On Fri, 9 May 1997, Sean Connor wrote:

2) In chapter three this piece, Akane has the power to make mallets out
of thin air and then dissolve them. Did you make this up, or is it from
some of the infinitely many manga I haven't read?

Well, it certainly seems that way some times...

	As far as I can determine, the first appearance of Akane's mallet 
is in the Hypnotic Mushroom story, where Kasumi gives it to her for the 
express purpose of bashing Ranma should he try to take advantage of 
her... 
	(And Kasumi was also the one who gave Akane the weight to bean 
the "burglar" with in the Ryouga story....)

SKJAM!