On Tue, 13 May 1997, T. H. Tiger wrote:

At 10:57 AM 5/13/97 +0100, Dae wrote:

Victor Coutu wrote:

Okay.. now it's my turn to stir the pot a little.  In an upcoming story, I
hit a point of debate with my pre-reader.  I say that Onna-Ranma should not
age with Ranma, since, after all, the body is magical in origin.  My
pre-reader, of course, says no... she feels it's Ranma's body, and should
age as normal.

	<snip>

In the manga if you look carefully you notice that the characters seem
more mature towards the 
end.  It could be that Ms. Takahashi's style changed but even so they do
look slighty taller and 
thinner, more adult like.  So it could be said that Ranma would age.

I think one example you have to take into consideration is P-chan
young pigs grow at a phenomenal rate and if he aged in his cursed 
form he should be at least four or five times his actual size. 
even if you argue that he is only aging at a human rate he should have
doubled in size by the end of the manga.

Whether that would have any bearing on Ranma is up for debate however.

	It is possible that the curse operates on a reset button 
principle.  In the cursed form, aging takes place at the normal rate from 
a fixed starting age.  There would be no reset operation for the uncursed 
form which would age at the usual and continuing rate (from birth).  Thus 
Ryoga in human form would age as though he were not cursed, but P-chan 
would age from the original age the drowned piglet died each time the 
curse was involked.  Convoluted, ne? 


S h a z o r n				No, I'm not an otaku!
<rayburn@cc.umanitoba.ca>		But I'm working on it... ^_^;