On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Elizabeth Lin wrote:

Excuse me! There is nothing wrong with being Shampoo-like...

Dumb hair.  Does she dye it purple?  With hair that long, I'd imagine 
having to shampoo it, not to mention dying it, would be a considerable pain.

does not make you really intelligent...If Shampoo cant speak very well ..
It's because CHINESE is her first language...I'd like to see the 

Chinese is the first language of Mousse and Cologne, too, but they have 
no accent.  Obviously, her accent is a sign of stupidity and bimbo-ness. ^_^

that all the characters in Ranma1/2 ..like the important ones,
must have more than a 1 dimensional character...or else how could
they possibly have stayed on the manga for so long? 

Because the manga can get pretty bad.
A LOT of the characters have one dimensional characters.  You can infer 
another dimension into the characters of Kasumi, Nabiki, Kodachi, 
Happosai, so on, and most fanfics try to do that, but in the manga it's not 
there.    
Heck, everybody, even Ranma and Akane, have one-dimensional characters in 
the early Nettouhen and the later mangas.  You can describe their 
personalities in five words or less.  That's no good!

Jeff

****jdrutsch@ucdavis.edu***********************Jeff Rutsch************* 
"Ranma's not a boy...he's a girl!"
"Akane is MY fiancee!  You TOUCH her, and I'll KILL you!"
"Ranma, change back into a boy while I buy you some time."
"But if I seem to act unkind/it's only me, it's not my mind."
"Ranma [sic],/give your heart to Akane [sic]. /Soon,/right away."
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