Dogbert Carroll:
Issue #1: Ranma's fear of storms-was it some Frankenstein's experiment Genma did on Ranma for training?
Response: It was really just a natural fear, of course at this point you might not have read far enough to see that part. It was really a lack of "caring" on Genma's part. He didn't even realize Ranma had the fear in the first place. Either because they each had individual tents or because Genma was a heavy sleeper.
Issue #2: Mousse referring to tribal rituals.
Response: I didn't realize at the time that Mousse himself was an Amazon, and that he was named after the hair product, not the rodent. This will be corrected in an update. Likely these updates will take place at some point after the story is completed.
Issue #3: "SHUT THE HELL UP VOICE IN MY HEAD!"
'She's totally lost it!' Ranma observed. LOL!
Response: Another brilliant character moment brought to you by JDHGamer.
Issue #4: I've always viewed Akane's cooking as a curse.
Response: Unfortunately, as it has been stated in other reviews, or at least an e-mail to me, that it's only a fannon theory, and because of that, it is not a curse, hence it can be cured. Plus, it's funny just to have Akane be so clueless about proper cooking practices (i.e. chapter 18).
Issue #5: Akane is bi because of Ranma having both forms? She's pissed at him for her being attracted to him in both forms?
Response: That's kind of right, although it's also partly based on that thing that happened four years ago, having feelings for Ranma in whatever form he's in gives her further reason to believe she has that orientation, but she still has doubts about it because she is scared of intimacy.
Issue #6: Author's Conclusion: "WHY CAN'T THEY JUSTLOVE EACH OTHER!"
Because she's hateful and just short of evil and he's about as mature as a 5 year old? *grin*
Response: So that's why…
Issue #7: Ranma's mother
Response: I really shouldn't have messed around with a character I know so little about, but I had to give him some reason for not being that perverted…but then again, another reason could be that the last time he even had sex education he probably thought it was "icky". lol
Issues #8 and #9: The offical t-shirt isn't 'I hate Ranma'. The offical t-shirt reads 'Ranma,
Prepare to die!'.rnNabiki sells them for 1200 a pop.rnLoved the scene with
Kuno!rnBTW I don't believe Ukyou is a better cook then rnKasumi. Ukyou is the
best japanese pizza type thing - I can't remember how to spell it ok?- inrnthe
universes because she focuses on the one dish.
Response: First, that whole T-Shirt thing is funny, but I don't think the "prepare to die" thing would've been as appropriate for the moment. In any case, I think Ukyo is a more entertaining character to have training Akane, because Kasumi would probably go too easy on her or something. Essentially, Ukyo is the better character for the job.
Issue #10: The groin bit was funny as hell. *grin*
Response: And yet another brilliant character humor moment brought to you by…oh, you probably get the point.
jelly bean:
Issue #1: The whole bi thing, being taken by surprise.
Response: I've already made all the comments I can right now. Just wanted to comment on the fact that I have no further comments.
Issue #2: Shampoo writing journals.
Response: She's another kind of character I have a rather sketchy knowledge of, although certainly I could write something from her point of view. I'd just have to master the art of broken English, after taking all these classes in basic composition just to write something that follows none of these rules. Lol
That and I have no idea what she'd be doing, maybe she's training herself too, as I've said before I prefer it to be whereabouts: unknown. If I come up with something, I'll write it, though.
Final Comments: I think it's just all those reviews from that one guy that took up most of the space. I hope that someone appreciated the new review format. Also, it seems, according to the homepage, that all the reviews from June 4th were accidentally deleted. Well, you can find them in my chapters! lol
And now, a quote that's funny yet completely irrelevant to the story:
"Our songs are on the average 39% scratching, and 5 to the 8% keyboarding, the rest of the percent is bobbing my head up and down." -Joseph Hahn, Meteora DVD (this is for one of my readers, you know who you are, and because I really like this quote).
June 24th, 2003:
Dear Diary,
Tomorrow is when Ranma and I now plan on going shopping for clothes, as a kind of date, I guess…it's to quote "expand my wardrobe". I never really thought it needed expanding, but Ranma seems to think it does, and since we need to start going more places together, what the heck. Considering that our parents will be paying for it, there's no harm. I just hope that Ranma wont go as crazy as (s)he did last time. As far as how things are going with Ukyo, I kinda screwed up when trying to make a grilled cheese sandwich…I ended up making a very grilled cheese sandwich. Then I tried again and it came out okay. I'm starting to get a little tired of all this simple stuff, but I guess that's just part of learning…
Sincerely, Akane Tendo
Expanding the Wardrobe:
"I didn't know they had 'Ranma, prepare to die!' T-Shirts her. At over-inflated prices to boot, it's cheaper to buy them directly from the factory outlet, or should I say: Nabiki." Akane said.
"I can't believe people actually buy these! How many guys are named Ranma have have girls who want him to die?" Ranma asked.
A bunch of guys in the store raised their hands.
"Nabiki must've know there's a large market."
"Well, the market's going to be hopefully losing one person."
"Not me, I know that…"
"You're joking, right?"
"I might be…"
"You're scaring me, Akane."
"Good, I'm quite glad."
"Hey, we could take the part off of 'I hate Ranma' and stitch it on to your 'I love P-Chan shirt', and vice-versa! That would be fun!…Of course, you wouldn't have to wear the one with my name on it until your sure."
"Nabiki could probably make them herself, and bill our parents. And I'll probably be ordering the P-Chan one soon, with Ryouga in parenthesis."
"I wonder if she can make one in a guy's size…not that I bear that much of a grudge with him anymore, it'd just be kind of a joke, you know. Of course, I can see you still bearing a grudge against him, even though you already slapped him so hard it gave him a black eye and then forgave him right after. Why did you forgive him so quickly, anyway?"
"Because I vented all of my anger when I slapped him. And obviously that was a lot of anger. So I wasn't angry at him anymore, so I forgave him."
"To think, if you had used anything else to vent that anger, Ryouga might not be alive today…"
"Besides, we needed his help. Forgiving him gives us a few points. Since I technically saved his life by not killing him for what he did, he owes me a lot."
"I guess one could look at it that way…"
"But aren't we here to shop for clothing?"
"Oh, yes! We are, just got sidetracked talking about all that."
"Well, which do you think would look better on me, this or this?"
"Neither, but how about that one over there?"
June 25th, 2003: Well, we got a lot of nice clothes, most of which both Akane and myself like, all of course which Akane likes, because otherwise she wouldn't have bought them in the first place. In the meantime, all the training is going quite well, and we plan on going to see The Matrix: Reloaded next week. We also plan on sometime this week just hanging out together and playing video games, watching DVDs, and stuff like that. Maybe play some board games, even, that would be nice…maybe she'd be brave enough to try-TWISTER! Haha, that would be amusing, and painful not just because of twisting my body in different directions. Maybe we should save playing that for sometime when we'd be more comfortable with each other or something. Maybe Clue and Monopoly would be more appropriate for this "stage" in our relationship, maybe even Risk. Maybe a little Final Fantasy XI, although we'd have to be in separate rooms to play that, we'd still be together in the "game world". I didn't even know Akane had her own Playstation 2. Well, not before the dance, anyway. A girl that skilled would have to own the game, I'm sure. She beat me even when I was giving it my full effort.
June 27th, 2003:
Dear Diary,
Saturday is now officially the "fun and games" day, where we just get together, watch movies, play video games, board games, maybe even some D&D and Shadow Run. It's going to be a weekly thing, and we might even invite some friends at some point. Mousse is doing fine, by the way, and there haven't been too many more cooking accidents. Ukyo is considering allowing me to make some of the more advanced stuff like Pizza. Sounds like things are going to be getting a lot more exciting now, and hopefully I'll have more things to talk about. Also, the whole shopping trip thing wasn't that bad, Ranma didn't get anything for herself, (himself, I know I've been saying I'm just going to refer to him in whatever form he happened to be in, but I just don't feel right with it when referring to the girl-side). So I hope that tomorrow's going to be fun.
