Dear Stiffanie:


>Mine are Ranma and Akane!

Seems that we both like plain vanilla... ^_^

>you'd have me pick another besides R&A, my choice would be Nabiki.
>Okay, sure, she's a catty bitch sometimes.  Make that most of the time.
>But her remarks are *so* cute!  And she's always so cooool.... ^_^

Make it 'cynical', and I'll agree 100% with you. ^_~

>As I said, I dont' really care much for the other characters.  It
>actually depends on the situation.  Like, sometimes Kunou cracks me up
>with his obstinateness, but sometimes he's just plain annoying.

I suppose he's *meant* to be annoying. And clueless. Especially clueless.

>Ranma would definitely be devastated.  Mostly because his entire life
>revolved around the Art, and without it, he doesn't have anything else
>to base his life upon, 'cause he just simply doesn't know anything else.

No need to argue with that! His life is kempo, and kempo is his life.

>I don't know how Shampoo would feel, but I doubt she'd still be
>obligated to marry him.  For what, when he's no longer this strong,
>brave warrior husband-material?

I'm not sure about it. IMHO, Shampoo loves him; if she wanted to marry him just out
of Amazon tradition, she would have given up a long time ago. Sure, she tries to trick
him into marriage all the time. Maybe she's as selfish as Ukyo and doesn't care about
what he wants; either that or she thinks Ranma was tricked into being Akane's fiancee
in the first place!

>Akane?  Akane would definitely sympathize with Ranma and try to help him
>through it, for sure.  Just like in the HSH story, when she was ready to
>go off to training with him.  Because she *knows* that Ranma feels
>useless without the Art, she *realizes* how important it is to him, and
>above all, she *cares* enough about him to follow his lead, for him to
>do whatever makes him happy, and she'll stay with him, whatever he
>decides to do.

100% agreed! Period. ^_^

>[Ranma] has his own dreams, one that doesn't include any japanese pizzas (that's

>what an okonomiyaki is, isn't it?)  But somehow, she doesn't seem to
>realize that... seems kinda....ah.... selfish.... to me...

An okonomiyaki is more like a pancake. BTW, it's delicious... I wonder how Ukyo's
would taste, since she's Japan's (nay, the world's) finest okonomiyaki chef.

I agree with you: she never takes Ranma's dreams into consideration. That's the definition
of selfish to me.

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