On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Richard Lawson wrote:

Hmm.  My portrayl of Nodoka is deliberately anti-manga, and many people
have commented on that.  They've liked the Genma-Nodoka relationship,
which happens to be one of my favorite bits of the original series. 
They see Genma struggle to learn a measure of maturity and
responsibility, which he more or less achieves at the end.

Yes.  I thought that was well done.  But I didn't think SHE was worth 
it, if he did it to be with her :) 

This is not to say your comments aren't valid.  Far from it; now that I
think on it, Nodoka isn't terribly likeable, is she?  The problem I had,

She strikes me as a self-righteous person at the start, who then is 
revealed to be a hypocrite as she sinks into coercion and trickery 
herself, displaying exactly the traits she condemned in him.

So Nodoka became less the Kasumi clone and more the distant Goddess of
Judgement, by whose standards Genma and Ranma had to measure themselves
by.  Her role as seductress was meant to highlight how far Genma had
come, and how much Nodoka was beginning to soften towards him.  I never
considered it in the light of how evil that made Nodoka.

I really despise being manipulated, so it made me get ANGRY!
 

And if you think that business was bad...You should see how we yell at
each other in private sometimes or at Jon K. Hayashi :)

Oh, good, that actually makes me feel a little better.  I was feeling a
bit unloved on the DnR ML, but if that's normalcy than I can accept it
better.  :)

Heh.  You haven't read some of my headbuttings with Mr. Corrigan, I guess :)

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