Hunter Kid wrote:

At 10:09 AM 4/6/98 -0400, you wrote:

 Jinkees, if Ryouga can punture holes in solid rock, what says he can't

use

the training to stab Ranma to death with his fingers ala Fist of North

star?

As it stated in the original post.  It's does not work on Living things.

You completely missed the point.

He's saying that if Ryoga's fingers are strong enough to puncture rock
(they are; he carved Akane's name into the boulder with just a finger), he
should also be able to thrust his fingers into a person (people aren't as
hard as rocks).  He's not saying that the victim would explode, just that
they'd be Swiss cheese. ;)

By that definition, Ranma should be just little itty bitty pieces of
flesh.  Everyone in Ranma 1/2 have attacks that can break rocks, albeit
smaller than boulders but still rocks.  He's been hit by nearly everyone
in the series that have that power like Akane, Ryoga, Ukyo, etc.  Also,
on the sharp cloth techiniques.  Haven't any of you watched ancient
Chinese martial arts movies?  Nearly every one of them had chi attacks,
shiatsu techniques, and other various arts that Ranma 1/2 uses.  In
fact, a lot of the girls in the movies use cloth instead of swords.  The
can make it longer, sharp enough to kill, and move according to their
will.  It's all explained as chi.  I wouldn't be surprised to find out
that Takahashi drew many of her ideas from these sorts of movies.