Mina-san, Ohayou!

In message <199801050117.RAA16015@m3.sprynet.com> Richard Lawson wrote:

: > From: Gary Kleppe [mailto:KLEPPE@execpc.com]
: > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 1998 6:41 PM
: >
: > "Richard Lawson" <sterman@sprynet.com> wrote:
: >
: >
: > ><boggle>  Did you read the manga story where Nabiki and Ranma spend the
: > >day in the house alone together after he accidentally destroys her
: > >front-row concert ticket?
: > Yes.

: > IMO, triggering the mental disorder that literally makes him lose his
: > mind is far beyond the emotional distress she caused him in that story.
: 
: I don't see that.  After all, it causes no damage to Ranma's psyche, and
: is actually beneficial in that in lifts his inhibitions. 

That's the way it is played in the Manga, but when you look at it
realistically, that hardly seems likely.


: > More to the point, though, in that story she was doing it to teach Ranma
: > a lesson;
: 
: Not really; she did it because she knew that's what Akane wanted, 

Err, Gary was talking about the Manga story.  I disagree, though -
the way I see it, her motive was simple revenge, not teaching him
something.  Her actions in that story were not aimed to give Ranma
any insight or condition him to act in some way - she was quite
simply terrorizing him and driving him up the walls as a payback
for the grief he caused her with his recklessness.


: > whereas in your fic I don't see that -- it seems just plain
: > vindictive to me.

I disagree again.  In fact, I see the stories *exactly* opposite
from you:  In the manga story, she was merely lashing back at
Ranma for what he did to her, without any deeper motivation than
to hurt him, while here she *does* have a deeper motive for her
deed; one that is ultimately as positive for Ranma as it is for
Akane.


: > The only lesson likely here is "Be wary when Nabiki
: > offers to help you for free" -- which she might not *want* him to learn.
: 
: Or that if Ranma would stop being such a yutz and admit to himself that he
: likes Akane, he'd have a much happier life.  :)

Huh, not likely at all.  I'll have to agree with Gary here, with
the addition that it is the only lesson *Ranma* is likely to learn
from it.


Sebastian
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