Hey guys it's me and I read a review the other day saying that Ranma was to efiminated and I just wanted to clear some things up. Ranma in this story has come to learn that he is fine with being a girl, and he sees nothing wrong with it. The reason he wants to be like a girl is so he can better understand what it is like to be one and avoid the responsibilities of being a man for a little bit of time. He is mostly doing this for, one, to please Akane whenever he is with her so he knows what a woman wants from a man. And two he doesn't like being a man at times because of the responsibility that people place on him; that he doesn't want. If you look through the canon manga or anime you can see what I am talking about, when Genma has abused him as a young child, he always doesn't know when to shut up, or people would just use him to get what they want. If you were to think about all of that, you would understand why Ranma wants to be a girl and he doesn't show any of usual charecteristics in this story. Anyway I just wanted to clear that up, because it was bothering me that I might be a little vague in the story on why Ranma wants to be a girl.