Ranma is wind, Akane is fire, Ryouga is earth, and Kasumi is water. Lightning... I have no idea. Happosai? Cologne?
edited 12th Jul '12 9:27:02 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus."Blue Thunder". And no, he only wishes that he's of the lightning element. However, if he did not fall victim to Overshadowed by Awesome and instead regularly improved more or less as fast as Ryouga did...
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.I was thinking of this chart
in particular.
Ryoga is Earth. That is as certain as it can get. Secondary could be fire, because of his Hadoken Shishi Hokodan and emotional temper.
Ranma is Wind. Fast, flexible, and sharp. You can't deny that Ranma is sharp. Also, Hiryu Shoten Ha. Secondary could be water - it's flexible too, also temperamental, but more collected then fire.
Mousse... I would say Lightning. Aerial, quite fast, straightforward and narrowly focused, won't stop until he reaches his goal. His Hawk's Talon move and a tendency to go off complete the image.
Akane has her trademark temper. Tsundere always draws parallels to fire in my mind. But then, she seems more level-headed and sane compared to the other two. This is a strong Water point. Sackett said she's Lightning, and I can see where he's getting it from... I'd still put her closer to Fire, though.
Shampoo is "all heart" - expressing her feelings openly, with no shame, and acting on them. Without the inhibitions of the "civilized society", much like a mountain river cannot be tamed by bridges and dams. Thinking about her, I remember those stories by Rudyard Kipling, about floods in India. So yeah, Water.
Ukyo... Oh yeah, definitely Fire. Of the "tame" variet. The passion doesn't need to always be destructive, plus she gives off that feeling of domestic warmth.
Tatewaki is Lightning, just very under-developed. Kodachi is Wind - say, "Airhead". Happosai and Cologne are beyond mere mortal rankings, putting them closer to Jinchuriki. For some reason, I think that Soun and Genma could be Ying and Yang release.
Rather than smart, I'd prefer to be wise. It would let me be silly more often.Being a Water bender would save him some trouble. I'd love to see how effective the Hiryū Shoten Ha was against Fire users. I can only imagine the sort of tricks Ranma would pull off if he was an Air bender. Sadly Earth probably isn't the most effective element to use against... Well, anyone in this show.
If this show were on at the same time as Avatar I'm sure it'd become the new Fuku Fic.
edited 21st Jul '12 11:04:29 PM by UltimatelySubjective
I can't imagine a technique that destroys rocks would disrupt her senses any more than levitating and throwing rocks does, but you never know.
Ranma doesn't need to be the Avatar, he could probably beat the avatar in a fight (assuming he doesn't have to fight Aang in Avatar State. Of course, if Ranmaverse logic kicks in, the Avatar State will probably have some incredibly silly drawback or weakness he could exploit).
visit my blog!Well we have been shown that even "normals" can beat benders, including the avatar. If Ranma learns Moxibustion, there's not really a competition. That said it seems to be something he is vulnerable to as well.
I think Ranma tends to exploit the weaknesses of people first, then techniques.
edited 27th Jul '12 11:57:35 PM by UltimatelySubjective
We have Word of God that the Spring Of Drowned Man would cure Ranma. So that would mean jumping into the spring equivalent to what you are just makes you normal.
I think the bigger question is what's the difference between Spring of Drowned Girl and Spring of Drowned Akane.
My theory is that the pools decay and become more generic over time. So eventually there will be two springs of drowned girl.
This is probably because I haven't read much of the manga, but does anyone know if the Spring of Drowned Girl turns you into a human girl specifically, or just a female member of your own species? Because I heard that there was a manga story about a group of people who put male animals in the Drowned Girl spring on purpse to turn them into females so that they could breed, or something along those lines. If that's the case, then does the Spring of Drowned Man work the opposite way? And is there a spring that could turn a dog into a human when splashed by cold water, for example?
Say, how come Saeko Shimazu and Hiromi Tsuru, the voice actresses for Kodachi and Ukyo, aren't members of DoCo? And why were those two characters excluded from the "Fukuzatsu na Ryouomoi" official animated music video?
edited 25th Aug '12 6:46:21 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Ah those videos. I have to admit I haven't invested much effort into looking for all of them - they're harder to find than the episodes.
Well, I'm sure there's only five members of Do Co because there's only five members of Co Co, but I couldn't say whether they picked them based on popularity, matching the characters of Do Co to the actual members of Co Co or for some other reason. If I had to guess I might say purely because of the aesthetics (i.e. hair colours, styles and heights outfits).
Wait, DoCo is a real-life expy of an actual band? (quick-searches) Nah, couldn't be this one
; the Ranma anime's makers being familiar with an 80s British band is not likely. (continues search) Ah, here we go
. And what do you know, they did several theme songs for the Ranma anime to boot!
... And I still say that excluding Kodachi and Ukyo('s voice actresses) may have caused a Missed Moment of Awesome.
edited 25th Aug '12 7:45:21 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Do you think we should add a Big Bra to Fill entry to Ranma's character sheet profile to note the obvious disparity between his female form's canonical visible bustiness (in comparison to most other female characters) and his live-action actress?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.OK, whoever edited in the quote at the end of Manga.Ranma One Half deserves a salute, because that line is Made Of Win.
"Spring of Drowned Troper" is indeed tragic.

Ranma is the series I've read the most fanfics about, if that tells you anything about what I like about the setting. Second and third are Bt VS and The Slayers, I believe.
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