Subject: Re: [FFML] [Ranma][Fanfic] Birthdays-Ryouga
From: "Guy Under The Bridge ." <the_supergenius@hotmail.com>
Date: 8/6/1998, 11:20 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Mmm...  Okay, for those of you who think Ryouga's OOC, he's not.

True--he's ridiculously OOC, and, for that matter, so is Ranma.

It is hard to spotlight Ryouga because his entire existence is centered 
around Ranma and Akane. Only rarely do we see glimpses of his life 
outside of Nerima. His meaning in the series is to be a foil for Ranma, 
so it makes it hard depicting him while not foiling Ranma.

Despite the extreme OOC elements, this is a very good fic that starts 
strong and finishes strong, though I never recognized Akari as a 
suitable love interest for Ryouga and I guess I never will. I was sort 
of hoping he'd run to the Tendous and have an embarrassing scene with 
Ranma, a sort of 'the boys will never die' ending. It disrupted the 
dramatic impact of the climax and robbed the reader of a nice, juicy 
emotional pay-off at the end.



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