"Freemage ." <freemage@hotmail.com> wrote:

BTW, did you know that you can rearrange "Ranma Saotome" to read, "More 
Satan, Mao?"  This means something, I know it does....

And Ukyo Kuonji anagrams to "I junk you, OK?" The implications are
staggering....

       "You like Akane, do you? Ever spend your time just thinking
about what it would be like to be close to her? Those lips, those 

legs,

those huge...."

Eyes?  Mallets?  What, what, don't trail off, it was getting 
interesting...

He was going to say "... martial arts skill levels."

Ah, c'mon Gary!  You know perfectly well that Happi doesn't care about 
girls' MA skills.  Obviously, he was refering to the size of her... 
firecrackers.

Hey, if the Happodaikarin is really as treated in this chapter, I would
be too. :)

You know, I can't help but feel a sense of dread when I consider his 
likely fate.  In the roleplaying game TORG, players could drop "subplot" 
cards that gave them extra advantages in exchange for story-related 
problems.  The harshest of these was "Martyr", which nearly guaranteed 
the character's death by the end of the current adventure, but let them 
be sure of doing at least one thing right in the meantime.  That's the 
feeling I got from Gos signing up to help.

Gos as a martyr? Maybe. I did promise that at least one regular would be
dead by the end of HaM. We'll just have to wait and see.

OTOH, if he tells them what he has to be feeling to generate a chi 
burst, maybe they'll give him an Amazon for, ahem, moral support.

Heh.

Hmmm... It seems like the curse is broken.  None of the give-and-take 
inspired a SPAMfic, although a few attempts were made.  Nothing would 
pan out, however.  Just to see what will happen, though, I'll throw out 
the title ideas that did occur to me:

"Nerima in the Summer of Love"
"The Kunou Syndrome"
"Ukyou's Baby"

Ah well, I'll try to be more inspirational next time. :)

BTW, Gary, good stuff.  I agree that this had less of the zing that some 
of the other chapters had, but in a way, that's probably because of the 
fact that so much of the impact of the events shown here (Hikaru's 
decision, Ranma's seduction) won't hit until later chapters.

True -- just about everything that happened in this prelude will have
repercussions later. Anyway, thanks once again for the commentary!


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics