On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Anthony Woo wrote:

Ok I've heard a _lot_ of reasons why this person or that person should or
ought to get Ranma.  I got tired of it.  This is a list of reasons of
reasons why Shampoo, Ukyo, Kodachi, etc _shouldn't_ get Ranma.

I hope you realize this sort of thread tends to turn you into flamebait,
Mr. Woo :)

Ranma + Ukyo = not the best match in the world

Why:  Though many fanfic writers portray this match to be the second most
likely match up after the Ranma/Akane match, I don't really think that's
the case.  Ranma and Ukyo have been friends for a long time, but they
haven't seen, talked, written, or otherwise communicated for the last ten
years.  Do you know how much someone can _change_ in ten years!  In the
Manga and the Anime Ranma tries to pick up their relationship where they
left off, but they were just six years old then.  The way that they see
each other can't have changed that much, but they're now very different
people from who they were when they were six.  The last ten years has

Are they?  I get the impression neither of them has changed very much.
That being perhaps the real problem ^_-.  


John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu       
naru@sailormoonfan.com
rhea@tass.org

http://www.tass.org/~rhea/falcon.html

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happens, it's the end of the world....For this time, it will be God
without disguise;  something so overwhelming that it will strike either
irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.  It will be
too late then to choose your side...That won't be the time for choosing;
it will be the time when we discover which side we have really chosen,
whether we realized it before or not.  NOW is the our chance to choose the
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