On Wed 1st March anandc@whip.ugcs.caltech.edu (Anand Chelian) wrote :
> >> >Actually, if you look at it... Akane is the most traditional of Ranma's
> >> >fiancees....
> 
> >> Interesting point.  But that's a sort of lopsided group to compare her to.
> 
> >    I don't think so. IMO Akane is the most normal ( if being a 
> >kawaiikune tomboy ) of the fiancees but I'd say Shampoo is 
> >the most traditional. I mean she originally only wanted him due to 
> >tradition.     
> 
> I meant in her attitudes... Akane is the least traditional in her abilities,
> but the most traditional in her attitudes.  She wants to cook, instead of
> being happy that she has a fiance who can cook far better than she can.
> Akane does care about guys, and wants to marry a guy stronger than she is.
> She could have, at the very beginning told her father to break the engagement,
> she can, after all, scare him [her father]..  She also is hurt by insults like
> uncute, not sexy, etc.. I mean, she should know that Ranma doesn't mean it.
> 
    O.K. I'll pay that. Akane does think very tradinally, whether she 
acts that way or not. But really, the other fiancees do tend to think 
that way as well. Both Ucchan and Shampoo love cooking for Ranma and 
Shampoo will only even consider a male if he is stronger than her. 
Ucchan wants Ranma to honor an agreement seeped in Japanese tradition 
whilst Shampoo must marry him as her traditional dictates. 
    Akane would be very unlikely to openly oppose her father's 
wishes. Strong female character or not, this would have pretty much 
shamed her father in front of his oldest friend. In terms of scaring 
him, not only is her cooking damn near lethal but she has the blue 
aura of anger can can condure large mallets from nowhere. I'd be 
scared too!!

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