At 1:57 PM +0000 28/9/2005, Timothy Groves wrote:
Nodoka sighed. "I've not looked forward to this
conversation...You see, Risa, the courts were very unhappy about
the situation between your mother and your father. And though I
feel the problem mostly stemmed from your mother, Ranma was not
entirely to blame. He had his faults, not the least of which was
a bad tendency to tease your mother."
"Entirely to blame" ... should perhaps read "entirely blameless"?
Anyway. Nice to see more of the Risa storyline (it's been, what,
five years or more?). Though I'm not really sure that there's a
lot of point to this chapter. I realise it's about Risa trying
to find her identity, now that she has parents ... but still, it
doesn't seem to go anywhere.
That may be completely intentional, of course: a "slice of life"
chapter, showing how our heroes are coping with what's happened,
and to some degree doing some necessary puncturing of the hero-
worship Risa has for her father.
I enjoyed it; but I wish it had gone somewhere.
Cheers,
Angus