?????: Hey!  Let's review this one in script format!

Been wondering.  How the heck do you pronounce ????? anyway?

Oh, and I think your ripping on 'Angry Letters' was a bit rude.  It
didn't come off nearly as humerous as I'm sure you intended.

 I've never hit
anyone in my life, especially not my boyfriend.

Huh?: Uh-huh.  I'd like to see _THIS_ in reality.

What?  I'm sure there are a lot of people who have never hit anyone in
their lives.  Akane's hitting is mostly obvious gags anyway.

 And jeez, just because
he's living with my family, why do you have to make it so that there is
some screwed up arranged marriage deal?

C-chan: And how could there not be?  You can't look at a normal girl
with a her normal boyfriend and get a 38 volume manga out of it.  Unless

What about 'Maison Ikokku'?  Sure the people there have exaggerated
personalities, but there's nothing supernatural or extranormal there. 
What about, um, 'Harlem Beat'?  (I just got my Mixxzine yesterday.)

You certainly could do a manga about a normal girl and her normal
boyfriend.  Just the 'not engaged but living with her family' bit could
provide volumes of entertainment.

A-kun: Good idea, really bad arguments.  First of all, if Mrs. Tendou
Akane were to have had her life as the basis of the story, then she
would've read Urusei Yatsura, The Mermaid Saga, Maison Ikokku and other
fine Takahashi stories.

All of those have extremely different styles.  Expecting Takahashi to do
a "realistic" manga is no big deal. It's just another style.

?????: And besides, Real Life sucks as it is.  We don't need people
reminding us of that.

Does not.

Huh?: And besides, even if Mrs. Takahashi based it on someone's life,
the instant that life goes onto paper, it's instantly open for
alterations and such.

So that means Akane shouldn't be upset about it?

C-chan: Frankly, Akane should be happy about the manga.  If she really
IS the basis for the story, she could get part of the profits.  And

That argumant carries some weight.  On the other hand, her boyfriend
should also be getting part of it.  After all, he's the title
character!  Yet he's still broke.  Hmmm, maybe we've discovered the real
reason that Akane is mad.

-- 
Matthew Campbell 
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