SpaceKnight of Chaos wrote: Er, the first wish was fulfilled the instant that Manganmaru turned into a mallet and smacked Ranma over the head - there was nothing stopping Ranma from just beating Kuno up once he regained consciousness, and he in fact did so a number of times. So wouldn't the second wish have been "used up" the moment that Kuno and Ranma-chan were seated at a picnic together making nice talk? It ensured Ranma was put on a date (and I wonder if it actually did use up that second wish, because Ranma was coming to "date" Kuno anyway) with Kuno, nothing in the wish about making sure the date kept going.
The wish may not have been for filled until the date was over. The first wish was not fully granted until Tatewaki won.
SpaceKnight of Chaos wrote: Firstly, Ranma 1/2 isn't D&D; the rules aren't going to mesh up much, if at all, so we have to look at the spirit of the thing. Secondly, Jusenkyo water isn't very rare if you're at Jusenkyo - as Ranma is way down in Tokyo, while Jusenkyo is in China up near Tibet-way, it is rare and valuable to him. As for powerful... Ranma hasn't found a way to remove, control, counter or lift it yet, despite everything else he's run into in the series, ranging from a bakeneko trying to turn a woman into a cat to a cursed swimsuit that drowns a woman each year to living paintings to a mirror so full of lust and sorrow it makes horny clones of whoever is reflected in it. It's not some kitchy piece of magical junk like those hypnotic paper doll things that Gosunkugi bought, or that love-predicting sakura-mochi that Akane bought.
Can't you order the instant water from a catalog?
The guide had no trouble mailing the water.
SpaceKnight of Chaos wrote: He outright declares he would rather keep Shampoo than throw a fight to Mousse in Mousse's return arc - yes, I know that he probably is damn well aware that, if anything, throwing the fight would just make it worse (Shampoo would go on one bare-minimum date with Mousse and then come right back to Ranma, making Mousse all the more pissed off), but the words he chooses make it sound like it's the losing that bugs him...
Considering Mousse was trying to kill him...
SpaceKnight of Chaos wrote: He reacts to the claim that Akane is now even stronger than him by challenging her to an armwrestling match, then ends up crying when she repeatedly beats him effortlessly and keeps challenging him afterwards. I won't deny Akane wasn't exactly responsible or reasonable about the strength herself, but Ranma looked like he couldn't stand the thought of losing even before she reacted to his efforts to give her the antidote by getting all paranoid...
There is nothing wrong with wanting to test yourself, or other's abilities.
Akane may have actual hurt Ranma in that bought of armwresling. Ranma face is covered with Band-Aids the next day.
Akane is always a paranoid and delusional bully.
SpaceKnight of Chaos wrote: The Shishi Hokodan arc has him lose just one of his many casual duels with Ryoga and promptly start scrabbling for a rematch, even going to the extent of trying to trick Ryoga into telling "her" how the move works and outright attempting to steal the scroll from him...
Is it about the loss, or is this about learning a cool and powerful technique, and testing it?
SpaceKnight of Chaos wrote: He goes to the extent of digging up his father's scrolls on dirty trick techniques to beat Ryoga during the Mark of the Gods arc - admittedly, Ryoga had asked Ranma specifically to beat him so he could lose the stupid-looking thing...
Which kind of makes it a bad example.