At 05:06 PM 6/26/96 -0600, you wrote:

Sebastian Weinberg Wrote:

http://enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de/~bastian/ranma/ranfin.html

It is a truly lovely ending that I prefer *absolutely* over marrying them
off.  Marriage was fine for _Maison Ikkoku_, but _Ranma 1/2_ couldn't end
that way.  Fortunately Takahashi-san realized that and gave us this
wonderful closing.

It's an outlook on the future without really shutting everything down and
putting the players back in their box, in a manner of speaking.  The
very best endings are those that don't tell you "It's over now", but
those that tell you "These characters live on".

Actually, Zen is in complete agreement here... If Takahashi no Megamisama
had stitched it up al nice an neat, fanfic authirs would be plum outta
business... And Zen thinks that would be bad.  Is much more FUN this way!
Aside from that, it enables her to collect residual income as long as those
clowns at Kitty want to keep making OVA's, which would be a *much* shorter
time if there were no loose ends...

I agree but, dammit, I wish they had kissed!!!!