Okay.  I managed to piss some people off with what I had to say about
this series.  People are going, "Why is this smuck on the mailing list
insulting my favorite show?!  HUH?!!"  Or something way stronger than
that.  "At what end of the stick is this jerk coming from?!" others are
asking.  Well, I'll explain.

I saw anime as an excape from all the "mindless cartoons" being played
in the United States.  The ones by Warner Bros., Hanna Barbera, and
other such stuff where the good guys defeat the "bad guy of the
day/week."  You know, the Cartoon Network material where bad guys are
always bad and good guys always win.

As time went by I got disappointed because I see in most of the anime
the stuff I was trying to avoid.  The worsening trend I'm seeing more
and more is the "abusive lady."  There are anime series where one lady
who doesn't know when to put a lid on it.  She runs around the show
either stating that she's the best or showing her strong dislike to the
opposite sex.  Examples include, but not limited to:

Akane (Ranma 1/2)	Asuka (Eva)	Mikami (Ghost Sweeper)
Priss (Bubblegum Crisis)	Sana (Child's Toy)
Fatora (El Hazard)	Yurika Star (Cpt. Tylor)
Kaoru (Kenshin)		and Lina (Slayers)

[Note that I've gotten these from a list of most of the anime I've seen,
taken from the Anime Web Turnpike.]

I'm not saying that these women shouldn't be so pissed.  They have their
reasons for being pissed.  Men have treated them wrong, families broke
up, outside influences.  But they've been known to take their anger and
smashed around people who either want to get friendly with them or don't
even know who she is.  The ladies feel that it's their God-given right
to smash someone, anyone who deserves to be smashed, or their life won't
be perfect.

And for those who don't know what I meant when I said "abuse," I meant
domestic violence.  Someone close to you is using one's strength, skill,
or other influence to make you feel small and useless; that's abuse. 
The ones I hear about is usually strength, which is domestic violence. 
The mallots, the "sending someone to the sky," hitting someone with a
large and heavy object.  You see it as slapstick.  I just saw it as
someone's attempt to make oneself feel better.  By showing you this type
of slapstick the person is saying, "You've gotten hurt because either
you disagreed, you insulted the real star of the show, you don't make
any sence to us, or because you just needed to get hurt."

I wasn't really attempting to keep anyone from doing Ranma 1/2, nor was
it a plan to.  I just wanted everyone to witness through my sences what
really goes on in the world of anime.  The victory I did gain was the
opening up of a discussion as to why Ranma 1/2 is so popular.  I
wondered if there were some people who actually understood fully about
the favorite show they're doing a fanfic about before they actually
started.

I'm gonna go back to some of my projects now.  And I'll be pissing off
many more "Akane/Asuka/etc-fans" in the Y2K.

Shinji The 10 o'Clock Assassin
"Getting people to stop and think since 1997."