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[princesscolumbia]

Random Thought is Random: Ranma 1/2 Pregnancy Edition

So I'm making breakfast while I've got a fanfic in a screen-reader in my ears and it's one of the "Ranma gets pregnant" fics that show up every few months or so in the fandom. This one is pretty darn good and touches on the depth and emotional load such a fic deserves while still delivering the requisite smutty scenes of the process of getting a girl pregnant through natural(??? ...it's Ranma 1/2 with Jusenkyo magic, so is it "natural"?) means, and the image just flashed in my head that I WISH I had the art skill to make:

Ranma, very visibly pregnant in girl form, sitting demurely on a stool on a stage. She's blushing slightly but (as always) is happy to be the center of attention. Meanwhile, all three wearing power suits, looking butch as FUCK and clearly gloating, are Akane, Ukyo, and Shampoo. Akane is holding a mic and clearly talking while on the screen behind her is a screen with a slide that says, "You CAN get a transgirl pregnant...and we have PROOF!"

Bonus scene: A shot of the audience, the three parents lined up next to each other. Soun is over-the-moon that the schools are clearly going to be joined. He cares NOT that it's...not how he would have expected, he gets a grandbaby and fulfills one of his lifelong dreams. Genma (a.k.a. - "The asshole") is looking incredibly grumpy as ALL of his plans have clearly been scuttled ("It wasn't supposed to go like THIS, damnit! Ranma was SUPPOSED to be a Manly Man...and now this?!"). Nodoka has had her, "Ranma must live up to being a manly man," circuit taken out to the back of her unconscious and shot by her, "GRANDBABIES?!?!" circuit and is every inch the eager, tearfully happy grandma-to-be.

I cannot stop giggling!

[inklesspen]

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[ranmaranting]

I’ve been browsing this fandom from here and many other websites just to see how the fandom is or was. One thing that always irked and confuse me is the “violence argument”. Ranma 1/2 is a romance comedy series that heavily relies on slapstick humor about a good half the time, yet the violence is selectively taken series against characters like Akane in order to “prove” their point. Just like many said before the reason why Akane appears to be the violent one is because she is around Ranma, and the other suitors are just as violent (or even more) as her. There’s also the fact that the characters (including Ranma) are frequently against each other, and alot of the times their more non-nonchalant with their violence ; so what’s so special about Akane’s violence ? 

Another thing that pisses me off is the “abuse victim argument”. To me it’s a really low move or ignorant move to pull. A real domestic abuse victim will not try to provoke their abuser and when they do get abuse, they (the victim) will blame themselves or live in fear because of their partner, ultimately when it comes domestic abuse or any other abuse the main goal for the abuse is to control their partner. That doesn’t fit Ranma in the least bit. Not only does he intentionally goads Akane knowing what’s going to happen, he is not living in fear or being controlled by her; in fact Akane is the only fiancee who consistently demonstrate that she’ll let Ranma go if he wants to leave her. Comparing Ranma’s situation to a real suffer is ignorant and demeaning, since one is living in fear while the other doesn’t. And once again, if you’re going to look at Akane and judge her then you might as well put all the characters on the same boat, since they’re all guilty of this (except Kasumi and Akari).

Which brings me to my final point about this asinine argument. People who try to the violence and abuse argument most likely are aiming for the “real life argument”, which what I have to say about that if you’r going to hold a certain character accountable then you have to look at the others as well. This doesn’t apply just the violence but other things like murder attempts, manipulation, rape/rape accusation, etc. My point being is that Ranma 1/2 is a series that is lighthearted and certain situation are not suppose to be taken seriously or not as seriously as it would in real life. Holding one character accountable and not the others is a really weak argument, and to this day I never will get why people are so keen on using this argument. The only and somewhat justifiable reason I can excuse if you referring to the Ranma 1/2 anime where Akane’s violence is exaggerated ten-fold and it doesn’t look as sympathetic and rational than her manga counterpart. 

[ranmaranting]

This is another post about my observation and thoughts about the fandom. I find it both interesting and confusing. 

So another argument I encountered multiple times is how people dislike the combative relationship between Ranma and Akane or how the other fiancee’s role and treatment throughout the series. I always found it weird because you do know if you take away the combative relationship between or if the role of the suitors changes, you’re basically changing the whole story. I’m not talking about the people who never seen the series or read the manga, but the ones who do. 

I’m not trying to come off as one of those militant and disagreeable fans that defend the creator all the time, but complaining about something like this is pointless and kind of silly. The series from beginning to end have always been that way and that is because that’s how Takahashi wanted the story to be, without the the combative relationship or the role of the other suitors it wouldn’t be Ranma 1/2 and the characters would most likely wouldn’t be the characters we enjoy. 

It’s like me watching/reading Code Geass or the Death Note and hating and wanting to change/write out the geass or the death note notebook part of the series. Yeah it’s possible to make a story without it, but it wouldn’t be the series that we enjoy and I think the characters will have a different personality due to the situation is changed; and the characters will have radically changed motivation as well. Those aspects are integral to the plot and it can’t survive without it or it will be another series, so the complaints are futile.