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I really hate it when people try to un-queerify Ranma. It's just like ... wow, are you EVER missing the point of, like, the entire canon. But it's also really funny! So many people trying to make things heteronormative, when canon is basically made of infinite queer. (Never forget the levels of pseudo-heterosexuality built into Ranma 1/2 that actually make everything LESS heterosexual, e.g. Ukyou and Konatsu.) 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'. That's just ... really upsetting to me, because that manga is the queer text of my heart.

On another note, I kind of want to write some sort of Ranma/Yobei Heron thing (you remember him, right? the hot-springs guy who got girls to stomp on his head to try to find Ranma?) but 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. :(

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Dear lord in heaven EVERYONE in Ranma goes against gender norms at one point. And while it's entertaining, that doesn't automatically mean that it's shallow.

Exactly!

And it's so not shallow that I actually use it as a comeback to people who say they're 'just writing to entertain'. Oh yeah? Well, so was Takahashi Rumiko, and SHE entertained people with the most nuanced depiction of a genderqueer character in mainstream media up to and including the present day!