On Thu, 1 May 1997, Anthony Woo wrote:

Um hate to tell you this, but it never said that it didn't work.  It just
said that only an idiot would use that training technique.  Obviously it
works but at the cost of the child's sanity.

I distinctly recall a translation somewhere which said that it doesn't work.
I think it was Hitoshi Doi's question and answer file about the first few
manga volumes.  Anyone have a translation for the lines?

(For that matter, Viz is long past the Cat-Fist story.  Did they translate it
to 'never works'?)