In a message dated 6/12/02 2:05:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sommer@3rdm.net 
writes:

 > Likewise, pulling Kachiko entirely out of her time, before she had
 > Kasumi (let alone Akane) would cause a paradox with Akane being
 > granted a wish; that she used to pull her mother forwards in time.
 > But if Kachiko Tendou was pulled entirely and utterly forwrds in time,
 > how could she marry Soun and have three children (the youngest one
 > being Akane)?  And if Akane didn't exist, how could Akane make a wish
 > that her mother was alive at the present time?
 
 True, but she's here now, so the wish worked regardless of what 

consequences

 in theory might have come about. Now it there's some other side effects 

from

 the wish other than Kachi's presense, that remains to be seen.

    Wellll...I don't have the original available, but best as I can recall, 
Akane's wish was "I wish Mother had never been in a car accident so that she 
could be with us today."  Depending on just how much power and 
discretion/imagination the genie had, I'd say that the "so that..." clause 
would have forced it to somehow make some kind of arrangement to prevent a 
temporal paradox.  Of course, the "today" part leaves a loophole -- the 
simplest solution I can think of would be for Kachi to end up going back and 
marrying Soun and having her daughters *without* having been in a car 
accident.  Of course, I doubt Kachi would be amenable.
    I'd say, though, that *something* has to happen to fix the apparent 
paradox, and that it's already in the works, due to the wording of the wish.  
Our Heroes have a temporal time bomb (Pluto ex machina? <grin>) counting down 
on them and they don't even know it.  Should be interesting to see what 
happens next.
    One thing I wonder, though:  can the "Nerima Effect" screw up the Genie's 
powers the way it kees screwing up Ranma&co's lives?

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