Fun & Games Day #1:
"I think you're just letting me win!"
"Ranma, I'm just not very good at these First Person Shooters, can we play something else?"
"Is there anything that we're equally good at?"
"The Sims?"
Latter…
"It isn't really that easy to make someone get to kiss you like that…"
"Yeah, this for a sim-game this is very unrealistic. But then again, we're talking about accelerate time, plus it's a video game…it's not exactly supposed to imitate life right down to how fast people actually fall in love."
"Yeah, it's taken us two years and we aren't even there yet!"
"Some people take two seconds and some people take over two years. I guess it doesn't matter how fast it happens, just how it happens, and why it happens."
"Ranma, I don't think you should be so deep, it doesn't suite you well at all…"
June 21st, 2003: Well, I think we had a pretty good time, and got to talk about some things, like why Sims fall in love so easily. It makes me think a bit about me and Akane, but I don't really think this is love yet…this is a bond, but it needs to be strong enough. Maybe I'm just thinking about that line in The Matrix, but then again if "Being the one is like being in love" then why didn't Neo know he was the one. Maybe being in love is like being the one because you need to figure it out yourself…Akane says I shouldn't be "this deep", but then again, this is a journal, I'm supposed to be deep…she was probably just referring to being deep in a conversation.
Author's Conclusion: Well, there you have it, two events, the second one was a little shorter than the first one, but I never really planned it on my timeline, it's just a little something extra that I could have the characters discuss in their journals. It should also help me out a bit because those second two entries always get me because I always get through everything I had planned in the first two ones. Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed everything so far, and I'm not sure why I keep on saying that, maybe just to be polite. lol
Issue #1: Ranma's fear of storms-was it some Frankenstein's experiment Genma did on Ranma for training?
Response: It was really just a natural fear, of course at this point you might not have read far enough to see that part. It was really a lack of "caring" on Genma's part. He didn't even realize Ranma had the fear in the first place. Either because they each had individual tents or because Genma was a heavy sleeper.
Issue #2: Mousse referring to tribal rituals.
Response: I didn't realize at the time that Mousse himself was an Amazon, and that he was named after the hair product, not the rodent. This will be corrected in an update. Likely these updates will take place at some point after the story is completed.
Issue #3: "SHUT THE HELL UP VOICE IN MY HEAD!"
'She's totally lost it!' Ranma observed. LOL!
Response: Another brilliant character moment brought to you by JDHGamer.
Issue #4: I've always viewed Akane's cooking as a curse.
Response: Unfortunately, as it has been stated in other reviews, or at least an e-mail to me, that it's only a fannon theory, and because of that, it is not a curse, hence it can be cured. Plus, it's funny just to have Akane be so clueless about proper cooking practices (i.e. chapter 18).
Issue #5: Akane is bi because of Ranma having both forms? She's pissed at him for her being attracted to him in both forms?
Response: That's kind of right, although it's also partly based on that thing that happened four years ago, having feelings for Ranma in whatever form he's in gives her further reason to believe she has that orientation, but she still has doubts about it because she is scared of intimacy.
Issue #6: Author's Conclusion: "WHY CAN'T THEY JUSTLOVE EACH OTHER!"
Because she's hateful and just short of evil and he's about as mature as a 5 year old? *grin*
Response: So that's why…
Issue #7: Ranma's mother
Response: I really shouldn't have messed around with a character I know so little about, but I had to give him some reason for not being that perverted…but then again, another reason could be that the last time he even had sex education he probably thought it was "icky". lol
Issues #8 and #9: The offical t-shirt isn't 'I hate Ranma'. The offical t-shirt reads 'Ranma,
Prepare to die!'.rnNabiki sells them for 1200 a pop.rnLoved the scene with
Kuno!rnBTW I don't believe Ukyou is a better cook then rnKasumi. Ukyou is the
best japanese pizza type thing - I can't remember how to spell it ok?- inrnthe
universes because she focuses on the one dish.
