Smimm:

>Mousse and Shampoo

I actually like Mousse well enough, except if he's blabbering about
"Saotome the defiler of women, who stole Shampoo from his arms, ek ek
ek..."  And twisted as it is, I can understand why he blames Ranma.
After all, he *thinks* that Shampoo was "his" and Ranma "stole" her from
him.  I like him better than P-chan, that's for sure.

But then again, maybe it's because there's only one thing about Mousse
that I don't like (blaming Ranma syndrome), and there's LOTS of things
about Ryouga that I dislike (posing as P-chan, two-timing, blaming Ranma
syndrome, accusing Ranma of using people when he does the same himself,
etc.)

B4 Ryouga fans go into a fit, again, it's a personal bias, okay?  And I
honestly don't think it's badmouthing, since Ryouga *does* do these
things.  And I'm not saying Ryouga's a bad boy and  should go to hell
for that, just that I don't (and CAN'T) like him because of those
things.  Okay?  Peace, man.

>*cries*  EEK!!  I can't believe you said that.  I have to say that if
it
>wasn't for Sailor Moon I would have never gotten into Anime and
>THEREFORE would have never been here.


We have *that* in common, I'd say.  Sailor Moon was the first anime I
liked, knowing it was anime.  Confused?

Well, we've had some anime way way back in the 80's.  Maybe earlier - my
mom told me she used to watch Candy Candy on TV when I was a little kid,
mebbe 2 years old.  But anyway, the earliest cartoons I recall watching
are Voltes V, Daimos, Voltron... you know, those robot shows.  Then
later came Candy Candy, the lovely Swan Lake (Thanks, Psyfire!!!),
G-force, etc...

Of course, at time time I watched them, I didn't *know* it was anime.

As I've said over and over again in the past, I *did* like SM, but it
got too boring and too confusing for me.  The only reason I liked it is
because of Usagi and Mamoru's pre-destined love, and once that was over
and done with in the first season (and first 4 volumes of the manga), I
slowly but surely lost interest.  Of course, the fact that I discovered
Ranma soon after sure sped up the process... ^_^

Pierre:

>Stiffanie... Stiffanie, my dear, I think I told you: there are only 4
>pages that were published with colors. That's the way it is:

*sheepish*  Oh.  Okay.  Got a little excited, sorry.  Funny, I don't
recall you saying that.  But then again, it's probably because my mind
blanked out right after you said "colored Valentine arc" and everything
else you wrote after that went out the window... ^_^  Sorry.

Anyways, thanks!  It's still great, even if just for a few pages.

*thinks* So that's where the picture came from!  I got this nice little
picture, 2x3 size, laminated (laminated 2x3 pictures of anime characters
sells like hotcakes here) of the cover page for the Valentine arc, and I
was wondering where the picture came from, since it's a manga-only
story.

Stiffanie Flores