What really upsets me, though, is when critics who should damn well know better dismiss Ranma 1/2's gender stuff as 'rudimentary' or 'shallow'.
OMG. Just about everyone in the entire cast fucks with gender norms somehow (not even on purpose, and even the ones trying to uphold said gender norms.) Even everything between Akane and Kasumi. Akane is happy her hair is *finally* as long as Kasumi's, then Ranma and Ryouga are stupid and her hair stays really short for the rest of the manga. Also how Kasumi is the homemaker and Akane can't cook at all. Or how Ranma is pleased that in girl form she's "better built" than Akane is. *Or* that one of their favorite insults of Akane is "macho chick." OR that Akane gets them back repeatedly for all of this bullshit.
I once wrote an entire page on why the manga's ending was the symbolically perfect happily-ever-after for Ranma and Akane, and I feel kind of bad writing anything to mess with that. :(
Hey, now--Ranma and Akane could totally have an open relationship!
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OMG. Just about everyone in the entire cast fucks with gender norms somehow (not even on purpose, and even the ones trying to uphold said gender norms.) Even everything between Akane and Kasumi. Akane is happy her hair is *finally* as long as Kasumi's, then Ranma and Ryouga are stupid and her hair stays really short for the rest of the manga. Also how Kasumi is the homemaker and Akane can't cook at all. Or how Ranma is pleased that in girl form she's "better built" than Akane is. *Or* that one of their favorite insults of Akane is "macho chick." OR that Akane gets them back repeatedly for all of this bullshit.
I once wrote an entire page on why the manga's ending was the symbolically perfect happily-ever-after for Ranma and Akane, and I feel kind of bad writing anything to mess with that. :(
Hey, now--Ranma and Akane could totally have an open relationship!