Response: First, that whole T-Shirt thing is funny, but I don't think the "prepare to die" thing would've been as appropriate for the moment. In any case, I think Ukyo is a more entertaining character to have training Akane, because Kasumi would probably go too easy on her or something. Essentially, Ukyo is the better character for the job.
Issue #10: The groin bit was funny as hell. *grin*
Response: And yet another brilliant character humor moment brought to you by…oh, you probably get the point.
jelly bean:
Issue #1: The whole bi thing, being taken by surprise.
Response: I've already made all the comments I can right now. Just wanted to comment on the fact that I have no further comments.
Issue #2: Shampoo writing journals.
Response: She's another kind of character I have a rather sketchy knowledge of, although certainly I could write something from her point of view. I'd just have to master the art of broken English, after taking all these classes in basic composition just to write something that follows none of these rules. Lol
That and I have no idea what she'd be doing, maybe she's training herself too, as I've said before I prefer it to be whereabouts: unknown. If I come up with something, I'll write it, though.
Final Comments: I think it's just all those reviews from that one guy that took up most of the space. I hope that someone appreciated the new review format. Also, it seems, according to the homepage, that all the reviews from June 4th were accidentally deleted. Well, you can find them in my chapters! lol
And now, a quote that's funny yet completely irrelevant to the story:
"Our songs are on the average 39% scratching, and 5 to the 8% keyboarding, the rest of the percent is bobbing my head up and down." -Joseph Hahn, Meteora DVD (this is for one of my readers, you know who you are, and because I really like this quote).
June 24th, 2003:
Dear Diary,
Tomorrow is when Ranma and I now plan on going shopping for clothes, as a kind of date, I guess…it's to quote "expand my wardrobe". I never really thought it needed expanding, but Ranma seems to think it does, and since we need to start going more places together, what the heck. Considering that our parents will be paying for it, there's no harm. I just hope that Ranma wont go as crazy as (s)he did last time. As far as how things are going with Ukyo, I kinda screwed up when trying to make a grilled cheese sandwich…I ended up making a very grilled cheese sandwich. Then I tried again and it came out okay. I'm starting to get a little tired of all this simple stuff, but I guess that's just part of learning…
Sincerely, Akane Tendo
Expanding the Wardrobe:
"I didn't know they had 'Ranma, prepare to die!' T-Shirts her. At over-inflated prices to boot, it's cheaper to buy them directly from the factory outlet, or should I say: Nabiki." Akane said.
"I can't believe people actually buy these! How many guys are named Ranma have have girls who want him to die?" Ranma asked.
A bunch of guys in the store raised their hands.
"Nabiki must've know there's a large market."
"Well, the market's going to be hopefully losing one person."
"Not me, I know that…"
"You're joking, right?"
"I might be…"
"You're scaring me, Akane."
"Good, I'm quite glad."
"Hey, we could take the part off of 'I hate Ranma' and stitch it on to your 'I love P-Chan shirt', and vice-versa! That would be fun!…Of course, you wouldn't have to wear the one with my name on it until your sure."
"Nabiki could probably make them herself, and bill our parents. And I'll probably be ordering the P-Chan one soon, with Ryouga in parenthesis."
"I wonder if she can make one in a guy's size…not that I bear that much of a grudge with him anymore, it'd just be kind of a joke, you know. Of course, I can see you still bearing a grudge against him, even though you already slapped him so hard it gave him a black eye and then forgave him right after. Why did you forgive him so quickly, anyway?"
