On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jason Bates wrote:
Actually, I've always wondered whether or not Ryoko really was a drunkard.
She certainly liked her sake, but there wasn't really any evidence she was
an alcoholic (on several occasions, she went more than a day without a
drink, and never experienced signs of withdrawl).
I see no evidence that she's normally an aloholic (and the same for Misato from
Evangelion, another character who gets called an "alcoholic" too much).
On the other hand, if Tenchi's dead, I can easily see her overdrinking for a
while after that happened.