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This is basically my overview of all the girls in Ranma 1/2

Ranma Girl: Looks 10 personality 6 martial arts 10 cooking 6 overall 32
Shampoo: Looks 9 personality 7 martial arts 7 cooking 8 overall 31
Ukyo: Looks 8 personality 9 martial arts 6 cooking 8 overall 31
Kasumi: Looks 8 Personality 10 martial arts 0 cooking 9 overall 27
Nabiki: Looks 7 Personality 6 martial arts 0 cooking 0 overall 13
Akane: Looks 0 personality 5 martial arts 3 cooking 0 overall 8

Although I respect all of your opinions on Akane however I have to say that I HATE HER! I HATE HER! I HATE HER! She's mean, ugly, slow, a bad cook, a led weight in the pool, and most importantly a really REALLY BAD martial artist.

She has ugly short navy blue hair and brown eyes. I think that’s one of the ugliest hair and eye color combinations I have ever seen in an anime character. At least when her hair was long she was decent looking. Also in a real world setting Ranma and Akane would never like each other. Akane's always beating Ranma up for things that are not always his fault and she never gives him the chance to explain himself. While Ranma keeps calling her names like a 12 year old. Akane is also constantly forcing Ranma to eat her cooking even though she herself knows it’s not only bad but piousness. What kind of person forces their fiancée to eat poison? There is also the fact that Ranma loves the martial arts. It's his whole life, so why would anyone that loves the art as much as him like a person that only dose martial arts to beet people up. The only time she trained was in the beginning when she had to beet up the hoard of boys at school. Oh and lets not forget when she trained in the OVA “Akane and her sisters.” In that very OVA Nabiki even said “Akane doesn’t take martial arts seriously. She only jogs to keep in shape.” And the fact that she defeated Natsume and Karumi is total bullshit because one, they have been training their whole lives while Akane only trained for a week, and two because Ranma help her. It’s clearly due to Romunko’s rule that Akane must always win even though she should in all honesty lose. It pissis me off to no end that she has the audacity to say "I'm a martial artist to." She's not a martial artist she's a ******** loser. And last but not least, the whole love plot of Ranma and Akane completely one-sided and unfair. The only reason Ranma likes her is because that’s the only girl he's ever gotten to know well and that’s due to the fact that they are forced to live under the same roof. Ukyo doesn’t count because he thought she was a boy. Romunko Takahashi never once gave Ranma the chance to get to know more about Ukyo or Shampoo as a person. And last but not least could you imagine Ranma and Akane’s kids? They would be ugly, slow, bad cooking, loser martial artists just like their mother. Again if you like Akane for whatever reason I respect that but those are my reasons for hating her.

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For more then 3/4 of the anime she's a total b***h.



First of all if Akane wants to test her food on someone then why doesn’t she find someone that’s willing to eat it like Ryouga and second if Ranma doesn’t want to eat then he shouldn’t have to. Who the hell is she to force it down his throat?



I never said that Ranma didnt have his bad points and here is a quote to prove it.




What are you talking about Ranma is always rescuing Akane because she gets herself into trouble. And when Akane stupidly tries to save Ranma she gets into trouble and then Ranma still has to save her.



I reapect your opion but no



I did make a fanfiction but no one will read it because of everyone seems to be a Ranma and Akane fanatic.



Yes every character has their faults but Akane has nothing but faults. She's one big fault. The only thing she can do right is bandage up Ranma after an a** kicking.



All characters instill real emotion in it's watchers.



And I respect yours.

No no that was my spelling errer.



Even though you like Akane I appreciate and respect that fact that you can debated this topic peacefully without trying to chew of my head like other people have in the past.

Im more of a Shampoo fan but people like Akane because for once the heroine isnt this petite lil sexy thing thats either too perfect or a dumbass like sailor moon.. For ONCE the main woman is just an average girl (on steriods) but average none the less ..

Akane is one of my favorite character. I rally lke her personality and her attitude and tomboy personality is what makes her cool. Thats just my opinion.

