Joanne Wojtysiak wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Jason Liao wrote:

That's it? WAAAAH!

Well...yes.  I mean, I've seen fics where Akane's been cursed to be a
man, Ranma, various animals, minature, etc.  But I have never read one
where she's cursed to be Akane.  It's so fundamentally simple that I
thught that -someone- must have thought of it...

But... then who drowned in the spring originally?  Akane?
Other-dimensional Akane?  Future Akane?  If you think about it too much,
it starts to get uber-weird.

Akane drowned in the spring of drowned Akane.  It happened in the manga 
series.  There's nothing particularly complicated about it.  "Drowned" 
does not mean "died of drowning.".