Akane cook and
Ranma eat it was in the Breaking Point set and the Kodachi Picture set and
both times Ranma ate her food willingly!  Even to the point of eating her
cooking after she left with Ryoga!)

  The point of the matter is that Ranma is forced to eat her cooking.  If
he refuses, he gets bashed.  If he does, he gets sick, and _then_ gets
bashed for _being_ sick.  I don't know what you call this, but I call it
abuse, plain and simple.

Only in the Anime.  In the Manga she very rarely hits Ranma and it's
usually for a good reason (the table in the first volume, a slap for
insulting her in the Ryoga intro, a trip out the window for being in her
bedroom in  volume 2, hitting him for insulting p-chan in the rythmic
gymnastics practice.  And in few of these does she ever hit Ranma that
hard, mostly it's just a knock up side the head rather than a full blown
hammer strike.  In fact Akane's mallet is from the first move not the
Manga.)

  If *you* think that being insulted is grounds for hitting someone, then
go right ahead.  I guarantee that you'll either be arrested for assault
or hit right back.  Akane hits Ranma *full* force all the time.  Akane is
lucky that Ranma won't hit her.  Even Kasumi admitted that Akane was a
violent maniac.