harri Garrison wrote:
This is kinda a odd question but I just wanted to know
for a fic I'm doing.
In almost every ranma fic I've ever read its said that
girl type ranma has red hair but in the manga I jave
never seen it stated what color hair ranma's girl form
had(and I have read all but like six issues of 38
volumes). Infact on like ever cover I have ever
seenthat has girl ranma on it her hair was either blue
or sorta a greenish-teal color.
Now I know in the anime ranma had red hair but in
several fics that claim to be purely manga based said
her hair was red. now what I want to know is did i
miss when they said her hair color or is it just that
everyone has chosen to go with the anime on thsi.
Well, the manga never does say specifically what color her hair is. I
have always believed it to be black, myself. Takahashi has painted
girl-type Ranma's hair in just about any color imaginable, and in the
interview in the Ranma memorial book she comments regarding one picture
that she painted girl-Ranma's hair pink to distinguish her from
boy-Ranma in the same picture. In any case, there really isn't that
much hair-color variation in the Japanese genotype...
Fanfiction convention leans towards the red hair; as far as I'm
concerned, it's up to the author. In the Wilde household, I do it my
way (black hair) and my husband does it his (red). Pick which one you
want to use, and stick with it. Just be prepared to fend off comments
from people who see things the other way - I've had several people ask
why in Ranma Monogatari nobody ever notices Ranma's hair changing color
:P
And plenty of people follow manga *continuity* but still have the red
hair from the anime. Again, their choice - and since paintings of
girl-Ranma with red hair do show up on the manga covers now and then,
one can't really complain :)
Bridget
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