At 15:45 14/05/97 -0400, you wrote:

At 10:57 AM 5/13/97 +0100, Dae wrote:

Victor Coutu wrote:

 > >> Okay.. now it's my turn to stir the pot a little.  In an upcoming

story, I

hit a point of debate with my pre-reader.  I say that Onna-Ranma

should not

age with Ranma, since, after all, the body is magical in origin.  My
pre-reader, of course, says no... she feels it's Ranma's body, and

should

age as normal.

	<snip>

In the manga if you look carefully you notice that the characters seem
more mature towards the  > >end.  It could be that Ms. Takahashi's

style changed but even so they do

look slighty taller and  > >thinner, more adult like.  So it could be said

that Ranma would age.

I have to agree with this last bit (and that Ranma's female body would
also age).  In fact, we have rather definitive proof to this effect in volume
34 of the tankouban:  Onna-Ranma's breasts get larger as she gets older.
That certainly suggests to me that Onna-Ranma's body is maturing.

tom

Oh well, might as well contribute to this debate. As everybody knows, Ranma
fell into the spring of 'drowned young girl'. The keyword here is young.
How do you define young? From a baby until you reach your first adulthood
i.e. by the time you are past 18? Or until you reach the age of 25? In this
way, my guess is that Onna-Ranma would age until she either reach her first
adulthood ie when her body reached the physical age of a 18 yr old or
continued maturing until she's 25 and stopped there indefinitely.

MT
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