--- Larry Fontenot <lwf58@earthlink.net> wrote:
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From: <JJang13977@aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 7:46 PM
Subject: [FFML] Ranma question
I was wondering, why does almost all the
fanfic writers say that Ranma
doesn't hit girls? I've never heard it or read it
in Ranma 1/2. He hit
girls fine. He hit Shampoo when he first met her,
he hit Kodachi fine,
he
hit Rouge fine, he hit Kiima fine. So I don't
understand, please
enlighten
me.
It's what is known as a "fanfic convention".
There are still quite a
few fic writers out there whose knowledge of the
series is based on what
they read on the Internet, since the tapes/ LDs/
DVDs/ comics can be hard to
get in various places.
It is somewhat strengthened by the fact that Ranma
does repeatedly state that he won't fight girls
Ranma tends to get around this by taking girl form
himself....he figures that if he is a girl then he can
fight girls...also Ranma is not stupid...Rouge is
obviously a powerful opponent (she kicks around
TAROU!!!) and Kiima is one of the nastier
personalities of the Rumic Universe
Some common Ranma-fic conventions that are
false:
1. Ranma has an iron-clad sense of honor and
responsibility.
(Ranma usually tries to do what's right, but
he's not fanatical about
it. He was raised by Genma, after all.)
Ranma cheats in fights, lies, scams (isn't very good),
and uses more "underhanded" tricks virtually everybody
else....but that is not in my definition dishonorable,
fights are about one thing...survival, the only way
you could broach dishonorable in my opinion is my
doing something to endanger innocent bystanders....
fighting is without honor anyway, so why bother with
any rules in a fight...
2. Ranma is desperately seeking a way to solve all
his problems, but can't
find a way out.
(Ranma actually gets an ego boost by the girls
attention, and reacts
strongly when they stop showing interest. See the
"Reversal Jewel" incident
for an example.)
That is anime only...it is without a doubt one of my
least favorite episodes of any series...Ranma is out
of character...it was like they decided to take all of
Ranma's bad points, blow them up to hideous
proportions, and then forget all of his good points...
3. Kasumi is an airhead, oblivious to everything
happening around her.
(Kasumi is mainly a background character, and
was Rumiko Takahashi's
poke at the stereotyped ideas of what constituted a
"perfect Japanese wife".
Every so often, she's brought forward to give
various characters a few words
of wisdom.)
Yeah, she is hardly an air head....
4. Kasumi is a genius, secretly pulling strings in
the background.
(She's portrayed with average to high
intelligence when she's brought
forward.)
No, Kasumi adopts more of a laissez-faire
attitude...it does not take a genius to manipulate
things, just the desire to and a little patience...she
generally only comments when one of the characters is
being especially, a self-threateningly stupid
5. Nabiki is a financial wiz, with a budding
financial empire and lots of
employees (usually called "factors").
(Nabiki has a few scams she runs at school, but
none of her schemes that
I can recall ever involved anyone except her
classmates. She doesn't have
assistants, and her average weekly "take" is
probably less than $100- $150.
Most of her schemes seem to revolve around Ranma,
and occasionally Kuno.)
Financial whiz yes, she makes quite a haul for little
effort, when she gets older that will translate more
into the level of wealth she is usually depicted as
having....and personally, since she is the only one
obviously making money in the series, I'd say the bit
about her keeping the dojo afloat is probably true,
though that would keep her fairly poor
6. Nabiki gets her kicks by manipulating everyone.
(She's actually fairly lazy, and usually only
gets involved with Ranma's
misadventures. Everyone else is fairly safe from
her. She seems to spend a
lot of time goofing off around the house. IIRC,
she's the most likely
person in the Tendo home to be caught reading comic
books at any given
time.)
She DOES have fun with it though
7. Akane constantly hits Ranma, and can pull a
mallet out of nowhere.
(She's actually fairly civil to Ranma for the
most part. She doesn't
hit him all that often, and it's usually because he
provoked her. When she
does, she usually hits him with whatever is closest
to hand, and the item is
almost always in the background scenery in the
scenes leading up to the
incident.)
Yeah, total fan fic thing, usually it is the LEO kick
or uppercut, or else she just splashes him into a her,
basically unless she's REALLY mad she just does enough
to annoy him
8. Akane is always angry.
(Most of the time, she's fairly calm and polite.
What IS true is that
she's very jealous of Ranma's other fiancees, and
will automatically assume
he's instigated any sort of physical contact with
them.)
She isn't even all that angry at Ranma all the time,
though he has a tendency to bring it out of her
completely by accident (though most of the time it is
actually the father's interuptions that produce the
situations)
9. Ukyou is more feminine than Akane.
(She grew up denying her femininity, and while
she has very strong
drives towards marriage and motherhood, she acts
like a boy so much that
many other girls in Furinkan think she IS a boy. In
one incident I can
remember, she walked into the girls locker room and
all the other girls
freaked out.)
cuter, yes, more feminine...no....Ukyou would probably
gag if forced to spend too much time in Akane's room
10. Ukyou and Shampoo feed Ranma for free.
(He usually pays for his food, or gets credit by
helping out. When they
give him free food, it's because they're trying for
some kind of short-term
goal.)
Only drugged ramen from Shampoo, though Ukyou at times
gives him okonomiyaki out of sympathy, this is mostly
because Ranma tends to go to her when he has problems
since a) he has a problem seriously talking to Akane
without worrying about how it will look, b) Ukyou is
much more trustworthy than Shampoo, and c) more likely
to understand a guy's problems than Ukyou.
11. Ryouga and Akane would end up together if Ranma
weren't her fiance.
(Akane thinks that Ryouga is nice, and is a good
friend, but she never
had any romantic feelings for him. She went out on
a date with him early in
the series, and was terrified by his strength; he
hugged a telephone pole
that was part of a playground sculpture, thinking it
was her, and broke it.
She was grateful when Ranma "rescued" her from the
date, and her comment was
something like "whoever takes on the job of Ryouga's
girlfriend will have to
be made of sturdier stuff than I am".)
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
yeah, right, eventually Ryouga would have to explain
that he was P-Chan, and even if he could avoid it then
there would a be predisposition to keeping secrets in
the relationship which breeds distrust....
12. When Ryouga gets lost, he travels all over the
world, sometimes
instantaneously.
(He never gets anywhere faster than is
reasonable considering he can
probably walk 30 miles a day easily. Most of the
time, he is always on
Japanese territory, although IIRC he once wound up
in Russia.)
I don't buy the insta-travel thing either...but I
could see Ryouga wandering onto an airplane or boat
and not know it
Needless to say, there are endless other
examples.
Ja mata,
LarryF
http://lwf58.tripod.com
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