"Da t'rill o' victory..."
[Going into Principal Kuno mode, Gary throws a pineapple, which hits
Vince's leg and explodes.]
"... And de agony o' de feet!"
Vincent Seifert <seifertv@ccshp1.ccs.csus.edu> wrote:
By the time Ranma had pried herself off the wall, Akane was
gone. Ranma ran after her, figuring that she was heading for the
usual place outside where they ate when weather permitted, but
when she arrived in the courtyard Akane was conspicuously absent.
Someone else was there, though. "Hey, Michi, seen Akane?" Ranma
greeted her friend.
Telling us that it's a greeting seems a bit superfluous. We can tell
that from the line itself.
"I thought she was with you," Michi said, looking up from
her lunch. "Isn't she always?" She grinned and cocked a sly
eyebrow.
"Ah, she's pissed at me 'cause I did better on a test than
she did," Ranma said, ignoring the eyebrow.
And she has this silly idea that he's planning to run around bragging
about it to everyone.
"Tell HER that," Ranma said, releasing the shinai and
stepping back. Akane huffed, but lowered the shinai. "What's
up?" Ranma continued.
I don't think you need the "Ranma continued. (At first glance, I
wondered what he was continuing.)
Akane broke into a smile. "Go, Kasumi! I knew you could
find someone better than Taro-kun!"
My gut feeling is that this is a little too obvious for Akane. I mean,
telling someone that the person they're interested in isn't good enough
for them isn't something to be done lightly. She might think this, but I
doubt she'd come out and say it directly.
"He's blind, you baka!"
"I'm afraid Akane-san is correct," Kotaro said, holding out
a little red paper cloud complete with thunderbolt.
As new characters go, Kotaru is better than many, but he still isn't
terribly interesting to me personality-wise. I'd like to know more about
what drives him, what sort of things he really cares about.
BTW, I for one could do without all the extraneous Japanese words.
What's wrong with "dummy" or "idiot?"
"That's definitely Akane-san," Kotaro agreed. "But then
who's this?" He gestured in the direction of his opponent.
"Akane, this ain't what it-- uh, I guess it is. Damn."
Akane stomped over to the figure in bogu, who had retreated
to the far wall, and ripped off its mask.
"It appears to be a pigtailed girl, young master," Masanori
observed.
Very much in character for Ranma. I've probably said so before, but one
of the things I really like about this series is the balance in the
characterizations. Ranma and Akane have made progress in their
relationship, but still have a lot of difficluties to overcome.
"You would!" Akane burst out, cutting him off before he
could say something they'd both regret. "YOU would! And after
all the things you said to ME because I was jealous! Sure, it was
easy for YOU, you had girls chasing you everywhere you went! No
one was chasing ME!"
Except for all those hordes of boys at Furinkan every morning....
"HAAAAA!" Tak-tak-tak! Tak-tak-WHACK! "Kote!"
"Point and match!" Masanori called.
Aww... we don't get to see the match?
"Oi! Over here!" he called, beckoning. Another bush met a
premature end, and another, and another, as Ranma led Kuno in a
wholesale slaughter of the landscaping. Then Ranma sailed over
Kuno in an elegant layout flip and scampered back towards the
audience.
At this point I was expecting Ranma to lead Tatchi into unwittingly
carve a message in the shrubbery; something like "Kuno is a dork." :)
Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics.html