Valandar TheRed wrote:

--- Gary Kleppe <kleppe@execpc.com> wrote:

Phil <kagami@jeack.com.au> wrote:

Shampoo smirked. "Great-grandmother give learning tapes
for demon combat. Maybe test them on Ranma, see if he
like." Her smile widened as she took in Akane's purpling
face. "So, Mercenary Girl keep this type of tapes," she
mused, casually dodging a charging bull-ogre. "Is good to
know."

Amusing discussion, but this might not be the right time for it. If
you
can carry on a long discussion on which family member is the biggest
pervert during a demon attack, your attention's probably *not* where
it
needs to be. :)

     Speaking as someone who has both studied martial arts, and
spends every Sunday fighting in a medeival re-enactment group,
unless a fighter is completely overmatched in skill and not
numbers, he or she can usually get away with quite a bit of
conversation. Plus, I can see Shampoo actually using this bit
of dialogue to make Akane angry deliberately, seeing as she
seems to fight a lot better when she's angry. Just watch, when
she's angry, a whole horde o' hentais falls before her, heck,
even the mighty Ranma Saotome falls before her. So, make her
angry during the fight, and she clobbers more demons!

So very true. However, it's most likely to be a side-effect of the real
intent: that Shampoo makes the comments that anger Akane merely to anger
Akane. :)

I guess one aspect that I was trying to portray was that while the Nerima
group can carry out a battle-plan, the group dynamics are such that
inevitably there has to be some conflict among the members. So Akane
blurts out a comment, Ukyo makes an innocent remark, Shampoo jumps on it,
Kodachi goes off on another tangent, and Ryoga? - well, he's having a
nosebleed.

Phil.

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