Always Man wrote:

    "Running Deer is _last_ person that Shampoo would call soft,"
she said with a smile.  Finished lacing up her boots, Shampoo stood
up.  "Let's go show these soft Japanese a couple of _real_ fighters!"

You're in danger of wandering. Keep focused. Wrap up other-Shampoo's
situation and dispense with the new characters--they serve no purpose.

The Korean chick does serve a purpose.  She's a villainous opponent for 
Shampoo and Ranma-wimp.  Running Deer could easily serve a purpose just 
by dieing...after she's been established as Shampoo's friend.  Since 
Ranma-wimp has pretty clearly picked Shampoo as his chosen love interest
it looks like his efforts to extract Shampoo from gladiatorial are going 
to be central to the plot, and that means introducing some of the 
characters in her situation.  

    "RANMA!  HOW DARE YOU BETRAY AKANE LIKE THIS!"  Ranma looked up
to see a figure falling out of the sky at him, the sun at its back,
a large umbrella shape held above the head.

Other-Ranma is hopelessly out-matched by the Lost Boy, martial arts
ability or no, but when he's occupying real-Ranma he should be able to
avoid Ryouga--IF he doesn't have lapses or fail to go all-out.

I granted the fight with Mousse earlier, because the difference between
them may have been great enough to allow for other-Ranma's lapses. There
is a very small difference between real-Ranma and Ryouga, however.

Actually, that's true.  The margin between Ranma and Ryoga is slight 
enough that Ranma-wimp should probably lose or be forced to escape.  

I'm making a point out of this because I can't stand inaccurate fight
scenes.

On a further canonical note, Ryouga typically doesn't charge Ranma. On
the few occasions when they've fought, Ryouga would go up to Ranma and
issue a formal challenge.

Thank you gutboy.  However in reality Ryoga _does_ charge Ranma at least 
three times I can think of immediately.  Ryoga's formal challenges can 
be pending for weeks as he tries to find Ranma and fulfill the the 
promise of the letter, and he will then attack on sight.  He'll also 
attack when-ever he sees Ranma pulling some idiotic stunt that hurts or 
embarasses Akane, or Ryoga himself.

Oh, by the way, your new pseudonym is pretty lame.