On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Mark Doherty wrote:

At 12:04 AM 24/11/97 -0500, Lord Archive wrote:

The night of the 'bombed wedding' Ranma and Akane come to the agreement
that they did want to get married and decide to remove their suitors by
almost any means possible. Of course as this is R&A planning it, things
rarely work as planned.

(snip)

So, as a wild, rampant guess, you're a supporter of the Akane-Ranma match,
right? One of the inherent problems with that match is, of course, that it
has been done to death, resurrected, danced around like a zombie, killed in
a splatter of gore, resurrected again, and then done to death once more to
make sure. If you're going to take on some of these stories, you might want
to be sure you put enough into them to make them interesting. Because Ranma/
Akane confesing love, then Ranma dumping Shamps/Ukyou is boring. Mind 
numbingly boring. To me, anyway, and to a decent percentage of other readers.

How about they grind up Shampoo and make 'Cat Ramen' out of her and serve
her in her own restaurant?

Then Ranma comes to his senses and he and Ukyou mail Akane to Hoboken and
run away together into the sunset holding hands?

Well, after they sell Genma to the Peking Zoo, make Mousse into Peking
Duck, and make Pork Okonomiyaki out of Ryouga.  Then they lock Dr. Tofu
and Kodachi together in the madhouse, and THEN they skip off into the
sunset holding hands!


John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu       
rhea@tass.org              http://www.tass.org/~rhea/falcon.html
rhea@maison-otaku.net      http://www.maison-otaku.net/~rhea/

     The Moon Hill Gymnasium was crowded with students, most from Moon 
Hill, but some from other schools.  The special committee to pick the 
theme for the first spring dance had argued for weeks over a theme.  Many 
ideas had been suggested:  Love--American Style, Spring Sock Hop, Can't 
Stop Doing the Monkey, The Black Plague, Enchantment under the Sea, Zinc 
Oxide and You, Space Viking Vixen Women from Venus, The Progressive Era, 
and The First Spring Dance.  After extensive argument, the sole remaining 
conscious committee member had selected the theme "Our Gym Covered in 
Crepe Paper."  
--Sailor Moon Z #7