No, the problematic, constantly-complicated couple is Rumiko-san's forte (along with the boy-that-means-well-but-never-seems-to-get-it-right-type leading male character). Inuyasha/Kagome (Inuyasha: Sengoku O Togi Zoushi), Godai/Kyoko (Maison Ikkoku), Lum/Ataru (Lum), and even Yuta/Manta (Mermaid Saga) - all of whom also argue a lot over misunderstandings only to cause the series to draw out longer.



Actually in the beginning she was fine with Ranma, that is until she discovered that Ranma was male when she was taking a bath. Also, she had a right to be angry, since she was being engaged to someone she didn't know at all without her consent. (Gah, what I wouldn't give for the first volume of my manga back! gonk I need it for re-referencing in times like these...*sighs*)



My grandparents (and a lot of my friends' grandparents too, heck even my own parents). razz They're having their fiftieth wedding anniversary this year, but you'd think that they were brother and sister the way that they bicker and argue over even small things. It's so funny to watch. XD



People are confused by the feeling and true meaning of 'love' these days. Hollywood likes to make it look all nice and frilly and happy all the time, which is true up until the end of the honeymoon. razz

Again, I'd like to reference my own grandparents here. Fifty years together, seven kids, cloth diapers, all that fun stuff.

"But V-chan, maybe you're grandparents were just lucky!" - Maybe, but I don't think so. I run a paper route through a community that is predominantely older couples and many of them act the same, but it's still so very apparant that they love each other and wouldn't be able to go on if the other passed on.



I'm no Akane-fangirl, but character-bashing in general leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

That is unfortunate, people shouldn't attack others if the first states their views or beliefs in a calm and un-provoked manner. confused I believe in debates, not verbal abuse and fantrolling.



Is it fact that she can't do anything right or is that just your opinion of her abilities?



No, I didn't mean that as in "you think of her all the time," but as "you think of her highly enough to put her behavior on the same level as someone who is truly alive."

Again, I'm not an Akane-fangirl by any means, nor a huge supporter of Ranma/Akane, the thing that draws me here is the simple fact of character-bashing. I dislike bashing in any form, whether it be in reference to real or fictional people/characters. I don't really even understand the concept of "disliking" or even "hating" a fictional character. Then again, I have a hard enough time hating anyone in general. Sure I dislike people, but I don't think I've ever hated someone before...

*brings out her manga* You'll have to forgive me for skipping over volume one completely, a foreign exchange student "borrowed" it from me and never returned it, so I'm out by one volume. Again, sorry about that.

Ranma 1/2 vol. 2 - Pg. 18 ~ 39:: Ryoga enters as Pi-chan, Akane takes a liking to the little pig and tells FemaleRanma to take him to the bath with him. Ranma, not knowing that Pi-chan is Ryoga, complies and soon discovers Ryoga's secret. Cut-scene to where FemaleRanma and Pi-chan are running down the hall, FemRanma yelling and throwing things at Pi-chan. Akane steps in, seeing it as only abuse on Ranma's part. Ranma doesn't tell her the entire story behind his reaction because he doesn't want to embarrass Ryoga. ("I won't tell anyone your secret, Ryoga. That's the warriors code.") Akane takes Pi-chan to bed with her after smooching him on the nose; Ranma is visibly upset by this and protests, but Akane, again, does not know WHY he doesn't want her to keep her new piglet-friend.
Later on in the night, Ranma tries to get Ryoga away from Akane while she's sleeping and after a brief struggle, lands on top of Akane in her bed with Pi-chan on his back. akane acts accordingly, striking him because, heck, any girl would be just as surprised and willing to strike out when something like that happens.

