> Or just plain heat.  In the first movie Ranma was surrounded by hot
> water and it was coming up from the ground from all sides so he didn't
> need to do the spiral.

	Hot water is not enough.  You need temperature that can easily vaporize
water to do a HSH, such as what happened in the fight against Saffron. 
Of course the flame is probably a lot hotter than 100C.  

> That was how he could do the HSH.  The second
> movie as it is noted, the attack the two sisters used was a spiralling
> heat attack.  Personally, I don't think he even needed Akane and could
> just have fired off the HSH.

	First of all 'The One to Inherit the Dojo' or whatever is not a
movie... it's just an OAV.

	And if it's supposed to be anywhere near consistent of the manga, Akane
has no place fighting someone who could beat Ranma in the first place. 
She knows that and he knows that.  I can't honestly remember anywhere in
the manga where Akane and Ranma fought together.  As much as Akane is
stubborn and stuff she knows what her limitations are, which is one of
the reason why she is so anxious to pass up Ranma given the opportunity
(dougi story, super soba), because she knows that she's a long way from
catching up with him.

Ron:
> OkAAYYY, time fer me to look for Mana, then; Chrono Trigger
> is one of my 3 favorite RPGs, and even tho' there will be differences
> between the two, This sounds interesting. Cannot wait for this to
> hit these shores, so when CC comes out, I will probably
> go the import route as well....

	Chrono Cross is Winter 1999... though in the Lunar incident I learned
this can mean all the way up to March 1999 (strange isn't it?). Pretty
sure my friend will import it, pirated or otherwise.  

Don
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