-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Shurtleff [mailto:gaijin@sfcmd.com]
Sent: den 26 november 2003 10:27
To: Sebastian Palm
Cc: ffml@anifics.com
Subject: Re: [FFML] Re: [fanfic][Ranma] Time Never Did Assuage

At 09:41 AM 11/26/2003 +0100, Sebastian Palm wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: ffml-bounce@anifics.com [mailto:ffml-bounce@anifics.com] On

Behalf

Of Tangent
Sent: den 26 november 2003 04:14
To: FFML
Subject: [FFML] Re: [fanfic][Ranma] Time Never Did Assuage


Having read the whole series to date at least twice, in both the case

of

the
original manga and Thy Outward Part, I feel I should pipe in with my

two

cents at this point.

One: Does Ranma ever give up?, Whether on a cure, on Akane, or on
himself? Many of you would say no to all three. I, on the otherhand,
remember
that Ranma has put off finding a cure on several occasions

continuously,

unless a possible one happened to be nearby. After Shampoo stopped

trying

to
kill him he could have gone back to China at any point, either by

himself

or
with Genma to try the Spring of Drowned Man at Jusenkyo. Not that I

think

that would really work the way they think it would (Takahashi dropped

a

ton
of hints as to what would really happen should a cursed individual try
another
spring), but as they assumed it would work, the only thing really

keeping

the
Saotome's from going for it was moderate inconvenience at best.

...she also stated flat-out that the water in the barrel at the wedding
would have cured him, though. How does that mesh? :-)

SP

Different situation, Sebastian.

Takahashi stated that the nannichaun water at the wedding would cure
Ranma's curse. I don't think she ever addressed the specific issue of the
nannichuan being able to cure a ladle-locked curse, and the Herb/Horaisan
story arc makes an extremely strong case that it couldn't do so (Herb
wouldn't have bothered to hunt down the kettle if it did).

I think you missed Tangent's point. He was talking about the times Ranma
gave up in the manga, in response to someone saying he'd never give up,
period. No mention of locked curses... I merely corrected him on the belief
that the curses would always mix - Takahashi said they wouldn't. I believe
it's stated in Thy Outward Part that Ranma tried the springs, and they
didn't work.

SP



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