Jon Osborne wrote:

    Nodoka's face lit up in realization. "Now I remember.  That contract
wasn't my idea, it was your father's.  I was against the thing because I
thought it would put too much stress on you.  But your father kept
badgering
me to agree to it.  I finally gave in because I thought it would keep your
father's more foolish ideas in check.  Apparently, I was wrong."

I find Nodoka's version of events totally unbelievable.  Why would Genma
insist on a contract that requires him to commit suicide and keep badgering
her to accept it?

Perhaps because Genma was so confident in his own schemes he didn't think he
would ever have to commit seppuku.  He has been shown to be rather
thoughtless in that regard.

That explains why he'd sign it, but why did he propose it repeatedly?  
What did he gain, or expect to gain from it?  

Yes well, Genma has already apparently abandoned Ranma.  I wasn't going to
have both parents turn their backs on her.  

I wasn't necessarily saying that Nodoka should demand that Ranma never
darken her door again.  But shouldn't she at least bring this subject
up, and perhaps the subject of grandchildren?


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