On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 02:49:05 +1000 (GMT+1000), Mark Doherty
<mdoherty@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:

At 08:46 AM 28/08/97 -0700, Bob Barnes wrote:

You know, there isn't a lot of pages or frames in the manga, as I recall,
between the end of the wedding and the end of the series.  and it was a long
time ago that I saw it.  I guess I need a manga mavin's help here. _Was_
P-chan with Akane after the wedding?  I remember at least one frame showing
her holding him, but I might be imagining that. I wish I had the manga, but
I don't.

You can download fansubbed versions of some of the later stories at
http://www.vrg.utoronto.ca/~doyama/ranma/ . The final chapter is there,
it's the "secret" phase. Download this, unzip it, and use a .JPG viewer
to see for yourself.

To cut a long, boring story short: no, there are no P-chan shots. The last 
shot of Ryouga in either form is as a human, at the wedding, IGNORING Ranma 
and the wedding in favour of looking at the broken Jusenkyo water barrel. In
fact, chasing the water is all he does at the wedding, he doesn't try and
disrupt it like the girls do. The shot you probably thought P-chan was in,
the shot of Soun facing Ranma and Akane across a table, P-chan ain't
there. When you add the little "I'm off to try and find Akari" scene a 
couple of pages before, you really get the impression that Ryouga has 
given up on Akane...

Right. Note also Akane's near-death scene in the beginning of that
chapter. Ryoga seems genuinely sad about it, but he doesn't seem to be
at all angry at Ranma. That's quite a change from the way he was in the
early parts of the series.


Gary Kleppe
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