Inuyasha vol. 1 Pg. 124 - 131:: Probably the most famous scene, the one where Inuyasha is punished with an "osuwari" by Kagome when she spies him watching her while she's bathing after the fight with the demon crow. Afterward she's sitting by the little pond and Inuyasha orders her to 'take her clothes off,' meaning that he didn't want to see her dressed like Kikyou. Kagome gets pissed (and rightly so) and gives him a rock to the head.

vol.26 Pg. 13 - 19:: Inuyasha and Kikyou speak after their encounter with Suikotsu of the Shichinintai. Kagome is bothered but decides not to voice it and acts as if nothing happens. Inuyasha notices though and can't help but go and bother Kagome even though Miroku had advised him to leave her be for the time being. She brushes off his comments but he continues to hound her and finally she explodes.
"So you ARE mad!"
"Osuwari!...Osuwari, Osuwari, Osuwari! Idiot, idiot, idiot!"
"Sto-o-o-o-p!!"

Maison Ikkoku vol.1 Pg. 34 - 36:: Ms. Otonashi (Kyoko) falls asleep on the roof after working on patching a leak. Godai sneaks up on the roof and tries to wake her, but it's starts raining. She jumps up when it begins to rain and is about to run off the roof in order to fetch her laundry in before it gets wet. Godai catches her before she gets a few feet, yelling for her to stop and can't help but put his hand over her breast in the process. Despite his original good intention, he ends up getting slapped.

Mermaid Saga vol.2:: I won't site the pages here, but it's the very last story in this volume and at both the beginning and the end Mana shows a hint of jealousy towards Yuta's relationship with the un-dead girl, Nae.

There are other such instances of immature bickery, but I'm tired and there's too much to cover right now. (In other words, just that much was a challenge to my short attention span. razz )



Ah, thanks for the correction there. I didn't have my volume one for re-reference as I was typing and it's been a while since I'd read it. razz

Indeed, Akane's behavior in that scene was a bit testy. However, I don't think she was aware that anyone was in the bath at the time and so didn't even think about it when she entered. It's not uncommon for girls to take baths together in Japan, and considering the house is full of mostly the female sex, she probably had no idea (or it didn't even cross her mind) that a man would be on the other side of the door even if she was aware someone WAS in there.

And after finding out such a thing, what girl WOULDN'T immediately think that the male in question had hidden his 'gender issue' in order to spy upon other girls while bathing/changing/etc. Ranma covers it up by calling her 'macho' and 'flat-chested' and of course never had that thought in mind, but still, Akane had a right to still be suspicious of him. I would have been and I'm sure you would have been to if you were in that situation.



Haha, no, but they do argue about trivial things that really shouldn't matter and they call each other 'idiot' and are constantly saying that the other 'doesn't know what he/she is talking about.' "He's/She's senile!"

For instance, the other day we were at my cousins birthday party and they had Lee's chicken there because that's grandfather's favorite. (He's VERY particular about food and complains just a little loudly if he dislikes something.) Grandfather, however, was not aware from the beginning it was Lee's and so stated that it wasn't Lee's chicken because the chicken "tasted like s**t." And so started a long argument between grandma and grandpa at the dinner table about not only the chicken at hand, but his weird food habits among other things.

An older couple that are on my paper route argue every time I come to collect from them. "It's not over there!"
"The wind blew it off the door, hun, I'm sorry."
"No it didn't! I took it down last night because it was supposed to rain."
"What? But I found it on the doorstep earlier."
"You're senile!" *marches off*
*waits till she is gone* "She's senile..."

It's actually rather amusing for me, but it does become a bit tedious.



I haven't seen/read enough of the series to really say much here. I believe she has some capabilities, but I'm too tired to consult my manga at this time.



I suppose so...I dunno, I find complicated romances like this rather humorous and since she was an original character, not someone that randomly appeared late in the series (or is some random filler-episode character), I'm somewhat attached to her. Er, well 'attached' isn't the right word, but it best expresses what I have to say here. What I mean to say is that even though I'm a supporter of Ryoga/Akane as my fan!pairing, I accept the fact that Ranma/Akane is the way things turned out in the end. I've yet to see the final volumes though, I've been slacking on my Ranma 1/2 manga keep-up.

This is a fun debate, I've not been able to do this for quite some time, thank you for the hard-work. ^^

Haha, yepp, that's me. razz I'm always a fan of weird and obscure pairings.

Hey thanks! I'll be sure and put it to good use later. ^^