On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 16:48:14   Jamie and Bridget Wilde wrote:

Pi wrote:

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Lord Archive wrote:

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Saotome Ranma: This boy has the motivation to hate girls a plenty
between his curse and multiple fiancees. Plus he has gone out at nights
returns as a cat. Likely to know paralyzation pressure points.

While you could argue that it was possible, there is really little
direct evidence from the manga that he does know pressure points. Most
of the time Ranma learns something from Happosai (the first Hinako story
arc) or has it done to him. 

I can't imagine Ranma-neko disposing of the bodies the way the killer has.
Ranma hasn't shown any more intelligence while in the Neko-ken than a
normal Ranmaverse animal -- uh, perhaps even less now that I think about
it.

Unless it isn't Ranma-neko disposing of the bodies. But the killer
talks! you say... Are we reading the killer's actual words, or what the
killer is saying?

Don't cats bring home their kills...? And why do they do that,
anyway...?

Also, don't most cats 'play' with their food. I have
seen cats pounce on their prey, bat it from paw to
paw, let it go awhile and pounce on it again. And until
the cat goes in for the final kill, the prey is still
alive the whole while.

With most of the damage to the bodies being done
post-mortem this kind of puts neko-Ranma near
the bottom of the suspect list.

Of course, the whole neko thing could be a massive red herring designed
to direct attention away from the real killer while the reader
postulates ways that Ranma could be the killer, or that someone is
trying to frame him...

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