"Because I vented all of my anger when I slapped him. And obviously that was a lot of anger. So I wasn't angry at him anymore, so I forgave him."
"To think, if you had used anything else to vent that anger, Ryouga might not be alive today…"
"Besides, we needed his help. Forgiving him gives us a few points. Since I technically saved his life by not killing him for what he did, he owes me a lot."
"I guess one could look at it that way…"
"But aren't we here to shop for clothing?"
"Oh, yes! We are, just got sidetracked talking about all that."
"Well, which do you think would look better on me, this or this?"
"Neither, but how about that one over there?"
June 25th, 2003: Well, we got a lot of nice clothes, most of which both Akane and myself like, all of course which Akane likes, because otherwise she wouldn't have bought them in the first place. In the meantime, all the training is going quite well, and we plan on going to see The Matrix: Reloaded next week. We also plan on sometime this week just hanging out together and playing video games, watching DVDs, and stuff like that. Maybe play some board games, even, that would be nice…maybe she'd be brave enough to try-TWISTER! Haha, that would be amusing, and painful not just because of twisting my body in different directions. Maybe we should save playing that for sometime when we'd be more comfortable with each other or something. Maybe Clue and Monopoly would be more appropriate for this "stage" in our relationship, maybe even Risk. Maybe a little Final Fantasy XI, although we'd have to be in separate rooms to play that, we'd still be together in the "game world". I didn't even know Akane had her own Playstation 2. Well, not before the dance, anyway. A girl that skilled would have to own the game, I'm sure. She beat me even when I was giving it my full effort.
June 27th, 2003:
Dear Diary,
Saturday is now officially the "fun and games" day, where we just get together, watch movies, play video games, board games, maybe even some D&D and Shadow Run. It's going to be a weekly thing, and we might even invite some friends at some point. Mousse is doing fine, by the way, and there haven't been too many more cooking accidents. Ukyo is considering allowing me to make some of the more advanced stuff like Pizza. Sounds like things are going to be getting a lot more exciting now, and hopefully I'll have more things to talk about. Also, the whole shopping trip thing wasn't that bad, Ranma didn't get anything for herself, (himself, I know I've been saying I'm just going to refer to him in whatever form he happened to be in, but I just don't feel right with it when referring to the girl-side). So I hope that tomorrow's going to be fun.
Fun & Games Day #1:
"I think you're just letting me win!"
"Ranma, I'm just not very good at these First Person Shooters, can we play something else?"
"Is there anything that we're equally good at?"
"The Sims?"
Latter…
"It isn't really that easy to make someone get to kiss you like that…"
"Yeah, this for a sim-game this is very unrealistic. But then again, we're talking about accelerate time, plus it's a video game…it's not exactly supposed to imitate life right down to how fast people actually fall in love."
"Yeah, it's taken us two years and we aren't even there yet!"
"Some people take two seconds and some people take over two years. I guess it doesn't matter how fast it happens, just how it happens, and why it happens."
"Ranma, I don't think you should be so deep, it doesn't suite you well at all…"
June 21st, 2003: Well, I think we had a pretty good time, and got to talk about some things, like why Sims fall in love so easily. It makes me think a bit about me and Akane, but I don't really think this is love yet…this is a bond, but it needs to be strong enough. Maybe I'm just thinking about that line in The Matrix, but then again if "Being the one is like being in love" then why didn't Neo know he was the one. Maybe being in love is like being the one because you need to figure it out yourself…Akane says I shouldn't be "this deep", but then again, this is a journal, I'm supposed to be deep…she was probably just referring to being deep in a conversation.
Author's Conclusion: Well, there you have it, two events, the second one was a little shorter than the first one, but I never really planned it on my timeline, it's just a little something extra that I could have the characters discuss in their journals. It should also help me out a bit because those second two entries always get me because I always get through everything I had planned in the first two ones. Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed everything so far, and I'm not sure why I keep on saying that, maybe just to be polite. lol