This chapter disturbed me a lot.  It took me a while to put my finger on
it.  Here it is:

"Do you know what it's like to change, Kodachi?"

"What?"  The question caught the gymnast totally
off-guard.

"You know...change."  Kodachi's eyes widened as
she stared into Ranma's. The intensity of the stare
was enough to cower her...but her legs were too
weak to run.  "You see, it hits the chest first,
causing these breasts we're so proud of to vanish.
The next thing you notice is the hands - you'd be
surprised how much they change from a Jusenkyo curse.
Then comes more... personal areas, areas you never
want a man to violate... except _you_ are the man
now, and that very fact feels like a violation."

Ranma was almost growling now, the seething
frustration of a year's worth of impotent refusals
hard in her mind.  "Then...only then, after
everything's changed, do you notice the fuzz in your
mind.  All of a sudden, you're seeing the world with
different eyes, acting with a different body, and
thinking with a different mind.  You notice things...
feel things...emotions and thoughts that make you
want to throw up once you change back to a girl.
Now, Kodachi...do you really want to put me through
that?"

This *really* bothered me, enough to throw the whole chapter out of whack
for me.

Okay, maybe Ranma could choose to stay a woman.  Maybe Ranma could decide
that he liked being female better than being male.  But at *no* time do I
see Ranma deciding that being male was *bad*.  And not just bad, but
*horrible*, *terrifying*.  And Kodachi, evidently, agrees.

Being a male myself, I don't see anything bad about it.  :)  And I don't
think Ranma would, either, not to *this* extent.  Ranma *liked* being a
guy for sixteen years.  He just likes being a woman now, and that's fine
and good for the purposes of this story.  But he should never (in my
opinion) think that being male is an evil, terrible thing.  I liked the
bits in the previous chapter, where Ranma waxed poetic about the good
things about being female, and why he preferred it.  Similar to, let's
say, the Sailor Moon dubs and subs.  I *like* the dubs, but I *prefer* the
subs.  The subs are better, but (to me at least) that doesn't make the
dubs *bad*.

I'd like to see Ranma retain that attitude (male's okay, but female's
*better*) rather than the other (male is *evil*, female is *good*).

My thoughts only, of course.

Liked the Kasumi bit a lot.

I think Cologne bursting out in tears is quite out of character.  At best,
she'd give a wistful sigh, IMO.

Nabiki and Nodoka was cool.

-Richard