Jorge A Pratt wrote:

In view of the ending, with Ranma's test, this also got me thinking: when 
presented with the choice, Kentaro was willing to curse himself with magic 
he knew relatively little about, regardless of the consequences. On the 
other hand, since Akane knew all about Jusenkyo, and the group had even gone 
back to the springs while looking for a cure, it means that she had the 
exact same opportunity to make the same choice as Kentaro, but she chose to 
move on and accept defeat instead. I'm not asking for Ranma or Kentaro to 
confront her with this choice, though, it's just an interesting contrast I 
found worthy of notice.

Well...let's face it, she didn't really have the same choice Kentaro 
had, because at that time Ranma would not have accepted a "OK, since I'm 
the girl, you be the guy" solution.  He had to suffer a year or two of 
desperate loneliness, despair and acclimation before something like that 
would have even been imaginable to him.  Which is presumably why Ukyo 
didn't take that approach to hooking up with Ranma which would make a 
lot of sense considering that she'd already renounced being a girl. 
Also, Kentaro's a saint.

There was mention on the FFML that this Ranma wasn't as experienced in 
martial arts as the manga version, and I'd like to expand a little on that. 
>From what I can tell, there are six major events, after Herb, that might 
have had influence in Ranma's abilities: the Ryuugenzawa expedition, Ryuu 
Kumon, Rouge and Pantyhouse Tarou's squabble, the Battle Dougi, Konatsu, and 
the Mt. Phoenix story. Of those, I can say with some degree of confidence 
(nothing is ever certain, after all) that Ranma et al were too preoccupied 
with finding a cure to give any help to Shinnosuke or the monks in charge of 
the Dougi, or to visit the Sexy Kunoichi Teahouse. 

Bear in mind that by rights, those wild goose chases after magical plot 
devices to cure Ranma's problem would get him into all kinds of fights 
that the mainline Ranma wouldn't have just because he was occupied with 
living what passed for his normal life.

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