>  Artistic license in the anime on the hair colour? 
>  How did the colour covers convey Ranmas hair colour then - at least that
>will give you an indicator that it was either red or black (okay - dark
>brown...) 
> 
>>   On a side note: blue hair, purple hair, fire-engine red hair, etc. don't
>> look so hot in real life. In fact, pretty disgusting when people color their
>> hair. Natural color red, brown, black, blond, etc. looks better.Only in
>> anime can weird colors like green and purple hair look good.
>>
>  Unless you are riding hard on LSD....

Anime hair colors are a convention...they're there for the same reason people
use the sweat bead or SDness...the characters aren't supposed to really know
that their hair is that color. It's an abstraction barrier (to quote my CS
lecturers...)

Quote of the day:
"My brain is very compact!"
--Damuramu, Dragon Half

ERAUQSSIDLROWEHT "All right! Secret techniques!" Nabiki, Ranma 1/2 (Viz trans.)
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