This is of course one of the standard Ranma fanfic templates, the
"Ranma finds his life so unendurable that he escapes into another
series" fic.  But still, it bugs me every time Akane's personality
is erased to make it happen.  Would Akane verbally abuse Ranma 
when he's standing there with a letter informing him that his 
grandmother is dead?  I don't think so.  Akane may be bad-tempered,
and unreasonably suspicious, but in scenes like this she is being
written as devoid of the capacity for human sympathy and concern,
a capacity that she has repeatedly demonstrated when Ranma was 
on the skids.
  
Is that really necessary for the story?  I'd think Nabiki volunteering
to marry Ranma for the money and his father leaping at her offer
would be enough to get him moving.  If it isn't, then perhaps 
the scene could be rewritten so that Akane at least doesn't know the 
contents of the letter as they grab her and start to force into a 
wedding kimono.


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