On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Kaoru L. Shimitsu wrote:

    Now it goes to the question of, after all Ranma had done for Ryouga, WHY
did the pig-headed bastard punch Ranma?  I feel like tearing his head off
myself!

He probably was starting to enjoy being P-chan permanently, so that he
could stay in Akane's arms all the time. :) He can't do that anymore, now
that he's human. It will be interesting to see how Akane reacts to knowing
that her pet pig was really a guy. ^_^ Ryouga does have more of a
justification than in the manga/anime for being Akane's pet pig though,
since it looked like he would be stuck that way permanently.

There's a thought which has been roaming around in my head for a while
now, and it looks like no one ever brought it up. It's just that Shampoo
in this story strikes me as very lacking in honor; Ranma passed up quite a
few opportunities to kill her, and even tried to save her in the end, but
she still continued to relentlessly try to hunt down and kill Ranma.

One's gotta feel at least a little bit sorry for the poor girl though;
she's stuck as a cat permanently, the Amazons won't change her back
because of her dishonor, and the only person that cares about her is
Mousse (who she never really liked). P-chan at least has Ranma and the
Tendos that care about him (and now he's cured), but Shampoo doesn't even
have that.

-Philip Mak (pmak@cs.dal.ca)
http://is2.dal.ca/~pmak/ukyou.html

"So Ranchan, what's going down with you?" asked Ukyou casually.

Ranma winced inwardly at her choice of words. *Man, I'd better not let
Ucchan find out about what Shampoo and me did.*

-scene from Passion is in the Air (part 2), coming hopefully this weekend