From: eda171s@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (D.M. Bateson)
Newsgroups: fj.rec.animation
Subject: Re: kasumi
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:06:43 GMT
Distribution: fj

> To: urusei-yatsura@panda.com
> Subject: Kasumi
> 
> My apologies for sending this out  to the urusei mailing list
> but the shampoo list isn't working.  I hope nobody minds since
> I hope we're all Takahashi fans here.

Well, this list wasn't compulsory  last time I checked.  This
strongly implies that those of us who went to the trouble of 
subscribing like **SOMETHING** about it. :) 


> One thing I want to point out that in the last episode of
> Ranma Nettouhen, Kasumi is finally getting the spotlight.

Really?  She finally marry Tofu-Sensei or something?

> I'm sick and tired of Ranma and Akane always being the ones 
> fought over so much as if they like love Goddesses or something.

Ranma-chan & Akane are both very kawaii :).  And Ranma-kun must benefit
from the quality of the opposition (Who would you pick from Ranma-kun,
Ryouga, Mousse & Kunou?).

> It's amazing, no one, not Ranma, Ukyou, or even Shampoo gets the
> amount of attention Akane has gotten in school.  I mean getting
> beaten up every single day by a girl just for a date with the very
> self same girl must mean something.

They were trying to save Akane from the attentions of Kunou Tatewaki,
not that she really needed their help.  As for the other girls, Ranma-chan
was never around much, Ukyou did cause a stir when she started wearing
girls uniforms but she was already known as Ranma's iinazuke and Shampoo
only ever visited the school to cling to Ranma (c & k), or to put some
scheme into motion.
> 
> Logically, Kasumi is older, more mature, has nicer manners, more feminine
> and probably prettier than Akane.  So why aren't guys beating down the
> door to ask for her hand in marriage?  Well i suppose that the whole
> town knowing Tofu sensei has a crush on her might be the cause.

Kasumi, Akane and Nabiki are all good looking, Akane has problems in
that her temper often mars her looks (especially when Ranma is around :),
though I don't dispute that Kasumi is generally more competent at household
activities.  As for the suitors, it was probably Kasumi liking Tofu-Sensei
more than the reverse that stopped them.

> In fact every since the very early episodes when Ranma and Kasumi
> were hugging each other, I always thought Takahashi might use this
> as a plot device later on, but by then he already gotten to many
> girls interested in him.  But I guess the age difference is really
> an obstacle.  Hmmm, who would win anyway, Tofu sensei or Ranma,
> if they somehow got into a fight/misunderstanding over Kasumi?

Place your bets and take your chances.
> 
> But the way the other characters have been being played we won't see
> more of Kasumi then a couple of panels in every story.
> 
Kasumi has had important (if brief) roles in some stories. 

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