Mike Allen <allenmk@gte.net> wrote:

Better may have been exploring the relationship a little and having the six months
end, Ranma decides to stay married, Akane wants Ranma, Ukyo then packs up and
leaves.  Ranma now is the one left behind and chasing after her.

The problem here, IMO, is that the events of the story here are
fundamentally different from the ones in the UY manga. The guy in UY was
merely forced into a happy regression to childhood for a while. That's
harmless, so we can laugh at him when it gets taken away and he decides
he liked it. OTOH, Ranma in this story is coerced into an unwanted
marriage, complete with sex. To put it himply, he's being raped. And the
idea of a rape victim turning around and liking it because the sex is so
good offends my sensibilites like few other things can.

I think the ending to this needs to go one of two ways: Either a "just
desserts" ending in which Ranma serves out his six months and then
leaves Ukyo behind, with Taron blocking Ukyo's attempts to put her curse
back on him; or a tragic ending where Ranma's mind is more or less
destroyed at the end.


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics.html